Congrats, Harrison. The Insomnia gift edition is one of the classier looking King books in my opinion.
Congrats, Harrison. The Insomnia gift edition is one of the classier looking King books in my opinion.
HOPE IT DIDN'T KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT.
Spoiler:
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63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
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The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Thanks, guys. I'm 2/3rds of the way through reading it. If I had to complain at all about it, I would say I wish Hale had done a few more illustrations and I wish they'd had a better proofreader. There are some minor omissions and spelling mistakes that are especially frequent around one spot, as well as an odd tendency to hyphenate words that don't need it, as if they were working from a file that had some words broken up due to line endings that were then re-juggled for this edition so that the breaks don't fall in the same place anymore, leaving some unnecessarily hyphenated words mid-sentence. Does that make any sense? That's my theory, anyway. Relatively minor complaints.
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Typos usually really annoy me. There are a LOT of them in Nancy A. Collins's books for some reason. On the other hand, I'm 3/4 of the way through 11-22-63 and I've only encountered two typos, and they were so minor I almost missed them.
As I recall, I did not like INSOMNIA very much, although memory fails me as to why.
I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...
I'm sorry, your memory was wrong. You loved Insomnia.
I hate typos. I feel like I should circle all the mistakes and turn it back in for corrections.
Very nice additions Harrison,
I agree both (DT & Insomnia) are nicely done.
“The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.” - Stephen King
www.bookslipcase.com
Selling my collection of books and some cases
Awesome collection!
WANTED:
Dust jacket for The Shining SNL.
Dust jacket for 25th Anniversary edition of IT, signed, numbered, tray-cased copy.
Signed numbered limited edition of Josh Malerman's Goblin, published by Earthling Publications.
Got this:
A little wrinkled but worth the price.
Also got another full set of the Gunslinger F&SF's minus the first issue (which I included in the pic for the sake of completion):
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And I might as well show off my sweet Dolso case for the S/L of Joyland while I'm at it.
Front:
And back:
I was really happy with the way the detail of the drawings held up when translated through the engraver.
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The quality of my photography has also drastically improved since I invested in one of these a few weeks ago:
I'm having a lot of fun with it.
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Nice. Love the case.
Nice adds Harrison - and it looks like your DT F&SF are maybe absent the mailing labels that mar many such sets?
We all float down here!
Nice camera.
I picked up a t3i a few months ago. Still learning, but having fun with it.
Mark Twain
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
That JOYLAND case is a true work of art.
I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...
A couple of them still have the labels. Can't put anything past you guys!
What kind of lens(es) did you get? I bought just the 50d body, then picked up a 50mm f1.8 prime lens. Super-sharp, super-fast, and really cheap!
Thank you! I prefer the art on the back, so that's the way I like to display it.
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Very nice, Harrison
I bought it with the stock 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 lens.
It doesn't get as shallow of a DOF as I would like at times, so the 50mm f1.4 prime has been tempting me. However, I keep telling myself that I need to learn more before I buy any additional lenses. Would love to get a macro lens at some point for sure.
I used my birthday money a few weeks ago to get a decent tripod and a cheap polarizing filter from Monoprice.com. The filter in particular has been helpful for book photos.
Mark Twain
For DOF, the 50mm 1.8 is pretty dang good, nice bokeh and only a fraction of the cost of the 1.4. You might consider that. And if you want to get tricky, you can flip the lens over and use it as a macro. Arnie here will serve as an example of the shallow DOF:
I took this wide open at f1.8 at 1/1000.
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Nice shot
The metal construction of the 1.4 is part of the appeal for me, but I've probably got a few months yet to decide.
Now the f1.2 is really expensive! That one is $1600 on Amazon.
Just what I need, another expensive hobby!
Mark Twain
You're really "coming up" in the world. Very glad to see that. Talent will get you over the "hump" and you have a ton!!!
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????