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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Howard Alan Treesong on September 24, 2008, 11:41:31 PM

Title: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on September 24, 2008, 11:41:31 PM
I didn't buy anything today but I bought a ton on Tuesday!

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517zan%2Bv3eL._SS400_.jpg)

Sucks, don't buy it.

(http://www.republicaupdate.com/images/2007/09/03/junot_wao_cover.jpg)

Dominican culture x super geekery. Probably the only Pulitzer Prize winner to open with an epigram from Jack Kirby's Galactus!!

(http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n31/n158533.jpg)

I bolded all the words that give me a boner:

Starred Review. World Fantasy Award–winner Walton (Tooth and Claw) crosses genres without missing a beat with this stunningly powerful alternative history set in 1949, eight years after Britain agreed to peace with Nazi Germany, leaving Hitler in control of the European continent. A typical gathering at the country estate of Farthing of the power elite who brokered the deal is thrown into turmoil when the main negotiator, Sir James Thirkie, is murdered, with a yellow star pinned to his chest with a dagger. The author deftly alternates perspective between Lucy Kahn, the host's daughter, who has disgraced herself in her family's eyes by marrying a Jew, and Scotland Yard Inspector Peter Carmichael, who quickly suspects that the killer was not a Bolshevik terrorist. But while the whodunit plot is compelling, it's the convincing portrait of a country's incremental slide into fascism that makes this novel a standout.

(http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/Buddha%201%20Kapilavastu%20Tezuka.jpg)

Also I bought a lot of Eric P's comix!
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 24, 2008, 11:48:00 PM
yesterday:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-pzHwtP0L._SS400_.jpg)


today:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61gHe5Ex-hL._SS400_.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z7EH08n5L._SS400_.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Hn5P6wWoL._SS400_.jpg)

(for littlebigplanet)
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Vizzys on September 24, 2008, 11:48:47 PM
yesterday I bought a movie where a nazi gets punched in the face
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 24, 2008, 11:50:22 PM
Quote from: Viz on September 24, 2008, 11:48:47 PM
yesterday I bought a movie where a nazi get punched in the face

and i'm reading a book where Hitler gets punched in the face

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay :bow
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Robo on September 24, 2008, 11:51:32 PM
I would also bold "daughter", "chest" and "Bolshevik".
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: FatalT on September 24, 2008, 11:58:00 PM
I got my new PC today!
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Mr. Gundam on September 25, 2008, 12:45:41 AM
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee82/distantmantra/hitachino.jpg)
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: MrAngryFace on September 25, 2008, 12:56:40 AM
Quote from: FatalT on September 24, 2008, 11:58:00 PM
I got my new PC today!

What game are you using to break it in?
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: FatalT on September 25, 2008, 01:30:26 AM
Quote from: MrAngryFace on September 25, 2008, 12:56:40 AM
Quote from: FatalT on September 24, 2008, 11:58:00 PM
I got my new PC today!

What game are you using to break it in?

Warhammer. I'm downloading Crysis, though.
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: MrAngryFace on September 25, 2008, 01:31:13 AM
right on, I picked up Crysis Warhead today. Im sure it will remind me I need a whole new PC :/. This mobo is maxed out so if I do upgrade it'll be a pain
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: bork on September 25, 2008, 01:32:58 AM
I bought Rockman 9, brutal but fun!  :hyper

I didn't buy Duke 3D XBLA cuz 3D Realms and/or MS suck cock and region-locked it.   :maf
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Cormacaroni on September 25, 2008, 01:58:51 AM
Quote from: distantmantra on September 25, 2008, 12:45:41 AM
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee82/distantmantra/hitachino.jpg)

:bow

Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Rman on September 25, 2008, 02:51:48 AM
Hitachino's awesome.  You'll love Oscar Wao, Patel.  Did you read his short story collection, too? 
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Powerslave on September 25, 2008, 03:23:12 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z7EH08n5L._SS400_.jpg)

such terrible boxart and title lol
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Bildi on September 25, 2008, 04:05:29 AM
ARMS IN BROTHERS
DOUBLE TIME

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Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Powerslave on September 25, 2008, 04:09:17 AM
arms in brothers :rofl
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Reb on September 25, 2008, 07:05:50 AM
I giggled like a maniac, while at work.
Title: Re: It's Wednesday! What did you buy...yesterday?!
Post by: Eric P on September 25, 2008, 08:34:22 AM
i love alternative history but series alternative history just drives me up the wall

i'm always concerned it will become harry turtledove