BOOK SALE.
So, Book Sale was actually yesterday (or at least, my journey to it was), but a rather busy weekend has kept me from recording my take until now.
But now, I do. Book sale! BOOK SALE!
FICTION
Isaac Asimov, Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Earth (Yeah, I know, I have books 1, 4, and 5. Might have to buy the others.)
Isaac Asimov, Robots of Dawn
Robert E. Howard et al., Conan #1
Jack McKinney, Robotech #1: Genesis
Mary Gentle, Grunts
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
Michael A. Stackpole, A Hero Born
David Feintuch, Midshipman's Hope
Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan
David Gemmell, Dark Prince (One of these days I'll actually read some of the Gemmell books I have and figure out if I should keep buying these... but then again, it cost me 75 cents... ;))
Gene Wolfe, On Blue's Waters (Fortunately, I already know that I like Wolfe.)
Gene Wolfe, Castleview
Alan Furst, Blood of Victory
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (I enjoyed Cryptonomicon, so I'm looking forward to this one.)
Dan Brown, Angels and Demons (Yeah, yeah. But The Da Vinci Code was OK if you took it at face value, and my mother tells me this one is better, so that means it's at least OK.)
HISTORY
Trevor Aston, ed., Crisis in Europe, 1560-1660
Antonia Fraser, Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Claudio Rendina, The Popes: Histories and Secrets
Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (Two books on the French Revolution? Odd. Also, I have another on the Gunpowder Plot and a third on the era of the Eighty Years' War and the Dutch Revolt... are we seeing a trend here? ;))
G.M. Trevelyan, A Shortened History of England
Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra
Richard Vinen, A History in Fragments
Barbara Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
POLITICS, ETC.
Peter Singer, The President of Good & Evil
Joshua S. Goldstein, International Relations (Clearly a used textbook, but I figured if I ever might be interested in an M.A.I.R. I oughta know what people who have B.A.I.R.s know. Plus, it was 50 cents. ;))
Jack C. Plano & Milton Greenberg, The American Political Dictionary
John L. Jackley, Hill Rat
Henry Kissinger, For the Record: Selected Statements, 1977-1980
Henry Kissinger, Years of Renewal (They had another of this set, but it was in much worse shape, so I took a pass...)
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Report (Yeah, so it's available online. So what? It cost 75 cents. ;))
TOTAL TAKE: 33 books (if I counted right)
APPROXIMATE COST PER BOOK: ~$1.40
But now, I do. Book sale! BOOK SALE!
FICTION
Isaac Asimov, Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Earth (Yeah, I know, I have books 1, 4, and 5. Might have to buy the others.)
Isaac Asimov, Robots of Dawn
Robert E. Howard et al., Conan #1
Jack McKinney, Robotech #1: Genesis
Mary Gentle, Grunts
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
Michael A. Stackpole, A Hero Born
David Feintuch, Midshipman's Hope
Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan
David Gemmell, Dark Prince (One of these days I'll actually read some of the Gemmell books I have and figure out if I should keep buying these... but then again, it cost me 75 cents... ;))
Gene Wolfe, On Blue's Waters (Fortunately, I already know that I like Wolfe.)
Gene Wolfe, Castleview
Alan Furst, Blood of Victory
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (I enjoyed Cryptonomicon, so I'm looking forward to this one.)
Dan Brown, Angels and Demons (Yeah, yeah. But The Da Vinci Code was OK if you took it at face value, and my mother tells me this one is better, so that means it's at least OK.)
HISTORY
Trevor Aston, ed., Crisis in Europe, 1560-1660
Antonia Fraser, Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Claudio Rendina, The Popes: Histories and Secrets
Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (Two books on the French Revolution? Odd. Also, I have another on the Gunpowder Plot and a third on the era of the Eighty Years' War and the Dutch Revolt... are we seeing a trend here? ;))
G.M. Trevelyan, A Shortened History of England
Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra
Richard Vinen, A History in Fragments
Barbara Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
POLITICS, ETC.
Peter Singer, The President of Good & Evil
Joshua S. Goldstein, International Relations (Clearly a used textbook, but I figured if I ever might be interested in an M.A.I.R. I oughta know what people who have B.A.I.R.s know. Plus, it was 50 cents. ;))
Jack C. Plano & Milton Greenberg, The American Political Dictionary
John L. Jackley, Hill Rat
Henry Kissinger, For the Record: Selected Statements, 1977-1980
Henry Kissinger, Years of Renewal (They had another of this set, but it was in much worse shape, so I took a pass...)
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Report (Yeah, so it's available online. So what? It cost 75 cents. ;))
TOTAL TAKE: 33 books (if I counted right)
APPROXIMATE COST PER BOOK: ~$1.40