Book Hauls!

[Nesacat]

You've got a good haul there Connavar.

Bradbury is one of my favourite writers. Tell me how you feel about his work when you are done please. Many of his short stories are online as well. At least I know that my favourite one is ... Fog Horn. Fahrenheit 451 is very, very good and I love Illustrated Man.

I liked Neuromancer too along with the other two books that follow. I was quite surprised at the time how much I enjoyed them because I'd not thought I would like science fiction much since I'd mostly been reading fantasy and horror up to that point.

Needless to say, Neuromancer changed that.

Alexei & Cougs ... The Conan book is indeed a joy is many, many ways. And to top it all ... the book is very affordable.

 

[Connavar]

I will Nesacat.


This time a real Haul aka books i actually bought


Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks - the winner of my quest for a new SF series.

Altered Corbon - Richard Morgan



The Eagle's Conquest - Simon Scarrow
When The Eagle Hunts - Simon Scarrow
These two Scrarrowbooks my brother begged me to buy for him cause he is broke right now and he will owe me the money. Its a coup for me cause i made him fan of the eagle series so i will get to read it anyway AND he owes money i can buy other books for hehehehe

 

[Thadlerian]

Rejoice, fellows! Jasper Fforde has created a new novel of Thursday Next: The First Among Sequels! Number five in the series.

And I've got myself one!

 

[GOLLUM]

Today I got...

Night Of Knives (A Novel Of The Malazan Empire) - Ian C Esslemont *Co-collaborator with Steven Erikson
Hummingbird's Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea *Likened to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Tale Of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu *Translation of the classic 11th Century text, widely regarded as the world's first Novel.

 

[Nesacat]

Thadlerian ... Congratulations. I've been waiting for this one too. Tell me how you find it please.

GOLLUM .... How curious. There is another book claiming to be the world's first novel. But that one is from India . Kadambari by Banabhatta.

I like a tale of Genji. I read it after reading a biography of Murasaki Shikibu. There is always a need for a Genji in life and the life of Murasaki is equally intriguing. Not much is known about her but she created a larger than life character who's endured though the centuries.

Oh I liked Hummingbird's Daughter. It's similar to Marquez but different. You'll see when you read it.

 

[GOLLUM]

GOLLUM .... How curious. There is another book claiming to be the world's first novel. But that one is from India . Kadambari by Banabhatta. [/quote]Intriguing indeed but either way I just had to have that book to add to my "collection"......

 

[Nesacat]

GOLLUM ... so long as you don't plan on climbing into any lady's balcony any time soon I think you'll be fine.

I thought Hummingbird was more like Zafon than Marquez but the resemblance is there. It's more openly emotional than Marquez but with the same elegance.

 

[kcs_hiker]

ordered and anxiously awaiting:
Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow
Emperor: The Gods of War by Conn Iggulden

(ordered both on Conn's recommendation, don't let me down Conn )

Earth Abides by George Stewart; figured it was about time I read this classic
Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
A Sailor of Austria by John Biggins; looked too good to pass up

Received today (via ebay):
Dies the Fire by S.M Stirling
Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein; another classic that I somehow failed to read
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

and going to Borders later to pick up:
Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
Specials by Scott Westerfeld

and that's my book budget for August..

 

[Naryaló S dú]

I recently spent $60 on star wars complete locations and complete crosssections lol, theyre interesting

 

[Connavar]

ordered and anxiously awaiting:
Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow
Emperor: The Gods of War by Conn Iggulden

(ordered both on Conn's recommendation, don't let me down Conn )

Earth Abides by George Stewart; figured it was about time I read this classic
Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
A Sailor of Austria by John Biggins; looked too good to pass up

Received today (via ebay):
Dies the Fire by S.M Stirling
Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein; another classic that I somehow failed to read
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

and going to Borders later to pick up:
Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
Specials by Scott Westerfeld

and that's my book budget for August..

Conn Iggulden recommendation? Are you a member in his site? My brother is and i usually read conn forums in his site. Specially about his awesome Ghengis Khan series.

Let me know what you think of both Emperor and Eagle series. A big fan of Conn and i enjoyed Under The Eagle and his Young Bloods book about Napoleon and Wellington.

 

[kcs_hiker]

Conn Iggulden recommendation? Are you a member in his site? My brother is and i usually read conn forums in his site. Specially about his awesome Ghengis Khan series.

Let me know what you think of both Emperor and Eagle series. A big fan of Conn and i enjoyed Under The Eagle and his Young Bloods book about Napoleon and Wellington.

Gates of Rome! Gates of Rome! AGHHH ordered the wrong one.

ah well think I can fix it. Thanks I never would have caught it.

 

[Connavar]

Hehe lucky you i thought that looked wierd

 

[GOLLUM]

Graphic Novel:

Signal To Noise - Neil Gaiman and David McKean

 

[Frozeninja]

Few days ago I picked up

Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
Earthsea Quartet - Ursula Le Guin
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

 

[aubi11]

i got this great book series at borders for 9.99 per book. theres 12books in the series so about a little over 120.00 for the set I LOVED THEM! so check it out and tell me what you think!!!

 

[murphy]

i got this great book series at borders for 9.99 per book. theres 12books in the series so about a little over 120.00 for the set I LOVED THEM! so check it out and tell me what you think!!!

What books and who is the author?

 

[murphy]

Just ordered from B&N:

1634: The Ram Rebellion by Eric Flint, with Virgina Demarce
1635: Cannon Law, by Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
The Mirador by Sarah Monette
Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove (Crosstime Traffic Series)
Undertow by Elizabeth Bear

(Now back to work on by TBR pile so I can be ready for these books when they arrive)

 

[GOLLUM]

Part of my Booktopia order arrived in the post today...

The Other Side - Alfred Kubin
A Fine and Private Place - Peter S Beagle
Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter
Already Dead - A Californian Gothic - Denis Johnson
Life During Wartime - Lucius Shepard *SF Masterwork

 

[j d worthington]

Well, my copy of Cannon's H. P. Lovecraft (part of the Twayne's United States Authors Series) came in; the dj is a bit of a mess in spots, but for the price, I was expecting much worse. The book itself is in very nice shape... even given that it has the library stamps in a couple of spots. Nonetheless, considering that I got this for a LOT less than I've seen this thing going for... I feel I came out of it 'way ahead....

EDIT: Well! No sooner had I put that in, than they dropped off another... Shadows Seen and Unseen, containing works by Clark Ashton Smith... artwork (color reproductions, unlike the majority of them I've seen), poetry, and a few of his stories, along with some other items... very lovely book indeed. Mr. Johnson deserves kudos for this one.....

 

[j d worthington]

Another library haul -- a small one, this time:

Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; a Longman Cultural Edition, which not only includes some of the variant passages between the 1818 and 1831 editions, but also sets the book in its cultural matrix, including a lot of the philosophical, literary, and sociohistorical sources that influenced Mary (such as portions of her journals, letters, pieces by Burke, Shelley, Byron, etc.), but also contemporary reviews of the novel and portions of an early drama based upon the book.

Marginalia, by H. P. Lovecraft, et al.; containing some stories and essays by HPL, but also a lot of memoirs of the man, some early analyses, and lots of illustrations connected with him, such as photographs of various colleagues and correspondents, photographs of his residences and study, maps he drew of fictional cities, and the letter he wrote to Robert Bloch giving him permission to kill HPL off in his story "The Shambler from the Stars", signed by Alhazred, the Tcho-Tcho Lama of Leng, Friedrich von Junzt (author of the Unaussprechlichen Kulten) and Gaspard du Nord (translator of the Livre d'Eibon)... and his own drawing of Pickman's Model......