Book Hauls!

[Jacob Larch]

Re: Recent Buys

Those books take me back years!!!! I remember reading them as a teenager! Thanks for bringing back the memory!

 

[Jacob Larch]

All this has made me remember two books I loved as a child: "three hearts and three lions" by Poul Anderson, and "the duelling machine" by Ben Bova. Simple stories very well told, which is in my humble opinion, high praise for any book!

 

[Grunkins]

I wont use bookdepository site to buy new books ever again! They sent me a copy of Robot Have No Tails by Henry Kuttner that have pages that are sliced around the edges. Slightly torn pages is for okay only when its second hand.

I buy 99% of my book hauls from my real specialist fav bookstore and only use that site sometimes for their discounts. Im pissed....

I've had mostly good luck buying used books online. A few broken bindings, a few wrong books (ordered a discworld book by Pratchett and received a knitting mystery), and once I ordered A Scanner Darkly by Dick they sent me the damn graphic novel.

 

[nomadman]

Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theatre
Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint

Got some good readin ahead of me I reckon...

 

[Grunkins]

Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theatre
Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint

Got some good readin ahead of me I reckon...

Some really good books there.
Blood Meridian is amazing and terrifying, one of the greatest pieces of American literature out there IMO.
And Sabbath's Theatre has one of the most uncomfortable scenes I've ever read.

 

[GOLLUM]

Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theatre
Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint

Got some good readin ahead of me I reckon...

Indeed. I have all of those except for Potnoy's Complaint.

American Pastoral still remains Roth's best work to date...oh and Blood Meridian is a classic most assuredly but I'm yet to read my copy of No Country for Old Men.

You certainly seem to be set on a course away from the more traditional Speculative fiction seen here....

 

[nomadman]

Some really good books there.
Blood Meridian is amazing and terrifying, one of the greatest pieces of American literature out there IMO.
And Sabbath's Theatre has one of the most uncomfortable scenes I've ever read.

Am reading No Country For Old Men, right now. A surprisingly easy read, despite the lack of any speech marks that McCarthy employs, and thus far very similar to the movie. Am picturing more of a Jared Leto type look for Chigurh though.

Indeed. I have all of those except for Potnoy's Complaint.

American Pastoral still remains Roth's best work to date...oh and Blood Meridian is a classic most assuredly but I'm yet to read my copy of No Country for Old Men.

You certainly seem to be set on a course away from the more traditional Speculative fiction seen here....

I'd've thought McCarthy would've been known by at least a few posters around here. He's very much of the hard boiled school, with I believe a lot of his works veering into Western or crime fiction territory. I haven't read any Roth, yet, but ironically he was recommended to me on another SF forum discussing Gene Wolfe.

I also got a copy of Swords and Dark Magic a short while ago, which I've been steadily working my way through.

 

[Connavar]

I have read Blood Meridian of McCarthy and that turned me of him for years. He is not a good western author thats for sure. Atleast not hardcore westerns. Might be better with All the Pretty Horses type westerns.

I will read The Orchard Keeper and give him a final chance because his prose is pretty damn cool in very hardboiled way.

 

[dask]

Found these on the freebie shelf at the public library. The Russian anthology stopped me in my tracks as that's the one Extollager posted a while back with the story he really liked, "Bezhin Meadows". I haven't read it yet will when I get the chance (to see if it's as good as he says).

 

[Extollager]

The Russian anthology stopped me in my tracks as that's the one Extollager posted a while back with the story he really liked, "Bezhin Meadows". I haven't read it yet will when I get the chance (to see if it's as good as he says).

It is, at least in that translation. It is one of my favorite short stories from my whole life of reading.

 

[dask]

Did some book hunting today:

 

[GOLLUM]

I'd've thought McCarthy would've been known by at least a few posters around here. He's very much of the hard boiled school, with I believe a lot of his works veering into Western or crime fiction territory. I haven't read any Roth, yet, but ironically he was recommended to me on another SF forum discussing Gene Wolfe.

I also got a copy of Swords and Dark Magic a short while ago, which I've been steadily working my way through.

OH definitely McCarthy would be known by many posters here, my point being he's not generally seen as mainstream speculative. Having said that, you may be interested to read his post-apocalyptic tale 'The Road'. I thought it was very good.

Roth I'm a fan of and that Swords and Dark Magic looks like an interesting mix of old and new S&S contributors.

 

[nomadman]

OH definitely McCarthy would be known by many posters here, my point being he's not generally seen as mainstream speculative. Having said that, you may be interested to read his post-apocalyptic tale 'The Road'. I thought it was very good.

Roth I'm a fan of and that Swords and Dark Magic looks like an interesting mix of old and new S&S contributors.

The S&S anthology is decent thus far, and introduced me to at least one great new writer in James Enge. Actually that's not quite true. I knew of Enge though the now defunct Flashing Swords ezine, and Black Gate, but had never read him until now. Excellent stylist, wonderful quirky humor and imagination.

Finished No Country a few days back, currently reading Blood Meridian. After that it'll be The Road. Haven't read any Roth yet, though everything I've read about him makes him seem right up my alley.

 

[GOLLUM]

The S&S anthology is decent thus far, and introduced me to at least one great new writer in James Enge. Actually that's not quite true. I knew of Enge though the now defunct Flashing Swords ezine, and Black Gate, but had never read him until now. Excellent stylist, wonderful quirky humor and imagination.

Thanks for the heads up. Enge is not someone I am at all familiar with. According to wiki he was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for his novel Blood of Ambrose, part of the Morlock the Maker series. Given the high regard that I hold that particular award in, my interest in Enge continues to grow. In fact here is his website with several free stories to read...which I shall do later. Cheers. http://jamesenge.com/about/

 

[Connavar]

what a cool old version of the book i found and i can finally read this series from start

 

[Pyan]

Just received, via Amazon, a book that I've been looking for for years: Prostho Plus, by Piers Anthony.

It's one of those pivotal books for me - all the other books I'd read in the distinctive yellow Gollancz bindings up until then had been serious stuff - but this was funny! It poked fun at SF cliches and characters. It was great.

I've kept a desultory eye out for it for the last 30 years or so, with no success. And now I've got a copy...

 

[dask]

Went back to Goodwill this afternoon:

 

[K. Riehl]

I picked up an interesting item on Ebay. My father is a retired mining engineer and I wanted to find something special. I couldn't afford the entire De Re Metallica (1557)so I settled for a single plate from a damaged copy.

 

[Grunkins]

I picked up an interesting item on Ebay. My father is a retired mining engineer and I wanted to find something special. I couldn't afford the entire De Re Metallica (1557)so I settled for a single plate from a damaged copy.

That's great!

 

[J-Sun]

I picked up an interesting item on Ebay. My father is a retired mining engineer and I wanted to find something special. I couldn't afford the entire De Re Metallica (1557)so I settled for a single plate from a damaged copy.

That's a weird, well, connection. I was watching some of Burke's Connections on Youtube and he referenced that and I downloaded a version of it from Gutenberg. I wasn't expecting to see it referenced the next day at the Chrons.

Anyway - cool present.