Book Hauls!

[Allegra]

Allegra ... have fun with those two. I liked them and went on to read everything else I could find by Perez-Riverte and Funke.

Cat, I have the same 'obsessive-compulsive disorder'. I'd go out to get the rest of the books by the same author before I even finish the 1st one!

 

[Nesacat]

Allegra ... now that's a disorder I really don't mind having. But you are right about the going out to look for more before the first is done.

The two I like best by Funke are Inkheart and Inkspell though Thief Lord is special for having been the first. Dragon Rider is pretty good as well.

As for Perez-Reverte it would be Captain Alatriste and it's sequel Purity Of Blood. Have also read The Fencing Master, The Flanders Panel and The Club Dumas. All are very good indeed.

 

[Allegra]

Ahhhh, Cat, you are a devil! I need to take 5 years off to read my growing mountain of 500 to be read books!

 

[Stormpirate]

Wow! 500? And here I thought I was sinking under the pile of 35 books to be read! I really need help with this love of buying new books!

 

[Allegra]

The tips are simple: visiting amazom.com, amazon.co.uk, Barnes & noble, pay.com, ebay, and of course the Chronicles daily; wherever you go, never pass a book shop without sinking in for 4 hrs.

 

[Jen526]

Not a big haul, but I went out and got GGK's Ysabel last night, which I am *really* excited about for some reason. Normally, I'd be a bit leery of it, since it's apparently not in his usual pseudo-historical vein, but I have good vibes for this one. (Maybe it's just the pretty cover art calling to me. )

Also picked up Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint, a few manga volumes, and Douglas Adams' Last Chance to See, which isn't fantasy, of course, but still...

 

[Stormpirate]

The tips are simple: visiting amazom.com, amazon.co.uk, Barnes & noble, pay.com, ebay, and of course the Chronicles daily; wherever you go, never pass a book shop without sinking in for 4 hrs.

LOL I think my to-buy list has grown in leaps and bounds since I started posting here!

 

[Aleksei]

Ordered some books online today, which I do mostly nowdays since there are no decent bookstores with good f/sci-fi stock near me. Though I always hate the wait for the books after I have ordered, I want them now!


Anyway, here's the list:

The Road - McCarthy, Cormac.
Tower of Shadows - Bowling, Drew
Plague of Memory - Viehl, S. L
Crystal Rain - Buckell, Tobias
Taste of Magic - Norton, Andre & Rabe, Jean
Finest Creation - Rabe, Jean
Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe - Ward, James M
Crossover - Shepherd, Joel

 

[j d worthington]

Finally -- after ordering it back last summer -- received a copy of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's The House by the Churchyard. So glad this one is once more affordable in the U.S. (with the exception of possible e-versions, until recently the only editions I've been aware of for years was hideously expensive, which is the reason I didn't have the darned thing). Beautiful looking book, too, with a cover painting that is absolutely perfect for a tale by Le Fanu... understated, blending the homely and a feeling of something uncanny hovering just out of sight but still where it can be felt, etc. However... the book is nearly about 550 pp. long, and in 8-pt. type! (about like this)

 

[Seanie]

Its not quite as exciting as new books for my bookshelf, but i just got a bag of 20 books to borrow from a friend at work... I've been thinkin dragons alot lately so i asked her to bring me in some Anne McCaffrey coz i remember her work being fairly pleasant, light & easy to read... Anyhoo, i expected her to bring me 3 or 4 books & she turned up with 20!!!

 

[ravenus]

Finally -- after ordering it back last summer -- received a copy of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's The House by the Churchyard...the book is nearly about 550 pp. long, and in 8-pt. type! (about like this)

Ho what manner of devilry is this? Is it a novel or is it some anthology...I already have Through a Glass Darkly, so should I be looking out fo rthis as well?

 

[j d worthington]

Ho what manner of devilry is this? Is it a novel or is it some anthology...I already have Through a Glass Darkly, so should I be looking out fo rthis as well?

The one I got is Nonsuch Classics, finally released in Jan. 2007. It's one of his novels (like Wylder's Hand, Uncle Silas, Checkmate, The Rose and the Key, etc.) Ravenus, if you can get them, there were two volumes of Le Fanu's ghostly tales (along with some of his mysteries) that were put out by Dover in the U.S. -- pretty good size volumes they are, too: Best Ghost Stories and Ghost Stories and Mysteries, both edited by E. F. Bleiler. Together, they collect all of his supernatural fiction save for novels (unless one includes "The Room in the Dragon Volant" as a novel ... it's in there as well).

 

[ravenus]

Thanks for the info. Will look out

 

[Nikitta]

Today, I popped inside the bookshop, which I always pass on my way home from work. I looked idly at some books and ended up by the Science Fiction/Fantasy shelf, as always.

There, I spotted the name Ursula le Guin on the spine of a book and remembered it being an author whom I've seen people in here speak highly off, so I picked up the book to look at it a bit.

It was The Dispossesed. I opened it, skipped the introduction and read through the first page. An image was already painted in my head right there. I thumbed though it, reading a bit here and there, seeing various fractions of images and people.


I had no choice, did I?

 

[BookStop]

ooooh - someone traded in 50 vintage sf & f books today! The covers on these are so much more visually pleasing to me than the covers of today. John Jakes' Brak stuff looks like old Conan. Jeff Sutton, David Grinnell, John Campbell, G Effinger.....I am having a blast going through these, most of them are in mint condition. Now, I just have to decide what to keep and what to sell.

Ahh - good day.

 

[DeepThought]

dug these up from the local bookstore today, found some classics and non-fiction as well

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (two of Asimov's best anthologies, includes; Flowers for Algernon, The Last Question, Dear Pen Pal etc.)
Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Odyssey, Homer
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
She, H. Rider Haggard
The Republic and other Dialogues, Plato
The Origin of Species, Darwin
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume
The Metaphysical Poets (Milton, Donne, Herbert etc.)
Selected Poems and Letters, John Keats

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[Pyan]

That's a bookshop on the Maldives?? Wow!

 

[j d worthington]

Nikitta, Bookstop, DeepThought: Wonderful stuff there! BookStop: I know what you mean. When the sff specialty shop I was working at closed its brick-and-mortar doors (they're still on the 'net), I know that all of us ended up blowing the last paycheck or so taking home things that had been waiting up in the attack to be sorted out... lots and lots of vintage sf.... oooohhhh, my! (And I wholeheartedly agree about the cover art, which seems to have become progressively more generic and blanderdized over the years).

Myself? Today, in the mail, I got Strange Shadows: The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith, ed. by Steven Behrends with Donald Sidney-Fryer and Rah Hoffman, and The Lover, by Marguerite Duras, another suggestion by the Cat.

 

[DeepThought]

That's a bookshop on the Maldives?? Wow!

Hello pyanfaruk, JD: In fact, there are only two main bookshops in the entire Maldives that stocks some SF/F but usually even this is not the case. I guess some times you just get lucky.

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[Pyan]

A friend just rang me to say he's got some old Analog and Astounding magazines, and do I want them?, or should he just throw them out?!

Should I: (a) feign indifference, but tell him I'll take them if he really doesn't want them, or (b) Take his arm off at the elbow?!