6/8/2023 0 Comments Daredevil 158![]() ![]() As they were fully returnable, they would empty the comics off the shelf and replace them with this weeks delivery. Most stands didn't keep comics for more than a week. That issue begins a run that is probably top 5, all-time. I don't think about it much, though, because as long as I'm an active comic collector, I'd never sell it. I haven't looked at it in a long time, but I remember it being gorgeous, so I don't think mine was on the rack too long when it was new. I finally got a #158 at a local comic shop in 1990. ![]() That might actually equate to a better sell through rate of Daredevil issues that were produced during that nearly 4 year bi-monthly window, but those copies would've probably had more handling wear, especially those that sold closer to the end of the 60 day window. Since it was bi-monthly, and had been for almost 2 years by the time of #158, doesn't that mean each issue of Daredevil during that span was on the racks twice as long as most other Marvels which were monthly (and hence, replaced on the stands by the next issue more quickly)? ![]()
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6/8/2023 0 Comments Cry to heaven by anne rice![]() ![]() ![]() OL17735259W Page_number_confidence 92.50 Pages 554 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201128083923 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 874 Scandate 20201125180629 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780701135782 Tts_version 4. ![]() Urn:lcp:crytoheaven0000rice:lcpdf:cd1db6fd-1002-49e3-a642-842744c10e6b Foldoutcount 0 Identifier crytoheaven0000rice Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t26b6w33g Invoice 1652 Isbn 0701135786 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8600 Ocr_module_version 0.0.7 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA400042 Openlibrary_edition Cry To Heaven Anne Rice, Vermont Off The Beaten Path®: A Guide To Unique Places (Off The Beaten Path Series)Cindi Pietrzyk, Penn Or The Sword, A Comedy Drama In Four Acts (Classic Reprint)Theophil Stanger, Earth MattersEsther Porter, Dalmatian Cooking: Cuisine Of The Slavic MediterraneanJohn J. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:50:44 Boxid IA40005123 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Jeff shaara trilogy![]() ![]() “Brilliant does not even begin to describe the Shaara gift.”- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Praise for Michael Shaara and Jeff Shaara’s Civil War trilogy Grant-complicated, heroic, and deeply troubled men-through to its riveting conclusion at Appomattox.Ĭontains a preview Jeff Shaara’s new novel of the Civil War, A Blaze of Glory. And The Last Full Measure brings to life the final two years of the Civil War, chasing the escalating conflict between Robert E. ![]() The Killer Angels re-creates the fight for America’s destiny in the Battle of Gettysburg, the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history. Gods and Generals traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders-Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain-from the gathering clouds of war. Together at last in eBook form, this volume assembles three Civil War novels from America’s first family of military fiction: Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure. Jeff Shaara continued his father’s legacy with a series of centuries-spanning New York Times bestsellers. ![]() Michael Shaara reinvented the war novel with his Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Daemon by daniel suarez![]() ![]() ![]() News of his death triggers a Web daemon-”A computer program that runs continuously in the background and performs specified operations at predefined times or in response to certain events.” Or as one of the characters puts it, ““a narrow AI scripting application distributed over a peer-to-peer network architecture to avoid core logic disruption.” Very cool.Īny regular reader of this blog, anyone on the P2P Research or Open Manufacturing lists, anyone who follows John Robb, Jeff Vail or David Ronfeldt, should run-not walk-to buy both of these books.ĭaemon kicks off with the death of genius software and gaming mogul Matthew Sobol. It is a fictional account of the next American revolution (AR 2.0) using resilient communities, open source warfare, systems disruption, individual super-empowerment, parasitic predation, hollow nation-states, etc, (all staples of global guerrilla thinking) as central themes. As Robb describes it in his review of Freedom, Those are, perhaps not coincidentally, the central organizing principles of the new society that emerges in Suarez’s two novels. Recently, against the backdrop of disruption of the Icelandic volcano, he stated the two principles of resilience: ![]() If you’ve been following Robb the last year or so, you know he writes a lot about resilient communities and darknets. I should have known how good these books would be when I saw John Robb of Global Guerrillas listed among Suarez’s advisers on the Acknowledgements page of Daemon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fast paced and suspenseful, it is both an engrossing murder mystery and a brilliantly realised portrayal of Tudor England. Which of the terrified monks is the murderer? And can Shardlake catch him before he strikes again?