Book Hauls!

[Teresa Edgerton]

Wow, I took a look and it's tempting, very tempting.

If I kept both printers printing day and night ... No, no, this way lies madness.

[GOLLUM]

Hey JP that's a great site!! I never even knew it existed until now. Needless to say I've already added it to my Favourites....

Kelpie, I'd be lying if I didn't say I was just a little envious of your wonderful find. Actually it sounds like a real treasure trove of riches, almost like having your very own literary treasure hunt/adventure the way you're having to extract those various gems. What fun that must be!!!!.....

[Prefx]

I just purchased Son of a Witch and Wicked for the sake of seeing how these books are.

Next on my list is Madeline's book. I read the Amazon snippet, as well as the ones posted here.

[rune]

I've bought some books, seems to be rare for me these days, so feels good

Kim Harrison - Dead Witch Walking
Ptolemy's Gate - Jonathan Stroud
Anasi Boys - Neil Gaiman

[Jay]

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco

[knivesout]

Some more colected edition comics I'd ordered arrived this weekend:

Superman Man Of Steel: Vol. 3
Superman: Exile
Batman Chronicles Vol. 1
Batman: Dark Victory
Batman: Tales of the Demon
The Chuckling Whatsit: Richard Sala
Essential Howard The Duck Vol. 1

[littlemissattitude]

From the library used book shelf last week:

Aku-Aku, by Thor Heyerdahl (nonfiction hardback, fourth printing but original year of publication - 1958)
The Babel Effect, by Daniel Hecht (fiction paperback, uncorrected proof)
John Adams, by David McCullough (nonfiction hardback, biography)

I got all three for a grand total of $2.50.

Same day out of the grocery store:

The Man Who Tried To Get Away, by Stephen R. Donaldson (2004 paperback edition, slightly revised from original 1990 publication)

Not a bad book day.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by littlemissattitude

Same day out of the grocery store:The Man Who Tried To Get Away, by Stephen R. Donaldson (2004 paperback edition, slightly revised from original 1990 publication)
Not a bad book day.

Well done littlemiss, that's one of his books when he was publishing under the name of Reed Stephens and No. 3 in the Man Who series. I liked these hardboiled private-eye books although the characters seem to carry around with them a feeling of guilt/tormented soul and degree of self worth reminiscent of course of the classic Thomas Covenant series. Not the lightest of reads going around but a decently put together story all the same.

[littlemissattitude]

*giggle* I think the other person looking at books at that time must have thought I was insane. I saw the book, said an emphatic "Yes", and grabbed it off the rack. I'd been looking for any of that series for a long time. I'd read part of one of the others out of the library a while back, but didn't manage to get through it before it was due. But I quite liked what I did get to read, so I'm sure this one will be good, as well.

[GOLLUM]

Glad to hear it littlemiss and I'm sure you'll enjoy the book. All in all a most excellent days shopping....

[GOLLUM]

Hey Hey! I've just done a littlemiss and found whilst doing some local shopping the following 2 books that were in a pile of books going for a bargain as part of a local bookshops clearance sale.

What's more amazing is that I was asking after this author and thier short stories here just yesterday, must be fate. Spooky...

Ancient Sorceries and Other Stories - By Algernon Blackwood
The Dance Of Death and Other Stories - By Algernon Blackwood

Happy Days are here again....

[ravenus]

Had been on an official trip to Delhi, our capital city, and had a chance to visit a couple book stores on my last day there during which I picked up:

American Gods - Nail Gaiman
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Emperor of Dreams (Fantasy Masterworks collection) - Clark Ashton Smith
A couple of story collections of H.P. Lovecraft
A John Banville compendium with Athena, Book of Evidence and Ghosts
The Lost World and Other Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I already have it, this is for a friend who has just discovered the joys of reading )

@JP:
I also saw a couple of Alan Moore comics there - V for Vendetta and Watchmen for ~800 rupees a piece, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at maybe some 600 per (slim) volume.

[Rosemary]

AU$15 for a copy of Wizardology it usually sell for, about $25.

Anyway, it looks great next to 'Dragonology' and my eldest Granddaughter managed to read through it before I could!!

[Jay]

The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker

[nixie]

Originally Posted by Jay

The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker

Is it on general release somewhere Jay? last I checked its not due out in the UK till Feb