 Hello everybody. E here. Welcome back to another book haul. This is for October. I'm pretty sure because it's November, so happy November everybody. What I'm going to be doing this year is Thrill November. I'm going to be doing thrillers all month long with some other stuff sprinkled in just because I have some projects going on. Right off the bat, I need to apologize to a few people to Regina's Haunted Library, to Kobe, to Wayne Fenlon, to my buddy Terry. All of you, I have to apologize. But the card that your unboxings were on got corrupted. I kept them all on the card so that I could add them to my newest walkie-talkie as kind of like segments interludes into each section. And that card is corrupted. I've lost all that footage. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go through all the books that they sent me, basically in the order that I got them. So not of importance or anything like that. First off, we got the books that Terry sent me, which is American Heroine. This is my last book haul I did. I got the physical copy of Lola by the same author, Melissa Scrivner Love. I like that book all right. It does have its flaws. This is the sequel to it. She sent me that after seeing the book haul. And then she also sent me the Library of the Unwritten. Join the library. Raise hell. This is about a library in hell I guess. Oh no, it's Claire, it's the headlight burying of the unwritten wing, a neutral space in hell, where all the stories unfinished by their authors reside. Very, very cool premise. So that's from Terry. Next up we have Regina from Regina's Haunted Library. She writes under the name R. St. Claire. She sent me two of her books and an awesome bookmark. See the spoopy woman? Yeah, very cool. I hate the glare, but she sent me a really cool really cool bookmark. It says the dark hollow chronicles the ghosts of dark hollow, the witch of long shadows, the lord of black shear, black shear, black shire, black shear, by R. St. Claire, co-designed by Consuelo para para, I'm not sure. Model M. Jarnam, stock DeviantArt. Well, that's DeviantArt. But she sent me Black Magic, this one. And she also sent me Unmasked. The truth will be revealed. I love that image. It's a very cool image. You're seeing the red is from the curtain I have over the window of my office. But yes, this is very cool. Thank you so much, Regina. I appreciate it. Also, thank you, Terry, for the last books. Sorry I didn't say that. Next up we have, this is awesome. Kobe, I hope I'm getting your name right. Kobe, I'm not sure exactly which one. But they sent me it, the Dutch version. I believe it's a Dutch version. I posted on Twitter that it says, het, I'm going to murder this. Het distank van het, beast distank van het. I said, obviously het is distank means it is the shit. No, it doesn't mean that, but I got to take a lot of it anyways. But yeah, but on the back, the glowed, I don't know, I'm not sure. I guess that's a shining. I guess that's supposed to be, I'm not sure. No, the shining, I'm not going to murder it. But there's other copies, other covers from other ones of his books, like The Shining. That's literally just Jack Torrance from Kubrick's The Shining. That's Jack Nicholson on the cover right there. And then it looks like Loris Claiborne, the Spell Brecker. May I be maybe Kujo? I don't know. It's got a doggo on the cover. Anyways, last, Wayne Fenland sent me another amazing collectible. This is Heruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. But it opens up like this right now. It's the book. It's the, I think it's, what it is, it's the mimicry of the original Japanese release. Let's see here. When it was published in Japan, Norwegian Wood quickly attained cult status, making its author a national celebrity. This first edition of the new translation echoes the red and green format of the original that sold more than four million copies and captured the imagination of a nation. This is a beautiful collector's edition, Wayne. And thank you so much. Again, you always send the craziest gifts, man. I never, never expect them. I have no idea what's coming. This is another surprise that he sent me. Thank you so much. And for the other thing that you sent that we shall not speak of. Okay, so on with the rest of the book haul. Those are my gifts. I'm going to split this up kind of. Oh, no, I got some more gifts. Let me take that back. So I'm trying to, all of these, well, I have a load of John Connolly books. So we have The Black Angel, The Unquiet. These were sent to me by my friend Angela. And then The Lovers. I forgot those. But actually, I think I've already unhauled these. Yeah, I already, I unhauled these last time and I talked about them. They had the numbers on them. So I take that back. These are the new gifts from my friend Amanda, who is the one who sent me