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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 11:33 AM
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I am just so darn sad today...
Garage sale season is over... :cry:

No more filling my trunk with books until the spring...

Maybe I should check out estate sales now :shrug:

RL
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 11:36 AM
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1. I just came back from the Salvation Army ...
and I found a lot of books there.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 11:39 AM
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2. Yeah, good source for books to read.
But as far as resale, SA, St. Vinnies and Goodwill have jacked up their prices or are cherry picking the best ones and selling online.

:hi:

RL
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 11:41 AM
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3. If there are publishers in your area they might have excess stock
Might be worth a call or two
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 11:43 AM
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4. Ooh, good idea...
:hi:

RL
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 12:14 PM
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5. Library sales. And come to my apt.
I have at LEAST 3000 books here.:hi: :hug: :yourock: :loveya:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:21 PM
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8. Sweetie, you don't need to tempt me to your apartment
Edited on Sat Nov-17-07 01:21 PM by RetroLounge
with books. Just ask... :loveya:

:hug:

RL

p.s. 3000? really?
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:25 PM
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11. Come to MY apt! ! ! ! ! !
I have Harry Potter books! And Stephen King books!
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:30 PM
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12. I have 20 Stephen Kings but you KNOW the guy!
You are a crazy fucking mama, I'll tell you. Knock-Out.:D
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:32 PM
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13. I just saw the play Misery that is being shown in Sarasota
He is not happy with it.
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:43 PM
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15. REALLY? NO ONE is a better Annie Wilkes than Kathy Bates.
I would think after her amazing role-playing anyone would be disappointed. But what did he not like about it?????
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 02:03 PM
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21. He is not happy with the way it was adapted.
Most of Stephen's writing has his essence all through it. The play lacked a lot of him, so it sort of fell flat, although the acting was very, VERY good. The woman who played Annie made you forget all about Kathy Bates.

I was impressed with the set, but it really is a difficult story to tell in 1-3/4 hours.

However, Tale of Two Cities, which has been playing here for a few months may make it to Broadway. Tickets here have been sold out for months. There are NO seats available and the entire town is talking about it.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:44 PM
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16. Yeah, but, FLORIDA???
I may need more convincing than books...

:hi:

RL
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 02:06 PM
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23. You need a lobotomy in order to visit here.
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:32 PM
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14. AT LEAST 3000. They're doubled up on the shelves.
And stacked 3 deep in the closet. I'm eating "Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris today.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:45 PM
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17. Oh. Damn. I'm on the way...
I'm reading Wonder Boys this week...

:hug:

RL
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:55 PM
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18. *with fava beans and a nice Chianti?*
:P I have to read that, too. Wonder Boys, I mean. Have you ever heard of a book called Sisters? About twins conjoined at the head?

SS
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:57 PM
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19. I've heard of it...
but nothing beyond that.

Sounds good. Have you read Middlesex?

RL
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 02:01 PM
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20. NO! Dad has it, though. Maybe I'll borrow it.
He's got more books than me & he's getting ready to move. I read books one per night.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 02:04 PM
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22. OMG! You *have* to read Middlesex!!
:o

It's fantastic...We read it in Queer Lit... :thumbsup:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 02:20 PM
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25. I have a shelf of book "to read" and it's full
Middlesex is on the shelf... :D

He has more than you? Sheesh. You two should open your own bookstore in Chapel Hill...

:hi:

RL
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 12:51 PM
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6. Come to California - it is year round out here!
:hi:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:22 PM
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9. i try to avoid living where nature is trying to kill me...
:hi:

RL
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:23 PM
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10. Where is your sense of adventure?
:rofl:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 01:18 PM
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7. Libraries sell books in bulk.
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Rhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 02:11 PM
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24. That's always a good idea...
The gentleman whom i dealt with for years in Charlotte (the late Haze Honeycutt, of Dilworth Books) traveled the entire eastern seaboard, scrounging through books that were part of estates in the process of liquidation.

I lived for the calls i would get... " Ms. ThinkBlue, i found something i think YOU, of all my friends, would most appreciate...".

Those calls involved everything from pre-1900 reprintings of Dante and Milton (with lush Dore' illustrations) to early printings of modern fiction (like a 1st US printing of "Lady Chatterly's Lover").

*sighs*
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 02:21 PM
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26. Oh...
sigh...

:hi:

RL
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Rhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 02:41 PM
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27. Now, see... if you get took that job in Pittsburgh...
You'd be the one i was bugging to find me cool stuff to read... *L*

Pittsburgh is only a little over an hour north of here.
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