 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book haul video. This is my July book haul, and we got 27 books to get through. It's kind of ridiculous. I'm going to do at least one bulk thing. In fact, that's what I'm going to start off with. We're just going to jump into it because we're probably going to be here for a while. So grab your snacks. Let's talk about why I got these books. I almost dropped this whole stack of books. So let's see here. Right off the bat. I can't wait for the comment section. I thought you were done with Coombs. I got several books, paperbacks that I don't have for Dean Coombs. They were only $0.25 a piece. I spent $1.25 on it. Didn't see any reason to, not to. Because Mr. Murder, the Frankenstein series, Velocity, and Icebound, I don't have any of them in paperback, but I do have Mr. Murder in hard cover. I don't think I have any of the other ones. So Mr. Murder is the only one that I have. I have it in hard cover. Let's see here. Yeah, I have it in the small hard covers that I really don't like. I like the full-size hard covers, but I tend to collect these and then sell the collections on either eBay or to friends anyways. But I keep the paperbacks most of time unless I have built whole collections of Dean Coombs three times and then sold them. I've done that with Richard Lehman twice. So especially around here where people just give their books away. I find them at the library at thrift stores for a quarter of piece and I just build up collections and then sell them. Yeah, you know, why not? Anyways, let me go ahead and put these over here. But I've read all these books, all these Coombs books. I don't think I liked any of them, to be honest with you. I really hated the Frankenstein series, but it had very little to do with the content of the books. When we get to that series in my Coombs reread, I'll discuss this more. But the first three books, Dean Coombs didn't write alone. The first three books he wrote with Kevin J. Anderson, several different people, well three different people total, one for each book. And then he just took their names off the books when he reprinted them. I don't know why. He says that he's always worked better alone, but he worked with those people and then he took their names off the books. So I'm a bit confused here. Next up we're going into some terrific, terrific finds, getting away from the Dean Coombs nonsense. Clive Barker's The Books of Blood found this for a quarter of this is volume two. So that'll help with my not reread, but my read through, because I've only been able to finish his short stories. I do have several of his novels, but I've never even been able to get into them. I've gotten about, I don't think I've gotten farther than 50 pages in any one of his novels, other than The Thief of Allways. And it's one of my favorite books. I easily put it in my top 100 books of all time. It's such a fun book, but I don't like his adult novels. So I don't know, but he's our greatest living storyteller. Then next, I can't believe I found this y'all. I don't know if you remember or not, but I talked about this, I think in a Stephen King video, it might have been one of these book haul videos, but I finally found from the Borderlands. Yeah, stories of terror, whatever. But this one has a story in it by, let's see here. It's the, yeah, Rami Temporalis by Gary A. Bronbeck. It's about this guy collecting the pieces of God's face. Such a weird story, but it's one of my favorite short stories of all time. And of course, it's got some stuff by, I think, Bentley Little, John Ferris, Brian Freeman of Cemetery Dance, no less. Let's see here. I think Whitley Shriver's in here. Bentley Little, let's see here. I can't, Bev Vincent, Stephen King. I thought, yeah, Whitley Shriver, Striever? I don't know how to pronounce it. Father Bob and Bobby. But yeah, these two are probably the coolest things I found for a quarter a piece at the thrift store. Sometimes I'll find them at the library for a quarter a piece. This is a thrift store hall. We have a place in town called Hope in Action. It's a Christian bookstore and they usually have amazing horror collection. I've bought most of their stuff. So now it's just like Bibles and Joyce, whatever her name is, Joyce Meyer books. Oh yeah, and they got, they probably, they have, well, not probably, they have a whole shelf of Sarah Palin's Gone Road. Yeah. All right, so next up we have Thomas Harris's, you know, you'll be able to see that Black Sunday. It's the last one I need for my paperback collection of his stuff. I own all of his books and paperback. I do have Cardi Mora in hardcover back here. And I'll get to that eventually, even though everybody's like, no, do it. Run away from the book or show back. I'm gonna find out for myself, y'all. I'm gonna find out for myself like I always do. But yeah, so I've never actually read this one. I thought I did, but the synopsis doesn't sound familiar. So, and I think they made a movie of this. If they did, let me know down there in the doobly-doo. So, all right, last of the paperbacks, well, not last of the paperbacks, the last of the mass market paperbacks, is a gift from my friend, Terry Nevermore by Harold Schechter. Is it Schechter? It's