The Killing Kind and The White Road. She then sent me The Lovers. Then she, well, all these came in the same package. The Burning Soul. Trying to keep these in order. And the Reapers. This one actually comes before these other two. Let me stack all this back the way it was. I am so unorganized with this series. It's not even, it's not even funny. We're going to put these over here for a second. Let me get this one. Actually, I did have The Lovers. So I have, I now have two copies of The Lovers. And unfortunately, I have two copies of The Reapers because I went out and I bought The Reapers itself. So because I didn't want to end up getting to that and needing to go out and buy it. So I have two of those. My two would give away or something. I don't know. I don't know. But then Atria Publishing sent me the one before the newest one, which is A Book of Bones. They sent me the Woman in the Woods. And I grabbed Nocturnes because I'm almost done with the White Road. And there's a novella in here that is number 4.5 in the Charlie Parker series. So that's where I am at. That's where I'm at with my Parker series. All that going on right there. Okay. So I bought those new. Well, I bought, yeah, I bought Reapers and Nocturnes new. I also got two books from an author named Jonas Carlson or Jonas. Yona? I'm not sure. He's Norwegian. I believe Sweden. He's Swedish. Finally. I finally got it right. I've called Herman Koch, I don't know. Herman, I've called him Swedish and Norwegian. He's actually Dutch. I've called, let's see here, Jo Nezba. I've called him Swedish. I think he's actually Norwegian or maybe I've called him Norwegian and he's actually Swedish. This guy, definitely Swedish, has performed on Sweden's premiere stage and has acclaimed feature films and TV and in acclaimed feature films and TV series. Terry, my friend Terry, sent me a link to a giveaway of his called The Circus. I think it was. A giveaway for his newest book. It's not out yet. And I went and looked it up and these sound amazing. They sound like Haruki Murakami kind of magical realism and that's what I'm into right now. If it's weird and set in the real world, I'm all for it. So I got the invoice and I got the room. The room sounds amazing. The room is about just a regular guy that works in an office space and he finds a special room in that office space that nobody else can see. I got, these two books were on sale. Those were, those two were used. I think they were about five dollars a piece. But this has been on my wish list forever. Eileen by Otessa Moshfe? Maybe? Moshfe? Is that one? And then Baby Teeth by Zoji Stage. Zoji Stage? I'm not sure. But this one, Keeneland Patrick Burke raved about my buddy Don absolutely hated. And I trust both of them. So we'll see. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. But it's short and it was on sale for like seven bucks brand new. Both of these were under seven dollars brand new and they were on my wish list. So I went ahead and grabbed them. Next up we have, if you're a fan of Good Mythical Morning, I went ahead and got their book, The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek just because I was, I'm curious about it and it was super cheap. It's only like 14 dollars on Amazon. But, and I'm not going to Amazon anymore. This is the last purchase I got from Amazon. I'll talk about that in a video at some point in time. But I wanted to know really, if really and truly, they wrote the book. How you find these things out whether or not they have a ghostwriter is you go to the copyright page and then you go down to where it says the writers of the book and it'll have names. It'll say is Library of Congress cataloging in publication date names, McLaughlin Rhett, that's of course Rhett of Rhett and Link. Link Neal, that's Link author and then it says Reuben Lance author. It's the same thing with like James Patterson and Bill Clinton's book, The President is Missing. Neither one of those guys wrote that book. If you go to that, if you go to that page, you'll see that David Ellis is the one who wrote that book. He is marked down as the, as the, as the writer. So in this one, even though Rhett and Link are down as the writers are probably just a story contributors and then Lance Reuben or Reuben Lance, I'm not checking again, he's the one who actually wrote the book. But yeah, I'm interested to see if this is any good. I'm pretty sure it's probably YA. So who knows, I'm going to definitely give it a chance though. Now, the last one that I bought brand new is something I've been looking for forever. I was talking about it on Twitter and a company called Bucket of Blood, I think it is. They said, hey, we have a copy in and that is John W. Campbell's Who Goes There, the novella that the original The Thing and John Carpenter's The Thing were based