Book Collection: harrison ryan's Thrifty Acquisitions

[The Library Policeman]

Congrats, Harrison. The Insomnia gift edition is one of the classier looking King books in my opinion.

[needfulthings]

HOPE IT DIDN'T KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT.

Spoiler:

NO NO'T THIS IT

[Merlin1958]

Congrats, Harrison. The Insomnia gift edition is one of the classier looking King books in my opinion.

It most certainly is!!! A great production IMO!!!

[harrison ryan]

Congrats, Harrison. The Insomnia gift edition is one of the classier looking King books in my opinion.

It most certainly is!!! A great production IMO!!!

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.

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

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.

[Dan]

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.

[harrison ryan]

I hate typos. I feel like I should circle all the mistakes and turn it back in for corrections.

Ha ha, me too!

[Cook]

Very nice additions Harrison,
I agree both (DT & Insomnia) are nicely done.

[Dolso]

And a couple of King items:



I already have a copy of The Shining movie tie-in paperback (16th prntg), so I guess I'm just hoarding them at this point. I recently got a turntable/cd/cassette player, so I snagged the Graveyard Shift audiobook (still sealed!) for the price of a vending machine gumball.

Nice Collection! Congrats.

It wouldn't surprise me if your turntable/CD/Cassette player wasn't worth more than most of my collection! It may be time to start with collecting vinyl along with books!

[harrison ryan]

Nice Collection! Congrats.

It wouldn't surprise me if your turntable/CD/Cassette player wasn't worth more than most of my collection! It may be time to start with collecting vinyl along with books!

The turntable is not worth much, but it makes a great surface to set up and photo books (and so far I'm resisting the vinyl collecting, it's just not my thing).

[Ben Eads]

Awesome collection!

[harrison ryan]

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):

[harrison ryan]

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.

[harrison ryan]

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.

[Ben Staad]

Nice. Love the case.

[Bad Penny]

Nice adds Harrison - and it looks like your DT F&SF are maybe absent the mailing labels that mar many such sets?

[Scoogs]

Nice camera.
I picked up a t3i a few months ago. Still learning, but having fun with it.

[stroppygoblin]

Nice adds Harrison - and it looks like your DT F&SF are maybe absent the mailing labels that mar many such sets?

Difficult to tell from that photo, my 2 that have labels have them exactly where each book is covered!

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

That JOYLAND case is a true work of art.

[harrison ryan]

Nice adds Harrison - and it looks like your DT F&SF are maybe absent the mailing labels that mar many such sets?

Difficult to tell from that photo, my 2 that have labels have them exactly where each book is covered!

A couple of them still have the labels. Can't put anything past you guys!

Nice camera.
I picked up a t3i a few months ago. Still learning, but having fun with it.

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!

That JOYLAND case is a true work of art.

Thank you! I prefer the art on the back, so that's the way I like to display it.

[The Library Policeman]

Very nice, Harrison

[Scoogs]

Nice camera.
I picked up a t3i a few months ago. Still learning, but having fun with it.

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!

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.

[harrison ryan]

Nice camera.
I picked up a t3i a few months ago. Still learning, but having fun with it.

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!

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.

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.

[Scoogs]

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!

[Merlin1958]

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!!!