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BookJumper

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  1. 48 pages into Koontz's Frankenstein 1: Prodigal Son, and things are starting to get interesting, so much so that I'm striving not to be bothered by an upsetting page which might well have made me abandon a less worthy book.
  2. My most recent "Do I own a valuable first edition?" moment was with Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - it was first published in 1976 and my copy was also a 1976 obe, however it was not a first edition as on the publisher's page was written "first published 1976, 8th printing". What you need is "first published in year such and such, 1st printing". Also, check that it doesn't say anything along the lines of, "first published for publisher x in year such and such", as that will mean it's been published by someone else before. If it has, the copyright page will usually tell you when and who by. Hope that helps.
  3. On the bus/tube towards my doomed errands of the day, I read a bit more of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Book One - Prodigal Son. I'm not quite sure what I think of it so far, the idea's good and Koontz does come up with the occasional good figure of speech but it seems all a bit crime-y and swearing-y for my taste. I was expecting something more in the vein of Stephen King's The Dark Half, to be honest. Then again, I'm only 30pp in so things might always improve...
  4. Am I made even more of a nerd by the fact that your level of organisation moves me as beautiful?
  5. This thread here lists winter/snow/Christmas-themed books oh, and welcome!
  6. Oh dear thanks for the heads-up, Fi!
  7. The edition I saw was the selfsame one with the awesome centaur on it, and the very reason I was unsure was that I was having a hard time locating the sequels in similar-looking/sized editions! That said, I do enjoy makey-uppy physics (it makes my head spin in a good way) so I might just have to get it anyhow... !
  8. Has anyone read: Evernight + Stargazer by Claudia Gray; if so, would I like it, considering I loathed Twilight (for style and stereotypes - I do like my vamps)? and / or Troy / Ithaka / Dido by Adele Geras; if so, thoughts?
  9. It's interesting you should say that, I was tempted by this several times recently but always managed to resiste its charms...
  10. Royal Mail kindly informs me that they couldn't deliver a parcel too big for my letterbox (my hardback copy of Inkheart from BookMooch, I presume) because no one was in, i.e. my flatmates who are in couldn't be bothered getting the door. How very nice of them, now I need to wait until tomorrow and spend money to reach the sorting office to get it *growl*.
  11. Tee hee hee. That is all.
  12. Are you sure you are not my mother ? ... you like living dangerously, don't you ?
  13. It's official: adding peanut butter cookie dough (cf. my recipe somewhere in this section...) to B&J's Cookie Dough ice-cream is an idea of staggering genius.
  14. What an alphabetical beginning I reckon me and you will get along nicely. I look forward to conversing with you - some of your favourite authors being mine (Bradbury and Le Guin), and others being ones I've been meaning to try for ages (Sawyer, Williams, Wolfe). I'm also 16 pages in my first ever Dean Koontz book, I'll let you know how I get along... I suppose I'll just have to forgive you Donaldson.
  15. Oh dear, your cheezing does not sound very pleasurable at all. I suggest you try the alternative type of cheezing, which involves stuffing your face with cheesy wotsits. Granted, they might not be the most nasally congenial things but man, they taste divine...

     

    I hope you found enough energy within to crawl towards that cuppa, and that it branched its warming effusions from the cockles of your heart to the curling tip of your toes.

     

    x night night

  16. ... we'll have to stretch them out between events and let them suffice, then!

  17. ... that's it, we're both tearful now. Your words fill me with hope, God knows I need it, and tease a smile from my weary muscles - thank you for being the one and only Genevieve.

  18. You come at a time when hugs a needed - yet I still fly, if low and slowly, thanks to the loveliness of people who will not allow me to give up on my broken wing. As someone who shares that lovely quality of spirit, which includes (but is not restriced to) putting others before yourself and always knowing how to inspire, comfort and soothe them, you have been missed, and are very dearly welcome back. I hope you're back to stay, and that I may before long read more of your words of wisdom. Have many hugs in return for the ones you so thoughfully sent to me; I hope they find you also entranced by the joys of flight.

  19. It's quite alright; anyone spouting off allitterations and launching Shakespearean wit contests as if they were a thousand ships is my friend ;)!

  20. I am hanging on in here, by a thread but I'm hanging.

     

    I do like my ranting and raving so I suppose you needn't worry too much until I stop doing that much - should I ever lose the words to tell you that I've lost my words, you have my permission to panic.

     

    I do know that hanging or no, you're here for me in all your supportive loveliness and, for that BookJumper the Mighty Mistress of Allitterative Awesomeness ;) thanks you.

     

    How's you :friends0:?

  21. Your niceness earned it :D:friends0:!

  22. Good Omens is a work of staggering genius hopefully it will kick your mojo into an upright position!
  23. I'm not the relevant authority so don't quote me on this, but it seems to me that if someone desperately wants book x in hardback there's no reason they shouldn't get it, provided the book's price complies with the set maximum spend and is available to buy from a worldwide free-postage website such as the Book Depository.
  24. My feelings exactly!
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