Who wants some books?

[Margalis]

Figured I'd make this it's own topic. I have a whole bunch of books that I'm going to give to the library, if anyone wants any I will gladly ship them.

I have a bunch of mystery and crime novels as well as a ton of sci-fi and fantasy, mostly pre-1980 and some quite old.

Pretty soon I have to repack them all into boxes. While I'm doing that I'm going to separate out the ones I want to keep and I can also keep an eye out for authors / titles other people are interested in.

I have a lot of John Dickson Carr and Carter Dickson, which are both very classic mystery authors. as well as some classic pulp like The Shadow. And I have basically every sci-fi author you've ever heard of (again pre-1980) as well as some fantasy (Fritz Lieber, L. Sprague de Camp, etc), and a whole bunch of anthologies. In fantasy I have mostly pulp stuff and in sci-fi I have everything from Lensman space opera to Vonnegut and everything in between. Zelazny, Silverberg, Philip Jose Farmer, Heinlein, everything.

So far I'm looking at for books by Jack Vance for Bunk. (I see Wankh sitting on the shelf right next to me) If other people want to throw out authors or specific titles I'll keep those in mind.

Most of the books are aged but otherwise in good condition.

[schild]

I'm missing some Neil Stephenson Baroque Cycle stuff. But I think I'm the only one crazy enough to want those past the first one.

[Salamok]

don't do it!  12 years ago I gave away a few thousand books when I moved from vegas to CA and I've regretted it ever since. 

At the very least try and catalog what you have on librarything or something before you give it away.  I know I would feel much better about tossing all mine if I had a record of what it was I tossed, helps to track it down again if you ever become so inclined.

[Margalis]

Neil Stephenson stuff is a little too recent. I have mostly "classic" sci-fi.

I don't really want to give the books away, especially given that I inherited them when my father passed away. But I have 30 boxes of books. I've read a decent number of them, but most of them I'm realistically never ever going to read. I'm going to keep some of the stuff, the A-list authors and monthly serials. (I have pretty much every Fantasy and Science Fiction from 60-80, as well as a whole bunch of Analog.) But I must have about 70 books just by John Dickson Carr / Carter Dickson. (Same guy) Out of those I've read the two or three that are considered the best, that leaves 68 more I'm never going to get to.

At the very least I'm going to get rid of pretty much all the crime / mystery / thriller stuff as I'm not really into that.

[schild]

Orson Scott Card?

[Margalis]

I'll look, not sure. I have Ender's Game but that's actually out of my collection, not my fathers. It's possible he has some others, I'll keep an eye open. I have some William Gibson by the way, if anyone is interested in that.

So far I 'm looking for:

Jack Vance - Bunk (have plenty of these)
Orson Scott Card - Schild (might have a few)

[WayAbvPar]

I'm missing some Neil Stephenson Baroque Cycle stuff. But I think I'm the only one crazy enough to want those past the first one.

Buy the 3 volume set. Much more manageable.


Margalis- do you happen to have any/all of Gygax's Gord of Greyhawk/Gord the Rogue stuff? They were mostly terrible, but they hold a special place in my black little gamer heart.

[schild]

This is a little later, but do you by any chance have some Jeff Noon? All I could ever find was Vurt and I lost it years ago.

[Margalis]

Ok fuck it, I'm going to try to enter them into libarything. God this is going to be painful...

[Viin]

Just take some nice high-res pictures so we can read the spines ..

[Margalis]

Here be my library:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=Margalis

Will take me a while to fill it up...

[Triforcer]

I would swoop in and take these, except I have my own trancontinental journey looming.  Nice collection. 

[Salamok]

Ok fuck it, I'm going to try to enter them into libarything. God this is going to be painful...

they still selling the scanner?

edit: used to be fairly easy to find had to dig a bit but $15 aint bad:

http://www.librarything.com/cuecat

also since you currently have a nice big bile of books take some photo's and enter their book stack photo contest, they are looking for a new home page pic.

[Margalis]

Unfortunately few of these have barcodes/ISBN numbers in a good spot.

