Book Hauls!

[j d worthington]

Another library haul (and yes, it's on much the same theme):

Rhode Island on Lovecraft, ed. by Donald M. Grant
Letters to H. P. Lovecraft, by Clark Ashton Smith

 

[Riselka]

Found a nearly new, Bantam/Spectra, mass-market copy of Radix by A.A. Attanasio at a thrift store yesterday for $1 Cdn. I'd had a battered up copy I'd gotten at the same thrift store a few years back, and had started to read it, but it disappeared mysteriously when I had it out one day. I suspect it may have been thieved by someone, considering how difficult it seems to be to get your hands on a copy of it these days.

I see it's part of a tetriad of books, and was wondering whether the others in the series are worth looking for.

 

[Addy]

I'm torn because I couldn't find today the copy of August Derleth's Mask of Cthulhu that I'd seen in the street market yesterday, but at least I got these for $5:
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Patron of the Arts - William Rotsler
Children of Tomorrow - A.E. Van Vogt
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Oscar Wilde

 

[Nesacat]

Have fun with Name Of The Rose Addy.

Apparently when Eco wrote it, he wanted it to feel real to the reader. So he timed many of the things in the book. If you follow the regular daily timetable of the church then he'd actually walked those steps and spoken those words in the time prescribed.

 

[Addy]

Have fun with Name Of The Rose Addy.

Apparently when Eco wrote it, he wanted it to feel real to the reader. So he timed many of the things in the book. If you follow the regular daily timetable of the church then he'd actually walked those steps and spoken those words in the time prescribed.

Yes, I really look forward to reading that one. I've seen the movie already, and I liked it. I love stories that take place in a medieval scenery. Add to that the whole incquisition thing, and it's sure to be interesting.

 

[Nesacat]

It's an amazing book Addy. My favourite of his. Very detailed, Very complex. You see everything very clearly. He's pulled so many threads together and woven an amazing, amazing story without losing any one of them.

 

[Addy]

It's an amazing book Addy. My favourite of his. Very detailed, Very complex. You see everything very clearly. He's pulled so many threads together and woven an amazing, amazing story without losing any one of them.

Yes, Eco is--as some reviewer said in an Amazon.com review--a writer who makes your IQ go up a few points automatically just by reading his books.

 

[Addy]

Oh, boy, I really need help. I found an on-line shop in Brazil with a better than average SF selection, so I, against better judgment, ordered these:
A. E. Van Vogt - The Man With a Thousand Names
Alan Dean Foster - Bloodhype
Clifford D. Simak - Enchanted Pilgrimage
Frederick Pohl / C. M. Korn... - Gladiator-at-law
James White - Dark Inferno
James White - The Dream Millennium
Keith Roberts - The Inner Wheel
Marta Randall - Dangerous Games
Moacyr Scliar - O ciclo das águas
Moacyr Scliar - Os leopardos de Kafka
Norman Spinrad - Agent of Chaos
Philip Jose Farmer - Maker of Universes
Piers Anthony - Macroscope
Roger Zelazny - Damnation Alley
Roger Zelazny - My Name is Legion
Roger Zelazny - The Guns of Avalon
Roger Zelazny - The Hand of Oberon
Spider Robinson - Telempath
Stanley Schmidt - The Sins of the Fathers

 

[GOLLUM]

Whoa Addy, taking after yours truly hey?...

At Melbourne airport picked up:

Elves Of Cintara - Terry Brooks, will read on flight over.

 

[Connavar]

The Monkey's Raincoat & Stalking the Angel(Omnibus) - Robert Crais
Killing Floor - Lee Child
Odinn's Child (Viking Trilogy) - Tim Severin
Sword of Atilla - Micheal Curtis Ford
Vampire Hunter D: Book 2 - Kikuchi Hedeyuki



Pretty happy with my haul, some great HF like the one about Vikings. Havent read a HF about them. Attila is a fav of mine too.

 

[murphy]

The Monkey's Raincoat & Stalking the Angel(Omnibus) - Robert Crais
Killing Floor - Lee Child
Odinn's Child (Viking Trilogy) - Tim Severin
Sword of Atilla - Micheal Curtis Ford
Vampire Hunter D: Book 2 - Kikuchi Hedeyuki



Pretty happy with my haul, some great HF like the one about Vikings. Havent read a HF about them. Attila is a fav of mine too.

