Book Hauls!

[Nesacat]

One more parcel of books arrived and this is what it contained:

The Best of Robert Bloch
The Dragon Quintet edited by Marvin Kaye
The Green Man - Tales from the Mythic Forest edited by Ellen datlow & Terri Windling
The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers
The Mark of the Beast & Other Fantastic Tales by Rudyard Kipling
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien

[Switchback]

another productive trip to the used bookshop. my tbr pile is becoming ungodly....

Russell Kirkpatrick's trilogy - Fire of Heaven - no idea about this guy, but i had to have them for the maps.
Shadowmarch - Williams
Name of the Rose - Eco

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

One more parcel of books arrived and this is what it contained:The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers
The Mark of the Beast & Other Fantastic Tales by Rudyard Kipling
Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien

What's Roverandom about???

I've got the other 2 there, both Masterwork Editions and very good.

[Hilarious Joke]

I am also curious.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Switchback

another productive trip to the used bookshop. my tbr pile is becoming ungodly....

Russell Kirkpatrick's trilogy - Fire of Heaven - no idea about this guy, but i had to have them for the maps.

He's a New Zealander and professional map maker. It was his first series and not too bad. A bit too Tolkien for my liking but a reasonable first effort and he cetainly knows how to make good use of his maps in the story.

The other 2 I can happily give the tumbs up to.

[Switchback]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

He's a New Zealander and professional map maker. It was his first series and not too bad. A bit too Tolkien for my liking but a reasonable first effort and he cetainly knows how to make good use of his maps in the story.

The other 2 I can happily give the tumbs up to.

yeah, they have an interview in the back of the book and i saw he professionally makes maps. makes sense. i've never seen maps like those in a fantasy book before. i love a good map, so i had to grab them up. good to hear the story is passable too. thanks for the info!

[GOLLUM]

I had a good weekend, especially Sunday. I went to a second hand bookshop but the lady said they openned 1 hour after I got there so to kill time I wandered down the street and found Graphc Novel heaven! This place has more graphc novels than Minotaurs (over 1,000) and maybe an equal no. of comics, you listening Nesa?... I aslo picked up a cool TV series I'll list shortly.....

My haul was:

Harlequin Valentine - Neil Gaiman
House On The Borderland - Graphic Novel
"The Crow" - Stariway to Heaven - DVD Compete 22 TV Episodes Cool....!
Horror In The Museum - HP Lovecraft and Others *24 stories co-authored or revised by the Old Gent.
Strange Pilgrims (story collection) - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
News Of A Kidnapping - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *Non-fiction

Second hand...

King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard
Burn Witch Burn - A Merritt *Completes my collection on this author
Lost Worlds ad Other Stories - Conan Doyle
Mammoth Book Of Classic Fantasy
Blood - Michael Moorcock

[Hilarious Joke]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

House On The Borderland - Graphic Novel

You'll have to tell me how good this is in graphic novel form.

[j. d. worthington]

I must admit that I have trouble picturing HoB in graphic novel form having anywhere near the power of the prose version, for the simple reason that so much of the prose version was adumbration rather than outright description or statement. Still, I'd be curious to see the thing...

I'll also be curious to hear what you think of some of the tales in Horror in the Museum -- though I'll warn you that some may require a rereading in order to appreciate. "The Mound", for instance, may not strike you at first, though a rereading may bring out for you the truly amazing power of this odd little novella.

As for Blood -- watch out for that second section's change-of-style... it's a dilly! If you're like me, you're likely to think Moorcock flipped his lid when writing that... but it all makes sense, by-and-by...

[GOLLUM]

I'll let you know how they all handle JD. I too was a little suspicious of HOB in this format but it's one of the reasons I wanted to give it a try. I seem to recall Nesa had a copy of this....

I'll bear your comments in mind when reading the items in that collection.

I meant to ask you why did HPL use the pseudonymn he did for the 2 co-authored works that appear? Perhaps you should post a reply in the horror section.

Looking forward to meeting Neil Gaiman this evenining, over and out....

[Nesacat]

GOLLUM - Just finished reading Strange Pilgrims and they certainly don't come any stranger. Have been looking for House on the Borderland as a graphic novel for some time but have yet to find it. Ah well, the quest continues. Am listening. Definitely listening.

Like JD I'm also curious about your take on the tales in Horror in the Museum. JD is right though about The Mound. I needed to re-read it.

Roverandom - Here is what Amazon has to say:

Begun in 1925, this fantasy was roughly finished later, but set aside in favour of sequels to The Hobbit.

Here, at last, two Tolkien scholars present it, with five illustrations by the author sandwiched between a long, minutely detailed introduction and padded but sometimes illuminating endnotes.

Changed from a live dog into a toy after incautiously biting a wizard, Rover is dropped on the beach by his young owner, where he meets a second wizard who sends him on a gull's back to the Man-in-the-Moon.

Sporting wings and a new name, "Roverandom" irritates the Great White Dragon that causes lunar eclipses and visits a valley where sleeping children gather for pleasant dreams, among other places, then returns to Earth to beg the first wizard, a bumbling sort who has since married a mermaid and moved under the ocean, to make him a real dog again.

Despite a wandering plot and minor inconsistencies, the old Tolkien magic is here in full force: in evocative names, glimpses of supernal events, and wonderfully exotic locales seen through the eyes of a comfortably familiar character.

Enthusiasts will pore over the notes, but the story stands well enough on its own as an incidental piece from one of our century's great literary imaginations.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

I'll let you know how they all handle JD. I too was a little suspicious of HOB in this format but it's one of the reasons I wanted to give it a try. I seem to recall Nesa had a copy of this....

I'll bear your comments in mind when reading the items in that collection.

I meant to ask you why did HPL use the pseudonymn he did for the 2 co-authored works that appear? Perhaps you should post a reply in the horror section.

Looking forward to meeting Neil Gaiman this evenining, over and out....

I'll answer your question on the pseudonym in the HPL section this evening, when I have a bit more time. Incidentally, the Elizabeth Neville Berkeley name is also a pseudonym, for amateur poet Winifred Virginia Jackson. That, too, I'll go into a bit later on....

[pyan]

Originally Posted by tyr

2. Triplanetary by E.E. Smith -- My first EE Smith book.

Welcome to the wonderful world of visiplates, inertialess drives, ultrawaves, and a "turbulent flood of writhing, polychromatic light".

Just finished my umteenth reading of Grey Lensman, moving on to Second Stage Lensman....

[tyr]

Originally Posted by pyan

Just finished my umteenth reading of Grey Lensman, moving on to Second Stage Lensman....

Genuine, honest recommendation!
Thanks a lot, pyan.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

I'll answer your question on the pseudonym in the HPL section this evening, when I have a bit more time. Incidentally, the Elizabeth Neville Berkeley name is also a pseudonym, for amateur poet Winifred Virginia Jackson. That, too, I'll go into a bit later on....

Thanks, I knew they were both pseudonymns but I'll be interested to read your insights.

@Nesa: That Tolkien book sounds great, gotta get a copy now! HOB I'll try to read over the weekend so I can provide some feedback.

Cheers...