Jazzmoose

Yeah, might as well pull the plug now.

This has to be good!

Wow. This guy has a totally different view of the 'to read pile' than I do. The 'to read pile' has an honored spot on my shelves, and if it drops under fifty books I get extremely nervous. My 'to read pile' is not something to dread, it's my security blanket. Yeah, there's a few books there that I've been carrying from place to place for twenty years or more, but what the hell...

Why did I just get this mental image involving a cigar and a tailpipe?

I give up; what's a gritter?

And J.G. Ballard thought he had a bizarre book idea with Crash...

So I guess it's like a minor league hermit thing. Sounds like something I'd like to try after a day at work...

Good news, until you're traded for a crescent wrench to be named later...

I thought it was "I buried Louis" backwards...

Nicholas Payton Walter Payton Walter Neff

Alas, these are formerly owned, but here are my three favorites from what I used to have: 1. Anita O'Day 2. Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions 3. Complete HRS Sessions

Jerry Allison Joe Mauldin Niki Sullivan

This comment triggered a memory today. I picked up a few Phillip Jose Farmer books (The World of Tiers series, to be exact) and settled in for a bit of nostalgia last week. Well, I made it through the first one with a struggle, but one chapter into the second I gave up and moved all five books to the "already read" shelf. Damn, these things stink. Silly, poorly written, a complete waste of time and trees. I'd say that they're on the level of those godawful "Gor" books, but to make a fair comparison I'd have to reread one of those to make sure, and I see no reason to punish my brain like that...

I have. Better be adding a lot of stabilizer, or you're gonna have 500 gallons of varnish...

Phil Neikro Joe Neikro Knuckles the Echidna

Speaking of which, I say Oscar is toast! Holy shit...I got one right! I've been on a losing streak ever since the first Ali/Frazier fight!

That one's on my list of 'never read SF classics to watch for', but haven't run across it in the local stores yet. Yeah, I'm sure it's on Amazon or some such, but half the fun of old books is finding them in a local used book store...

Well, I'd rather hear about getting music education back into the schools, but that's cool...

Ass backwards, Jazzmoose. Anything that's collectable is worth counterfeiting. MG Well, until they reach prices a bit higher than the current two or three bucks, I'm not going to sweat the idea of finding counterfeits in my SF paperbacks...

Yeah. I really enjoyed that book, far more than most 'post-holocaust SF'. Maybe it was the morse...

Wow. It's too bad he managed to hit such an unexpected slick spot in bad winter weather. Who'da thunk it?

I think a better idea would be to collect something that just isn't worth counterfeiting. After all, it's the search and the chase that matters. If someone has to have high value to justify their collecting, they're not a true believer anyway.

Alfredo Garcia John the Baptist Murray Head