Book Hauls!

[GOLLUM]

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Rashomon and 17 other Japenese short stories - Akutagawa
The Man Who Was Thursday - G K Chesterton

 

[Falsteed]

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse

I love Hesse's work so much. If you ever find yourself in B&N or some such store with a bit of time on your hand, I suggest if you haven't already, reading through Journey To The East. It's just a wonderful bit of prose that had me smiling and laughing.

The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe.
Fevre Dream George R.R. Martin - I'm tired of waiting for Dragons.

 

[Omphalos]

Greener that you Think and Lot, & Lot's Daughter by Ward Moore
The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber
The Science Fiction of Jack London, by guess who.

 

[GOLLUM]

I love Hesse's work so much. If you ever find yourself in B&N or some such store with a bit of time on your hand, I suggest if you haven't already, reading through Journey To The East. It's just a wonderful bit of prose that had me smiling and laughing.

The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe.
Fevre Dream George R.R. Martin - I'm tired of waiting for Dragons.

Thanks for the tip firend.

Those 2 books you have selected are amnogst my fav of all time. Really excellent stuff!

 

[Spade]

I traded in about 5 or 6 books for the following:

Probability Moon - Nancy Kress - HC - US $1 (I've never read anything by her)
Bios - Robert Charles Wilson - HC - $1 (was a fan of Darwinia)
Jackdaws - Ken Follett - HC - $.50
Moonfall - Jack McDevitt - HC - $1
Vacuum Diagrams - Stephen Baxter - PB - $3.95

And a couple of others... I don't remember exactly what they are, so I will have to go check.

 

[Spade]

Beyond Heaven's River by Greg Bear - PB - 25¢
Starswarm - Brian Aldiss - PB - 65¢
Night of Light - Philip Jose Farmer - PB - 75¢
Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett - PB - 95¢

 

[GOLLUM]

Today I got...

Collected Sandman Dustcovers (incl a new Sandman story) - Gaiman & McKean
The Dark Tower Gunslinger Born Graphic Novel Book 1 HC - Stephen King
Beowulf ScriptBook - Gaiman & Avary
The Curse Of THe Chosen - Vol II Song Of The Tears - Ian Irvine

 

[HoopyFrood]

I keep coming across The Gunslinger Born graphic novels on Amazon and they pique my interest, being a Dark Tower series fan. If you'd be so kind, Gollum, I'd be interested to hear your opinion on it once you've read it

 

[Snow]

Brought the Count of Monte Cristo the other day. Is it any good? I'm reading Crime and Punishment at the moment, I think Raskolnikoff is about to admit it- exciting stuff.

 

[j d worthington]

Brought the Count of Monte Cristo the other day. Is it any good? I'm reading Crime and Punishment at the moment, I think Raskolnikoff is about to admit it- exciting stuff.

Something of a transition, that... but yes, it's a good book, very enjoyable.

I've not been ordering much in the way of sff lately (though I did order the remaining History of Middle-earth volumes I no longer had in hardbound), but among my other books on their way to me are:

A replacement copy of Ghosts, Castles and Victims, ed. by Jack and Barbara Wolf
The Annotated Hobbit (annotations by Douglas A. Anderson)
a replacement copy of The Father Christmas Letters
Going Home and Other Amateur Writings, by Edith Dowe Miniter
Twenty-one Letters of Ambrose Bierce, ed. by Samuel Loveman
The Late George Apley, by John P. Marquand
two volumes of letters by Hart Crane
the two volumes of The Best of Robert E. Howard
Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines 1891-1911, by Sam Moskowitz

 

[Nesacat]

JD ... tell me more about the Robert Howard as well as Ghosts, Castles and Victims please.

