Book Hauls!

[Hilarious Joke]

Dragonlance! I love it! I'm too lazy to look myself; is there a Dragonlance thread somewhere or other? I would like some recommendations, almost all the Dragonlance I've read have been Weis and Hickman.

I just bought 'Interesting Times' by Terry Pratchett, and '1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die' for my dad (in Australia its father's day on sunday, don't you dare tell my dad what I got him).

 

[Rosemary]

I was unable to find a thread for Dragonlance, mostly discussion about the various books.

However, you might find this site worth a look. All Dragonlance books listed and with reviews etc.
Dragonfyre's Dragonlance Books

Hope you find what you are looking for.
Rosie

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Thankee!

 

[Addy]

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.

Nice haul.
Have you read Whipping Star? Maybe it would be better to read it before you start The Dosadi Experiment.

 

[Rothgar]

Nice haul.
Have you read Whipping Star? Maybe it would be better to read it before you start The Dosadi Experiment.

I haven't read it. Are they related?

Coming in at over 1,400 pages I would consider it a haul- I found in the mail yesterday Fritz Leiber's The First Book of Lankhmar & The Second Book of Lankhmar, Fantasy Masterworks editions.

 

[Addy]

I haven't read it. Are they related?

Coming in at over 1,400 pages I would consider it a haul- I found in the mail yesterday Fritz Leiber's The First Book of Lankhmar & The Second Book of Lankhmar, Fantasy Masterworks editions.

The Dosadi Experiment is actually something of a sequel to Whipping Star. You'll understand it much better if you read them in sequence.

 

[Rothgar]

The Dosadi Experiment is actually something of a sequel to Whipping Star. You'll understand it much better if you read them in sequence.

Thanks Addy! I'll see if I can pick it up somewhere.

 

[Addy]

Pick up the Santaroga Barrier while you're at it, if you haven't read it yet. I like it better than those other two.

 

[j d worthington]

Well, a couple more from a library haul, again on HPL:

H. P. Lovecraft: His Life, His Work, by Kenneth Faig, Jr., and H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, by Robert M. Price....

Rothgar: Enjoy the Leiber; one of the most eloquent fantasy writers we've had.....

 

[Rane Longfox]

Brian Ruckley - Winterbirth
Sergei Lukyanenko - Twilight Watch
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend

 

[Riselka]

Not much of a book haul, per se, but more a "book find":

Swastika by Michael Slade - a true first edition copy.

History of the book:

Published in September of 2005, within a few days of its original release date, one of my fellow Sladists over on www.SpecialX.Net :: Index discovered that there was a section consisting of 24 extra pages (pgs. 215-238) inserted between pgs. 226 and 227 of the book. She mentioned this on the website, and Slade promptly reported it to the publisher, who in turn recalled all unsold copies of the book. (They figure only about 200 or so copies of the true first edition wound up in the hands of the public.) I never got my hands on one back then because the book store here didn't get any copies in stock until after the recall and subsequent reprint.

The other day I was in the book store and saw a stack of approximately a dozen copies of the book on the publisher's overstock discount counter. Didn't think much of it at the time, but as I browsed through the bookstore things started niggling at me about that stack. As I was about to leave this "little voice" in my head told me to just give that stack a check and see if perchance a true first copy had found its way into it.

Well, much to my amazement and delight, a single true first edition was there amongst the stack of 2nd printings. So I bought it!

Yayyy!!!

 

[j d worthington]

Congratulations, Riselka!

 

[Riselka]

Thanks j. d.!

Of course, I don't know if it's realistic to think that it would ever sell for the £75.00 that someone is asking for a signed copy of it with a remainder mark on ebay (mine isn't remainder-marked), but it's certainly worth more than the $4.99 Cdn I paid for it.

And as a bonefide Sladist (that's someone who's read every Michael Slade novel written), it's only right that I own a copy.

Should be easy enough for me to get it signed by both Slade, and Pink Slade, since they'll both be appearing at the Surrey International Writer's Conference being held near here where I live this fall.

 

[DeepThought]

Got these from the local bookshop:

Chess, William Hartson
The Children of Hurin, JRR Tolkien
Truckers, Terry Pratchett
Diggers
Knights of Dark Renown, David Gemmell
The Rivan Codex, David and Leigh Eddings
Polgara The Sorceress
The Seeress of Kell, David Eddings

Cheer's, DeepThought

 

[sassy1]

yay more books:

The Elves of Cintra - Terry Brooks
Destiny - Fiona McIntosh
Luthiel's Song: Dreams of the Ringed Vale - Robert Fanney
The Da-Da-Di-Da-Da code - Robert Rankin
Fruits Basket v.17 - Natsuki Takaya (yay manga!)

... not tooooo many books, I am trying to cut down

 

[murphy]

Just ordered online:

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
The Sea Change by Patricia Bray
Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (the story of a PI in 1835 Turkey)
Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston
The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
The Sunrise Lands by S. M. Stirling
Mirror Prince by Violette Malan

 

[Quokka]

Closing down sale at a local second hand bookstore (as they're moving to the next town over). It's one I've raided a few times but I couldn't help myself and ended up leaving with a bag full.

The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Windhaven - George RR Martin and Lisa Tuttle
Last Orders - Brian Aldiss
Virtual Mode - Piers Anthony
Chaos Mode - Piers Anthony
Icehenge - Kim Stanley Robinson
The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
Flux - Stephen Baxter
Legends 3 - (Short Stories by Jordan, Le Guin, Williams and Pratchett)
Edge of Light (A Time of Changes, Downward to the Earth, The Second Trip, Dying Inside and Nightwings) - Robert Silverberg

Alot of authors I haven't read yet, they're all in good condition and the whole lot cost me $14!

 

[kcs_hiker]

my September book haul... from ebay, Hooked on Books (a marvelous used bookstore in Springfield Missouri which has been in business for over 25 years), Amazon and Borders

Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis
The Early History of Rome: Vol. 1-5 by Livy
The Wild Shore: Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden (mistakenly ordered Gods of War last month)
Wolf and Iron by Gordon Dickson
Sharpe's Triumph and Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell
H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher

oh yes mustn't forget

History of the conquest of Mexico, and History of the conquest of Peru by William H. Prescott (a nice hardback from my father's collection, he's slowly disposing of his history books...I hang about drooling and looking pitiful and occasionally collect one or two ;-) )

 

[Connavar]

The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Vampire Hunter D volume 2 Raiser of Gales - Hideyuki Kikuchi





These books i had the unluck that they werent in so i had to order them.

Ian Rankin - Knots and Crosses
Dennis Lehane - Sacred
Richard Stark - The Hunter aka Point Blank , The Man with the Getaway Face
Andy Mcnab - Remote Control
Jeff Lindsay - Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Stephen R. Lawhead - Hood

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

City of Flowers by Mary Hoffman
Voices by Ursula K. LeGuin
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
My Eyes Mint Gold ( which is a biography of Mervyn Peake), by Malcolm Yorke

I'm pretty excited about the Gaskell, because I didn't know it was in print.