Book Hauls!

[Kailana]

Yep it's part of the trilogy which also includes Lirael and Abhorsen. It's the first book. A decent read but not as good as his Keys to the Kingdom series.

Oh, good to know. I just picked it up one day because it was pretty inexpensive and he was an author I had been meaning to read.

 

[Rosemary]

Book Hauls When I was in Melbourne!

Magician – Raymond Feist AU$12.00

The Diamond Throne - David Eddings }
A Time Of Exile - Katherine Kerr } AU$15.00 the four books
A Time Of War – - Katherine Kerr }
A Time Of Justice – - Katherine Kerr }

Have read all of these previously but donated them...now I wished I hadn't!

 

[Jay]

Genetopia by Keith Brooke
Solistice Wood by Patrica Mckillip
A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger
Macrolife by George Zebrowski
Rosetta Codex by Richad Paul Russo
Sister of the Dead by Barb and J.C Hendee
The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfield
Bridge of Rama by Ashok Banker
Bridge of Souls by Fiona Macintosh
Lord of Shadows by Jennifer Fallon
Devices and Desires by KJ Parker

 

[Jay]

Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey
Firethorn by Sarah Micklem
Emperor by Stephen Baxter
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

 

[Kailana]

That Darkess that Comes Before - Scott Bakker
Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb
Rhapsody - Elizabeth Haydon
American Gods - Neil Gaiman

 

[ladyflorange]

going book shopping today. Yay for the Oxfam book shop - the best thing to EVER be invented! I'm very very excited

 

[murphy]

Yeah that's her! I got Clan of the Cave Bear. What do you think of the rest of them?

Sorry to take so long to answer, but I've been offline for 2 weeks. Computer problems, phone problems, etc.

The rest of the series is not bad, but as I said Clan of the Cave Bear was the best. She hasn't finished the series yet. There's supposed to be one more book coming out.

 

[steve12553]

Cell by Stephen King
Eats(,) Shoots and Leaves By Lynne Truss
The Man in High Castles by Phillip K. Dick
Between Worlds edited by Robert Silverberg
Song of Susannah by Stephen King

I love ordering over the internet and having it come in the mail. Life is good.

 

[GOLLUM]

Recent haul including today:

Bonehunters - Steven Erikson Yeh!!!...
Forgotten Beasts Of Eld - Patricia McKillip (Masterwork)
The Well Of The Unicorn - Fletcher Pratt (MW)
Time and The Gods - Lord Dunsany (MW)

 

[ladyflorange]

Got David Gemmell - Last Sword of Power, Maggie Furey - Spirit of the Stone, and Isaac Asimov - Foundation all half price from the Oxfam bookshop... so like 3 quid altogether. It was brilliant!!

 

[Jay]

Some Arthur Machen works I found; a 1926 edition signed by Machen of Dreads And Drolls , and the first editon of The Hill of Dreams (1907).

I'm also rounding out my Mishima Yukio collection by snagging a 1975 editon of Acts of Worship - Mishima Yukio is simply a god.

Today I also got my copies of Michael de Larrabeiti's Borribles (that Brys has been pudhing on me) collected in 700+ pages, as well as a copy of the first edition of the first book (1976)

Went on a comic (all but one Hardcover) binge off of some rec's from forum members elsewhere:

The Name of the Game by Will Eisner
Crisis on Infinite Earths (Absolute)
The World's Greatest Super-Heroes by Paul Dini, and Alex Ross
New X-Men Volume 1 by Grant Morrison,
Lucifer by Mike Carey
Powers Volume 1 by Brian Michael-Bendis,
Seven Soldiers by Grant Morrison
Runaways by Brian K. Vaughn
Fable by Bill Willingham
The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess

 

[elvet]

Having recently joined this forum, I've picked up some recommendations from the comments. Thanks to the members, here's what I nabbed today:
Madeline Howard - The Hidden Stars
Kage baker - The Anvil of the World
David Eddings - The Belgariad Volume 1

and, just couldn't get enough of the Anne Bishop's Black Jewels so I got Dreams Made Flesh.
So many books, so little time

 

[Reader]

Homeland Book1 (Drizzt Saga)
Exile Book2 (Drizzt Saga)
Conan the Hunter
Alien Asylum Book 2
When the Devil Dances (Sience Fiction från 2003)
Terminator 3, the novel
Herald of Darkness (Sience Fiction, world of darkness saga)

 

[GOLLUM]

Some Arthur Machen works I found; a 1926 edition signed by Machen of Dreads And Drolls , and the first editon of The Hill of Dreams (1907).

Today I also got my copies of Michael de Larrabeiti's Borribles (that Brys has been pudhing on me) collected in 700+ pages, as well as a copy of the first edition of the first book (1976)

OOH I do envy you on the Machen works mate, very nice get indeed...

Borribles is a bit of a classic and influenced Mieville, so I'm a little amazed someone with your obvious breadth of SFF knoweldge hasn't tried it yet unless you're referring to that particular edition LOL!

 

[Jay]

Recently ordered a 1950 edition of Mervyn Peake's The Glassblowers .

Borribles is a bit of a classic and influenced Mieville, so I'm a little amazed someone with your obvious breadth of SFF knoweldge hasn't tried it yet unless you're referring to that particular edition LOL!

These are the first copies I have had of it.

I had heard of it, and seen it mentioned ,but just never picked them up and read them (hence why I never mention them). I had only heard of them in recent years actually, during timws when I never buy a older book (25 year or back or something tgat has some vintage quality to it) without looking for the first edition first. I decided to cheat this time and buy the mdoenr collected edition and just the first edition of the first book. I was reminded of it recently by Brys, and decided to cop it. Looking forward to getting to it perhaps sometime next month.

 

[elvet]

Not that I'm an addict or anything, but I just had to get more books this weekend. I've got to stop visiting Chapters and Starbucks .
Picked up the Belgariad Omnibus Volume 2, Nightlife, and the Last Light of the Sun (Guy Gavriel Kay).

 

[GOLLUM]

I have a friend who runs an independent bookshop and quite often assist in consulting on an informal basis about notable items he may wish to include in his SFF collection from numerous boxes of books that come his way. Now just today he was showing me a box of goodies that inlcuded a book by Fletcher Pratt (of the classic L Sprague De Camp and Pratt collaboration The Compleat Enchanter series and Masterwork book Well Of The Unicorn) which I happily received free of charge. Not one of his better known books I'm guessing but I've not read this SF book and so for me it's a treasure to explore.....

Invaders From Rigel - Fletcher Pratt

 

[Jay]

The Magical Worlds of Philip Pullman by David Colbert
Time Dancers by Steve Cash
The Shining City by Kate Forsyth
To Serve and Submit by Susan Wright
Treasure Forest by Cat Bordhi
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham (which I posted my review of yesterday)
Once Upon an Autumn Eve by Dennis L. Mckiernan
Red Lightning by John Varley

 

[Jay]

Karavan by Jennifer Roberson
Giants' Dance by Robert Carter
The Borgia Bride by Jennifer Kalogridis

 

[Jay]

I got this rather interesting anthology today, and while I generally like to journey into stories unknown to me this one, Novel Ideas, edited by Brian Thomson, offers a nice group of 7 stories that led to definitive SF works, and includes, Lady in the Tower which inspired The Rowan by Anne Mccaffery, Air Raid whic inspired Millenium by Jon Varley , Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Firewatch, which inspired To Say Nothing of the Dog , All Clear and Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, The Postman by David Brin, and Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress.

It highlights author's ashor stories that later became landmark novels. Good stuff.