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  1. 05-06-2009, 03:47 PM #51
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    Quote Quoting kuehnepips (view post)
    I had no idea this exists. Thanks.

    There will be a kuehnepips-account next weekend.

    I have a bunch of books in German I won't read again. Anyone interested? Steven?
    Sorry, I flunked German. :|
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  2. 05-06-2009, 04:08 PM #52
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    Sorry, I flunked German. :|
    Tsktsk ... it might be usefull, when they take over the world.
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  3. 05-13-2009, 03:19 AM #53
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    Yay! ritch: I got my first book in the mail. Looks good. Now I hope the one I sent on the 4th arrives...


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  4. 05-13-2009, 01:25 PM #54
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    I've gotten a dozen or so books by now. The system works!
    ...and the milk's in me.
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  5. 05-13-2009, 06:11 PM #55
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    Sweet! I snagged V. by Pynchon and Amsterdam by McEwan today! Good day to be a BookMooch member.
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  6. 05-16-2009, 05:55 AM #56
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    Quote Quoting Mara (view post)
    I've gotten a dozen or so books by now. The system works!
    yep, it really does. all my books come in very good conditions.
    "Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
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  7. 06-02-2009, 12:17 AM #57
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    so i notice this trend that the most useless book in my inventory is usually the first to go.

    someone just mooch me a random cookbook and a screenwriting manuel which i have never read.
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  8. 06-02-2009, 06:35 AM #58
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    i have a bunch of ill advised purchases from my teenage years. i think i will put them up.
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  9. 06-09-2009, 02:33 PM #59
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    So what have you guys mooched thus far? My list:

    Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
    The Pearl - John Steinbeck
    Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
    Atonement - Ian McEwan (Thanks to Mara)
    Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
    Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
    V. - Thomas Pynchon
    A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
    The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
    The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Collection - Bill Watterson
    Season on the Brink - John Feinstein
    The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
    A Long and Happy Life - Reynolds Price
    The Wanderers - Richard Price
    Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
    Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    The God of War - Marisa Silver
    Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
    The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
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    I got some good ones... Really need to start reading them:

    The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
    The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
    In the Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
    Tender is the Night -     F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Collector - John Fowles
    The French Lieutenant's Woman     - John Fowles
    Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    About a Boy     - Nick Hornby
    A Widow for One Year - John Irving
    A Portrait of the Arist as a Young Man - James Joyce
    A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller
    Lullaby: A Novel/Survivor: A Novel/Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
    The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
    Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
    The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    The Bonfire of the Vanities     - Tom Wolfe
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  11. 06-10-2009, 12:02 AM #61
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    mine:

    V.S. Naipaul : A House for Mr. Biswas
    Nathaniel Hawthorne :The House of the Seven Gables
    Ernest Hemingway :The Sun Also Rises
    Carter Dickson : The Skelton in the Clock
    Graham Greene : Monsignor Quixote
    IAN FLEMING : THUNDERBALL
    Robertson Davies : The Lyre of Orpheus
    Robertson Davies : What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy)
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  12. 06-11-2009, 03:19 PM #62
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    Wow, you guys have been busy. I've only gotten The Blind Assassin by Margret Atwood. I tried to get Moo by Jane Smiley, but that failed.

    I think some of my problem is I'm very reluctant to part with any of my books, so I've only listed things that most people probably aren't looking for. :cry:


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  13. 06-12-2009, 10:16 PM #63
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    Okay, my parents were having a garage sale, and I sat next to the book table with my laptop checking to see what books people had wishlisted that my parents were getting rid of.

    My question: one woman, who I think had wishlisted one of the ones I entered, requested half of the books I put up there, even though they were some really obscure titles--why would she do this? I can't imagine she knows of or cares about them.


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  14. 06-17-2009, 08:57 PM #64
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    Okay, my parents were having a garage sale, and I sat next to the book table with my laptop checking to see what books people had wishlisted that my parents were getting rid of.

    My question: one woman, who I think had wishlisted one of the ones I entered, requested half of the books I put up there, even though they were some really obscure titles--why would she do this? I can't imagine she knows of or cares about them.
    Perhaps she owns a used book store and uses the site to acquire little-known books for customers?
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  15. 06-18-2009, 07:09 AM #65
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    The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon

    Loved this one.
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