Book Hauls!

[Allegra]

Making Money - Terry Pratchett
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - my 1st Robert Heinlein
The Unlikely Spy - Daniel Silva
The Messenger - Daniel Silva
The Confessor - Daniel Silva

Caught the spy bug lately and discovered Daniel Silva - a very gifted writer. I appreciate his well researched facts which are the basis of his spy thrillers. I also like his characters and the very lean writing.

[j. d. worthington]

Received two more in the mail today:

Allan's Wife, by H. Rider Haggard
The Oldest God, by Stephen McKenna

Both quite nice copies of older editions... I just love old hardbacks (and old paperbacks, for that matter....)

[Connavar]

Library books :

Jurgen by James Branch Cabell
The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels with authors like Ian Fleming,Conan Doyle,John D Macdonald
Best Sf Stories Of Brian W. Aldiss by Brian W. Aldiss
The Masters of The Macabre with authors like Washington Irving,Henry James,Mark Bram Stoker,Robert Louis Stevenson

[HoopyFrood]

My inability to stop buying books strikes again. I was just reading through the introduction to the Ambrose Bierce collection that I have and it had examples from his Devil's Dictionary (or Cynic's Work Book) and after laughing out loud to "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage" decided I had to buy it. Thus, just purchased; The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

My inability to stop buying books strikes again. I was just reading through the introduction to the Ambrose Bierce collection that I have and it had examples from his Devil's Dictionary (or Cynic's Work Book) and after laughing out loud to "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage" decided I had to buy it. Thus, just purchased; The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.

Oh, that one is full of delightfully barbed definitions, as well as additional comments, such as the following anent "Patriotism" (which, considering recent history, I would say has more than a little truth to it):

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

[j. d. worthington]

Received in the mail:

Jess, by H. Rider Haggard
Frontier Cthulhu and High Seas Cthulhu, ed. by William Jones
The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson, by William Jones
The Spiraling Worm, by David Conyers and John Sunseri

[Switchback]

got in the mail this evening:

Mayflower - Philbrick
The Killer Angels - Shaara
John Adams - McCullough
Charlemagne - Wilson
A Most Holy War - Pegg

[D_Davis]

Kingdom Come
The Drowned World (a new version, not falling apart)
The Crystal World
High Rise - JG Ballard
Dr. No
You Only Live Twice - Fleming
Singularity's Ring - Paul Melko

I am so grateful that JG Ballard exists as an author.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by D_Davis

I am so grateful that JG Ballard exists as an author.

I share the sentiment....

[D_Davis]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

I share the sentiment....

I just finished Running Wild - Awesome - and started War Fever right after.

This guy is a flippin' genius.

I just want to devour everything he has to offer.

[j. d. worthington]

I know the feeling. I'm curious what you'll think of "Index" when you get to it....

[Talysia]

Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett.

[D_Davis]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

I know the feeling. I'm curious what you'll think of "Index" when you get to it....

I've already looked over it, because at first I thought it was an index for War Fever. I haven't spent a great deal of time parsing through it, but from what I can tell it is a brilliant and creative way to tell a story of a man's life. It's like the most concise biography ever written, and it is also a little sad to have a life reduced down to a list of people, places, and things.

I guess a Ballard thread would be a good idea....

[Rothgar]

Recently picked up from a used book store:

Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
The Hammer of God - Arthur C. Clarke

[Nesacat]

From BookExcess this morning:

The Matchmaker of Perigord by Julia Stuart
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (replacement)
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis