I can just smell all those books

@tokenblack7983

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Wow you get it…I…smell mine just to get A feeling like I’m in my elementary school library from 85’…can’t explain why

Matt you are the only other person I know who loved the game Alpha Centauri. My AC Story: I was sharing a house with a bunch of people. The day AC came out I installed it and began to play. After what seemed like a few hours of play one of my housemates walked by my open door and asked me, "Are you going to work?" How ridiculous! I thought. "Of course I am going to work tomorrow! Why wouldn't I?" He pointed to the window behind me and said, "Because the sun is just coming up." Yes, I had stayed up all night playing.

@Bookpilled

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Haha. Not a huge game guy but I still think Alpha Centauri is a masterpiece.

I have such admiration for how you are able to let go of such a gorgeous collection of vintage books, it makes me realize how attached I am to mine.

Loved the Changed My Mind buzzer. Fast and furious rundown. Like your reviews of books btw. Happy travels!!

you can use a blowdryer to heat up the sticker and it should come off cleanly

Indoctrinaire is such a great novel, And it was Priest's first published work. Very underrated

lol at the Stephenson jacket photo and the "changed my mind" buzzer/graphic

Telling my kids this was Daniel Radcliffe.

Fun buzzer! It could come in handy in so many contexts

I had no idea there was a novelization of Shadow Warrior. I’ve been surprised how good some game novelizations have been. I read the Doom books as a they came out when I was a teen and since then novelizations have been my guilty pleasure. The Bioshock and earlier Gears of War books had no business being so good. Excuse me, my nerd is showing. I’ll see myself out.

@Bookpilled

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Haha. I know Peter Watts wrote a game novelization. Greg Bear also wrote a couple, I think they were Halo books.

Keep that Bayley, Matt! It's not one of his best, but the DAW edition is nicer than the UK and uncommon! Keep the Derek Raymond too, it's great. 'Song of Kali' is a good Simmons. Glad you're keeping my books 🙂'100 Fantasy' is OP and quite collectable now! Always good to see your general fiction too, we crossover a lot there as well - I love Mishima, Fante, Bowles, good stuff! Hope the auction goes well!

@Bookpilled

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Thanks, Steve, much appreciated.

@meesalikeu

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yeah i have and loved all those kunderas, i should probably sell them too though.

@outlawbookselleroriginal

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@@Bookpilled My pleasure as always, my friend. You take care now. 🙂

I’m honestly so happy you kept the wilhelm book at the beginning, that’s one of the coolest books I read last year!😄 I have the very same edition.

So many great books/authors there. Looking forward to the auction! Thanks for sharing!

I *just* realized I must've missed the previous auction! I think the ones I would buy are all "keepers". You're making good choices about what to keep and discard though. Good luck with your exciting new adventure

Probably covered elsewhere, but love the attention you put on the book that was reason for starting the channel.

I’m a flea market guy, but I’ve never come close to finding a Lord Dunsany vintage hardback there. Score.

@Bookpilled

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I got insanely lucky that day

@meesalikeu

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i know that is such an unlikely find its head spinning.

Even though it's your collection being thinned out, I'm experiencing an occasional surrogate pang when one goes in the sell pile Nerves of steel!

Got a huge kick out of seeing the Shadow Warrior and especially the Alpha Centauri books (never would have imagined such a thing existed! 😄). In spite of what you say, Matt, it would actually be interesting to hear about your history with gaming. Maybe a video idea.

Thanks for all the titles!

Greetings from Finland! Song of Kali is a damn good book! It has really gotten to me and every time I run into it, it still makes me sick and despise humanity. In this case, cherish your brother's gift, don't sell it!

@outlawbookselleroriginal

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Agreed, DS's first and I'd say best novel.

@meesalikeu

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i have heard things i want to read it sometime.

*There Is No Antimimetics Division* is a real mind bender of a book. A little light on characterization - which considering it was likely a series of short works tied together - but absolutely worth reading. One of the few books in the last 5 years I’ve read twice.

Alpha Centauri book? Damn, what a blast from the past. Thanks for that

Just a tip for kindle, some of these books are twice the price they are used. Popular authors you pick up used for $3-4 are often times $9-12 on kindle.

Would be fun (for me, at least) to see a video about Star Wars books if you ever read any. Relatively new subscriber :)

song of kali by simmons... what a great first book.

moorcock behold the man is one of my very favorites. i first read it in marvel's great unknown world of science fiction #6 beautifully illustrated by the late, great alex nino, which i still have. then i read the book later on. for italo calvino my fav and probably most peoples is the great invisible cities - i would never sell my copy of that one. godmakers, santaroga barrier, white plague and eye are quite interesting rare herbert. what else? the blish editions look very nice and imo big planet by vance is your coolest cover.

Nice to see you pay attention to the cover artists. Your sojourn strikes me as a bit of a sci-fi/fantasy adventure of its own. Journey and Return? Which of the world's great plots are you embarking on? I look forward to it and wish you safe travels.

We don't own our possessions, they own us. Be brave, be brutal, set yourself free!

