Traipsed over to Goodwill today - looks like they've gotten a new shipment (at least one!) since my last shopping trip. Quite an assortment: I bought paperbacks of Washington Square, The Natural, The Andromeda Strain, David Copperfield (so I can see what "that David Copperfield crap" means, ha ha), the Pocketbook of Ogden Nash (poetry fix; also, I was once in a band called Ogden Edsl, named in homage to Mr. Liquor is Quicker), Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman (unfamiliar with that one) and - what I had actually hope to find -- two books by Agatha Christie. I like Dame Agatha because she provides escapism, and is not a mindless hack (more on mindless hacks we love in a future post ((one's name is Winston, another's is Mary Higgins - but I don't want to mention anyone right now)).
I like Poirot better than Miss Marple, but I do like Miss Marple. I don't like those two Thin Man wannabes she plays with sometimes. Quick: Which characters were created by a British Dame, and which by a Yank named Dash -- Tommy and Tuppence/Nick and Nora?
But I digress. Agatha Christie's one of my favorites (As is the Yank named Dash).
Other things on the Goodwill shelves today: a hardcover of Tom Wolfe's A Man In Full, taking up a lot of room - that is one big hardcover; a novelized episode of Knott's Landing; a book of quotations by Louis L'Amour;, about a dozen John Grisham paperbacks;, The Iliad; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?; We're Right They're Wrong (I think) by James Carville; Mutiny of the Bounty -- and about a thousand others. Really, at least a thousand.
I almost bought the Knott's Landing. I did pick up a stuffed toy for the dog to chew up -- an M&M character doll. Go boy - bite!
The bill came to about $13. The toy cost $1.99 and was the most expensive item. Go boy!
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