Book Hauls!

[dask]

Thank you.

 

[Caliban]

I just found and picked up

Cujo - by Stephen King
and
Duma Key - by Stephen King

60p for both of them.

Have only read about four SK books before. Anyone want to tell me whether these ones are any good or not?

 

[Venusian Broon]

I just found and picked up

Cujo - by Stephen King
and
Duma Key - by Stephen King

60p for both of them.

Have only read about four SK books before. Anyone want to tell me whether these ones are any good or not?

Personally the 'horror' of Cujo did not really grip me at all. It reminded me of one of SK's long-long-winded 'short' stories. Quite a lot of words and not a lot happening.

Don't know anything about Duma Key

 

[dask]

The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming
Legends From The End of Time

Legends is a collection of 3 or 4 ss and is very good.

Actually got them, wasn't sure I did. The fifth is under an alternate title.

 

[hitmouse]

Actually got them, wasn't sure I did. The fifth is under an alternate title.
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I havent seen those covers before. Very nice.

 

[Extollager]

The cover on the left must be by Bob Pepper, who did several covers for the Ballantine Fantasy Series and that publisher's issues of the Gormenghast trilogy and A Voyage to Arcturus.

[URL='http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiPoP2mnvXVAhWh34MKHX9yA-wQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolygamist.narod.ru%2Fbaf_gallery%2Fbaf_gallery.html&psig=AFQjCNEw2W7CwxQ5NcKNE4Moxs0vuoMXxg&ust=1503848479587889'][URL='https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjU6ePBnvXVAhVo9IMKHQyHAAoQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fcraigmaher%2Fillustrator-bob-pepper%2F&psig=AFQjCNGMAE5tm44WDlbHqQEVH1vZeCsE7A&ust=1503848516390189'][/URL][/URL]

 

[Vertigo]

Lord, all those picture so shout out their era of origin!

 

[Extollager]

The Pepper art is much more to my taste than the art of most later editions.
[URL='https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjC-LyvzPXVAhVk4YMKHcigCvIQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackgate.com%2F2011%2F11%2F14%2Fdavid-lindsay-a-voyage-to-arcturus-and-necessary-strangeness%2F&psig=AFQjCNGC3yr1vtDTcrYBNovls0AV1uSsGQ&ust=1503860813397797'][URL='https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj5wtHazPXVAhWp34MKHdgzAswQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2F9781587156359%2FDon-Rodriguez-Lord-Dunsany-1587156350%2Fplp&psig=AFQjCNHB_SrrXALltI5kf2I-KhtE-ANgiw&ust=1503860886109348'][/URL][/URL]

I'll grant, though, that editions of the Gormenghast books with Peake's own art have much to be said for them.
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[dask]

The cover on the left must be by Bob Pepper, who did several covers for the Ballantine Fantasy Series and that publisher's issues of the Gormenghast trilogy and A Voyage to Arcturus.

[URL='http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiPoP2mnvXVAhWh34MKHX9yA-wQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolygamist.narod.ru%2Fbaf_gallery%2Fbaf_gallery.html&psig=AFQjCNEw2W7CwxQ5NcKNE4Moxs0vuoMXxg&ust=1503848479587889'][URL='https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjU6ePBnvXVAhVo9IMKHQyHAAoQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fcraigmaher%2Fillustrator-bob-pepper%2F&psig=AFQjCNGMAE5tm44WDlbHqQEVH1vZeCsE7A&ust=1503848516390189'][/URL][/URL]

[URL='http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiPoP2mnvXVAhWh34MKHX9yA-wQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolygamist.narod.ru%2Fbaf_gallery%2Fbaf_gallery.html&psig=AFQjCNEw2W7CwxQ5NcKNE4Moxs0vuoMXxg&ust=1503848479587889'][/URL]
[URL='http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiPoP2mnvXVAhWh34MKHX9yA-wQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolygamist.narod.ru%2Fbaf_gallery%2Fbaf_gallery.html&psig=AFQjCNEw2W7CwxQ5NcKNE4Moxs0vuoMXxg&ust=1503848479587889']
You're right of course, at least according the shadowy authority of a copyright page under the auspices of Donald A. Wollheim. Like Irving Berlin said, "All you gotta do is look" and it's pretty much unmistakable.[/URL]

