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[wickedflea]

There's nothing to make you realize that you should stop buying books and start making the way through your backlog like buying a new paperback and getting home only to realize that you already have an unread cloth edition of the same book that you bought at the same store not even a year ago.

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[dichotomous.livejournal.com]

Your icons make my eyeballs itch.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yes, they're dead sexy, aren't they? :P

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I remember I went to visit a friend last year, and I kept finding duplicate copies of the same CDs. I asked her why, and she said, "I can't keep track of them all." Hee.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yeah, for some reason I'm better about remembering CDs. (Sort of. I do happen to have two perfectly playable copies of Among the Living and two of Nothing's Shocking.) But I was rearranging some books tonight and realized that I have not one, not two, but THREE copies of Skinny Legs and All--one mass-market pbk and two trade pbks. And that's beside the two copies of Fortress of Solitude that were the subject of this post.

And then there are the books that I bought in paperback and then found later at used stores in cloth. I have several duplicates of that variety. :)

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

Time to put some stuff up on ebay or wherever, I guess. What sucks is that Amazon and half.com don't send checks anymore. I don't trust that electronic deposit shiz.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my job does the same thing to me, hence all the unread books at home... :\

[queenginseng.livejournal.com]

Nothing's Shocking rocks.

What was this book that looked so good you wanted it twice?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Heck yeah it does! That's one of those albums that you almost WANT to buy twice.

The book was Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem. I read his Motherless Brooklyn a couple of years ago and enjoyed it, so when I saw his next one, I picked it up. TWICE. In my defense, they changed the cover design for the paperback, so I didn't recognize it. :)