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So I'm moving again, and I've decided not to take most of my books with me. I love books, I love owning a lot of books, but it's time to let a lot of these go.
So I'm parting with several hundred books. Unsorted, most of them science fiction & fantasy, lots of great writers, with a fair number of horror and crime titles mixed in as well. There are a bunch of short story anthologies of various kinds, as well as old magazines -- Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Borderlands paperbacks, etc.
There are also a bunch of books about writing and filmmaking.
I'm sitting here pondering what to do with all of these books, and I could donate them to a library (which would just toss them, I think), or a used book store -- but I'm thinking: I'd much rather they go to an actual person.
So. Are there any hatracker bookhounds, who maybe live in the Salt Lake City area, who might want these?
The deal is, they're free, but you have to take all of them.
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I'll take them! My daughters are book nuts and would be thrilled. My 15-year-old will devour a fantasy novel a day if given the opportunity. Send me an email and we can work out the transfer.
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I think the writing books may be spoken for already and possibly the filmmaking ones. I have a teenage niece that is writing a screenplay who just found out about them from my daughter. I'll get back to you if it turns out that she's not interested.
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Do you happen to have any of Gardener Dozois' "Year's Best" short story anthologies? I'm trying to collect the complete run of them, but I don't have all that many of them yet.
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I just happened to come across one. The Eighth, but I bought it from a library sale, so it has library stamps and stickers on it, and also, it is dog-chewed. Some great stories in there, though. No good as part of a collection, but fine to read.
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I've already got the eighth, unfortunately. I agree, though--there are some great stories in that one. I'm really interested in having the books for the stories in them more than their value as collector's items, so the fact that it's stamped, stickered, and dog chewed wouldn't put me off if it were a volume I didn't already have.
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I don't have much, if any, R.A. Salvatore. Haven't been reading him since the Dark Elf Trilogy.
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If there are any and no one wants them, are there any history books in the mix? Period specific or biography.
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I have a few biographies -- Lincoln, FDR, etc -- but I'm keeping those. The remaining biographies (of a few writers and musicians I like) are already bagged up.
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Do you have any books of short stories or any books about music or musicology, or composer biographies? I would also pay postage if you had a few that I wanted.
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Tons of those, actually, but they're all gone now. Sorry.
Noemon,
I came across the Gardner Dozois edited 23rd 'Best Of'(2005), and also another anthology edited by him called 'The Good Stuff'. On the off-chance you don't have those, I set them aside for you. Let me know if you want them.
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There's nothing left now. I'm sorry. They're all going to MattP except for these two that I set aside for Noemon and the ones I'm keeping. Posts: 2267 | Registered: May 2005
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Syn, did you read his first post? He was looking for someone in the Salt Lake City area who could take them. The price to ship several hundred books across the country to you would have been huge. You didn't miss out on anything you could have taken advantage of, anyway.
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