Book Hauls!

[Nesacat]

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.

It's a remainder book store here in Kuala Lumpur. It's the very first such in the country actually. We do have second hand bookstores and a great many rental book stores. This is the first remainder store and they get all their books from Australia.

It's shaken up the book trade here some because until now a few distributors had exclusive rights and book prices were soaring. They were a little shaken by the entry of Borders and Kinokuniya but BookExcess has really thrown a spanner in the works.

It's round the corner from my home and run by a couple who really believe in books being affordable. They may not have a huge variety and there's no guarantee of what you will find but that's a small price to pay in the end.

 

[GOLLUM]

I'll definitely have to go there the next time I visit...

 

[Nesacat]

Yes you do. It's getting better and better. They have bigger premises now and proper shelving. They're bringing in more books now that they have regular customers. And for Christmas they're going to be giving away vouchers and books as gifts to customers. No guesses for where I'll be most weekends till Christmas. Am going to be between Silverfish and here.

 

[Werthead]

My review copy of Joe Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings just showed up, which is cool.

 

[murphy]

My review copy of Joe Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings just showed up, which is cool.

Is that the last book in the series/trilogy? And we have to wait until March? I call this post a cruel and unusual punishment for those of us who are bereft (and extremely jealous).

 

[stellarexplorer]

Made a major haul at a used book store on the upper west side of Manhattan recently:


Poul Anderson:

The Man Who Counts
Orbit Unlimited
Flandry of Terra
Ensign Flandry
Tales of the Flying Mountains
The Makeshift Rocket
The Devil’s Game
The Horn of Time
Shield
Agent of the Terran Empire
Earthman’s Burden (co-authored with Gordon Dickson)

John Brunner:

Now Then!
The Jagged Orbit

Gordon Dickson:

The Far Call
The Last Master
The Final Encyclopedia
On The Run

Robert Heinlein:

The Green Hills of Earth
Methusalah’s Children
Space Cadet

Andre Norton:

Judgment on Janus
The Crystal Gryphon
Exiles of the Stars
Galactic Derelict
Uncharted Stars
Forerunner
Eye of the Monster
Ordeal in Otherwhere
Secret of the Lost Race
Breed To Come
Ice Crown


Cordwainer Smith:

Space Lords

Roger Zelazny:

Trumps of Doom

 

[Connavar]

Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K Dick
Dune - Frank Herbert
Storm Front - Jim Butcher
Sword of Attila - Michael Curtis
Selected Stories of Philip K Dick





Library Haul:

Speaker for the dead - Orson Scott Card
Deadhouse gates - Steven Erikson
The left hand of darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiasco - Stanisław Lem
Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
The Maltese falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Nightmare town - Dashiell Hammett
The chill - Ross Macdonald


Im stacking up for the winter, its the start of the month of cold and eternal nigthts over here not gonna waste my time on bad Christmas movies this time

 

[Fahim]

Storm Front - Jim Butcher

I'm reading Storm Front at the moment. While it's not quite like the TV series, I like the book better so far Jim Butcher has an easy style which keeps you going and I kind of like the world he's created. I'd be interested to hear what you think once you read the book ...

 

[Connavar]

I will let you know when i have read it. I dont know when that is though. Too many choices right now. I have to choose him over Deadhouse Gates,Maltese Falcon that im thinking about reading next.

I havent seen the tv show cause i have wanted to read the book first.

I except the main character to be a special character. My favorit brit in fiction is a certain warlock called John Constantine, just cause Dresden series reminded me of JC was enough to try it out.

Of course he cant come near JC but i hope he is half as interesting.

 

[murphy]

I'm reading Storm Front at the moment. While it's not quite like the TV series, I like the book better so far Jim Butcher has an easy style which keeps you going and I kind of like the world he's created. I'd be interested to hear what you think once you read the book ...

The books get better and better as he grows as a writer.

 

[j d worthington]

Well, over the past few days, I've received the remainin books of Tolkien's History of Middle-earth (HB ed.), The Father Christmas Letters, 21 Letters of Ambrose Bierce, the Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism, and Going Home and Other Amateur Writings, by Edith Miniter.... On this last... that book's not a doorstop; you could halt a runaway freight train with the darned thing!

 

[murphy]

Ordered in the last 2 days

Cabinet of Curiosities by Lincoln Preston & Douglas Child -- mystery
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin -- a historical mystery taking place in Istanbul of 1832
A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham. The second book in a fantasy series
Captain's Fury: Book Four of the Codex Atera by Jim Butcher. Another Fantasy
Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon - Historical novel
Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt - a mystery. New author for me, but it involves a golden retriever and I couldn't resist it.
Recovery Man (A Retrieval Artist Series #6) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Science Fiction

 

[Aleksei]

Nice, Captain's Fury is out..

*Orders book*

 

[Nesacat]

JD ... have fun with the Father Christmas letters. I love that books.

Murphy ... I read Cabinet of Curiosities sometime back. I liked it very much. Tell me how you go with it.

 

[murphy]

Nice, Captain's Fury is out..

*Orders book*

According to Barnes & Noble, Captain's Fury came out today, I just jumped the gun a little.

JD ... have fun with the Father Christmas letters. I love that books.

Murphy ... I read Cabinet of Curiosities sometime back. I liked it very much. Tell me how you go with it.

I liked the first 2 books, so I'll probably like this.

 

[j d worthington]

Came home today to find a note from my postal carrier saying he'd quit because of me....

Okay, it's not quite that bad, but some of these things I've been getting are rather large. Today's haul was comprised of:

The Letters of Hart Crane: 1916-1932
The Letters of Hart Crane and His Family
The Lovecraft Papers (containing Pulptime and Scream for Jeeves), by Peter H. Cannon (a replacement copy)
A Vintage from Atlantis (vol. IV in The Complete Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith)

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

On a book buying mission today I got:
Myth-told Tales R.Asprin
Something Mything
Myth Alliances
Holiday are Hell- Kim Harrison & Co
Heroes and Fools Weis&Hickman
And a non ficton-The Hiram Key
Oh! and a audio book Blood of the Fold. T Goodking because it was only 0.99pence in a sale.

 

[j d worthington]

Received a couple more in the mail today: The Annotated Hobbit, by... um, surely you don't need to be told that one!

Beyond the Black River, the seventh in the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard set....

 

[K. Riehl]

From Ebay I picked up 1st editions of To the White Mountains by John Christopher, Lest Darkness Fall by L Sprague De Camp, and Spacepaw by Gordon Dickson.

 

[j d worthington]

Another couple of Howard books (The Best of, vols. I & II) came in today... like all the books of this set, beautiful things, and I very much like the contents....