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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #25 on: December 06, 2010, 06:05:44 PM »
You can buy a great collection of leatherbound PA books buy a company called Easton Press here http://www.eastonpressbooks.com/leather/product.asp?code=2194 Collection includes Earth Abides, I Am Legend, On The Beach, Alas Babylon, and Lucifer's Hammer. A little pricey but I believe they are worth it, I have that and I'm subscribed to a few of there other series.
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #26 on: December 06, 2010, 07:04:50 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on December 06, 2010, 04:28:48 PM
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Heinlein's Farnham's Freehold ...

I just assumed that it was required reading to me a member here. :lol:

I got through the first four books of the Dies the Fire series. I need to finish them up, now that the last two have been published.
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #27 on: December 06, 2010, 07:45:17 PM »
Quote from: freakazoid on December 06, 2010, 06:05:44 PM
You can buy a great collection of leatherbound PA books buy a company called Easton Press here http://www.eastonpressbooks.com/leather/product.asp?code=2194 Collection includes Earth Abides, I Am Legend, On The Beach, Alas Babylon, and Lucifer's Hammer. A little pricey but I believe they are worth it, I have that and I'm subscribed to a few of there other series.

They're smoking crack at those prices. :o

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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #28 on: December 06, 2010, 11:04:03 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on December 06, 2010, 04:28:48 PM
I also read it High School (but, it wasn't required), and 6 years later when I was stationed over there was when The Wall came down.   :cool:

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Heinlein's Farnham's Freehold ...

A good story, but I don't know if it's really an apocalyptic story in the traditional sense.

I saw the use of WWIII and the subsequent time travel to the far future by being ground zero of an H-bomb blast as more of a McGuffin to make a scenario for his role-reversal slavery story because of Henlien's detest for the institution. (presumably how he decided to do it for a 1964 reader...) His anti-slavery opinions are a theme in some of his other stories as well.
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #29 on: December 07, 2010, 10:14:47 AM »
Quote from: mtnbkr on December 06, 2010, 07:45:17 PM
They're smoking crack at those prices. :o

Chris

Crack spiked with PCP.
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2010, 11:45:50 AM »
Quote from: roo_ster on December 07, 2010, 10:14:47 AM
Crack spiked with PCP.

Oh, but they're Leather Bound!

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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #31 on: December 07, 2010, 01:00:52 PM »
Quote from: lee n. field on December 07, 2010, 11:45:50 AM
Oh, but they're Leather Bound!

At those prices, they could be bound in unicorn leather and it'd still be highway robbery. 

5x$75.  I keep trying to do the math and my brain locks up.  At first, I saw $75, and think "Five books for $75?  Not unreasonable, but expensive but cheap leather does take a bit to work with.  Wait, WHAT?"
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #32 on: December 07, 2010, 01:22:51 PM »
That set is actually the most expensive ones I've seen. Most are around $50. All are leather bound, 22kt designs and gilded edges, acid neutral paper, and a lot have moire-fabric end-sheets. Also come with a front piece picture, and often a lot of inside pictures. Very nice, high quality stuff.  =D For those interested in learning more, there is a book group website and a specific group for easton press book lovers here http://www.librarything.com/groups/eastonpresscollecto
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #33 on: December 07, 2010, 01:46:10 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on December 07, 2010, 01:00:52 PM
At those prices, they could be bound in unicorn leather and it'd still be highway robbery. 

5x$75.  I keep trying to do the math and my brain locks up.  At first, I saw $75, and think "Five books for $75?  Not unreasonable, but expensive but cheap leather does take a bit to work with.  Wait, WHAT?"

I did the same dang thing. 

FTR, I am not against nice hardbound books.  I just find that a dog-eared paperback reads about the same and is easier to take places.
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #34 on: December 07, 2010, 02:14:47 PM »
Quote from: freakazoid on December 07, 2010, 01:22:51 PM
That set is actually the most expensive ones I've seen. Most are around $50. All are leather bound, 22kt designs and gilded edges, acid neutral paper, and a lot have moire-fabric end-sheets. Also come with a front piece picture, and often a lot of inside pictures. Very nice, high quality stuff.  =D For those interested in learning more, there is a book group website and a specific group for easton press book lovers here http://www.librarything.com/groups/eastonpresscollecto

Sewn binding or glued?

Real leather or "bonded leather" (an artificial glue and leather fiber product)?
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #35 on: December 07, 2010, 05:40:27 PM »
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Sewn binding or glued?

Real leather or "bonded leather" (an artificial glue and leather fiber product)?

Sewn and real.

I can't believe the Walking Dead hasn't been mentioned, GREAT series.
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #36 on: December 07, 2010, 06:00:19 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on December 07, 2010, 01:00:52 PM
At those prices, they could be bound in unicorn leather and it'd still be highway robbery. 

5x$75.  I keep trying to do the math and my brain locks up.  At first, I saw $75, and think "Five books for $75?  Not unreasonable, but expensive but cheap leather does take a bit to work with.  Wait, WHAT?"
Have you priced college textbooks lately?
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #37 on: December 07, 2010, 07:03:20 PM »
Quote from: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on December 07, 2010, 06:00:19 PM
Have you priced college textbooks lately?

It was highway robbery and extortion most foul, in my day. 
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Re: Post-Apocalyptica
« Reply #38 on: December 07, 2010, 08:20:37 PM »
Quote from: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on December 07, 2010, 06:00:19 PM
Have you priced college textbooks lately?

That's different.  That's honest, simple collusion and corruption. 
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