What's in your Amazon.com wish list?

In My Humble Opinion
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I just realized my amazon.com wish list is quite large. I apparently have a lot of wants (though some of these are my husband’s). So what’s in your wish list (other website lists are fine, too)?

DVDs:

Alias Seasons 2 & 3
Angel Seasons 3 & 4
ER - The Complete First Season
Saturday Night Live 4-Pack (The Best of Dana Carvey/Mike Myers/Chris Rock/Chris Farley)
Law & Order Seasons 1 & 2
CSI: Season 1
Scarface Deluxe Gift Set - Scarface (1983) & Scarface (1932) by Brian De Palma
Neil Peart - A Work in Progress by Neil Peart

Books:

When He Was Wicked (Bridgerton Family Series) by Julia Quinn
The Charnel Prince (The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Book 2) by GREG KEYES
Single White Vampire by Lynsay Sands
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
The Bonegarden: Necromancer Gamers : Third edition Rules, First Edition Feel (Sword & Sorcery) by Lance Hawvermal
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan
Beyond the Hanging Wall by Sara Douglass
Gods’ Concubine (The Troy Game, Book 2) by Sara Douglass
Threshold (Douglass, Sara. Wayfarer Redemption (Tor (Firm)), Bk. 7.) by Sara Douglass
Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich
Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich
D20 Weapons Locker by Keith Potter
D20 Future by Christopher Perkins
d20 Menace Manual (d20 Campaigns: d20 Modern) by J.D. Wiker
Lady Whistledown Strikes Back by Julia Quinn
Death Match : A Novel (CHILD, LINCOLN) by LINCOLN CHILD
The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994 by Gary Larson
Complete Book of Eldritch Might by Sword & Sorcery Studio
Book of Exalted Deeds (Dungeons & Dragons Supplement) by James Wyatt
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
The Pillars of the World by Anne Bishop
Shadows and Light by Anne Bishop
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R. R. Martin
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission by HAMPTON SIDES
Smitten (Loveswept, No 392) by Janet Evanovich

Software:

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8

Music:

Schmack by Steriogram
Orff: Carmina Burana / Fischer-Dieskau, Jochum by Carl Orff

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I highly recommend Paint Shop Pro 8, I must say as a preface. Fight the power of Adobe price-gouging!

Movies:
Batman, the Animated Series Vol. 1
The Name of the Rose
Bakshi’s Wizards
It Happened One Night
Cimarron (VHS)
*North by Northwest *
Cavalcade (VHS)
Wings (VHS)

Books:
More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
Microcosmic God: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (Sturgeon, Theodore. Short Stories, V. 2.) by Theodore Sturgeon
Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy : “The Universe Next Door”, “The Trick Top Hat”, & “The Homing Pigeons” by ROBERT A. WILSON
Justice League of America Archives, Vol. 1
Callahan’s Secret by Spider Robinson (Have the first two, want to buy the third without resorting to the edition that has all three of the first Callahan novels)
CONTINUUM: Roleplaying in The Yet by Barbara Manui
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 84th Edition by David R. Lide
Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold
Batman: Year One
The Myth of the American Superhero by Robert Jewett
How to Read Superhero Comics and Why by Geoff Klock
*The Science of Superman * by Mark Wolverton
The Science of Superheroes by Lois H. Gresh
Don’t Try This at Home: How to Win a Sumo Match, Catch a Great White Shark, and Start an Independent Nation, and Other Extraordinary Feats (For Ordinary People) by Hunter S. Fulghum
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of A B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell

Music:
Alapalooza by Weird Al Yankovic
Polka Party! by Weird Al Yankovic
Even Worse by Weird Al Yankovic
Dare To Be Stupid by Weird Al Yankovic
In 3-D by Weird Al Yankovic
Weird Al Yankovic by Weird Al Yankovic (replacing my Weird Al tapes)
Live Bait by The Arrogant Worms
Idiot Road by The Arrogant Worms
Dirt! by The Arrogant Worms

Other:
Wacom Intuos2 9x12 USB Tablet -Platinum (XD912USBPLAT)

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I just added that Bruce Campbell book. I’d never heard of it, and it sounds terrific.

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I tend to use the wish list to just store stuff I think is interesting and might buy later so my selection is pretty varied.

But, I have to share this story. I was corresponding with this guy I met through Nerve personals. When we met, he confessed that he had looked up my wish list on Amazon. I found that pretty creepy. It had never occurred to me to scope someone out that way. I found it particularly disturbing since I had just added the book “A Round Heeled Woman”, which is the true story of a woman who decides to just go for it and have a lot of sex with guys she meets through the personals. :eek:

Anyway, I guess I hadn’t really considered how much infomation is out there and how much a person’s wish list reveals about them…

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I don’t actually have an Amazon wish list, but if i did there’s one book that would head the list:

The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994, by Gary Larson.