Schechter. Yeah, it's got a Raven, Nevermore. Yeah, it's got a Raven on there. That's some blood, blood dripping. It's actually a pretty crap cover. If you look at the blood on the cover, you could tell that the blood was just like photoshopped on top of it. There's like, there's weight. It's like it's hovering on the actual cover itself and not on the ground. It's pretty bad. The bird's pretty badly photoshopped in there as well. Okay, next we're gonna get to, let's see here, I don't know what to do next. I got 27 books today, y'all. I don't know what to do. So we're just gonna go, I should have probably organized these by gifts also, because I just got everything just kind of all slapped together. But this was a gift from my friend, JB Taylor. He runs a channel called JB Reviews, I believe. I think it was a recent, shoot, what was it? Or Taylor, Taylor reads the reviews. He's changed his name at least once, but he sent me this Kafka on the shore. I own this, but I don't own this copy, this version of it. And I love these versions just as much as I love the new rainbow ink ones. Those I think are just beautiful on the shelf. My book tour, I think my third book tour, bookshelf tour, you can see my collection of the rainbow ones. Those look gorgeous on the shelf, but I do love these ones. They have really boring spines, but the covers are very, very nice. So there's Kafka on the shore. This will probably end up being my reading copy, because my rainbow one is in pristine condition. Next up, we have a book that has a funny little story behind it, I think. Not the book itself, but how I came across it. No, Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. This is a book about race. I believe it's a literary novel about race. I thought this was The Invisible Man. I didn't realize that H.G. Wells wrote The Invisible Man, and Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man. So the difference between the two books is the. H.G. Wells has the Invisible Man. But I bought this and I was like, wow, I didn't think H.G. Wells wrote books this thick, and he doesn't, or didn't. I don't know what this is. It's just a receipt. Okay, so that one's going to go over there. Next one is a book I bought that I think I own a copy of. When I got home, it says on Goodreads that I own it, but Winterwood by Patrick McCabe. So if I have two copies of this book, whatever. It was only a quarter at the library. By the way, Invisible Man was only a quarter at the library. Also, no wonder I couldn't pass it up, right? I mean, come on now. Come on. Let's be honest. Next up is one I have to show you the spine of because it didn't come with a dust jacket. I think this is volume. I'm not sure. It doesn't actually tell you in here. That's unfortunate, but I believe that this is volume 35 of Weird Tales. The dust jacket for this version is amazing. I believe it's the one from volume 35 because I went in and typed in the highest BN. If you want to look it up, it is ISBN 0517661233. I will probably read everything in here except for the I will try. I'm not going to force myself to read anything, but I will try to read everything in here except for the Lovecraft, because as you guys know, I don't like Lovecraft. Then forget all the other BS with how terrible he was as a human being. I just don't like the way the dude writes. But there's some stuff in here from authors that I have enjoyed in the past, like Clark Ashton Smith. See here, there's Ray Bradbury has Let's Play Poison. I love Ray Bradbury, by the way. Let's see here. There was someone else that I got happy about, Theodore Sturgeon. That's another one. So volume, I believe 35 or 36, it's 30-something of Weird Tales. I thought I had stumbled across something that was rare, but no, that obviously they had several different volumes over the course of time. I never actually read, I never actually got a chance to read any of the Weird Tales books when they were active. They came back, I think. Well, of course, I don't even think I was born while they were active. Was it, they closed in the 70s? I can't remember when it was. It tells you in the, I actually read the Introduce the Forward. Yes. Yeah, it ceased publication in 1954, but then they brought it back for the internet age, or somebody tried to. And I'm not sure if they closed again. If you guys are more knowledgeable about Weird Tales than I am, please let me know down there in the doobly-doo. Also, again, I'm not going to sit here and read all the synopsises and everything. I'm just going to tell you why I bought all these, because I don't like watching someone just sitting reading synopsises for 30 minutes to an hour long. I would rather tell you. And if you're interested in the book, you can hop over to Amazon and check out the description. So, let's see here. Next one, next two, I'm going to go ahead and throw up two, three, three. No, I'll just do two. There is Faceless Killers by Henning Mankel. Yeah. It's the Kurt Volander series. So there's that one. And then there's a Friday Black, which is a collection of stories I'm going to get to very soon, because, I mean, it's the cover, y'all. It's so gorgeous, man. It's beautiful. Oh, also, I didn't show in the invite. These are gifts from my friend Terry, by the way. But