Frickin' NaNo. I'm trying to feed the plotbunnies in the hopes that something will stick long enough for me to get a scene or three in my head. If I've got that, I have a chance in Hades of stretching it like taffy.
I got your list and it's saved, so when next I go looking, we'll see what we can dig up. :D The thrill of the book hunt and all that.
It's out of print - how can it not move well enough??? I don't have the foggiest idea. I... it... Yes. Some of those books sat there for *forever* but it's partly because that store did not do what the Book Exchange down the road does, which is occasionally go through and weed out the stuff that's been sitting there for years. Also, they'd take anything. The SVH book that somehow got turned green in middle school? They took it. Which was awesome, but no one's going to buy that version with a clean, non-mutant copy right next to it. In the moment they said "too old" I felt like my mother did with her bag of books a year before that. They're books. They get better with age. :P Or at least more cracktastic. Whichever!
I occasionally consider buying the odd paperback at work and then I see the price (when did 7.99 become the standard -lowest- price?) and seriously weigh the cost of that versus eating at work for the next two/three days.
...definitely stopped reading SVT before things got weird. SVH, on the other hand, I think I stuck with through the pom-pom boys-as-cheerleaders bit before petering out. I got sucked back in for the weird. "Evil spirits in the Valley? Sign. Me. Up!" But I didn't stick around after that. I took my weird and left.
Love the pom-pom wars. Easily my favorite arc after they went to arc-only stories.
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Date: 2010-10-30 03:54 pm (UTC)I got your list and it's saved, so when next I go looking, we'll see what we can dig up. :D The thrill of the book hunt and all that.
It's out of print - how can it not move well enough???
I don't have the foggiest idea. I... it... Yes. Some of those books sat there for *forever* but it's partly because that store did not do what the Book Exchange down the road does, which is occasionally go through and weed out the stuff that's been sitting there for years. Also, they'd take anything. The SVH book that somehow got turned green in middle school? They took it. Which was awesome, but no one's going to buy that version with a clean, non-mutant copy right next to it.
In the moment they said "too old" I felt like my mother did with her bag of books a year before that. They're books. They get better with age. :P Or at least more cracktastic. Whichever!
I occasionally consider buying the odd paperback at work and then I see the price (when did 7.99 become the standard -lowest- price?) and seriously weigh the cost of that versus eating at work for the next two/three days.
...definitely stopped reading SVT before things got weird. SVH, on the other hand, I think I stuck with through the pom-pom boys-as-cheerleaders bit before petering out.
I got sucked back in for the weird. "Evil spirits in the Valley? Sign. Me. Up!" But I didn't stick around after that. I took my weird and left.
Love the pom-pom wars. Easily my favorite arc after they went to arc-only stories.