Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.

'Get It Done'


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."


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).


Nutty - Aug 30, 2005 7:43:22 am PDT #9048 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I have talked a bit with rare booksellers (mostly at cons, so, subject specialists) about the first editions I own. From what they tell me, a first edition probably is not worth all that much -- but a first printing of a first edition definitely is.

I own a 1/e of Something Wicked This Way Comes, from the 1950s. As a ninth printing, it's worth probably $20-30. If it were a first printing, it would be worth several hundred dollars.

I suspect that Northern Lights 1/e, 1st print, sold for so high because the book was originally marketed to the children's market, which pre-Harry Potter wasn't all that big. When it sold, and continued to sell, and started making it consistently into SF/F booksellers, subsequent printings were a lot bigger, but that first printing was probably pretty small.

[edited to make sense]


Atropa - Aug 30, 2005 10:04:58 am PDT #9049 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I was wandering through our local Half-Price Books the other day. Sitting in the locked case was a hardback copy of Neil Gaiman's The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish. $85. I didn't see any note saying 'signed copy', so I'm even MORE confused by the price tag.

I own a 1/e of Something Wicked This Way Comes, from the 1950s.

Covet, covet, covet.


Anne W. - Sep 11, 2005 12:27:17 pm PDT #9050 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

The new Terry Pratchett novel (Thud!) is out now!