One book a day keeps the doctor away.

[ofstarstuff]

Okay, folks. Here's the deal: after consideration, I've decided to give away whatever books people want from that giant lot I pulled from my shelf. The full list is here. The books are in varying condition, some more scruffy than others, others rather old, but none with pages falling off. I take good care of my dears. Pay attention to what says on

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[shadowpiranha]

I would loooove the Sword of Truth series, been meaning to get them for ages!

[ofstarstuff]

The full collection? Sure, send me your address in a PM; I'll check mail costs.

Unless... Don't you study in Lisboa? If you do, we can arrange for me to bring them to you.

[shadowpiranha]

I used to, but not anymore. I doubt the costs will be that high, it'll make it cheaper than buying them from amazon plus postage I'm sure, so it's all good. I'll PM you in a sec.

[ofstarstuff]

It's certainly cheaper. And as it turns out, a box that can hold 11 books is just as big as a box that can hold 20. So, question: any other 9-10 books you would like to have from this set?

[shadowpiranha]

Oh, that's good. I tried checking online for how much it will cost me, but I can't find it, do you know?

Well, as a great fan of Terry Pratchett, it's a sin that I haven't read Bons Augúrios/Good Omens yet, so I'll have that, also all books by Juliet Marillier except for the Sevenwaters trilogy (since I read those years ago and looooved them). Oh, oh, and Abarat, because Clive Barker rules (and his birthday's the same as mine but that's not important). Finally, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell sounds very interesting, so I'll have that too! :D

PS: You're awesome for doing this. My bookshelf needs more (fantasy) books like burning. I'm trying to read through the Dragon Age novels but the writing is so bad. It's by the lead writer of the games, and the stories/lore are amazing, but he's no novel author, I guess.

[ofstarstuff]

I'll have to check again tomorrow, but if I saw it correctly, box + postage makes the total about ten euros. Surprisingly cheap! Apparently one of the volumes of The Sword of Truth is at the boyfriend's; as soon as I claim it back, I'll mail your package

[shadowpiranha]

That IS cheap! No problem take your time, you're already an angel in my eyes for doing this!

Oh, I know, I'll get the first one in the meantime, maybe, hopefully I can find it cheap. Sometimes I find good, cheap stuff on amazon.com (the magic of second-hand!) so I'll give it a look.

Mine is kind of like that too, but I definitely need more because I've read through all I have more than once. :P

Do recommend!

[ofstarstuff]

I bought 10+ books when I went to England, I still have a few to go over. Second-hand stores are a gift from the gods.

Amazon US tends to be quite expensive, especially considering shipping, when compared to Amazon UK, in my experience. I buy most of my online books from The Book Depository, which has no shipping fees! The company sells inside Amazon UK too, but it's a tad more expensive there.

If you saw the photos from my previous entry, you know what I mean when I say I ought to have enough books to only read them once xD I've taken to doorstoppers/treekillers. If a book has less than 400 pages it's hardly worth the price, I read it too quickly ._.

Alright, then. Anything by Neil Gaiman. And I seriously mean anything. The man has yet to produce a book I don't love, and if you haven't read anything by him yet, you'll see just what I mean in Good Omens. He manages to create characters and situations so poetic with such few words. One of my favorite books, American Gods, was written by him. He also wrote The Sandman series, which

[shatters]

kljdkas I bought Carrion Comfort like two months ago and still haven't been able to get to it, but your review makes me want to. Like nao. BLOOD DEATH DESTRUCTION /shot

[ofstarstuff]

I found it in FNAC and nearly pounced on it. It's so awesome, in a very complicated, spanning-the-century way. (At least it's not like Ilium/Olympos, spanning thousands of years.) And, well.

[shatters]

It is a good buy! Go for Drood next time, you'll love that one. alskjda I enjoyed it! Ahahah, god ilium why you so long.

ORLY.

[shadowpiranha]

I had never heard of bookdepository.co.uk! Thank you! I bought some books from amazon.com and they weren't very expensive, especially second hand and/or from private sellers, but it's a lucky break, I guess. Plus, I usually like to read books in their original language, so when they're in English it's easier/cheaper to get them from abroad. Even if fnac has some (all my Terry Pratchett books safe for 1 or 2 are in English and I got them there

[ofstarstuff]

I rarely buy books in Portugal. Too expensive, both in Portuguese and English! I prefer the originals too (so the fact that many of the books I have to give away are in Portuguese shows how long ago I bought them), and Amazon UK and Book depository are my happy happy places where my wallet weeps.

I adore vampires. (Sparklepires need not apply, kthx.) I've played White Wolf's Vampire: the Masquerade and Vampire: the Requiem RPGs, but sadly it's not easy to get time to run roleplaying campaigns with a set group of people. So I play Vampire: the Eternal Struggle, the corresponding cardgame (going to Paris at the end of the month to participate on the European championship), and read the source novels. Somewhat corny, yes. Bubble gum books, most definitely. But I love them.

[shadowpiranha]

Same here, screw this over here, it's no wonder people are getting stupider and less capable of writing in ways we can actually understand. (I'M LOOKING AT YOU, TEXT-SPEAKING TWEENS)

I never played the actual RPGs but I played the videogames, Masquerade remains one of my favourite to this day. And I never read the novels, but I used to devour Anne Rice (before she went all Lord Christ Is Our Saviour and ruined Lestat in the process) and the likes, Bram Stoker's dracula is one of my favourite vampire novels (go classics!). Then I read Twilight - waaay before the hype, I had no idea how it was - and wanted to kill myself of boredom a few pages in, and after the hype happened, it sort of killed it for me.

[ofstarstuff]

Don't get me started in chatspeak. And second-language skills - I've lost count of how many of my classmates look completely lost when in a conference with English speakers. It's not rocket science, people; you can't expect to go through life with an Engineering degree if you are not at least somewhat fluent in English. (And we are both Portuguese speakers going at it in English. Screw it, I write better in English anyway.) As if that wasn't bad enough, most of my classmates can't write a simple engaging text to save their lives. It's so sad

[shadowpiranha]

Oh Lordy I know right?! Like English is some sort of monster language only the best and brightest can possibly understand. You reach higher education, sincerely I find it shameless that you can't speak the most widely spoken language in Europe (if not the world). (I think in English, it's no biggie.)

I played both, but Bloodlines was my favourite, and I hardly remember Redemption because I played it a good while ago.

I know, right?! Why oh why would you want to keep going to High School when you have all that power and the ability to do anything? It doesn't make you evil to live up to your powers, ffs.

I love that concept, I do! Don't get me started on the sparkling, I remember vividly shaking the book and going "WHAAAT" a la Bernard Black when I read that. I like my vampires scary, ambiguous and not very trustworthy just by their nature. Even if they're good people, they need an edge.