Hope you like the Monkey's Raincoat. The Gelson's market he talks about is the one where I do some of my grocery shopping.

Just received

To Kingdom Come and The Limehouse Text by Will Thomas Victorian detective stories
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. A Sherlock Holmes novel
Music to My Sorrow by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edgehill---A fantasy

Just ordered
The Eagle's Conquest
When The Eagle Hunts
The Eagle and the Wolves

All by Simon Scarrow

 

[Addy]

Whoa Addy, taking after yours truly hey?...

At Melbourne airport picked up:

Elves Of Cintara - Terry Brooks, will read on flight over.

Yeah, I noticed you had slowed down a bit, so I thought I'd pick up the torch.

 

[Connavar]

Hope you like the Monkey's Raincoat. The Gelson's market he talks about is the one where I do some of my grocery shopping.

Just received

To Kingdom Come and The Limehouse Text by Will Thomas Victorian detective stories
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. A Sherlock Holmes novel
Music to My Sorrow by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edgehill---A fantasy

Just ordered
The Eagle's Conquest
When The Eagle Hunts
The Eagle and the Wolves

All by Simon Scarrow

I havent read it yet not finished with Old Man's War yet

Im looking for more though to reading Killing Floor by Lee Child cause i havent read Him/her before unlike Crais.

Speaking about Crais i loved The Watchman cause Joe Pike was a great character and i hope he has a good part in the early Cole books since i know he is his sidekick.

By the way you know of a good Robert Crais site/forums. I wonder if he is gonna write more Joke Pike novels.

 

[murphy]

Speaking about Crais i loved The Watchman cause Joe Pike was a great character and i hope he has a good part in the early Cole books since i know he is his sidekick.

By the way you know of a good Robert Crais site/forums. I wonder if he is gonna write more Joke Pike novels.

Thanks for reminding about The Watchman. Have to put it on my wish list at B&N.

No, I don't know of any Crais Forums. Have you tried the Google Groups Use Nets?

 

[littlemissattitude]

I never got around to recording last Saturday's haul, so here it is:

Ira Levin - The Boys From Brazil...someone mentioned it here recently and when I saw it I had to pick it up. I've read it before, but I recall it being quite good.

Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank...this is the first Amelia Peabody book, and since I'm looking to reread and collect them all, I thought I'd pick this one up for a discount (all of these came from a used book store a couple of blocks from my place).

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Hotel Transylvania...again, a series beginner, this time of Yarbro's Saint-Germain vampire novels (my own personal favorite vampire).

Also, a couple of days before that, I picked up new:

Michael Connelly - The Black Echo...the first in another mystery series that I've come across.

Faye Kellerman - The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights...a collection of short stories and a couple of essays. Some of the stories are very good, and a few are quite funny.

 

[GIBSON]

Pretty interesting collections indeed.......

Thanks there for the update and recovery

cheers!!

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Mental Math

 

[Connavar]

I never got around to recording last Saturday's haul, so here it is:

Ira Levin - The Boys From Brazil...someone mentioned it here recently and when I saw it I had to pick it up. I've read it before, but I recall it being quite good.

Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank...this is the first Amelia Peabody book, and since I'm looking to reread and collect them all, I thought I'd pick this one up for a discount (all of these came from a used book store a couple of blocks from my place).

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Hotel Transylvania...again, a series beginner, this time of Yarbro's Saint-Germain vampire novels (my own personal favorite vampire).

Also, a couple of days before that, I picked up new:

Michael Connelly - The Black Echo...the first in another mystery series that I've come across.

Faye Kellerman - The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights...a collection of short stories and a couple of essays. Some of the stories are very good, and a few are quite funny.

I have read all Micheal Connelly's Harry Bosch books and The Black Echo is still in top three MC books. I hope you enjoy it.

 

[Rane Longfox]

Jasper Fforde - First Among Sequels
Ian McDonald - Brasyl

 

[Rothgar]

I couldn't pass up the opportunity to swing by another used book store after a work meeting. I can't read my books as fast as I buy them...

The Dosadi Experiment - Frank Herbert
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
American Gods - Neil Gaiman

I have 24 books on my To Be Read pile... I'd better get at it.

 

[Rosemary]

Not so much of a ‘haul’ but a bargain. For AU$5- I bought two books from the Dragonlance series. There is one volume of DragonlanceTales and one volume of Trail of the Black Wyrm from the Taladas Trilogy by Chris Pierson.