Went down with Grace to the NLB book sale at the Expo today. Not too bad a haul, though a bit heavy on the genre books. But I seriously had to comb the place, man. It was all decades-obsolete computer guidebooks and travel guides. Who the hell’s gonna buy a book on WordPerfect 8?!
I was half-tempted to get a Lonely Planet guide to Lebanon just for morbid curiousity but thought the better of it.
Here’s what I got for just 20 bucks.
- Martin Amis – Night Train
- Clive Barker – The Hellbound Heart (from which Hellraiser is based!)
- Ben Bova – Venus
- Greg Egan – Diaspora (read before, but liked it enough to pay $2 for it anyway)
- Gavin Kramer – Shopping
- Gentry Lee – Bright Messenger
- Douglas Mawson – The Home of the Blizzard
- Michael Moorcock – Blood
- James Van Hise -The Unauthorized History of Trek
- Scott Westerfeld – Fine Prey
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Nice haul. I think mine was a bit better though, considering I only paid $6 for 12 books. 😀
SCOT WESTERFELD! how come i didn’t come across anything of that calibre! nabeh. the thought of gross cheapos anyhow flipping books at the sale still makes me boil.
darn it.. i knew i should have gone for the fair…
more moorcock? now even got blood.
>>Who the hell’s gonna buy a book on WordPerfect 8?!
There might be collectors, you know, like amateur computer buffs into collectables and historical stuff. 🙂
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