OK, this is a book heavy edition of aFahMaSP.
First, from Amazon, I have received the second light novel (#2, I mean) for Bofuri, I Don’t Want To Get Hurt So I’ll Max Out My Defense certainly one of my favorite animes of recent vintage. I got the first book because I hoped it would explain how the VMMORPG (or whatever) Maple and Sally play works. That didn’t really happen. Some of the stat and skills stuff was easier to follow, but elements like how wearing a VR helmet from the nose up allows you to taste foods in the game is just ignored. I will say, imagine the money to be made if you could offer people the experience of eating a delicious meal only with no calories whatsoever. Wow.
$12.99 for the book, and I’m a Prime member so I didn’t pay for shipping. $1.17 in Illinois sales tax, so many wouldn’t pay that. Anyway, I look forward to reading it this weekend.
I recently discovered Hamilton Book, which appears to be an online liquidator for media. About a month or so ago I ordered some lovely squarebound pulp magazine reprint books, marked down from $20 per to $5 a shot. I liked them, so I ordered more before they were all gone. Each volume is like 125 pages, reprints maybe three old timey novelas, along with original articles on suchlike material. So really, at that price a no brainer. They didn’t have complete runs of any series, or if they did I missed some of them. In the first order I skipped The Shadow and Doc Savage volumes because I had read some of those in the past, and wanted to dip my toes into more obscure heroes/books.
This time I again mostly focused on the obscure stuff. I got six volumes for The Avenger, three for The Black Bat, two for Doc Savage, one for Nick Carter, and three for The Whisperer. So 15 volumes all together (and and I think I have one more coming in); with the previous buy I have over 20 of these now. Again, at $5 a pop that’s a great deal, and the actual books are very nice articles.
I also bought Fantastic Four the World’s Greatest Comics Magazine!, a maxi series (12 issues) which I had never read where writers and artists like Eric Larson and Bruce Timm and Stan Lee try to create issues that look and read like unknown / alternate universe issues from the original classic Lee & Kirby run. Looks highly fun, and features a lot of beloved characters, including obscure ones, that I grew up on. This was the ‘big’ buy at $10, but it’s $25 list so again pretty good.
Two discs, too. A volume of 42 Betty Boop cartoons on DVD. I already own these, and I’m not sure what the quality is like. However, it was like $4 and I figured I could use it as a giveaway at the next T-Fest. I also bought the Blu Ray for The Girl Who Knew Too Much, which I never heard of. However, it features Adam West as a two-fisted cynical nightclub owner dragged into noir-ish antics. I mean, that sounds great. And it was like $5, so really how much can I regret the purchase.
So…17 books, one DVD and one Blu Ray. $97.05 for that to Hamilton, $9.09 to stupid Illinois (again, in many states you wouldn’t have to pay anything for tax) and $4 shipping—despite the fact that they had to split it up to two packages. Total $110.14.
