Book Hauls!

[GOLLUM]

I picked up....

Emphyrio - Jack Vance *SF Masterwork
Dying Of The Light - George RR Martin
Paths Of Drakness (incl. The Silent Blade, The Spine Of The World, Servant Of The Shard & Sea Of Swords) - R.A. Slavatore
Reaper's Gale - Steven Erikson *Finally arrived Hooray!!
The SFWA European Hall Of Fame - *16 stories translated from 13 languages.

I hope I haven't upset the cat LOL!....

 

[Nesacat]

No you have not GOLLUM ... nothing's been upset. I think I've worked out how to do this .... finally.

Picked up a bunch of classics at a lunatic price. Most of them I already have but it was too good a bargain to pass up. They include
Frankenstein
Dracula
Turn of the Screw
The Scarlet Letter
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Orlando
The Wide Sargossa Sea
Jane Eyre
The Decameron
Faust
The Crucible
M Butterfly
Death of A Salesman
The complete poems of Donne
The complete poems of Pablo Neruda

 

[j d worthington]

GOLLUM, Nesa, Hoops: All good hauls! Congrats!

 

[GOLLUM]

Today I bought....

The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser

And the following arrived in the post....

Gods In Darkness: Complete Novels Of Kane - Karl Edward Wagner *Finally got my hands on this legendary S&S
Bran Mak Morn - Robert E Howard
The Savage Tales Of Solomon Kane - Robert E Howard

*The 2 Howard books are beautifully presented and illustrated incl. original notes/typescript from Howard.....

 

[Werthead]

Ordered Night of Knives by Ian Cameron Esslemont and In the Ruins and Crown of Stars by Kate Elliott from Amazon. May also pick up Paul Kearney's This Forsaken Earth in paperback and considering getting a published copy of Red Seas Under Red Skies (although I already have an ARC).

 

[HoopyFrood]

Argh, I can't stop! (Not that I particularly want to, of course...but if I keep buying books I'm going to living on air like a chameleon!) I went to Hoopy's Favourite Bookshop again today because I knew it had at the least the next book in the Malazan Books of the Fallen. And hurrah, it had two of them:

Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson
Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson

But, of course, I couldn't just leave with only two books! So I also bought:

The October Country - Ray Bradbury
Glory Road - Robert A. Heinlein

 

[Addy]

Argh, I can't stop! (Not that I particularly want to, of course...but if I keep buying books I'm going to living on air like a chameleon!) I went to Hoopy's Favourite Bookshop again today because I knew it had at the least the next book in the Malazan Books of the Fallen. And hurrah, it had two of them:

Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson
Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson

But, of course, I couldn't just leave with only two books! So I also bought:

The October Country - Ray Bradbury
Glory Road - Robert A. Heinlein

Oh, I love Bradbury to pieces. The October Country's probably the one I have the fondest memories of. You're going to love it, I bet.

 

[Aleksei]

I bought the last three books in the Pelbar Cycle, by Paul O Williams, today. I have really enjoyed the series so far and I hope that they don't fall short of my expectations.

An Ambush of Shadows
The Song of the Axe
The Sword of Forbearance

 

[GOLLUM]

Fingers crossed this doesn't break the cat's tail so here's hoping....

Numbers in the dark and other stories - Italo Calvino
Marcovaldo - Italo Calvino
Our Ancestors (incl. Baron In The Trees, The Cloven Viscount & The Non-Existent Knight) - Italo Calvino
Chronicles Of A Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collected Stories - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Fatal Eggs - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde *Yes folks I've never read this classic!
Tarzan Of The Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Islandi - Austin Tapan Wright *First published in 1942 this classic underground Utopian fantasy apparently has as great a depth of worldbuilding as Tolkien's Middle Earth. I look forward to checking it out!!

 

[Pyan]

Post your thoughts somewhen, please, Aleksei: I've got the first four as well, and have been looking for original p/b editions of those three for ages.

Finally got a copy of The Children of Hurin by JRRT/CJRT, plus Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, by Robert Surtees

I also found, in a charity shop, a wonderful book called:
Aboudi's Guide Book: Egypt: 1954 (being a Guide to the Antiquities of Egypt Historically Treated with Many Illustrations, Map of the Nile, and Plans of the Principal Temples of Upper Egypt).

It's full of phrases such as "The Waiters (at restaurants) are characterised with a smile shining on their faces when they receive any visitor" and "All means of Modern Transport are now available in Egypt"!

 

[Addy]

Fingers crossed this doesn't break the cat's tail so here's hoping....

Numbers in the dark and other stories - Italo Calvino
Marcovaldo - Italo Calvino
Our Ancestors (incl. Baron In The Trees, The Cloven Viscount & The Non-Existent Knight) - Italo Calvino
Chronicles Of A Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collected Stories - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Fatal Eggs - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde *Yes folks I've never read this classic!
Tarzan Of The Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Islandi - Austin Tapan Wright *First published in 1942 this classic underground Utopian fantasy apparently has as great a depth of worldbuilding as Tolkien's Middle Earth. I look forward to checking it out!!

Good haul, Gollum. I'm a big Calvino/Garcia Marquez fan.
Dorian Gray's a great read too, but you've probably heard that.

 

[Allegra]

I've only read Garcia Marquez's masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. Had he written anything else that can match this book?

 

[GOLLUM]

Yeh I think I heard that somewhere......
@Allegra: I'll let you know...

 

[Addy]

Marquez was a pretty consistent writer. You can't really go wrong. For latin-american writers, you should all try Julio Cortazar, Moacyr Scliar, Graciliano Ramos and Rubem Braga. But whatever you do, stay away from Paulo Coelho, please.

 

[Addy]

Couldn't help myself, so today I ordered these:

Now Wait For Last Year - Philip K. Dick
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett

God help me. Is there a Book Haulers Anonymous I can join?

 

[HoopyFrood]

If there is, I need to join it, methinks, before I'm penniless (but surrounded by books, mwahaha!)

 

[GOLLUM]

Me too...

Today I got.....

Mr Palomar - Italo Calvino
Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
Psycho Shop - Aflred Bester & Roger Zelazny
Lurulu - Jack Vance
After The King - Stories in honour of Tolkien
The Dispossesed - Ursula Le Guin *SF Masterwork
The Lathe Of Heaven - Ursual Le Guin *SF Masterwork
Gifts - Ursula Le Guin
The Damned - J.K. Huysmans *Penguin Classic
The Elephant Vanishes (Collected stories) - Haruki Murakami

Graphic Novel.

The Books Of Magic - Neil Gaiman

 

[Nesacat]

Got books in the post and books from stores over the weekend and will post them as soon as I get 2 seconds to do so.

The Solomon Kane and Bran books are very good. I got Kull as well. I think there are Conan volumes in the same series as well.

I'll second Addy ... Marquez is pretty consistent in his writing and so are Saramago and Calvino. Am not going anyplace near saying anything about Coelho.




GOLLUM *you need to clear your mailbox so I can tell you I've posted the box*

 

[Addy]

Today I got.....

Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino

That is probably one of the funniest books I have ever read.

 

[GOLLUM]

Thanks Addy I look forward to reading that book then.

@Nesa Sorry about the mailbox, now cleared... Never even heard of Saramago but a quick look on Wiki has enlightened me. I think I might try to get something from this writer now.