Rainbow Six

I love book exchanges. I like the sheer randomness of the experience, never knowing exactly what you're going to get out of the deal. Well, this time round was no exception. I did my usual tossing out of books that I deemed to be "trash", and then gone on to pick up stuff that I didn't think to be trash at the time. Simple enough. Actually, chances are I'd think they're trash anyway a year from now, but that just lets me dump them back in the book exchange. It's an elegant system.

Now, this year, I managed to pick up a book on runes, which is quite amusing to me seeing as how I've got my own personal set of runes and this is well...about my stuff. Always nice to have books about stuff you already know. And then I happened to see this boring looking book that seemed to have lost its sleeve: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Now, I know some people didn't like the story because it's quite one dimensional and not necessarily credible, but hey I liked it back then, so I picked up the nice hefty hard cover to decide whether I liked to have another copy. And then I saw the silver marker writing on it. Holy crap...Tom Clancy's signature. DIBS!

I later found out that I picked up an autographed limited edition copy of the book. With his old signature, to boot. Well, it's a happy day for me, and I hope someone out there isn't too unhappy about it. I believe we can safely assume that books that wind up at the exchange are unwanted, after all...