From BookExcess today I got:

The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Michele Roberts
Bone House by Betsy Tobin
Sexing The Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Passion by Jude Morgan
The Secret Of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay

 

[DeepThought]

The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
Classic Stories 1, Ray Bradbury
Blood Music, Greg Bear
Voice of our Shadow, Jonathan Carroll
The Man in The High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Valis
Radio Free Albemuth

 

[Overread]

Would you believe it, book 4 of Temeraire comes out and nearly a month later not a single bookshop in the whole town has had a copy the entire time - I can't believe I missed it.
Got a vopy now - so I am happy

 

[Nikitta]

I'm now finally in Oslo, looking for a job. Until I get one, buying any books is not going to happen, but I did order and buy some before I left, so since last time I've gotten:

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland Through the Looking-glass
Brave New World
Frankenstein
Before they are hanged
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Winterbirth
Queen of Candensce
Singularity Sky
Glasshouse
Halting State
Suicide Blonde (not Sci-Fi or Fantasy).
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (a small paperback book to settle my curiosity since I've heard so much about him).

That ought to keep for quite a bit...

 

[Anomander]

May I ask, just what is Book Excess? I'm sure I could find out by reading the history, but at 124 pages of history, I figure asking is the easiest way to go.

 

[Connavar]

Brought the Count of Monte Cristo the other day. Is it any good? I'm reading Crime and Punishment at the moment, I think Raskolnikoff is about to admit it- exciting stuff.

Its NOT an overrated classic to say the least about The Count, a very good book. The book that makes the revenge story as interesting as it can get. Not the hollywood version of "Blam! Blam!" exactly


But i am extremely biased about it, the first fiction book i ever read so i have special love for it.

I should read Crime and Punishment again. I read first a kid over ten years ago but it was too heavy at that time for me.

 

[Pyan]

Would you believe it, book 4 of Temeraire comes out and nearly a month later not a single bookshop in the whole town has had a copy the entire time - I can't believe I missed it.
Got a vopy now - so I am happy

My local Borders ordered 10 copies and sold them in a day and a half....
Hope you enjoy it, OR - I was up till 4am finishing it...

 

[elvet]

Just ordered from Amazon:
Restoration and Revelation - Carol Berg
Light Ages - Ian McCleod
Skewed Throne - Joshua Palmatier

 

[j d worthington]

JD ... tell me more about the Robert Howard as well as Ghosts, Castles and Victims please.

The two Howard books are described here (I've not yet seen them myself, so this is the best I can do at this point):

Del Rey Online | The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1 by Robert E. Howard

Del Rey Online | The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2 by Robert E. Howard

As for Ghosts, Castles and Victims... it's an odd little paperback I picked up when I was about 12 or so (originally); a book that is a combination of scholarly look at the Gothic, its origins and its influence on later fiction, and an anthology of pieces from same, whether excerpts from the original Gothics (The Castle of Otranto, The Romance of the Forest, Melmoth the Wanderer, etc.) or entire tales ("The Haunted and the Haunters; or, the House and the Brain", "The Dead Planet" by Ed Hamilton, Fitz-James O'Brien's "What Was It?", etc.) as examples. All this is set up in seven sections, examining different aspects of the Gothic tale of terror and its descendants:

I. Setting
II. Human Threat
III. Supernatural Threat
IV. Human Monsters
V. Monsters of Unknown Origin
VI. Psychological Threat
VII. Unknown Threat

A very nifty little book, in all, from that period when Fawcett Crest did several on a supernatural theme that were of interest to both general readers and scholars, including the two by Ronald Curran: Witches, Wraiths, and Warlocks, and The Weird Gathering & Other Tales....

Received my copy of Tolkien's The Monster and the Critics and Other Essays in the mail today....

 

[Alurny]

Hey! Just went on an ebay spree!

Won:

-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling : £3
-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling £3
-Rage of a Demon King - R. E. Feist £3

Winning:

-A game of Thrones- G. R. R. Martin (I brought clash of kings 2nd hand a while ago)
-Rise of a Merchant Prince- R.E. Feist
-Shards of a Broken Crown- R.E. Feist