In fact, in our mid-twenties we had about eight revolving wireracks in the apartment for books. Monumentally impractical, of course, strictly Rule of Cool. They fit the bare board shelves on cinder blocks and milk crates stacked sideways ambiance of the place.
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyThere is a neat small bookstore near me that has some books I want, but they charge a lot for them. A lot of their books are clearly used too, but they do not advertise themselves as a used bookstore. They wanted $17.50 for a hardcover copy of The Inhuman Condition. Oh well. I guess they have to charge a lot to keep in business.
Currently I am reading Anno Dracula which is pretty awesome. Imagine a better written League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen with more vampires and less frightening woman-beating.
edited 17th Nov '11 8:28:08 AM by Malkavian
"Everyone wants an answer, don't they?... I hate things with answers." — Grant MorrisonOh just buy a paperback :P.
Hardback english editions might be very very hard to find.
Your best bet is Cantus Circaeus.
Check these guys
Ouroboros Press
edited 11th Dec '11 4:27:49 PM by TuefelHundenIV
Who watches the watchmen?So I have the overdrive audiobook app for the iPhone and I love it. My dad has us signed ip wit the Saint Louis Public Library and I have listened to 10 books last month alone. Oh I'm listening to The Hunger Games now and it is awesome.
edited 11th Dec '11 9:29:04 PM by vanthebaron
Untitled Power Rangers StoryHeh, I did that too, Maddy, though I was bad and lost most of a workday to it.
@Ori: yes, the Chanur books are good, and probably the most actiony. One of my favorite Cherryhs is Rimrunners, though, which has as its protagonist one messed up old space marine. Female, of course; Cherryh is almost predictable about how the girls are the tough ones and the guys the emotional ones. I like that switch-up.
edited 15th Dec '11 8:00:09 AM by Morven
A brighter future for a darker age.I just managed to pick up a few things:
- The Hermetic Art: The Teaching Concerning Atomic Transmutation
- The Hermetica: Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs
- The Corpus Hermeticum
- Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic
All in hardback! Yay!
That should keep me busy for a while.
I'm also reading this
because, well, it's fun.
edited 11th Feb '12 4:06:03 PM by InverurieJones
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'

Seconds on Wodehouse and Stephenson. Still trying to make time to read Reamde (that's not a typo, it's Stephenson's latest).
Anybody remember when (since this is the Old Folk's Thread) you could buy used paperback books from rotating racks in stores where you wouldn't expect to find books? You could get borderline pornography, classic literature, and anything in between. I discovered the James Bond books that way, as well as John D. MacDonald. If you've read any fiction involving psychotic small-town criminals in the last 40 years, raise a glass to MacDonald.
It's very hard to find MacDonald's Travis McGee books these days, and almost impossible to find the rest. I had a nearly complete collection at one point. Then I moved.
Uh, Internet, got any MacDonald? Why yes, Mr. Crown.
edited 31st Oct '11 3:00:31 PM by RalphCrown
Under World. It rocks!