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Old 11th February 2007, 04:49 PM   #781 (permalink)
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A friend just rang me to say he's got some old Analog and Astounding magazines, and do I want them?, or should he just throw them out?!

Should I: (a) feign indifference, but tell him I'll take them if he really doesn't want them, or (b) Take his arm off at the elbow?!
Take them and thank him nicely. If you take his arm off at the elbow, he can't hand you the books.
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Old 11th February 2007, 06:43 PM   #782 (permalink)
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Not if I have the arm with the hand with the magazines!
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Old 11th February 2007, 07:08 PM   #783 (permalink)
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Not if I have the arm with the hand with the magazines!
Then the magazines would be all bloody.
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Old 12th February 2007, 09:09 AM   #784 (permalink)
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But, but, you've got tentacles

From Borders:
Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Fireworks by Angela Carter
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
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Old 12th February 2007, 11:34 PM   #785 (permalink)
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Picked up over the weekend:

Orcs Omnibus by Stan Nicholls
Book of Dead Days Omnibus by Marcus Sedgewick
The Poison Master by Liz Williams

Those Del Rey books are lovely JD ... I have Kull and Solomon Kane. Have fun with Kull.
I have the Orcs books they are good, plus I have two of the Quicksilver trilolgy not read them yet.
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Old 13th February 2007, 08:38 AM   #786 (permalink)
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I have the Orcs books they are good, plus I have two of the Quicksilver trilolgy not read them yet.
The Quicksilver trilogy is also quite good, though not entirely as good as the Orcs trilogy, IMO. It does have some memorable moments (rather: memorable/entertaining characters), none the less, and I enjoyed reading it (I ordered the third book in the trilogy as soon as it was out). I was glad when I heard that he's going to write a second Orcs trilogy. IwantIwantIwantIwant!

Yesterday I found the LoTR trilogy cheap in the second-hand part of the bookshop I pass on my way from work. It had obviously been read more than once and brought to several places, but I bought it none the less.
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Old 13th February 2007, 09:50 AM   #787 (permalink)
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I've not read anything by Stan Nicholls before but the Orcs books looked very interesting. I read several pages before I bought it and it was an omnibus edition to boot.

I'll start on it in about a week or so.
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Old 13th February 2007, 01:31 PM   #788 (permalink)
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Ordered The Monk by Matthew Lewis. Again being reminded from the Gothic books thread. I've read a library copy a few years back but don't own one, which is unacceptable!
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Ordered The Monk by Matthew Lewis. Again being reminded from the Gothic books thread. I've read a library copy a few years back but don't own one, which is unacceptable!
I'm curious... which edition? Believe it or not, they still have editions that are the "sanitized" versions.... I believe Penguin or Oxford is the one I've found that actually went back to Lewis' ms. and let's you have the book the way he wrote it... warts and all, but still pretty strong stuff at times....
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Old 13th February 2007, 02:17 PM   #790 (permalink)
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This is the one I ordered - Penguin's: http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/3...k/Product.html Oh no tell me it's not the 'sanitized' version! I'm a big girl I can handle it! Well honestly I did find it a bit disturbing at times when I read it. Not a comfy read for sure.
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This is the one I ordered - Penguin's: http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/3...k/Product.html Oh no tell me it's not the 'sanitized' version! I'm a big girl I can handle it! Well honestly I did find it a bit disturbing at times when I read it. Not a comfy read for sure.
I will have to dig out my copy from the storage cabinet sometime soon... but I think that it was the Penguin edition. Both Penguin and Oxford have put out a lot of the Gothics in really good editions the last several years... the newer editions of Melmoth, for instance, are very nice indeed....
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Old 13th February 2007, 02:36 PM   #792 (permalink)
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Thanks J.D.! Please let me know if it's abridged, may be I can change it.
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Old 13th February 2007, 02:44 PM   #793 (permalink)
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Thanks J.D.! Please let me know if it's abridged, may be I can change it.
According to the Penguin site, this is taken from the first edition, before he made changes to avoid prosecution... so you'll be getting the scandalous original, all right....
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Oh great, I can't wait to get my mind 'insanitized'! Thanks again J.D.!
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Old 14th February 2007, 06:10 PM   #795 (permalink)
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Asher's Polity Agent and Sergei Lukyanenko's Day Watch, the sequel to the really excellent Night Watch.
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