Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's not a book to read - it's a book to collect and treasure. ;-) ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ...... Original Message ....... On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:45:16 -0500 "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote: "Jon, "You gotta love the LUG. Your URL brought up a site selling collectors "editions starting at $2500. Yes, there were some not such good condition "books at only $145. It is so much fun to complain about the high price of "cameras, but $145 for a book to read? But that continues our fascination "with single malt scotches, hand built chronographs, and occasionally hand "built cameras from Germany. :) " "Don "don.dory@gmail.com " " "On 3/28/06, jon.stanton@comcast.net <jon.stanton@comcast.net> wrote: "> "> Have you tried Abebooks.com "> "> Here is a sample: "> http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=stanislaw+lem&y=4&x=43&sortby=1 "> "> "> "> "> "> "> -------------- Original message ---------------------- "> From: "Arche, Harvey" <Harvey.Arche@jp2hs.org> "> > I've been hearing about Lem for 30 years, and searched for copies of his "> books. "> > When I found them they were English translations from the French "> translations of "> > the original Polish, and sorry to say, I couldn't hack reading them. So "> they sit "> > on my shelves out of reach, to my great regret. Are there now decent "> English "> > versions? Been reading (and re-reading) Phil Dick since '72. "> > Arche "> > "> > >Just heard that Stanislaw Lem, one of the great science fiction writers "> of "> > >all time passed away yesterday. Any fans of his on this list? "> > "> > "> > _______________________________________________ "> > Leica Users Group. "> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information "> "> "> "> _______________________________________________ "> Leica Users Group. "> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information "> " "_______________________________________________ "Leica Users Group. "See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information