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It’s pretty good actually.

:smiley:
As for my wish list, I think I have the largest out of the people posted so far.

I have 340 items (mainly books and DVD’s, a few other items), which translates to 14 pages of stuff I must get sometime in the future.

*In the ‘wish list’ search section, just type in “Jesse Combs” + “Fairfax” and it should bring up my wishlist filled with the staggering amount of crap that I wish I owned…
:slight_smile:

*I don’t think that’s too much personal information, but if the mods do, please edit it. :wink:

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Like Meatros, I have quite a wish list: 287 total items (177 books, 26 DVDs, 79 CDs, 5 video games).

First item on my wish list:
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ($11.16)

Last item added:
To The 5 Boroughs by Beastie Boys ($13.49)

5 most expensive items:
[ol][li]Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages by Dean R. Koontz ($127)[/li][li]Visions of the ‘Neue Frau’: Women and the Visual Arts in Weimar Germany by Marsha Meskimmon ($99.95)[/li][li]Double Game by Sophie Calle ($75)[/li][li]Maxfield Parrish: The Masterworks by Alma Gilbert ($57.80)[/li][li]Gustave Moreau by Genevieve Lacambre ($52.50)[/ol][/li]
5 cheapest items:
[ol][li]Bitten by Kelley Armstrong ($5.99)[/li][li]These Boots are Made for Walking by KMFDM ($6.49)[/li][li]Let’s go play at the Adams’ by Mendal W Johnson ($6.95)–actually, this made it to my list on a recommendation, I believe, by jarbaby[/li][li]Femme Fatale: Images of Evil and Fascinating Women by Patrick Bade ($6.95)[/li]Dark Shadows: Angélique’s Descent by Lara Parker ($6.99)[/ol]

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MISC
Henckels Twinsharp Knife Sharpener (recommended in a SDMD thread)
BOOKs
They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases (is on list as a result of a SDMB thread)
CDs
The Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1 (is on list as a result of a SDMB thread)
South of Eden (Zuba)
The John Rutter Collection
Christmas Day in the Morning
Christmas Night: Carols of the Nativity
My Son, The Greatest: The Best Of Allan Sherman
The John Rutter Christmas Album
Songbook (Gordon Lightfoot)
DVDs
MAS*H (Five Star Collection)
A Hard Day’s Night
A Christmas Story
Rushmore
Babette’s Feast
The Hudsucker Proxy
King Of Hearts
Mistress
More Animation Greats
Animation Greats!
The World’s Greatest Animation
Mother Night
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
The Man Who Would Be King
Fandango
Fawlty Towers - The Complete Collection
Dog Day Afternoon
Short Cuts
The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe
All the Mornings of the World (Tous les matins du monde)
Eddie Murphy: Delirious
Raising Arizona

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I use it as a mostly personal repository. for things I intend to buy closer to their release date, or other things of that nature. Thus, it only has a few anime titles in it, and a game that I’m waiting to buy until more places have it (allowing me to then comparison shop better). This Christmas though, I might actually create a public version.

Brian

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I have 94 items on my Amazon wishlist, most of which are CDs, stretching back to February 2002.

Books
-Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
-Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
-Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
-The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
-Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
-The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
-Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
-On the Beach by Nevil Shute
-An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones
-Hey Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads by Luke Sullivan
-Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs

DVDs
-Badlands
-The Second and Fourth seasons of The Simpsons
-The first four seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street
-Fargo
-Barton Fink
-Storefront Hitchcock

CDs with a priority of 1 or 2
-Throwing Muses [2003] by Throwing Muses
-Los Angeles by X
-Sky Motel by Kristin Hersh
-Castaways and Cutouts by The Decemberists
-The David Sedaris Box Set
-The Great Eastern by The Delgados
-Living With Victoria Grey by Cleaners From Venus
-Forbidden Software Timemachine by Momus
-Substance by New Order
-Electric Version by The New Pornographers
-Key Lime Pie by Camper Van Beethoven
-Wasps’ Nests by The 6ths
-Spanish Dance Troupe by Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
-Honey’s Dead by The Jesus and Mary Chain
-When You Land Here It’s Time to Return by Flake Music
-154 by Wire
-The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates by Guided by Voices
-Purely Evil by The Rogers Sisters
-Emergency and I by The Dismemberment Plan
-Entertainment! by Gang of Four
-Reckoning by R.E.M.
-The Sound of The Jam by The Jam
-Get Happy by Elvis Costello and The Attractions
-Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology by Devo
-Plastic Surgery Disasters by Dead Kennedys
-Tender Prey by Nick Cave
-Sebadoh III by Sebadoh
-Penthouse by Luna
-Another Music in a Different Kitchen by Buzzcocks

