Book Hauls!

[Rothgar]

So, I went to Minneapolis, Minnesota this weekend for a wedding and my cousin's husband took me on a tour of four great used bookstores.

Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb
Whipping Star - Frank Herbert
Midnight Tides - Steven Erikson
A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Good Omens - Gaiman & Pratchett
The Scar - China Mieville
More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag - Robert A. Heinlein
Tunnel in the Sky - RAH
Podkayne of Mars - RAH
Farnham's Freehold - RAH
To Sail Beyond the Sunset - RAH

[murphy]

Originally Posted by Rothgar

So, I went to Minneapolis, Minnesota this weekend for a wedding and my cousin's husband took me on a tour of four great used bookstores.

Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb
Whipping Star - Frank Herbert
Midnight Tides - Steven Erikson
A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Good Omens - Gaiman & Pratchett
The Scar - China Mieville
More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag - Robert A. Heinlein
Tunnel in the Sky - RAH
Podkayne of Mars - RAH
Farnham's Freehold - RAH
To Sail Beyond the Sunset - RAH

Is Uncle Hugo's SF bookstore in Minneapolis?

[Rothgar]

Originally Posted by murphy

Is Uncle Hugo's SF bookstore in Minneapolis?

Yup, and that was where I picked up half of the books! It was rather wild, floor to ceiling sci-fi and fantasy, boxes of individual authors sitting on the floor. Lots of signed copies of books, and of course all the newest titles as well. I wish I had taken a picture of the place. I spent well over an hour rummaging through the store.

[murphy]

Originally Posted by Rothgar

Yup, and that was where I picked up half of the books! It was rather wild, floor to ceiling sci-fi and fantasy, boxes of individual authors sitting on the floor. Lots of signed copies of books, and of course all the newest titles as well. I wish I had taken a picture of the place. I spent well over an hour rummaging through the store.

It's quite famous and I envy you. We don't have any good SF/Fantasy only bookstores nearby. Unfortunately, they all closed.

[GOLLUM]

Just pickedup Lian Hearn's final book of the Otori Heaven's Net Is Wide.

[GOLLUM]

The Best of Robert E Howard - Crimson Shadows Vol I

[SpaceShip]

The Bourne Ultimatum
The Matarese Countdown

both by Robert Ludlum

Should keep me quiet for some time!

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by SpaceShip

The Bourne Ultimatum
The Matarese Countdown

both by Robert Ludlum

Should keep me quiet for some time!

Hehe cause of the movie right? Even though they have nothing in common storywise. Damon was perfect as Bourne that after i left the cinema i was exploding of the urge to read any Bourne book


I have read only up to Supremacy, let me know what you think of Ultimatum in Ludlum thread.

[murphy]

Charles Stross --- The Atrocity Archives & Iron Sunrise
Charlaine Harris --- Grave Sight, Dead as a Doornail, & Definitely Dead
Sherwood Smith --- Wren to the Rescue

[SpaceShip]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

Hehe cause of the movie right? Even though they have nothing in common storywise. Damon was perfect as Bourne that after i left the cinema i was exploding of the urge to read any Bourne book


I have read only up to Supremacy, let me know what you think of Ultimatum in Ludlum thread.

Not seen the movie yet CoR - never do! Always read the book first as I can do it that way round. On the very odd occasion I see the movie first, I get very jumpy reading the book - so I have to do it the other way round. Read a load of Ludlum in the past and enjoy - so I'll let you know what the books is like. HAGD

[Connavar]

No need to worry about the movie cause it has nothing to with the books except Bourne character and treadstone. I have seen all three movies and know that. Have read two books too.

Thats why i saw Ultimatum movie before the book cause it has nothing in common except the title and Bourne.

[Fahim]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

Thats why i saw Ultimatum movie before the book cause it has nothing in common except the title and Bourne.

Other than for the name, the Bourne character in the movie have nothing much really in common with the character in the books either

[j. d. worthington]

Another library haul for me; two more books concerning HPL:

Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1925
Supernatural Horror in Literature (Dover edition -- for the introductory essay)

and a collection by a friend, student, and follower of M. R. James (with his ghost stories on that last....): Nine Ghosts, by R. H. Malden....

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by Fahim

Other than for the name, the Bourne character in the movie have nothing much really in common with the character in the books either

Yeah but thats cause of the story. They removed everything that made him the old version of Bourne aka the book version.


Matt Damon captures him perfectly. To me the both Bourne are the same personality wise. The difference is in the movies he goes longer without knowing who he really is. Thats why i like the movies cause Damon is Jason Bourne from the book. Ultimatum storywise had more in common with Bourne Identiy book than the movie of the same name did.

[GOLLUM]

My books I bought in Japan at the WorldCon were...

Speculative Japan - Oustanding Tales of Japanese SF and Fantasy
Lairs of the Hidden Gods - Japanese stories from the Cthulhu Mythos Vols I - IV
WorldCon Guest Of Honour Speeches 1939 - 2005