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The Thread Where You Wax Rhapsodic about Your Book Collection — Page 3

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  • Amazing Fantasy, Vol. 1, #16 (by Kurt Busiek)
  • Star Trek: Log One/Log Two/Log Three (by Alan Dean Foster)
  • Star Trek: Log Seven/Log Eight/Log Nine (by Alan Dean Foster)
  • Spider-Man Unlimited, Vol. 1, #12 (by Evan Skolnick)
  • Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda: The Broken Places (by Ethlie Ann Vare & Daniel Morris)

WEEDED

  • Stargate (by Pauline Gedge)
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Purchased a 136-year-old book at a flea market in Quebec. Looks pretty interesting (it’s about/by a priest who lived during the time of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy under Napoleon in France).

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  • Amazing Fantasy, Vol. 1, #17 (by Kurt Busiek)
  • Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan (by Jiro Kuwata)
  • The Apocrypha (Authorized Version) (published by Oxford University Press)

WEEDED

  • The War of the Worlds (by H. G. Wells)
  • Bruce Coville’s Book of Nightmares (edited by Bruce Coville)
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Thanks for providing those. I’ve been looking for a comprehensive list of all the deuterocanonical/non-canonical books.

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  • Your Favorite Seuss (published by Random House Books for Young Readers)

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  • Star Wars: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (edited by Kevin J. Anderson)
  • The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (published by Ballantine Books)
  • Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy (by A. C. Crispin)
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents 12 Stories for Late at Night (published by Dell Publishing, Co., Ltd.)
  • Dune Messiah (by Frank Herbert)
  • Children of Dune (by Frank Herbert)
  • Different Seasons (by Stephen King)
  • Odd Thomas (by Dean Koontz)
  • The Doom that Came to Sarnath and Other Stories (by H. P. Lovecraft)
  • Shadows of Death (by H. P. Lovecraft)
  • The Keep (by F. Paul Wilson)
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Great Sky River by Gregory Benford
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) by Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Eyes of Heisenberg by Frank Herbert
Candide by Voltaire

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  • DC: The New Frontier, Vol. 1: Darwyn Cooke
  • The Divine Comedy: Dante Alighieri (translated by Lawrence Grant White)

WEEDED

  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said: Philip K. Dick
  • Star Trek: Planet of Judgment: Joe Haldeman
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I need shelf space, and these books drew the short straws. I’ll be hanging onto the last two Lord of the Rings until I read them, but the rest are going “bye-bye” right quick.

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So has anybody come into this thread with the whole “reading’s for nerds” joke yet?

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I’m gonna eventually read the final three Dune sequels, so they’re not technically weeded yet, but in light of how diminished the returns of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune are, the likelihood of them engaging me enough to keep them isn’t too good.

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I burned out around halfway through Children, but I’ve been told by a few people that God Emperor is the best of the series. One of these days I’ll get to it…