BOOKTALK

Comment from: longwaybye
"Like you, Im also a lover of Books, a bibliophile! Movies too! I "discovered" a chain of stores offering 2nd hand bargain books,BOOKSALE, and for the editions you missed, even for the books that dont get another printing, you can find them there,with a little effort.

How cheap? I found my copy of Erich Segal's short but really a tear-jerker swear-to-god-all-my-friends-did-cry Love Story for 15 pesos! For readers not familiar or forgetful, Segal also wrote the Doctors and the Class of 59 or 50 I dont remember.

I found old editions of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy there, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion, yes Im also a Tolkien-atic!

Just expect these bargain books to tell signs of their previous owners, but I dont mind them, in faCT I love 'em! So, this one was given by Sheila to Roy, seems they hold a secret.....hmmmmm interesting!

Also expect most to have on their inside cover the stamped words: Orange County Public Library Property. FOR DISCARD

Oh well, when Barret met his father in the hospital, and his father tried to apologize.....Love means never having to say ......

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I buy my used books at the Goodwill store here in Toronto. It is a place that sells donated stuff ( clothes, bric a brac, and tons of books )..Some relatives of people who recently died would donate his books to Goodwill and some of them are priceless..One time I came across books signed by the author.It was  THE STORY OF THE FAMILY TRAPP SINGERS by MARIA VON TRAPP ( the basis for that well known movie THE SOUND OF MUSIC ) I tried selling them on e-Bay, 1 was bought for 10$..Then I stopped selling my signed editions because someone told me these could fetch 100$ in auctions. I sold   another one: MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS by Lloyd Douglas. It was already old, printed in the '40s and the first page bore the signature of the author. I usually buy these volumes at 2$, cheaper if the cashier is a Filipina friend ( the store do not buy their stuff anyway!). So I kept a signed First Edition of ADVISE AND CONSENT. It is a beauty: gold edged pages, ribbons as book marks, fine paper, gold embossed leater covers and signed by the author.

My basement is still an "artistic" mess..Books, DVDs, movie posters, PC and accesories, ( the list goes on and on )and somehow, I could not get started fixing it. Many times I did and each time my grandkids spend the night here, they would mess it up again!

I love humor books: I got the Best Works of Stephen Leacock who is from Orillia, Ontario. A townmate of mine lives there. A beautiful cottage country beside a lake. It is also the home of Gordon Lightfoot..

Send me an e-mail too..So you can tell more! Space for comments are limited .. I like what you write and the way you write---#

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I saw LOVE STORY during my honeymoon in 1971 at the Diamond Theatre in Cubao. After the movie, my wife and I separated: she resumed her work in Urdaneta while I continued my newly found job at UP College of Forestry. Recently, I bought a DVD copy of the movie from the bargain bin of Sunrise. It was just 5$.Original price is 15$.

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