Book Hauls!

[murphy]

What! You buy a book for a present, read it yourself and then give it as a present? To your sister??

Of course. That makes perfect sense to me. Doesn't hurt the book to be read.

 

[Nightmare]

Yesterday was my first trip to Powell's Books, aka "The Biggest Bookstore in the World." For a bookstore, it was quite the madhouse. Despite the fact that I've been trying to save money, I ended up coming away with:

American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Collapsium - Wil McCarthy
Orcs (3-novel omnibus) - Stan Nicholls
Idlewild - Nick Sagan
Desolation Island - Patrick O'Brian (for Mom)

All of these are first-time authors for me, so I'm very excited to get to them...once I work through my previous book haul.

 

[Mithridelle]

A few days ago I spent about $80 on Mark Robson's Darkweaver Legacy! Well worth it though.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Yesterday was my first trip to Powell's Books, aka "The Biggest Bookstore in the World." For a bookstore, it was quite the madhouse. Despite the fact that I've been trying to save money, I ended up coming away with:

American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Collapsium - Wil McCarthy
Orcs (3-novel omnibus) - Stan Nicholls
Idlewild - Nick Sagan
Desolation Island - Patrick O'Brian (for Mom)

All of these are first-time authors for me, so I'm very excited to get to them...once I work through my previous book haul.

Neil Gaiman & Stan Nicholls both I can recomend, the Orcs series I did really enjoy puts them in a new light so to speak.bloodysmilies won't work at work.

 

[Overread]

@Nightmare
I will also say that Orcs is a great read.
On the last book, Desolation Island - you really should pick up the first book (Master and Commander) and have a read, once you get past the technical details of life on a ship, its a gripping read and the series as a whole is well written - though Mr. Crowe is most certain not Mr. Aubrey

 

[Connavar]

A huge book haul for me this cause im running short on books for the first in a while.

These i took home from my bookshop:

The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
Men of Bronze - Scott Oden
Augustus - Allan Massie
The Mourner - Richard Stark
Ask The Parrot - Richard Stark(Free book) A review example my bookshop gave me.

These i ordered:

The Man in the Maze; Nightwings; Downward to the Earth(Omnibus) - Robert Silverberg
Damnation Alley - Roger Zelazny
This Immortal - Roger Zelazny
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick - Philip K. Dick (Duh!)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
Now Wast For Last Year - Philip K. Dick
A Maze of Death - Philip K. Dick
Normally i dont like to buy hardcovers but this one i had to have since its short stories of a SF writer i like. Plus it looks pretty damn good

 

[bossfan2000]

A couple of weeks ago, i ran into a barnes and noble that had 9 of the Deverry series in hardback. I have always wanted to read them (esp with the last book due out next year), so i decided to gamble and pick up all of them. the couple i was missing i picked up at a different barnes and noble the next day.

Also ordered Stormed Fortress from the book depository last week, after they finally got some copies in.

 

[murphy]

A couple of weeks ago, i ran into a barnes and noble that had 9 of the Deverry series in hardback. I have always wanted to read them (esp with the last book due out next year), so i decided to gamble and pick up all of them. the couple i was missing i picked up at a different barnes and noble the next day.

Also ordered Stormed Fortress from the book depository last week, after they finally got some copies in.

You were able to get Stormed Fortress in the U.S.? I ordered mine from Amazon UK because I didn't think it was going to be released here. Tell me your secret, please.

 

[bossfan2000]

You were able to get Stormed Fortress in the U.S.? I ordered mine from Amazon UK because I didn't think it was going to be released here. Tell me your secret, please.

If you have never used the book depository before, i highly recommend it. Shipping to the US is FREE, which can really save you some money. Stormed Fortress is the 3rd book I have ordered from them..the first 2 arrived 8-9 days after my order..not bad for free shipping from the UK.

I tried posting the link, but i dont have enough posts here to do that. Search for bookdepository on google and you should find it no problem.

 

[murphy]

If you have never used the book depository before, i highly recommend it. Shipping to the US is FREE, which can really save you some money. Stormed Fortress is the 3rd book I have ordered from them..the first 2 arrived 8-9 days after my order..not bad for free shipping from the UK.

I tried posting the link, but i dont have enough posts here to do that. Search for bookdepository on google and you should find it no problem.

Thanks, I'll do that. There are some other books that I am interested in the UK versions such as Abercrombie and Erikson.

 

[Pyan]

So far, for my birthday....

Dark Tower I - The Gunslinger by Stephen King (Guess who gave me that?)

Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik

Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer

Historic Maritime Maps - Various

Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid, books 1-6 - Virgil, trans. Fairclough

 

[Rothgar]

Went back to Minneapolis this weekend to visit a fried for his birthday and we swung by Uncle Hugos bookstore. I picked up: Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, Golden Fool, and Fools Fate to round out the two trilogies by Robin Hobb. And every Heinlein book they had that I haven't read yet; Starman Jones, The Rolling Stones, and Space Cadet.

I also have on the way via e-bay, books 2-11 of Edgar Rice Burrough's Mars series. A heck of a lot cheaper too vs. the newly released versions of the books. Now my to be read pile is about four times as large as it was before I joined chronicles.

 

[murphy]

(snippys) Now my to be read pile is about four times as large as it was before I joined chronicles.

Isn't it great.

 

[GOLLUM]

Yeh and mine's about 10 times the size...

 

[quixotic]

don't get ME started

 

[Connavar]

As you can see by my latest haul being a week after the last haul my TBR pile is also getting bigger and bigger. There are just too many good books i gotta have



Today only these


Damnation Alley - Roger Zelazny
Now Wast For Last Year - Philip K. Dick
A Maze of Death - Philip K. Dick
The Fellowship of The Ring - J.R.R Tolkien
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S Lewis
Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton

 

[Nightmare]

Same with my TBR pile, Connavar. Especially since I've been reading from the library, lately. I was able to control myself remarkably today, buying only one book each from two used bookstores. (Plus checking out two more from the library.)

Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
Dune - Frank Herbert

 

[j d worthington]

After having not bought any books for quite a while, I went and splurged a bit on myself after finding the new job. So I have now ordered:

(replacements):

A Winter Wish, by H. P. Lovecraft
The Lays of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle-Earth, and The Lost Road (hardbound edition) by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Monster and the Critics and Other Essays (tpb), by JRRT

(new):

The Passing of a God and Other Stories (vol. I of the Complete Short Fiction of Henry S. Whitehead)
Dreads and Drolls (essays), by Arthur Machen

 

[Mithfanion]

Bought a few more:

Out Stealing Horses- Per Petterson ( mainstream fiction)
Faerie Tale- Raymond Feist ( Fantasy)
Honored Enemy- Raymond Feist( Fantasy)
Pillars of the Earth- Ken Follett ( Hist. novel)
Genghis: Rise of Empire- Conn Iggulden ( part 1 of a trilogy, Hist. novel)
20th Century Ghosts- Joe Hill ( Horror collection)
The Long Ships- Frans Bengtsson ( ( Hist. novel)
The Last Wish- Sapkowski ( Fantasy).

 

[j d worthington]

Got home from work today to find a surprise package from Hippocamus Press of new releases:

Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James (ed. by S. T. Joshi and Rosemary Pardoe
Lair of the Dreamer: A Cthulhu Mythos Omnibus, by Franklyn Searight
the second issue of Dead Reckonings (a journal devoted to studies in the weird fiction field)
the first issue of the new Lovecraft Annual