Book Hauls!

[Thadlerian]

Big birthday-related haul today, all based on recommendations I've got here:

City of Saints and Madmen - Jeff VanderMeer

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor) - Sergei Lukyanenko

The Warrior Prophet - R. Scott Bakker (read the first one last month, loved it)

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I'm aware of most old books in the SFF genres, Gollum. There used to be fewer of them and it was easier to keep track of everything that was available. Unfortunately, that's not always the same thing as remembering whatever the heck it was that I knew about a book aside from the author and title.

I was under the impression that I had started the Ford a long time ago and didn't get very far. But looking up a description of my book to jog my memory about why that was, it doesn't sound familiar at all. Either time has wiped my memory of this book clean, or I'm thinking of something else.

 

[Nesacat]

Went to the bookstore and they were having a sale on penguin classics so I got a couple of replacement copies.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth by Jules Verne
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

GOLLUM, I'll second Teresa on Something Wicked. It's a beautifully written book and wonderfully, believably magical. One of my favourite Bradbury's and he is one of my all time favourite authors.

Daughter of Regals is a pretty good collection and my favourite is the title story. I was up and cheering and crying at the same time at the end of it.

 

[GOLLUM]

Well up to my old tricks. Just passing by firstly my local bookshop near to work today and then in the City on the way to a function and happened to pick up:

Torments Of The Traitor (Vol 1 Song Of The Tears) - Ian Irvine. Latest in this long running page-turner albeit not overly prose laden EPIC series.

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie. Book 1 of a new EPIC fantasy series. Read some reasonably good reviews across various boards on this one so thought I'd give it a go.

Darker Than You Think - Jack Williamson. Part of the VG Fantasy Masterwork series. Argued to be the best known American novel on Lycanthropy (human transformation into a Wolf or Wolverine-like creature).

Some interesting reading lies ahead...

 

[Marya]

Got a new copy of A Clash of Kings (G.R.R. Martin) and found a used copy of Sword in the Storm by David Gemmell (I've never read any Gemmell and it's the first book in one of his series so I thought I'd pick it up!).

 

[Cerberus]

Got to love charity bookstores, just got hold of:
The Skinner - Neal Asher
Polar City Nightmare - Katherine Kerr and Kate Daniel
Black Genisis - L Ron Hubbard
and a few others as well

 

[Jason_Taverner]

well I've just been on amazon and bought

The Last Guardian and Wolf in Shadow- David Gemmell

The Darkness That Comes Before- R.Scott Bakker (recomended by our very own Gollum)

Fallen Angels- A book on Jack Vettriano art work for my girlfriend's birthday

Sawn Song- Robert McCammon a replacement to one I loaned out and never saw again

 

[Jason_Taverner]

Sword in the Storm by David Gemmell (I've never read any Gemmell and it's the first book in one of his series so I thought I'd pick it up!).

Good choice the Rigante series is one of his best look out for Ravenheart

 

[Marya]

Awesome! I'll keep perusing to see what treasures I find.

 

[GOLLUM]

Picked up The Lies Of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch.

Now to see what all the fuss is about.

 

[Thadlerian]

Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson

I found Deadhouse Gates sort of an anticlimax, but people's opinion around here seem to imply that I should at least read MoI before I make up my mind on whether or not to continue the Malazan series.

 

[Scriven]

Temeraire by Naomi Novik is by latest buy. Fascinating story, but the writing style is a tad clunky and distant. It's hard to feel on the edge of your seat when the author is constantly relying on 'very' and 'certainly' to add some urgency to the narrative.

I'm curious about The Lies of Locke Lamora, I've heard a lot about it - mostly good, some bad. Another one to pick up, perhaps.

 

[elvet]

Picked up The Lies Of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch.

Now to see what all the fuss is about.

Looking forward to your comments.

 

[GOLLUM]

Expect to start on this next week Elvet....

 

[Nesacat]

Quite by accident I got these

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
Vathek by William Beckford
The Book Of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould

Would like to know what you think about Locke Lamora too GOLLUM.

 

[Nesacat]

Went to the book sale oeganised by Pay Less Books, which sells remaindered and used books from the US; and bought these:

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradburt
Drastic Dragon Of Draco Texas - Elizabeth Scarborough
Brokedown Palace - Steven Brust
The Unlikely Ones - Mary Brown
Lestrade & The Devil's Own - M.J. Trow
A Classic Christmas Crime - Edited by Tim Heald
The Celery Stalks At Midnight - James Howe
Bunnicula Strikes Again - James Howe
Howliday Inn - James Howe
The Second Mrs Giaconda - E.L. Konigsburg
The 13 Cocks - James Thurber
The Prince Of The Pond - Donna Jo Napoli
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
Babycakes - Armistead Maupin
Significant Others - Armistead Maupin
Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper
Greenwitch - Susan Cooper
The Grey King - Susan Cooper
Silver On The Tree - Susan Cooper
Midwives - Chris Bohjalian
Evening - Susan Minot
Folly - Susan Minot

 

[ravenus]

Don't know the other stuff but all the Bradbury's there are goodies, Something Wicked... being my personal fav

 

[Nesacat]

Aye they are Ravenus ... I've read them all but they were being sold for very, very little and had lovely covers so I picked them up. Would make good gifts (one way of introducing people to books I like ). Yes ... something wicked has been a long time favourite of mine. I think my all time favourite Bradbury is the first thing of his I ever read way back when I was very little - a short story called Fog Horn.

 

[Karsa Orlong]

Rhinehart - The Dice Man
Peake - Gormenghast Trilogy
Banks - The Player of Games
Schopenhauer - On the Suffering of the World
Shelley - Frankenstein (1818 edition)
Bakker - The Thousandfold Thought
Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Martin - A Clash of Kings
Russell - The Isle of Battle
Kearney - Mark of Ran

 

[elvet]

Found books 1 and 3 of the Wayfarer Redemption trilogy, and picked up Foxmask (Julliet Marillier) from the bargain shelf. When I got home, I found it was the second book in a series (The Children of the Light Isles), so I guess I'll be book hauling again soon .