"Congo" by Michael Crichton. Adventure on a grand scale as a motley collection of scientists, mercenaries, marketing directors and African spear-carriers tromp through the Congo in search of a lost city of diamonds. Though an early book where the rough edges show in places, this book is so much fun to read you don't care. Amy, the gorilla, is easily the best character. (And no, that's not a slam.) Highly Recommended. A
Monday, September 19, 2011
CONGO by Michael Crichton
Good Monday morning, bookies. It's wet and cool in Memphis, kind of nice after a delightfully scorching summer. Today's book review is once again from early 1993, when I was gobbling up Michael Crichton's backlist. I chose Congo because of the altogether wretched movie made from what was a terrific book. If you haven't read it, check out he review and decide for yourself whether you need to; it holds up well, I think.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
RISING SUN by Michael Crichton
I'm feeling guilty for not posting more book related stuff lately, but at least I can post my reviews to keep my hand in. This one is from 1993, the 2nd book I read that year. Incidentally, that was the first year after I had quit my job with Pioneer Electronics to stay home with the kids, and 5 years before I started Bill's Books. And so, from 1993...
"Rising Sun" by Michael Crichton. A fairly straight-forward murder mystery, entanglement in the morass of Japanese social custom. Once more Crichton's research is deep and well-used. His personal prejudices against the Japanese, however, get in the way of what could have been another great novel. Like all of his works, Crichton teaches in an entertaining fashion. A lesser writer could not have done so well. Recommended. B+ (Note: The technology Crichton used in this book was, in 1992, cutting edge. Namely, manipulating computer data to change what was recorded on a hard drive to show a false reality. He did the same thing in Jurassic Park, only with different science. To enjoy the book today, in the 21st Century, try top put yourself back in the days of Bill Clinton's first year in office, when cell phones were the size of your shoe.)
A new blog!
Hiya bookies, just a quick entry to introduce a new blog the Misses and I are writing about our latest business adventure. The link is: http://webbventures.blogspot.com/
And yes, I know the entries here have been pretty thin lately. I'm getting ready for the Countrywood Garage Sale next weekend and it's a massive task. If you're in Memphis and are going, email me for my address. Once that's done, I have huge plans for this blog, so don't change the channel.
And yes, I know the entries here have been pretty thin lately. I'm getting ready for the Countrywood Garage Sale next weekend and it's a massive task. If you're in Memphis and are going, email me for my address. Once that's done, I have huge plans for this blog, so don't change the channel.
Friday, September 9, 2011
An unexpected treasure
Morning bookies, this short entry is a little different. Today is a one-year anniversary, and it all started with a book sale. But first, a preface. On Dec. 28th, 2009, we lost our 12 year old German Shepherd, Missy. Then, in late July, 2010, our 12 year old mix, Keisha, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. This meant our only dog was going to be our five year old, Daffney. That's kind of an empty house, for us.
I was on my way to an annual book sale last Sept. 9th, 2010, the same sale where the year before I had found a pristine signed first edition of Walter Mosley's 'Devil in a Blue Dress', when my phone rang. My wife and daughter had been watching this puppy on Facebook at the Memphis Animal Shelter, and the poor little thing was within three hours of being euthanized. So I was directed to head to the shelter forthwith and retrieve said dog. No ifs, ands or buts about it. Being the independent sort, I did what I was told.
This little stray was about six months old. At some point her right foreleg had been broken and healed wrong, so her leg was twisted and she limped. She was emaciated, covered with fleas and mange, and had kennel cough. She was scared to death. But soon, she was ours. We named her Sadie.
I took her to my wife's office, and the next day to the vet. She weighed all of 26 lbs. We had never had a dog with kennel cough before, so within a few days we were at the emergency room, but soon enough she was well. Daffney hated her in the beginning. Within three weeks, as poor Keisha faded, the puppy was Daffney's protege and they were fast friends.
We were intrigued by what type of dog she was and to this day I think she had some Pharaoh Hound in her, but it doesn't really matter. She's a sweetie and I didn't even object w
hen she was invited to sleep in the bed. Naturally, with this being her anniversary of joining our family, she doesn't feel well, but hopefully it's just an upset stomach and she will be better later.Yesterday was the annual book sale, and I told the people running it this story, which they liked. As I said then, they didn't have a better surprise than the one I got.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Raw
Good Morning bookies. Wait, it's good afternoon already? When did that happen? Sheesh, time really does fly.
