Book Hauls!

[rol7805]

I just bought books 2 and 3 of the Dragonlance Chronices as well as Tad Wililams To Green Angel Tower Part I (I've heard time and again it's not worth reading the two books in the series before that), as well as Robert Silverberg's Majipoor Chronicles. I enjoy Majipoor's mix of fantasy and science fiction.

[Overread]

Mort
Equal Rites
Sourcery
Pyramids

I know I missed out one, but the shop did not have it in stock
however that gives me an excuse to return again for more terry!

[Pravuil]

I am about to try my hand at Terry Goodkind's "A Sword of Truth" series. A friend reccomended it after telling me it raised intriguing philosophical questions. If anyone has any comments on this author or similarily related statements over his series please forward it to me, and thank you.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Pravuil

I am about to try my hand at Terry Goodkind's "A Sword of Truth" series. A friend reccomended it after telling me it raised intriguing philosophical questions. If anyone has any comments on this author or similarily related statements over his series please forward it to me, and thank you.

Controversial figure, that. If you do a search here, you'll find plenty of threads discussing Goodkind and his work, which will give you some idea of what you're getting into....

Nesa: Well, I'm not going to be buying the way I was a few months ago, but I hope to catch up on some things I've been having to let go for a while. And yes, a few extra hours/days/months/years/decades/centuries/millennia would be of considerable use, I agree.....

[pyan]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Controversial figure, that.

You are a master of understatement, j. d.

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

a few extra hours/days/months/years/decades/centuries/millennia would be of considerable use, I agree.....

If you ever find a source of supply, be sure to tell us, won't you!

[Aleksei]

Breakaway - Joel Shepherd(Finally got my hands on a hardback edition )
Killswitch - Joel Shepherd
Majestrum - Matthew Hughes
The Skewed Throne - Joshua Palmatier
The Fade (aka Halflight) - Chris Wooding (thanks for the tip Werthead)
The Light Ages - Ian R MacLeod
Ally - Karen Traviss
Matriarch - Karen Traviss
Crossing the Line - Karen Traviss
City of Pearl - Karen Traviss
The World Before - Karen Traviss

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by pyan

You are a master of understatement, j. d.

If you ever find a source of supply, be sure to tell us, won't you!

On the first... let's just say I was feeling very dry at the time....

On the second... What, are you kidding? I intend to patent it and make a mint!

And, as my first post on these was my ordering them, thought I'd mention getting a few of the books mentioned: A Winter Wish, which I got for a ridiculously low price though it's in darned near mint condition; and two of the Tolkien books (The Lost Road and The Shaping of Middle Earth), which I was a bit trepidatious about, as they are used copies... but they're quite lovely, one can scarcely tell they've been opened, let alone read! Also Machen's Dreads and Drolls came today; another beautiful book, which looks even more promising now that I've glanced through the contents....

I'm also ordering a copy of Truman J. Spencer's A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism -- one of the more important source books on this field, and very important for my Lovecraftian researches, originally published in the 1890s and recently brought back into print (though if I chose to, I could go for a copy of the original for a surprisingly low price....)

[HoopyFrood]

Hardly a huge haul, but the first book I've bought in a while (and I'm not going to search back a few pages to see if this is true because it'll probably turn out that I only bought one last week or something ) Plus it's for my course, so it's not as exciting. W.H Auden: Selected Poems.
Methinks I need to go on another book haul soon...wonder if there are any deals on Amazon....

[Overread]

Well I don't think I can justify going to a book store for a month at least, just got:
Battle Royal - Houshun Takami
Wyrd Sisters
Guards! Guards!
Moving Pictures - all three by Pratchett
Crystal Singers Omnibus - Anne McAffrey
now all I have to do is finish the books that I am curently reading so I can read these

[HoopyFrood]

Yay, Battle Royale! I recently read that, it's a very good book. Very brutal throughout (wondrously...I mean...terribly gory in many places) but also has quite a few very moving moments. Really enjoyed it; hope you do, too!

[GOLLUM]

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Rashomon and 17 other Japenese short stories - Akutagawa
The Man Who Was Thursday - G K Chesterton

[Falsteed]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse

I love Hesse's work so much. If you ever find yourself in B&N or some such store with a bit of time on your hand, I suggest if you haven't already, reading through Journey To The East. It's just a wonderful bit of prose that had me smiling and laughing.

The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe.
Fevre Dream George R.R. Martin - I'm tired of waiting for Dragons.

[Omphalos]

Greener that you Think and Lot, & Lot's Daughter by Ward Moore
The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber
The Science Fiction of Jack London, by guess who.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Falsteed

I love Hesse's work so much. If you ever find yourself in B&N or some such store with a bit of time on your hand, I suggest if you haven't already, reading through Journey To The East. It's just a wonderful bit of prose that had me smiling and laughing.

The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe.
Fevre Dream George R.R. Martin - I'm tired of waiting for Dragons.

Thanks for the tip firend.

Those 2 books you have selected are amnogst my fav of all time. Really excellent stuff!

[Spade]

I traded in about 5 or 6 books for the following:

Probability Moon - Nancy Kress - HC - US $1 (I've never read anything by her)
Bios - Robert Charles Wilson - HC - $1 (was a fan of Darwinia)
Jackdaws - Ken Follett - HC - $.50
Moonfall - Jack McDevitt - HC - $1
Vacuum Diagrams - Stephen Baxter - PB - $3.95

And a couple of others... I don't remember exactly what they are, so I will have to go check.