Book Hauls!

[Allegra]

The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain

The Conjurer's Bird - Martin Davies

 

[murphy]

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.

Here's wishing you a speedy recovery.

 

[elvet]

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.

Nice to see you back! I hope you are feeling better soon .

A good day at the book store for me:
The Summer Country by James A. Hetley - intriguing premise
Sorcery Rising by Jude Fisher - I'm a sucker for a story with a cat in it
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray - YA follow-up to A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Winds of Change by Martha Grimes

 

[GOLLUM]

Sorcery Rising by Jude Fisher - I'm a sucker for a story with a cat in it

I've read that particular trilogy by JS and enjoyed it. It has a strong female character and the cat is not all that it seems...

 

[Nesacat]

The Ligotti for GOLLUM and Tigana for Fahim. Done. Am glad they'll have good homes. Will send them as soon as I can, probably over the weekend since my car is in the workshop now.


*It's good to have you back GOLLUM*

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

It is god to see you around Gollum - you'd dropped off the radar there for a while (though I shouldn't talk). That Ligotti collection is rather good - good reading, if of course very disturbing.

 

[Nikitta]

I made a wrong order at amazon, so I just got another copy of The Ghost Brigades (John Scalzi) when I was looking forward to receiving The Last Colony (also John Scalzi). I can return the book, but that was quite a disappointment. The Last Colony won't be availble from amazon.co.uk until the 27th this month.

It was my own fault for making a wrong order, not amazon's, so I'll just kick myself for a bit.

The Dark Elf Trilogy also arrived and I hadn't messed up that order, fortunately.

 

[Connavar]

Nesacat: You are giving away an expensive book ?

Or did you sell Tigana to Fahim?



My bro and i usually get our fantasy books together. He buys two three of a series i buy the next book one of us want and so on.

This time it was his turn and he got

A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Storms - George RR Martin

For me he got Legend - David Gemmell

 

[Nesacat]

Connavar: Giving away both books. I have some more but I need to make a list. You see my books had been in storage for many years and only just got unpacked.

In the meantime I had bought books and been given books and am still being given books. There are now many books which I have more than one of even two of. If they'll have a good home with someone who'll read and appreciate them, I'm happy to send them along.

Admittedly there are books I'll keep all copies of, especially if they come in different editions.

 

[Connavar]

Thats very good of you, i must say.


I am a new collector so i dont have that problem. I collect only the books i must own, the rest i borrow.

 

[Mollygurl]

Hi Everyone!

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with the Science-Fiction Book Club site (www.sfbc.com)? I am thinking of joining because the deal seems too good to pass up. You receive 5 books for $1 if you commit to buying another 4 books at 'members' price over the next 2 years. Given that I buy at least 3 new books a month; I don't think the commitment will be hard to satisfy.

The reason I am considering this is because - having perused this thread for a while - you have all inspired me to explore some authors that I have not yet read. I have settled on a few that are highly praised here, but I need a few suggestions on what title to start with (preferably not one that is part of a series as I want to see if I like the author's style before I commit to a series)

- Kate Elliott
- Neil Gaiman
- Orson Scott Card (can you believe that I've never read anything by him?)
- Robin Hobb
- Guy Gavriel Kay (I have Tigana sitting on my shelf but haven’t read it yet. Worth it?)

Thanks for your help!

 

[Fahim]

I belonged to the SFBC a long time ago (around the late 90's) when I lived in the US. It worked out pretty well but the only thing that I didn't like was the fact that most (all?) of the books they had available were hardback and I usually like paperbacks Of course, the plus side was that I got some really good stuff from them like "The Compleat Dying Earth" by Jack Vance and "The Prydain Chronicles".

As for the authors you'd listed, I haven't read any Orson Scott Card or Robing Hobb myself but from what I know of them, I don't know if they have any books not in a series.

I do believe that Robin Hobb as Megan Lindholm (Robin Hobb is a pseudnonym as well ) might have a few stand-alone books but as Robin Hobb, she has 4 series of three books each so far.

OK, I did a lookup and Orson Scott Card does have some standalone novels but the most famous of his works - Ender, Alvin Maker, Shadows etc. - are all part of a series. Hope that helps

 

[Mollygurl]

Thanks Fahim!

I checked out Orson Scott Card as well and boy is he prolific! I think that I'll need to do some more research on the various series before I tackle one. Maybe I'll start with Robyn Hobb - 3 books sounds about right for a new series. LOL

I think I will join the SFBC after all because I prefer hard covers (they look better on my book shelves )

Molly

 

[GOLLUM]

Picked up the following:

Fritz Leiber omnibus - Conjure wife & Lady of Darkness: Urban fantasy.
Gene Wolfe - Peace: SFF Masterwork
Glenn Cook - Lord of the Silent Kingdom Bk II Instrumentalities of the Night.
Jeff Vandermeer - Shriek: An Afterword

Mievilee's Umlundun was sold out *GRRR...SIGH*

 

[j d worthington]

Had a very lucky strike today. Took a friend to the Half-Price Books and, while there, did a little browsing... and got myself a set of Grant Overton's (ed.) 1927 10-volume The World's One Hundred Best Short Stories -- for $10 for the entire set (actually, for less, as I had a 10% off coupon)....

 

[GOLLUM]

Nice one JD.

Picked up at Borders:

Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link 11 short stories * rightfully dubbed a national treasure, if you want to read short stories as an artform ranging from comedy to gothic horror then you can do worse than read Link.

Dream Songs - George RR Martin 30 year short story retrospectiuve of a master stroyteller.

 

[Allegra]

Discovered shockingly that I haven't got Monstrous Regiment by pTerry and bought it right away. I may not have read all his books but not owning all is unacceptable and inexcusable!

 

[digs]

Just got:

The Serpent Bride, Sara Douglass' new one (promo copy - one month early!)
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The Hidden Stars, Madeline Howard
Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
Ash: A Secret History, Mary Gentle
The Stand, Stephen King

Should take me an enjoyable while to forge my way through those!

 

[HoopyFrood]

Hardly a book haul, but I might as well mention it while I'm here! I've just purcahsed The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb. I keep finding them for a mere £1.99 at "The Works" bookshop. Now I have the first and second Farseer books, the third Liveship Traders book and the second and third Tawny Man books! I've only read the first Farseer book so far, so it doesn't matter about the missing ones...yet. Because I certainly enjoyed the first one enough to carry on with the rest of them.

 

[Pyan]

Went on a trawl of the local charity shops this morning, and picked these up:
Isaac Asimov: The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun - both in the '70's Panther edition with the Chris Foss covers: plus a Bantam edition of Puzzles of the Black Widowers by the same author.
Assignment In Eternity Vol 2, by RAH, 1978 NEL.
Icehenge, by Kim Stanley Robinson, modern p/b.

And best of all, a 1974 Panther edition of The Abominations of Yondo, by Clark Ashton Smith, with this cover, but no artist info.
Total cost, £1.20 - 20 pence each.