Book Hauls!

[GOLLUM]

Today the post brought.....

Nifft The Lean - Michael Shea *World Fantasy award winner
The Dedalus Book Of Medievil Literature (Grin Of The Gargoyle) - Edited by Brian Murdoch
The Last Oblivion Best Fantastic Poems by Clark Ashton Smith - Edited by Joshi & Schulz

And from the cat, Nesa I received....

The Bridge Of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
The Wreckers - Bella Bathurst
Lighthousekeeping - Jeanette Winterson
The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman
Memories Of My Melcancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Incredible Book Eating Boy - Oliver Jeffers

 

[murphy]

Just received in the mail:

Whiskey and Water: A novel of the Promethean Age by Elizabeth Bear
Deepwood: Book Two of Karavans by Jennifer Roberson
The Sharing Knife: Legacy Volume 2 by Lois Bujold
Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich

 

[Thadlerian]

Chances are you already have the stories, WWD - it's one of those damn compilation/best of books.

From Amazon.com: Thieves' House: Tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (Borealis Legends): Books: Fritz Leiber,Sherilyn Van Valkenburg,Mike Mignola

Yeah, that's the series. I believe those that I bought are the first two.

I've got all of those except the one by Banks so I'll be interested in your thoughts on them.....

I'll be very interested in the Banks one myself
I've found his books to be of varying interest. First, I read The State of the Art and Look to Windward, both excellent. But then I read the far earlier installment Consider Phlebas, which didn't interest me at all. But then I read The Player of Games which again was excellent. And then his Dead Air, which was OK. Now I'm very excited about The Use of Weapons, as you might imagine...

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Thanks Pyan it's been so long since I have re-read those books 20 years and counting, that one slipped my mind.

 

[elvet]

Thanks to a '4 for the price of 3' pocketbook sale I got:
Daggerspell (Katherine Kerr)
Darkspell (Katherine Kerr)
The Briar King (Greg Keyes)
A Game of Thrones (Martin)
Lord of Snow and Shadows (Sarah Ash)
Weather Witch (Dart-Thornton)
Kushiel's Scion (Carey)
Thief with no Shadow (Emily Gee)

 

[GOLLUM]

In the post I got....

The Nightmare Factory - Thomas Ligotti
Sinai Tapestry - Book I of the Jerusalem Quartet - Ed Whittemore
Jericho Mosaic - Book IIII of the Jerusalem Quartet - Ed Whittemore

And I picked up....

Novelties & Souvenirs (Collected Short Fiction) - John Crowley
Legacy Of The Drow (Incl. The Legacy, Starless Night, Siege Of Darkness & Passage To Dawn) - R A Salvatore

 

[Ragnar]

Payday lunchtime mini-haul

Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself
Alan Campbell - Scar Night
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
King & Straub - The Talisman

 

[Sathai]

I really liked The Talisman. Hope you enjoy it Ragnar.

 

[GOLLUM]

Andersen's Fairy Tales
The Illiiad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Short Stories) - Haruki Murakami
Hyperion - Dan Simmons *Recommended by a friend
The Big Time - Fritz Leiber
Toast (Collected Stories) - Charles Stross

 

[sassy1]

Just bought Tales from the Perilous Realm, Roverandom and The Children of Hurin all by JRR Tolkien, and The Good Guy by Dean Koontz for my daddy dearest

 

[Nikitta]

I've looked at Valley of the Dolls before and considered buying it, but not done so.

I then saw it mentioned in Slaughterhouse 5 and thought of it again.

Today, in a shop where they had CDs and DVDs for sale, I saw and bought Tori Amos' new CD. It was entitled American Doll Posse and had a wonderfully ironic cover.

I then decided to buy Valley of the Dolls and did so.

I'm funny that way sometimes.

 

[GOLLUM]

Today I picked up....

The StoneHenge Gate - Jack Williamson
The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind
Vellum - Hal Duncan
Ink - Hal Duncan
The Wooden Sea - Jonathan Carroll
From The Sea To The Stars - Andre Norton
Mainspring - Jay Lake *Steampunk
The Chosen - Ricardo Pinto
The Standing Dead - Ricardo Pinto *Final book 3 due in 2008

 

[Nesacat]

I'd like to know what you think about Vellum & Ink GOLLUM. I personally liked them very much but this book, like American Gods, seems to generate pretty extreme opinions though for a totally different reason. Am curious about how you'll find it.

 

[Allegra]

And I'd like to know what you think about Patrick Suskind's The Pigeon, GOLLUM. I haven't read it yet. But his Perfume is an amazing, amazing book. Nesa, if you haven't read it I have a feeling you are going to love it.

 

[Nesacat]

Yes I did love Perfume. It's an amazing book. I didn't see the movie though.

 

[Addy]

I read Perfume years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was a teen back then though, so don't take that as a strict literary evaluation.
Coincidentally, I rented the movie this weekend. Haven't watched it yet, but it looks promising.

 

[GOLLUM]

HMM...looks like I'll have to read it soon then.

Today I ordered....

Marina - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Darconville's Cat - Paul Theroux
Best short stories of JG Ballard

 

[Nesacat]

Have been curious about Marina since I found out Zafon wrote it. Tell me what you think of it GOLLUM.

 

[GOLLUM]

Have been curious about Marina since I found out Zafon wrote it. Tell me what you think of it GOLLUM.

Shall do Nesa. It's the only other one of his works that has been translated into English.

 

[ravenus]

Nothing compared to Gollum's mountain-loads but my few recent acquisitions:

Strange Wine - Harlan Ellison

Tokyo Montana Express - Richard Brautigan

V for Vendetta - Alan Moore

Coldheart Canyon - Clive Barker

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

After Dark - Haruki Murakami

Lords & Ladies - Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susannah Clarke (trade paperback for cheap, the normal paperback font is IMO unreadable)

Science Fiction by The Rivals of H.G. Wells