Book Hauls!

[Nesacat]

Addy ... BookExcess is a remainder book store. The only one here in Malaysia and it just opened a few months ago. They get all their books from Australia and many of the books cannot be found in any other store in the country. And of course the prices are very, very, very affordable.

Will be eternally grateful for it's existence.

If you finish If On A Winter's Night A Traveller .... and like it and have not committed murder yet you might want to give The Manuscript Found In The Saragossa by Jan Potocki a shot.

[flygin]

So I went to Barnes & Noble to buy a magazine. One magazine that I can't find anywhere else. They were having a sale, and I couldn't resist. I ended up with:

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann

Oh, and the magazine.

And, my sister got me a gift card there for my birthday, so I have more shopping to do.

[Nesacat]

You've got a good haul there Flygin ... have read and like the first four. Tell me how you go with them and more about the last one please.

[GOLLUM]

Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch

[Rane Longfox]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

The Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
The Day Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
The Twilight Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch

Four really excellent books Red Seas is possibly even better than Lies of Locke Lamora

Just three books for my birthday:
Jim Butcher - Grave Peril
Richard Morgan - Black Man
Peter F Hamilton - The Dreaming Void

[j. d. worthington]

Another library haul (and yes, it's on much the same theme):

Rhode Island on Lovecraft, ed. by Donald M. Grant
Letters to H. P. Lovecraft, by Clark Ashton Smith

[Riselka]

Found a nearly new, Bantam/Spectra, mass-market copy of Radix by A.A. Attanasio at a thrift store yesterday for $1 Cdn. I'd had a battered up copy I'd gotten at the same thrift store a few years back, and had started to read it, but it disappeared mysteriously when I had it out one day. I suspect it may have been thieved by someone, considering how difficult it seems to be to get your hands on a copy of it these days.

I see it's part of a tetriad of books, and was wondering whether the others in the series are worth looking for.

[Addy]

I'm torn because I couldn't find today the copy of August Derleth's Mask of Cthulhu that I'd seen in the street market yesterday, but at least I got these for $5:
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Patron of the Arts - William Rotsler
Children of Tomorrow - A.E. Van Vogt
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Oscar Wilde

[Nesacat]

Have fun with Name Of The Rose Addy.

Apparently when Eco wrote it, he wanted it to feel real to the reader. So he timed many of the things in the book. If you follow the regular daily timetable of the church then he'd actually walked those steps and spoken those words in the time prescribed.

[Addy]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

Have fun with Name Of The Rose Addy.

Apparently when Eco wrote it, he wanted it to feel real to the reader. So he timed many of the things in the book. If you follow the regular daily timetable of the church then he'd actually walked those steps and spoken those words in the time prescribed.

Yes, I really look forward to reading that one. I've seen the movie already, and I liked it. I love stories that take place in a medieval scenery. Add to that the whole incquisition thing, and it's sure to be interesting.

[Nesacat]

It's an amazing book Addy. My favourite of his. Very detailed, Very complex. You see everything very clearly. He's pulled so many threads together and woven an amazing, amazing story without losing any one of them.

[Addy]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

It's an amazing book Addy. My favourite of his. Very detailed, Very complex. You see everything very clearly. He's pulled so many threads together and woven an amazing, amazing story without losing any one of them.

Yes, Eco is--as some reviewer said in an Amazon.com review--a writer who makes your IQ go up a few points automatically just by reading his books.

[Addy]

Oh, boy, I really need help. I found an on-line shop in Brazil with a better than average SF selection, so I, against better judgment, ordered these:
A. E. Van Vogt - The Man With a Thousand Names
Alan Dean Foster - Bloodhype
Clifford D. Simak - Enchanted Pilgrimage
Frederick Pohl / C. M. Korn... - Gladiator-at-law
James White - Dark Inferno
James White - The Dream Millennium
Keith Roberts - The Inner Wheel
Marta Randall - Dangerous Games
Moacyr Scliar - O ciclo das águas
Moacyr Scliar - Os leopardos de Kafka
Norman Spinrad - Agent of Chaos
Philip Jose Farmer - Maker of Universes
Piers Anthony - Macroscope
Roger Zelazny - Damnation Alley
Roger Zelazny - My Name is Legion
Roger Zelazny - The Guns of Avalon
Roger Zelazny - The Hand of Oberon
Spider Robinson - Telempath
Stanley Schmidt - The Sins of the Fathers

[GOLLUM]

Whoa Addy, taking after yours truly hey?...

At Melbourne airport picked up:

Elves Of Cintara - Terry Brooks, will read on flight over.

[Connavar]

The Monkey's Raincoat & Stalking the Angel(Omnibus) - Robert Crais
Killing Floor - Lee Child
Odinn's Child (Viking Trilogy) - Tim Severin
Sword of Atilla - Micheal Curtis Ford
Vampire Hunter D: Book 2 - Kikuchi Hedeyuki



Pretty happy with my haul, some great HF like the one about Vikings. Havent read a HF about them. Attila is a fav of mine too.