Just putting this in here
Eternal lust list of magical scriptures BOOKS
In Finnish:
Karin Fossum: Hullujenhuone (mikä tahansa painos.)
Ian Rankin: Ristinolla (pokkari olisi kiva mutta kovakantinenkin käy)
Daniel Clowes: Ghost World (suomiversio siis)
Martin & Hewlett: Tank Girl (Jalavan mustavalkoinen suomipainos)
In English
Matthew Sheret: Phonogram vs the Fans (Sold out limited edition zine, so there)
Phonogram: Rue Britannia single issues 1-6, The Singles Club 1-4, 6
Donna Barr: Seven Peaches - The first seven Desert Peach episodes
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Super Dictionary
Sam Taylor-Wood: Crying Men (my Scottish uni had TWO of these in the library, uh. Still want my own copy.)
Della von Hise: Killing Time FIRST PRINTING (Probably super rare bibliophilic treasure but one can hope)
So I wouldn't seem too needy I want to brag about the rare or otherwise precious printed media I own! I have Good Omens in Finnish, first edition of Boyracers, that one issue of NME I spent years yearning for, and a single Singles Club issue. Also the pre-movie-logo Finnish Prisoner of Azkaban of which I have written about already :D
Another thing about rare books: Rage by Stephen "Richard Bachman" King. It's no longer in print because a copy was found in the locker of some school shooter, and King pulled it from all distribution. I read it as a teenager when I was devouring every King I could find in the local library (this also lead me to read some John King because there wasn't a horror/scifi section back then, and I saw those books every time I went to look for more Stephen stories). I couldn't remember much of it, but wanted to re-read it just because of the controversy. (This is what happens when you ban a book, people become very interested in it...)
Last summer I had a job in the very same home town library, doing the inventory of the book storage, and there was the Finnish Bachman edition (with the cover illustration of Jack Nicholson's The Shining character, heh), put away not because of censorship but wear and tear. Storage books can be borrowed (you just need to know to ask for them) so I took it out and read and... it wasn't really that bad. (Only one killing and then just teenagers moping around, really. I've read worse from King.)
My now-town's library has a paperback called The Bachman Books in the English section, but Rage is not included in it. However, the Finnish book containing the story is out there in the general K section.
Despite being a fan, I'm not a King collector. I have a couple of paperbacks, The split Stands, The Talisman in both English and Finnish, Duma Key brought from an airport, and a mismatched The Dark Tower series (in Finnish paperbacks and re-issue hardbacks, and the Wind Through the Keyhole in English. Haven't even read that one yet, might re-read the whole series and include it in the appropriate spot.) Usually I'm happy reading the book once and then knowing who is the killer, returning the book to the library. I bought It but it was so gross I that after finishing I put it on a "take stuff, leave stuff you don't need"-table in the uni foyer.
Oh, and another thing: I'd love to read the latest Babylon book by Imogen Edwards-Jones. I've read Hotel, Air, Pop, Beach, Wedding, Fashion and Hospital, but not Restaurant yet. They're not high literature, more confessional gossip reality trash, but I love them as some sort of page-turning "popcorn reading". Pure entertainment, basically, nothing wrong with it yet it seems more highbrow than watching Naked Housewife Idol of Warsaw Shore or something. But Restaurant Babylon is not a high priority on my to be read-list, none of those disposable tell-alls ever are (and I don't hold onto them once finished). Usually I find those off the library, got some from BookMooch, and one (Beach B.) I found in a bookshop's cheapo bin and paid a few euros for, but that's it.
Ah, books! Aren't they swell.
In Finnish:
Karin Fossum: Hullujenhuone (mikä tahansa painos.)
Ian Rankin: Ristinolla (pokkari olisi kiva mutta kovakantinenkin käy)
Daniel Clowes: Ghost World (suomiversio siis)
Martin & Hewlett: Tank Girl (Jalavan mustavalkoinen suomipainos)
In English
Matthew Sheret: Phonogram vs the Fans (Sold out limited edition zine, so there)
Phonogram: Rue Britannia single issues 1-6, The Singles Club 1-4, 6
Donna Barr: Seven Peaches - The first seven Desert Peach episodes
+
Super Dictionary
Sam Taylor-Wood: Crying Men (my Scottish uni had TWO of these in the library, uh. Still want my own copy.)
Della von Hise: Killing Time FIRST PRINTING (Probably super rare bibliophilic treasure but one can hope)
So I wouldn't seem too needy I want to brag about the rare or otherwise precious printed media I own! I have Good Omens in Finnish, first edition of Boyracers, that one issue of NME I spent years yearning for, and a single Singles Club issue. Also the pre-movie-logo Finnish Prisoner of Azkaban of which I have written about already :D
Another thing about rare books: Rage by Stephen "Richard Bachman" King. It's no longer in print because a copy was found in the locker of some school shooter, and King pulled it from all distribution. I read it as a teenager when I was devouring every King I could find in the local library (this also lead me to read some John King because there wasn't a horror/scifi section back then, and I saw those books every time I went to look for more Stephen stories). I couldn't remember much of it, but wanted to re-read it just because of the controversy. (This is what happens when you ban a book, people become very interested in it...)
Last summer I had a job in the very same home town library, doing the inventory of the book storage, and there was the Finnish Bachman edition (with the cover illustration of Jack Nicholson's The Shining character, heh), put away not because of censorship but wear and tear. Storage books can be borrowed (you just need to know to ask for them) so I took it out and read and... it wasn't really that bad. (Only one killing and then just teenagers moping around, really. I've read worse from King.)
My now-town's library has a paperback called The Bachman Books in the English section, but Rage is not included in it. However, the Finnish book containing the story is out there in the general K section.
Despite being a fan, I'm not a King collector. I have a couple of paperbacks, The split Stands, The Talisman in both English and Finnish, Duma Key brought from an airport, and a mismatched The Dark Tower series (in Finnish paperbacks and re-issue hardbacks, and the Wind Through the Keyhole in English. Haven't even read that one yet, might re-read the whole series and include it in the appropriate spot.) Usually I'm happy reading the book once and then knowing who is the killer, returning the book to the library. I bought It but it was so gross I that after finishing I put it on a "take stuff, leave stuff you don't need"-table in the uni foyer.
Oh, and another thing: I'd love to read the latest Babylon book by Imogen Edwards-Jones. I've read Hotel, Air, Pop, Beach, Wedding, Fashion and Hospital, but not Restaurant yet. They're not high literature, more confessional gossip reality trash, but I love them as some sort of page-turning "popcorn reading". Pure entertainment, basically, nothing wrong with it yet it seems more highbrow than watching Naked Housewife Idol of Warsaw Shore or something. But Restaurant Babylon is not a high priority on my to be read-list, none of those disposable tell-alls ever are (and I don't hold onto them once finished). Usually I find those off the library, got some from BookMooch, and one (Beach B.) I found in a bookshop's cheapo bin and paid a few euros for, but that's it.
Ah, books! Aren't they swell.