{"id":4750,"date":"2009-02-19T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2017-11-02T13:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:34:38","slug":"good-book-hunting-february-14-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/good-book-hunting-february-14-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: February 14, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Valentine&#8217;s Day, I took my sweetie to a book fair in St. Peters.  The library out there broke their book fair into three parts: paperbacks, hardbacks, and childrens books (presumably printed after 1985 and having no non-book components).  This weekend was the hardbacks weekend, which apparently only included mystery\/horror books, bodice rippers by Janet Dailey, two Tom Wolfe novels, and videocassettes.<\/p>\n<p>No nonfiction and little, if all, general fiction.  Bare slices of science fiction, and really only stuff that was near-future suspense stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I got some books, many to replace Book Club editions in my library, and some videocassettes:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh54.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh54.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"St. Peters book fair 2009\"><br \/>\n <font size=\"1\"><i>Click for full size<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n <\/center><\/p>\n<p>This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Desperate Measures<\/i> by Joe Clifford Faust.  Back in 2004, I read one of his books (<a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/book-review-death-of-honor-by-joe.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>A Death of Honor<\/i><\/a>), and he linked the book report on his blog, so I&#8217;ll read another of his books.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Dark of the Moon<\/i>, a Sandford book that features a minor character from the Davenport series.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Calamity Town<\/i> by Ellery Queen.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Cujo<\/i> by Stephen King, which will replace a BCE of the same in my library.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Red Storm Rising<\/i> by Clancy.  This might replace a book on my to-read shelves or might just be a duplicate.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Rose Madder<\/i> by Stephen King.  I didn&#8217;t already have it, honey, honest.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Shadow Money<\/i> by George Alec Effinger.  I read one of his a long time ago and recognized the name.  I hope I&#8217;m not repeating a mistake.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>A Salty Piece of Land<\/i> by Jimmy Buffett.  Because I&#8217;ve read most of my Florida-themed crime books to this point (except for the McBain Hope novels which are building up).\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Sudden Prey<\/i> by Sandford.  I didn&#8217;t think I had this one (and I was right), but I was judging by plotlines.  Hopefully there&#8217;s not another in the series which I don&#8217;t own which features grisly killings where the bodies were staged, gruesomely, to send a message.  Because I saw a number of the Prey novels with something similar on the flap.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Rainbow Six<\/i> by Clancy.  Might be a replacement or duplicate.  But the Clancys were very, very evident at the book fair.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Misery<\/i> by Stephen King.  Probable replacement for BCE.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among video cassettes, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three movies made from Clancy novels: <i>The Hunt for Red October<\/i> (timely!), <i>A Clear and Present Danger<\/i> (pretty timely!) and <i>Patriot Games<\/i>.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/i>, which I was missing from my Star Trek VHS collection.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The Sands of Iwo Jima<\/i> because it was a John Wayne movie for a buck.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Faith<\/i>, a collection of music videos from the George Michael album.  Sure, I could have gone to YouTube and seen any one of these videos at any time I wanted to, but there&#8217;s a difference between browsing and searching.  If you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about, you probably own or want a Kindle.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Hamburger: The Motion Picture<\/i>.  I already have the <i>Kentucky Fried Movie<\/i> and <i>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/i>.  This is some sort of hybrid, right?\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The Poseiden Adventure<\/i> because I haven&#8217;t seen it, and Mrs. N wants desperately to go on a cruise, so I need to bone up on survival techniques.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Cast a Giant Shadow<\/i>, a movie glorifying the founding of Israel.  They don&#8217;t make them like that any more.<\/ul>\n<p>And the most exasperating thing about this book fair?  Although Koontz novels were prevalent, the tables had a large number of <i>Forever Odd<\/i>, the second book in the series (which I have read) and a couple copies of <i>Odd Hours<\/i>, the fourth book in the series which I own but won&#8217;t read until I read <i>Brother Odd<\/i>, the third book in the series&#8211;and the one that I could not find anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Valentine&#8217;s Day, I took my sweetie to a book fair in St. Peters. The library out there broke their book fair into three parts: paperbacks, hardbacks, and childrens books (presumably printed after 1985 and having no non-book components). 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