Book Hauls!

[Who's Wee Dug]

If you like it and can think of something else in a similar vein, will you let me know?

You may like Mary Gentle's GRUNTS it is an Orc one, lot of dark humour and one liners.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Right, here we go, minor rant (a good one, though!) coming up...

I went into the city centre to some shopping today and my friends told me of a great independent book shop, so we decided to visit it. It was amazing, so many books and all so cheap! Needless to say I had to take a moment to compose myself when I first walked in! Damn, that is exactly the kind of shop I'd love to own, with huge shelves stocked full of books. And so many books!! I couldn't decide what to buy!
But in the end I opted for:

The Knight of the Swords - Michael Moorcock
The Queen of the Swords - Michael Moorcock
The King of the Swords - Michael Moorcock
(Well, I thought, seeing as they were all there, I might as well get them all...because they were only £1.50 each! And they're the crazy retro covers from the 70s!)
Dragonsdawn - Anne McCaffrey (for a mere £1.90!)

Boo yah! I will definitely be visiting that shop again!

Hoopy can you tell me what was the name of that shop and where it is, if I'm down that way it may be worth a look in.

 

[HoopyFrood]

It's in good old Exeter city centre, along the high street and beyond (don't know the street name, sorry!) It's called Read and Return.

And ah, man, I am so weak! I keep saying I can't buy more books because I have to go home on the train and thus have to have as little in my bag as possible. But the book stall man was back on campus today and I just can't resist his cheap books! So I bought:

The Elder Gods - David and Leigh Eddings.
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

And the next time my mum 'phones me, rest assured that I will be furiously trying to persuade her to pick me up from Exeter, so that I can transport all these books back home!

 

[Pyan]

The Elder Gods - David and Leigh Eddings.

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Hoopy! how can you put these in the same sentence!

 

[HoopyFrood]

Ha, well apparently I just did



I'm a girl of eclectic tastes, anyway.

 

[Pyan]

"We gonna rock down to Eclectic Avenue
And then we'll take it higher" Wooo!

 

[murphy]

And ah, man, I am so weak! I keep saying I can't buy more books because I have to go home on the train and thus have to have as little in my bag as possible. But the book stall man was back on campus today and I just can't resist his cheap books! So I bought:

The Elder Gods - David and Leigh Eddings.
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

And the next time my mum 'phones me, rest assured that I will be furiously trying to persuade her to pick me up from Exeter, so that I can transport all these books back home!

Welcome to Bookoholics Anonymous.

 

[Nikitta]

You may like Mary Gentle's GRUNTS it is an Orc one, lot of dark humour and one liners.

I've heard others mention it before and I've considered buying it. You comparing it to Stan Nicholls' Orcs trilogy convinced me.

Today I went book shopping a bit, with my boyfriend. He bought some books he wanted and I bought Grunts together with The Forever War.

I also bought The Vampire Omnibus (Edited by Peter Hanning) about vampires in stories and movies for the last 200 years, used.

 

[williamjm]

Ha, well apparently I just did

I'm a girl of eclectic tastes, anyway.

If you're going to read The Elder Gods it would also help to be very easily pleased as it is a terrible, terrible book and just a pale shadow of Edding's earlier books.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Hehe, thanks for the warning. Ah well, only cost about £2 so I can't complain. Well, I can. Once I've read it

 

[j d worthington]

Well, on the Cat's advice, I looked to see if it was available... Today I got my copy of the Centenary Edition of The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard, edited by Stephen R. Jones. I'd not even known of the existence of this one, surprisingly. Beautiful book! Lovely illustrations, too... and it's very nice to have all the Conan tales in a single volume, including drafts, synopses, and fragments. Two-Gun Bob would have been amazed.....

