Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.

Mal ,'Serenity'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Steph L. - Apr 14, 2008 5:31:31 am PDT #5480 of 28476
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Oh, cool! I'd like to read that.


Polter-Cow - Apr 14, 2008 6:35:56 am PDT #5481 of 28476
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Oh, neat!


sumi - Apr 14, 2008 6:53:42 am PDT #5482 of 28476
Art Crawl!!!

That looks really good!


Sparky1 - Apr 14, 2008 7:00:34 am PDT #5483 of 28476
Librarian Warlord

I go to the rare book room to ogle the 1st edition hardback of Dark Carnival (the original title of SWTWC). Someday it will be mine. Someday.

There's a copy on alibris for about $800...ijs. Not signed, though. There are copies there also that look to be in much better shape than the Powell's copy, and there is at least one copy there that is not only first edition, but first printing.

Signed, It took me a while, but I found my first edition, first printing (with the mistake) of Bemelmans' Madeline, and will someday have Stuart Little, too.


Kathy A - Apr 14, 2008 7:02:24 am PDT #5484 of 28476
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I'd love to find/be able to afford the first editions of the entire set of Little House books.

Oh, and Misty of Chincoteague, too.


Dana - Apr 14, 2008 7:38:33 am PDT #5485 of 28476
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Incidentally, the Harry Potter Lexicon trial started today:

[link]


Laga - Apr 14, 2008 8:59:02 am PDT #5486 of 28476
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Misty of Chincoteague

oh! I haven't thought about Marguerite Henry in years. She so fed my pre-teen horse love.


Atropa - Apr 14, 2008 9:32:29 am PDT #5487 of 28476
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

There's a copy on alibris for about $800...ijs. Not signed, though. There are copies there also that look to be in much better shape than the Powell's copy, and there is at least one copy there that is not only first edition, but first printing.

twitches gently

See, I don't need a signed first edition, because the copy that is the most important to me IS signed: the version that was released when the movie came out, that I won as a prize at the first SF/F con my dad ever took me to. But I DO want a first edition, some day.

(Not only is my childhood copy of SWTWC signed, but I recently found the photos I have of Ray Bradbury holding Clovis. Yes, I met one of my writing idols and asked him to pose for a photo with my fanged bunny. He didn't bat an eye at the request.)


Toddson - Apr 14, 2008 9:35:12 am PDT #5488 of 28476
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Considering Ray Bradbury and his fan base, that's probably not the oddest request he's gotten. (And Clovis does have lovely company manners.)


Aims - Apr 14, 2008 9:36:48 am PDT #5489 of 28476
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I want a first edition set of the Anne of Green Gables books.

And the British copies of HP.