Just a quick entry to highlight the first two issues of one of the most influential comic magazines ever
published, Raw. The year was 1980 and Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly teamed up to create something brand new, something weird and eclectic and wonderful, but most of all something smart. The books have now become legendary and as I listed issues 1 and 2 yesterday, and took photos to accompany them, I thought I could at least let everybody see what they looked like. Spiegelman liked to include little bonuses 
in the magazine, including a serial version of his now-classic 'Maus'. My copy of issue two was also supposed to have 
a set of bubble gum cards for Mark Beyer's 'City of Terror', but this is missing from my copy. Anyway, here they are and enjoy looking at them.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Book Descriptions Part Three
Good afternoon bookies! Already it's Labor Day, the summer is virtually gone and my grass needs to be cut again. I suppose it goes without saying that book people are not drawn to landscaping as a hobby, but it's doubly so for me. It's not so much that I object to yard work, I kind of like the exercise and the way the yard looks when I'm done. It's just that I have so much else to do that finding the time for yardwork is tough.
I know, poor me, right?
While setting up a new blog site for someone else who lives here, (hint: it is not one of the dogs. They're too young to have internet access yet) it occurred to me that a third entry in the book descriptions was really necessary, to describe common types of wear that books endure. As always, this is based on my definitions of the wear, but I learned my definitions from people of the old school and I think they are a nice mixture of the old and the new, and therefore quite relevant.
One final caveat: as I said in the previous two entries about book descriptions, there are lots of bots out there masquerading as booksellers. They will have the same entry for every single book in their inventory, and it will have all sorts of disclaimers such as "may have shelfwear, may have edgewear, might be ex-library...", yada-yada. These sellers do not look at the books they are selling and probably couldn't read them even if they did. If you choose to deal with them, caveat emptor.
Now, without further pomposity, the description terms:
Shelfwear - When books are stacked or lined up next to each other, they tend to rub covers, wearing away some of the top layer. This is called shelfwear. By and large it is most easily seen when looking at the book at an angle with a bright light in the background, showing up as a duller area against the brighter parts that are not worn. Unless a book is protected by a jacket cover or a plastic bag of some sort, shelfwear is inevitable. (Also, if a book does have the jacket protector, it can be shelfworn, too. Don't be confused by a shelfworn protector, as those are disposable and have no effect on the book.) By my terminology, sheflwear comes in three grades: light, moderate and heavy. These should be self-explanatory, although sometimes I'll say 'very light' to indicate wear that I see but that another seller might overlook or ignore because it is so minimal. I'm not always right, but I always try to be right.
Edgewear - Usually this term applies to a book jacket, but not always. It can just as easily apply to the edges of the book itself, and this should be noted. 'Light edgewear to the jacket' or something similar. And the meaning of the term itself is fairly obvious; there is wear to the edge. maybe this is a crumpling or rubbing, maybe it has been bumped and straightened back out, but in essence it means wear along the edges of some sort. Exactly what sort should be noted. For example, shelfwear to a book often results in the cover itself being worn through to whatever is underneath, usually some type of cardboard. This must be noted.
Closed Tear- Jackets are often torn, you see it all the time. A closed tear is when that tear fits neatly back together, with no great visual damage except perhaps a white line when the two halves of the tear meet. This is a defect that must be noted, but how damaging it is to the grade and the value will depend on where the tear is and how large it might be. A tiny tear to the rear bottom edge is not nearly so bad as a four inch tear to the front cover. As to whether or not this prevents you from wanting the book is strictly up to you. For example, if the book is quite rare and the front cover illustration is intact but has tears all around it, you might want that copy regardless. But if the front illustration was largely missing with the rest of the jacket in nice shape, you might not. Once again this is up to your preference.
Shaken - A book that is shaken is one where the spine is not rigid, but has some give to it. Pages are not necessarily loose, but if they are that must be noted.
Scuffs - A scuff is something of an ambiguous term, meaning a scraped area, usually on the edge of a book due to extensive wear, or to a jacket because a price sticker had glue that took the surface of the jacket off when the sticker was incorrectly removed.
