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Re: What do you collect?
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2004, 10:46:32 AM »
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I mostly collect science fiction and fantasy books, old childrens book series (like Trixie Belden, or the Bobbsey Twins), and editing books.  Lots and lots of editing books. And folklore books--I've gained quite a few of those in the past two years.


Brenna, we should compare sometime. Of course, I know that we probably have a lot of the same editing books from 330 and 365 (or whatever that was for Mel). At any rate, I'd love to hear about more editing books.

Also, I used to have both Trixie Belden and the Bobbsey Twins as a kid, but I don't know where they've gone. In the course of several moves, the box that held them has disappeared, along with an original Pinocchio that someone gave me a few years back. Makes me sad.  :(
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Re: What do you collect?
« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2004, 11:16:36 AM »
I think what I really need to collect are bookshelves...
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Re: What do you collect?
« Reply #17 on: May 07, 2004, 11:22:33 AM »
I have a huge book case. Some friends of mine took over her mom's house, and they had a bunch of storage shelves from when they ran a jewelry store. They're just unfinished wood, but they're like 6 feet long by 8 feet high. Each shelf can hold a tall RPG book, but with some spare wood I can turn each shelf into two shelves, so it hold lots of small books too. It's been very handy.

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Re: What do you collect?
« Reply #18 on: May 07, 2004, 11:39:27 AM »
The only book I go about collecting are the old Choose Your Own Adventure Time Machine books, which are pretty cool, and in my opinion much superior to basic Chhose Your Own Adventure.  Why?

1. they are based largely on historical fact.  you learn something.
2. no dead ends.  if you make a wrong decision, it sends you off on a tangent or back to a place you've been before.
3. the decisions are all logical - no guessing involved.  If you're thinking (and you do have to think a bit) you can progress to the end of the book by making right decisions.  None of that "Oops - you picked the wrong door.  Now you die."

There are only 25 of them.  I've recently been using Ebay to fill in the holes of my collection.

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Re: What do you collect?
« Reply #19 on: May 07, 2004, 03:48:33 PM »
I collect a lot of random science fiction stuff. I inherited the entire Foundation series, and have oddities like Hyperion and Startide Rising lying around.
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Re: What do you collect?
« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2004, 07:31:34 PM »
james lee burke novels
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Re: What do you collect?
« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2004, 11:10:44 PM »
Wow, Kije, I use to read tons of those Choose Your Own Adventure books!  That's actually why I started collecting bookmarks.  I'd keep four or five bookmarks for all the places where I wasn't sure what to do, then go back to them if I ended up at a dead end.  The only time machine one I remember is the Titanic.  Those were great books.
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Re: What do you collect?
« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2004, 11:44:17 PM »
I used to read these CYOA books that were like a little role-playing game.  You had 'stats' for your character, and the back page was a little random number generator.  You collected stuff (by writing it on your sheet in the back) and used it in your adventure.

Can't remember what they're called.  I've still got a couple, though.
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Re: What do you collect?
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2004, 02:24:06 AM »
Lone Wolf EUOL.  There's actualy a RPG based off of them that just came out this month.
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Re: What do you collect?
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2004, 11:51:08 AM »
Wow, that sounds like the Mario one where you collected coins and items and had to keep track of it all in the back.  I think they only made two or three of them, though.
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