...pshaw!...I would've been cast adrift if you hadn't.........and supernaturally gifted Golden Retrievers......You knew I would go there, don't be mad.
Your Latest Thrift/used Book Store Finds
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Same for me. Hideaway is another; it scared the snot out of me as a teen. I second the Snow recommendation, too. They are fun to read.
I found Stephen King's Joyland paperback novel for 50 cents at the thrift store along with the paperack of JK Rowling's odd novel Casual Vacancy or whatever its called about a town's mayor dying for a heart attack. A weird comedy type book pretty much
I just found Roger Zelazny's Manna From Heaven at thrift- this has five of the six Amber short stories and the special prologue for Trumps of Doom (the sixth Amber book) that most editions didn't have. I've been looking for this book for a while- it seems pretty hard to find and is a bit on the pricey side on-line, but I ended up paying $3 and it looks brand new so I think the wait was worth it.
Also wanted to jump in on the love for Watchers- one of my favorite books, but I'm always a sucker for dog stories.
Also wanted to jump in on the love for Watchers- one of my favorite books, but I'm always a sucker for dog stories.
Just went to Goodwill and came home with a lovely autographed hardback 1st printing of Sam's Letters To Jennifer by James Patterson for $1.99.
Yippee! You really have been lucky with signed books at Goodwill!
....it's cuz HE signs em hisself and then brings em home.....Yippee! You really have been lucky with signed books at Goodwill!
There were two other signed books by different authors that I didn't get. T. Jefferson Parker and someone else.Yippee! You really have been lucky with signed books at Goodwill!
I forgot to mention that last week I met an older man at Goodwill who was methodically going from book shelf to book shelf and would pull books off of the shelves and open them up to peek inside. After watching him from the corner of my eye for about 5 minutes I approached him and asked him if he was looking for signed books and he said 'Yes.' So, there's more than me out there looking for them! I told him about one that I saw and walked him over to it but he said he already had a couple by that author. Then I stabbed him.....joking! 
...no you're not....I forgot to mention that last week I met an older man at Goodwill who was methodically going from book shelf to book shelf and would pull books off of the shelves and open them up to peek inside. After watching him from the corner of my eye for about 5 minutes I approached him and asked him if he was looking for signed books and he said 'Yes.' So, there's more than me out there looking for them! I told him about one that I saw and walked him over to it but he said he already had a couple by that author. Then I stabbed him.....joking!
Is Stephen King's Joyland any good? All I know about it is tha its some private eye + murder mystery type book. Im surprised Stephen King would make a book like that
Are you meaning The Colorado Kid? Joyland doesn't have a PI in it but there is a murder mystery. Joyland is a marvelous book!!!
yes I do mean Joyland. it does have a murder mystery involved. Its in paperback
Well, go read it then. You'll like it.
Joyland contains way more than just a murder mystery. Are you familiar with the "Hard Case Crime" paperbacks? Stephen King has contributed to this style of story with --The Colorado Kid and Joyland. Give it a try, you might be surprised.
...why be surprised?......he's proven repeatedly that he defies genre typing.....
Found a paperback of Parallel Lies (2001) by Ridley Pearson for a quarter at the thrift store. Thought I had read all of his books except his latest, but I don't remember reading this one. Yay! 
You have the BEST luck with that! I've only ever found 1 signed book in a thrift store, but it thrilled me: Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson.
I loved Joyland!! Enjoy it.
I have said before that our local Goodwill is very nearly my Needful Things. Before I went this week, I wished for the new Marian Keyes and viola! There she be. I got a qpb of The Woman Who Stole My Life. Am reading it now.
I had to rescue some King books that I already have. I'm heading over to buy, sell, trade to see if anyone needs/wants them.
Hardcovers of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and IT (without a dust jacket), and MM pb of The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three.
Oh and I found a gargoyle statue, missing a wing, but God he's creepy cute. I had to take him home. He's weathered. I love weathered statues. I put him in the back yard for now.
Today the mailman delivered a very nice 1st printing hardback copy of Binary by 'John Lange' aka Michael Crichton. Ex-library but in very good shape (dj is like new!) and a copy of Odds On by 'John Lange' republished by Hard Case Crime books. I'm a happy camper! Both from thriftbooks.com
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I went to the free to keep/trade library by my home and the guy there knows I mostly look out for king, hill, Koontz and herbert. He recommended a book called December by Phil Rickman, saying king recommends him. The cover has "remarkable - Stephen King" on it. Has anyone read it or anything else by him?
I also got a slightly tatty paperback of Lord of the rings because, well why not - I might be tempted one day. I'd have preferred it a bit more tatty to be honest.
I also got a slightly tatty paperback of Lord of the rings because, well why not - I might be tempted one day. I'd have preferred it a bit more tatty to be honest.