I started entering the monthlies but gave up. The tracking for those is poor, some I couldn't find, some had multiple entries with different formats, etc. I'm planning on keeping them anyway. I have Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog and Galaxy. Starting on non-monthlies now.

[Signe]

When we moved here from the UK, we shipped all Righ's books - bazillions of them.  This time, when we move back, everything but his work books, art books, some special books and some autographed books, are being given away or tossed.  No more.  It's too much. We have rooms full of music that we have to ship.  Everything else, furniture, books, can go to the dump for all I care.  I already toss books that I'm done reading.  I don't very often read a book more than once, anyway.  No more moving across oceans, either, once we're back.  I have made a list of places I'll live, now, and none of them are on this side of the Atlantic.  (although I MIGHT consider a nice, warm tropical island where I can see the ocean from my patio)

I don't enjoy moving around as much as I used to, I think.

[Bunk]

I will gladly take whatever Vance you have off of your hands, I've pretty much depleted the local used book stores of his stuff. I even have a US shipping address I can use. 

Just let me know.

[lamaros]

I would take pretty much any of the crime/mystery books off your hands (hell, most of the SF stuff too), but I think it would probably be more effort than it's worth on your behalf.

(However if you can be bothered then let me know what it would cost you to ship to o/s to Australia and I'll see if it's worth it on my end too).

[Margalis]

Figure out how much it is from Boston to Australia. I'm listing the crime / mystery books first, I already have 80 or so entered.

[Paelos]

I'm interested in Fantasy stuff. I'm just about to finish Erikson's "The Bonehunters" so I'm out of things to read. I've liked Martin, Cook, and some of Goodkind's stuff before he went off the deep end.

So, if you have things in that genre, I'm interested.

[Raph]

What a lovely collection!

People SHOULD be asking for Pohl & Kornbluth, early Delany, the Van Vogt stuff, the pulpy stuff like old Nortons and Bradleys and the like, the Simaks and the Laumers and the Clements. The Sturgeons.

And you have a very nice bunch of hard-boileds.

Hurm. Now I feel like the collection should go to someone who would love it properly. :) But I already have a collection of many thousands.

[squirrel]

I'm missing some Neil Stephenson Baroque Cycle stuff. But I think I'm the only one crazy enough to want those past the first one.

Heh I have them all. I have 2 copies of Quicksilver, but you've probably got that one. I may have a spare copy of The System of the World too.

[Margalis]

Oh god I have about 50 Van Vogt books. I stumbled into the V section, this might not be all of them, but here are the Jack Vance titles. I'm logging crime / mystery / thriller first, so I won't have these listed at website for a while:

The Asutra
The Languages of Pao
Space Opera
The Dying Earth
Slaves of the Klau / Big Planet (double sided book)
The Killing Machine
The Dragon Masters
Rhialto the Marvellous
The Book of Dreams
The Face
Lyonesse
Son of the Tree
The Palace of Love
Future Tense (four short stories)
To Live Forever
Galactic Effectuator
Marune: Alastor 933
The Green Pearl
Trukkion: Alastor 2262
Wyst: Alastor 1716
The Dirdir
The Pnume
Star King
Servants of the Wankh
The Eyes of the Overworld
Showboat World
Monsters in Orbit
Eight Fantasms and Magics
The Gary Prince (two identical copies)
Emphyrid
The Brains of Earth
The Blue World
The Anome
The Brave Free Men
City of the Chasch
Cugel's Saga

There are probably a couple others I haven't spotted yet.

[Margalis]

I also have the original hardcover Lord of the Rings printings. (From England) Fellowship is fifth impression, Two Towers third, and Return is second. First two are in pretty good shape, Return's cover is has a patch peeled off. Still I imagine a nice collector's item for nerds.

[Bunk]

Very nice set there, a number of titles I don't have any copies of. Let me know when you want to and I'll get you a Washington state shipping address, I'll gladly just papypal you whatever you want. 

[Signe]

"Servants of the Wankh"!  HA!  That made me snort so unexpectedly that I almost farted!

