oh hey, books

So I got some new books today
I work in a bookstore, so this isn't big news
However I feel the inexplicable need to share

So, I got:
Plato - 5 Great Dialogues
Aristotle - On Man In The Universe
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Radley & Grant - Fluorescence Analysis in Ultraviolet Light (1934)
Mr Churchill Speaks, Speeches, 1938-1940
Ritche - Human Physiology (1920 Revision)
Durant - Journey Into Roman Britain
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
RL Stevenson - Kidnapped (1st edition hardcover)
Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms (1930 ed)

Oh, and, as IF Americans spell dialogue without a U

quentin tarantino

for old books.
ESPECIALLY philosophy and science
I can't help it

when it comes to words. hubby's the theo/philo/sci-engineering guy; but we're still together B-) it's all good

my shelf is exploding. You want some? *laugh*
If books were food I'd be 100,000,000 LBS
Sounds like your husbands got some good taste.
And you do as well
If you're ever in my part of Canada we should hook up at the bookstore, sounds like it'd be good times

:hi: and thank you B-)

I've been added ;)

Anytime! :)

I have actually bought books in Winnipeg. I bought "The Early Asimov" and one or two other books. This was in 1980, so you may have not even been born yet. It was cool because they did not have a "Canadian" price on the book, so the books were 10-15% off because the Canadian dollar was worth 85-90 American cents.
That was the Minnesota marching band's trip for the year. We played for the halftime of a Jets game and had lunch at a HS.
I also witnesses a bizarre incident there. I was walking along the downtown and I hear glass breaking. This guy was coming out of the store and the glass door which was about 12 feet high shattered as he pushed it open. So here is this hardcore vandal standing about two feet from me. I may even have spoken with him "what happened?" "I don't know, it just broke." He quickly decides to get the Zark out of there and darts across the street. Then a security guy comes out, and he is the person I may have spoken with, at least I pointed him in the direction the guy ran and he gave chase but soon returned alone. On the one hand, I could have caught the guy, but on the other hand it was not clear to me that he had done anything. In America, I think a store would be happy that the guy was not suing the store for scaring the crap out of him and for almost killing him with their defective door.

Probably wasn't before I was born, but maybe before I was frequenting bookstores.

I love going to the used book store...

I just picked up

Will in the World....
Tales of the City...
The Best Short Stories of 2005...

:)

I work in the BEST bookstore
We specialize in rare, out of print and hard to find stuff
The best days are when I get to sort out history or philosophy/ideas
I go crazy for all that kinda stuff... ooooh and the science section *drool* natural history.... sociology... *ahem* Aaaanyway

What kinda used bookstores do you frequent and why?

Nothing special but you can find almost anything you want...

And they pay good money when you exchange....

The last really good used book store I went to was in Chicago...

I bought all these books about Medieval Europe and the dominate Catholic Church... Also a couple about Galileo and his troubles with the inquisition...

Pretty soon I'm going to make a list of my book holdings for trade, mostly for the organizations I'm involved in.
And also start my own bookstore, hopefully with a partner.

Back when I was a kid, there was this huge used bookstore in Downtown Cleveland... It was so fucking cool... Up stairs they had comic books and then all the other magazines you could think of including Playboy which, I would sneak a peak at every now and then...

The whole first floor was stuff that moved...

And the basement... The books they had down there...

I would jump on the rapid transit and head downtown and spend the whole day looking at books...

:)

stuff do you read?

eclectic. :)

on one arm. gimme a bit.

fiction:
John Gardner (Grendel, not 007)
Dostoevsky
Ana Castillo
Annie Proulx
T.C. Boyle
Susan Straight
nonfiction:
Stephen Gould
John Keegan
John McPhee
poetry:
Carolyn Forche
Galway Kinnell
Adrienne Rich
Denise Levertov

whats your favorite?

Wrote my senior essay on college on it. :)

I've always been more of a 'devils' person

Truly a great collection. My other favorite short story collection is "Strange Pilgrims" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

If you like poetry I would suggest: "Riding The Earthboy 40" by James Welch and "Shapeshift" by Sherwin Bitsui. Both are by American Indian authors. Jim Welch was somewhat of a mentor to me, a great writer. Sherwin Bitsui is a good friend of mine. Brilliant guy.

For some different nonfiction try: " The Edges of The Civilized World: a journey in nature and culture" by Alison Hawthorne Deming. It's gorgeously written. She was my Creative Nonfiction professor, it was my favorite class ever. She's a great writer and I am saying that with no bias.

I haven't been book shopping since last month and I am so jealous. Unfortunately I've had to put myself on hold as I'm moving soon and I simply can't buy anymore (and actually had to get rid of some) until after I move into my new home. :cry:

It looks like you have some great books to read.

really, it is. I spend SO MUCH in that place, it's terrible.

Thank god my family bought me the first ed. of Trotsky's History of The Russian Revolution as a gift, or that woulda been another $100 ish dollars gone.

Really really bad. I always have 5 or so books on hold at any given time. Sure I get a fab discount and great trade rates, but it's still a huge bite out of my budget, and since I'm there ALL the time I can't help but find stuff I just can't live without :eyes:

I wish I had your self control (putting self on hold), I need it. My apartment is exploding with books that I just can't part with.

I can't wait till I have my own bookstore, that'll be so much easier.

Wanna go book shopping sometime? }(

But it will have to wait. I just got rid of 5 boxes of books (though many of them were old text books). I still have around 10 boxes left to take with me.

I used to work in retail bookstores and grew to hate them. I now want to be be a librarian but wouldn't mind working in a used bookstore for a while. Somehow I think the environment of a used bookstore would be much nicer than that of a regular bookstore.

You should go for the librarian thing!

When I move in a few months I'm going to try like crazy to get a librarian job. Then I'm going for my MLIS when I get the money so I can get a higher ranking, higher paying librarian job.

mixed some gold into those who are adequately equipped to rule, because they are most valuable." Socrates from Plato's Republic.


Anybody who has such great taste in reading must have plenty of gold in them for certain. :)

:blush:
You're sweet

no doubt. :)

aw shucks...

I just try to do my best when it comes to dolin' out compliments and such, ma'am. :)

Plato, Aristotle, George.
Hemingway, OTOH, blows. I wish I had never read "A Farewell to Arms". I would advise you to poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick before you read that.
I hope I am remembering right, because I did read another one of his that did not suck quite as bad. It still sucked, but not as bad as Farewell.

through Ayn Rand, I can probably make it through Hemingway without needing to poke my eye

Hemingway is a great story-teller. His fatal weakness, to me, is that he does not know how to end a story. When you get to the end you will feel like you have been poked in the eye with a sharp stick and may wonder 'why did I waste my time reading this?'.

if you can read Ayn Rand and live to tell the tale, any other literary faults are meaningless ;)

Walter Kaufmann translation, can't wait to read it. :hi:

Where'd you find that?

Oh, and, you like philosophy right? Who's your favorite?

I was looking for sweaters and all they had were Cosbies, so I wandered over to the books, like I don't have enough still-unread books...

Fave philosopher? I dunno, for different reasons and at different times Nietzsche, Russell, Hegel, Mill (I realize that liking both Mill and Nietzsche cancel each other out and render me a nullset), various and sundry logical positivists, and Aristotle, because even though he got so much stuff totally wrong, he got it wrong so poetically.

okay ;)

and all you contribute is "okay?" You fucking Kant.

and more of a fishing expedition.

Fishin' for hints & I caught me a whopper

Go figure.