 Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to another book haul. This is a book haul for...what? Oh, hear that cricket? That cricket's annoying me. No, no, no, I can do about a cricket though. Let's see here. What month is this? It is June now, so this would be May's book haul. If I'm wrong, y'all let me know down there in the doobly-doo. Anyways, so I'm gonna go ahead and jump right into it. I might have some surprises for you guys. Cricket! Shut the hell up! Good God. Okay. If y'all can't hear that, I apologize. There is a cricket going ham outside. Once again, it's, well it's two o'clock in the morning this time, not three o'clock in the morning. It's two o'clock in the morning and I'm out here in the dark and this cricket is gonna drive me back shit. But we gotta get this done because I don't have time to do it later on today. Next book I got for a quarter at the library is Goldfinger, almost said by James Bond, Goldfinger by Ian Fleming. I have several books by Ian Fleming. I have a collection with three books in it, Thunderball, a collection of short stories that are Bond themed, and then there's another one in there, maybe From Russia with Love or maybe that's one of the short stories. And then I have another one that is Moonraker that is a standalone. So I have a collection of several of them, but I got this one because if I ever find Casino Royale, I'm gonna binge them all. Ian Fleming was a hell of a writer. I didn't suspect, I didn't expect the writing to be as good as it was when I peeked inside. I think it was Moonraker, which I believe is the third Bond book. I don't know. Yeah, it looks like, I know a bunch of these are short stories, but Casino Royale, Domins Upraver, Doctor No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. A lot of those are short stories, or probably novellas or novelettes or whatever. This one, Goldfinger, is a full novel. It's kind of like the old John D. McDonald books. They're only like 200 pages long. Yeah, this is 189 pages. So there's that one. Next up, we have, I read Star by this author, and I absolutely hated it, but everybody that I talked to said, hey, check out this book. So I have Yukio Mashima's Confessions of a Mask. I found this for $1.89 on Amazon with free shipping. I've never seen that before, ever. I don't know how they would have sent it. I mean, I guess they sent it at Media Mail, but Media Mail, the cheapest here in the States, is $2.75. So I hope they didn't come out of pocket. Maybe Amazon reimbursed them for it? I don't know, but $1.90, I think it was $1.98. It might have been $1.89, I don't know. With tax and everything, I think it came up to exactly $2. But yeah, that's also a crazy looking cover. This author committed ceremonial seppuku. I know I probably said that right, but it's when you kill yourself, you fall on your sword, kind of deal. Anyways, after, I actually have no idea, hang on, here it is. He seemed at the height of his career and vitality at the age of 45 when after a demonstration in the public interest, he committed suicide by ceremonial seppuku. This is very interesting. I want to learn more about this author, but only if I end up liking anything that he's done. I do find that much more interesting than I have any of the descriptions for any of his books. So maybe if there's a biography out there about him, I might end up picking that one up. So we got that. Next up is another Japanese author, which is Riyu Mitokami. This was a gift from my buddy J.B. Taylor. I always want to say J.P. Taylor. It's a Riyu Mitokami's audition, which is, I enjoyed the movie, but the movie's a little slow. From what J.B. says, it's quite different from the, I think he said that, quite different from the movie. But it looks like it was an old library copy, so I'm probably going to read the hell out of this thing, since I can't really clean it up, I can't, you know, you can't take off these boards, these paper backs, when they put that protective coating on it. There's no getting it off. I tried. I sure irritates the hell out of me, but I ain't going to complain about a free book. I just want to know how to get this off, because I have so many other books like this that have that. Next up, we have a book that was sent to me for review. I requested it for review, because I love the cover. It's The Night Janitor by T.F. Allen. So this, eh, I like to cover, I like to cover, I like to cover a lot. It's got the creepy person in the background, it's got some magic going on down here by the fingers, and the description, I can't think. Probably because it's cricket, but The Night Janitor, Anna Maria Gabor can kill with a whisper and a touch. Her victims never realized she's given them a deadly disease. And then her brother, on top of that, I'm not going to read the whole thing again. I did an unboxing of Mail Time for T.F. Allen, if you want. Watch that one, or just go check it out on Amazon. But brother is like the opposite of her. She can kill, he can heal. Very interesting concept. I dig it very much, and like I said, that covers something else, y'all. So I want to leave this one for last, because I think it's my special boy. My special boy. We have this monstrosity. This is a collection of three novels by Dean R. Koontz, the servants of twilight, Darkfall and Phantoms. Two of my favorite Dean Koontz books of all time are Darkfall and Phantoms. So I went ahead and picked this up. I'd love to have the actual hard cover of those books, but I don't think I own Phantoms at all anymore. If I did, it was in an old ratty hard cover that I sold as in part of a collection just to get rid of it, because it was old and ratty, and I didn't want to read it. So I finally got myself a hard copy. It'll be a while before we get to, I mean, my friend Dealey are doing a complete read-through of his rereads, well, it's rereads from me, but I think it's first time reads for her for some of these. I know she had read the mask, and I've always preferred physical