{"id":33009,"date":"2024-08-25T07:32:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33009"},"modified":"2024-08-25T06:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T11:17:26","slug":"good-dvd-hunting-august-23-2024-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale-nixa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/25\/good-dvd-hunting-august-23-2024-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale-nixa\/","title":{"rendered":"Good DVD Hunting, August 23, 2024: Friends of the Christian County Library Book Sale, Nixa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by the Nixa branch of the Christian County Library for its turn at the book sale (Clever&#8217;s branch was <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/22\/good-book-hunting-saturday-june-22-2024-the-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale-clever-branch\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in June<\/a>; the Sparta branch has one in October).  As it was Friday, it was not bag day, so I didn&#8217;t dump a bunch of Louis L&#8217;Amour paperbacks into my library again.  As expected, I mostly bought DVDs and audio courses.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh08232024.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got two audio courses: <em>The History of Ancient Egypt<\/em> and <em>Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement<\/em> (which is timely as I&#8217;m slowly making my way through <em>Walden<\/em> again).<\/p>\n<p>I got several DVDs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Zardoz<\/em> with Sean Connery.  Finally!<\/li>\n<li><em>Predator<\/em> and <em>Predator 2<\/em>.  I&#8217;ve seen the first several times but not the second.  I must have seen them on cable as I don&#8217;t think I own the films on physical media.<\/li>\n<li><em>From Here to Eternity<\/em>.  I think I have just seen the book on the shelves while looking for something to read.  Whether I actually read the book or watch the movie first is uncertain as my to-watch stack is getting almost out of hand these days.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Day After Tomorrow<\/em>, the Dennis Quaid climate apocalypse film.  This was playing on the television on my last trip to my brother&#8217;s house, and his new wife said it was a favorite.  From what I could tell, the first half of the film is people dramatically watching television news.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Riddick Collection<\/em> which has <em>Pitch Black<\/em>, <em>The Chronicles of Riddick<\/em>, and a third film I didn&#8217;t know existed.<\/li>\n<li><em>Every Which Way But Loose<\/em>, the Clint Eastwood and the orangutan movie.  Well, the first of them.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ancient Civilizations Uncovered: Inca Civilization<\/em>.  Probably cable- or lower-grade material, but I can watch this because it&#8217;s not on YouTube.  I recently listened to\/watched <em>Lost Worlds of South America<\/em>.  Presumably this will be about as timely as that twelve-year-old lecture series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did get a single book, <em>Tough Guys and Gals of the Movies<\/em>.  Which is a movie-adjacent title.<\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly I would have been more indiscriminate in my acquisition on bag day.  But I do seem to be slowing down a bunch in what I buy these days.  I&#8217;m out of record storage for the nonce; I am slow in reading books these days (well, probably no slower than my average over the last decade or so, but the vast quantities of books that I have not yet read here in the stacks is beginning to daunt me); and my cabinets are full of movies and videos to watch that I have not yet watched, including numerous television series which will take some time to get through.  So I am slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>Which might only mean this trip.  Next month is the big autumn sale up north, and who knows what my mood might be then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by the Nixa branch of the Christian County Library for its turn at the book sale (Clever&#8217;s branch was in June; the Sparta branch has one in October). As it was Friday, it was not bag day, so I didn&#8217;t dump a bunch of Louis L&#8217;Amour paperbacks into my library again. 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