the author's photo is right here, too. I usually show the author's photo. But, uh, anyhoo. And then there's him looking very much like John Irving. I don't know if it's going to show it or not. Anyhoo. But, uh, is it going to focus? It's focused. Okay. I was worried. Oh, worry, boy. I'm patching me down there in the comments. I'm up. You're out of focus. I know, buddy. I know. And I know I can cut and then start over again, but it's a lot of fun. Just, you know, if I can make it entertaining, while you're waiting, I can make it entertaining. So, all right. And then the next one is a gift from my friend Terry. It's, uh, the brief life of Oscar, no, the brief wondrous life of Oscar, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow by Junot Diaz. Uh, I'm going to probably get to this one before the end of the year. Um, I've been putting it off far too long, and I really want to try his, uh, his longer work because I read some of his short stories. Uh, Terry was nice enough to send this for my birthday. All the stuff from Terry in this pile is for my birthday. Uh, let's see here. Next up are two books. I'm just going to put, uh, Caroline Kepnes, uh, was on Twitter and we were talking back and forth with Amina Oktar and, uh, Araminta Hall and all of us were talking about books like their books. Like hashtag fashion victim, which is, uh, Amina's book. Araminta's book is, uh, uh, our kind of cruelty. And of course, uh, Caroline's books are You, Hidden Bodies, and Providence. I love all three of those books. They're just fantastic books and they got to talking about their inspirations and books like their books. Caroline Kepnes brought up, uh, of course the, no, no, no. Araminta and Amina both brought up the Patricia Hightower. God, I hope I got that right. High Snow. High Smith? I, I can't remember. The Thomas Ripley series. I didn't care much for that. I know, I know. Rage at Me down there in the doobly-doo. Um, but I wanted to know, are there any other books that are like your guys' books? And Caroline, uh, brought up Perfect Days by Raphael Montes and then The Beloveds by Marine Lindy. And when Caroline Kepnes says buy something, man, I am, I'm definitely a follower in that regard. So yeah, both these books. Also, this cover is fantastic. That bleeding palm tree, man. That's some rad shit. Um, but yeah, I'm looking forward to this one. I'm looking forward to both of these. These are probably going to be winter reads for me, uh, just because I like that kind of thing during the winter. And next up is a The Turtle Boy. This is just Peregrine's Tale. This is the short story. It's technically part four in the Timothy Quinn series. Uh, and my friend Nick was nice enough to send me this. This is absolutely amazing. It is a signed copy, uh, limited to 550 copies. Keeneland Patrick Burke, and I think the, uh, is at the, who's the other signature? Is it the artist? I'm guessing it's got to be the artist, right? Hey, let me see. Alan M. Clark. Ah, sorry, I had a mosquito on my finger. What the actual, anyways, uh, Alan M. Clark has illustrated the writing of such office as Ray Bradbury, Robert Block, Joe Arland, Bill Stephen King, George Orwell, and so on and so forth. So yeah. Um, so Arthur M. Clark did this. Keeneland Patrick Burke wrote it. Um, so all the art is Arthur's. I don't know Arthur. Why am I calling him by his first name? I don't know. But yeah, that was super nice of Nick to send, send over. Uh, let's see here. What else we got? All right. The rest, no, one, one more paperback, uh, trade paperback. This one I screwed up with. This is the Lizard King, the essential Jim Morrison. This is not, uh, his poetry. I thought it was his poetry. I should have flipped through it and find out. But this is actually interviews and, uh, some, maybe some short fiction, some biography stuff or whatever. So yeah. Um, not too thrilled with this one. I'll probably just end up either giving it away or selling it. If anybody wants it, uh, comment down there in the doobly-doo and we'll work something out. I, um, okay. Next up, another one that Terry sent me for my birthday was Wiley Cash's, uh, This Dark Road to Mercy. It's a library copy. I will probably, uh, take all the stuff off and clean it up. Oh, it's got deckled edges. Oh my God, I love me some deckled edges. I don't know why, because I like flipping through a book to look ahead and it is really hard to do, not to look ahead, the, to see how much longer I have on a chapter, that kind of thing. Um, and you can't really do that with deckled edges, but I, I love the aesthetic of them, which again is weird because usually you're putting the book in to wear the spine. Well, not usually all the time. So you don't even really see them, but I like the feel of them. I like to look at them. I don't know. Am I weird? Yeah, I'm weird. I'm weird. Give it up, y'all. Next up is a gift from a friend. Once again, JB Taylor sent me his copy of Vox because he hated it. I love the idea behind this. Um, so I'm excited to read it and try it. Um, who knows? It is blurred by Lee Child. I wasn't expecting that. Um, I'm not a huge fan of Lee Child or Vanity Fair or The Daily Beast or, and I don't know the other people who blurred this book. So now I'm kind of worried. I