mostly free books

I took all my receipts from the past few years to Gardner's used books out on Mingo today. If you bring in $100 worth of receipts of past purchases from Gardner's, you get $15 worth of free books. They added them up for me and I had close to $125 in receipts which was worth $19.26 in books. Here's what I got:

1. The Wind From Nowhere by J.G. Ballard
2. Shadows With Eyes: Six Tales of Crawling Horror by Fritz Leiber
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
4. Vurt by Jeff Noon
5. Hunter/Victim by Robert Sheckley
6. Red Dwarf: Infinty Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor

These choices actually exceeded my free credit amount by $1.07. Still a pretty good selection for only $20.33 total. I still have no idea which one I want to read first.

The 50th Law

Reach of a Chef

by Michael Ruhlman

movie adaptations

The 10th Victim (Italian: La decima vittima) is an Italian cult science fiction film directed by Elio Petri in 1965. It is based on Robert Sheckley's 1953 short story "Seventh Victim". Sheckley later published a novelization of the film in 1966.

Freejack is a 1992 science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy. It stars Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Jonathan Banks, and Anthony Hopkins. Upon its release in the United States, the film received harsh reviews. The story was adapted from a 1959 novel titled Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley. Aside from the most basic elements, however — the journey of a modern man into a future where everything is for sale, and the presence of a "spiritual switchboard" in which souls are suspended — the cyberpunk plot bears little resemblance either in tone or content to Sheckley's story.

The above description was copied and pasted from the Wikipedia entry for Freejack.

The Status Civilization

by Robert Sheckley

not just for reading

book farm

Blog to Book

Waiter Rant by Steve Dublanica

This is one that I've wanted to read for a long time. I've read the blog, which I highly recommend. I wish Cook Rant would start updating again, maybe he could get a book deal too.

paperback writer

Bought this at B&N the other day, paperback. It was a toss up, which one I was going to get. Right next to it on the table was American Lion, also in paperback.

Anarchist Bookstore Part 1

MC Paul Barman

Lost in Translation 2

Ultimate Book of Spells

was a cartoon that was very similar to Harry Potter in which it had a young boy who discovers he is a wizard and magic is real and goes to a special boarding school to develop their talent. He soon discovers there is an evil wizard trying to take over the world and he must stop him with his two new friends and a talking book This show was also known as UBOS which is the shortened title. It aired on YTV in Canada.

time keeps on slippin...

Counter-Clock World

American Lion

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by John Meacham. Don't have it yet, but it sounds good. It's on my wish list.

All the Visions

Here's a book by my favorite author, Rudy Rucker. It is one I'd never heard of. I saw a copy of it for sale on Amazon for something like $3, so I ordered it. Turns out, it's actually 2 books in one

It is back to back with this one: Space Baltic by Anselm Hollo. Never heard of him but I'll read it anyway. This is a first, should I count it as one book or two? Since they are both very short and share a cover and one spine I will count it as one book. It is also a first in that since I could find no usable images of the covers on the internet, I simply shot pictures of the book, under lamp light with my cell phone and sent them to my e-mail. Problem solved.