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Ex

08:00 / 26.03.04

Good morning! It's Spring, I'm cleaning. Many of my books have to go. It struck me that I could offer the appropriate ones for free on the Barb. Possibly in exchange for no-money-value tokens of Barb-love, which I could save up and eventually buy everyone.

I've interrogated a mod and they seemed happy. If it all seems too dodgy for words, then feel free to mod me off the face of the earth.
And if it works smoothly, possibly others could chip in.

So, rules: You don't pay, I send it second class in the UK. Apologies to those overseas. If you are living Abroad and have a craving, you can send me some chocolate towards postage, but it would probably be easier for you to source it in your home country - none of these are really unusual. Nab it in-thread and PM me your address. I will settle all disputes with fake fist fights and bookslapping.

I'll do it in small batches so no one board crawler can snag all the good stuff. Right:

Very cute little hardback Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor
Jenefer Shute Life Size
Alain-Fournier Le Grand Meaulnes

...will do for now.

09:13 / 26.03.04

I'm feeling ruthless, so could I claim The Prince?

Whisky Priestess

09:29 / 26.03.04

What a nice idea. I am instantly suspicious.

Interestingly enough the only one I fancied/don't have was also The Prince, but I await the next instalment with impatience. I might even look out books I don't want and so the same, although the phrase "books I don't want" is a bit of an oxymoron.

Ex

09:29 / 26.03.04

Depends - would you rather be loved or feared? I'm chucking it because it didn't even have the lyrics to "Purple Rain" in it.
Prince - gone to the man with the furry glove puppet...

10:54 / 26.03.04

Bagsy Body of Glass.

13:53 / 26.03.04

Amazingly, I don't currently have a desire to acquire any of those books.

But nevertheless, I salute the general concept of giving people free books. Nice one.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:16 / 26.03.04

what a lovely idea.

10:07 / 27.03.04

Ooh! Me play. I have a huge box of books about to go to a charity shop. Of possible interest to Barbeloids:

Tom Holland The Vampyre
Susan Cooper The Dark is Rising sequence TAKEN
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Ian McEwan Amsterdam
Michelene Wandor Carry On, Understudies: Theatre and Sexual Politics
Jeremy G Butler (ed) Star Texts TAKEN
Robert Aldrich The Seduction of the Mediterranean

And just for Haus: Kelly Blake, Teen Model #4: Headliners

Lazlo Woodbine [some call me Laz]

10:54 / 27.03.04

Jeez!
large stroke of luck and huge luv to Deva if i could claim 'Modern British Drama'

Whisky Priestess

12:01 / 27.03.04

What's Star Texts? I find it strangely intriguing.

Could I have the Cantos? If it's big and heavy I can send you some stamps.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:04 / 27.03.04

Three Gothic Novels in one (Castle of Otranto, Vathek, Frankenstein)

Sounds good. Pm me. I can do postage.

12:31 / 27.03.04

I too have a stack of books that need new homes, either because I have doubles, don't want to keep them or because they're stuff friends left behind. PM me if you want any of these:

(A 'T' behind the title means they're taken. I'm leaving the titles up in order to preserve continuity of responses.)

- Lonely Planet Guide to Venice (2002 edition) T!
- Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time T!
- Nick Hornby, About A Boy T!
- Christopher Moore, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove T!
- Phil Strongman, Cocaine T!
- Denise Danks, Phreak T!
- Adele Parks, The Other Woman's Shoes
- Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones T!
- William Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night T!
- Patrick Tilley, Cloud Warrior (Book 1 of the Amtrak Wars)
- Nick Hornby, High Fidelity T!
- Michael Moorcock, Sailing to Utopia (collecting The Ice Shooner, The Black Corridor, The Distant Suns and Flux into one volume) T!
- Several volumes of Spike Milligan's war diaries:
Vol. 1: Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall T!
Vol. 3: Rommel? Gunner Who? T!
Vol. 4: Mussolini: His Part in my Downfall T!
Vol. 5: Where Have All The Bullets Gone? T!
Vol. 6: Goodbye Soldier T!
Vol. 7: Peace Work T!
A Book of Bits or A Bit of a Book T!

Comics:
- Yukito Kishiro, Battle Angel Alita T!
- Yukito Kishiro, Battle Angel Alita, Killing Angel T!
- Hiroaki Samura, Blade of the Immortal, Heart of Darkness T!
- Hiroaki Samura, Blade of the Immortal, Blood of a Thousand T!

12:54 / 27.03.04

Cantos and Modern British Drama - check. Star Texts is an "unwanted present" so I've never actually opened it - um, okay. Edited Jeremy G Butler, Wayne State University Press: "The essays examine the relationship between genre and performance, the position of the star within ideology, the construction of a semiotics of performance and stardom, the function of the actor within experimental or independent cinema, and the distinction between performance and everyday behavior."

Phex: Dorset Doom

15:36 / 27.03.04

Hey Grey Area, I'll take Cities of The Red Night. I'll probably have a few things to give away soon.

16:32 / 27.03.04

Wow, is this a fantastic thread or what?

I'd like to call dibbs on a couple of Grey Area's books:

- Michael Moorcock, Sailing to Utopia
- Christopher Moore, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

I should point out that I've got no idea what the latter book is all about, but how can it go wrong with a title like that?

