Book Hauls!

[Nesacat]

Originally Posted by cougs

Just ordered The Complete Chronicles of Conan: Centenary Edition and am really excited for this to come in. It will be nice to have all the conan stories in one volume, plus it a really sharp looking book! .

Namaste to you too. And yes that is a lovely book. All the stories in the black and gold cover. It is indeed a beauty. Well bound. Falls open easily. Enjoy.

[Connavar]

Its my most prized edition that Conan Collection. I look after it like it was gold

Cause most of my other books are paperbacks.

[j. d. worthington]

Well... I've found and ordered a copy of the Peter Cannon book on Lovecraft (found it at a ridiculously low price, allowing me to afford the thing at this point); 'tis supposed to be on the way, so we'll see.....

And I've ordered a copy of a book of things by Clark Ashton Smith titled Shadows Seen and Unseen, but it's a limited edition (500 copies) and I've not yet heard back.....

Aside from that, library haul lately was The Curse of Yig, an old Arkham House book with three stories HPL "revised" (read: ghost-wrote) for Zealia Bishop ("The Curse of Yig", "Medusa's Coil", and "The Mound"), along with two memoirs she wrote; one on HPL, one on August Derleth. I understand she has some... um... questionable?... statements in there, but nonetheless some interesting information.....

[cougs]

Conan just came in...you guys were right on the money, awesome book!

now its time to get into some sword and sorcery action .

[Aleksei]

Decided to get the Conan book as well, it looks so nice.

[Connavar]

Library:

Ray Bradbury:

The Martian Chronicles
Fahrenheit 451
The Illustrated Man
The Day It Rained Forever


Neuromancer - William Gibson
Stowaway To Mars - John Wyndham, i know its not his most famous book or the book people recommend to readers new to him but its the only book of him the library had in.

[Nesacat]

You've got a good haul there Connavar.

Bradbury is one of my favourite writers. Tell me how you feel about his work when you are done please. Many of his short stories are online as well. At least I know that my favourite one is ... Fog Horn. Fahrenheit 451 is very, very good and I love Illustrated Man.

I liked Neuromancer too along with the other two books that follow. I was quite surprised at the time how much I enjoyed them because I'd not thought I would like science fiction much since I'd mostly been reading fantasy and horror up to that point.

Needless to say, Neuromancer changed that.

Alexei & Cougs ... The Conan book is indeed a joy is many, many ways. And to top it all ... the book is very affordable.

[Connavar]

I will Nesacat.


This time a real Haul aka books i actually bought


Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks - the winner of my quest for a new SF series.

Altered Corbon - Richard Morgan



The Eagle's Conquest - Simon Scarrow
When The Eagle Hunts - Simon Scarrow
These two Scrarrowbooks my brother begged me to buy for him cause he is broke right now and he will owe me the money. Its a coup for me cause i made him fan of the eagle series so i will get to read it anyway AND he owes money i can buy other books for hehehehe

[Thadlerian]

Rejoice, fellows! Jasper Fforde has created a new novel of Thursday Next: The First Among Sequels! Number five in the series.

And I've got myself one!

[GOLLUM]

Today I got...

Night Of Knives (A Novel Of The Malazan Empire) - Ian C Esslemont *Co-collaborator with Steven Erikson
Hummingbird's Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea *Likened to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Tale Of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu *Translation of the classic 11th Century text, widely regarded as the world's first Novel.

[Nesacat]

Thadlerian ... Congratulations. I've been waiting for this one too. Tell me how you find it please.

GOLLUM .... How curious. There is another book claiming to be the world's first novel. But that one is from India . Kadambari by Banabhatta.

I like a tale of Genji. I read it after reading a biography of Murasaki Shikibu. There is always a need for a Genji in life and the life of Murasaki is equally intriguing. Not much is known about her but she created a larger than life character who's endured though the centuries.

Oh I liked Hummingbird's Daughter. It's similar to Marquez but different. You'll see when you read it.

[GOLLUM]

[quote=Nesacat;892921]GOLLUM .... How curious. There is another book claiming to be the world's first novel. But that one is from India . Kadambari by Banabhatta. [/quote]Intriguing indeed but either way I just had to have that book to add to my "collection"......

[Nesacat]

GOLLUM ... so long as you don't plan on climbing into any lady's balcony any time soon I think you'll be fine.

I thought Hummingbird was more like Zafon than Marquez but the resemblance is there. It's more openly emotional than Marquez but with the same elegance.

[kcs_hiker]

ordered and anxiously awaiting:
Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow
Emperor: The Gods of War by Conn Iggulden

(ordered both on Conn's recommendation, don't let me down Conn )

Earth Abides by George Stewart; figured it was about time I read this classic
Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
A Sailor of Austria by John Biggins; looked too good to pass up

Received today (via ebay):
Dies the Fire by S.M Stirling
Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein; another classic that I somehow failed to read
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

and going to Borders later to pick up:
Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
Specials by Scott Westerfeld

and that's my book budget for August..

[Naryaló S dú]

I recently spent $60 on star wars complete locations and complete crosssections lol, theyre interesting