Book Hauls!

[Nesacat]

With book vouchers from an aunt & uncle who've finally managed to work out that this is a far better gift than jewellery I got from Book Excess:

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Slippery Slope (Book 10) by Lemony Snicket
Aloft by Chang-rae Lee
The Story Of General Dann & Mara's Daughter, Griot & The Snow Dog by Doris Lessing
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (presented by Jan Needle & Illustrated by Patrick Benson)
Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo & Illustrated by Miachel Foreman
The Mousehole Cat by Antonia Barber & Illustrated by Nicola Bayley
The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens & Illustrated by P.J. Lynch

 

[Werthead]

Got in some review copies:

The Fade by Chris Wooding
Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott

Daniel Abraham's The Long Price: Shadow and Betrayal is also in the post, apparently.

 

[gully_foyle]

Raw Spirit by Iain Banks
Children of Men by P.D. James
and
The State of the Art by Iain M Banks

 

[murphy]

A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear
The Merchant's War: Book three of the Merchant Princes by Charles Stross

 

[Rosemary]

The Crowthistle Chronicles Book Four – Fallow Blade by Cecilia Dart-Thorton. In the bookshops it was priced at $AU33- whereas Kmart was selling it for a lovely $AU21- It arrived just in time, as I had just finished reading a book and only had re-reads planned after that!

 

[GOLLUM]

Remaining books from Gary Wassner's pen arrived today...

The Awakening
The Shards
The Revenge Of THe Elves

 

[Connavar]

Library Haul:


Northern Lights - Phil Pullman
Over The Sea,Under The Stone - Susan Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper

Funny its not often you get books by two different Cooper's.

 

[murphy]

Library Haul:


Northern Lights - Phil Pullman
Over The Sea,Under The Stone - Susan Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper

Funny its not often you get books by two different Cooper's.

Except IMHO, Susan Cooper is a much more interesting writer than James. Loved the story of Last of the Mohicans, hated the writing. Very long winded.

 

[Connavar]

Well that is expected from a book from that age

If the story is good i dont care how bad the writing and how long winded it is.

 

[murphy]

Well that is expected from a book from that age

If the story is good i dont care how bad the writing and how long winded it is.

Age has nothing to do with it. Jane Austin books are older and are still very readable as are many other authors from that time period.

 

[Connavar]

Funny i cant stand to read one of her books.


I have read many from her time and even older that i have enjoyed.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Even though I haven't a chance of reading these for, say, the next two years (course reading is all I do now ) I thought I'd splash out with the last bit of birthday money and help keep my favourite bookshop in business (which has been refurbished, it seems; nice new wooden floor ) I didn't have anything in mind that I wanted to buy, so I opted for a random selection:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Weaveworld - Clive Barker

And because I've been neglecting horror of late:
Spares - Michael Marshall Smith
The Influence - Ramsey Campbell
Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other Macabre Stories - Which includes the title story (duh ), Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce, The Upper Berth by F.Marion Crawford, A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe.

 

[Pyan]

Why is your bookshop wasting money on a floor when they could be buying stock by struggling new writers?

Bought Escape Velocity, The Warlock in Spite of Himself and King Kobold Revived, by Christopher Stasheff. (published in one volume).

 

[DeepThought]

Hello, got some Piers Anthony novels (mostly Xanth) on my trip to the bookshop:

The Source of Magic
Castle Roogna
Centaur Aisle
Ogre, Ogre
Dragon on a Pedestal
Crewel Lye
Golem in the Gears
On a Pale Horse
With a Tangled Skein
Wielding a Red Sword
Being a Green Mother

 

[hedgeknight]

One of our public Library branches had a "cleaning house" book sale two weeks ago and I came away with some good books:
A Time of Dark - Barbara Hambly
Santiago - Mike Resnick
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - ?
plus a couple more hardcovers and about six hardback books for my son.
Got 'em all for just under $3.00! Great deal!
-g-

 

[Connavar]

The Outfit - Richard Stark
The Mourner - Richard Stark
Hood - Steven Lawhead
Dark Prince - David Gemmell
The Monkey's Raincoat / Stalking the Angel (Omnibus) - Robert Crais


A haul i have been waiting weeks for.

I will devour Richard Stark aka Donald E.Westlake ones very fast. No one does criminal noir fiction better than him

 

[Aleksei]

Books I have bought so far this month, and a couple from september:

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A Heinlen
The Golden Compass, 10th anniversary edition - Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife, 10th anniversary edition - Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass, 10th anniversary edition - Philip Pullman
The Natural Ordermage -L E Modesitt, Jr
Of Tangible Ghosts - L E Modesitt, Jr (Found three mint condition first edition hardbacks of these books )
The Ghost of the Revelator - L E Modesitt, Jr ^
Ghost of the White Night - Le Modesitt, Jr ^
King's Property - Morgan Howell
Clan Daughter - Morgan Howell
Royal Destiny - Morgan Howell
The Goblin Wars: The Foundling - A Giannetti ( Surprisingly expensive, and crap )
Paragaea: A Planetary Romance - Chris Roberson
Helfort's War Book 1: The Battle at the Moons of Hell - Graham Sharp Paul
Scarlet - Stephen Lawhead
Dark Lord - Ed Greenwood
An Unexpected Apprentice - Jody Lynn Nye
Heir of Autumn - Giles Carwyn and Todd Fahnestock
The Awakened Mage - Karen Miller
Young Arcan and the Garden of Loc - Matthew R Milson

 

[DeepThought]

Superman / Doomsday Omnibus, Dan Jurgens
The Death of Superman, Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Louise Simonson, and Roger Stern

 

[GOLLUM]

The Twilight Herald - Tom Lloyd

 

[flygin]

I've purchased these over the past month:

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller
A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay
The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe (a first printing)
The Knight - Gene Wolfe
Here Be Wyverns - Hundreds of Patterns Graphed from Medieval Sources - Nancy Spies (I've wanted this for years, I can't wait till it gets here)