Book Hauls!

[Addy]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

Addy ... like the rest of us you'll work out how to read and be in Chrons at the same time while taking lightning breaks for food and other absolute necessaries.

Tail crossed you'll get Gormenghast soon as well. In the meantime have fun with the rest and you might want to get the fourth Earthsea book Tehanu.

Yes, the needful things.

I won't be getting Gormenghast now, since I only buy second hand, and they had already sold the one copy they had. Too bad. I doubt I'll find the whole trilogy for $5 anytime soon.

[j. d. worthington]

Addy: You might try Biblio.com or Abebooks or Alibris... as they have merchants in all parts of the world, you might be able to find something for a very low price that also won't cost much in s&h. Here are the Biblio entries for Peake:

Mervyn Peake Books - Used Books At Biblio

Nesa: those three are via Interlibrary Loan... part of my Lovecraftian research. The Occult Lovecraft includes two pieces by HPL that are hard to come by: "The Cosmos & Religion", an examination of the origins of religious belief and modern scientific knowledge, and "The Incantation From Red Hook", a detailed (and somewhat erroneous) analysis of the incantatory passages he used in that story, as well as a bit on the origin of the story. There are also pieces by occultist Anthony Raven, as well as a piece by Frank Belknap Long on Lovecraft in Red Hook (on his time living there), and a rather vituperative one by Samuel Loveman titled "Of Gold and Stardust", written toward the end of Loveman's life, when he abruptly became very censorious of Lovecraft.

The Normal Lovecraft (at least, the titular article) is by a long-time correspondent of HPL's, and is subtitled "A Memoir to Restore Balance to the Shade of a Man of Delightful Character". There are other pieces in there, from a small selection of art by Tim Kirk on Lovecraftian themes, to De Camp's "Sonia & H.P.L." to a piece by Gerry de la Ree, "When Sonia Sizzled: Letters Heretofore Unpublished".

The Shuttered Room includes not only odd bits of Lovecraft's own writing, but early critical articles, memoirs, and such....

[Addy]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Addy: You might try Biblio.com or Abebooks or Alibris... as they have merchants in all parts of the world, you might be able to find something for a very low price that also won't cost much in s&h. Here are the Biblio entries for Peake:

Mervyn Peake Books - Used Books At Biblio

Yes, thanks, j.d.
I already use abebooks. Never bought from biblio or alibris, as until recently abe's sellers had always the cheapest books and shipping in comparison.

[Who's Wee Dug]

Received in the post,The Great SF Stories(1964)R.Silverberg presents and 30th DAW Anniversary science ficton (and on its way waiting for me after Worldcon), 30th DAW Anniversary Fantasy.

[Connavar]

Broken Angels - Richard Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs book 2)
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
Lion of Macedon - David Gemmell
The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell



Library books:

Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
Bone's Lick - Larry McMaurty



Thanks to Richard Morgan i was finaly able to get off my historical fiction phase

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Who's Wee Dug

Received in the post,The Great SF Stories(1964)R.Silverberg presents and 30th DAW Anniversary science ficton (and on its way waiting for me after Worldcon), 30th DAW Anniversary Fantasy.

Picked up the 2 DAW anniversary volumes recently, good stuff!

[Nesacat]

Have the DAW anniversary fantasy collection and yes it's good stuff. Am not a huge, huge fan of science fiction per se so didn't pick that collection up.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

Have the DAW anniversary fantasy collection and yes it's good stuff. Am not a huge, huge fan of science fiction per se so didn't pick that collection up.

In this case you should make an exception Nesa, if nothing else it makes a nice mini collection...

[Nesacat]

We can go pick it up when you get here then.

It's not that I don't care for science fiction. It's just that I'm not very masheen-oriented and unless the book goes into all the details it takes a long time for me to work out what is going on and sometimes I lose the thread of the tale and have to go back and re-read.

[j. d. worthington]

Another (small) library haul: H. P. Lovecraft: A Symposium -- with panelists Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Sam Russell, Arthur Jean Cox, and Leland Sapiro, annotated by August Derleth....

[Addy]

Minor second hand haul today:
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
The Last Temptation - Nikos Kasantsakis

[j. d. worthington]

Nice selection there, Addy....

[GOLLUM]

Today I picked up...

Interworld - Neil Gaiman & Michael Reeves
The Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
The Day Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
The Twilight Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko

[Nesacat]

Addy ... that's my favourite Calvino you have there. Enjoy and try not to get too, too frustrated. I was about ready to hunt people down and chain them in the basement until they told me what happened next.

GOLLUM ... I distinctly remember some people saying that they were not going to be hauling any books until they got to the Worldcon. And you have both Interworld AND Twilight Watch ... did I remember to mention an unfair world someplace.

Today at BookExcess I picked up:
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia ... Yes I already have three sets of this but this copy was so very beautiful. Hardback. Dark blue cloth and leather cover with the title in silver. Silver gilt edged.
The Devil in Amber (sequel to Vesuvius Club) by Mark Gatiss
In The Shadow Of Trees by Eleanor Gill
Shout Down The Moon by Lisa Tucker
Malory - The Life And Times Of King Arthur's Chronicler by Christina Hardyment
Mirrormask - The Illustrated Film Script Of The Motion Picture by Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
Havoc In Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
Treason In Tudor England - Politics & Paranoia by Lacey Baldwin Smith
The Herbalist - Nicolas Culpepper & The Fight For Medical Freedom by Benjamin Woolley
The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier

[Addy]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

Addy ... that's my favourite Calvino you have there. Enjoy and try not to get too, too frustrated. I was about ready to hunt people down and chain them in the basement until they told me what happened next.

Today at BookExcess I picked up:
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia ... Yes I already have three sets of this but this copy was so very beautiful. Hardback. Dark blue cloth and leather cover with the title in silver. Silver gilt edged.
The Devil in Amber (sequel to Vesuvius Club) by Mark Gatiss
In The Shadow Of Trees by Eleanor Gill
Shout Down The Moon by Lisa Tucker
Malory - The Life And Times Of King Arthur's Chronicler by Christina Hardyment
Mirrormask - The Illustrated Film Script Of The Motion Picture by Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
Havoc In Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
Treason In Tudor England - Politics & Paranoia by Lacey Baldwin Smith
The Herbalist - Nicolas Culpepper & The Fight For Medical Freedom by Benjamin Woolley
The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier

I'll bear that in mind about the Calvino. Meanwhile I'll just drool over your haul.