Book Hauls!

[elvet]

I made a pilgrimage to Toronto, just to check out the SF and Fantasy bookstore, Bakka. I wasn't disappointed, and returned with:
- All three First Law books (Joe Abercrombie)
- To Ride Hell's Chasm (Janny Wurts)
- The Secret Countess (Eva Ibbotson )
- The Well of Ascension (Brandon Sanderson)
- Curse of the Mistwraith (Janny Wurts)
- Swan's War trilogy (Sean Russel)
- The Alchemist's Apprentice and The Alchemist's Code (Dave Duncan)

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by pyan

Have you read this before, Gollum, or is it new to you? Interested to hear your opinion on it, either way.

I read it about 20 years ago and liked it at the time. I've not read it since and it's generaly considered as something of a classic, so it will be interesting to read it again after such a long time. Are you a fan?

[pyan]

Oh yes, Gollum.
I've The Saga of Pliocene Exile, Intervention and the Galactic Milieu series, plus the Rampart Worlds series.
I love her style, and the effortless way she creates 3-d characters.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by pyan

Oh yes, Gollum.
I've The Saga of Pliocene Exile, Intervention and the Galactic Milieu series, plus the Rampart Worlds series.
I love her style, and the effortless way she creates 3-d characters.

Well as I said that book and series is highly regarded, one of the reasons I decided to add this to my collection.

[GOLLUM]

Last night I picked up PB editions of....

Mr Baggins Part I - John Rateliff*
Return To Bag-End Part II - John Rateliff*

*These books publish for the first time the original manuscript by Tolkien of The Hobbit; dredged up after 50 years along with orginal sketches and what looks to be a very well researched series of books on Tolkien's classic story. I've been looknig forward to checking these out for a while now and I think JD and Teresa may have already got their hands on a copy, so better late than never.... So far it looks good and I'm already discovering several things I didnt know about the orginal script.

[ktabic]

And today I got
The Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross
Dawn Over Doomsday - Jasper Bark
Must stop buying books until I've managed to make a dent in the pile

[Connavar]

A mini hual cause the boss at work gave me a gift card with 250 kr for the books of my choice.

Here they are :

The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth
Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (ordered will get it next week)

[murphy]

In the mail today:

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
The Antipope by Robert Rankin

Both new authors for me. We shall see.

[Who's Wee Dug]

Originally Posted by murphy

In the mail today:

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
The Antipope by Robert Rankin

Both new authors for me. We shall see.

The Antipope 1st of the Brenford trilogy but! can also be read as a stand alone it is a loosely knit term.(Brentford Triangle , East of Ealing & Sprouts of Wrath) being the others and yes there is four but it's still a trilogy.

[Nikitta]

Tomorrow, our local library starts a sale on books they want to get rid of. The sale lasts for a week and the books are cheaper every day (but, obviously with gibber chances of the good ones being taken) - I want to go and see if they have anything good.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Last night I picked up PB editions of....

Mr Baggins Part I - John Rateliff*
Return To Bag-End Part II - John Rateliff* I've been looknig forward to checking these out for a while now and I think JD and Teresa may have already got their hands on a copy, so better late than never....

No, this is the first I've heard of them, although they sound like books I would very much like to have.

I can't even look and see if they're available over here because amazon.com is down at the moment.

[j. d. worthington]

Yes, Teresa, they're available; they only came out about a year ago (or less), and sold rather respectably, I believe, despite the (apparently) limited appeal.

And yes, Mr. G: I do have them -- pre-ordered when I first heard about them; but I've not had a chance to do more than browse through them so far. However, even from that, I've been able to tell their worth, and I don't think you'll be at all disappointed....

[K. Riehl]

Picked up The White Sybil by Clark Aston Smith, the 1935 Fantasy Publications edition.
Acquired a 1st edition copy of Two Sought Adventure by Fritz Leiber as well as a first edition DragonSinger by Anne McCaffrey on Ebay.

Trying a couple of authors, Mark L. Van Name- One Jump Ahead. Kay Kenyon's Bright of the Sky

[Who's Wee Dug]

Went Forbidden Planet yesterday en-route to The British Fantasy Society's Open night in town.


Bought cruel zinc Melodies: Glen Cook's Latest Garrett P I pb
Myth-Gotten Gains: Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye pb
The Outlaw Demon Wails :Kim Harrison hb.

Happiness is finding books you have been looking for.

[Nikitta]

Originally Posted by Nikitta

Tomorrow, our local library starts a sale on books they want to get rid of. The sale lasts for a week and the books are cheaper every day (but, obviously with gibber chances of the good ones being taken) - I want to go and see if they have anything good.

Back with 7 books: "The Neutronium Alchemist" by Peter F. Hamilton and 6 books by a couple of writers who write YA fantasy under the pen name "Saga Borg", due to curiosity. It turns out that all 6 are from a series of 12.

I felt a bit odd, having to inform the librarian that 7x20 is 140 - not 160, as it was 20 DKK pr. book (or 2,65 euros, if you will).

I expect to go back there some other day.

BTW: what do you call the kind of sale where the books get cheaper each day, in English? We call it a Dutch sale here.