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Investing in Apartment Buildings: Create a Reliable Stream of Income and Build Long-Term Wealth
$24.95
I bought this book anticipating a reasonably sophisticated treatment of apartment building buying/selling/operating. What I got was a book that couldn't have taken more than a month to write. Blah Blah Blah, why apartments are great/risky/worth it. About 3 pages of number crunching in the entire book. Save your money for something else.

Billy Wilder Gift Set (The Apartment / The Fortune Cookie / Some Like it Hot / Kiss Me Stupid)
$39.98
Yes, you can definitely make a list of the four top Billy Wilder movies and it would not match what is in this set. But that list would include the two Wilder masterpieces ("Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment") and "The Fortune Cookie" is very very underrated. So to have those three in one set is nothing to quibble over. And the fourth film, "Kiss Me Stupid", is still both entertaining and an interesting step on Wilder's progression towards "Avanti!". So if you own now Wilder you should start with this boxed set.

My only issue with this set is that the version of "Some Like It Hot" is not subtitled. But given the excellence of the movies themselves this did not detract from my rating or my enjoyment.

Joe's Apartment
$9.98
I never knew it could be so fun to hang out with cockroaches, It's changed my life!

The Sweet Smell of ASH in the Morning: The Pocket Edition

A Life Full of Farewells
$15.98
Vaugly menacing titles like "Not Every Cown Can Be in the Circus." A small masterpiece, a tone poem to melancholy in the tradition of Scott Walker or Leonard Cohen, but Peter Milton-Walsh inhabits his own universe. Sucks you in regardless of your mood, but best for down time. The band's most consistent album, and their best; "You've Become My Big Excuse" ranks with "Mr. Somewhere" among the best of the band's songs. This is an outstanding example of what is sometimes called Chamber Pop--and though labels are the death of creativity and imagination, 'Chamber Pop' is a perfect description of what The Apartments are up to. But appreciation of the term is no substitute for the experience of hearing The Apartments.