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hi atomic.

am still around and thanks for the offer, but i managed to find the trilogy in book form and devoured it in like a week.

audiobooks are less to my taste, mainly due to a lack of a mp3 player, but i'd be happy to rescue some of your books from going to waste.

also, in case i manged to pick up something that anybody wants over the last three months. my not-a-bookcase currently holds...
- James Fallows - "Postcards From Tomorrow's Square"
- Phillip Pan - "Out of Mao's Shadow"
- Xinran - "The Good Women of China"
- Gao Xingjian - "Soul Mountain"
- Roberto Bolano - "2666"
- Larry Niven - "Ringworld"
- Terry Pratchett.. - "The Science of Discworld"
- David Wong - "John Dies at the End"
- the last two Hunger Games books
- "Gulliver's Travels"
- and Jonathan Campbell's "Red Rock" and Jim Yardley's "Brave Dragons" but those have sentimental value. borrow away though.

Forums > Living in Kunming > book exchange?

late update on this, in case people care...

thanks @tigertiger & @thebookexchange. good info. went to Vintage Cafe a couple of weeks ago and checked out the bookshelf there, but didn't find anything i liked (mostly paperback bestseller thrillers and the like), guess i'm more picky than i thought. been meaning to go to Silver Spoon at some point, but haven't... maybe tomorrow?

and yea, search just yielded long-dead book swap results. so i wanted to see if there was any interest in starting up a new book swap, once a month, at a favorite cafe, that is destined to slowly die until the process can begin anew?

anybody?

if not, i can scrape by online (bookdepository.com, free international shipping FTW) and through fortunate encounters.

Forums > Living in Kunming > book exchange?

i'm a wannabe physics nerd so i'd be into The Grand Design.

you want to borrow the Chinese Rock book?

i'm always free after 1 til like 5 on weekdays, so whatever day works for you?

i emailed Chapter One, so we'll see what becomes of that.

Forums > Living in Kunming > book exchange?

hiya.

new to Kunming and seeing if there is any kind of book exchange infrastructure in place?

if not, anybody interested in Roberto Bolano's 2666 or James Fallows' Postcards from Tomorrow's Square? i also have Red Rock: The Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll, but am kinda attached to it; loan is fine, though.

i'm mostly interested in The Hunger Games, but will take almost anything.

reply or alex.linder13@gmail.com

thanks