Al said: If I can find a copy, I will. I didn't realise it
was so short. And thanks, as always, for your opinion.
********** I'm not sure about your side of the pond, but I
picked up my copy of MISS LONELYHEARTS/DAY OF THE LOCUST at
the local bookstore, Barnes and Noble. For a trade paperback,
it was very reasonably priced at a little over $10US.
I've been having a lot of luck beating the expensive trade
paperback price (example: Burrough's JUNKIE) by buying at
Abebooks. Interestingly enough, I found the one just men-
tioned there, and to my surprise, the store that offered it
is called the Curious Kiwi, and it's about 10 miles south-
east of me. So far I've had no luck on locating the bus-
iness. I've never heard of it before.
I normally will post on the books I read, but not on the ones
that I've simply bought, but I went to the American Red Cross
book sale in Bloomington and found quite a few good ones. I
found one of the older (1969?) Aaron ASSIGN- MENT books, and
that's cool because I haven't read him yet, and I found one
by Joan Didion called PLAY IT AS IT LIES, and that one struck
a familiar chord, but I couldn't place it, so I bought it
anyway. I think maybe Jim Blue recom- mended that one many
moons ago. I bought a like-new paper- back of Gaiman's
AMERICAN GODS because I liked NEVERWHERE. That's treading
closely to off-topic but I could plead it as noir, I guess. I
bought a 1932 reprint of a Simenon (sp?) because he's been
mentioned here a lot and the book is only a few pages long. I
saw several J.D. MacDonald's, but I recently bought 11 Travis
novels in a lot at ebay, so I didn't buy them. The most
surprising find was Peter Rabe's WAR OF THE DONS. Evidently
the collector value of Gold Medal originals are understood. I
never see them for sale cheap. I rarely see them at
all.
miker
good luck, miker
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