Book Hauls!

[hitmouse]

Mixed couple from a charity shop. My third Jeeves and Wooster book and my third in the Silence of the Lambs series
Edit, the Wodehouse is part of the Blandings series, whatever that is
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The Wodehouse is not Jeeves and Wooster. It is about Lord Emsworth and his family and his pet pig. Up there with PGW’s best. Absolutely spiffing. I like Blandings better than J&W. Suspect I am not the only one.

 

[AE35Unit]

That's horrifying! I've got something like 150 TBR physical books (we are not going to mention the Kobo).

I have too many to count...

 

[Extollager]

I have too many to count...

Are there any from way, way back in your reading life, & that you might get to & report on here?

From Way, Way Back in Your Book Backlog

A comment from J. D. Worthington in the Lovecraft "Strange High House in the Mist" thread prompts me to ask: What are some books you have had for the longest time, do intend to read, or at least haven't definitively decided not to read, but haven't read yet? For me, the list would include...

www.sffchronicles.com

 

[AE35Unit]

Are there any from way, way back in your reading life, & that you might get to & report on here?

From Way, Way Back in Your Book Backlog

A comment from J. D. Worthington in the Lovecraft "Strange High House in the Mist" thread prompts me to ask: What are some books you have had for the longest time, do intend to read, or at least haven't definitively decided not to read, but haven't read yet? For me, the list would include...

www.sffchronicles.com

Well I commented there earlier about one I last read in 2010

 

[Extollager]

Well I commented there earlier about one I last read in 2010

Do you mean the "From Way, Way Back in Your Reading Life" thread? 'Cos the "Backlog" thread is about ones you've had for a long time but never read till now.

 

[AE35Unit]

Do you mean the "From Way, Way Back in Your Reading Life" thread? 'Cos the "Backlog" thread is about ones you've had for a long time but never read till now.

Yes, the From Way Back thread

 

[BAYLOR]

Silmarillion hardcover book 177 Houghton Mifflin edition 11th printing .

 

[JunkMonkey]

The results of a trip to my favourite second hand book place in Glasgow today:

12 1960s French editions of Galaxie and (Fantasy and Science) Fiction which were spread about all over the place and some took some series digging to unearth.

And

and a couple of pre ISBN penguins - not a bad 20 quid methinks.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

The pulp novel cover on Fallen Star (aka The Frozen Year) amuses me. The synopsis on the back of this alternate edition does, however, reveal that there's a woman who looks sexy even in red flannel long underwear.

 

[Rodders]

Neal Asher has a couple of new books due for release that I have just pre-ordered.

the first is War Bodies



Rebellion could be their salvation – or their doom.

Long ago, the Cyberat left Earth to co-evolve with machines. Now, led by the powerful dictator Castron, their Old Guard believe that machines should replace the physical body. But these beliefs are upended with the arrival of the human Polity – and their presence ignites rebellion.

Piper was raised as a weapon against the Cyberat, implanted with secretive hardware. When his parents are captured by the Old Guard, the Polity offer him unexpected aid. Piper knows the Polity want more from him, but at what cost? The rebellion also attracts the deadly prador, placing an entire world in peril.

As war rages across the planet, Piper must battle with the unknown technology implanted in his bones. It may be the Polity’s answer to their relentless fight against the prador. It could also be civilization-ending Jain tech – or something far more extraordinary.

The other was Lockdown Tales 2



9 stories set at the end of the Polity and after. I really enjoyed the first one, so I’m looking forward to this.

It looks like Neal has a new cover artist. Shame, I adored Jon Sullivan’s work.

 

[CupofJoe]

I think I've found my book soul-mate.*
Within a week I have picked up the Julian May Saga of the Exiles tetralogy and two books on Native American cooking from the same book swap stand at the local super market.
* Yes I know, I have no way of knowing if any or all of the books came from the same person. I'd just like to think that is the case.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

A friend of mine has just dumped a few books onto my to-be-read pile - you may notice a common theme

• Genius Loci and Other Tales - Clark Ashton Smith
• Who Fears the Devil? - Manly Wade Wellman
• The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre - H.P. Lovecraft
• At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror - H.P. Lovecraft
• Out of Space and Time: Volume 2 - Clark Ashton Smith
• Night Shift - Stephen King
• Return Of The Deep Ones: And Other Mythos Tales - Brian Lumley
• Ghosts and Grisly Things - Ramsey Campbell

 

[Rodders]

A few cheap Kindle books.

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett for £1.99
The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett for £0.99
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi for £0.99
The Handmaids Talke by Margarett Atwood for £1.99

 

[dask]

The Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain, hard back, no dust jacket, freebie from the library. Says copyright MCMXLV, whatever that is. Well worn but not beat.

 

[Vince W]

The Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain, hard back, no dust jacket, freebie from the library. Says copyright MCMXLV, whatever that is. Well worn but not beat.

1945

 

[Randy M.]

I was wondering what my next read would be when this arrived in the mail yesterday. A few weeks ago I saw that someone on GoodReads had marked this as currently reading, so I rushed to find it since it hasn't been reissued in decades, and I'd pretty much given up ever finding a reading copy in the U.S. An expanded edition, at that. Besides the Gatiss introduction, it includes the original foreward by Elizabeth Bowen, the obtaining of which must have been no small validation for a writer's first book.

 

[JunkMonkey]

My local supermarket book swap stand has had the same few books on it for weeks. Today I noticed a new addition - Ray Bradbury's I sing the Body Electric! in hardback. First Edition, second printing. It's missing the dustwrapper has a bookplate and a "Happy Birthday,Dad!" written on the front endpaper and it's probably only worth a couple of quid (if that) - but its MINE!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

TBR.

 

[dask]

Used but in near mint condition. $7.55 with tax.

 

[Rodders]

I got trhe "Battle of Jedha" hardback



I might stop collecting the Disney era books. I don't read them and they are of no interest to me.

Amazon had Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap on kindle for 0.99p today, so i bought those.