Well, if you aren’t bring back any DVDs, could you at lay your hands on a copy of Basic Hyperspace Physics and Material Science 101 textbooks?
I won’t understand them, but I need a cocktail party conversation starter for this weekend.
Can you pick me up a copy of The Complete Plays and Novels of Oscar Wilde, Volume II (1900-1920)? If it’s any good I’ll send you back for volume 3.
Crumberry’s Why Things Are Not Otherwise, thank you.
I’d like the concluding two volumes of Robert Anton Wilson’s Historical Illuminatus Chronicles pentalogy; everything George Orwell wrote after he moved to California in 1949 and his lung problems cleared up; and, of course, the real Necronomicon.
Mark Twain’s California newspaper editor was going to send him to Japan, to do a series of letters/articles on that country, much as he did for Hawaii.
I’d love to hear Twain’s saltly & cynical observations on Japan in flux–from the Feudal Era, jumping straight to the Industrial Era in one leap.
The complete Hitchhiker’s Guide series.
All my usual requests are made already, so perhaps you could get me a copy of “The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoutpamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig Amongst the Giant Pygmies of Beckles”…volume eight.
Or the expurgated version of “Olsen’s Standard Book of British Birds.”
(The one without the gannet.)
And Thursday Next while you’re there.
As for me, I’ll take the most recent translation of the Voynich manuscript. Thanks.
Come to think of it, the Handbook of Robotics would be a pretty useful reference.
Oh, and if it’s written down anywhere, a copy of the song Luthien sang to Mandos. Anything good enough to move the Doomsayer himself to tears has to be worth experiencing, even if it’d lose a lot in written form.
Could you grab me a copy of Nanny Ogg’s The Joye of Snackes?
Oh, and a bucket of ice.
Can you pick me up the full, unabridged version of The Princess Bride**? The real one, by S. Morgenstern** (I need to know what the ladies packed for their trip to Florin).
Don’t bother with The Necronomicon of Al Hazred. Too Lovecraft-y. Or ***The Great Pie-Eat ***by Gordon Lachance. It’s like Stephen King channeled by Wesley Crusher.
Hey, see if you can find Will There Ever Be a Rainbow? – it’s the autobiography of one Monty Burns.
A Dance With Dragons, by GRRM.
Also, this one is going to be a bit obscure, but I’m taking a course on Chaucer’s poetry. We’re finishing up The House of Fame, which abruptly stops in the middle of the story. If you can get hold of what happens after the figure of great authority shows up, I’d really appreciate it. And my professor might give me an A.
Also from the lost R.A. Heinlein works, I would like the sequel to “Time Enough for Love, The Lives of Lazarus Long”.
I believe it’s called “No Time for Child Support, or Why I Really Went to Space”.
Hm. Don’t expect the advice to work anywhere the fine structure constant isn’t the same as it is in the city, country, and universe of publication.
If you would be so good, pick me up the series of monograms Alan Turing wrote in the 1960s. His insights into non-Von Neumann computing devices really picked up after he got married, and DEC wouldn’t be the company it is today if it weren’t for the Parallel Data Processors he and Feynman helped design.
Can you check the Dewey Decimal Catalogue so I can finally find out who wrote the “Book of Love”? I’d like to shake his hand.
Make sure he washes that hand, first.
What?
"Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
Ill take these also, and add in The Great Book of Medicine [has all the formulary for the cures to all human ailments. Get the multiple volume version, not the microprint version, I don’t have an SEM] and I need a copy of Learn German in a day - the one that comes with the sleep learning cd, I don’t have a cube player. Also the World Atlas of Treasure Locations, Im short of cash =)
The bible, unexpurgated, please. If you can find the one with footnotes and annotation from the original author, so much the better.
I’d like a copy of Arpad Arutinov’s, The Back Door of History, often referenced by R A Lafferty. Some book search sites indicate Lafferty Himself wrote a book bearing that title; but much of his work was published by extremely obscure small presses & tends to be elusive. (He also references The Fall of Rome, supposedly written by himself. Surprise–it’s real. And non-fiction, at that. I’m currently reading it; but it’s still elusive.)
Avram Davidson’s Adventures in Unhistory is another of those “real” books that spent far too long being impossible to get. Please, though: Find any further volumes in the series beginning with Peregrine: Primus & Peregrine: Secundus. At least one mystery went unanswered. And I’m sure there’s more to learn about Vergil Magus, whose story Davidson began to tell in The Phoenix & The Mirror.