I know, poor me, right?
While setting up a new blog site for someone else who lives here, (hint: it is not one of the dogs. They're too young to have internet access yet) it occurred to me that a third entry in the book descriptions was really necessary, to describe common types of wear that books endure. As always, this is based on my definitions of the wear, but I learned my definitions from people of the old school and I think they are a nice mixture of the old and the new, and therefore quite relevant.
One final caveat: as I said in the previous two entries about book descriptions, there are lots of bots out there masquerading as booksellers. They will have the same entry for every single book in their inventory, and it will have all sorts of disclaimers such as "may have shelfwear, may have edgewear, might be ex-library...", yada-yada. These sellers do not look at the books they are selling and probably couldn't read them even if they did. If you choose to deal with them, caveat emptor.
Now, without further pomposity, the description terms:
Shelfwear - When books are stacked or lined up next to each other, they tend to rub covers, wearing away some of the top layer. This is called shelfwear. By and large it is most easily seen when looking at the book at an angle with a bright light in the background, showing up as a duller area against the brighter parts that are not worn. Unless a book is protected by a jacket cover or a plastic bag of some sort, shelfwear is inevitable. (Also, if a book does have the jacket protector, it can be shelfworn, too. Don't be confused by a shelfworn protector, as those are disposable and have no effect on the book.) By my terminology, sheflwear comes in three grades: light, moderate and heavy. These should be self-explanatory, although sometimes I'll say 'very light' to indicate wear that I see but that another seller might overlook or ignore because it is so minimal. I'm not always right, but I always try to be right.
Edgewear - Usually this term applies to a book jacket, but not always. It can just as easily apply to the edges of the book itself, and this should be noted. 'Light edgewear to the jacket' or something similar. And the meaning of the term itself is fairly obvious; there is wear to the edge. maybe this is a crumpling or rubbing, maybe it has been bumped and straightened back out, but in essence it means wear along the edges of some sort. Exactly what sort should be noted. For example, shelfwear to a book often results in the cover itself being worn through to whatever is underneath, usually some type of cardboard. This must be noted.
Closed Tear- Jackets are often torn, you see it all the time. A closed tear is when that tear fits neatly back together, with no great visual damage except perhaps a white line when the two halves of the tear meet. This is a defect that must be noted, but how damaging it is to the grade and the value will depend on where the tear is and how large it might be. A tiny tear to the rear bottom edge is not nearly so bad as a four inch tear to the front cover. As to whether or not this prevents you from wanting the book is strictly up to you. For example, if the book is quite rare and the front cover illustration is intact but has tears all around it, you might want that copy regardless. But if the front illustration was largely missing with the rest of the jacket in nice shape, you might not. Once again this is up to your preference.
Shaken - A book that is shaken is one where the spine is not rigid, but has some give to it. Pages are not necessarily loose, but if they are that must be noted.
Scuffs - A scuff is something of an ambiguous term, meaning a scraped area, usually on the edge of a book due to extensive wear, or to a jacket because a price sticker had glue that took the surface of the jacket off when the sticker was incorrectly removed.
Friday, August 26, 2011
ebay reprise
Hiya bookies. I haven't written about ebay for a while (and yes, to the snarkier among you, I know that I haven't written anything at all for a while), but now I don't have to. The following article and link say just about everything current about the once-great king of the little guy.
For those with short memories, back in 2008 I began writing about ebay's war against its greatest enemies: its sellers. That's right, the little guys that sold on the site were ebay's mortal enemies. So they eliminated their right to leave negative feedback for the buyer, thus opening the seller up to possible extortion demands. "Listen seller, I received the item you sold me, and it's exactly as you described it, so if you give me half my money back I won't leave negative feedback." Negative feedback kills a seller in many ways, so you have to avoid it at all costs. Nor would ebay do anything about this, although they said otherwise. So I quit happily and have never looked back. (That happened to me once, before I stopped selling.)
They also raised their seller fees to exorbitant levels to drive the little guy away, and gave preference to mega-sellers (oh goodie! Yet another site to buy Dockers pants!) on the search results.
