Books I just bought at a League of Women Voter's Book Sale For $21
Submitted by jenhowel on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:00
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- The House by the Sea by May Sarton (big Sarton fan)
- With this Ring... by Amanda Quick (best Romance novel I've ever read, not that I've read that many)
- Weekend by Christopher Pike (I write horror movies, and love all things horror...)
- The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence (still trying to get into the Lawrence thing)
- The Notebooks of Leanardo da Vinci (for my little brother Tommy)
- The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (can you believe I haven't read it yet?)
- The "Hair" Fotonovel (these things KICK ASS, it's composed of stills from the movie accompanied by appropriate dialogue and/or songs. I also own the "Saturday Night Fever" fotonovel)
- The Way of all Flesh by Samuel Butler (It's one of the books in the Emerson's house in "A Room with a View")
- A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin (I already own like three copies, but I give them to friends.)
- My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather (I'm a Cather fan)
- Les Fleurs du Mal/Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (it's in both French and English!)
- see it & say it in German - (I like knowing smatterings of languages just in case)
- A little postcard fold-out fromm the Basilica di S. Marco in Venice
- Four Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- a 1949 paperback edition of 1984 by George Orwell with this awesome pulpy cover
- Wicked Italian (teaches you how to curse, bullshit cops, etc.)
- The Art of Belly Dancing (hey, who knows, I might need to make money with it someday!)
- The National Gallery of London by Philip Hendy (basically has plates with descriptions. I studied a lot of these in art class this semester)
- A silly pop-up version of Alice in Wonderland (I collect copies, good and bad of this my favorite book)
- The Quiet Eye by Sylvia Shaw Judson (an art book with art and quotes to the side.)
- The Importance of Living by Lin Yu Tang (looked intriguing. has a section on monkeys... for my boyfriend.)
- Doll Reader magazine (to cut up for collages. Dolls are scary!)
- Situaciones (an intermediate Spanish workbook. For helping me re-study my Spanish)
- Two books from the Life Library of Photography (also for collages)
- "The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag" (this web-site Moviecritic.com insisted I'd like it, and it was less than a rental at $1, so I said, what the hell?)
Author Comments:
I always like to brag about what I find at used bookstores. Even if no one reads this list, at least I can always re-read it and get excited about what cool stuff I find.
You bought everything on this list for under $21, total?! Not bad, not bad at all . . .
Thanks Jim, for letting me "show off my haul"! I appreciate it!
Holy Shit, you got a lot of books for $21!
The League of Women's Voters ain't all it's cracked up to be. Check out www.votescam.com
I gave it a quick look and didn't notice anything in particular about LoWV, just general text on how votes (and elections) in general get stolen.
Then look again
Ah, I found it. Although I'm afraid I'm still just skimming, as I haven't found anything (yet) to convince me I should give this serious study. The theory seems to be that the computerized vote count is manipulated to steal elections:
Among the wickedest recent examples of possible computerized vote fraud, of the sort that has disillusioned millions of Americans, is the 1988 New Hampshire primary that saved George Bush from getting knocked out of the race to the White House.
The author then goes on to implicate the League of Women Voters:
This privately owned vote counting cartel (NES) uses the vast membership of the network-subsidized League of Women Voters as field personnel whose exclusive job is to phone in unofficial vote totals to NES on election night. NES also operates a "master computer" in New York City, located on 34th Street. (Because the League of Women Voters has about it a perfume of volunteerism and do-goodism, the fact that it is actually a political club with a political agenda and a hungry treasury is shrouded by the false myth that it is a reliable election-day watchdog.)
Again, I'm skimming so I might be missing huge points, but it seems to follow that The League of Women Voters is cheating in order to advance Republican candidates (not only in 1988, the example the author cites, but presumably in 2000 and 2002 as well). I'm all for theories that the Republicans steal elections (don't even get me started on the 60,000 "felon disqualifications" in the FL 2000 fiasco), but in checking out the LoWV web site, I couldn't help but notice that their avowed policies would make your average Republican start frothing at the mouth: gun control, freedom of information, pro-choice, etc. A veritable laundry list of liberal causes.
It seems to me that if the League is cheating to advance Republicans then their entire public face is just a smoke-screen. Perhaps that's in chapter two (I didn't skim past chapter one), but if so that's a little too out-there even for me. :-)
I suspect most League members are as disgusted as I am by recent elections. There, that should cost me pretty much every Republican participant at Listology.
Wow! What a lively discussion inspired by such a seemingly innocuous list!
I'll have to check that site out as, inspired by recent events I'm becoming a bit of a conspiracy theorist again.
I should then find the addresses for the two sites I have showing that Bush probably knew about 9-11. (Some of the damning words come out of his own mouth at the White House web-site) and pass those on to inimical.
And I'd love to know the political make-up of LJ. I think I need to make a poll ASAP.
Ya know, somewhere in a box in my possession sits a Saturday Night Fever fotonovel. The one with the faceless Johnny T. narrating, right?
Ah, good times...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs