Book Hauls!

I just bought Space Captain Smith, God Emporor of Didcott and Wrath of the Lemming Men by Toby Frost, The Nemesis List by R. J. Frith and Morlock Night by J. W. Jeter.
 
Rangerton said:
Yes I have started with the Belgariad series, almost finished Enchanter's end game. I've really enjoyed it and look forward to the Malloroen series.

Being a bit late getting into fantasy, I seen (on chrons :D ) that David Eddings was a good place to start. Who knows where my journey will end!
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I got into the series because of a family friend. We were at their house and he said it was a great series for me to read, so I came downstairs with The Belgariad and my mom was like "You didn't come here to go book shopping!" :D
 
Starting to haunt a massive pre-loved bookshop in Brisbane city. Scored Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov, Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (see this in a lot of 2nd hand bookshops), and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.
 
gully_foyle said:
....Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (see this in a lot of 2nd hand bookshops).....
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I know that many readers have enjoyed this book, but I wonder if the prospect of so many pages ahead with the arch quality one encounters in the first few has put others (like me) off. I have enjoyed "pastiche" writings, e.g. Susan Hill's evocation of an earlier style in The Woman in White, but offhand Clarke's writing seemed to me the kind of writing that would be done by a writer who underestimates the challenge of writing good prose in an earlier style. But indeed maybe she wanted to send the modern reader a little bit of a wink -- "Don't take me too seriously"?

In fairness, though, I read only a few pages, and that was a while ago.
 
Extollager said:
I know that many readers have enjoyed this book, but I wonder if the prospect of so many pages ahead with the arch quality one encounters in the first few has put others (like me) off. I have enjoyed "pastiche" writings, e.g. Susan Hill's evocation of an earlier style in The Woman in White, but offhand Clarke's writing seemed to me the kind of writing that would be done by a writer who underestimates the challenge of writing good prose in an earlier style. But indeed maybe she wanted to send the modern reader a little bit of a wink -- "Don't take me too seriously"?

In fairness, though, I read only a few pages, and that was a while ago.
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I really enjoyed Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell but the second half of the book for me was where things really began to pick up in terms of the narrative.

I think Susan Hill does a superb job with The Woman In Black. I'll have to dig up my review of this short but compellingly well written work. I'm assuming you mean this book Extollager as Woman In White (another great read) is mot famously associated with Wilkie Collins.,,,unless you meant to draw comparison between Hill and Collins?

Good night.
 
Bought two Guy Gavriel Kay books in the "Sarantine Mosaic", not least because these sound the closest thing so far to my own writing.

Also bought Gemmell's Legend as research - read it a long time ago, but my copy has disappeared.

Also, the first compendium of Glen Cook's "Black Company", again, research. :)
 
GOLLUM said:
I really enjoyed Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell but the second half of the book for me was where things really began to pick up in terms of the narrative.

I think Susan Hill does a superb job with The Woman In Black. I'll have to dig up my review of this short but compellingly well written work. I'm assuming you mean this book Extollager as Woman In White (another great read) is mot famously associated with Wilkie Collins.,,,unless you meant to draw comparison between Hill and Collins?

Good night.
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(sigh) I have got to start proofreading my messages before I send them. I did mean Susan Hill's The Woman in Black. I'm glad, though, to have the chance to praise Wilkie Collins's book, which is sometimes one to recommend to people who are curious about Victorian novels but have never read one.
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I didn't think Hill's The Mist in the Mirror was up to the level of Woman in Black, which probably most people here know is to be a movie with Daniel Radcliffe. I know I'm likely to get a rep as the guy who always says the classic TV versions were better (cf. my comments about the Tinker, Tailor miniseries) -- but I think the TV movie of Woman will be hard to top. One of the good things about it is that the marriage is pretty central to the production, with good chemistry between the Mr. and the Mrs., and the warmth of the marriage makes the rest of the movie so much the more effective.
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Been a bit since I've picked up something, but today I received a replacement copy of Robt. W. Chambers' The King in Yellow. First time I've had a copy of the full text (rather than just the weird tales) for some time....
 
Lately I've been stocking up on space operas. I have a bunch of Reynolds and Hamilton on order, as well as two Deepness books by Vinge.

And I've just rediscovered my love of William Gibson, and seeing as I haven't read him since highschool ('93 or 4ish) I've ordered about half his back library.
 
dask said:
Mack Reynolds and Edmond Hamilton?
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:)

That seriously happened to me here once - I referred to Anderson in the context of other brilliant classics and someone somehow wanted to take me to task for praising Kevin J. :eek:

It still blows my mind how anyone could get Kevin J. out of something like "Asimov, Heinlein, Anderson" or even a bare "Anderson" but I have to confess it's all subjective in isolation - there I'd assume Alastair (though I've read some Mack). For Hamilton, I'd probably think Edmond but then realize most people would usually mean Peter F.

BTW, did Mack write much space opera? I think of him as writing more sociological fiction or something of the sort.
 
J-Sun said:
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BTW, did Mack write much space opera? I think of him as writing more sociological fiction or something of the sort.
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Not sure. I was just sort of goofing off.:) (Then again, intergalactic revolutions are kinda sociological ain't they?) I know he wrote a bunch for someone no one hardly talks about anymore and was voted most popular author by readers of Galaxy and If at one time.
 
Collected from the post office today:

Orb Sceptre Throne - Esslemont, Ian C.
Blue Remembered Earth - Reynolds, Alastair
Transmission (Ragnarok, #2) - Meaney, John
 
Ancient Celts - Barry Cunliffe

Weird a non-fiction book with alot of archeological data but not actually boring read.
 
Extollager said:
A copy of this vintage anthology:
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Just $5 with shipping!
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That's one of the later ones that's really a paperback, right? Early Permabooks were paperback-sized hardcovers which would be extremely cool. I've got at least a Willy Ley book that isn't a Permabook, but is made on the same principle. Possibly another one or two. As far as the stories, I've got about half of it, I guess, and those look really good so if the other half is even close to consistent with that, you should have quite a good time. :)
 
J-Sun said:
That's [the Pohl anthology] one of the later ones that's really a paperback, right? Early Permabooks were paperback-sized hardcovers which would be extremely cool. I've got at least a Willy Ley book that isn't a Permabook, but is made on the same principle. Possibly another one or two. As far as the stories, I've got about half of it, I guess, and those look really good so if the other half is even close to consistent with that, you should have quite a good time. :)
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Yes, it's a paperback, with the usual flimsy cover.

Today's mail brought The Haunted Woman by the author of A Voyage to Arcturus

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in the above edition from about 35 years ago, and Gribbin's nonfiction Alone in the Universe. I think sf nuts like me need things like this as reality checks...
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