Comments | cabell: book sale!

cabell

book sale!

Sep 10, 2006 18:42

So today I went to the second day of the monthly Palo Alto Public Library sale. I brought back quite a haul, and I'd like you to realize that I had to carry it about a mile and a half because it turned out that the #88 bus does not run on Sundays, as I discovered after waiting forlornly for an hour (I finally called my sister to check the schedule ( Read more... )

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cabell September 11 2006, 01:53:12 UTC

Ah, and if you drove or had some kind of transportation that didn't involve a lot of walking and carrying, you could get 5 bags for $20, at least at this sale. :D

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cabell September 11 2006, 01:57:06 UTC

If you want to go with me, the October bag sale is on the 15th. I'll save the date. :-)

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revena September 11 2006, 01:54:32 UTC

Wow. I've read several of those, and the ones I haven't, I think I'd like to...

I have a secret fondness for Edgar Rice Burroughs. I have a first edition of one of his Tarzan books, which, unfortunately, got crayoned all over the endpapers by some ancestor or other of mine. Which totally makes me think of The Bookman's Wake. And then I started feeling nostalgic about all the other mysteries you picked up which I've read... (Hillerman and J.A. Jance are big down here. Have you never read J.A. Jance before?)

ANYWAY. Yay, books!

(and in conclusion: the series kicked off by The Sleeping Dragon is really long, if you decide you like it. They're kind hard to track down, though)

cabell September 11 2006, 01:58:15 UTC

Have you read Sharyn McCrumb? Her Appalachian mysteries are really good, and she also wrote a pretty funny send-up of cons, Bimbos of the Death Sun.

revena September 11 2006, 02:01:28 UTC

I actually just re-read Zombies of the Gene Pool last week. I love Sharyn McCrumb!

cabell September 11 2006, 03:29:27 UTC

Yeah, I liked that one, too, although I think Bimbos was a little more fun. But I love her stuff with songcatchers and whatnot.

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vaxjedi September 11 2006, 01:57:11 UTC

Rosenberg, Joel - The Sleeping Dragon (Apparently the early 80s spawned a great demand for trashy fantasy novels in which college students were transported into their D&D games--as I recall, there was even that cartoon.)

Hey! I like that series!

cabell September 11 2006, 01:58:40 UTC

Hey, just because I call something "trashy" doesn't mean I won't/don't like it. :-)

vaxjedi September 11 2006, 02:00:19 UTC

Oh, and it gets better as it goes on.

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sabine791110 September 11 2006, 02:05:40 UTC

Yay for cheap books! I'm usually disappointed by the options available at the cheap book sales, but have no trouble finding many things I want every time I go to a used bookstore. Clearly, I need to reorganize my priorities.

cabell September 11 2006, 03:30:06 UTC

I've been to some of the library book sales in Madison, and I think Palo Alto's has a much better selection, even picked over on the second day.

escritoireazul September 11 2006, 02:21:24 UTC

Sloppy Firsts is kind of a cute book. The whole series (so far, only two or three, I think) isn't bad. SOmetimes it's a little over the top, but fun reading.

I don't think Jance is a Hillerman rip-off, but I've only read one or two of each.

I wish my library here had sales like that. I want books.

cabell September 11 2006, 03:30:40 UTC

I went with the "read the first page" decision-making strategy--it seemed engaging, so I got it. :-)