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I'm looking for something like this in this city but I found nothing. I love Poe but his works must be read in the original english, otherwise it just... sucks. It's just a waste to read a translation, I dunno...

You should come over here. This place is lousy with english versions. :wink:

Have you tried ordering off of Amazon? Or do they have funky shipping charges?


Ouch... That's mean :|

Yeah, I tried checking at Amazon. It'd cost over 60 reais and I just can't afford all that for a book.


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I could try to pick up a copy and ship it to ya.

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On my last trip to a book store, I bought Cassell's French & English Dictionary. I also bought The Salmon of Doubt. Usually I tell myself that I don't need to buy Insert Intruiging Title Here because I already have a books that I haven't even read yet, and I can always get it from the library for free. I really want to read How I became Stupid by Martin Page, but that one will just have to wait.


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I could try to pick up a copy and ship it to ya.


Really? Well, if you did you'd make a brazilian very happy. :mrgreen:

Thanks gonz! Anything I could do in return for that?


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Wowb:

No worries. Lots of folks have been extremely generous to me. Just pass it on. :happy:

Give me some time to track it down.

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gonzoid wrote:
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No worries. Lots of folks have been extremely generous to me. Just pass it on. :happy:

Give me some time to track it down.


yeah, quick pass it on pass it on pass it on.

Don't pick it up pick it up pick it up,
Quick pass it on pass it on pass it on,
You don't want to be here when the big one comes


bought myself one of those PaperStyle Notebook thingies; one of these (the black one)
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handy for us er creative geniuses, apparantly. my uni recommended that we all bought something like this, because we clearly must be creative genises if we're going to attend their course "Creative Writing" :razz: but I like writing down stuff and it's light and portable so fair enough, cool stuff. or something. yes. I am rambling.

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Shaman´s crossing by Robin Hobb. Well worth reading.


Really? Read Liveship traders. Loved it. And I was thinking of getting the Soldier's son trilogy on my next trip.
I just finished the Bitterbynde by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. That was the shiznit.

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bought myself one of those PaperStyle Notebook thingies; one of these (the black one)
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handy for us er creative geniuses, apparantly. my uni recommended that we all bought something like this, because we clearly must be creative genises if we're going to attend their course "Creative Writing" :razz: but I like writing down stuff and it's light and portable so fair enough, cool stuff. or something. yes. I am rambling.


Oh... I carry paper napkins with me, for that purpose. Heehee... The best ideas were written in paper napkins :)


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yes, apparantly some woman wrote a book on napkins and got really famous :wink:

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I bought "Shalimar the Clown" by Salman Rushdie. I've heard so-so things about it. I guess I'll see.

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yes, apparantly some woman wrote a book on napkins and got really famous :wink:

I heard it was bloody awful.


What? No one likes menstruation jokes?

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (widescreen edition) yay!
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if amazon counts...: i got the last two volumes of the aubrey/maturin series, "the hundred days" and "blue at the mizzen". then, after 20 volumes, this voyage has ended. *snf* but what great stuff, especially when you are taking sailing lessons like me!
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(recommends it heartily to anbody who liked "master and commander" ... and just anybody else)

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Mary Higgins Clark's Loves Music, Loves To Dance

AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

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I was just being silly.
(I didn't buy that book.)

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Today I got Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke (thought I'd give it a try); Serenity #3 of 3; the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly and a 25% discount.

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SS, I loved "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell". Yes, it is long, but it was so good that half-way through I knew I was going to be bummed when I finished. Sure enough, I was really sad that it was over. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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...Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell...


MooingPlatypus loved that one.

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From the local bookstore something for the barleyminded ... :mrgreen:

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I bought Watership Down at garage sale for 50 cents. Good deal, I'd say!

MG: You got me. But seriously, don't buy/read the MHC book if see it. Its terrible.

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Death Of A Transvestite - Ed Wood Jr.
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From ebay
1st Pan editions of each Hitchhiker's Book


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An ebay purchase for $0.01: Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs".

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An ebay purchase for $0.01: Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs".


(Happy 42nd post, ewomack.)

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went to get "the amazing maurice" by pterry. they didn´t have it, but they had the soft cover edition of "going postal"! so i won anyway.
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but i still want "maurice", damnit. see? that´s what makes me buy on amazon.

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just ordered Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, by Neil Astley. Need it for my course, apparantly. No one told me that until now, though...

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Well at least you'll have one book. Don't they have a campus Library? Otherwise join Crewe's library, it's free (At least it used to be but I haven't lived in the UK for 23 years so it may have changed).

http://www.cheshire.gov.uk/library/crewe.htm


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there is a library on campus. might check that out later. have to do my washing today, eek. just ordered Eric Idle's The Mission to Mars for a grand total of £2.69 thanks to Amazon Marketplace :razz: and later today I will know just how much money there is in my bank account haha. have an online bank service but I haven't got all the codes I need so dad will email it to me later.

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Shikala wrote:
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...Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell...


MooingPlatypus loved that one.


Yus! Yus, I did. I want to re-read it, but I lent it to someone. Woe!

Last thing i bought was Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. Mainly because Mark Knopfler and James Taylor sang a song about it which is utterly beautiful.

The book rocks, too. You should read it. It's immensely confusing and insane sometimes, but still awesome. ^^

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Not much. I was going to get the Deluxe 25th edition of Hitchhiker's, but it was fifteen dollars more than I could afford. We'll see if I can rectify that today or Monday.

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It's Not Easy Being Green : And Other Things to Consider
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Picked up a big book about Vincent van Gogh.

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I thought you'd been banned from bookstores ...

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Picked up a big book about Vincent van Gogh.

Which?
His live or his work?

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