 

[ravenus]

Jingo, Thud! - Terry Pratchett Damn, these Pratchett books have an insidious way of creeping into your collection. However I have decided that the next one I get shall not deal majorly with the Sam Vimes and the Watch (nor Death, whose stories tend to go on the twee side)
Journey to Arcturus - David Lindsay
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
Forest of Thieves - Phyllis Granoff Medieval Jain stories anthology
Ghost Stories of Henry James

 

[Taltos]

Got my order (sadly got to bookshop only couple of minutes before closing, so couldn't do any local book browsing):
Jim Butcher - Storm Front
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
Simon R Green - Down Among the Dead Men
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon

 

[littlemissattitude]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Hooray for library sales.

Today's haul:

1) Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear (1999)
2) Declare - Tim Powers (2001)
3) Manifold: Space - Stephen Baxter (2001)
4) The Shore of Women - Pamela Sargent (1986)

All four are hardbacks and first editions, for which I paid a grand total of US$1.00.

 

[bruno-1012]

Just ordered a hardback set of CS Lewis Narnia books for £10.

Not sure who is going to get them yet.

 

[Scriven]

The Wind Singer by William Nicholson
Shadowmancer by G. P. Taylor
The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

Yay for secondhand books! Charity shops are a great place to get books, especially hyped-up YA ones that I'm not sure I want to buy full-price.

 

[elvet]

Captain Altriste and the Riddlemaster Trilogy. The first I've heard about and it was on sale, the second I haven't heard about, but I can't resist a 'special collector's edition' with all 3 books under 1 cover.

 

[murphy]

Captain Altriste and the Riddlemaster Trilogy. The first I've heard about and it was on sale, the second I haven't heard about, but I can't resist a 'special collector's edition' with all 3 books under 1 cover.

Is that the Riddle of Stars by Patricia A. McKillip? Contains The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire and Harpist in the Wind? I got my copy through the SFBC years ago. The poor thing got chewed up by one of the many puppies I've had.

I enjoyed the book very much. Good read.

 

[elvet]

Is that the Riddle of Stars by Patricia A. McKillip? Contains The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire and Harpist in the Wind? I got my copy through the SFBC years ago. The poor thing got chewed up by one of the many puppies I've had.

I enjoyed the book very much. Good read.

Yes it is. Nice to hear your comments .

 

[DeepThought]

Hello guys! Just got back from a trip to Bangalore, picked up these from a bookstore. Already started on Ptolemy's Gate and will definitely read Memories of Ice when I'm done.

Memories of Ice, Steven Erikson (couldn’t find The Bone Hunters and House of chains)
Midnight Tides
A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin (read both, but needed my own copies of cause)
A Feast for Crows
King Rat, China Mieville (Haven’t read anything by Mieville yet, heard
he's a lot like Gaiman ...)
Iron Council
Looking for Jake and other Stories
Un Lun Dun
The Conan Chronicles - Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon, Robert E. Howard
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Patricia A. McKillip
The Riddle-Master's Game
The First Book of Lankhmar, Fritz Leiber
The House on the Borderland and other Stories, William Hope Hodgson
The Mark of the Beast and other Fantastical Tales, Rudyard Kipling
Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower 6), Stephen King
Dense Macabre
Against A Dark Background, Iain M. Banks (Excession is the only Banks I've read thus far and it was more than enough to make him my favorite SF)
The State of the Art
Consider Phlebas
Use of Weapons
The Endymion Omnibus, Dan Simmons
Olympos
Stranger in A Strange Land, Robert A. HeinLein
Darwin's Watch, Terry Pratchett
The Collected Stories, Author C. Clarke
The Year's Best Science Fiction, Edited by Gardner Dozois
The Science Fiction Century - Volume 1, Edited by David G. Hartwell
Ptolemy's Gate, Jonathan Stround
Nightwatch, Sergei Lukyanenko
The Day Watch
The Dragonriders of Pern Trilogy, Anne McCaffrey
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, Susanna Clarke
The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition), JRR Tolkien
Ramayana, R.C. Dutt (wanted to acquaint myself with the classics before tackling the modern ones)
Mahabharata, C. Rajagopalachari
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare
Paradise Lost, John Milton

Cheers, DeepThought