Book Hauls!

[GOLLUM]

Just picked up Terry Brooks Armagedon's Children.

 

[Kettricken]

I've bought:

- 'Daywatch' by Sergej Lukyanenko (dutch translation)
- 'Looking for Jake' by China Miéville
- 'Tea-bag' by Henning Mankell
- 'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons
- 'The Fall of Hyperion' by Dan Simmons

 

[iansales]

I recently moved jobs, and my colleagues at my old company had a whip round and bought me some book tokens. I've just spent them on:

- Air, Geoff Ryman
- Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis
- The Ebony Tower, John Fowles
- The Skinner, Neal Asher (already read, but didn't own a copy)
- Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan (I'm determined to finish the damn series, no matter how dull the last book was)
- Broken Angels, Richard Morgan


The books will join the huge pile of unread books I already have

 

[Nesacat]

The Lies of Locke Lamora finally, finally arrived.
And I finally got my own copy of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

 

[carrie221]

Today:

End of the Beginning by Harry Turtledove
CSI: Snake Eyes by Max Allen Collins
The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century by various authors
In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Turtledove (to replace the copy that had 50 missing pages)

 

[nixie]

Raymond E Feist's Into a Dark Realm

Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself

Terry Brooks' Armageddons Children

 

[Rosemary]

I hope to hear how you enjoy Feist's book Nixie. I've read most of his books and enjoyed them all...

 

[aarti]

I just ordered a shipment from bookcloseouts.com which includes the following books:

The Serpent in the Garden, by Janet Gleeson
Napoleon: His Wives and His Women, by Christopher Hibbert
Sebastian, by Anne Bishop
A Venetian Affair, by Andrea di Robilant
The Anvil of the World, by Kage Baker
Elantris, by Brian Sanderson
And Only to Deceive, by Tasha Alexander

And I refuse to feel guilty as EVERY single one of those books was on my Amazon wishlist already

 

[GOLLUM]

Lian Hearn's - Harsh Cry Of The Heron (Sequel to "Tales Of The Otori" trilogy)
Cecilia Dart-Thornton - Weather Witch (Book 3 Crownthistle Quartet)
Umberto Eco - The Mytserious Flame Of Queen Loana

 

[Aleksei]

Humm humm, bought two books from amazon;

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and
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I also order 6 books from a store here in Sweden;

The Hidden Stars - Howard, Madeline
Melusine - Monette, Sarah
Lies of Locke Lamora - Lynch, Scott
Forging of the Sword - Robson, Mark
Imperial Spy - Robson, Mark
and
Jonathan Strange & Mr.Norris - Clark, Susanna


Ah, it always feels good to buy some books. Though the wait on books from Amazon is usually a pain in the ***. :/
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[Mark Robson]

That's a list at least two of us here are happy to see posted.

 

[Kettricken]

Last weekend in Amsterdam I bought "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger, and my boyfriend bought me the 5th part of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, "A Game of You".

 

[Stormpirate]

Last weekend I bought

On Writing, Stephen King
Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
Firestorm, Rachel Caine

 

[Adasunshine]

Ooh I'm so excited... Waterstones have just revamped their website and I've just caved in and ordered:

The Lost Girls - Alan Moore
The Great Book of Amber 1 - 10 - Roger Zelazny
The City of Dreaming Books - John Brownjohn

I'm so excited although I have to wait 7 weeks for The Lost Girls...

xx

 

[elvet]

Just got The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Though not a fantasy, it got my attention via reviews like these:

The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life.

Former academic Setterfield pays tribute in her debut to Bront and du Maurier heroines: a plain girl gets wrapped up in a dark, haunted ruin of a house, which guards family secrets that are not hers and that she must discover at her peril. .......... Contending with ghosts and with a (mostly) scary bunch of living people, Setterfield's sensible heroine is, like Jane Eyre, full of repressed feeling-and is unprepared for both heartache and romance. And like Jane, she's a real reader and makes a terrific narrator.

 

[aarti]

Elvet, I have Thirteenth Tale on my shelf. Let me know what you think of it I don't know when I'll read it. But I like knowing it's there.

 

[Rosemary]

A copy of Stephen Donaldson's - The Runes Of The Earth.

Actually got it for half price, which was really good as I had already picked another book to buy.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Neil Gaiman's, Fragile Things
Terry Pratchett's, The Wintersmith
Robert Rankin's The Toyminator sequel to the Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse.

 

[Nesacat]

Was just given Thirteenth Tale as a birthday present and it looks like a wonderful book.

Also got: Cosmicomics; The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount; The Casttle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino.

Mayfly Day by Jeanne Willis & Tony Ross

Creatures of the Night by Neil Gaiman & Michael Zulli

A Void by Georges Perec (the novel that was written in French without using the letter 'e' and subsequently translated into English also without using the letter 'e')

The Red Tree by Shaun Tan

Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture edited by Jim Turner.

 

[Aleksei]

That's a list at least two of us here are happy to see posted.

I bet that this list will make one of you even happier.

Trail of the Huntress, by Mark Robson
First Sword, by Mark Robson
The Chosen one, by Mark Robson
and
Dragon and Pheonix, by Joanne Bertin

I enjoyed your books, Mark, so I will also be buying Imperial Assassin when it is released.