Book Hauls!

[j. d. worthington]

Just received New Worlds 9 -- thus completing my set of the "quarterly" issues in pb form....

[nj1]

Todays haul -

Alexander by Steven Pressfield. I really enjoyed some of his other work so I thought I'd give it a go.

The Wolf Sea by Robert Low. The second book of the oathsworn (vikings ), hope it's a good as the first was.

To Ride Hell's Chasm by Janny Wurts. read some good review posts in the chrons about this one and decided to give it a try.

Knights of Dark Renown by David Gemmel. Had it, lost it (Grrrr), bought another copy.

Knights of the Black and White by Jack Whyte. Don't now anythying about this guy, but the topics about the origin of the Templar Knights and the first crusades, Mmmm interesting.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by 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.

I've got Eternals, Watchemen, Crow BUT not yet Nightmare Factory IF you're talking about a graphic novel rather than the book??

Seems like you're catching up to my collection Cat....

[GOLLUM]

Button, button (Tales) - Richard Matheson
Glamour - Christopher Priest
Earthquake Weather - Tim Powers
Wonder Tales - Dunsany
Nebula Award Showcase 2008

And from Borders last night....

Cassic Ghost Stories - Bill Bowers
Cold Copper Tears PI Garret - Glenn Cook
Whispering Nickel Idols PI Garret - Glenn Cook
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier
Angels & Visitations - Neil Gaiman
Rumo - Walter Moers

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Button, button (Tales) - Richard Matheson
Glamour - Christopher Priest
Earthquake Weather - Tim Powers
Wonder Tales - Dunsany
Nebula Award Showcase 2008

And from Borders last night....

Cassic Ghost Stories - Bill Bowers
Cold Copper Tears PI Garret - Glenn Cook
Whispering Nickel Idols PI Garret - Glenn Cook
Rebecca - Daphe Du Maurier
Angels & Visitations - Neil Gaiman
Rumo - Walter Moers

Nice haul there, Mr. G. On the Bowers -- a very nice collection, though I might have picked some others by the same writers as better examples. However, a very nice selection, and a few things in there that don't get reprinted that often....

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Nice haul there, Mr. G. On the Bowers -- a very nice collection, though I might have picked some others by the same writers as better examples. However, a very nice selection, and a few things in there that don't get reprinted that often....

I figured you would have something to say on the Bowers book. Frankly I hadn't read several of the stories he has there so I took a punt in the hope I had made a good pruchase. Sounds as if I did OK then?

By the end of May I hope to have pics of my library up here and an inventory of my collection. It would be great if you could check through it in case you think I'm missing some really obvious goodies from my haul or just as a general opinion on what I do have.

Cheers....

[Nesacat]

GOLLUM - yes it's a graphic novel and not the novel. Very well done. Several different artists.

The postman today brought:

The Anomalies by Joey Goebel (thanks Marky)
Myth-Understandings edited by Ian Whates
Celebrations edited by Ian Whates
Dislocations edited by Ian Whates
Unconquered Countries by Geoff Ryman
Shelf Life - Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores edited by Greg Ketter with a foreword by Neil Gaiman.

[Connavar]

The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
Eye of the Storm - Jack Higgins
Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels - Asimov Isaac


Bookmooch books.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

Unconquered Countries by Geoff Ryman.

That must be a new one, I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

Yesterday and today.....

News from Nowehere and Other Stories - William Morris *Penguin black calssic
In the Land Of Time and Other Stories - Dunsany *Penguin black calssic
Return To The Whorl - Gene Wolfe *Final part of the sun series.
Pilgrim Stories - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
News Of A Kidnapping - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *Non-fiction
Sweet Silver Blues PI Garret - Glen Cook
The facts in the Departure of Miss Finch - Neil Gaiman
Valley Of The Cobras - Herge
The Haunted House and Other Tales - Wilkie Collins
Rite (short stories and musings retrospective) - Tad Williams
The Name Of The Wind - Patrick Rothfuss *Based on member's enthusiasm of this book.

[Hilarious Joke]

I got a cute little book haul from Dymocks, two new authors for me:

The Gift - Alison Croggon
First King of Shannara - Terry Brooks

[ben1xy]

Just got back from a warehouse sale! Was an extremely fruitful time as all the books were going for USD 2.50

Novels which i bought:
Shogun
the new robin hobb trilogy (3 books)
4 books from greg keyes
2 paul kearney titles
3 trudi canavan titles
anansi boys
stardust
3 books from cecilia dart-thornton
war of the worlds
a spot of bother

and like 20 over non-fiction books which were going for USD 5 bucks

i would have bought more but i just couldn't carry anymore!

overall an extremely good day

[nomadman]

Was lucky enough to pick up a very fine copy of the 1990 Mandarin edition of Robert Aickman's Wine Dark Sea today. This is my first Aickman collection; I'd previously read his stories only in anthologies.

[HoopyFrood]

I just did my usual thing of popping into Waterstones and coming out with more than I expected (but this seems to be me in a nutshell, I also went into Whittards for some more tea and ended up coming out with three boxes of different teas ) But Waterstones seems to sell older horror books for low prices, which I can't resist:

In a Glass Darkly -- Sheridan Le Fanu
The Halloween Tree -- Ray Bradbury
Wonder Tales -- Lord Dunsany
Nightmare at 20,000 feet (and other stories) -- Richard Matheson

[j. d. worthington]

Nomadman; Hoops: very nice, those. I've not seen a copy of Wine-Dark Sea for ages! And Hoops: I think you'll find each of these very rewarding....

I just (and I mean just -- it was deposited on the doorstep as I was clicking onto this thread) received a copy of The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison; Gay's Fables, and Somerville's Chase, ed. by the Rev. George Gilfallen (1859). Very nifty book, and a very nice copy... all for a song....

[tyr]

Yesterday, I went to second hand bookstore, I bought 2 books:
1. Helliconia Spring by Brian Aldiss -- Yay! I got Summer and Winter years ago. At last I can start reading tis trilogy. Don't know when...
2. Triplanetary by E.E. Smith -- My first EE Smith book.