i no longer love you

The book about reincarnation looks interesting! :)

it was an ironic buy i swear!

i've been on the look out for some good pun action

Rod Serling ftw...Twilight Zone is one of my all-time faves.

i am slowly going through all the episodes and i am at about number 45? maybe? so several episodes into the second season.

i dunno, i love the twilight zone show, but his writing is not that great imo :-\ I've read a lot of his work and meh.

you paid an entire dollar for those? thats unforgivable!

but then again, your canadian so i guess thats like 73 cents so... i guess i forgive you, you lovable 'lil canuck.

most of my least favourite episodes were written by rod serling, so i totally get you and actually, the one reason i bought this book is because one of my favourite ever episodes is in there and it's the 'monsters are due on maple street" one. SO GOOD
i saw all the episodes that are in the book though, i really just had to buy it because i'm a horder.

i'd say for just the covers alone it's worth every penny.

hmm... worth every punny

nooo buy unironically

these are sweet

har har har!

I guess I haven't paid enough attention to who actually wrote each episode. So ginette, does this mean you have the whole Twilight Zone DVD collection? Cuz if you do, I'm so super jealous.

Rod Serling...fuck yeah!

when i spotted rod serling one first i went ' eeeee' and when i saw the puns one i went 'durrrr' and then i spotted the afterlife one and went 'MY SOUL NEEDS THIS"

i will never admit that i bought the pun book unironically.

Rod Serling is good, and those oldy cover designs are great too.

i am a jerkface and torrented the first two seasons, and i've been paying close attention to who has written what (though i obviously don't have the memory to recall them all by heart) rod serling has written maybe 70% of the episodes so far i think and he has a lot of lame ones but when he gets it they're pretty amazing (beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the lonely, time enough at last, and when the sky was opened and some others i am forgetting)

oh shit! I want to flip through the second two.

jean-ette, you need to watch Night Gallery. it's serling's scary trippy show from the 70s and is like twilight zone's badass older brother. FUCK I love it so much, I can't believe I don't own it on dvd.

oh wait I just remembered that NBC.com has been adding them to their online viewer so you can watch them free online in Hi-Def. I'M ON IT! smell ya lator, dorks!

I love cheap books, they're my favorite.

books used to look so much cooler

that's very true. i've even bought old christian books aimed at teenagers because they had nice covers. the stories suck so much they're kinda awesome.

your books are cooler than mine, maybe.
are these all goodwill?

i have quite the impessive "good will book" artist referance collection.
i'll post tomrrow when im not "teepy"

you will be twarted then

;(

also, only filthy canadians would publish such pun garbage!
your going down you canucks!

aww books are fuckin ghey. that's why I've never read one in my whole life.

i got them at some lonely used book store. all the books there are actually quite pricey until they get thrown out on this small table in front of the shop where they are all 50 cents each or three for a buck!
i used to live really close to a few goodwill type places though and went wayyy too often. i have so many great shitty books now that i can't even trade in because they're so shit. not that i would though - they're my babies.

I found an collection of Poe's short stories in the used book-shop; the inside leaves were these wildly cool sixties-type illustrations. They were like screenprints overtop of screenprints in great colours, deep oranges and teals and mustard and scarlet...I'll scan in some of the illustrations when I get a scanner working

those images sound amazing!!
and reminds me of my old plans to scan all my favourite illustration books. it was much to tedious though and i gave it up but i have a few nice chinese childrens books here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginettesbookshelf/

one of my best referance tools are a set of 300 pages of esquire magazine clippings of illustrations from 1940-1970

great material, and its amazing to see the process such great simplicity. i would have never survived as an illustrator in that era.

Amaaaaaaazing.
I spend most of my life in charity shops buying old paperbacks and junk

charity shops = thrift store? in the uk?

man there's a lot of guilt in that name. i'd feel bad about going to a
"charity shop"

Charity shops mostly sell second hand stuff and the proceedes go to charity. For CDs/Tapes I use Cancer research, books and games - Oxfam and for some reason the best clothes seem to be found at Help the Aged. I find that Charity shops are a bit too clean and homogenised these days, although there's a load of smallers ones where I live which are more like Junk shops. I prefer these.

I bought a Dr Seuss "And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street" book from oxfam recently. 1971 issue, really lovely illustrations.

^Totally agree, I hate the streamlined charity shops that are all nicely ordered and just have last season's Gap collection and rubbish bestsellers. The proper junk shoppy ones are awesome, especially the ones for little local charities. I buy practically all my stuff from them; I'm currently drinking from a vintage Adam and the Ants mug I got for 25p

I approve of all the above books!

best thrift store i've ever been to is called the white elephant in green valley arizona a retirement community where my best bud's grandparents live.

although its kinda depressing because most of the stuff is from deceased members of the town, the finds we had there were spectacular.

i bought a lacrosse matching track suit from 70' somethign for 6 dollars.

perfect.

oh man, i love buying crazy books.


i actually collect children's abc books. there is this one old book shop downtown that is great, every time i go i find at least 4 books i love.

One of my best "I can't believe I found this, and for only a buck!" scores isn't really a book....it's a complete set of booklets from a correspondence cartooning course from ca. 1922. It even includes a 'critique letter' sent to the guy taking the course way back when.

One of these days I'll get around to Web-ifying it......