BOOKS

[RCMerchant]

Books seem almost to be a forgotten thing in this world-you can read a book online-or Kindle-(is that right?)
I got lotsa books! Real paper-old-the smell of an old book-I love it.
Charles Fort,HP Lovecraft,old ufo books,old ghost books,Ray Bradbury,comic books from the 60's and 70's,old history books-the Civil War and American Indians-Horror movie books-I have over s**t loads of them I love books. Vintage book collecting is a passion-I have lotsa OLD books. I love books more than a man loves a woman-when I go to a flea market-I go to the books section first.

[RCMerchant]

I got old books from the 1800's I found in the house me and Tara Sue bought-I got MAD paperbacks from the 60's-I got obscure sci-fi books from the 50's-I got a Big Little Book of Lugosi in Chandu the Magician-I got f**kin books.
I got magazines-I have the LIFE mags of Charlie Manson,Martin Luther King,and the first Moon landing. I got a Time magazine about Satanism.I got Castle of Frankenstein,Famous Monsters,Creepy,the Spirit,the Monster Times,Horror and Mad Monsters-Mad (my oldest is from 1960)-so many f**king books-I love books.

[indianasmith]

Same here.  I have TONS of books, mostly history but a fair selection of fiction as well.  Most of Stephen King's in hardcover, several collections of authors I like, and anthologies of my favorite cartoons, from Dilbert to Fox Trot and Calvin and Hobbes, you name it.  But history and biography - probably some 1200 or more titles, and constantly buying more.

[RCMerchant]

Indy-I just bought a book about a week ago-about the folks dropping the bomb on Hiroshima-dated 1946-I'll send it to you if ya want! Nice hardcover book! Gimme yer address!

[RCMerchant]

I'm looking at the book now-its called World War 2 in Pictures-volume 11-date-1945. A really early book-being as WW2 Just got done with.
It was first published in 42! But revised as the war went on. Crazy,classic stuff! Vintage,my freind.-I'll send it to you-your the teacher-tell me what you think this is-its a puzzle to me!

[indianasmith]

Check your PM, Ronnie, and thanks for the kind offer!

[ER]

I got old books from the 1800's I found in the house me and Tara Sue bought-I got MAD paperbacks from the 60's-I got obscure sci-fi books from the 50's-I got a Big Little Book of Lugosi in Chandu the Magician-I got f**kin books.
I got magazines-I have the LIFE mags of Charlie Manson,Martin Luther King,and the first Moon landing. I got a Time magazine about Satanism.I got Castle of Frankenstein,Famous Monsters,Creepy,the Spirit,the Monster Times,Horror and Mad Monsters-Mad (my oldest is from 1960)-so many f**king books-I love books.

Wow, dude, respect.

[Skull]

I like the paper books and vinyl records too but the beauty of digital is that I could put every song the Beatles made (including the stuff they did alone) and every Stephen King book on a one SD card and store the card in my wallet. And that's not saying 'cloud technology'

I do agree there is a physical feel the papers books have that digital will never have but on the other hand too many books becomes clutter.

[RCMerchant]

I like the paper books and vinyl records too but the beauty of digital is that I could put every song the Beatles made (including the stuff they did alone) and every Stephen King book on a one SD card and store the card in my wallet. And that's not saying 'cloud technology'

I do agree there is a physical feel the papers books have that digital will never have but on the other hand too many books becomes clutter.

Ah-my freind-books-BOOKS! Physical paper-the musty smell of yellowing paper-the sense of history when you pick up an old book and read words-maybe not read in years-the artwork on the cover of an old 1972 paperback of HP Lovecraft.
God-I might have an orgasm.

[Skull]

God-I might have an orgasm.

 

I do have friends that can share a similar feeling with their gaming books :)

[RCMerchant]

God-I might have an orgasm.

 

I do have friends that can share a similar feeling with their gaming books :)

gaming? Like-video games?
That aint old-ugh! and video games! UGH! Sacrilge! Sacrelige? Sac-oh f**k it-that's unholy! 
Seriously -I really love old books and magazines-and it doesnt take that much space-thats why I got an antique bookshelf-and cabinet-and more bookshelves.
It's not only that-some old books are worth $-and my kids can sell them when I die. Reading books online is ok-but-I really wenjoy just looking at my bookshelf-full of books. I started reading very early-5 years old-and when I was a kid-my dad was a real scumbag-I escaped into books. Books are my freinds.

[Skull]

lol gaming books as in AD&D and RIFTS






I've also play MTG (Magic the Gathering) since 1996! And I have a nice collection of MTG cards :)



I own this bad boy and it's worth $2,500 dollars :)

[lester1/2jr]

pretty much the craziest book I've ever read https://www.amazon.com/Pyramid-Ismail-Kadare/dp/1559703148

Set in ancient Egypt-where Pharaoh Cheops oversees the construction of his tomb, the highest, most majestic pyramid ever, to be built by tens of thousands of his brainwashed subjects-the novel's hypnotically Kafkaesque narrative exposes the alienating, destructive effects of investing unquestioned power in a ruler, a state or a religion. The massive pyramid devours Egypt's resources and energies. Thousands die as it rises ever higher, and Cheops, depicted as a power-mad lunatic who craves adulation, periodically unleashes waves of arrests and torture of those falsely accused of sabotaging the project. Analogies to Stalin's paranoia, bloody purges and other terrors spring to mind, but the story takes on a broader meaning, demonstrating how a state or a ruling elite can mold public opinion so that its citizens willingly act against their own best interests.

the whole purpose of the ruling class is to make people miserable. feel it

[HappyGilmore]

I've not bought books in a long while.  I do, however, have a collection of books I've collected over the years.

My top 3 books in my collection:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Have a Nice Day! A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Books seem almost to be a forgotten thing in this world-you can read a book online-or Kindle-(is that right?)
I got lotsa books! Real paper-old-the smell of an old book-I love it.
Charles Fort,HP Lovecraft,old ufo books,old ghost books,Ray Bradbury,comic books from the 60's and 70's,old history books-the Civil War and American Indians-Horror movie books-I have over s**t loads of them I love books. Vintage book collecting is a passion-I have lotsa OLD books. I love books more than a man loves a woman-when I go to a flea market-I go to the books section first.

Ye-es! Except I won't use a Kindle. I don't like the way it feels in my hand. I have to feel that good old paper to enjoy what I read. Which is why I use to buy a lot of paperbacks, and not what is known as trade paperbacks, but . . .?! mass market paperbacks.

1st. Because sometimes that was the only way the book was available.
2nd. They were easier to tote around.
3rd. Even though the price for them went up dramatically, they were still cheaper than the other book formats.
4th. And, thus if I lost them, I did not lose as much money on them.

As to why I have stopped buying them.

1st. There are fewer places to buy them. Whereas, there use to be 6 or 7 different bookstore chains of various sizes, where I lived, that is now reduced to Barnes and Noble, and they are down to only 2 bookstores in the area in which I live.
2nd. Publishers have cut back on what they publish and sell to what sells the most, but . . .?! What sells the most is not what I want to read.
3rd. And, thus I have fallen back on to the local library to supply most of my reading needs.

There is one other way I enjoy a good book, and that is listening to it on cd or tape, which sometimes gives me more than if I just read it myself, but . . .?! This depends upon . . .
1st. The title
2nd. The reader
3rd. And whether it is unabridged. I will just not listen to something that has been abridged.

And we will see what we will see.