How deep is that bookcase? Does your hand go into another dimension? 😂😂😂

I've just read _The Soul of the Robot_ by Barrington Bayley and found it a really good, well written, thrilling adventure story but with an intelligence about it that put it well above the level of pulp. I haven't read _The Zen Gun_ but it sounds good and if it's of the same quality it should be well worth holding on to.

If you get a chance, before you sell “Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days“ you might consider the span of a cup of coffee to read “Diamond Dogs.” Based on some of the things that I’ve noticed that you like over the past year, I think you’ll really love Diamond Dogs“ body horror waits within.

1st editions with 2nd editions sometimes more value. Edition is dated but a quick read would be art or style of the cover. There is just aging, but in paperbacks thats tricky generations varied in paper quality and paperbacks exposed to sun...etc. Struggle is your own care, sentiment, vs actual value so this is a infrequent process. Famous authors are not that valued the reader who finds an old story obscure that works is the aim, but often the famous authors are good writers and get your sentiment. Which is to say as a Producer you would have to do a show pointing out short story collections you read and some stories within, pitched as a movie ideas! The detail in that would short story collections, best of...etc. Questions about what short stories in those collections you did read that were good stories. Even older some sentiments, as useful as they are for error, are adopted, artificially constructed. I know it sounds like why but sentiments turn into tools...er...insights into audiences. Its not library science to manage that, publishers manage the finding of new sentiments. Hence, a lot of this is old sentiment that is your own. The top floor of the library was literary and book reference bottom floor reference facts. All popular authors are digitized. Maybe the evidence of altered digitized documents, even those obscure, like the Twain...actually increasing the value of resellers. I had Posideios, the Clark Ashton Smith book. Never got that far into book collecting.

_Stories of Happy People_ - The cover makes me think the title is ironic.

There are some wonderful bookstores in Chiang Mai, Thailand, you'll need to check out once you get there.

@Bookpilled

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That is great news

Hahahaha love the graphic

Whats your Horror book "resume"? Have you dabled on some Poe, Lovecraft and the sort?

If possible, could you tell us wich are your favorite science fiction series of novels. I read often that the first book is the best then the quality lessens… but are exceptions ?

Best of Robert Bloch. Love that one!

You can forgive yourself for not reading more nonfiction since we are inundated with "nonfiction" on a daily basis. LOL Looking forward to hearing more about your journey beyond the shores of America. Travel is the best education you'll ever get.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on Dhalgren and Child of Fortune. I know isn’t really pertinent to the topic.

@Bookpilled

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Haven't read them yet, Dhalgren at some point for sure.

Wait just a second, brosephelus! I didn't know there was Alpha Centauri books! Were they good? And you sell books that were gifted to you?! Did it have an inscription? Books from the thrift store with inscriptions seem extra lonely... happy to have a new home, but they always seem to stare out the window when they think no one is watching, longing for somewhere else.

Out of curiosity, do you opt not to remove price stickers from your books to retain the provenance of the book?

Odd to me that you opted to keep Red Mars, seems like a very easily re-findable book. I enjoy you poking fun at the author photo on the back of Cryptonomicon, I liked the book but it was embarrassing to be seen with.

In what video did you discuss Ubik?

Jeter!

What did you think of Annihilation and Children of Men? Those two are on my TBR. And I hope you enjoy House of Suns as much as I did!

@Bookpilled

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I didn't get to Children of Men. I found Annihilation mixed. Felt incomplete to me and drags with some milky uninteresting character backstory. But also has some well executed Lovecraftian horror sequences.

@WordsinTime

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@@Bookpilled Thanks for the info! I watched the movie and it felt like it borrowed a little from the zone chapters in Roadside Picnic.

@Bookpilled

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@@WordsinTime It definitely did. Seems like homage.

@zr6935

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@@Bookpilled Actually, VanderMeer repeatedly denied any connection - partial quote from his tweet from May 17, 2021: "... Roadside Picnic/Stalker are zero influence on the novels, but definite influence on the movie..." I somehow do not know what to think about that... well, stranger things happened or something, I guess...

I'm italian, but between Calvino and Bob Shaw I'd sell Calvino

Sooo . . . when's this auction?

How did you like The Big Sleep?

Where will you be selling these first? I know you sell on different platforms like Ebay and Whatnot, there's a few books I had my eyes on. Edit: got my answer at around 13 minutes tyyyy

So I saw the video title and thought “why would I care?” Then I watched all 24 minutes to see what you had. What does this mean? 😊

Dude, take it from me- you will regret selling your books.

Where do you auction these?

@Bookpilled

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On an app called Whatnot. Https://whatnot.com/invite/thriftalife

Gut-wrenching.

I don't understand why you keep openly admitting to stealing books from local lending libraries?!?! Those are meant to "share" and to "borrow & return" books to get people interested in reading!! NOT for you to come along, decide you like it & refuse to return them. Or even worse, realize they're worth money, so you take a free book & reseller it!! I never once heard you say that you've made a book donation to any of these lending libraries from which you keep taking & keeping books....

@hypatia4754

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I hope you´re joking. But in case you´re not, lending libraries regularly have sales of old books, making way for the new, and you can get some very good bargains there.

Smile sometimes.