― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 6 May 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Has anyone here ever (a) noticed that a book was constantly in the charity shops and (b) then decided to buy it just to see what it was all about (knowing full well how difficult it would be to see off afterwards)?
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sinead, Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
It's weird about 'Good Behaviour'. I really like this book but never would have known what to expect from it in advance - has it been really badly marketed over the years or something?
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― holojames (holojames), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Umm, The God of Small Things. Or anything else with stickers about winning prestigious literary prizes that people buy to put on their coffee table and make them look smart.
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 08:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
books clogging up shelfspace in the near future :lord of the ringsatkins dietda vinci code
― zappi (joni), Saturday, 14 May 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― dja, Saturday, 14 May 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I guess most of the books in s/h shops have orig. been given as gifts, a la "Hey, this character reminds a bit me of X, I'll give it to them for their birthday", hence all the Br. Jones, Nick Hornby & their imitators. 20 or so years ago, these type of shops were full of Kingsley Amis etc for much the same reason I imagine.
― bham, Monday, 23 May 2005 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 07:58 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.tomwolfe.com/images/covers/ManinFull.jpg
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Monday, 15 August 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
His other ones even more so, I think because they're worse so people just want to get rid of them out of their houses. Plus we had three copies in one week of a book that's being described in its blurb as the thinking person's DVC. One man brought it into the shop, put it on the counter and said "you can have this, it's RUBBISH!"
And good god, you could drown in Robert Jordans.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Øystein (Øystein), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Friday, 26 August 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― David Aldridge, Friday, 7 October 2005 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― sp@m, Tuesday, 6 June 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Less so nowadays, but hardbacks of The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade used to haunt every second-hand shop I'd go into, especially the 25p random table. Also, The Romany Rye and/or Lavengro by George Borrow.In poetry sections, creaky editions of Sir Walter Scott's poems. Some form of Dennis Wheatley, usu The Devil Rides Out, often a red hardback (see also: editions of Wheatley as ornamental books-by-the-yard in pubs).
― woofwoofwoof, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Lavrengo! I picked this up recently from a second-hand bookshop but aborted reading after about a page. No particular reason. I just couldn't be arsed, and it clearly wasn't going to be another The Bible in Spain.
Macaulay's History of England, usually in some uninvitingly cumbersome format.
― The Fairy Josser (GamalielRatsey), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Those red hardback Dennis Wheatley books were part of a Reader's Digest set, I think every house in the UK/Ireland had them in the '80's.
Probably a correlation with other books that appear on tthis list a RD offers.
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, suspect that RD are responsible for much of this. Looking at charity shop bookshelf of hardbacks from a distance, getting closer and realising they're all Readers Digest Condensed Books is always a gloomy experience.
― woofwoofwoof, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Macaulay's History of England? You go to some classy charity shops.
"Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote - the small green edition that came free with some womens magazine"I had this and never realised before, huh.
― thomp, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Classics of 19th-Century literature in TV/movie tie-in editions.
For the past couple of years: A Night Without Armor, poems by the briefly popular singer Jewel. Her moment of fame is so over.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
tom wolfe's a man in full has been at every book sale ive ever been to
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
From Amazon.com:
A Night Without Armor, hardcover -- 662 used & new from $0.01
― Aimless, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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― mark cl, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GWZX31JTL._SL500_AA240_.jpg816 Used & new from £0.01
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"Less so nowadays, but hardbacks of The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade used to haunt every second-hand shop I'd go into, especially the 25p random table. Also, The Romany Rye and/or Lavengro by George Borrow.In poetry sections, creaky editions of Sir Walter Scott's poems."
Ingoldsby Legends!
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Agatha Christie's entire collection, always.
Also old Penguin versions of A Passage to India and Pride and Prejudice.
― franny glass, Thursday, 14 May 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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― corey, Monday, 7 March 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 7 March 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
the shipping news
― plax (ico), Monday, 7 March 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
saw that displayed prominently in a gallery bookshop yesterday for some reason
― joe smooth's 'promised blend' instant coffee (haitch), Monday, 7 March 2011 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Reccently every bookshop I've been in has a copy (often more than one) of this.http://applecrossantiques.co.uk/images/JamesHerriotsYorkshire%20(260x300).jpgIt's actually a rather nice book.
― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
the satanic verses
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
Couplehood
― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Wednesday, 25 December 2013 03:34 (ten years ago) link
seeing tons of updike esp the rabbit series @ book sales this season, prob means ppl who owned them have recently died :(
― johnny crunch, Monday, 24 July 2017 02:40 (six years ago) link
Just walked by neighborhood streetseller and they had a more interesting selection than usual, such as The Sound and The Fury, then I, the Jury then a copy of Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun with a SEXY PHOTOE of Lee Remick on the cover.
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 November 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
Sanctuary with Requiem for a Nun
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 November 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
Also The Portable Oscar Wilde, Three by Flannery O’Connor, The Threepenny Opera
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 November 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
Little Fauss and Big Halsy, Bonjour Tristesse, Elmer Gantry, The Hound of the Baskervilles, DO U SEE?
― Recnac and my 📛 is Yrral (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 November 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
Cloud Atlas has been fairly common in the charity shops recently.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 17 November 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
Cloud Atlas mittelbraus its way thru every charity shop in the world
― Danton Lok (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 November 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
Still no sign of Morrissey's Autobiography. I was sure it would be a straight-to-charity release.
― fetter, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 13:18 (five years ago) link
I see it quite a lot, up here (Glasgow). Never see his novel, though (probably because it never sold any copies to begin with).
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
the 50 shades of grey and twilight series are ubiquitous ime
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
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― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
The version of Running Dog with the awesome/trashy thriller cover
https://www.jhbooks.com/pictures/medium/152271.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 29 November 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
And "Offshore" (although obvs it is vv good)
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 29 November 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
That Delillo cover is like the canine answer version to Alan Coren's Golfing For Cats
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51P%2BJhTELDL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 29 November 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
Yikes! My thoughts went "Awww, a cat playing golf... cool sweater... er, swastika"
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
it's a collection of coren's never very funny columns in punch magazine, so named bcz he -- amusingly! -- noted that the topselling books of the time were abt either cats or golf or hitler, so proposed a title that somehow combined them all
― mark s, Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
This being Oregon, I never fail to see multiple copies of Krakauer's Into the Wild. Sometimes there will be a round dozen of them shelved side-by-side. They are more prevalent even than Wild, Cheryl Strayed, which rarely shows up in herds greater than five at once.
I still see some of the Bridget Jones series of novels, but they are fading away to obscurity after a period of ubiquity. Tom Clancy is finally sinking into the sunset, too.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 02:54 (five years ago) link
Just dropped off a bunch of books (and some CDs) at Housing Works. Wondering whether I am going to that freeing feeling or an emotional hangover/backlash or both and in what order or in what intensity.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 September 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
The past four or five years I've noticed that Nicholas Sparks' novels occupy at least two feet of shelf space in all the charity bookshops I frequent.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
Entire shelves for James Patterson
― brimstead, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
entire warehouses filled with gently used Elegance of the Hedgehog trade paperbacks
― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link