So as you read this financial analysis, remember it's the CEOs fault if their stock continues to languish. I have lots of cool things that could sell on the old ebay, and they could take a reasonable cut of my profits, but until and unless they change back, they won't get another dime from me.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/08/24/why-ebay-will-never-be-great-again/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl2|sec1_lnk3|89552
For those with short memories, back in 2008 I began writing about ebay's war against its greatest enemies: its sellers. That's right, the little guys that sold on the site were ebay's mortal enemies. So they eliminated their right to leave negative feedback for the buyer, thus opening the seller up to possible extortion demands. "Listen seller, I received the item you sold me, and it's exactly as you described it, so if you give me half my money back I won't leave negative feedback." Negative feedback kills a seller in many ways, so you have to avoid it at all costs. Nor would ebay do anything about this, although they said otherwise. So I quit happily and have never looked back. (That happened to me once, before I stopped selling.)
They also raised their seller fees to exorbitant levels to drive the little guy away, and gave preference to mega-sellers (oh goodie! Yet another site to buy Dockers pants!) on the search results.
So as you read this financial analysis, remember it's the CEOs fault if their stock continues to languish. I have lots of cool things that could sell on the old ebay, and they could take a reasonable cut of my profits, but until and unless they change back, they won't get another dime from me.
Why eBay Will Never Be Great Again
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz Posted 3:30PM 08/24/11 American Express, Amazon.com, eBay, MasterCard, Visa
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There was a time when eBay (EBAY) was the cool place to shop.
When Tickle Me Elmo dolls, classic vinyl records, and Beanie Babies ran scarce at area retailers, folks would flock to the auction marketplace to see if they could outlast rival bidders to victoriously nab hot items.
This doesn't mean eBay isn't popular these days. eBay's marketplace helped sellers move $14.7 billion in gross merchandise, excluding cars, in its latest quarter. The company's PayPal juggernaut is now up to 100.3 million active registered accounts, serving as the middleman for $28.7 billion worth of net payments during the second quarter alone.
Bigger isn't necessarily better, though.
Shares of eBay are trading essentially where they were five years ago. The world has passed eBay by, and the next five years aren't likely to be much better.
eBay Was a Hotbed for Cottage Industries -- Until It Went Condo
Browsing through eBay.com used to be like strolling through an artisan garage sale. These days, it's loaded mostly with cookie-cutter merchandise.
The homogenization of eBay is a sad thing. Original arts and crafts have been replaced by the art of crafty merchants selling the same stuff from drop-shipping companies as everybody else.
Where did the magic go? The flagship site has been pulled like taffy in different directions. Escalating fees, PayPal platform requirements, and listing tweaks repelled many longtime sellers. The leveling of the dot-com playing field also wooed away popular Power Sellers.
Niche specialty sites such as Etsy for crafts attracted some of the sellers behind the more distinctive items that used to populate eBay's listings. It also has become easier to get noticed without a conglomerate marketplace. Skillful self-promoters can milk Twitter missives, Facebook fan pages, and Wordpress blogs to drum up sales. Those willing to spend on promotion can bid pennies for leads through search engine keywords.
Entrepreneurial sellers no longer needed eBay. eBay, in turn, decided that it really didn't need entrepreneurial sellers.
Auction Apathy vs. Instant Gratification
After watching Amazon.com (AMZN) deliver year after year of heartier growth than itself, eBay began to embrace many of the e-commerce giant's characteristics.
Sellers were encouraged to offer "free shipping" promotions, even if it meant sacrificing margins. The thrilling ride to the finish line could now be interrupted with "Buy it Now" prices for folks who didn't mind paying up for instant gratification.
Companies evolve, and not every change at eBay has been for the worse. However, it's telling that just 37% of eBay's marketplace volume came from the United States in its latest quarter. Acquisitions and international expansion have helped mask a company that while growing -- even domestically -- is actually dying inside.
Robbing Peter to PayPal Paul
PayPal has been the best -- if not the only -- reason to invest in eBay in recent years. Despite recent signs of life in eBay's marketplace business, PayPal remains the real driver here.
Things seem to be going well for the Web-based financial transaction facilitator, and eBay revealed in its most recent conference call that it will begin testing point-of-sale integration with a major U.S. retailer later this year. If things go well, PayPal hopes to add as many as 20 national retailers by the end of 2012.
