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2013 False(B)logic Summer Book Giveaway!

The selection won’t be quite as vast as this picture suggests…

It’s that time of year when the sun doesn’t set until eight, children are out playing in yards, the air is filled with the sounds and smells of BBQ, and I give books away! If the book giveaway had corresponded with Fall the selection this year would have been massive. Alas, it didn’t and all the books D and I gave away in the two moves between this give away and the last are being enjoyed by strangers and the kinds of people who get their books from thrift stores.

What False(B)logic lacks in quantity we make up for in quality! This year I’m giving away, out of my personal collection, the following:

  • Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (signed)
  • Selected Poems of Robert Frost
  • Amphigorey Too by Edward Gorey
  • Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
  • Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
  • The Myth of Persecution by Candida Moss
  • Overheated by Andrew Guzman
  • Going Clear by Lawrence Wright

How does it work?

Simple! For the each post in the month of July a book will be given away. To enter your name in to the raffle for that book simply comment on the post! You may comment on multiple posts and win multiple books!

When does it start?

Right now! Just enter a comment below for a chance to win!

2012 Completed Books

Kinda looks like my library…

Here’s my list of books read for the year! Not bad, but not my best either.

January (3)
Swanzues by Gronk
Tuk Tuk by Will Kirkby
Necropolis by Michael Demprey

February (4)
The Information by James Gleick
Dance of the Damned by Alan Bligh
Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey
The Information Diet by Clay A. Johnson

March (3)
Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World
Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future by John MacCormick
Sixth Column by Robert Heinlein

April (3)
The People’s History of the United States of America by Howard Zinn
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

May (5)
Reap the East Wind by Glen Cook
Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht
Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft drawn by Jason Bradley Thompson
The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity by John W. Loftus

June (6)
Not the Impossible Faith by Richard Carrier
Where’s my Cow by Terry Prachett
Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey
Reinventing Life by Jeffrey Scott Coker
Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds
The Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray

July (3)
Threshold by Caitlin Kiernan
The Color of Magic by Terry Prachett
The Light Fantastic by Terry Prachett

August (5)
God and the Folly of Faith by Victor J. Stenger
1493 by Charles Mann
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson

September (4)
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Wyrd Sisters By Terry Pratchett
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

October (1)
Several Short Sentences about Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

November (2)
Meaning and Value in a Secular Age by Paul Kurtz
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

December (9)
The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer
1493 by Charles Mann
Guards, Guards! by Terry Pratchett
The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus
Bhavagad Gita trans. by Sir Edwin Arnold
New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
All my Friends are Still Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John

2012 total: 48

2011 total: 50
2010 total: 69

False’s Four – Creepy Stuff

Creepy Books:

  • Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows
  • Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger’s Malleus Maleficarum
  • Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves
  • Dan Simmons’ The Song of Kali

Creepy Music:

  • Bass Communion’s Ghosts on Magnetic Tape
  • Henryck Górecki’s Symphony No. 3
  • Leonard Cohen’s A Thousand Kisses Deep
  • Sujan Steven’s John Wayne Gacy

Creepy Art:

  • Edvard Munch’s The Scream of Nature
  • Hieronymus Bosch’s The Last Judgement
  • Francisco Goya’s Saturno devorando a su hijo
  • William Blake’s The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy

Creepy Cinema:

  • F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu
  • Satoshi Kon’s Paprika
  • David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive
  • Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The City of Lost Children

Not Creepy Creepy:

  • Pete Doctor’s Monsters, Inc.
  • James Cameron’s Aliens
  • Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away

The Second Annual False(B)logic Book Giveaway, Final Round

Still plenty of books for everyone!
First, I want to extend congratulations to the winners of last round: Gahitsu, Elfir, Kalir, and Adam! Emails have been sent and as soon as I hear back from them books will be on their way in the mail! This will be the last week of The giveaway until the summer of 2013. The rules remain the same comment on this post or any of the following posts next week and you’ll be entered to win one of five books I’ll be giving away. I want to thank everyone who has participated so far and encourage the rest of you to leave a comment. Free is free, right?

Thanks again!

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