[Salamok]

How about Andre Norton I haven't read any of her in decades and I wouldn't mind reading some more of her early stuff.  Also if you happen to run across a complete collection of John Normans Gor books I wouldn't mind having that on the shelf as a fun conversation piece ;) (plus it would probably annoy the wife)

[Signe]

Why would you want to annoy your wife?  That seems a bit self-destructive, not to mention mean. 

[Salamok]

2 reasons.

#1 - angry sex and make up sex are both better than normal sex.

#2 - While she is worrying about the gor covers with their scantily clad chicks in chains on them she isn't worrying about other stuff!  Plus i'd rather have her working on fixing something I don't really give a crap about (like a series of 25 ratty books that degrade women sitting on my shelf) than working on fixing something I do care about.

Of course I am exagerating a fair bit she won't really get pissed so #1 isn't going to come into play, but she will see it as a flaw in the nest, not a big enough flaw to fight over just enough to start up some covert ops, so #2 will definitely come into play.

[Signe]

I have to find a better eye rolling smiley.  One with sound would be good.

[Salamok]

I have to find a better eye rolling smiley.  One with sound would be good.

No rolling of the eyes needed! 

I learned a long time ago that most women like to occassionally attempt to "fix" their man.  Getting bored with the status quo is an eventual certainty so you keep digging for "flaws" because the feeling of accomplishment that accompanies "fixing" them is a good one.

I don't really have a problem with this but occassionally she starts trying to fix stuff that I'd rather have left alone.  For example she has been eying (with the occasional negatory comment too!) that massive box of my childhood treasures in the garage that has never been opened in the 10 years we have lived together. 

The gor series might be the perfect solution to the box problem, once I put those bad boys up on the shelf she will forget all about my box o stuff for at least the next year.  Plus once she "wins" and manages to evict it from the den she will feel good about the "progress". 

So in essence me getting those books and putting them on my shelf is actually a gift for her that in the end will bring her more joy than some lil bauble I could buy her.  After all a sense of accomplishment is pretty nice gift to give someone.

[Signe]

Maybe that's your woman, but it's not women in general or probably even 'most' women.  It's probably something that men do just as much.   Stereotyping ftw.  Of course, perhaps I only say this because I'm a woman and know what I'm talking about and you're a man and just THINK you know what you're talking about.    That could be it!  I know I've never asked Righ to get rid of anything that means something to him, or anything of his at all, really, other than empty UPS boxes or rubbish that is too heavy for me.  He's the one that brought up getting rid of books and stuff instead of lugging them from country to country.  I don't collect stuff.  I can throw away nearly anything and not think twice about it.  My book sale would more than likely end up a fire sale, if they didn't go quickly enough.

[Paelos]

Everybody likes to fix things! Check out the remodelling thread next door.

[Righ]

"Servants of the Wankh"!  HA!  That made me snort so unexpectedly that I almost farted!

If you dig in the spare room, you'll find a copy of it.

[Bunk]

How about Andre Norton I haven't read any of her in decades and I wouldn't mind reading some more of her early stuff.  Also if you happen to run across a complete collection of John Normans Gor books I wouldn't mind having that on the shelf as a fun conversation piece ;) (plus it would probably annoy the wife)

Maybe that's your woman, but it's not women in general or probably even 'most' women.  It's probably something that men do just as much.   Stereotyping ftw.  Of course, perhaps I only say this because I'm a woman and know what I'm talking about and you're a man and just THINK you know what you're talking about.    That could be it!  I know I've never asked Righ to get rid of anything that means something to him, or anything of his at all, really, other than empty UPS boxes or rubbish that is too heavy for me.  He's the one that brought up getting rid of books and stuff instead of lugging them from country to country.  I don't collect stuff.  I can throw away nearly anything and not think twice about it.  My book sale would more than likely end up a fire sale, if they didn't go quickly enough.

I think it's rather obvious that Signe is one of the Panther Girls.

[Signe]

Why do you make me google these strange things?  Why?