Book Hauls!

So, bookcloseouts.com is having its dollar-for-dollar sale right now, if anyone is interested! Unfortunately, that means my very well-intentioned oath not to purchase any more books before the new year was ABSOLUTELY obliterated. As I bought eighteen books! But all for under $3.50 a book, which is a good deal, I think :) Just don't know where to put them all when they come ...

Deadhouse Gates, by Stephen Erickson
Memories of Ice, by Stephen Erickson
Manhunt: The 12-Day Search for Lincoln's Killer
Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones
Paragon Lost, by Dave Duncan
English Society in the 18th Century
Team of Rivals
The Kitchen Boy
Medalon
Beneath A Silent Moon
How Green Was My Valley
An Ordinary Woman, by Cecelia Holland
The Colour, by Rose Tremain
Gardener to the King
Jack Absolute
The Blooding of Jack Absolute
The Illuminator, by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
 
I got Elantris by Brandon Sanderson after seeing it mentioned in a thread, and Julianne Lee's Knight Tenebrae.
Since I've discovered Locusmag.com (thanks Lucien :) ), I've been using their archives to look at book summaries; now I have of list of books that might interest me to take to the book store.
 
Just ordered all the books in the Honor Harrington series, in hardcover, I even found a signed copy of the first book. :D
 
The first three of the Banned and the Banished quintet, bought in concert with the new Katherine Kerr. I have waited so many years for that book. I thought she'd died or something.
 
I've heard that deepdiscountdvd.com is going to start offering books in the new year- and that they don't charge shipping at all! Just thought you all might like to know.
 
In the mood for a little romance, hence:
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Melusine by Sarah Monette
Seraphim by Michele Hauf
Cast in Shadow and Cast in Courtlight both by Michelle Sagara
To Serve and Submit by Susan Wright
and I've saved the cheesiest for last - Blaze Wyndham by Bernice Small :D
 
My mum has just had a book haul for me! Well, for my christmas presents! I usually hate knowing what I get for christmas (it's all about the surprise for me, I wouldn't care what's inside the present, I just like the excitement of it all :D) but my mum never knows what books to buy for me (apart from Stephen King, and I have almost every book by him anyway!)
Anyway, so I picked out:

- Sorcery by Terry Pratchett
- Um...damnit, there was another Terry...Oh! I remember. Small Gods
- The first one of Robin Hobbs Assassin's Apprentice trilogy (didn't look at the title, I just picked it up!)
- Dracula by Bram Stoker...watched the film last night and realised I've never read the book...decided it was time I did!
 
Haven't bought anything (I'm broke) but just picked up Spunknik sweetheart by Murakami, The Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny, The Thunderbolt Kid by Bryson, East Meets West by Rushdie and The Red Pony by Steinback, as well as a historical analysis of the French Revolution. I love my local library.
 
Placed an order today for an older book, Sam Moskowitz' Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of "The Scientific Romance" in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920.
 
Taltos ... Promising to not make promises to not buy any more books sounds about right. ;)

I've been given as a Christmas gift:
The Story Giant - Brian Patten; illustrated by Chris Riddel
Midnight Nation - Michael Straczynski

Since it's impossible to be in India and not buy any books I bought these:
The Book Without Words - Avi
Chennai Latte - Ranjitha Ashok & Biswajit Balasubramaniam
Ka - Roberto Calasso
Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat
One Night @ The Call Center - Chetan Bhagat
Song Of Kali - Dan Simmons
The Christmas Tree - Julie Salmon
A Flowering Tree & Other Oral tales From India - A.K. Ramanujan
Freeing The Spirit: The Iconic Women Of India - Edited by Malvika Singh
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Messres Dickens, Doyle & Wodehouse Pvt Ltd - Neelum Saran Gour
The Best of Satyajit Ray
No Fullstops in India - Mark Tully
Sivabhantavilasam - Translated by Lingeswara Rao
Hindu Mythology - W.J. Wilkins
 
Got the book I ordered - that's 4 days after ordering - which means they had it in stock. So why did I have to go 3 times into that shop to get the book. First time they said they had it but couldn't locate, and promised to send me email when it's found - which they didn't - second time to hear that they couldn't locate it and I have to actually order it - and third time to get it. :)mad: x 100) Don't you just hate when people make you run around, because they are lazy ?

Oh well, at least I got it and now can enjoy Hamiltons Mindstar trilogy ending.
 
Christmas haul:
Clute and Grant - The Encyclopaedia of Fantasy
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
J.V.Jones - A Fortress of Grey Ice

This is just the beginning though, lots and lots of money to spend on books over the coming days. Can't wait. ^_^
 
Taltos said:
Got the book I ordered - that's 4 days after ordering - which means they had it in stock. So why did I have to go 3 times into that shop to get the book. First time they said they had it but couldn't locate, and promised to send me email when it's found - which they didn't - second time to hear that they couldn't locate it and I have to actually order it - and third time to get it. :)mad: x 100) Don't you just hate when people make you run around, because they are lazy ?

Oh well, at least I got it and now can enjoy Hamiltons Mindstar trilogy ending.
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Funny how that works, isn't it? I've found that sometimes ordering is better. Earlier in the year, I went into my local B. Dalton (associated with Barnes and Noble) looking for a particular book. They didn't have it in stock, and said that either they could order it and have it come to the store where I could pick it up, or she could order it for me and have it delivered to my doorstep, with the caveat that it would cost me more if I picked it up at the store. :confused: I guess it was on special on the online site or something. Anyway, I had her order it to be delivered to me, paid in the store, and had the book in my hands just over 24 hours later, via UPS. It would have taken longer than that for it to get to the store, and I didn't have to pay any shipping.

Oh, and I've made a great book haul recently at a library sale, but I'll have to list later. It is Christmas morning after all, and I need to get out of the house soon if we're going to see a movie.:D
 
The Christmas Gift book haul: :D

Grimus - Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
My Swordhand Is Singing - Marcus Sedgewick
Khai Of Khem - Brian Lumley
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane - Robert E Howard
Watching The English - Kate Fox
Vellum - Hal Duncan
The Stone Cage - Nicholas Stuart Gray
The Seventh Swan - Nicholas Stuart Gray
Mr Punch - Neil Gaiman
 
I just spent £1.90 on:

Walter M. Miller JR : A canticle for Leibowitz
Arthur C.Clarke: Childhoods End

in hardback. I have never read either author. Good choices?
 
I've never read either of them either! ... either.

My christmas collection was
Best of Punch
Complete guide to middle earth
Geomancer (and the one after, i forget the name atm)
some cat book i can't remember the name of either :D
 
Karsa Orlong said:
Christmas haul:
Clute and Grant - The Encyclopaedia of Fantasy
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
J.V.Jones - A Fortress of Grey Ice

This is just the beginning though, lots and lots of money to spend on books over the coming days. Can't wait. ^_^
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Ok, I went to one of the best book shops in England (Manchester's Waterstones) and spent £150. :eek: I got the following *deep breath*:

Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
K.J.Bishop - The Etched City
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The House of the Dead
China Mieville - The Scar
Guy Gavriel Kay - Sailing to Sarantium
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
Roger Zelazny - The Chronicles of Amber
Patricia A. McKillip - Ombria in Shadow
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates
Jeff Vandermeer - City of Saints and Madmen
Sheri S. Tepper - The Visitor
Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Alfred Bester - The Stars my Destination
Soren Kierkegaard - Either/Or
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow

So so so many books here that I've been wanting to read for ages. Can't wait. :D
 
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