Book Hauls!

[Nesacat]

They were actually 'hauled' last month at the Eastercon but they've only just started arriving.

The Trail of Cthulhu - August Derleth
Beyond the Fields We Know - Lord Dunsany
At the Edge of the World - Lord Dunsany
The Charwoman's Shadow - Lord Dunsany
Zotique - Clark Ashton Smith
Poseidonis - Clark Ashton Smith
Hyperborea - Clark Ashton Smith
The Horror in the Museum - H.P. Lovecraft & Others
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
Skull Face Omnibus Vol 2 - Robert E Howard
Skull Face Omnibus Vol 3 - Robert E Howard
The Hounds of Tindalos - Frank Belknap Long
Firebug - Robert Bloch

[ravenus]

What a perfectly delicious sounding haul!

@Firebug: I remember the opening chapter being one of the most awesome things I've ever read in my life. The tone changed so radically after that I just dropped the book.

[GOLLUM]

You lucky thing Nesa. I've got almost all of those in one form or another except for the Bloch, Derleth and one of the Dunsanys.

[Nesacat]

Ravenus - Have not read it yet but I like Bloch and will get to it probably after finishing the Murakami I'm reading now.

GOLLUM - I had the Derleth but this was an old paperback edition with a lovely cover.

More arrivals today:

The Best of Robert Bloch
Kull - Illustrated hardback in a box. Mine is 220 of 400 and signed by the illustrator Ned Dameron
The Story of the Stone - Barry Hughart
Calahan's Legacy - Spider Robinson
131/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear - Walter Moers
Rumo - Walter Moers
Imperial Traitor - Mark Robson
The Forging of the Sword - Mark Robson
Trail of the Huntress - Mark Robson
First Sword - Mark Robson
The Chosen One - Mark Robson

[ben1xy]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

Ravenus - Have not read it yet but I like Bloch and will get to it probably after finishing the Murakami I'm reading now.

GOLLUM - I had the Derleth but this was an old paperback edition with a lovely cover.

More arrivals today:

The Best of Robert Bloch
Kull - Illustrated hardback in a box. Mine is 220 of 400 and signed by the illustrator Ned Dameron
The Story of the Stone - Barry Hughart
Calahan's Legacy - Spider Robinson
131/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear - Walter Moers
Rumo - Walter Moers
Imperial Traitor - Mark Robson
The Forging of the Sword - Mark Robson
Trail of the Huntress - Mark Robson
First Sword - Mark Robson
The Chosen One - Mark Robson

Hi Nesacat,

i see that you're from Malaysia. Could i ask how you obtain your books? Would there be any good bookshops in malaysia?

I get my books mostly from kinokuniya and booksdepot. i was wondering about your sources

[Nesacat]

Ben - A big yes to Kinokuniya. I also get some from Borders and others ordered in for me at SilverfishBooks. I occasionally use AcmaBooks, which is also in Singapore I believe.

However, the bulk of my Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books come from the UK. I either pick them up there myself or get them through Porcupine Books, which is online.

[ben1xy]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

Ben - A big yes to Kinokuniya. I also get some from Borders and others ordered in for me at SilverfishBooks. I occasionally use AcmaBooks, which is also in Singapore I believe.

However, the bulk of my Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books come from the UK. I either pick them up there myself or get them through Porcupine Books, which is online.

Thanks Nesacat. Interestingly, I always thought Acmabooks was based in Malaysia. I guess i'm wrong.

Thanks to you, i just visited porcupinebooks and it seems a really nice place.

You could also consider getting some of your books from opentrolley, I think the website is currently down but they will be reopening in a month. Their prices are really good.

Oh, and yes, Borders is an amazing place too

Thanks again

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

The Story of the Stone - Barry Hughart
131/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear - Walter Moers
Rumo - Walter Moers

Let me know how the Hughart goes. I only have Bridge Of Birds. Enjoy the Walter Moers, they're really good.

[GOLLUM]

A mixture arrived before.....

Red Badge Of Courage and other stories - Stephen Crane
Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian
Complete Nonsense and Verse - Edward Lear
Story Of A Shipwecked Sailor - Gabriel Garcia Marquuez
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory - Jorge Borges
Travels With My Aunt - Graham Greene
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Pygmailon - Bernard Shaw
Catch-22 - Heller
Johnathon Livingstone Seagull - Ricahrd Bach
Letter From Father Christmas - Tolkien

[GOLLUM]

Got a book last night from a second hand shop that interested me becaue the foreword was by Italo calvino. I'm not familiar with this author's work but it appears intriguing, anyone know of him?

Words In Commotion and Other Stories - Tommasso Landolfi

Little known in this country when he died in 1979, Landolfi is scarcely better recognized today, a situation this collection of 24 stories, with an introduction by Italo Calvino, is intended to remedy. Landolfi did not aspire to amuse or entertain in the usual sense; he preferred to confound and mystify. Even in his relatively conventional stories he scarcely bothered to inquire into motive or seek resolution. In "Uxoricide," for example, a wife-murderer sets out to kill the shrew for reasons that do not seem quite sufficient, so that the act itself appears brutal and sadistic. In "A Woman's Breast," a man lusts after that part of a stranger until he attains it, is thereupon sickened by the sight and discovers odd morbidities within himself. Landolfi's overriding interestslanguage and its literary possibilities, metaphysics, literary criticismnecessarily limit his audience. He saw the writer as one who spits words (see the title story), and he set himself against the critics who accused him of being "utterly indecipherable and mysterious." That is, however, a challenge hurled at the reader.

[Fahim]

Got the e-book version of (and already read it too ..):
White Night - Jim Butcher

Thank God for Fictionwise I don't think we'd ever get the Dresden Files over here :-( I've been reading all the books in the series in e-book format since that's about the only way I'll get the books any time soon

[Nesacat]

GOLLUM - Yes indeed. I have that one. Raman of Silverfish found it in a drawer when he moved shop a few months ago and he had no idea where it had come from and gave it to me. Such a strange little collection too. Well done but very bizarre. Takes your mind to some strange places and leaves it there.

Ben - Acma began in Malaysia but now has a place in Singapore and several other countries. Given the different rules about the kinds of books that can be sold in each place, the lists vary. Glad you liked Porcupine. Brian does a great job with running it.

More books arrived today. It's all graphic novels this time. Some had come a few days ago but I thought I'd wait and post them all together.

Watchmen by Alan Moore
Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) by Francois Laurent
Batman - The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Eternals by Neil Gaiman
The Crow by J.O. Barr
The Nightmare Factory based on the stories of Thomas Ligotti

[Reading_fanatic]

Just got
Journey to the centre of the earth by Jules Verne

[HoopyFrood]

How to Disappear -- Amanda Dalton (course book)
Screenwriting -- Ray Frensham (saw this while buying the above and decided to get it because I've found scriptwriting and screenplays interesting since looking at it in Creative Writing).

[Tansy]

Newly arrived today

Porno - Irvine Welsh (hope it's as good as Trainspotting)
Blood Merridion - Cormac McCarthy