Book Hauls!

[murphy]

Oh, and I have a few books coming in from Ebay by an author named Alis Rasmussen(yes I know this is Kate Elliott), but I've forgotten the names right now.

Could these books be the Highroad Trilogy?

 

[Lunatic]

Could these books be the Highroad Trilogy?

Yep, that's them, I believe.

 

[Brys]

I got quite a few books today:
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercromie
The Stormcaller - Tom Lloyd
Accelerando - Charles Stross
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Keeping it Real - Justina Robson
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

And quite a few general fiction books today. As you can see, I'm catching up on some of the 2006 releases this year (I already have the new Bakker and Erikson).

 

[j d worthington]

Got Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Tales in the mail today -- quick response. Thanks for bringing this one to my attention, Teresa; somehow I'd overlooked it. I have some of the stories in other books, but not all, so I'm looking forward to this.

 

[murphy]

Just received the last 4 books in Paul Kearney's Monarchies of God series. Someone on the board, Gollum I think, recommended them. Tried the first one,Hawkwood's Voyage, and liked it so I ordered the rest. Looking forward to a good read.

 

[Werthead]

Awesome series. Kearney's last book, The Mark of Ran, hints that his new series (The Sea-Beggars) will be even better. The second book, The Earth That Abides, is out in a couple of months as well.

 

[aarti]

Just bought The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, and will be coming in tomorrow. I'm a sucker for hype, and this book does really sound like it will be fun.

Oh, I got an e-mail about this one from the publisher! It sounds very, very good. I have a $15 Borders gift certificate burning in my pocket and am debating this purchase.

More recently in fantasy, I've bought Naomi Novik's Teremaire trilogy and Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint. Those are the ones that are burning from their places on my TBR pile and will probably move straight to the top of my list.

 

[Stenevor]

Got 3 Iain M Banks books off ebay last week. The Algebraist, Inversions and Look to Windward. All hardback 1st editions, unread, one signed for less than £15 delivered. Bargain.

 

[Rosemary]

Picked up Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy for $AU4.95 each....that's a real bargain!!

 

[j d worthington]

Just received two in the mail:

Tramp Royale, by Robert A. Heinlein (one of the very few of his I didn't have)

The Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind the Legend, by Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce III (rev. ed.), a book tracing down the various myths, legends, cults, etc. and debunking them with good scholarship (dosed with some wry wit)

 

[Silent Speaker]

Praise to the patron of parsimony!
That begetter of basement bargains!
That- (you get the point )

-The 1st Chron's of Thomas Covenant (S.Donaldson)(and to think that I was about to buy them all separately! At a unused bookstore )
-Neuromancer (Willy Gibson)
-Speaker for Dead (Scotty Card)
-Some anthology of sci-fi stories (classicy era)

And the (unrelated) prize piece, dun da da dun dan daaaan!
-The Road to Reality: A complete guide to the laws of the universe -R.Penrose
I'm so happy! It costs 850 baht (round 12 pounds or so) at the book store and I got it for 450!
Take that you silly foreign-book-markup haha!

 

[Adasunshine]

Recently...

Neverwhere, American Gods & Stardust by Neil Gaiman (have bought the revised editions in paperback, have the old ones though)

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie - anyone read this??

Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson (slowly getting there just 3 & 4 to go now)

Think that's it..

xx

 

[BookStop]

I just ordered Mark's first Darkweaver book for my daughter's bday.

 

[Kettricken]

Bought 'Anansi Boys' by Neil Gaiman... one of my favourite authors, so I can't wait to read it!

 

[elvet]

Just got :
The Lies of Loche Lamora
Threshold (Sara Douglass)
Sarantine Mosaic and Lions of Al-Rassan (Guy Gavriel Kay)

I looks at Kushiel's Scion, but decided to wait a bit. I always buy new books, but never seem to get around to reading them for a few years (major backlog). By the time I'm ready to get into them, most are out in paperback .

 

[j d worthington]

I always buy new books, but never seem to get around to reading them for a few years (major backlog)...

Backlog? What's this backlog thing you speak of?

*looks around at all the shelves in room*

Ooohhhhh......

 

[Nesacat]

Backlog, backlog ... such a terrible, terrible word.

It fills up shelves and spills over into piles on the floor and half the bed and spills shimmers of moonlight and anticipation into the days to come. We need another word ...

 

[j d worthington]

Backlog, backlog ... such a terrible, terrible word.

It fills up shelves and spills over into piles on the floor and half the bed and spills shimmers of moonlight and anticipation into the days to come. We need another word ...

Would another phrase do? How about "as yet unexplored gateways"?

 

[Nesacat]

Done ... unexplored gateways it shall be.

So now we all have several unexplored gateways just waiting, waiting to be walked through.

Let's leave backlogs to bureaucrats and wielders of bals and balls of red tape.

 

[j d worthington]

Done ... unexplored gateways it shall be.

So now we all have several unexplored gateways just waiting, waiting to be walked through.

Let's leave backlogs to bureaucrats and wielders of bals and balls of red tape.

What an excellent suggestion. Everyone wins! Everyone's happy!

Speaking of book hauls, I finally had a couple of older orders come through: the revised edition of Michael Moorcock's Wizardry and Wild Romance, and my own copy of Jack London's Before Adam (didn't get to the library copy in time due to illness). And a copy of Lord Dunsany's Tales of War arrived very late, but looks very good, too....