Book Hauls!

[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.....

[Nesacat]

I'll second that. It is very good and certainly no loss for having been picked up. I think you'll enjoy it very much Rothgar.

You've got yourself a neat little haul there. Bardbury is one of my favourite writers. He writes like a poem with words flowing like water.

Perdido Street Station is very good and you'll probably be out there getting the next 2 books soon.

[HoopyFrood]

Just ordered university books from Amazon:

Collected Poems - T.S Eliot
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Poems - W.B Yeats
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Can anyone guess which module I picked to do in the first semester, then?

[Triceratops]

OMG, Rothmar. Man, did you hit the jackpot on those titles! You are really in for some story rides with that bunch. You've got all my favorite authors stacked up there. Heh, you have wonderful taste.

Tri

[Allegra]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

Just ordered university books from Amazon:

Collected Poems - T.S Eliot
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Poems - W.B Yeats
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Can anyone guess which module I picked to do in the first semester, then?

My guess is either Poems of Yeats or Mrs. Dalloway.

[Addy]

Today I picked up:
Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine - Harold Bloom
Attila - John Man
Max e os Felinos - Moacyr Scliar

[pyan]

Car boot sale this morning - picked up Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut, and P.K.Dick's Game Players of Titan for 50p.

[HoopyFrood]

Originally Posted by Allegra

My guess is either Poems of Yeats or Mrs. Dalloway.

All those books are for my module (and I have four modules all together, so this is just the first load of books that I needed to order! I have Shakespeare and other Renaissance comedies to buy, Creative Writing books, and um -- damn, what's my other module -- oh, Desire and Power, 1570-1640.) These books are for my Shock of the New module...so modernism and the like, hence the Joyce, Eliot, Woolf...

[elvet]

Very excited to find recently released Cast in Shadow and The Virtu at my local store. Also got Dark Tower 2 and 3 ( had 1; borrowed 4,5,6 and 7 ).

[Addy]

The Last Man - Mary Shelley
Anansi Boys - Neil 'Scary Trousers' Gaiman
The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set - C.S. Lewis
Hyperion Cantos (Omnibus) - Dan Simmons
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
The Lord of Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake

[Addy]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

All those books are for my module (and I have four modules all together, so this is just the first load of books that I needed to order! I have Shakespeare and other Renaissance comedies to buy, Creative Writing books, and um -- damn, what's my other module -- oh, Desire and Power, 1570-1640.) These books are for my Shock of the New module...so modernism and the like, hence the Joyce, Eliot, Woolf...

All great stuff. Take your time, and enjoy them.
No Beckett in your list?

[j. d. worthington]

Well, for the time being, I'm relegated to library hauls, it would seem. However, on that score:

The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces, by H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands
The Normal Lovecraft, by Wilfred Blanch Talman
The Occult Lovecraft
Carrie, by Stephen King (been a loooong time since I've read this one)
Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood, by Jack Sullivan
Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story, by Julia Briggs

[Addy]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Well, for the time being, I'm relegated to library hauls, it would seem. However, on that score:

The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces, by H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands
The Normal Lovecraft, by Wilfred Blanch Talman
The Occult Lovecraft

I can sense something of an obsession there, j.d.
That can't be healthy.

I would really like to learn a little restraint before I go bankrupt. Library hauls, alas, are not a possibility.

[Nesacat]

Addy ... never mind the restraint. It's not gong to happen. Plan on robbing a bank instead. Admitted spending lots of time here on the Chrons saves the cash you'd spend having a 'life' for books.

You've got a good haul there Addy. I guess you've read American Gods already. Tell me what you think of that and Anansi Boys. And you have Narnia and Middle Earth and Gormenghast. Sounds like you've got some intriguing travels ahead. Enjoy. And you'll have to post your thought on them.

JD ... I wish libraries here had hauls like this to offer; especially the last two. Tell me some more?

[Addy]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

Addy ... never mind the restraint. It's not gong to happen. Plan on robbing a bank instead. Admitted spending lots of time here on the Chrons saves the cash you'd spend having a 'life' for books.

You've got a good haul there Addy. I guess you've read American Gods already. Tell me what you think of that and Anansi Boys. And you have Narnia and Middle Earth and Gormenghast. Sounds like you've got some intriguing travels ahead. Enjoy. And you'll have to post your thought on them.

I think spending lots of time here makes me spend MORE on books that I don't have time to read because I'm here all the time.

I haven't read American Gods. I have mailordered it though, and it should be here this week, right in time for me to read it before I get my hands on Anansi Boys.

I got Narnia and Middle Earth, but I just got an email from the store that they had sold Gormenghast already.

But I also have His Dark Materials and the Earthsea Trilogy coming my way. I won't be lacking choices of places to travel for a while.