As you know, I buy my books in bulk at book fairs and often end up with duplicates. A recent cleanup of my bookshelves has yielded the following:
They include:
- Isaac Asimov’s The Robots of Dawn and Foundation and Earth.
- John Sandford’s Hidden Prey and Mortal Prey.
- Classic Club editions of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, On Politics and Education by John Locke, Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám, and The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler.
- Ogden Nash’s The Private Dining Room, Good Intentions, You Can’t Get There From Here (times two), and Versus.
- The Honey Badger by Robert Ruark.
- The Praise of Folly by Erasmus
Shoot me an email or comment if you want any or all of them. First come, first served.
Ah, just got into the Foundation series (I read Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and the beginning of Second Foundation). I see a lot of conflicting advice about which books are worth reading outside the Trilogy, and a good deal of agreement about reading the Robot series and such before Foundation (oops). Thoughts?
It’s been ten years since I’ve read any of the Foundation books, by which I mean the first trilogy or so, and probably 25 years since I read the Robots series. The reason one might be advised to take the Robots before the Foundation is because the Robots series is more like mysteries in space, so there’s a smoother transition from other genres. Of course, anything Asimov is a smoother transition compared to a lot of modern engineer-approved Science Fiction.
I haven’t read the Foundation and Earth volume yet; I actually buy so many books so often that I buy dupes before I get to reading them.
So do you need one or both of the Asimovs?
Also, commenter Gimlet, if he’s around, can talk about Asimov a bit. Gimlet?
The Honey Badger!?! The video was amusing, but I didn’t really expect them to make a book out of it.
I bought the two copies of The Honey Badger on the same day based on the video. The book itself predates the video by a couple decades. The author was ahead of his time.