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u/passingby · 3 pointsr/bookshelf

Wow, that is an awesome edition of Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman. They really should start publishing it with that cover again.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/bookshelf

Thanks for the offer but I am actually saving up to buy one of the nice single volume editions with all 3 in one. Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-50th-Anniversary-Edition/dp/0618517650/ref=cm_lmf_tit_12

u/ONE_deedat · 1 pointr/bookshelf

Nice.

Highly recommend:

Infidel

Age of Revolution

Pic of the others please?

u/bookchaser · 7 pointsr/bookshelf

>Do the kids value the books more by owning them, even though they ultimately only get a few a year?

What if those few books are the only ones you own? The meaning behind book ownership is proportional to the number of books you own. More than half of the students come from low income families.

For my parents' generation growing up, my aunt has told me how she wrote her name inside every book and treasured the few she owned. That idea, of claiming a book as your own, survives today. Kids still write their names in books.

This week was our grand re-opening after a month-long overhaul of the room. A teacher told me about a first grader new to the school who began crying as the teacher explained about their upcoming visit. The student said, "I don't deserve a book." I don't know her background, other than that she has a troubled home. You do deserve a book. You've earned this book. This bookstore exists because you are worth it.

>What sort of impact does this idea have compared to just having a library?

Our school library is essential for obvious reasons. A kid gets far more books from our library than the bookstore. Kids don't have to fret that the last copy of The BFG is gone and it's unknown when another copy will come along. The BFG will be in next week; would you like to reserve it?

Last year, there was a battle over parent funding of the library (which is sad, but yes, parent groups now raise money to cover basic salaries). I vowed to stop the bookstore if the library closed, which kind of shook things up. The right people got involved and we still have a library for 4 hours a day, just enough for every class to visit every week and to be open during lunch recess.

> Does it influence the parents in the area at all?

Influence how? The parents who have seen the bookstore like it.

One kinder family this year chose our school over another because their daughter is a book lover and she wanted the school that gives away books. That's important because the reform movement is always thinking up new ways to draw students away from traditional public schools. The bookstore exists only because we have empty classrooms that were once filled with students (e.g., no empty classroom = no place for a bookstore).

u/generalvostok · 2 pointsr/bookshelf

Top 5 off those shelves would be:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Alt History detective novel by a Pulitzer winner
http://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel-P-S/dp/0007149832
The Atrocity Archives - Lovecraftian spy thriller and IT hell
http://www.amazon.com/Atrocity-Archives-Laundry-Files-Novel/dp/0441016685/
Books of Blood - A compilation of Clive Barker's nasty little 80s horror anthologies
http://www.amazon.com/Books-Blood-Vols-Clive-Barker/dp/0425165582/
Perdido Street Station - Steampunky fantasy with excellent worldbuilding that's apparently a good example of the New Weird, whatever that is and however it differes from the Old Weird
http://www.amazon.com/Perdido-Street-Station-China-Mieville/dp/0345459407
American Gods - Gaiman's mythology based urban fantasy; a modern classic
http://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0380789035

As for the Weird Tales collection, it's Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors. It sets out to present the best tale from each year of the magazine's original run. Published in 1988 and edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (as if the eldritch gods didn't inject enough unpronounceable names into the mix) you've got everyone from Isaac Asimov to Seabury Quinn to good ol' HPL himself with "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"
http://www.amazon.com/Weird-Tales-32-Unearthed-Terrors/dp/0517661233
Not quite the $1 deal I got from the library sale, but not as outrageous as some of the out of print prices on Amazon.

u/HAL_9_TRILLION · 6 pointsr/bookshelf

Every house I have owned over the years, I have built bookshelves of varying complexity and posted pictures of them on the Internet. Without fail, someone notices that book. :) It's a very dry, dense book written by a German guy.

u/Dis13 · 1 pointr/bookshelf

Heeey, you've got MY collection of Hitchhiker's Guide books...

I love that book company (Picador), they also published a very affordable collection of some writings of Hunter S. Thompson, which is awesome. I think the art on the Hitchhiker books are bomb-ass as all hell.

u/bill2070 · 2 pointsr/bookshelf

Thank you! I believe this is what you’re asking about.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3, Volumes 4-6 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307700763/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_LstDDbYWAMCHZ

u/LetsAllBeNiceToday · 2 pointsr/bookshelf

Ok, if you haven’t already added this to your list, and because you have The Dirt and Tommyland, you should really check out Nikki Sixx’s Heroin Diaries. But maybe you already did and that’s why you picked up those Crue books!

And you should probably look for a budget-priced copy of Vince Neil’s book, called Something Something Buy My Tequila, because it’s not great. I found one at a Goodwill for $2.99 which was the right price.

And for extra credit: https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Loves-When-Youre-Dead/dp/0061543675

u/Erudite89 · 5 pointsr/bookshelf

Amazon sells something similar: Southern Enterprises Spine Book Tower - Metal Floor Shelves, Silver https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QOGKSA/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apip_BRvZEvgrMdEhO

u/Lungri · 2 pointsr/bookshelf

I think Amazon was selling the one "complete" set and various smaller collections not too long ago?

http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Classics-Library-Complete-Collection/dp/0147503078

People complain about Penguin Classics because the paper apparently yellows and becomes brittle quite quickly. Maybe they've fixed this problem recently, though.

u/rangifer2014 · 6 pointsr/bookshelf

Can I give you a recommendation based on your collection? The Peregrine by J.A. Baker.

If you read it and aren't glad I'll send you 50 dollars/pounds/whatever.