Book Hauls!

[Connavar]

Yesterday i got :

David Gemmell- Ghost King, its a interesting twist on Arthurian legend.
David Gemmell- Last Sword of Power

Last week:

David Gemmell-Wolf in The Shadow its also in the series of Stones of Power just like Ghost King, Last Sword of Power.

I love Gemmell books and i choose this series cause i wanted another taste of him after finishing Rigante.


Also last week:

Micheal Connelly- A Darkness More than Night,City of Bones,The Narrows. All three are part of Harry Bosch series.

 

[j d worthington]

And yet another graphic novel (or collection) came in the mail today... Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridors, vol. 2....

 

[Connavar]

Tommorow is the usuall time of the month to go to my comic shop and get my monthly batch.


But thanks to Gemmell's greatness, my cash is not half as much as usuall for my comics

 

[j d worthington]

Another Ellison came in the mail today... Children of the Streets, a 2004 reprint of his 1961 collection originally published (against his wishes) as The Juvies....

 

[Fahim]

We visited the bookstores and came away with quite a haul. We're actually trying to fill in the holes in existing series and so got a few fillers but also got some new stuff

Krondor: Tear of the Gods - Raymond E. Feist
Exiles Return - Raymond E. Feist
Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb
Golden Fool - Robin Hobb
Fool's Fate - Robin Hobb
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Douglas Adams
Waiting for Godalming - Robert Rankin

I think that's it. And yes, I've still not read any Douglas Adams

 

[Rosemary]

Not a great discount I'm afraid...just a few dollars.
Jennifer Fallon's The Immortal Prince, book one of The Tide Lords. From the reviews and a quick peek at the centre pages, makes me think that this will be as good as her Hythrun Chronicles...

 

[Allegra]

We visited the bookstores and came away with quite a haul. We're actually trying to fill in the holes in existing series and so got a few fillers but also got some new stuff

Krondor: Tear of the Gods - Raymond E. Feist
Exiles Return - Raymond E. Feist
Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb
Golden Fool - Robin Hobb
Fool's Fate - Robin Hobb
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Douglas Adams
Waiting for Godalming - Robert Rankin

I think that's it. And yes, I've still not read any Douglas Adams

Good haul! Since you are a Pratchett fan I bet you are gonna love Douglas Adams' books especially the Hitchhiker's Guide. They are brilliant, very Monty Python.

 

[Fahim]

Good haul! Since you are a Pratchett fan I bet you are gonna love Douglas Adams' books especially the Hitchhiker's Guide. They are brilliant, very Monty Python.

Yeah, everybody keeps saying that I must read Adams since I love PTerry's writing - been meaning to get some books since about '97 but never got around to it - finally decided to go the whole hog and get it all - or almost all

 

[HoopyFrood]

Yeah, Adams' books are freaking brilliant (clearly I'm a fan *cough* my name *cough*!) Although The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- the whole trilogy in five parts -- is without a doubt his best work (nod and agree, people ), the Dirk Gently books are pretty damn good as well. And the Holistic Detective Agency has one of my favourite ever lines:

"Let us grapple with the ineffable and see if we can't eff it anyway." Hee!

 

[Connavar]

I read Dirk book and they were almost too crazy for me almost


Man Fahim is so lucky not having read Hitchiker series yet.


Funnier book has never been written.

 

[Taltos]

Got my ordered books -
Simon R. Green Hex and the City
Simon R. Green Paths not Taken

And ordered another 8 books ... I'm hopeless addict

 

[Triceratops]

Just bought Subterranean by James Rollins. Found Ender's Game by Card.

Tri

 

[HoopyFrood]

I am very disappointed with myself. I have lived in my village for all of my life (that's almost 20 years now!) yet I had never visited the bookshop! What was wrong with me?! I must've walked past it a thousand times or more in my lifetime, yet never thought of going in. Craziness!! So today I paid a visit to it...it's brilliant! I always thought it was a tiny shop crammed with books (it certainly looks like it from the outside) but when I went in I discovered that it's huge! And definitely crammed with books. There's a maze of books downstairs, with very tall bookshelves that reach the ceiling, and then there's more upstairs. And stacked in piles on the stairs!

