BOOK HAUL (Books / Comics / Zines Purchases) 2013

From Hastings all used books 2.99 sale.
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My summer vacation reading arrived today!!

"Death Hand Play," # 192 in the "Nick Carter, Killmaster" spy series.

...I loved these so-called "men's adventure" action series when I was a teenager. In addition to Nick Carter, I had tons of books featuring Mack Bolan (the Executioner), Able Team, Phoenix Force, the SOB's, the Death Merchant, and Lord knows how many others. My brother and I were reminiscing about those oldies last time we saw each other and I said "Damn y'know, I haven't read any of those books in years." I recently joined the paperbackswap web site and I am thinkin' of using it mainly to re-acquire some of those oldy action books and take a little trip down memory lane.

Two vintage volumes from the "Mack Bolan, The Executioner" series arrived today thanks to Paperbackswap.com:

#100: "Blood Testament"
#101: "Eternal Triangle"

Children of The Revolution (The Glam Rock Story 1970-75) by Dave Thompson

My brother-in-law is in from AUS for his Dad's funeral; we were going through some stuff and he found a box of hundreds of comic books from the early 90's. Mostly Marvel, couple of sealed Death of Superman, several Dark Horse titles, and a number of indies. He was quite generous and gave them to me.

Via LibraryThing Early Reviewers:

Jim Henson by Brian Jay Jones

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I'm a big Bob Mould/Sugar/Husker Du fan but I can tell from skimming some of the chapters that the criticism this book gets is probably right - he's just not a like-able person at all. At least he seems forth-right about it though.

Shock Totem #7

 
 
 
Saw this sitting on the shelf in the grocery store and just had to get it. Not much new info wise but still a great read for Godzilla fans.

I'm liking this one so far but unfortunately two hundred pages in here comes Courtney Love to make it a soap opera.  Took a bit to get into the style the author uses - a mixture of his first hand accounts and those of others.  It also goes off on side tangents that have little to do with Nirvana (strangely those are becoming the most entertaining parts in terms of stories and info).
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The Christian Atheist by Craig Groeschel

Shock Totem #7
The Wicked

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Death Hand Play," # 192 in the "Nick Carter, Killmaster" spy series.

...I loved these so-called "men's adventure" action series when I was a teenager. In addition to Nick Carter, I had tons of books featuring Mack Bolan (the Executioner), Able Team, Phoenix Force, the SOB's, the Death Merchant, and Lord knows how many others. My brother and I were reminiscing about those oldies last time we saw each other and I said "Damn y'know, I haven't read any of those books in years." I recently joined the paperbackswap web site and I am thinkin' of using it mainly to re-acquire some of those oldy action books and take a little trip down memory lane.

Was the Death Merchant Remo Williams? I read a few of the Remo books back in the day but I was a major fanboy for the "Stony Man" books, especially Phoenix Force & Able Team.

Over the last month, between Amazon and a marketplace seller, LibraryThing Early Reviewers, and a library sale:

Five Complete Novels of Crime and Detection by Agatha Christie
Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Collected Stories by Roald Dahl
If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Ransom of Black Stealth One by Dean Ing
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
The Fishing Widow by Amy K. Marshall
American Splendor and More American Splendor by Harvey Pekar
Contact by Carl Sagan
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Fruits Basket Volume 19 by Natsuki Takaya
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Complete "Omaha" the Cat Dancer Volume 8 by Reed Waller and Kate Worley with James Vance

From Books-a-Million:

Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines
Redoubt by Mercedes Lackey
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Codename Sailor V, volume 2 by Naoko Takeuchi

Kirk Hammet - Too Much Horror Business

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From LibraryThing Early Reviewers:

The Eye Unseen by Cynthia Tottleben

The Croning by Laird Barron

Decibel Magazine Issue #111

Other Xmas present, double hell yeah:

For Christmas, I got Georges St-Pierre: The Way of the Fight, Bobby Orr: My Story, The 2014 NHL Official Guide and Record Book, and a couple of magazines.

Murder in the front row

Nobuaki Tadano: 7 Billion Needles, Volume 1
Yumi Unita: Buny Drop, Volume 1
Kiminori Wakasugi: Detroit Metal City, Volume 1