So did I! I was shocked. Of course, the first thing in my box was a set of golfclubs -- I think that they may have confused me with my brother.
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sumi - Aug 24, 2005 6:46:50 pm PDT #9038 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Volans - Aug 24, 2005 7:56:03 pm PDT #9039 of 10002
move out and draw fire
My gold box is all porn. And power tools.
I kinda get the power tools, but I've never bought porn from Amazon (why would I need to? I can get everything up to and including Nazi bondage porn at the mini-mart next door.). All I can figure is that it's due to the Euro-art-movies I buy for DH. But the juxtaposition makes me giggle.
I didn't see any vendors selling that collection "Used and New." Darn.
Lee - Aug 24, 2005 9:14:31 pm PDT #9040 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Darn you people with your gold box talk. Mine is offering me the DVDs for HP 1-3, widescreen, for $31.49
I may have to buy it.
Volans - Aug 24, 2005 9:29:13 pm PDT #9041 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Not a bad price there.
Also, the Penguin collection works out to about $4.40 a book, which isn't bad.
And...my gold box just offered me an external defibulator. What do they know that I don't?
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2005 3:32:47 am PDT #9042 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That internal defibulators are so 2002?
Calli - Aug 25, 2005 4:18:48 am PDT #9043 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Heh. My gold box just offered me a bunch of vampire books and dvds, and a book on exotic chickens.
"I vant to peck your blood!"
DXMachina - Aug 25, 2005 4:43:40 am PDT #9044 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
"I vant to peck your blood!"
Wouldn't that be erotic chickens?
Calli - Aug 25, 2005 4:58:38 am PDT #9045 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Wouldn't that be erotic chickens?
God, I hope not.
Although the thought of wee fangs dropping from their beaks is amusing.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 28, 2005 3:46:56 pm PDT #9046 of 10002
What is even happening?
Has anyone read anything by Sheldon Siegel? I accidentally picked up his freshman novel Special Circumstances, and read it in a day or two, on vacation. I think it's about 5 years old. There's at least one sequel, which is teased at the back of the paperback version of Special Circumstances. I can't decide if I liked the book because it was good, or because I somehow, and miraculously if you ask me, managed to read a whole book with little interruption from the kids. My (book) reading has really taken a hit since I became a parent and discovered the interbunny.
Kathy A - Aug 30, 2005 7:16:39 am PDT #9047 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I was watching Cash in the Attic on BBC America this morning while getting ready for work, and they had a special bibliophile episode, where the homeowner wanted to buy a computer so he could get into online bookselling. He was willing to part with some of the 10,000 books that he had in his flat to raise the cash, so they brought in a book specialist.
He had a bunch of modern first editions (Confederacy of Dunces, Red Dragon, a lot of Agatha Christies) that went to auction, as well as the first revised editions of The Hobbit and LotR, but the big find was the first edition of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials: Northern Lights (known in the States as The Golden Compass), which went for a thousand pounds! Considering that it's only ten years old, that's a remarkable price (freaked out both the homeowner and the regular appraiser, who was unfamiliar with the book).