Book Hauls!

[ravenus]

Saki - The Complete Short Stories (I was attracted to this because it seemed similar to P.G Wodehouse)

You'll find as you read along that they're little more bittersweet and dry-humored/caustic than ye typical Wodehouse and a lot more variety of themes. A very worthwhile buy and something you'll probably return to several times.

 

[Alurny]

*Cough* I went into Waterstones the other day, intending to spend my £20 book tokens that I received for Christmas...ended up spending another £25 on top of that! I bought...the following:

Saki - The Complete Short Stories (I was attracted to this because it seemed similar to P.G Wodehouse)
Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys
Tom Holt - Dead Funny
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Terry Pratchett - Equal Rights

Hmm...I was sure that I had bought 6 books...but no, apparently not. I was quite disgraced that these five cost £45...I've got to start shopping at independent book shops and book sales!

Second hand is the way forward Hoopy..

 

[Nikitta]

I went into Waterstones "just to browse" (yeah, right!) and ended up buying:

Something wicked this way comes - Ray Bradbury
The collected stories - Arthur C. Clarke

I'm weak! I'm weak!

 

[Frozeninja]

My recent acquisitions:

J.V. Jones - A Cavern of Black Ice
Cecilia Dart-Thornton - The Iron Tree
Scott Lynch - Lies of Locke Lamora
Maron Zimmer Bradley - Mists of Avalon
Robin Hobb - Shaman's Crossing

 

[j d worthington]

My more recent acquisitions:

A replacement copy of both Tolkien: A Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter and The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien

A replacement copy of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery (story collection)

Jackson's Just an Ordinary Day, a book of previously uncollected stories

Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus, by Sir Thomas Browne

volume 6 in The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard: The Garden of Fear

and have found and purchased (though not yet received) a set of Tales from Blackwood (Second Series), from 1906 -- something I hadn't expected to ever get my hands on...

 

[Quokka]

Quick post about the book haul that never was,

I was at one of those all day meetings yesterday in Perth city, West Oz, and decided that if I didnt take a walk during lunch I'd be sleeping through the afternoon session. Anyway I stumbled across a specialist SFF bookshop that I never knew was there!

Im a big fan of the SF Masterworks series but the bookstores have stopped stocking them here now so I was wondering if they had any, I walked over to a shelf and almost straight away noticed 5 or 6 of them together, my lucky day! then I noticed that these were just the Phillip K Dick books in the series... If they didnt have the whole collection, which is about 70 or so I think, it must have been close.

Only bought the one book as I was in a hurry (and broke) but to be honest what I really wanted to buy was supplies, then I could have just thrown out the shop assistant, barred the doors and bunkered down to await WW3

 

[Allegra]

Just ordered Gormenghast Trilogy - can't believe I don't even own a copy. Would love to re read them someday. Also ordered Dance of the Assassins by Herve Jubert. Has anyone read it? The synopsis looks interesting:

Nineteenth-century London: Mary Graham is found murdered in a dark alley in Whitechapel. It appears that Jack the Ripper has returned. However, this London is a crime-free 'virtual city', a theme park re-created to attract tourists. Roberta Morgenstern, a qualified witch, and her assistant Clément Martineau, fresh out of the police academy, set out to solve the murder. A wild chase through the streets of London brings the heroes face to face with the terrifying new Ripper. Their mission is to find the man who is bringing these murderers back to life, as the trail of evidence leads them through a number of virtual eras and locations - Paris at the time of Louis XIV, Venice, and finally Montezuma's Mexico, where they have an assignation with the Devil himself ...

 

[HoopyFrood]

I...ahem...bought The Princess Bride the other day. I watched the film and it was quite good so I though, hell, let's get the book as well!

 

[Nikitta]

The two books I had ordered (Slaughterhous 5 and The Man in The High Castle) have arrived during last week and I have picked them up.

I went to look for I Sing Body Electric (Ray Bradbury) today after getting help from the people in here identifying it, but neither of the places I went to had it and they couldn't order it for some reason. I'll have to get it online.

I didn't go home empty-handed, though. The copy of The complete Robot (Asimov) which has been tempting me for so long is now lying next my bed. I have read most of the stories before, but not all.

 

[K. Riehl]

I love Ebay. Ebay is good.
I picked up a Science Fiction book lot for $20(including shipping)
Dell 10C Novel: Universe by Heinlein
Ballantine first editions of:
Secret Masters-Kersh, Silver Eggheads-Leiber, Brain Wave- Anderson
Avon firsts of: Perelandra-Lewis, Post Fantasy Stories, Stranger in a Strange Land- Heinlein
Signet Firsts of: Assignment in Eternity, Orphans in the Sky, Methuselahs Children- all by Heinlein.
Plus 19 more.
I'll say it again.
I love Ebay

 

[Pyan]

Splashed out a bit on Saturday, inspired by this place.

H.P.Lovecraft - Omnibus 1, At the Mountains of Madness, and Omnibus 2, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales - both in the HarperCollins/Voyager edition with an introduction by August Derlath, and
Perdido Street Station Station - China Mieville.
That should keep me quiet to the end of the week!

 

[j d worthington]

Received my copy of The End of the Story, volume 1 of The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith. Oh, my, what a beautiful book! Well worth the wait.... Now I've only got to wait until June or so before volume 2.....

 

[HoopyFrood]

I just had a large book haul on Amazon (still griping about how the P&P ended up costing more than the actual books) but I can't get too excited about it because they are books are my university course. Although some of them look pretty groovy, I guess.

William Blake, Selected Poetry Yay! I studied Blake at A Level, so I'm glad I'm getting the chance to go back to his work. What a legend
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
James Joyce, Dubliners
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
Grace Nichols, i is a long memoried woman

So, there you go, that was my mini book haul! I would've prefered it if I were buying books for recreational reading, though, rather than course books!

 

[j d worthington]

That's as may be, Hoops; but that's an impressive selection, nonetheless. I'd say you've got some really good reading coming up there....

 

[Ljomi]

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Thud! by Terry Pratchett

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett

I've read The Golden Compass before, but not in english so I decided to invest in it and I'm on a bit of a Terry Pratchett run these days, especially the Discworld series. As for Good Omens, I saw it in a bookstore I visit frequently and it looked soooo alone and I couldn't resist so I bought it, then I saw Thud! and having heard a lot about it, everything good I bought that aswell and today I bought The Golden Compass and I still haven't bought my new school books but that'll just have to wait.

 

[HoopyFrood]

That's as may be, Hoops; but that's an impressive selection, nonetheless. I'd say you've got some really good reading coming up there....

Yeah, it looks like it will be an interesting semester...Just have to make sure I can fit in the Chron around all that reading...or maybe I should say fitting the reading around all the Chronning?

 

[j d worthington]

Finally picked up one I've been meaning to get for a bit now: Kull: Exile of Atlantis, by Robert E. Howard, the newest of the Del Rey Howard books....

Hoopy: We'll have none of that, young lady! Studies must come first! *sound of whip cracking in the distance*

 

[HoopyFrood]

Hoopy: We'll have none of that, young lady! Studies must come first! *sound of whip cracking in the distance*

*Snigger*

I mean, yes, of course, Mr Worthington, sir!

 

[elvet]

Picked up Ysabel today at Costcos.

 

[murphy]

Picked up Ysabel today at Costcos.

I'll have to look for it next time I go there. Probably next week. Love Guy Gavriel Kay.