If Visa (V), MasterCard (MA), and American Express (AXP) weren't threatened by PayPal before, they will be taking the fast-growing platform more seriously now. Credit card marketers and issuers know the juicy transaction fees and interest payments that are at stake.
If they don't do something about neutralizing PayPal, technology probably will.
Top of Form
Bottom of Form
If you're not already familiar with near-field communications -- or NFC -- you will be soon. More and more smartphones are coming out with NFC chips, simplifying mobile payments for goods and services. eBay is no dummy: PayPal is testing its own NFC applications. However, the flip side here is that NFC will also help traditional credit card companies catch up to PayPal when it comes to electronic transactions.
In the past, PayPal could count on users to treat idle cash in their accounts as "found money" when they hit an online checkout screen. Unfortunately, eBay killed the PayPal Money Market Fund this summer, giving accountholders one less reason to keep dormant funds there.
Where is the "Sell it Now" Button?
This may seem to be the wrong time to be writing about eBay's demise: Revenue in its latest quarter soared 25%, to $2.76 billion, though net margins narrowed.
It's also not as if eBay shares are overly expensive. The stock is trading at a reasonable 14 times this year's projected profitability. However, it's hard to see eBay's marketplace continue to be relevant once it runs out of companies to buy. PayPal will be challenged. It sold its majority stake in Skype too soon.
When's the last time you bought something cool on eBay? It was probably around the same time that you should have sold the stock and moved on.
Longtime Motley Fool contributor Rick Munarriz does not own shares in any of the stocks in this article. The Motley Fool owns shares of Google. Motley Fool newsletter services have recommended buying shares of eBay, Google, and Visa.
See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/nQYNSo
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/08/24/why-ebay-will-never-be-great-again/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl2|sec1_lnk3|89552
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Anatomy of a scouting- Jacob Serenius
Hiya bookies. I know I promised more frequent updates here, but life keeps intruding. One of the kids is returning to the nest while attending graduate school, necessitating a massive move of stuff from one room to the next. Yuck. Not what BBG had in mind for the summer.Anyway, I am often asked how I come across the books that I sell. The simple answer is: there is no simple answer. But today we'll just at one book and how that came to be in my possession, some of the problems faced in researching it, pricing it and translating the title.
One Friday morning about five years ago I arrived an hour or so early for a private estate sale in the Memphis suburb of Germantown. The yard and house were a bit unkempt, reflecting the elderly nature of the previous tenants. I don't remember if it was a living estate sale or not, but the middle aged children were holding the sale and one of them was late. We stood around for an extra twenty minutes or so waiting for this son to arrive. Once inside one other bookseller and I rummaged through the books, most of which were hardback science fiction and fantasy.
The other seller was a local lady who is very knowledgeable in antiquarian books and such. She had perused one particular bookcase before I got there, but there was a book with a leather spine that she had missed somehow. I bought it, more or less without inspecting it. Once at home I did what I always do and began going through my purchases. But this one...I could not even make out what language it was in, at first, the only word that made sense was where the publisher information is usually placed at the bottom of the title page. It said "Stockholm, 1727."
It was immediately evident that this was the oldest book I had ever scouted up. But what was it? What language was it written in? Who was the author? To discover this required backtracking. I searched the net using the phrase 'Joh. Laur. Horrn. Stockholm', which lead to a number of books published by this printer. For the language, I assumed that it was either German or Swedish but online translators weren't much use; as it turns out, the language is Old Swedish, which is quite different from modern Swedish. Who knew? That lead to simply searching for the title itself, which I cut and pasted. In its native language, it is: Engelska aker-mannen och fara-herden, eller: Aker-bruks-konsten och far-skiotslen, sa wal efter philosophiske principer som sielfwa praxin, af de witraste engelske scribenter utdragen, med atskillige historiske och topographiske anmarkningar. To this moment I still don't have a good translation of this, although I know the first words are The English Farmer and Shepherd, and that the book is a treatise on contemporary English sheep-herding techniques. The book was written by Jacob Serenius, who went on to write the first English-Swedish dictionary in 1741.
