Book Hauls!

[Extollager]

Barbara Strachey's Journeys of Frodo

and Thoreau's Excursions.

 

[GOLLUM]

Re: Recent Buys

I downloaded the first 2 chapters some time ago and was VERY disappointed. I loved the first 2 series. In fact, the 1st series was my introduction to fantasy, after LOTR. But those chapters contained chunks from the previous series, which I thought unnecessary. Unfortunately, the "new" stuff didn't engage me either. I hope the book improves after a IMO sorry start.

Don't worry it does improve (Stephen Donaldson's 'Runes Of The Earth' first in the quartet of the final Covenant series), with some interesting surprises at the end of the book as I recall. I have the first 3, awaiting the final book before reading the quartet as a whole. I also have the audio book of this.

The final book Last Dark is due out next year....

 

[j d worthington]

A couple of second hand fantasy masterwork editions to help me towards completing the series:

"Three Hearts and Three Lions" by Poul Anderson
"Gloriana" by Michael Moorcock

Which edition of Gloriana did you get? The first has a rather odd ending, one which Moorcock himself foundunsatisfactory; he later wrote a revised version, though some editions contain both versions of that part of the book....

 

[Fried Egg]

Which edition of Gloriana did you get? The first has a rather odd ending, one which Moorcock himself foundunsatisfactory; he later wrote a revised version, though some editions contain both versions of that part of the book....

It's the fantasy masterworks edition. I presume there is only one of those...

 

[Tansy]

Just bought the kindle versions of Mark Lawrence's King of Thorns and Benedict Jakka's Cursed

 

[Connavar]

The Hound of Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

 

[Extollager]

The Hound of Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One of those great rereadable books from that 1887-1912 Golden Age of Fantasy and Science Fiction!

...I was going to put here a link to a discussion a few months ago on the "Golden Age" topic, but can't find the thread now...

See also:

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/534881-nominate-your-19th-century-f-and-sf-favorites.html

 

[Grunkins]

King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

^ Same for me.
Also got my trade paperback of Guy Gavriel Kay's Lions of Al-Rassan. I had read the mass market paperback, but all my other Kay novels are trade paperback, so when I lent out my copy to a friend I told her to keep it and ordered the new one. I can't think of much in life better than Guy Gavriel Kay.

 

[Connavar]

One of those great rereadable books from that 1887-1912 Golden Age of Fantasy and Science Fiction!

...I was going to put here a link to a discussion a few months ago on the "Golden Age" topic, but can't find the thread now...

See also:

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/534881-nominate-your-19th-century-f-and-sf-favorites.html

Hey dont spoil me, i dont know what the novel is like at all. Some supernatural element or not im not sure

Im a huge fan of Doyle and im a Holmes purist. Im mostly interested if this novel will be better than the first two novels. The short story collections Adventures,Memoirs outclass the first two novel writing,story,characterwise.

Sir Conan is better short story author.

 

[dask]

HOUND is just as good as the first two, maybe even enjoyed it better. Read it twice, first two only once. Not a reliable argument to go by though. HOUND is just a good Halloween read.

 

[Extollager]

HOUND is just as good as the first two, maybe even enjoyed it better. Read it twice, first two only once. Not a reliable argument to go by though. HOUND is just a good Halloween read.

Surely The Hound of the Baskervilles is most people's favorite of the four novels. (The fourth, The Valley of Fear, has an interesting "Molly Maguires" angle for people who came from the eastern Pennsylvania coal country.)

 

[dask]

Half price at the library book sale today. Everything I got cost fifty cents apiece. Hardbacks with blah or no dust jackets:
QUARREL AND QUANDARY, essays by Cynthia Ozick
WINTER'S TALES by Isak Dinesen
ADVENTURES OF THE MIND (From The Saturday Evening Post), edited by Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler with an Introduction by Mark Van Doren. Not sure what the common thread running through there articles is other that the vague "What Is Man?" conundrum posited in the intro. Still lots of good names tackling interesting topics in science, religion, history, morals, and the arts.

Books with covers worth posting:

And another in the top ten core horror suggested by J.D.,

This edition contains the original manuscript ending as an appendix. Maybe they all do but it sounds like a good thing.

 

[Hilarious Joke]

I got 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami a couple of days ago.

 

[AndrewT]

Surely The Hound of the Baskervilles is most people's favorite of the four novels. (The fourth, The Valley of Fear, has an interesting "Molly Maguires" angle for people who came from the eastern Pennsylvania coal country.)

The Hound was tied with "A Study in Scarlet" as being my least favorite. Study was just plain bizarre, not much of a detective story at all. I like "Sign of Four" best of the novellas.
But the short stories are way way superior to all of the novellas imo.

 

[anivid]

I have read the powerful diary of Ruth Maier before, i have bought it this time as birthday present for me younger sister. Heartbreaking to read that diary of the young intelligent girl, she had a real talent with words too.

Connavar, if sister needs to read about an intelligent female (or two I can warmly recommand Muriel Barbery: The Elegance of a Hedgehog.
It'll get to her in an optimistic way
For more info read here The Elegance of a Hedgehog

 

[CyBeR]

Got a nice haul today from a used bookstore. They're set to arrive next week.

John Brunner - The sheep look up
John Brunner - The stone that never came down (I assume, the title is in Romanian)
A.E. Van Vogt - Destination Universe
Isaac Asimov - Naked Sun
A.E. Van Vogt - War against the rules (?)

And a couple more in Romanian. Good sale.

 

[J-Sun]

A.E. Van Vogt - War against the rules (?)

The War Against the Rull - the Rull are an alien species. That does look like a good haul.

 

[CyBeR]

Pretty happy with it. 7 Books in good condition for about 12 Euro. Would have gotten more, but that's all I could spare for the time being.

 

[dask]

The Salem was fifty cents, the Chandler and Chaucer were twenty-five cents.

 

[dask]

Saw but didn't buy THE WATER GYPSIES by A.P. Herbert for $6 at a local antique shop. Anyone know anything about this guy? He wrote an essay I enjoyed but six bucks for a second hand hardback? Is he worth it?