Book Hauls!

[HoopyFrood]

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

No fear, I definitely will be going back! I love the independent bookshops...much more friendly and eccentric. There's a great one in Exeter as well, which I shall be frequenting when I get back to university.

 

[bruno-1012]

Glad to hear that.

Looks like I will need some advice from you lot in here on the best book stores in London as I will be there for a few months.

Used FP when I was in Reading and also when I was down that way as my old company had an office on TCR.

Always remember my first trip there back in '88 - Train to Paddington and U to TCR, came out the station to be faced with a 3 storey high Ann Summers shop - quite a shock to a naive country boy I will tell you!

 

[j d worthington]

Very nice, Hoops. Those are the latter portions of the Elric cycle. Hope you enjoy!

And I received another book in the mail today: The Illustrated Harlan Ellison -- a gift; and, even though it's a long out-of-print book... this copy even has the 3-D glasses for the Steranko illustrations for "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"!

Once again, many thanks, Nesa, to both you and Alfie!

 

[Nesacat]

Have fun with the glasses JD and you have to tell me what it all looks like.

 

[Pyan]

Looking in a charity shop today and found two compilations of Simon R. Green's Hawk and Fisher tales: Haven of Lost Souls, and Fear and Loathing in Haven, published by Millennium Gollancz and containing six of the novellas altogether.
A bargain at £1.50 (about $3) altogether!

 

[j d worthington]

Have fun with the glasses JD and you have to tell me what it all looks like.

Oh, you just love putting me in these impossible positions, don't you, Cat?

 

[Adasunshine]

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont (well it's blokee's)
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Universe

xx

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I won't, I have quite a large lung capacity, I can do a lot with one breath comes with practice.

"Bookcase" we have a few of them in London they are a remainder chain of bookshops.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

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....

The bookshop got flooded at one point maybe that is why he moved.

Allways used to visit on my trips home from London still do if I have time.

 

[j d worthington]

And another one came in the mail today: Nightshade and Damnations: The Finest Stories of Gerald Kersh; a very nice selection of Kersh's shorter tales, with a Leo & Diane Dillon cover....

 

[Nesacat]

From colleagues as a housewarming gift:

China Mieville's Un Lun Dun
Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Neverwhere in hardback
Thomas Ligotti's Shadow At The Bottom Of The World (I now have 2 copies of the same edition)
Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana (I now have 2 copies of this anniversary edition and 1 hardback)

And from a booksale and I don't know how this one found it's way there:
The Complete Pegana by Dunsany

*Would anyone like a copy of the Ligotti and/or the paperback of Tigana?*

 

[Fahim]

I certainly wouldn't mind getting the copy of "Tigana" but it'll probably cost more than the book to send it here

 

[HoopyFrood]

I've just returned from another trip to the book shop in the village (now I've been once, there's no stopping me!) It is now my mission to transfer every book from the shop -- well, OK, not every book, but at least all the books upstairs -- onto my shelves at home!
Anyway, I had another small book haul. Four books for nine pounds! I love independent book shops...

Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

And also...I was scanning the uncatalogued section (please let it be there)...looking quickly through the M section (come on, let it be there)...and then (yes, it's there!) swooped down and picked up The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, then lapsed into a happy dance (it's a good job I was the only one upstairs in the shop!) because I really like this book, but have been unwilling to pay the full price for it. But from that shop, it was only a mere two pounds!!

My, I do ramble...

But yay!

 

[murphy]

I've just returned from another trip to the book shop in the village (now I've been once, there's no stopping me!) It is now my mission to transfer every book from the shop -- well, OK, not every book, but at least all the books upstairs -- onto my shelves at home!
Anyway, I had another small book haul. Four books for nine pounds! I love independent book shops...

Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

And also...I was scanning the uncatalogued section (please let it be there)...looking quickly through the M section (come on, let it be there)...and then (yes, it's there!) swooped down and picked up The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, then lapsed into a happy dance (it's a good job I was the only one upstairs in the shop!) because I really like this book, but have been unwilling to pay the full price for it. But from that shop, it was only a mere two pounds!!

My, I do ramble...

But yay!

It's good to see someone so happy about getting books. In RL, no one I know, (except me), is that happy about new books.

Just received in the mail

Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews -- Urban fantasy
Migration: Species Imperatives #2 by Julie E. Czerneda -- SF. Saving the universe from vicious aliens
Touch the Dark by Karen Chance -- Another urban fantasy
In the Eye of Heaven by David Keck -- Another fantasy, but not urban.

 

[j d worthington]

The Complete Pegana? Nice book, Nesa. Especially with Joshi's intro. Enjoy!

Let's see... today I received:

Dreams with Sharp Teeth, by Harlan Ellison
The Essential Ellison (rev. & exp. 2001 edition)
Shadow Coast, a horror novel by Philip Haldeman
Two-Gun Bob: A Centennial Study of Robert E. Howard, ed. by Benjamin Szumskyj -- with a foreword by Michael Moorcock
The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams, by W. H. Pugmire
Collected Essays Volume 5: Autobiography & Miscellany, by H. P. Lovecraft (tpb ed. -- the hardback is still at the printer)

(the last 4 are the most recent shipment from Hippocampus Press)

 

[GOLLUM]

Yesterday picked up:

Spirirt Gate - Kate Eliott
Shdowplay - Tad Williams

A copy of Ligotti would be good Nesa....

 

[Stenevor]

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller Jr
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
The Great Explosion - Eric Frank Russell
The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
City of Saints and Madmen - Jeff Vandermeer

Got this lot for £10. Oddbins are selling City of Saints and Madmen, hardback edition for £3 if anyone is interested. I didnt get very far with it last time I tried it but for £3 I thought why not.

 

[GOLLUM]

Pan edition of Mieville's King Rat

 

[murphy]

Yesterday picked up:

Spirirt Gate - Kate Eliott
Shdowplay - Tad Williams

A copy of Ligotti would be good Nesa....

Pan edition of Mieville's King Rat

Gollum, you're back! Where have you been?

 

[GOLLUM]

Gollum, you're back! Where have you been?

I've been ill but am hopefully on the road to recovery. I won't be logging in too often but I'll try to stay in touch from time to time.