Book Hauls!

I'm sure I will... when I finally get around to reading the darned thing! *grumble, grumble: too darn little time too darn many books: grumble grumble*

One thing I've already noted is that the story was originally titled "The Cat and the Skull" rather than (as with the variant version also included here) "Delcardes' Cat". Now, while I do quite like the latter title, I feel the first actually fits the story better, and is a subtle way of making connections for the reader before they've even read the story, whereas the latter simply doesn't. I also like the way the illustrations here are done -- very reminiscent of the artwork by Roy G. Krenkel for The Sowers of the Thunder, the Howard book put out by Donald M. Grant lo, these many years ago, and a beautiful book!
 
This is a cruel thread - I am stuck in Dubai again without my library and due to the baggage allowance and local sensibilities I couldn't carry many books with me.

The choice for purchasing is fairly limited as well (does anyone know of a better store than Macgrudy?) plus I have that baggage allowance thing....

As someone who can get through 4 books on a standard week this is really killing me!

Can't go online as I don't have a PO box and I don't know how long things will take to arrive.

On the plus side though I can sit outside in a beer garden in my shirt sleeves in Feb - as I did last night.:D
 
'Not a good place' is a serious understatement. Was there for several weeks visiting a friend and she didn't have any books aside from glossy fashion magazines and there were hardly any books to be bought for love or money.

I did, however, have the time to read the Quran from cover to cover. :)
 
I recently bought The Wizardology Handbook & a Special Edition Dragonology book called Tracking & Taming Dragons... I couldnt really afford them at the time (they arent cheap!) but they are beautiful books & i plan on gettin the whole "ology" collection eventually, so when i found them in new condition for a slightly discounted price on ebay, i had to stretch my budget out a bit, but it was worth it for sure...
 
I just bought a fantastic book for my collection:

Jewels of Astor by Samuel R. Delany (First Edition, Signed) This was the first book he ever published.

I am a HUGE Delany fan and so I'm extremely happy right now.

-E4rlGrey
 
Yesterday I bought Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? Quite entertaining to thumb through and read a bit here and there as it answers all sorts of odd questions.
 
Waiting for the delivery of:

The Water Devil by Judith Merkle Riley - third book in the Margaret of Ashbury series. A medieval novel with fantasy aspects.

Deliverer by C. J. Cherryh. 9th book in the Foreigner series

Dust by Martha Grimes - British crime story

Magic Study by Maria Snyder. Sequel to Poison Study

Grandmother Spider by James D. Doss
& Night Visitor - Series mysteries with paranormal aspects with an
American Indian being one of the main protagonists.
 
I know it isn't Fantasy or Science Fiction but I found an in perfect condition, a book of poetry, hard back and for only AU$8

Country Verse...edited by Samuel Carr.

It's written through the seasons..starting from Spring.

There's a number by Thomas Hardy, Keats, Robert Burns, Tennyson, Browning and Wordsworth to name but a few.
 
Thought it was finally time I picked up some Terry Pratchet, so I stretched my poor student budget just a little bit further and bought The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
 
Just bought the next few books in the Nightside series: Hex and the City, Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth, and Hell to Pay. Apparently I'm missing Paths Not Taken; my local Borders didn't have it, but I'm going out to buy the paperback of Butcher's Proven Guilty tomorrow, so I'll hit the local Barnes and Noble.
 
Just received The Dumas Club byArturo Perez-Reverte and The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke.
 
Received that 6-volume set of Tales from Blackwood (2nd series) today. Oh, my! With the exception of one volume having a scratch on the back, these things look almost as good as brand new books on the shelves... and it's a set from 1905! Beautiful things, they are... and for a ridiculously low price, to boot! Once in a while, Fortune decides to play really, really nice....;)
 
Frozeninja said:
Thought it was finally time I picked up some Terry Pratchet, so I stretched my poor student budget just a little bit further and bought The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
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I remember reading The Colour of Magic for the first time in about '85/86.

I was student at the time and couldn't afford many books during term time.

Always remember laughing so hard at one point that i managed to fall off my bed.

TP has been a firm favourite since then - never fallen out of bed again though...not from reading a book anyway.
 
Well, this is a replacement copy rather than a first time, but got a copy of Heinlein's For Us, the Living (hardbound) in the mail today... even though it's supposed to be used, it looks brand new, and for the pittance I paid for it, that's a definite bonus!
 
bruno-1012 said:
I remember reading The Colour of Magic for the first time in about '85/86.

I was student at the time and couldn't afford many books during term time.

Always remember laughing so hard at one point that i managed to fall off my bed.

TP has been a firm favourite since then - never fallen out of bed again though...not from reading a book anyway.
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One of the reasons I like this forum very mcuh is that there are so many TP readers!:) Well I just ordered Moving Pictures and The Light Fantastic to make up my long lost copies.
 
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