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Originally Posted by rkomar
I was in high school at the time, so I wasn't picky in the least about what I read. I was poor, though, and had to save up for a few weeks to buy any must-have paperbacks. Hardbacks were just not worth it. But you reminded me that I used to stand in the bookstores staring covetously at the hardback copies of "Sword of Shannara" because they had those posters, just as you said! It was probably a good thing I couldn't buy every crappy new book with a nice cover that came out at that time, because I surely would have.
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To my salvation came The Science Fiction Book Club.
A bunch of cheap unbound hardbacks that exposed me to a lot of varied literature. I lived in the country, or far enough away from bookstores to never go, so this was a Godsend.
Of course, my weight-training teacher didn't appreciate it when I had a sick day, and sat in the gym reading
The Swordswoman. Not exactly the
image he was looking for in the class.
-Pie