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My Amazon wish list isn’t really a just for wishes. I put books on it that others recommend when I am online. It has books that I would like to have as well as books that I haven’t read yet but would like to read so don’t know if I really want to add them to my personal library or not. I have another written wish list of books that I haven’t added to Amazon yet, because it would be embarrassingly long. :o

So some of these I want to read not necessarily own. A few of them I have read and want to own. Even fewer I haven’t read and already know I want to own.

Union Street - Pat Barker
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel - Margaret George
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers : A Novel-Margaret George
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) - Philip Pullman
Glimpses into the Life and Heart of Marjorie Pay Hinckley - Virginia H. Pearce
Small and Simple Things - Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Harold B. Lee: Prophet & Seer - L. Brent Goates or Harold B. Lee: Man of Vision, Prophet of God - Francis M. Gibbons
George Albert Smith: Kind and Caring Christian, Prophet of God - Francis M. Gibbons
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
A Soldier of the Great War - Mark Helprin
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Lynne Truss
Bridge of Birds - Barry Hughart
Q Is for Quarry - Sue Grafton
Memoirs of a Geisha - Vintage Books USA
The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Amy Tan
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
The First Man in Rome - Colleen McCullough
Fortune’s Favorites - Colleen McCullough
Caesar: A Novel - Colleen McCullough
Caesar’s Women - Colleen McCullough
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel - Janet Evanovich
Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy - Anne Edwards
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Heber J. Grant, man of steel, prophet of God - Francis M Gibbons or
Qualities That Count: Heber J. Grant As Businessman, Missionary, and Apostle - Ronald W. Walker
Biography & Family Record of Lorenzo Snow - Eliza R. Smith or
Lorenzo Snow: Spiritual giant, prophet of God - Francis M Gibbons
My Father David O Mckay - David Lawrence McKay or
David O. McKay: Apostle to the World, Prophet of God - Francis M. Gibbons
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
East of Eden - Steinbeck
A Raisin in the Sun - Hansberry
Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

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Nothing’s on my list - I print out descriptions on paper.

The reason: my wife has now twice received books from Amazon that were on her wish list, without her ordering them - at least, so she says. Maybe they figure people are not likely to return items they already said they wished they had. Or maybe there’s some way of ordering wish list items that is so easy one can do it by accident. Either way, count me out.

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I can’t even explain some of these. Some of these I can’t recall why I put them on the list. But here it is: (Oh, in case it’s not obvious, I’m in the process of learning Spanish. Some of the Harlequin books are English versions of the Spanish books.)
A Punto De by Ariella Papa

Arco Iris Roto by Mary Jo Putney

Heritage by Irish Tenors

El despertar by Jude Deveraux

Blind Promises by Katy Currie

Rawhide Man (Silhouette Desire No. 157) by Diana Palmer

NEC-Mitsubishi MultiSync LCD1560V+ 15" LCD Monitor (Black) Offered by Office Depot

El beso de la mujer araña by Manuel Puig

La promesa de adorarte by LaVyrle Spencer

Perpetual Motion by Bela Fleck (CD)

Pride and Prejudice by Cyril Coke (DVD—adaptation of novel)

El amor en los tiempos del cólera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Blessings in Disguise by Diana Palmer

The Randalls: Summer Skies by Judy Christenberry

The Randalls Wyoming Winter by Judy Christenberry

The Only Thrill by Peter Masterson

A Wrinkle In Time by MADELEINE L’ENGLE

La Biblia envenenada by Barbara Kingsolver

Jardin Azul: Las Canciones Favoritas by Linda Ronstadt

Un reino de ensueño by Judith McNaught

Una Semana De Amor (Bianca, 309) by Sandra Field

Sheerly Irresistible (Harlequin Temptation, No. 896) by Kristin Gabriel

Next to Nothing ! by Barbara Dunlop

Wedding for One / Tattoo for Two by Dawn Atkins

V - The Complete Series by Marc Singer (DVD)

Coltrain (HARLEQUIN JULIA (SPANISH)) by Diana Palmer

Mastering Spanish Vocabulary: A Thematic Approach (Mastering Vocabulary Series) by Jose Maria Navarro