 

[dask]

The Pepper art is much more to my taste than the art of most later editions.
[URL='https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjC-LyvzPXVAhVk4YMKHcigCvIQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackgate.com%2F2011%2F11%2F14%2Fdavid-lindsay-a-voyage-to-arcturus-and-necessary-strangeness%2F&psig=AFQjCNGC3yr1vtDTcrYBNovls0AV1uSsGQ&ust=1503860813397797'][URL='https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj5wtHazPXVAhWp34MKHdgzAswQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2F9781587156359%2FDon-Rodriguez-Lord-Dunsany-1587156350%2Fplp&psig=AFQjCNHB_SrrXALltI5kf2I-KhtE-ANgiw&ust=1503860886109348'][/URL][/URL]
[URL='https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjC-LyvzPXVAhVk4YMKHcigCvIQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackgate.com%2F2011%2F11%2F14%2Fdavid-lindsay-a-voyage-to-arcturus-and-necessary-strangeness%2F&psig=AFQjCNGC3yr1vtDTcrYBNovls0AV1uSsGQ&ust=1503860813397797']
I'll grant, though, that editions of the Gormenghast books with Peake's own art have much to be said for them.
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Don't much care for the top three myself but the fourth, Don Rodriquez, doesn't look too bad.[/URL][/URL]

 

[Randy M.]

The Pepper art is much more to my taste than the art of most later editions.

Agreed.


Randy M.

 

[Paul_C]

This morning I popped to my local garden centre to visit The Works, which hides in the corner.

I went to look for some cheap crime fiction for my Dad, who I'm going to visit tomorrow, and came home with 9 books (3 for £5).

The one exception to books by Jo Nesbo, Jeffery Deaver et al. was a copy of NK Jemison's The Fifth Season, which I was happy to snag for £1.67

 

[Extollager]

After the glories of the late 1960s-early 1970s cover art (OF COURSE there was some dull or ugly art too), publishers like del Rey wallowed in art that seems really dull to me: prosaic art to go with poetic texts.

Those are pictures by Darrell Sweet. What eyesores! -- in my opinion.

 

[hitmouse]

After the glories of the late 1960s-early 1970s cover art (OF COURSE there was some dull or ugly art too), publishers like del Rey wallowed in art that seems really dull to me: prosaic art to go with poetic texts.

Those are pictures by Darrell Sweet. What eyesores! -- in my opinion.

These are shockers.

 

[Extollager]

But that's the type of art you see on innumerable DAW and del Rey books from the later 1970s and 1980s, at least. I associate it with the settled establishment of fantasy as a marketing niche, which is still with us, of course.

 

[Bick]

Well, they are by Darrell Sweet, who's the absolute worst fantasy artist of all time, so its not hugely surprising. He cannot keep figures to scale - the hobbit upstairs looking out his hobbit hole is human sized. He also (always) has characters looking in random directions, as though uninterested in what's going on.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

I think what bothers me about this particular style of fantasy art (which I also see in the Brothers Hildebrandt and others) is that it is so darn literal. It doesn't create the feeling of fantasy at all.

This is the sort of thing I look for in fantasy art:

Not only beautiful, but walking just the right line between realistic and abstract.

 

[Extollager]

The art of Michael Whelan, too, bores me, to name another artist I associate with the later 1970s and 1980s. This kind of work stirs no desire in me to read the book...

 

[Bick]

But he's technically excellent at least. I like Whelan - for SF I regard him as one of the best.

 

[Extollager]

Some of Gervasio Gallardo's work for the Ballntine Fantasy series, late 1960s-early 1970s, was (to me) appealing, such a contrast with the dull stuff from a few years later.



Those -do- stir in me the desire to read the books...