Have you ever done anything crazy or outrageous for a book?
Have you ever done anything crazy or outrageous for a book?
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Have you ever done anything crazy or outrageous for a book?
I’m currently waiting for Corey Taylor’s new book to arrive at my house. I ordered it online and it’s being shipped from America because it’s a signed copy! Not sure how this rates on the crazy scale! ?
It’s crazy expensive no doubt! lol
Yeah and I paid in dollars. The money hasn’t been taken off my account yet but no doubt it’s the most I’ve paid for a book ?
Wait till you pay the shipping part lol
@Tracy, I do the reverse. I order from Book Depository some to get books published in Great Britain early or because I like the British cover. But, BD is a good deal, prices are great and free shipping.
I like BD, too. It’s a great site!
Well I did pose a friend’s bookcover
Do I dare ask the genre?
It was general fiction
Nice. Feel free to post a pic lol
Ha I don’t think I have a copy to hand and er
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It was a sort of satire of Michelangelo’s David
Very cool
Cartooned me up on Photoshop
Pics or it didn’t happen LOL. Seriously, you need to get a hold of this book 😀
I’ll email them see if they still have a copy.
Awesome!!
Well looks like they have the original photos rather than the photoshopped version
I doubt any of us will mind. Still be cool to see 🙂
Well erm I don’t have anything on
Oh. OH! Well shit lol. We try to be family friendly here ?
Obviously the finished version had the title superimposed
Surely you can find the finished version!
I’ll have a look
Yes. Yes you will
No joy so far
You have certainly made us all curious, @Nick!
Haha well I have a feeling as it was a self published affair I might not be able to track it down
Nopes no sign
Really Nick you should just recreate it for us ?
Well if I get chance I will
I’m not sure if this is what you meant, but here goes. I’ve completed the 2017 Popsugar reading challenge except for one prompt – read a book you bought on a trip. I’ve never bought a book on a trip. I was pretty bummed about leaving one undone. I have a brother in law is currently working in Los Angeles (I’m in Houston) so I planned a way for my husband and I to stay in his hotel room with him for free, and stalked the plane ticket prices until I found a really good deal. Less than a week before we were supposed to go, Hurricane Harvey hit. I had to reschedule for a week later and tell all the insurance and FEMA people we’d be back later. We had to rip out flooring and dry wall a few days before the trip. One day before the trip I got a severe toothache and had to get a tooth pulled. Remarkably I still made it to LA. I took an uber all the way to The Last Bookstore which cost $50, bought the book Americanah, and somehow convinced my brother in law to come get us in rush hour traffic.
That’s seriously the craziest thing I’ve ever done just to get a book I could’ve ordered from Amazon.
Definitely what I meant lol
That’s dedication, @Marsha!
I’m very impressed Marsha, you deserve some sort of medal or book medal ? x
I don’t know if that is crazy, but I buy a book in every country or city I visit. And in these rare cases, even if I don’t like the book, I keep it, because it reminds me of the trip.
Or there is that one time I traveled hundreds of kilometer, just for a specific book in a bookshop that was closed.
Or going to the airport (like 45 minutes ride with the subway..) or the trainstation on sundays for the bookstore, because on sundays, all shops except gas stations, restaurants etc. are closed in Germany.
Still cool 😀
I like to do that, too, @Kelly!
I probably buy one everywhere I go but not consciously – I just can’t keep away from bookshops, market stall, charity shops, etc.
Once saw a large pile of assorted books in a dumpster. It was going to rain. I “dumpster dove” picking out some things I wanted. I was feeling very self conscious. A woman stopped and asked me, “What I was doing?” I felt very silly as a I started to explain. She climbed in too and started looking for things she wanted.
i would dumpster dive for a good book
Nice!
I almost rushed into my house that was literally engulfed in flames to save my Stephen King hardcover collection. I was stopped.
Damn ?
Probably more important that you at still alive to comment. In fact, definitely more important!!
I was on a book forum some years ago and became very friendly with a fellow book lover. We chatted a lot, emailed, talked on phone and got into the habit of sending out books (and other little gifts) to each other that we knew the other would enjoy. His favorite writer was Russell Banks and he gifted me his well read & battered copy of The Sweet Hereafter. After a while we planned for him to come and stay with me for a weekend and I wanted to give him something special. I figured I would try and get that copy of The Sweet Hereafter signed by Mr. Banks. I was also on a less than 2 week time limit. I couldn’t find him anywhere, he was on FB, but not accepting friends nor messages. So I did the next best thing: I looked up his wife, found and messaged her my heartfelt plea on FB and without hesitation she gave me her home address and said she’d not only have him sign it but personalize it with any message I wanted. Only catch was I had to send it by the next day because they were moving house in a week. Fast forward to ‘his” visit and it was literally the best gift he ever received. He was extremely touched
That’s fantastic, @Paula!
Amazing ?
He dumped me shortly after. It is what it is *shrugs*
What do you mean, crazy or outrageous for a book?
Edit: Well… here’s one, I suppose. It’s not crazy or outrageous but people that know I do this say it’s weird. I always have 2 copies of my favorite books. One that I never read that stays in pristine condition and one that I’ll read over and over. Don’t get me wrong, the condition of the one I read doesn’t get trashed, but it does start to show wear after the years.
Whatever way you want to define it. Something out of your norm 🙂
I have two complete sets of Terry Pratchett’s for the same reason, Shannon.
@John have you heard of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Pendergast series? I have two sets of all their books.
PS. If you haven’t, you should. I highly recommend them.
Not that crazy, I queued for one of the Harry Potter books by J K Rowling & for the last book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King?
Nice 😀
I also queued for Harry Potter!
@Katie I liked the atmosphere?
Same here – took my kids to several launch parties and bought the books when they went on sale at midnight. I would have gone without the kids but they were a nice excuse!
Not yet. But there is plenty of time still
Well, I used to read for a living. (Worked as a project editor for a publisher until last year.) Now I have a communications job – still words, words, words. I love words!
At college (many, many decades ago) while very broke I managed four days of living on cauliflower cheese to save my food money for a book. I even gave up smoking for a week to help pay for it.
Lmao!!! Well if I want to go over my book budget … well let’s just say the hubby doesnt complain and happily takes me to the nearest thirty book shop! ??
I remember when the sixth Harry Potter book came out. I had to get permission to leave cadet camp with my mum and waited at Chapters for hours just to get my hands on a copy. I nearly bit the one kid who grabbed the same book I did. I remember returning back to cadet camp with that Harry Potter book and I was SO VERY popular! Does that count as crazy or outrageous? 😛