didn't realize that. Um, me and JB tend to have the same, the same taste. Uh, he likes Haruki Minakami. He likes Stephen King. Um, but we do tend to differ on some things. Like we liked, uh, Colson Whitehead is the Underground Railroad. I can't remember what else, but we tend to normally fall on the same category, but the things that he didn't like about this one, I think I might actually appreciate. So yeah, I'm gonna give this one a shot. This is another one I'm going to read, uh, pretty soon. I also have the audio book I forgot I got. Next up, just for you guys out there that like to scream at me about Dean Coons. I got 77 Shadow Street in hardcover because it was a quarter at the library. It's the same day that I picked up the, the paperbacks. So yeah, I mean this one, from what I understand, this is one of his worst books of all time. Uh, damn near all of the Coons fans that I talked to, uh, the few that I do talk to hated this one. Um, in fact, uh, I think there are two comments about how terrible this book is on my Phantoms review. I believe I could be wrong. Um, but yeah, so I have no, I don't think I've ever read this one. This is after I gave up on him. Um, I tried Ashley Bell, but uh, yeah, and especially this is one of his thicker, thicker books. Uh, in hardcover, it's, uh, 445, 46 pages, something like that. Uh, yeah, 451 pages, and I just, I wasn't gonna spend that much time with it. Um, I tried Ashley Bell, which was another one. Uh, I ended up giving up on Ashley Bell within two pages, but we're doing the Coons chronological reread of the books that I can get my hands on. So yeah, my buddy Cody Tidwell is actually doing all of them, even all of the old, out of print books. So I don't know if he's planning a review series or whatever, but I will definitely link you all and, you know, you guys can check him out. I don't, he doesn't do videos, but you can definitely check out his, uh, his written reviews though then. Next up is another one that I got at the library four quarter, uh, for my, just my Book of the Month Club collection, and that's an anonymous girl. This is one of those stupid things that I end up buying that I know I will probably never read. It looks like a generic ass thriller. If I'm wrong, let me know down there in the doobly-doo, uh, if this is just another generic, you know, uh, domestic thriller. Um, I do like Lisa Jewel, but she's about the only one I've seen do the domestic thing, right? Um, I don't agree that Caroline Ketnes is a domestic thriller, um, because it doesn't have to do with domesticity, domesticity, whatever. I think you is a horror novel. I honestly believe you is a horror novel, because it terrified me anyways. But anyways, so, uh, what is this thing? What is this? I mean, oh, I do love Nathan Ripley, uh, his, uh, Your Life is Mine. That one isn't really a domestic thriller, but, uh, what is it? Find You in the Dark? Is that the name of it? Where is it? Yeah. Find You in the Dark was a terrific domestic thriller. Um, then again, it wasn't really domestic, because the point of it wasn't really the family, but it was the family, it wasn't care. I don't know, what is a domestic thriller? Isn't it just like when the wife or the husband, they're married and they're, what's a domestic thriller? Y'all had that discussion down there in the doobly-doo, because that ain't got stuck on stupid, and I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about. So we're going to talk about The Gifted School, uh, by Bruce Halsons, sure. This book, uh, was sent to me, this is the last one that was sent to me for my birthday by Terry. This is probably the only one that I might not ever read. Um, I don't know, it sounds interesting, it's just not my kind of thing, it's more like a contemporary experience. If nothing else is going to look fantastic in my Book of the Month Club collection. Um, but, uh, I, all the stuff that Terry sent me, of course I appreciate, but this, I don't, I'm not sure that this one is my jam, you know what I'm talking about. Anywho, next up are the, the two that I bought, I guess brand new, one of them that, one of them was on clearance, and it might actually make some people upset, because Cemetery Dance said something, they said that their, that their first, uh, their first editions sold out. Um, I'm wondering, I got a first edition of Flight or Fright on clearance at Bar, not Books a Million, um, for $7, so that's the only way I was going to get it. Um, I didn't realize it had such a, such a great, uh, table of contents though, such a great collection of authors. Got Joe Hill, uh, Cody Goodfellow, um, let's see here, uh, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, James Dickey, man. Um, yeah, so I, do they count the stuff that they send to the, is that considered sold out? If they, I mean, that doesn't make any sense, because, you know, if they were to send all the copies of like a Stephen King book out to Books a Million, then it just seems, I don't know, it seems fishy. Y'all let me know how that works as far as the publishers are concerned, because they said this joke, the first printing, first edition first printing sold out, but yet there's a whole, there's whole stacks of these up at Books a Million. So I'm wondering