Book Hauls!

[GOLLUM]

Oh right ... like you don't have any collector's items on your bookshelf.

HMMM...well you might have a point there....

Some of the rarer items sadly don't have author's signatures but books by more recent authors including some on this board make it all worthwhile.....

 

[Reader]

I bought these books last week:

Underworld, Evolution
Aliens V Predator, Hunters Planet
The Fighters, Son of Thunder
The Crystal Shard (Drizzt)
An Acidental Goddess

I have so far read the Underworld novel.
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[Rane Longfox]

Jasper Fforde's second, "Lost in a good book", and "Only Begotten Daughter", by James Morrow, about Jesus' half-sister, which apparently won a World Fantasy Award, but I'm not sure which year that was. I've never heard of it before, personally, but it looks good

 

[GOLLUM]

"Only Begotten Daughter", by James Morrow, about Jesus' half-sister, which apparently won a World Fantasy Award, but I'm not sure which year that was. I've never heard of it before, personally, but it looks good

It was 1991 Cal.

I must admit I've not heard of it either, it's classed as SF and sounds kinda interesting but also confronting as it's supposed to depict people in various states of degradation.

Here's another interesting recent release by Morrow members may be interested in checking out:

The Last Witchfinder tells of Jennet Stearne, who makes it her life's mission to bring down the 1604 Parlimentary Witchcraft Act. She is aided in this endeavor by some luminaries of her day incl. Benjamin Franlkin, Isaac Newton and Baron de Montesquieu.

http://www.sff.net/people/Jim.Morrow/witchfinder.html

I've not read anythnig by this author, wonder if anyone else here has?..

 

[j d worthington]

No, but sounds interesting, and very much up my alley (the new one as well). I may have to clear some more space. Jeez, I haven't played hooky like this in 'way too long......

 

[Rane Longfox]

Hmm, not sure about the whole degradation stuff, tbh. Obviously it focuses on religious zealots and the disabled, but nothing too shocking...

Just swapped my copy of Bill Bryson's "Down Under" for EE Doc Smith's "Subspace Explorers". Teh awesomeness!!

 

[elvet]

Just got back from Chapters with a bag full of books .
Emerald Magic (Great Tales of Irish Fantasy)
His Magesty's Dragon and Throne of Jade (Naomi Novik)
The Iron Tree and The Well of Tears (Cecilia Dart-Thornton).
I'm really interested in seeing the accompanying CD to The Well of Tears.

 

[GOLLUM]

Just got back from Chapters with a bag full of books .
His Magesty's Dragon and Throne of Jade (Naomi Novik)
The Iron Tree and The Well of Tears (Cecilia Dart-Thornton).
I'm really interested in seeing the accompanying CD to The Well of Tears.

I'm soon to launch into His Magesty's Dragon which everybody keeps raving about. Dang To Read pile *shakes fist*......

I've read The Iron Tree and The Well of Tears. Not bad but not as good as her orginal Bitterbynde trilogy IMO. I've got the CD and frankly I'ld hoped for something more interactive. Having said that the graphics are reasonably good and it is nice having a 360 degree 3D view of a writer's world to accompany the books.

 

[elvet]

Thanks, Gollum. I was looking for some comments about the CD.

 

[Kettricken]

Just came back from the bookshop where they sell 'ramsj' (does this make sense in English? Those are books which aren't sold in the regular bookshops anymore, and are sold for a low price).

Bought the hardcover version of "Dune" by Frank Herbert, for only 6 euros!

 

[Rane Longfox]

It was 1991 Cal.

Ha!! It was 1990, actually. Muahahahaha, something you got wrong. I must savour this moment

Its an excellent book, by the way, I'd recommend it to anyone except very devout christians... or very devout satanists, thinking about it.

 

[GOLLUM]

Ha!! It was 1990, actually. Muahahahaha, something you got wrong. I must savour this moment

Just to clarify, book nominations occur in the year previous to when the award is judged. "Only Begotten Daughter" by James Morrow was nominated in 1990 when it was published I believe but was awarded World Fanatsy honours in 1991.

Nice try but back to the drawing board young Paduan...

FYI:
http://www.sustainablevillage.com/awrbooks/html/WorldFantasyNovels.html

 

[Marky Lazer]

The Fast Red Road / White Noise / Pagan's Crusade / The World According to Garp / The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / Dermaphoria / The Girl in the Flammable Skirt / Holes / The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon / Torture the Artist / High Fidelity

 

[Rane Longfox]

Gah, foiled again. I shall trick you yet, old man

 

[purple_kathryn]

This'd be my "to read" list (in no particular order)

 

[speedingslug]

Just got the Dan Brown papers backs

Waiting for Robet Jordan, Steven Donaldson and Terry Goodkind to do their next books.

 

[Rane Longfox]

Dan Brown and Terry Goodkind? Ouch...

Found pretty much the only bookshop in Cairns, and bought:
Al Reynolds - Century Rain
China Mieville - The Scar (read this one already, but its such a good book, I wanna read it again)

 

[Rosemary]

Not too bad a day in the bookshop...

A new revised edition of A Prince of the Blood/Raymond E. Feist, the original edition I had read a long time ago and a new copy of Warlord, Volume 3 of The Hythrun Chronicles by Jennifer Fallon for only $AU20

 

[BookStop]

Ok- these aren't specfic at all, but I just got hooked on Patricia Sprinkle's A Thoroughly Southern Mystery series. The first book is difficult to find at the cheap price I like to pay, so I had to head to the library to read it, but I bought all the rest! They are so charming.

 

[j d worthington]

I must admit that, since moving back to Austin just over a month ago, I've been very lucky on that score. Not too many contemporary sf/fantasy books, but quite a few classics in the field, as well as a lot of really neat older books. Most of these were going for ridiculously low prices: a 6-volume set of the works of Washington Irving published in the 1880s; a 9-volume set of Bulwer from the same period ($5 each); and an 1824 set of the Newgate Calendar; not to mention some oddities such as Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land by "An American" from 1841 (this last was a 2-volume set they were selling for $1!!!), and a host of horror anthologies. The prize, though, was getting a 1795 edition of Johnson's Idler for a price I could afford; now that really made my day (week, month, year...). This was the best book haul I've had in a long, long while.