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Ted Pugliese
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I had Dragun, like you, Ryan. He threw axes and shot shooting stars.
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Fabrice Renault
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I appear to have that Goldorak version, which my mother bought me when I was a kid. I threw away the package, and all I miss are two missiles.
F.
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Flavio Sapha
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JB, are your (serious) books in shelves or still in boxes from the move?
Are you an avid book buyer?
I retain a lingering curiosity to look at your reading material...
Edited by Flavio Sapha on 23 June 2008 at 3:21pm
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 23 June 2008 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | 4
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About a year ago I looked at my library and asked myself "Why do I have
so many books?"
I love books. I love the feel, the heft, the smell. Old books, new books.
Everything in between. But -- why keep books I have read and will likely
never read again? Why keep books I bought on impulse twenty, thirty
years ago, and still have not read?
I reviewed my collection -- accumulation would be a better term -- and I
decided to have a purge. So I got out the cardboard boxes -- the
selfsame boxes into which many of those books had gone for my move -
- and I started clearing out the books I knew I would not read again, or
would never read. Amazingly, keeping only reference books, books with
very special meaning to me, and books I promised myself I would
read, I effectively doubled my shelf space. And the books I purged? One
of these days I am taking them to the nearest library.
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Ted Pugliese
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You still have those books?!?
Edited by Ted Pugliese on 23 June 2008 at 4:55pm
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Brendan Howard
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I did a major book purge about a year ago and never looked back. I made a few bucks selling some of them on Half.com and Amazon, gave some of them away to friends who wanted to read them, and gave a select few to a library book drive. I also did a less drastic purge of my DVD and CD collections.
As collectors, it can be hard to remember that possession of an object is much less important than making use of the object, enjoying it and honoring it. It felt good to release those books that I knew would never re-read into the wild where they could be enjoyed by somebody else. It feels good to rotate my toy collections on my bookshelves every few months. It feels good to rid my closet of a few items of clothing I don't wear everytime I buy a few new items of clothing.
Hooray for uncluttering!
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Tony Johnson
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"It's taken me close to 30 years to lose most of the parts. This last move cost
Raydeen a hand!"
*********
Too funny!!
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Joakim Jahlmar
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Thanks for sharing, James. And as a few others in here, I find myself a wee bit jealous. :)
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Mark McKay
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OK, I'll be searching out that first Shogun Warrior sometime soon. Had that as a kid and loved it. My brother had the red one.
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Dave B Stewart
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JB, what is the original art on the right in the first picture in this thread? Thank you.
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John Byrne
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Two of Frank Bellamy's HEROS THE SPARTAN spreads from EAGLE.
Here's a slightly better view, without the old geezer in the way.
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Jodi Moisan
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Here's a slightly better view, without the old geezer in the way.
I don't think you would qualify as "old geezer" .
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