Book Hauls!

[kcs_hiker]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

Conn Iggulden recommendation? Are you a member in his site? My brother is and i usually read conn forums in his site. Specially about his awesome Ghengis Khan series.

Let me know what you think of both Emperor and Eagle series. A big fan of Conn and i enjoyed Under The Eagle and his Young Bloods book about Napoleon and Wellington.

Gates of Rome! Gates of Rome! AGHHH ordered the wrong one.

ah well think I can fix it. Thanks I never would have caught it.

[Connavar]

Hehe lucky you i thought that looked wierd

[GOLLUM]

Graphic Novel:

Signal To Noise - Neil Gaiman and David McKean

[Frozeninja]

Few days ago I picked up

Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
Earthsea Quartet - Ursula Le Guin
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

[aubi11]

i got this great book series at borders for 9.99 per book. theres 12books in the series so about a little over 120.00 for the set I LOVED THEM! so check it out and tell me what you think!!!

[murphy]

Originally Posted by aubi11

i got this great book series at borders for 9.99 per book. theres 12books in the series so about a little over 120.00 for the set I LOVED THEM! so check it out and tell me what you think!!!

What books and who is the author?

[murphy]

Just ordered from B&N:

1634: The Ram Rebellion by Eric Flint, with Virgina Demarce
1635: Cannon Law, by Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
The Mirador by Sarah Monette
Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove (Crosstime Traffic Series)
Undertow by Elizabeth Bear

(Now back to work on by TBR pile so I can be ready for these books when they arrive)

[GOLLUM]

Part of my Booktopia order arrived in the post today...

The Other Side - Alfred Kubin
A Fine and Private Place - Peter S Beagle
Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter
Already Dead - A Californian Gothic - Denis Johnson
Life During Wartime - Lucius Shepard *SF Masterwork

[j. d. worthington]

Well, my copy of Cannon's H. P. Lovecraft (part of the Twayne's United States Authors Series) came in; the dj is a bit of a mess in spots, but for the price, I was expecting much worse. The book itself is in very nice shape... even given that it has the library stamps in a couple of spots. Nonetheless, considering that I got this for a LOT less than I've seen this thing going for... I feel I came out of it 'way ahead....

EDIT: Well! No sooner had I put that in, than they dropped off another... Shadows Seen and Unseen, containing works by Clark Ashton Smith... artwork (color reproductions, unlike the majority of them I've seen), poetry, and a few of his stories, along with some other items... very lovely book indeed. Mr. Johnson deserves kudos for this one.....

[j. d. worthington]

Another library haul -- a small one, this time:

Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; a Longman Cultural Edition, which not only includes some of the variant passages between the 1818 and 1831 editions, but also sets the book in its cultural matrix, including a lot of the philosophical, literary, and sociohistorical sources that influenced Mary (such as portions of her journals, letters, pieces by Burke, Shelley, Byron, etc.), but also contemporary reviews of the novel and portions of an early drama based upon the book.

Marginalia, by H. P. Lovecraft, et al.; containing some stories and essays by HPL, but also a lot of memoirs of the man, some early analyses, and lots of illustrations connected with him, such as photographs of various colleagues and correspondents, photographs of his residences and study, maps he drew of fictional cities, and the letter he wrote to Robert Bloch giving him permission to kill HPL off in his story "The Shambler from the Stars", signed by Alhazred, the Tcho-Tcho Lama of Leng, Friedrich von Junzt (author of the Unaussprechlichen Kulten) and Gaspard du Nord (translator of the Livre d'Eibon)... and his own drawing of Pickman's Model......

[Nesacat]

JD ... tell me more about Marginalia especially the illustrations. I'd like to know what his idea of the Model was please.

GOLLUM ... I've read and liked both Circus Nights and A Fine & Private Place. Enjoy. And am quite curious about Already Dead.

[GOLLUM]

Already Dead was part of Jeff Vandermeer's recommendations, which is why I got it.

Today the post brought: Altmann's Tongue - Brian Evenson.

[DeepThought]

Bought these from the local bookstore:

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute and John Grant
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
I, Robot, Robots and Empire, Isaac Asimov
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs

Cheer's, DeepThought

[Rothgar]

I had a coupon for the used book store...

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
Citizen of the Galaxy - R.A.H.
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
The Machineries of Joy - Ray Bradbury
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
The Gripping Hand - Niven/Pournelle
Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb

Somehow I ended up with The Machineries of Joy when I was trying to pick up The Martian Chronicles. Oh well, guess I'll have to go back soon.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Rothgar

Somehow I ended up with The Machineries of Joy when I was trying to pick up The Martian Chronicles. Oh well, guess I'll have to go back soon.

Not to worry... The Machineries of Joy is also an excellent collection.....