on. Well, Howard Hawks, The Thing from Another World, then John Carpenter's Remake, The Thing. This is the novella. It's super short, man. It's got an introduction and everything from what I understand is a very, very, very short story. I'm going to be getting to this soon either for, no, not for Thrill Vember. I'm going to end up for DeSnowber. Yes, we are going all in with that stuff. Yes, we're turning into a basic book, basic booktube channel. No, but I want to have some fun and it sounds like fun. So we had Spooktober, Thrill Vember, DeSnowber, January, January, is what I'm going to do. I might do January. That doesn't sound good, but I got a bunch of YA books I need to get through. Things that were sent to me for review for some reason. I don't know why. I'm not a YA reviewer, but they were sent for review and I have to get to them at some point in time. Next up, pretty much all the rest of this stuff is either a quarter or it was all in the library's bag of books for a dollar. I can't remember what. This is the last bit of my haul for this past month. I just went in there and I cleared them out. Sorry, blue, but I cleared them out. Anyways, so first off, we have Masters of Horror edited by Aidan H. Norton. Norton? Not Norton. Norton. And it's got Bram Stoker, Ray Bradbury, Robert W. Chambers, A. Merritt and Henry Cutner. So many different people. I got it because of that cover. I mean, I love these old short stories, short story collections. And after I read them, I just end up getting rid of them. So if you're interested in it after I get done with it, I sell it to you. Cheap, too. Make two dollars. Want it for two dollars? Take it. Take it for two dollars. I got Lawrence Blocks, A Walk Among the Two Stones. It's a movie tie-in cover, but I do not own this copy. I don't own this book at all. I own some of the series, the Matthew Scutter series, an audiobook, some an e-book, which I'll never read. I'll probably end up, yeah, I'm gonna get to that explanation here in a minute also. But yeah, so this one, I don't know what number it is in the series, but I love the Scutter series, and I've never read this one. It was made into a movie starring Liam Neeson. I don't know why. I don't see Liam Neeson as Matthew Scutter, and I probably will never see the movie. Speaking of movies, we got Meg, Steve Alton. Of course, this is a book before it was the movie with Jason Statham, but anyways, I finally got a copy of Meg. It was up at the library. I know for a fact that this was a library copy, not a library copy. It's from the library. It's actually brand new. I mean, it's never been, it's perfect condition, perfect shiny condition. All right, next up we have The Prestige, which has the most boring cover I've ever seen. This is another one that's a great movie. I enjoyed it a lot, so I decided to get the novel. I don't know if it's a novelization or, yeah, it's gotta be the novel the movie's based on, right? It would say a novelization. It says a novel by Christopher Priest. I don't know. We'll find out. If you know, leave a comment down there and do the do. All right, next up we have, I finally, these came from Eight Books. I forgot, these actually came from Eight Books. It's Books of Blood Volume 3 and Books of Blood Volume 4. So I finally got physical copies of those once we get to me and Cammie from Cammie's Corner once we actually get to our Clyde Barker read through. I pretty much have all of his stuff. I also got, last month I got from Eight Books, I got a hardcover copy of this one, but I couldn't pass up the paperback of We World. So I finally got a decent reading copy of that one because I don't really like reading hardcovers. I just got it for the collection because if I don't end up liking all these books, I would just sell the collection and a collection of hardcover Barker should bring in quite a bit of money if it's a full collection. If it's a full collection. And last of the small trade, not trade, mass market paperbacks, I got One on One by Tabitha King, who is of course the famous author, her husband's an author too. I can't place his name right now, but anyways, let me stop. All right, so Tabitha King's One on One, this is like a 700 page, no, 520 some odd page romance or erotica or whatever. It's not my thing, folks, it's not my thing. I didn't know she wrote things like that, but if you've read it and it's not that, please let me know. Cody, you out there? You out there? I don't know if you are or not. Anyways, okay, so let me move some stuff around real quick because I got some funny stuff to show you. This isn't the funny stuff. I'll show you the funny stuff in a minute. