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As many of you might know, Borders is going out of business. There's one several miles from me, and the sales started today. "Everything in stock up to 40% off!" Yeah, well, 10% is "up to 40%", so they're not lying. Heh. But I'll hold out another few days before I start bying anything. We'll see what I end up with.
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Magickmaker and I did the same thing tonight, Fist -- walked into Borders, poked around, and walked out with nothing. Didn't help that the line for the registers was insane *and* they'd either turned off the a/c or had set it so high that the place was sweltering. But yeah -- not impressed with 10% off sci-fi/fantasy.
When the downtown Borders closed this spring, I waited 'til almost the final week to go. By then, stuff was pretty well picked over -- but what I got, I got *cheap*!
When the downtown Borders closed this spring, I waited 'til almost the final week to go. By then, stuff was pretty well picked over -- but what I got, I got *cheap*!
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A friend gave me In the Hall of the Dragon King and I'm reading it on the plane. Kind of dragging through it. I liked Lawhead's Arthur Pendragon retelling, but this is kind of blah.
I also have Ted Dekker's Adam, which I'm saving. But his stuff is paranormal and horror, not really sci-fi.
I also have Ted Dekker's Adam, which I'm saving. But his stuff is paranormal and horror, not really sci-fi.
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Fant/sci-fi is up to 20% off at Borders. I got Karen Miller's Godspeaker trilogy, since they were pb, and only one copy of each. I relocated the only copies of The Illuminatus and a collection of wizard stories. Everything else I have my eye on still has multiple copies.
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25% off now, and I decided I was pushing my luck by waiting longer, despite having hidden some books. So today I bought The Illuminatus!, the first two Black Company collections, and an anthology of wizard short stories.
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40% off! I got Canticle for Leibowitz (which I know nothing about, but have heard mentioned a lot lately), and The Wise Man's Fear ($18 instead of $30). Pretty happy with all I've gotten from Borders' closing sale. Wish that didn't mean the small city it's in will be entirely without a bookstore! But B&N is in the nearest small city, only about 20 miles from it. Still, the fact that Middletown, NY can be without a bookstore is a sorry statement!
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I almost picked up Canticle a 1/2 hour ago--what I did was trade my gift copy of A Dance With Dragons for $10 worth of credit at Don's Paperback, so far I've replaced my copy of SRD's The Man Who Risked His Partner and picked up a highly interesting looking SF called Kethani by Eric Brown (anybody know anything about this book?). Wanted to replace my copy of White Gold Wielder as well, but (a good sign) almost all copies of all SRD books were gone!
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I just started Aliantha's Swan Song.
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ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener
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Psst -- it's mine, not Menolly's.deer of the dawn wrote:I just started Menolly's Swan Song.
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*feels for hair color*aliantha wrote:Psst -- it's mine, not Menolly's.deer of the dawn wrote:I just started Menolly's Swan Song.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. -Philo of Alexandria
ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener
ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener
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No worries -- we all look alike in virtual space.deer of the dawn wrote:*feels for hair color*aliantha wrote:Psst -- it's mine, not Menolly's.deer of the dawn wrote:I just started Menolly's Swan Song.
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Finally finished Revelation Space, enjoyed it very much, many cool astrophysical/quantum concepts kind of like Rendezvous with Rama meets Event Horizon meets Metaplanetary but don't know if I want to check out the sequel just yet. Now reading The Power of Now, like A New Earth it makes me focus, slow down and meditate more often so very therapeutic. Bought Samuel R. Delany's City of a Thousand Suns and Stephenson's The Diamond Age--looking forward to both-the beginning of TDA looks like tons of fun. Tried to start The Judging Eye, but it was tough I've read too many heavy duty fantasies lately and read about 15 page into McCarthy's The Crossing-that looks good too but I think you have to be in the right mood and place to click with his style-love his style, just not in the right place....
fall far and well Pilots!
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I'd be interested in what you think of that one when done...been a while since I read it, but I recall veering wildly between Wow and Stupid while doing so.danlo wrote: Stephenson's The Diamond Age--looking forward to both-the beginning of TDA looks like tons of fun.
Murrin, the title struck me as cool, so I searched it, and now plan to pick it up.
I'm stuck just commenting on other's acq's cuz haven't acq'd much myself recently in the genre.
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the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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