Book Hauls!

[ravenus]

Ah cool, hope you didn't have to pay extra for them being signed.

Damn, I wish Stephen King would for some reason make an India trip so I could get his autograph on my most fav books written by him. And I suspect given the time he'd be a great conversationalist as well.

Most of the other writers who's autographs I'd like are sadly no more of this earth.

 

[Culhwch]

No, regular price, which was good.

Maybe you could fake up a letter inviting him to accept a fictitious award, pick him up at the airport, have him stay at you place awhile. Cut off his foot so he can't escape....

There's a few living authors I'd like to get the autographs of - GRRM and Bernard Cornwell probably the most.

 

[rune]

I've bought some books, Yipee...


Vampire Rites Trilogy - Darren Shan
Wreaththu Omnibus - Storm Constantine
Newton's Canon - Greg Keyes
Daughter of Storms - Louise Cooper
Furies of Calderon - Jim Butcher
THe Sadhows and the Light - Anne Bishop
Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling
The Dark - Marianne Curley
Smoke and Shadows - Tanya Huff
The High Lord - Trudi Canavan
Incubus Dreams - Laurell K Hamilton

 

[Jay]

I recently bought a book on the local scene. I haven't read the author before, and bought it due to the quote by Thomas Pynchon on the cover "A Post-Millenial Spectacular - dizzingly readable". It's by Matt Ruff and called Sewer, Gas and Electric. Also got word my boxes I mailed myself from Glasgow came in, going to scoop those tomorrow (5 boxes of books!)

 

[FelineEyes]

Sadly, the last book I bought was a FoxTrot comic book. I needed to rot my brain on something short that doesn't involve moving pictures and can't distract me while I'm reading The Great Gadspey.

 

[Jay]

Got some new stuff yesterday:


The Life to Come by Tim Lees

Angel Road by Steven Savile

I also got the first 2 books in the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, Storm Front, and Fool Moon

 

[Animaiden]

Bought 5 books this weekend.

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin ($4, decided to pick it up)
The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy edited by Mike Ashley
The Unhandsome Prince by John Moore (easy and funny read)
Saiyuki 2 & 3 (manga comics, would have gotten 4+5, but Waldenbooks didn't have them)

 

[cyborg_cinema]

...my local bookstore has about a half dozen books in their sci-fi section and a half dozen in their fantasy section—nothing to haul.

 

[Animaiden]

...my local bookstore has about a half dozen books in their sci-fi section and a half dozen in their fantasy section—nothing to haul.

I hear that! My local bookstore has about the same. 1 hour away is a Waldenbooks, which is ok, unless I'm looking for something specific. 2hrs away (any direction) is a Barnes & Noble and Borders.

 

[nanny ogg]

I just got back from a week in south-west Scotland.

Wigtown is book heaven!
In case you have never been there, it is promoted as Scotlands Book Town.
I'm already saving for my next holiday there!

 

[Mark Robson]

I bought a whole stack of books recently whilst at Worldcon:

The Jewelfire Trilogy - Freda Warrington: 1- The Amber Citadel, 2- The Sapphire Throne and 3- The Obsidian Tower.
Recalled to Life - Robert Silverberg
Swords in the Mist - Fritz Lieber
Servants of the Wankh - Jack Vance
The Stolen Throne - Harry Turtledove
Dragon Prince - Melanie Rawn
The Memory of Earth - Orson Scott Card
The Janus Effect - Alan Cash

So far, I've just read the Silverberg novel, but I bought the others to get a taste of some of the authors I've neglected over the years.

 

[Rane Longfox]

Recently got:

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski (sp?)
City of Saints and Madmen - Jeff Vandermeer
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Rare and Discredited Diseases - Jeff Vandermeer and others

 

[cyborg_cinema]

2hrs away (any direction) is a Barnes & Noble and Borders.

...oh heck—two hours for the B&N—I feel for you. Hauls are tough all over.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

TOday, I purchased:


Sandman: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman, etc.
The Information by Martin Amis
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

 

[Jay]

Got some goodies in the mail today:

First I got some hardcover of paperbacks I had, of both Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas, and The San Veneficio Canon by Michael Cisco. Both are fantastic IMHO, and are exceptional reads.

I also received Empress of Clouds by Diana Hignutt, Godforsaken by Steven Shresbury, and Defeated by SD McKee.

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

Just got my sweaty mitts on Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell and Atlantis by David Gibbins.

 

[GOLLUM]

Just make sure you don't get the pages too wet, otherwise the ink might run..

PS I have a similar problem when DROOLING...

PPS Enjoy the read WS!!...

 

[Taltos]

From a book shop today (managed to behave and stay away from there for a looooooong time):
Steven Brust - Phoenix Guard
Steven Brust - 500 years later
Raymond Feist - Shards of a Broken Crown
Robert Heinlein - Star Beast
Robert Heinlein - Between Planets
Robert Heinlein - Tunnel in the Sky
Roman Glushkov - Povod dlja paniki (Reason to Panic)

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Splurged on a bunch of Philip K Dick books, in those spiffy new Vintage tpb editions:

Martian Time Slip
We Can Build You
The Cosmic Puppets
The Shifting Realities of Philip K Dick: A collection of literary and philosophical writings

 

[Jay]

Splurged on a bunch of Philip K Dick books,

I love PKD! My next project is to extend a cabinet for PKD works!

Start sometime this month for my search for early prints.