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Saffron Fowler. I hope I got that right. Jonathan Saffron Fowler. Is that it? I don't know. Okay, and then this one's actually for, my wife, Shell loves this show or loved this show up until like the sixth season, but it's The Walking Dead, Rise of the Governor, I think. Is that it? Yeah, Rise of the Governor. Is that one? I got that for her. She also really enjoyed Son of Anarchy's Ravito, something like that. Anyways, it was a paperback tie-in. This one is Love Grossman's The Magicians. All this stuff came from the library, guys. I snatched everything, so a lot of this stuff will probably end up getting resold. This one, I'm slowly collecting Gora Videll books because I love the man and his intellect while he was alive, and I'm trying to get through his books now. It's going to take a while because I'm not too keen on his writing. I loved his interviews and all of his talking points and the two documentaries I watched on Netflix. This is Kalki, or whatever. How are we pronounced that by Gora Videll? And then this one I bought just to show you guys. Y'all, you see that? Can you see that? Here. Who is that? Y'all, that's Marilyn Monroe. This is not about Marilyn Monroe. This is called Demon by John Varley. Y'all, what is this? It's got a, what is this? Centaur? Centaur, whatever. The horseman people. And some, it's got a woman writing a female centaur. And then just Marilyn Monroe with like white ferret luck dragons all over. What is this book? I'm actually going to open it up and we're going to read this real quick. For three million years Gaia has turned a vast wheel-like world. Terry Pratchett, mad as hell right now, a God who created all the life forms inside her from the intelligence centaur like titanites to the huge living blimps miles long to the gruesome zombies who cannot die. This actually sounds really good. Unlike the gods of earth, Gaia has materialized and is unable to manifest herself in whatever form she wishes. She has intelligence and personality and ultimately she is a capricious God full of whimsy and danger. I'm going to stop. I'm going to try to read this y'all. Who wants to try and, but if y'all can find copies of this? Who wants to buddy read demon? But this name is my cat. Actually cat's name is holiday. They call her Holly, but she demon. It's a demon y'all. Then we got some CJ box because I've heard about box. I've heard about CJ. I've heard about CJ's box. No, I haven't heard about it. You stop it. But yeah, I think David Joyce talked about him. One of these is the first book in a series and the first Joe Pickett novel. This one's the first. This one's like number 11 I think when I looked it up. Yeah, so we got this one and we got this one. I'm going to get through this one. I don't know if I'll continue on with the series, but there you go. Next up is a classic. I'm actually going to try and finish Don Quixote. I love the idea of this story and I've watched the Thug Notes version. If you guys don't follow Thug Notes, you really need to. But I've watched the Thug Notes version. The Thug Notes is like Spark Notes, but hootish. It's amazing. Look it up on YouTube. But yeah, and it sounds amazing. And now that I know the themes and everything, maybe I can actually get through. I've never tried it before. Let me say that also. I've never tried it before. So I'm going to try Don Quixote. If anybody else has read it, let me know. But I opened up and I looked. This is a new translation and it reads rather smoothly. It doesn't read like the other classics. I have a problem with those. They're just so dry and this doesn't read dryly. Next up, I have a John Krakauer, Krakur, whatever, Into the Wild. It just looked interesting. I don't think I knew that's who it was. I thought it was... Why do I think it was Keurrack? Jack Keurrack? How do you pronounce that? I don't know. That's what I thought it was. But anyways, Into the Wild looks interesting. A young man from a well-to-do family, hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mount McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McKandless, who had given 25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car, and most of his possessions burned all the cash in his wallet and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. That escalated. Quickly the hell away. All right, next up we have Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I want to read this before I watch the Tom Hanks Holly Berry movie. I can't remember. Next up is another one I want to watch. I think it's on Amazon Prime. I'm not sure. