Book Hauls!

It was actually on Tuesday that I got these, but I forgot to post then:
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman

I had been hoping to get A Feast for Crows, but they didn't have it at the bookshop. Not that I didn't have an agonising decision - they also had Vellum, but that was more expensive than any two of the ones I bought.
 
What's with Vellum? I've seen it mentioned about the place, but not heard anything about it....
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The best SFF book of 2005 in my mind - and you heard it here first (literally).
 
Been a while since I could add to this thread. Just bought -


The House of Gaian by Anne Bishop
No Present Like Time - Steph Swainston
 
Patricia Mckillip's latest collection Harrowing the Dragon, and a Cherie Priest's Four and Twenty Blackbirds.
 
Today I picked up:

Tad Williams - The Dragonbone Chair
JV Jones - A Cavern of black ice
Greg Keyes - Newtons Cannon

Will not be buying anymore books for a good while! My 'to read' pile is getting a bit silly now!
 
kaneda said:
Today I picked up:

Tad Williams - The Dragonbone Chair
JV Jones - A Cavern of black ice
Greg Keyes - Newtons Cannon

Will not be buying anymore books for a good while! My 'to read' pile is getting a bit silly now!
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Cavern of Black Ice is on my list of ones 'to get'...though if I got all the ones I wanted I don't think I would be able to open the front door. There are just so many books out there to choose from...where do we stop? :)
 
Rosemary said:
Cavern of Black Ice is on my list of ones 'to get'...though if I got all the ones I wanted I don't think I would be able to open the front door. There are just so many books out there to choose from...where do we stop? :)
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Its hard isn't it! my problem is that I keep buying things and putting them aside and then going out and buying more stuff without reading the stuff before! hehe. Just need to read what I have now! :)
 
i have the same problem. i just keep on buying books and my pile of to-read books is getting bigger and bigger. besides there are a ot of books i want to reread.

the last book i ordered is a feast for crows. i odered it 2 weeks ago but the bookshop just can't get it.
it's so mean...
a lot of people got it and there are threads up :(
 
Books:

Anima: M. John Harrison
Stories of your life and others: Ted Chiang
Comeeeex:

Black Hole: Charles Burns
The Adventures of the Fly: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby etc.
Hellboy: Wake the Devil: Mike Mignola
Green Lantern/Green Arrow Vol. 2: Dennis O'Neil & Neal Adams
 
kaneda said:
Its hard isn't it! my problem is that I keep buying things and putting them aside and then going out and buying more stuff without reading the stuff before! hehe. Just need to read what I have now! :)
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If I'd known that maybe I wouldn't have recommended anything....;)

I'm in the same situation, have about 15 large sized books to read so I'm not buying anything else until next year....:(
 
*Has 60 unread* Yes, 60. You've seen the picture:eek:

I tried to not buy anymore, but its like obsessive compulsive for me:(
 
Rane Longfox said:
*Has 60 unread* Yes, 60. You've seen the picture:eek:

I tried to not buy anymore, but its like obsessive compulsive for me:(
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Well start cracking then...:(
 
Rane Longfox said:
*Has 60 unread* Yes, 60. You've seen the picture:eek:

I tried to not buy anymore, but its like obsessive compulsive for me:(
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:eek: I have about 9 to read books! You're taking the addicition to spending to a whole different level my friend!
 
Well, I have just found out that it pays to not buy a publication as soon as it is in the Bookshop. :D

Today I bought Eldest by Paolini, Knife of Dreams/Robert Jordan and a new copy of Polgara The Sorceress. All had a 35% reduction in their price..:D
 
Okay, hold the presses...lma bought a hardback book. New, even.:eek: :D

See, I've been reading The Historian out of the library, only it was just a rental book, so only a 1-week check-out, with no renewal. That got me about half way through the book...I've had other things to do, so the reading isn't going as quickly as I'd like. But it's good enough that I want to finish it and will probably read it again, so I went out and bought it.
 
Robert A Heinlein - Rocket Ship Galileo - The 1947 first edition of RAH's first published juvenile novel! Wowser! A former library copy, so subject to the usual defacements, but still...

Frederik Pohl: Heechee Rendezvous - Another handsome hardback edition, though not a 1st edition. Both acquired ultra-cheap 2ndhand.

Batman in the Sixties. The most varied of the Batman Decades collections. Early stories have the joyous, loopy verve of the best 50s fare, then suddenly everything becomes campy and silly like the TV series, and then the last few stories point to the darker, more realistic Batman of the 70s. Great snapshot of an icon in transition.
 
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