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What are some of the books that you've been searching for? Ones you've managed to secure a copy of, or still can't find? The books that you'd give up anything to own a copy, or even just read? At my local used bookstore I recently found one of the books I've been wishing I could find for years: Extreme Paranoia: Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Shot. Yes, it's a stupid tie-in novel for a tabletop RPG. But the Paranoia RPG is one of my favorite games of all time, and I've always wanted to read the novels published for it! I don't have any apprehensions that it's going to be good, but Ken Rolston wrote it and I trust him. So what are you on the lookout for?
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May 18, 2023 00:26
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i really want a copy of Bottom's Dream by Arno Schmidt. i should have bought it when it first came out and was cheaper. now it is too much and i cannot justify it.
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May 18, 2023 08:10
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I very much want Black Baron and White Warlord by Joe Dever. They are a bizarre pair of gamebooks where you and a second player hold each one of the books then take turns flipping between illustrations to play frame-by-frame a competitive 1v1 arena FPS, in book form. It's such an odd idea and they're pretty hard to find now
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May 18, 2023 22:25
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It's not a book that exists, but the author of MAZE was going to make another book in the same format but more, somehow, and the illustrations we've gotten for it looked really interesting:
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May 19, 2023 14:27
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CountryMatters posted:I very much want Black Baron and White Warlord by Joe Dever. They are a bizarre pair of gamebooks where you and a second player hold each one of the books then take turns flipping between illustrations to play frame-by-frame a competitive 1v1 arena FPS, in book form. It's such an odd idea and they're pretty hard to find now Could always settle for PDFs. Print them out, shove them in a binder, call it adequate.
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May 20, 2023 11:40
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CountryMatters posted:I very much want Black Baron and White Warlord by Joe Dever. They are a bizarre pair of gamebooks where you and a second player hold each one of the books then take turns flipping between illustrations to play frame-by-frame a competitive 1v1 arena FPS, in book form. It's such an odd idea and they're pretty hard to find now Oh, I've got a couple of gamebooks that follow the same principle - Ace of Aces being one of the systems I have. (Lost Worlds being the other. It's a fantasy swordfight/duel one) I think AoA is possibly the most famous version of the formula? Either way, it's an interesting concept, that's for sure! I hope it's revisited someday
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May 20, 2023 17:18
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Calling All Suspects, a Fleming Stone murder mystery by Carolyn Wells. I have all 81 Carolyn Wells mysteries except Calling All Suspects and Murder at the Casino. I can get the latter if I care to spent $350 on it. I can't get the former for love nor money after years of searching.
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May 20, 2023 23:24
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A few years back, someone in the US DnD thread posted about some of his favourite conspiracy theory books and if I remember correctly, there was one that was about how to solve office back pain and posture problems - something like that. Anyway, it's actually supposedly full of legitimate methods to relieve pain and sit properly etc, before veering into absolute wild lands conspiracy territory about aliens, guns, illuminati etc. for a fair chunk before returning abruptly to the title subject. Now, I'm definitely NOT into conspiracy poo poo at all but man, I want to find that book.
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May 21, 2023 11:47
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Back in the late nineties I spent literal years hunting through used book stores trying to find The Dying Earth by Jack Vance. I managed to find the other three books in the series, one at a time, painfully, but the first one was drat near a myth. When I finally found it it was such a headrush that I had to sit down for a minute. The internet has made it easier to find, but it's still rare and now, of course, also expensive as gently caress. The other book that was just vanishingly rare was Red Iron Nights by Glen Cook. Most of the rest of the Garrett PI books were easy to find and reasonably priced, but that particular one just did not loving exist, except as single basic-rear end paperback copies on Amazon priced at three hundred dollars. I cared, but not that much. I also didn't really want to read the series unless I had access to all the titles, so I didn't read the series. Then the whole series came out on Kindle and I read it that way. That is still the only copy of Red Iron Nights I've ever seen.