This information lead to an old auction price on a really battered piece of the book of about $160. I finally contacted an auction house, who suggested a price of around $500 as being quite fair for what is a nice c
opy of a rare book. So that's what I did, priced it at $499.95, and here are the photos. All told I must have twelve or fourteen hours of research in this book.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Erich von Manstein
Groan...good morning bookies. Your friendly neighborhood bookseller is feeling his age today after taking all 4 of his dogs to a farm yesterday to let them run free. Of course, said bookseller had to make sure they didn't go off chasing a random deer or something, so he wound up walking and running about as much as they did. And today he's paying the price.
As many of you know, I recently bought a massive collection of graphic novels, which all tend to have a certain flavor to them. Sort of punk-combat. Anyway, the name Erich von Manstein would serve perfectly as the name of a hero (or villain) in such a book, wouldn't it?' Erich von Manstein and His Morningstar of Death', or some such. Of course, the real Manstein was a German general during WW2, one of the best of a rather illustrious pantheon of military masters. If this sounds like I am elevating Nazis, I'm not. But I'm a WW2 historian and making evaluations is part of the gig. The Germans had the best generals of the war and that's just how it was. And Manstein was in the top 3.
So it's surprising that he hasn't had a major biography, a situation that has now been rectified with Retired British General Mungo Melvins' new "Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General." The reviewer shows the general ineptitude you find among such people, criticizing the book for precisely what would make it interesting, an in-depth look at Manstein's military maneuvers. If the reviewer does not like such stuff then what qualifies him to review the book? He eats up the coverage and inferences of Manstein's involvement in the Holocaust, however, which is de rigeur for reviewers these days. Military history of Germany now has to include something about the persecution of minorities within the Third Reich.
Frankly, that's not why I would read a book about 'Hitler's Greatest General.' I want to know what made him great. I already knew that the German generals were complicit in the Holocaust. I've studied the Holocaust in minute detail, and if I want to continue my research in that direction, I will. But there are far too few strictly military books being published these days, and this one appears to have missed a great opportunity to fill in that gap. So maybe I'll get the book and read just the first half, about the military matters. Or, after reading Nagorski's review, maybe I won't read the book at all.
As many of you know, I recently bought a massive collection of graphic novels, which all tend to have a certain flavor to them. Sort of punk-combat. Anyway, the name Erich von Manstein would serve perfectly as the name of a hero (or villain) in such a book, wouldn't it?' Erich von Manstein and His Morningstar of Death', or some such. Of course, the real Manstein was a German general during WW2, one of the best of a rather illustrious pantheon of military masters. If this sounds like I am elevating Nazis, I'm not. But I'm a WW2 historian and making evaluations is part of the gig. The Germans had the best generals of the war and that's just how it was. And Manstein was in the top 3.
So it's surprising that he hasn't had a major biography, a situation that has now been rectified with Retired British General Mungo Melvins' new "Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General." The reviewer shows the general ineptitude you find among such people, criticizing the book for precisely what would make it interesting, an in-depth look at Manstein's military maneuvers. If the reviewer does not like such stuff then what qualifies him to review the book? He eats up the coverage and inferences of Manstein's involvement in the Holocaust, however, which is de rigeur for reviewers these days. Military history of Germany now has to include something about the persecution of minorities within the Third Reich.
Frankly, that's not why I would read a book about 'Hitler's Greatest General.' I want to know what made him great. I already knew that the German generals were complicit in the Holocaust. I've studied the Holocaust in minute detail, and if I want to continue my research in that direction, I will. But there are far too few strictly military books being published these days, and this one appears to have missed a great opportunity to fill in that gap. So maybe I'll get the book and read just the first half, about the military matters. Or, after reading Nagorski's review, maybe I won't read the book at all.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
The Hairy Who Sideshow
Hiya bookies, a couple of quick photos of this legendary book, which sold about 45 minutes after I posted it online. Still, I thought some people might not know what it looks like, so here's a couple of photos I took.
The book was printed by Galaxie Press in 1967 and was compiled by Chicago artist Tom brand to showcase up and coming art talent of the time. My copy was in prime condition, really nice, but nice or not it was the only copy on the internet. Now if I can just turn up a copy of the sequel.
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