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Anonymous Tue Apr 6 01:42:38 2010 No.522577 [Reply] [Original]

I had a kickass weekend for book finding. Hit a thrift store in Arizona and then a Goodwill book store in California the day after and found all these:

From the Dust Returned - Ray Bradbury
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Carrie, Firestarter, and The Eyes of the Dragon (Only 12 books away from owning every Stephen King, including Blockade Billy and Full Dark, No Stars which aren't available yet)
Mystic River - Dennis Lehane (I haven't seen the movie, but I did read Shutter Island earlier this year and enjoyed it (haven't seen that movie yet either))
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Blindness - Jose Saramago
Summerland - Michael Chabon
Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk (already read the library's copy of this and wasn't too impressed, but for a buck I figured I might as well add it to my collection)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker

in before comments on my unfinished drywall in the background (and yes that is a setlist from a Pixies concert hanging in the background)

tl;dr: I got some good books over the weekend, did you?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 01:46:38 2010 No.522598 >>522577 What a pile of shit.

>>	thefreestman !!kUzvz9L2Fnq Tue Apr 6 01:46:38 2010 No.522593 my library hold on the lovely bones finally came through a few hours ago. and i got fury in the mail. thats all.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 01:47:38 2010 No.522599 Haven't been to the thrift store for books in a long while :( How'd you get that set list?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 01:48:38 2010 No.522603 >>522577 I do half-price books. I get lots of $0.50 - $2.00 older paperbacks. For stuff I can't find there or is too expensive I usually head to half.com.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 01:49:38 2010 No.522605 >>522598 Fuck off, that's some fun reading. OP bought it cheap, too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 01:51:38 2010 No.522610 >>522577 Dude nice dude

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 01:52:38 2010 No.522614 >>522599 I went to the Doolittle 25th anniversary tour in LA in November last year. Shit was beyond cash. >>522603 Same. I use just about every method for finding used books as possible and rarely pay full price for anything.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 01:57:38 2010 No.522622 >pixies hipster

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 01:58:38 2010 No.522625 >>522622 Maybe in 1994. They're essentially classic rock at this point.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 01:58:38 2010 No.522626 >>522622 If liking the Pixies makes me a hipster then I'll be sure to grow a beard and buy my lumberjack shirt asap.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 02:06:38 2010 No.522651 >>522625 >>522626 >hurr I watched fight club, now pixies are my favourite band

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 02:07:38 2010 No.522653 >>522651 Never liked them. But I'm oldish. They were cool in the 90s. Listening to them now just has to be out of enjoying them. Even Fight Club is passe. You're 16, yes?

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Anonymous Tue Apr 6 02:08:38 2010 No.522654

Nice OP, that's a pretty good haul, enjoy the Chabon and Barker!

Myself, I had a shitty weekend, I work on the weekend and my coworker fucked us over and bailed on the shift, meaning more work for everyone else. On the plus side at least he's likely to be fired. On the plus side, I got some overtime and finished a couple of pretty good books (Jon Armstrong's Grey and Richard Kadrey's Butcher Bird)

>>	dob bole Tue Apr 6 02:11:38 2010 No.522663 is this where i complain about much the catcher in the rye sucked balls?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 02:12:38 2010 No.522668 >>522651 Is that even an insult? Does that even mean anything? That's like saying: >>hurr I watched back to the future, now huey lewis and the news are my favourite band

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 10:02:38 2010 No.523606 >>522622 wtf wrong with the pixies? anyone that can dig MASTADON,RAMONES,BLACK SABBATH and THE PIXIES isnt hipster. Stop the labeling shit..thats what the media wants you to do.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 10:10:38 2010 No.523619 garbage garbage hipster garbage good omens garbage

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 10:12:38 2010 No.523625 Lowbrow garbage

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 10:48:38 2010 No.523668 >>522577 I hate to break it to you, dude, but you bought a bunch of shit books. Only one of them is any good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 10:50:26 2010 No.523669 File: 104 KB, 285x375, kinski.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Also >Pixies >My face

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 10:51:38 2010 No.523671 >>523668 >implying michael chabon is capable of writing a shit book

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 10:54:38 2010 No.523673 >>523671 Guess which one of the books in the list was the one that wasn't bad. Also, he is. Everything except the one in the list is shit, actually.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 10:57:38 2010 No.523681 >>523673 >i've never read a michael chabon book also, there's two on the list

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 11:00:38 2010 No.523694 >>523681 Whoops, my bad. I guess I didn't notice Summerland up there because I mistook it for a piece of random garbage.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 6 11:04:38 2010 No.523703 >>523606 hipster metal