Anyway, I'll stop rambling now and actually say what I bought:

The War of the Worlds - H.G Wells
And a nice big book (for a mere £6!) entitled Stormbringer that has the following Michael Moorcock books in:
The Sleeping Sorceress
The Revenge of the Rose
The Stealer of Souls
Kings in Darkness
The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams
Stormbringer

 

[murphy]

Received in the mail this week:

White Knight by Jim Butcher
Bridge of Dreams by Chaz Brenchley
Paloma: (Retrieval Artist Series #5) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon
Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
The Taste of the Night: The Second Sign of the Zodiac by Vicki Pettersson
Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners by Ellen Kushner
Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman

 

[bruno-1012]

I am very disappointed with myself. I have lived in my village for all of my life (that's almost 20 years now!) yet I had never visited the bookshop! What was wrong with me?! I must've walked past it a thousand times or more in my lifetime, yet never thought of going in. Craziness!! So today I paid a visit to it...it's brilliant! I always thought it was a tiny shop crammed with books (it certainly looks like it from the outside) but when I went in I discovered that it's huge! And definitely crammed with books. There's a maze of books downstairs, with very tall bookshelves that reach the ceiling, and then there's more upstairs. And stacked in piles on the stairs!

A bit disappointed with you as well - thought you would know about L-space

In the early 80's I use to love a place called Science Fiction Bookshop (does exactly what it says on the tin) in Edinburgh. It was one of these small places that seemed bigger on the inside than the outside.

Its gone now but you can go into Forbidden Planet - which is not too far from where it used to be - has about 5 times the floor space and about a tenth of the stock.

The independent stores are always best - will stock rarer titles and are usually more willing to try and find obscure stuff that you Borders/Waterstones.

Buy loads there - keep them in business, we need these people!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

A bit disappointed with you as well - thought you would know about L-space

In the early 80's I use to love a place called Science Fiction Bookshop (does exactly what it says on the tin) in Edinburgh. It was one of these small places that seemed bigger on the inside than the outside.

Its gone now but you can go into Forbidden Planet - which is not too far from where it used to be - has about 5 times the floor space and about a tenth of the stock.

The independent stores are always best - will stock rarer titles and are usually more willing to try and find obscure stuff that you Borders/Waterstones.

Buy loads there - keep them in business, we need these people!

Yes I remember that shop well it was in Four Crossways?used to go to it when I went home for a visit,the guy who owned it did go to work for FP when it was near the uni. now that FP is part of the FP International(which is not part of the London For.Planet) is just up the Bridges not as good as when that guy worked in the other FP 5 minutes from the old SFBookshop. but he now has a shop in the Grass Market not far from the Last Drop Pub futher down well he had that last time I paid a visit,can't remember the name of the shop though.

 

[Pyan]

Don't forget to breathe, WWD!
There's one like that in Carlisle, as well, called Bookcase

Bookcase - Bookcase - Cumbria GoLakes website - E&A Details

4 floors, two extensions out the back, ceiling to floor with shelves, and just as you think you've been in every room, you find a whole corridor full of rooms that you could have sworn weren't there five minutes before............

 

[bruno-1012]

Yes I remember that shop well it was in Four Crossways?used to go to it when I went home for a visit,the guy who owned it did go to work for FP when it was near the uni. now that FP is part of the FP International(which is not part of the London For.Planet) is just up the Bridges not as good as when that guy worked in the other FP 5 minutes from the old SFBookshop. but he now has a shop in the Grass Market not far from the Last Drop Pub futher down well he had that last time I paid a visit,can't remember the name of the shop though.

Great news - will have to check out his shop when I go back through

His old shop was in West Crosscauseway - used to be on the town side of the street but then took a lease on a second shop on the other side so comics in 1 and books in the other.

He was a great guy - when I left Edin to work in Reading he would send me the trade catalogues for the new stuff coming out and I would phone him for an order which he would post to me with a note telling how much I owed him for me to send a cheque. Loved the trust he showed.

As you say he then moved to FP when it was in Teviot Place.

News like this is why I love this place!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Knew I did not have the street name quite right,and forgot about the comic shop,I never went into that one.

But that was quite a time ago.

 

[bruno-1012]

Knew I did not have the street name quite right,and forgot about the comic shop,I never went into that one.

But that was quite a time ago.

Well I was going there between '82 and '88 then moved to Reading until '90.

I think it split in 2 about '87 and was gone by 92/93.

As you say, it was some time ago and the memory does start to go....