if maybe, I don't know, how does that work? Y'all let me know in the noobly-doo because I'm kind of, I'm kind of sketched out. Anyways, last one is one that, uh, Don Wilson has been talking about for months, so I went ahead and grabbed it. Uh, the premise and the idea is great, I think, um, but I am worried that it's going to end up being a generic thriller. And that is The Chain by Adrian McKinty. I think he's a Irish, and he wrote an American thriller. Um, the only reason I bring that up is because they, uh, some of the blurbs have mentioned, um, how well he wrote an American novel, a novel, uh, set in America, an American voice novel, yet he's not American. So, and that's another reason why I picked it up, because it's not an American author. American authors tend to just regurgitate the same crap over and over and over again. Don Winslow, Stephen King, those guys are just, are different in that aspect. Um, but, you know, I'm talking about, like, the James Patterson's, the Dan Browns, the Clive Custlers, you know, all that stuff. Uh, usually when an international author makes it over here, like Yonesba, their books are at least decent. You can finish them and enjoy them, you know, anywhere from three to five stars. I've never read an international novel or a translated novel. I know this isn't translated, but, um, I've never read an international or translated novel that I didn't at least give three stars, I think. If someone wants to prove me wrong, definitely jump over there to the Goodreads and find one. But, yeah, so the chain, um, it's got blurbs on it. People were picking on me for this. I said that Stephen King, I don't think, he's made me blur two good books out of the hundreds of books that he's blurbed, and there's a blurb on the front of this from Stephen King. I didn't know about it before I bought it. Uh, even though I love Stephen King and I'm a huge fanboy, I think he's got terrible taste in movies and books. That's how I feel. So, Don Winslow said, this book is jogged for parents, and Stephen King said, this nightmare story is incredibly propulsive and original. You won't shake it for a long time. What the book is about is, I believe, someone's child is kidnapped, and the only way they can get the kid back is to kidnap someone else's child, and that's the chain. You know, chain litter, that kind of thing. Uh, excuse me, but it's like a chain stealing. Well, chain kidnap, I don't know. Anyways, it's also got blurbs from, uh, nobody that I really care to mention. Oh, make Gardner, um, diabolically gripping, hang on tight, because once you start this book, you can't stop. Like the characters in the story, you'll be caught in the chain. Um, unfortunately, Amazon sent this, and there's scratches. I mean, it's deep scratches all over this thing. They got, there's rubs and scratches all, I don't know that you guys can see this, but there's rubs and scratches. Maybe if I get in the light, no, I still can't see it. There's dents and scratches and all different kinds of crap, um, on this. And this is the last new book I'm buying from Amazon. I'm done with them. I'm just not going to screw with them anymore. So I have to find another place to buy my new books, um, and I don't shop at books a million other than clearance, and I don't shop at Barnes and Nobles, because they just, I mean, it's insane prices. Full price, MSRP, or whatever you want to call it. It's the, it's the price in here is what it is. Um, and I buy so many books, I just can't afford the full cost of a book. That's the only reason why I shop on Amazon. So if you guys have any, let's see here, if you guys have any places that maybe I haven't heard of, just list them, even if I have heard of them, just list them down below, because I'm sure other people want to try and get away from Amazon for new content also. Um, and I don't, I don't read ebooks, so really Amazon is kind of pointless at this time. Um, in fact, we're going to cancel Prime come next month after we finish, uh, the boys, um, that we're watching on, well, Amazon Prime. But, uh, which is extremely good, by the way. So that's my July book haul. We've been here for at least 25 minutes, I think. Um, so I end all of these the same way, and I want to end this one once again the same way. Book hauls are some of my favorite content. In fact, I would go as far to say they are my favorite content on this platform. So if you guys have any book haul videos, please link them down below. It's a call to arms. Link all your book hauls down below. Another thing is, if you don't have a video, just list what books you have. I mean, there's no better way to get to know another reader than to find out what kind of books they're buying. That way I can judge, like, hey, why did you get this one? You know, this one sounds interesting. You know, this, that, or the other. We can have a conversation. It's one of the best ways to have, to start a conversation with a group of readers, is what kind of books do you buy? What did you buy this month? What had you in the mood for this one? Anyways, I say this at the end of every book haul video, but until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another book haul video. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!