Book Hauls!

[GOLLUM]

OK Borders had a 15% off sale today so I went slightly balistic...

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Air - Geoff Ryman
The Child Garden - Geoff Ryman *SF Masterwork
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova *Heard so much about this thought I'ld see for myself
Complete Short Fiction - Oscar Wilde
The Watcher and Other Stories - Italo Calvino
The Castle Of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
The Borrible Trilogy (New Edition) - Michael de Larrabeiti
Seeing - Jose Saramago

And last but not least for some Indian myth making...

The Pancatantra - Visnu Sarma
The Mahabharata - R. K. Narayan *Condensed Modern Prose Version
The Ramayana - R. K. Narayan *Condensed Modern Prose Version

What's going to happen when I get to Japan??....

 

[Nesacat]

GOLLUM ... slightly is probably a gross understatement and I'd suggest you check out all the banks near the Convention and whether or not they might be amenable to being robbed.

Ooh yes ... read the Historian and tell what you think about it. If you felt the need to wring someone's neck for instance. The Mahabharatha is my favourite Hindu epic. I've got several editions and have read this one by Narayan. It's a pretty good place to start.

Am not going to say anything about the Ramayana apart from the fact that I like Hanuman a great deal.

 

[stinking_dylan]

Went to Hay on Wye on Friday and had;
Free Live Free - Gene Wolfe
Coldheart Canyon - Clive Barker
A fisherman of the inland sea - Ursula Le Guin

Also won the Allison Busby second ed of The English Assassin on ebay! Been waiting ages to get that.

 

[GOLLUM]

Today the post brought...

The Best Short Stories OF JG Ballard *Likened to Italo Calvino

 

[HoopyFrood]

Visited Hoopy's Favourite Bookshop today (I have one in Exeter and one here in my village ) and bought:

Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov
Lord Foul's Bane, The First Chronicle of Thomas Covenant etc - Stephen Donaldson
Tales of Suspense - Edgar Allan Poe -- a wonderful hardback version with some very eerie illustrations...and only a mere £3!

Re-he-he-he-eally starting to run out of shelf space now!

 

[Nesacat]

A good haul there Hoopy. I cried through Bicentennial Man and still cry every time I browse through it.

Which edition of Poe did you get? I love his stories and have several different editions.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Hee, I've just glanced at it on my shelf, to see what edition it was, and noticed "Reader's Digest" on the spine...

 

[Nesacat]

ah alright. Thanks Hoopy. Does it say who did the illustrations?

 

[HoopyFrood]

Yes, it does indeed -- Steve Salerno.

 

[stinking_dylan]

I've been thinking of picking up some of Poes work. Does anybody know of a good hardback set, or is there a single volume edition anywhere?

Oh, and as this is book hauls, I just won Lovecrafts 'The Dunwich Horror and Others', the sixth Arkham edition (I love the dust jackets on these editions).

 

[Nesacat]

Dylan ... There's these two that I have ... both are hardback and available on Amazon. I picked mine up at a second hand bookstore and a remainder store respectively.

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Hardcover)
Publisher: Doubleday; Reissue edition (August 15, 1984)
ISBN-10: 0385074077
ISBN-13: 978-0385074070

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems (Hardcover)
Publisher: Castle Books (2002)
ISBN-10: 0785814531
ISBN-13: 978-0785814535

Thank you Hoopy. I like books with illustrations. Shall try and find this one.

 

[GOLLUM]

Today from a second hand bookstore picked up....

Sailing To Sarantium - Book I - Guy Gavriel Kay
Lord Of Emperors - Book II - Gut Gavriel Kay
Land Of Unreason - L Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt
The Sorcerer's Ship - Hannes Bok
The Lost Continent - C. J. Cutliffe Hayne
Deryni Rising - Katherine Kurtz
Deryni Checkmate - Katherine Kurtz
High Deryni - Katherine Kurtz

 

[Nesacat]

Oh, and as this is book hauls, I just won Lovecrafts 'The Dunwich Horror and Others', the sixth Arkham edition (I love the dust jackets on these editions).

You won a Lovecraft collection? Where? How? And have you read them and do you like them? And if you do which do you like best and why? And if you don't why not?

 

[stinking_dylan]

Sorry, should have ellaborated, 'won' it on ebay. =)

I believe I've read most of Lovecrafts work, and have enjoyed almost all of it. A few of my favourites are 'the rats in the walls', 'the outsider' and 'the lurker at the threshold'. I'm not sure what's contained in this volume.

My least favourite of his stories (as far as I can remember) is 'at the mountains of madness'.

When I obtain the four volumes from Arkham, at least I can then be assured that I've read all his main body of work.

 

[Addy]

My least favourite of his stories (as far as I can remember) is 'at the mountains of madness'.

Oh, great. Exactly the one I just bought in order to get a taste of H.P. Lovecraft.

 

[Nesacat]

Addy ... read it and give it a chance. It's one of my favourite tales of his. I liked the slow build-up and suspense and the detailed descriptions. The way he leaves things to your imagination.

 

[j d worthington]

Oh, great. Exactly the one I just bought in order to get a taste of H.P. Lovecraft.

I'd second what Nesa says, Addy. That's one that may take a bit of getting used to, but it has a lot of layers, and I personally think it's well within the best 5 tales he wrote....

 

[Aleksei]

The Enemy Within - Richard L. Byers
The Chimes of Yawrana - Scott R. Stone
Riddle Master - Patricia A. McKillip
Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
The Hidden Worlds - Kristin Landon
Mainspring - Jay Lakes
D.A. - Connie Willis
Brak the Barbarian - John Jakes
Saturn Returns - Sean Williams
Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
A Strong and Sudden Thaw - R. Day
The Gift - Alison Croggon

My first larger haul in some time, have been away on vacation and only bought a book here and there.

 

[elvet]

Just back from a pilgrimage to Bakka-Phoenix, Toronto's SF and fantasy bookstore. I picked up:
Ash by Mary Gentle
Teresa Edgerton's Green Lion Trilogy and The Queen's Necklace
The Golden Key by Melanie Rawn
The Bristling Wood by Katherine Kerr
Knight's Blood by Julianne Lee
The Iron Tower trilogy by Dennis McKiernan
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kusher

I was thrilled to find out that one of my favorite authors, Michelle Sagara (West) works there. I got an update on her follow-up to the Sunsword series, House War. It may be out in Feb. 2008. Also her next Cast in ... book will be out in fall 2007.

 

[murphy]

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I was thrilled to find out that one of my favorite authors, Michelle Sagara (West) works there. I got an update on her follow-up to the Sunsword series, House War. It may be out in Feb. 2008. Also her next Cast in ... book will be out in fall 2007.

I've been looking forward to that follow-up. It will probably deal with the houses. I like Sagara also, very much.