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May 21, 2023 23:05
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Picayune posted:Back in the late nineties I spent literal years hunting through used book stores trying to find The Dying Earth by Jack Vance. I managed to find the other three books in the series, one at a time, painfully, but the first one was drat near a myth. When I finally found it it was such a headrush that I had to sit down for a minute. Speaking of Garrett PI, how did you find it? I greatly enjoyed The Black Company (and have been meaning to read Passage at Arms...) but I've always wondered about GPI, too. Sad to hear that one of the books is unavailable, though! More on-topic though, I've been unable to find an old Martian Manhunter omnibus for a while, now. I know there's a newer run, but I want the 1998 one specifically, for more of his old timey detective alter ego stuff. (It's also split into two parts - Son of Mars and Rings of Saturn) EDIT: Good lord, I checked again on a whim, and I've found it - my book holy grail! And not at a prohibitively expensive price! Welp, thank you OP, you got me to check again at a key moment!  Once these copies arrive, I'll no longer have a book holy grail
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May 22, 2023 04:44
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Major Isoor posted:Speaking of Garrett PI, how did you find it? I greatly enjoyed The Black Company (and have been meaning to read Passage at Arms...) but I've always wondered about GPI, too. Sad to hear that one of the books is unavailable, though! I liked them a lot! I've always liked the classic pulpy detective stories, so having a PI story with that sort of noir-ish overtone set in a dark fantasy world worked for me. Sometimes it's more fantasy and sometimes it's more detective noir, but all of the books are readable and the series comes to a tidy end. It's not Raymond Chandler, but it's not bad at all. Also I note in passing that used copies of Red Iron Nights are now entirely reasonably priced on Amazon. I suspect the Kindle editions put paid to the people trying to profit from the book's rarity.
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May 22, 2023 05:19
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I want this $1000 copy of Bottom's Dream. I won't be paying for it, nor will I be reading it.
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May 22, 2023 07:12
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i forgot to put this in my last post, but The Principles of Philosophy by Anatoly Rakitov, is another book i have been unable to find. i have a web version and a PDF of it, but i cannot find the physical book. edit: regular mike posted:I want this $1000 copy of Bottom's Dream. I won't be paying for it, nor will I be reading it. s_c_a_r_e_ fucked around with this message at 11:23 on May 22, 2023 |
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May 22, 2023 11:15
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I would be interested in having a (reproduction) Kelmscott Chaucer because I love the illustrations. It looks like a reproduction wouldn't actually be that expensive, so that could be something to get on a special occasion.
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May 22, 2023 17:32
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frytechnician posted:A few years back, someone in the US DnD thread posted about some of his favourite conspiracy theory books and if I remember correctly, there was one that was about how to solve office back pain and posture problems - something like that. i second wanting whatever the hell this is
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May 22, 2023 22:09
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The novelizations of Halloween (the original) and Halloween 3. They’re supposed to be a lot of fun but are hard to come by. I’ve day dreamed of starting a small company that re-releases out of print horror novels. People want them!
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May 23, 2023 02:11
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When I was in middle school I had to get interlibrary loans through the school library to read The House of Stairs and The Satanic Mill. Felt like Indiana Jones when they came in.
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May 23, 2023 06:52
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I kind of want the Codex Seraphinianus, but it's expensive, and I don't know if it's worth it.
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Jun 1, 2023 06:02
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BeastOfTheEdelwood posted:I kind of want the Codex Seraphinianus, but it's expensive, and I don't know if it's worth it. there are digital copies of it that exist but i'm sure you know that. digital copies will never be as good as physical ones, but it might be a good preview if you have not seen it.
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Jun 1, 2023 09:05
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there are a few science monographs I would love to own originals of, but I am happy for the scans that are out there so I can at least read the content with no problem. Some of those old books are pretty spendy!
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Jun 1, 2023 20:48
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BeastOfTheEdelwood posted:I kind of want the Codex Seraphinianus, but it's expensive, and I don't know if it's worth it. Hell yeah. I was searching in vain for a copy of The Voynich Manuscript for years. I just checked and I can get a nice harcover now! Thanks, thread.
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Jun 5, 2023 13:15
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i actually managed to acquire a copy of The Outsider and Others and im extremely pleased. i’ve been working my way through some selections from the Arkham House catalogue for a few years now, but this is the first of the real heavy-hitters i’ve picked up. the 1st clark ashton smith is next on the checklist i think but i’m learning to be patient and wait for the right editions at the right price show up
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Sep 16, 2023 02:16
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if I ever get filthy rich, I want a first edition of Ulyssess, that gorgeous teal binding made famous by some hollywood person or other reading it on camera. I can't read french at all, but I would really really love getting my hands on the "new" Pleiade edition of À la recherche du temps perdu some day a more obtainable white whale of mine, is the Oxford university press edition of the Ulysses 1922 text. this one is just all about getting to it
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