Wish I could join in the book-giving, but I got rid of most of my unwanted stuff over the summer unfortunately..

16:44 / 27.03.04

They're yours. I think you'll enjoy Lust Lizard.

PM me your address and I'll get them in the post sometime next week, together with the Burroughs for Phex.

...Burroughs for Phex. Now there's a band name if I ever saw one.

17:08 / 27.03.04

Ex, could I have the Hesse? I also have a copy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago (abridged), which is free to a good (or any) home. I've had it for 2 1/2 years, did the exam I bought it for without reading too far past the first page. There may be more books from me sometime soonish, as I will doubtless find doubles in the forthcoming move.

17:26 / 27.03.04

Might be an idea to edit the lists as stuff is claimed, in case this (deservedly) becomes one long joycore thread of philanthropy...

18:54 / 27.03.04

Woah ex! Can i claim Mona Lisa Overdrive please?

William Gibson's one of my fave writers.

Phex: Dorset Doom

19:58 / 27.03.04

Well if that's the case then I could E-mail you Burning Chrome, All Tommorow's Parties, Count Zero and Nueromancer in Word documents. I've also got Philip K. Dick's 'I hope I shall Arrive Soon' and 'Game Players of Titan', The Necronomicon, Steal This Book!, Guerilla Warfare, TAZ, Society of the Spectacle and Principa Discordia all in Word and Text docs. I know it's better to have books in your hand (I dig the smell...) but it's better than nothing. PM me with an E-mail address if you want any of the above.

(Grey Area: nah, my band's Jet Alone. We have the distinction of being the finest digital-grindcore-freejazz band to be named after a berzerk robot from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Unless I'm mistaken.)

Phex: Dorset Doom

20:08 / 27.03.04

Just thinking... there's that big grey space underneath 'Film and TV' in the Spectacle... why not have an 'Exchange' forum where 'lithers can give away free stuff? No money involved, just everybody exchanging gifts, a true 'joycore thread of philantropy'... ooh, and we could have Barbelith Secret Santas at Christmas time...

20:12 / 27.03.04

Nice one cheers Phex!

I've just PM'd you and the ones i need are in the message.

09:06 / 28.03.04

... why not have an 'Exchange' forum where 'lithers can give away free stuff?

Some discussion on that here, though that's mostly about the possible legal ramifications of selling things on the board. There are occasional giveaway threads in the Conversation, like the before-my-time "Comics for Karma" movement.

I'll go back and edit my list for clarity. Good idea, Sax.

16:10 / 28.03.04

way, way, way back in the days of the Nexus, we used to have a forum a bit like that called .. what was it called? "The Business" or "The Exchange" or something. Sadly it was never a great success and got scrapped somewhere along the line.

My personal feeling is that it would be good to have a forum like that - for swapping/bartering/giving away rather than selling things it should be stressed - even if it was rarely used, because when it was used it would certainly be worth it.

09:54 / 29.03.04

Bumping this up, 'cause I really want rid of these books, and giving them to someone who I know will appreciate them is a lot more fun than recycling them/dumping them on an anonymous Oxfam shop.

10:02 / 29.03.04

Hoi, Deva: if no one has put in for your Dark is Rising Sequence, may I? Then I won't have to borrow my father's any longer (he gets annoyed when I drop them in the bath).

11:27 / 29.03.04

Certainly, Kit-Kat, and you may drop them in the bath as much as you like.

11:41 / 29.03.04

Grey Area, i'll take the comics! I'm shocked because i didn't notice them last time i looked. I don't know what they are but i'll take them because i love comics and am trying to get into as many different types as possible.

14:15 / 29.03.04

Sorry Zen, someone else was faster than you...although they have yet to PM me their address. Tell you what, I'll give them 12 hours to answer me. If they don't show, the books are yours (they're manga, by the way)

10:00 / 30.03.04

Just a note that a bunch of books went out today, and that another will follow before the week is out (books are heavy and these days people look at you in an odd fashion when you stumble up the street bearing an armful of anonymous brown paper packages). If anyone else wants to get some, now's the time to ask. C'mon, I know someone out there wants those Spike Milligan books!

(which, incidentally, made me wonder how on earth Britain won the war...they were a bunch of loonies!)

16:54 / 30.03.04

Well in all fairness the Nazis weren't looking too good on the sanity front either..

17:06 / 30.03.04

Granted.

19:17 / 30.03.04

GREY AREA

Could i get:

- Several volumes of Spike Milligan's war diaries:
Vol. 1: Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
Vol. 3: Rommel? Gunner Who?
Vol. 4: Mussolini: His Part in my Downfall
Vol. 5: Where Have All The Bullets Gone?
Vol. 6: Goodbye Soldier
Vol. 7: Peace Work

You are a very very very very generous person and i hope to follow your example sometime soon, i will have a few books open for people in the near future (probs just sci/fi and fantasy)

02:30 / 31.03.04

I'd like to join in!

I have a lunch-sized paper bag of zines and minicomics that I've read but don't know what to do with next.

Would anyone like them?

05:32 / 31.03.04

For people looking for a fun and interesting way of giving away books (or sharing them) i recommend BookCrossing. Great fun. Check it out: www.bookcrossing.com.

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