I am not going to buy a house yet because I don't have the roughly $750,000 in cash that I should have for a downpayment on a decent-sized house in this area. Until such time, space is limited in the extreme. I will not buy new books, with an extreme number of exceptions, those being the next two Wheel of Time books, any George R.R. Martin book that may come out before my 18-month old has children of her own, the three outstanding volumes of the complete Bloom County series and the fifth volume of the Clark Ashton Smith complete works (set to come out in September).
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Titles or covers?
- 18/06/2010 02:15:56 PM
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Nope
- 18/06/2010 03:29:54 PM
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Title if I had to choose, but unlikely I'd get an unheard-of book without a blurb. *NM*
- 18/06/2010 04:17:23 PM
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Why don't you people want to play?
- 18/06/2010 04:19:21 PM
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Okay, so the Martians come down and make you pick between McDonald's and Burger King.
- 18/06/2010 04:53:26 PM
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That is not a fair comparison
- 18/06/2010 04:54:33 PM
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Yes it is. And you didn't answer my question. Why won't you just play the game?
- 18/06/2010 10:57:24 PM
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- 18/06/2010 11:00:41 PM
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- 18/06/2010 11:00:41 PM
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Stop spelling it wrong!
- 18/06/2010 11:15:29 PM
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really you just never pick up a book ans say "what the hell I will read this one"
- 18/06/2010 05:49:05 PM
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Very rarely, and only in the library if that.
- 18/06/2010 05:54:48 PM
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Maybe the scenario is hard to imagine but I have picked up some treasures by title alone.
- 18/06/2010 11:16:17 PM
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Re: Maybe the scenario is hard to imagine but I have picked up some treasures by title alone.
- 18/06/2010 11:17:52 PM
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No they don't. I have lost on several gambles. But I have had enough success that I keep trying.
- 18/06/2010 11:24:09 PM
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The Aardvark is Ready for War.
- 18/06/2010 11:25:59 PM
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Neither. I own too many books.
- 18/06/2010 04:52:30 PM
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Huh. I suppose, since I have to choose, I'd go for cover. At least it would look pretty.
- 18/06/2010 05:56:43 PM
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I was noticing when I went to the public book sale that I am a title person.
- 18/06/2010 07:56:13 PM
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Hmm, that's a toughy. It's really a toss of the dice; could go either way. I'd go with cover...
- 18/06/2010 08:08:00 PM
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Neither would be the determinant factor for me...
- 18/06/2010 08:20:37 PM
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Now that's a reply
- 18/06/2010 08:27:34 PM
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Re: Now that's a reply
- 18/06/2010 09:06:10 PM
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Re: Now that's a reply
- 18/06/2010 09:12:19 PM
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Why? *NM*
- 21/06/2010 05:19:20 PM
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Because
- 21/06/2010 05:20:26 PM
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Author of a vastly
- 21/06/2010 07:27:35 PM
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Covers are there to stop you from buying books, if they are ugly.
- 19/06/2010 05:34:22 AM
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Cover, I suppose. That's what grabbed me for Hyperion and Otherland. *NM*
- 19/06/2010 08:50:38 PM
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What about opening sentence or paragraph? Why isn't that an option? *NM*
- 20/06/2010 01:50:59 PM
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