books over e-books. I have most of his stuff on e-book also, and audio book, but it's a three-book collection. So I picked it up. I think it was a quarter at the library. I got it the same day that I got Goldfinger. So, let me put those over there. Next up, I know for a fact these next two were a quarter of a piece. So they were in the same stack as the Dean Koontz and the Goldfinger. So all of these were a quarter of a piece of library. This is Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. I almost got this when a Crown Publishing was doing their, what's it called? Their blogging for books. It's funny while I was thinking it was like the chirping noise was my thought process. If that's annoying, you guys, I apologize. Nothing I can do about it. But the, I almost got it from Crown Blogging for Books. You can only get, you could when they were open. You can only get one book at a time. And there was something else, I don't know what it was, but there was something else that I wanted. And then they went out of business and I never got a chance to get this. So I was super happy to come across this. I asked Jennifer Egan as a post-modern author. I also have, where yet, where yet, where yet. Friend of mine sent me a visit from the Goon Squad. Actually, I think this was a birthday present from my friend Terry. Was it, I think it was. I think it was. But we got that one. Ah, shaky, where are you going, bruh? Bruh, shaky. Get back up there. Shaky, shaky. Anyways, Man Beach by Jennifer Egan got this joker for a quarter, which isn't quite as good as free for review, but it is very, very decent. I'm kidding, of course it's good. But next is another quarter book. I've read this book already. I like it, but I don't like it as much as The World According to Garp. I like that one, just a little bit more of this. My second favorite John Irving novel, Prayer for Owen Meanie. And y'all, I got a straight up first edition of a Prayer for Owen Meanie. If you look here, it is, I don't know if you guys can see it or not, but it says first edition, and it has the number line with the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. So it's the entire, it's the first printing, it's a first edition, first printing. So I'm super stoked to have this in my collection. I have another stack of John Irving stuff. The only other two hard covers I own is like The Alley of Mysteries, whatever that one is, The Alley of Mysteries. And there's another one, what's it called, Until I Met You, something like that. It's this longest book. It's like 800 pages in hardcover. What is you doing? You're a literary novelist. You ain't Stephen King. Ooh, Shot's Fired. Stephen King literary novelist? Yeah, he is. Okay, last, but certainly not least, Dishma Baby. Dishma Baby, my beautiful baby. This book is absolutely gorgeous. I wanna hear a thank you from anybody in the comment section about how their ratings suck or any of these other shit. You know what my tastes are like. If everybody else is hating it, I'm probably gonna end up fucking loving it. So we have Thomas Harris Carimora. That is probably not how you pronounce that. Carimora, I don't know. Okay, y'all see the gold stuff along here? Like the, I don't know if you wanna call it filigree, but this is raised and gilded. I mean, it's not actual gold, but it's raised and it feels, oh my God, it feels so good. But y'all, y'all, hold up, that ain't it. We gonna look at this. We gonna look at this. Okay, so here, it's a sexy book, all right? It's a sexy book, but then you open it up. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yeah, this reminds me of why I wanted to read Jerusalem. That's the back. Why I wanted to read Jerusalem by Alan Moore. Huge disappointment that book was. But I have a ARC over there. I'm glad I got the ARC because I almost spent 35 bucks on a hardcover first edition of that Joker. I ended up hating the book. There's a good book, there's a good 300 page book hidden in that 1200 page monstrosity. It's the middle book, by the way. There's a good 300, 400 page novel in there about the Ninhag, but the whole rest of the book is just him just masturbating all over. You just, all over his thesaurus. That's all that book is. It's just him using as many words as possible to describe the tiniest, tiniest detail. But we're not talking about Alan Moore. Well, we were there for a second. We're talking about Kati Mora. This is a gorgeous book. I don't care if it's bad or not. It is a gorgeous book. The build of it, the quality of it is fantastic. And for once, hey Max, and for once, Amazon sent me a copy of a book that is flawless. So I'm happy there's no dings, scratches, nothing like that. There's no folding in the corner. Sometimes you'll see this part of the board will be bent and crumpled up. Again, sorry Max. My buddy Max, MaxDark, he gets all the time, he gets crappy deliveries from Amazon and I feel for him. Okay, now that we've reached the end of the video, those are all the books that I bought for myself or that I was sent for review. At the end of the video, we always go through this because this is my favorite part of the video. I wanna tell you I want to hear what you got this month. I want to see if you managed to hang out after the fucking cricket. I want to see what you guys got. So if you have videos for your book hauls, please leave your links down in the doobly-doo. And if you don't have videos, and just give me a list, I want to see all the books down there that you got. It is some of my favorite content. And I mean this sincerely. Some of my favorite content on YouTube is book hauls and it's my favorite video of the month that I do other than maybe the Thursday theorists. 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! Y'all, no joke. The fucking cricket stopped as soon as I stopped the video. I ain't heard that motherfucker in like, I would say 10 minutes. I'm sitting here editing the video and I'm like, oh, now you want to shut the hell up. Whoo!