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I tried one other Joseph Heller book and wasn't able to finish it, but we're going to try this one. We're going to try it. Next up, we have two that I'm going to end up selling because I've actually had this one before, which is the Nest and then this one, the House at the Edge of Night. They're just really good clean copies and they're going to go to Second and Charles because they pay pretty good penny for those. I don't know why they do, but they do. Next up is a book that I tried. I said I was going to talk about ebook copies and not being able to read them. I have tried several ebook copies, ARCs from NetGalley and the more I tried to read ebooks, the more I hate the format. I don't know what it is. It's just, it doesn't do anything for me and it is ruined several, what I feel are decent books. I just don't want to go back to them because I don't want to have to carry my tablet. I don't want to have to worry about my tablet dying, any of that stuff. But Syndrome E is a book that was sent to me for a review in an electronic copy and I did not finish it because it was an electronic copy. I think this is about people who either go deaf or blind. Let's just read it real quick. Lucy Hennabel, single mother and beleaguered detective, has just about enough on her plate when she receives a panic phone call from an ex-lover who has developed a rare disorder after watching an obscure film from the 1950s. With help from the brooding Inspector Frank Sharco who is exploring the movie's connection to five unearthed corpses at a construction site, Lucy begins to strip away the layers of what may be the most disturbing film ever made. With more lives on the line, Sharco and Lucy struggle to solve this terrifying mystery before it's too late. It doesn't say anything about what the syndrome is but I'm pretty sure, oh yeah, what you don't see could kill you. Something like that. It's not like Bird Box, I don't think, but it's more thriller than that. But yeah, so next up we have this one had some suspect goo on it. It was white and dried up and caked and yeah, I had to clean that. It's still not completely clean so I'm gonna keep my fingers away from what I think it is. Jonathan Kellerman's obsession. I'm just collecting Jonathan Kellerman books because I've enjoyed several of his so I'm just getting them so anytime that I have a want or need for some Kellerman I have plenty of Kellerman. Next up, Steve Jobs. I love biographies about people, pop culture, celebrities, that kind of thing so I grabbed this one. This one is written by Walter Isaacson. I think he worked for Time magazine and he had a lot of contact with Steve Jobs and I think Jobs asked him to write this book. I read just a little bit of the opening and that's what I got for it. Next up is an absolute sick boy from Dennis Lahane called The Given Day. I'm gonna give Lahane one more shot and this is gonna be the book. I haven't liked anything of his yet. I know Rager Me Down in the Doobly Doo. I tried the Detective series or whatever he has. I can't remember. Gone, Baby Gone. I tried that series. I tried Mystic River. I love the movie. Couldn't get into the book. I'm gonna try and I tried Shudder Island. Love the movie. Couldn't get into the book. I'm gonna try this one. It's an absolute monster. An absolute unit at 700 some odd pages. Next up, actually this is last. This is the very last one from this book haul. We have The Thirst by Yonezba. This thing was on clearance at, where was it? Books a million for six dollars so I went ahead and grabbed it. So if you have a Books a Million and you're interested in the Yonezba, he usually ends up over there. The quality of his hard covers has dropped considerably. He had a very cool series. I think last one, Phantom or Phantoms. No, it's just Phantom. The way they were doing those was like a matte cover with like a ripped out section that was glossy. They stopped doing that and now they're just doing these boring covers and I'm pretty sure that's him on the cover right here because I mean that's him. I mean it's either him or it's Kevin Patrick Burke. Anyways, but that's my book haul. This is the part in the show where I ask you guys to do your own book hauls down there in the doobly-doo. If you're a booktuber, YouTuber, whatever and you have a video with a book haul in it, please link it down below. If it goes to spam, I will eventually get to it. I check my spam once a week because sometimes there's some very innocent stuff over there that for some I have no idea why YouTube throws it over there, but links usually end up over there. Book hauls are some of my favorite content, probably my favorite content on the platform because I get to know people. It's a really easy way for me to get to know people because I like to not study but research people's buying habits. You can really tell someone's personality from what they buy or how much they buy, that kind of thing. But yeah, leave all those links, leave your book hauls, all that stuff there down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have been E, you have been E, this has been another book haul video. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!