Garageband: The Missing Manual. (Missing Manuals) by David Pogue

Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns And Prepositions by Dorothy Richmond

Aura by Carlos Fuentes

30 Años by Mercedes Sosa (CD)

La reina del Sur by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Once Minutos by Paulo Coelho

A Mighty Wind: The Illustrated Songbook by Castle Rock Entertainment

A Mighty Wind: The Album by Various Artists (CD)

King of Kings by Cecil B. DeMille (Movie)

Una Profesora Irresistible An Irresistible Professor by Kristin Gabriel

Por Una Noche (For A Night) by Susan Meier

Una Boda Repentina A Whirlwind Wedding by Day Leclaire

La casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Como Agua Para Chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

El Cartero De Neruda (Ardiente Paciencia)/Burning Patience (The Postman) by Antonio Skarmeta

Spanish A La Cartoon by Albert K. Small

Making Sauerkraut and Pickled Vegetables at Home: Creative Recipes for Lactic Fermented Food to Improve Your Health (Natural Health Guide) by Klaus Kaufmann

Stories from Spain by Genevieve Barlow

Tortilla Flat by Victor Fleming (Movie)

Fatal Instinct by John Dirlam

Drew Struzan: Oeuvre by Dreamwave

Imation 4.7GB DVD-R (25-Pack Spindle) by Imation

The Quiet Man and Other Stories by Maurice Walsh

The Quiet Man (1952 Film) by Victor Young

Firefly - The Complete Series by Nathan Fillion (DVD)

Way West (DVD) by Andrew V. McLaglen

The Fifth Element: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Eric Serra (CD)

A Regular Guy : A Novel by Mona Simpson

The Swimmer by Frank Perry

The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone (15th Anniversary Edition by Ennio Morricone (CD)

The Empire Strikes Back: Symphonic Suite From The Original Motion Picture Score by John Williams (CD)

Home Fires Burning : A Novel by Robert Inman

Leonard Pennario: Film Themes and Variations by Leonard Pennario (CD)

Yosemite by Ansel Adams

The Ceramic Design Book: A Gallery of Contemporary Work by Val M. Cushing

The Best of Pottery by Jonathan L. Fairbanks

The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture by Ennio Morricone (CD)

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I had a birthday last month, and everybody raided my Amazon wish list to send me stuff :smiley: so there’s not too much left at the moment:

DVDs
Time Bandits (Divimax Special Edition)
Jabberwocky
Red Dwarf - Series 3 & 4
Red Dwarf - Series 1 & 2
Orlando
Gustav Mahler: To Live, I Will Die

Books
50 Years of the Gibson Les Paul: Half a Century of the Greatest Electric Guitars by Tony Bacon
Jazz Chops for Guitar by Buck Brown

CDs
Allman Brothers: At Fillmore East (Dlx)

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The complete (original) oz series, in hard back.
A book about gnomes.
A really snazzy cake stand.

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Absolute Magnitude & Aboriginal Science Fiction

Kreeky Playground by Aaron Bordner

What’s Up, Tiger Lily? by Senkichi Taniguchi & Woody Allen

Nocturnals: Black Planet by Daniel Brereton

Cowboy Bebop V.2

Urusei Yatsura - TV Series 1-14 by Mamoru Oshii

Now You Know: The Unauthorized Guide to G.I. Joe TV and Comics by Lars Pearson

Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Epic Series by Lorne Greene

The Pink Panther Film Collection (The Pink Panther / A Shot in the Dark / Strikes Again / Revenge of / Trail) by Peter Sellers

The Marx Brothers Collection (A Night at The Opera/A Day at The Races/A Night in Casablanca/Room Service/At the Circus/Go West/The Big Store)

Walt Kelly’s Pogo Romances Recaptured by Walt Kelly

Pogo’s Will Be That Was (Fireside Book) by Walt Kelly

The Big O II - Enemy Attacks (Vol.1- 3)

Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001 by Barenaked Ladies

Archie-Return to Riverdale by Dick Lowry

The Slayers Next Collection (Episodes 27-52)

Weird Tales by Dna Publications

Star Blazers - The Quest for Iscandar - The Complete Series I Collection (Episodes 1- 26)

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I use my wish list to keep track of the books that catch my interest because of this place. I carry it with me for library runs and jaunts into the used book stores.

Every so often I prune it down and print it out, and then another " Whatcha reading thread" comes along and thickens it up.

Thanks everyone.

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It could be someone else found her wishlist and ordered it for her. I’ve never had Amazon send me something I didn’t already order, and I order from them A LOT.