Oh, expensive books.
This is a book vent, not a WTF, but in any case, I really wish someone would man up and put out a tome that was a nice decent synchronic and diachronic survey of Tocharian (A & B, and what little of C we have) that's in English, that I can put on my bookshelf, and that doesn't cost through the nose.
That's a pretty specific request. Also, an awesome one.
I should probably note that I'm one of those amateur linguists who just graduated high school and knows the subject at grad level (this has been confirmed by numerous profs). My personal linguistics library is 10 feet end to end, contains academic grammars and dictionaries on such oddities as Aleut, Middle Egyptian, Yup'ik, and Old Irish (FUCK YEAH OLD IRISH), and... well, take a look at this actual quote I had in Skyping with a friend:
I'll disclaim that I know the most about Old Irish, Latin and Greek.
...
I know some about Sanskrit, Hittite, and the dead Germanic languages
(except old high german)
...
but my knowledge of Old Church Slavonic, the minor Anatolian languages, the dead Italic languages besides Latin (ie Oscan, Umbrian and Faliscan), Tocharian, Old Persian/Avestan/Dardic, Armenian, Albanian and the Baltic languages is woefully shoddy
Note that by "knowledge" I meant knowing
about those languages; I can read some Latin and Greek, but that's it (and even those are rustier than they have been). I can't read a word of Old Irish, but I can sit down with a piece of paper and pencil and give a quick run-through of the Eldritch abomination that is its verbal system.