name some really cool books that you recently purchased

[JitterbugPerfume]

I bought

The Origional Hitchhikers radio scripts, first American edition, Douglas Adams

Alices Adventures in Wonderland pop up by Robert Sabuda

and Galileos Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson.

What do you have that is to cool for words!!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Conservatives Without Conscience. John Dean. nt

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. that is a book I have been aiming to read

forever!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

14. Don't hesitate. The first chapter or two are boring, but the rest of the book, omg amazing! nt

[applegrove]

15. I'm going to have to read that too.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

16. You won't regret it. Try to get past the first two chapters, and you won't be sorry nt

[Vanje]

2. I had to sell :

Agaves of Continental North America by Howard Scott Gentry.
God I loved that book!
I sold it for enough money to buy a tank of gas. THat is all.
I sold my copy of 'An Introduction to the Orchids of Mexico" by Leon Wiard, for the price of 2 bags of dog food, because my boys and girls were hungry.

These books fed my soul.

[haikugal]

5. I am so sorry to hear this...

I hope things improve for you soon.

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. Damn Vanje!

I hope things get better soon for you.I checked out those books on Amazon out of curiosity, and they are beautiful books.

[fadedrose]

3. Fourteen used books from Amazon...

All James D. Doss' Charlie Moon Series. Books are in great condition. Only 2 more to go...

To me they are cool.

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. Hi Rose!

I buy LOTS of used books there,and I have never been disappointed

[Booster]

4. I bought The Help in paperback.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. I loved that book!!

[Little Star]

21. I adore that book! Wish there were more like it.

[KT2000]

10. They're Poisoning Us:

From the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico by Arnold Mann

When people are sickened by events like the wars, mold infested buildings, big events like the Gulf - they enter a twilight zone where corporations, insurance companies, corporate backed medical societies have made sure their sickness does not exist. This investigative journalist describes just how that is being done, such as banning doctors from preferred provider lists, stopping funding of research and more.

Very eye-opening.

[JitterbugPerfume]

13. it sounds interesting

and scary as heck

[Cheap_Trick]

11. For the Star Trek fans:

Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock

There’s likely no more of a thankless job in the Federation than temporal investigation. While starship explorers get to live the human adventure of traveling to other times and realities, it’s up to the dedicated agents of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations to deal with the consequences to the timestream that the rest of the Galaxy has to live with day by day. But when history as we know it could be wiped out at any moment by time warriors from the future, misused relics of ancient races, or accident-prone starships, only the most disciplined, obsessive, and unimaginative government employees have what it takes to face the existential uncertainty of it all on a daily basis . . . and still stay sane enough to complete their assignments.

That’s where Agents Lucsly and Dulmur come in—stalwart and unflappable, these men are the Federation’s unsung anchors in a chaotic universe. Together with their colleagues in the DTI—and with the help and sometimes hindrance of Starfleet’s finest—they do what they can to keep the timestream, or at least the paperwork, as neat and orderly as they are. But when a series of escalating temporal incursions threatens to open a new front of the history-spanning Temporal Cold War in the twenty-fourth century, Agents Lucsly and Dulmur will need all their investigative skill and unbending determination to stop those who wish to rewrite the past for their own advantage, and to keep the present and the future from devolving into the kind of chaos they really, really hate.



I love the time travel Star Trek stories. I'm about halfway through the book. Lots of fun.

And that Original Hitchhiker's Scriptbook is loads of fun. Have you heard the radio plays? Worth looking into.

[JitterbugPerfume]

12. I haven't heard the radio plays

but I would love to.I adore DNA!!

[LWolf]

17. I haven't bought many books since my personal economy crashed.

I'm working my local library hard, and most of the books I buy are for professional purposes, rather than personal.

I bought some copies of "Here There Be Dragons," by James Owen, for a book club I run with some of my students. It's pretty cool.

What do I have? A few thousand books already on the shelves; a lifetime collection, and I think many of them are too cool for words. I didn't purchase them recently, though.

Some I have been thinking about recently:

"Always Coming Home," by Ursula Le Guin

"The Name of the Wind," by Patrick Rothfuss

"Rebecca" by Du Marier

[JitterbugPerfume]

18. Rebecca is ABSOLUTELY

one of my all time favorite books . I first read it when i was very young (13-14) and I have read it many times since.

that is a good list!!

[LWolf]

19. One of my library books last week was

"Mrs. De Winter" by Susan Hill. She attempted a sequel.

On one hand, I think she nailed mood and characterization. On the other, I didn't like her inevitable conclusion, even though it's a legitimate contender.

I spent more time pondering the original as a result than I did reading this one.

Glad you liked the list. :D

[SheilaT]

20. You would have to ask.

And I would feel compelled to answer.

Here's the stack of books purchased in about the last six months or so, and it's hard to say when I'll get around to reading any of them, as I also currently have nine books checked out of the library.

Ghosts From the Nursery, Tracing the Roots of Violence by Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith s. wiley

Why We Make Mistakes by Joseph T. Hallinan

The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardner

The Science of Superstition (formerly titled SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable) by Bruce M. Hood

Future Babble by Dan Gardner

Rogue Wave by Boyd Morrison

The Story of French by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow

The Other Life by Ellen Meister (I broke down and bought this because my library doesn't seem interested in ordering it)

Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson, which is the third of a trilogy, preceded by Spin and Axis. I really, really like this man's books.

On Shaky Ground by John J. Nance, which came out in 1988 and I originally read it when it first came out. It is absolutely the best book about earthquakes I've ever read. Several months ago I finally decided to order it from Amazon, and it showed up on my doorstep on -- are you ready for this? March 11 this year. I'd awakened to my NPR station talking about an earthquake in Japan, and I thought, That happened two days ago, why are they still talking about it? and then they mentioned magnitude 9.0, and I knew a new one had struck. The book then being on my doorstep was just an amazing bit of synchronicity.

[demguy72340]

22. don quixote