{"id":4066,"date":"2007-10-14T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2017-11-24T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T17:20:20","slug":"good-book-hunting-october-13-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/14\/good-book-hunting-october-13-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: October 13, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we stopped at only 3 sales because we had prior commitments.  However, I found something.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh18.jpg\" target=\"_new\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh18.jpg\" width=\"450\" alt=\"An abbreviated trip\"><br \/><font size=\"1\"><i>Click for full size<\/i><\/font><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Firefly<\/i>; it cost $10, which is more than I would normally spend on media at a garage sale, but all the cool kids like it.\n<\/li>\n<li>The first season of <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i>; some Christmases ago, Heather bought me the second season for Christmas and we watched it together.  Now we can continue that tradition, probably sometime after our next generation is done.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Metropolis<\/i> on videocassette; I&#8217;ve never seen it and it&#8217;s supposed to be something.  I want especially to see if Fritz Lang anticipated a lot of unemployed computer contractors and a declining economy after the non-event of a computer bug.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Guerilla PR Wired<\/i>; anyone who can combine wires, Kalashnikovs, and marketing must have something interesting to say.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Six Sigma<\/i>; I can read this and review it on my other blog.  Maybe you&#8217;ve heard of it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qahatesyou.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_new\">QAHatesYou.com<\/a>?\n<\/li>\n<li>A pair of history books from the 1930s, <i>Origins of the American Revolution<\/i> and <i>The Growth of the American Republic<\/i>; it was odd to see these amongst bins of cartoon, animation, and film books, but the seller said they&#8217;d been his father&#8217;s.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The Consolation of Philosophy<\/i> by Boethus; If I&#8217;m going to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/book-report-the-use-and-abuse-of-books-by-leon-battista-alberti-1999\/\" target=\"_new\">use and abuse books<\/a>, I should get some consolation, should I not?\n<\/li>\n<li><i>English Literature to 11660<\/i>, a textbook; bought from some former teacher\/professor who was unloading a pile of text books and original materials.  If they had been hardbacks, particularly the original texts, I would have bought far more.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Gangbusters<\/i> by Michael Stone; a true story about a NYPD Homicide Unit took down a gang.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Quick Lit: Plots, Themes, Characters, and Sample Essays for the Most Assigned Books in English and Literature Classes&#8211;Written by Students for Students<\/i>; of the 35, I&#8217;ve read 27.  And, truth be told, I don&#8217;t have trouble telling apart the Great Literature I&#8217;ve read; instead, I could use a resource that helps me keep track of the various and sundry genre fiction I read.  Oh, right, that&#8217;s this blog for the last couple of years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice the single John D. Fitzgerald book to the right for the boy.  Just like his daddy, he acquired without really knowing what&#8217;s on his shelves, and <i>Me and My Little Brain<\/i> is the only one of the Great Brain series he owns.  Now, temporarily, he owns two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we stopped at only 3 sales because we had prior commitments. However, I found something. Click for full size Firefly; it cost $10, which is more than I would normally spend on media at a garage sale, but all the cool kids like it. The first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17787,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/17787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}