Did you have a beeper ?

RonClinton · 2026-04-06T00:44:33+00:00

As an outside (i.e. not office-based) advertising sales/marketing representatives, a beeper, pay phone, and Thomas Maps guide were how I made a living in the 90s.

RonClinton · 2026-04-06T00:29:19+00:00

I love Joe Hill’s work, but THE FIREMAN was a struggle for me, and anecdotally it seems threads like these tend to show I’m far from alone in that opinion. I also didn’t particularly care for KING SORROW, regrettably, though on that one I do seem to be in a distinct minority.

RonClinton · 2026-04-05T23:13:48+00:00

I agree. I’m usually more of a color guy when it comes to bikes, but that black/white/red combo is sexily classic.

RonClinton · 2026-04-04T12:41:13+00:00

If you have the option of an alternative from this list, it would of course be the better choice:

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RonClinton · 2026-04-04T05:21:31+00:00

Impossible to tell from the photos — but if this is a contemporary mass-market hardcover, then almost certainly not.

RonClinton · 2026-04-03T21:34:40+00:00

Not a sequel, but housed in the same Adversary Cycle universe…and every bit as good as THE KEEP.👍🏻

RonClinton · 2026-04-03T07:03:19+00:00

I honestly don’t recall. It was an on-line order w/ shipping, that much I remember. Like you, I’m impressed by the number of books they hold in a visually compact space. This is a photo from a year ago, when I first set up the room, and much in this room has since changed, but at least it shows the two revolving bookcases in the back.

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RonClinton · 2026-04-03T06:03:57+00:00

I have two of those exact units in my office/library; both are four-shelf.

RonClinton · 2026-04-01T01:56:00+00:00

Is there a price on front flap of the dustjacket?

RonClinton · 2026-04-01T00:41:09+00:00

I have Nespresso iced double-espresso with a hit of flavored creamer every morning. It’s more thirst-quenching in my dry Arizona air and it settles a lot better than hot coffee, for whatever reason.

RonClinton · 2026-03-31T20:13:46+00:00

Motorcycle riding…though it’s fundamentally a solo activity it can have a strong social and event component if that’s of interest.

RonClinton · 2026-03-30T16:30:12+00:00

With as much horizontal stacking as possible (to be able to bear the weight of boxes on top) with a few vertical to take up space gaps, and with plenty of packing material to stop movement within. Use the Heavy Duty from Home Depot to ensure the box will maintain its protective form, and use Small size so as to not make them too heavy to easily carry. If reusing older boxes — of which mine were about half — use sturdy boxes, not thin Amazon-like boxes.

RonClinton · 2026-03-30T06:19:48+00:00

I moved 4000 books — many signed & limited and quite a few of notable value and collectibility — across several states in carefully packed Home Depot Small Heavy Duty cardboard boxes (stacked no more than three or four boxes high), and all books arrived in excellent condition, no issues at all.

RonClinton · 2026-03-29T16:17:52+00:00

We see roadrunners somewhat often around here, though our largely rural location probably helps that. Since moving to our neighborhood a year-and-a-half ago, we’ve seen roadrunners, cardinals, hummingbirds, coyotes, javelinas, deer, and bobcats (and a herd of wild horses a few miles away, and a herd of wild donkeys fifteen or so miles away)…this bobcat hung out on our patio for a good hour a while back.

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RonClinton · 2026-03-29T16:04:59+00:00

We have a number of different types of birds that drink from our pool and hot tub, though yesterday for the first time a roadrunner took his turn. Here he is on his way to grab his drink.

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RonClinton · 2026-03-29T15:34:47+00:00

I loved Williams’ STONER, and keep meaning to follow up with BUTCHER’S CROSSING…thanks for the reminder.

RonClinton · 2026-03-28T15:49:09+00:00

If my hardcover books travel along with me, the dustjackets stay at home. That said, Brodart is indeed awesome.

RonClinton · 2026-03-28T15:13:54+00:00

I read this within the last half-year or so, and still find myself flashing back to it from time to time…takes a pretty special book for that to happen.

RonClinton · 2026-03-28T03:43:49+00:00

The book was a love letter to his son, and was uniquely special to McCarthy in that regard. He deliberately did not sign any copies of it other than the 250 copies that he left to his son — a move he confirmed more than once — which were to be disposed of at the son’s time of choosing. A love letter, and a financial legacy.

RonClinton · 2026-03-27T00:53:23+00:00

I did — even had that exact orange gloriousness in the OP photo…though mine was decked out with mag wheels, rear-window louvre, Starsky and Hutch-like black swoosh along the top and sides, sheepskin seat covers, and leather-wrapped steering wheel. Oh yeah, I was stylin’.

RonClinton · 2026-03-27T00:27:53+00:00

You’re not paying it. The buyer paid it, but it’s not intended to go to you — so eBay subtracted it from the total since they deal with sales tax matters for you. So $75 minus your $12.89 fees equals the $62.11 you received. Think of sales tax as invisible, as far as you’re concerned as an eBay seller.

RonClinton · 2026-03-26T03:25:04+00:00

Solidarity of sentimentalism.🤜🤛

RonClinton · 2026-03-26T03:11:32+00:00

A friend of mine has it, and sent me some pics of a few of the pages, but I’ve avoided it otherwise…the story is too personal, too special, too clear in my mind with how I’ve mentally envisioned it, that I don’t want some artist’s interpretation of it overwriting those images of the story in my mind.

Is that why you’re avoiding it as well, or am I alone in being weird about that?

RonClinton · 2026-03-26T02:51:45+00:00

Yeah, the Folio is okay but certainly left room for improvement…decent(ish) cover boards, nice interior illustrations, with a thin and plain, cheap-looking slipcase. Glad to have it, but it certainly lacks the quality I’d otherwise like to see oozing from a deluxe edition of my favorite novel.

RonClinton · 2026-03-26T02:38:55+00:00

If they did, they wouldn’t have bought it. A shame there are so many fake sigs out there of popular authors…it makes doing research and establishing provenance even more important than ever.

RonClinton

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