Book Hauls!

pyanfaruk said:
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?!:D
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Take them and thank him nicely. If you take his arm off at the elbow, he can't hand you the books.;)
 
Not if I have the arm with the hand with the magazines!:D
 
Nesacat said:
Picked up over the weekend:

Orcs Omnibus by Stan Nicholls
Book of Dead Days Omnibus by Marcus Sedgewick
The Poison Master by Liz Williams

Those Del Rey books are lovely JD ... I have Kull and Solomon Kane. :) Have fun with Kull.
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I have the Orcs books they are good, plus I have two of the Quicksilver trilolgy not read them yet.
 
Who's Wee Dug said:
I have the Orcs books they are good, plus I have two of the Quicksilver trilolgy not read them yet.
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The Quicksilver trilogy is also quite good, though not entirely as good as the Orcs trilogy, IMO. It does have some memorable moments (rather: memorable/entertaining characters), none the less, and I enjoyed reading it (I ordered the third book in the trilogy as soon as it was out). I was glad when I heard that he's going to write a second Orcs trilogy. IwantIwantIwantIwant!

Yesterday I found the LoTR trilogy cheap in the second-hand part of the bookshop I pass on my way from work. It had obviously been read more than once and brought to several places, but I bought it none the less.
 
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Ordered The Monk by Matthew Lewis. Again being reminded from the Gothic books thread. I've read a library copy a few years back but don't own one, which is unacceptable!:)
 
Allegra said:
Ordered The Monk by Matthew Lewis. Again being reminded from the Gothic books thread. I've read a library copy a few years back but don't own one, which is unacceptable!:)
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I'm curious... which edition? Believe it or not, they still have editions that are the "sanitized" versions.... I believe Penguin or Oxford is the one I've found that actually went back to Lewis' ms. and let's you have the book the way he wrote it... warts and all, but still pretty strong stuff at times....
 
Allegra said:
This is the one I ordered - Penguin's: http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/359301/The_Monk/Product.html Oh no tell me it's not the 'sanitized' version! I'm a big girl I can handle it!:D Well honestly I did find it a bit disturbing at times when I read it. Not a comfy read for sure.
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I will have to dig out my copy from the storage cabinet sometime soon... but I think that it was the Penguin edition. Both Penguin and Oxford have put out a lot of the Gothics in really good editions the last several years... the newer editions of Melmoth, for instance, are very nice indeed....
 
Thanks J.D.! Please let me know if it's abridged, may be I can change it.
 
Allegra said:
Thanks J.D.! Please let me know if it's abridged, may be I can change it.
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According to the Penguin site, this is taken from the first edition, before he made changes to avoid prosecution... so you'll be getting the scandalous original, all right....:p
 
Oh great, I can't wait to get my mind 'insanitized'!:D Thanks again J.D.!
 
Asher's Polity Agent and Sergei Lukyanenko's Day Watch, the sequel to the really excellent Night Watch.
 
So Day Watch is out then. Is it in paperback Rane? And could I have the publisher and ISBN please? I've been waiting for it but none of the stores here have it yet but if I have the information I can probably get it ordered through Borders or Kinokuniya or Silverfish. Thanks.

Have fun with The Monk Allegra ... it's definitely a unique reading experience. :p
 
Nesacat said:
I've not read anything by Stan Nicholls before but the Orcs books looked very interesting. I read several pages before I bought it and it was an omnibus edition to boot.

I'll start on it in about a week or so.
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If you like it and can think of something else in a similar vein, will you let me know?
 
Bought two books Monday:

Primitive Mythology, by Joseph Campbell...I've tried to read this a few times, but always out of the library and I'd never manage to get through it before it was due. So when I found it in the bookstore, I thought I'd buy it so that I can wend my way through it in the leisurely manner that it seems to need.

Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill...out new in hardback, which I can't usually afford. But I'd read an excerpt from this horror novel on the 'net and was intrigued, and Borders had it for half off Monday only. How could I resist? At the very least the writer, son of Stephen and Tabitha King, has some good storytelling genes. :)

Anyone here read any of Tabitha King's work, by the way? I've read a couple of her novels, and she's good.
 
littlemissattitude said:
At the very least the writer, son of Stephen and Tabitha King, has some good storytelling genes. :)
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Interesting thought that, LMA. Is there really a gene that controls the part of the brain we label "Imagination"? Or does growing up with parents that both write influence development of talent? Or is it a combination of the two?

Found myself a replacement copy of Ghastly Beyond Belief, edited by Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman yesterday. It's a compilation of quotes from the worst and most excessive in bad SF/Fantasy/Horror film and books, and quite hilariously funny at times.
 
Finally I received The Lies of Locke Lamora. Hope I'll like it in spite of the gloomy colour of the cover.
 
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