ĬJ Sansom's Shardlake series has sold over two million copies, and this atmospheric dramatisation starring BAFTA-winning actor Jason Watkins ( The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries) brings his debut novel to electrifying life. However, as Shardlake interviews the prime suspects and delves deeper into the mysteries of Scarnsea, it soon becomes clear that the case will not be as simple to solve as he had hoped. ![]() King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Royal Progress to York, aiming to strike fear and awe into his rebellious northern subjects. Sansoms best-selling Tudor crime novel featuring hunchback lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake. Desiring a quick, discreet result, he sends his trusted lawyer-detective, Matthew Shardlake, to investigate. An atmospheric BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on C. If news of the killing were to get out, the consequences could be disastrous. ![]() But Cromwell's plot to bring down the abbeys has hit a snag - one of the King's Commissioners has been found brutally murdered in Scarnsea monastery, on the south coast of Kent. ![]() Henry VIII has declared himself Supreme Head of the Church and instructed his Chief Minister, Thomas Cromwell, to dissolve England's religious houses and seize their wealth. A thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on CJ Sansom's best-selling Tudor crime novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the first page, Walker sets the novel’s frank and vernacular tone, as Celie narrates her victimization to God in brief, vignette-like epistles:įirst he put his thing up gainst my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Living among the black rural poor and working class in the South, she writes letters to God confiding what she cannot tell anyone else: that her father has raped her, that she has borne two of his children, and that her mother has gone insane and died. An epistolary novel, its initial and main narrator is a teenaged girl named Celie. ![]() In fewer than 300 pages, The Color Purple spans three decades and three continents in a fairly brief compass. It remains widely read and loved but both the novel and its author have been scrutinized for every sin from New Age sentimentality to complicity with racism. Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer-Prize-winning, Spielberg-filmed, Oprah-inspiring novel is a contentious contemporary classic. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments We have faces![]() ![]() The eeriness of the surreal situation sent shivers through my mind, and almost made me begin to question what was awake and what was dream, what was delusional imagination and what was hard reality. The scene in the forest when Orual finds Psyche for the first time after Psyche's sacrifice is particularly moving to me. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? Her distant and almost stern tones accurately convey the fear and pain Orual's endures, and her voice sounds sometimes harsh and human, sometimes fiercely metaphysical. She is able to embody the hollow desperation of Orual's life, and the intensity of her love for Psyche, without making it overdramatic or cliche. What about Nadia May’s performance did you like? ![]() Contrary to my normal opinion, I was able to become more intrigued by and absorbed in the story as I heard it as if from the lips of an old traveling bard, spinning a web of a story for me in vivid detail and yet piercing opaqueness. Would you consider the audio edition of Till We Have Faces to be better than the print version? Gripping, emotionally jarring, and elegant! ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Supergods by Grant Morrison![]() ![]() ![]() We are already divine magicians, already supergods. We bring the thunderbolt of meaning and significance to unconscious matter, blank paper, the night sky. We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its own form and purpose. We have camera eyes that speed up, slow down, and even reverse the flow of time, allowing us to see what no one prior to the twentieth century had ever seen - the thermodynamic miracle of broken shards and a puddle gathering themselves up from the floor to assemble a half-full wineglass. Superhuman cyborgs, we plug into cell phones connecting us to one another and to a constantly updated planetary database, an exo-memory that allows us to fit our complete cultural archive into a jacket pocket. Because the numinous is everywhere, we need to be reminded of it. “If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean. ![]() ![]() Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative ![]() For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. ![]() Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Primeval olga tokarczuk![]() ![]() Three generations of the Niebieski/Boski family form the backbone of the story but there is no overriding or direct narrative. This is not, as you might suspect, a conventional novel. ![]() Therefore, if they are strong enough, all human desires come true – but not always entirely as expected.” Sometimes along the way something in it gets distorted and changes. Then the image turns into a drop of matter, and joins the currents of life. ![]() Especially when it is done intensely and often. “Imagining is essentially creative it is a bridge reconciling mater and spirit. In this world view, matter and spirit are tightly bound at all levels of existence and imagination is a vital force driving life forward. In her unusual and affecting novel Primeval and Other Times, Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk introduces a world endowed with a cosmology that skews conventional Christian wisdom, placing God on the sidelines of His creation. Watched over by a somewhat irresolute God and His angels, the people of Primeval and the surrounding communities live out lives filled with love and loss, joy and pain, birth and death. Welcome to Primeval, a mythical village that exists, if it exists, somewhere in Poland at the very heart of the universe. ![]() |