BORDERS 3 for 2 deal.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

Just got back from BORDERS books and picked up 3 books for the price of 2.
It's my best book buys in recent memory. Plus finally found a book that I've been hunting down for a while.

I picked up the following books:
To The Last Man by Jeff Shaara $ 15.95
I was too cheap to buy the hardcover edition last year and I guess it came out on paper back recently. This should be the best of the bunch.
Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost $ 15.95
This one I'll give to a good friend who is an extreme golf nut. Though it looks to be a great read.
How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer $ 13.95
This one was free. I've been looking for a copy of this for years and FINALLY
found a mass market edition. I've heard good reviews about this one and should keep me entertained.

All in all I feel I got quite the bargain. 2 potentially Great reads and one sleeper that might turn out to be a good one. Reviews forthcoming soon. :D

[hukarez]

Funny, I had went to Borders late last night prior to closing.

I got myself only one book, but a coupon for 20% off any hardcover.

Now, if they only carry Brian K. Vaughn's the "Runaways" hardcover, I'll be very, very happy to use it!

[HomerJSimpson]

Is it just me, or has the cost of paperback doubled in the last couple of years?

[Philliesfan980]

Not to change the topic, but I always use Amazon.Com's marketplace for my books. The fact that you can get books for many times less than $5 is amazing.

[Lorena]

Half.com is also a good place

[sterlingice]

I love Half Price books, but it's going to be hit and miss as to what is there on any given week. My favorite place to get books, however, is the Lawrence Public Library sale- it's craziness. Last year, I walked off with a box full of O'Reilly books (computer geeks know what I'm talking about) like the Camel and Llama and many other assorted ones for roughly $1 each.

SI

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

To The Last Man has been a good read so far. For those who dont know it's a historical novel of WWI as told through the eyes of The Red Baron, various generals and of course those loveable mudcrunchers in the trenches. The chapter on The Red Baron has been pretty good so far. It explained how he ended up from a below average Cavalry officer into The Ace of Aces.

[timmynausea]

Mark Frost was the co-creator of Twin Peaks, along with David Lynch of course. I was surprised when I found out he wrote a golf book.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

Mark Frost was the co-creator of Twin Peaks, along with David Lynch of course. I was surprised when I found out he wrote a golf book.
I'm not familiar with his other works can you tell me about them?

[timmynausea]

I'm not familiar with his other works can you tell me about them?

Well, the main thing is co-creating Twin Peaks, which I assume you're at least somewhat familiar with. After that he wrote a couple of novels where Arthur Conan Doyle is the main character (along with a character he based Holmes on). They were actually decent for kind of light, adventurey stories. It's been several years since I read them, but they had a weird occult element that reminded me of some of the weirder stuff in Twin Peaks.
It looks like more recently he is working on movies having written the script for Fantastic Four and the upcoming movie version of the Greatest Game Ever Played. I was just surprised to see him come out with the golf book since everything of his I was familiar with had weird supernatural stuff involved.

[Peregrine]

Is it just me, or has the cost of paperback doubled in the last couple of years?

Surprisingly, the prices stay pretty much the same at your local library. I've pretty much stopped buying books, I just read everything there, and most of it is in hardback as a bonus!

[Wolfpack]

Is it just me, or has the cost of paperback doubled in the last couple of years?

Actually, I think you're noting the difference between the small paperbacks (which retail in the $5-8 range, depending on author and thickness) and the hardcover-wannabe-size of the trade paperbacks, which sells at probably $12-15.