Book Hauls!

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

OK, today I picked up....

Songs of the Dying Earth *Stories in honour of Jack Vance's legacy from a pretty top class field.
The Stories Of Francis Wyndham *A bargain purchased for a few dollars as a remainder item.
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald *Winner of the prestigious National Book Critics Award. Think dreamscapes of the holocaust imbued with the spirit of Bergman, Kafka, Proust and Levi from a GREAT writer.
The Book Of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa *From Portugal's most revered but reclusive of poets, the only prose novel developed from the contents of a trunk found following his death that contained over 25,000 items including letters, journals etc. This is recognized as a modern masterpiece, so I'll enjoy investigating.

Very nice haul. Austerlitz and The Book Of Disquiet were two of my best discoveries in 2008 - superb books, both of them. The other two are pretty damned good too!

[nj1]

Picked three books today cos Borders was closing down and there was twenty percent off!

Bloodheir - Brian Ruckley, book 2 of a new epic fantasy series, was inpressed with the first book (nice world building BR) and have been meaning to pick it up for a while (resisted buying book 3 'Fall of Thanes', will wait till new year for that one.)

Cursor's Fury - Jim Butcher, this is the next in the Alera series of which I'm currently reading book to, Academ's Fury.

Four Days In June - Iain Gale, REALLY looking forward to this one, historical millitary fiction, highly recommended to me.

[dask]

Originally Posted by murphy

Here's what I found on Penguin.com:

Dacre Stoker - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)

Interesting. Surprised he's living in the US, though I shouldn't be I guess. Thanks.

We took a bus for a day trip to Seattle today and found STAR WOLF by Ted White in Pike's Place Market. Published in 1971, it's "the long-awaited sequel to PHOENIX PRIME and THE SORCERESS OF QAR. I have those but was not aware of STAR WOLF and so feel good I could complete a trilogy I didn't know existed. Cost $2 which is cheap for downtown Seattle. Good shape with not-so-hot cover by Charles Moll who has done better.

[con]

the way of shadows brent weeks real trashy but kinda good

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by knivesout

Very nice haul. Austerlitz and The Book Of Disquiet were two of my best discoveries in 2008 - superb books, both of them. The other two are pretty damned good too!

Why thank you. Looks like my literary antennae are still functional then....

I'll post my thoughts once I get to these.

I'm also picking up something over the Christmas break by Javier Marias, whom Bolano and several other noteworthies have described as the greatest of Spain's modern writers. Can you please tell me what book(s) of his you read? I seem to recall you mentioning this author in earlier dispatches.

[nomadman]

Jumbee and Other Wonders of the West Indies by Henry S. Whitehead
Ancestral Shadows by Russell Kirk
Wormwood (aka Swamp Foetus) by Poppy Z. Brite
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by nomadman

Jumbee and Other Wonders of the West Indies by Henry S. Whitehead
Ancestral Shadows by Russell Kirk
Wormwood (aka Swamp Foetus) by Poppy Z. Brite
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Very sweet haul Nomadman, especially the Rulfo, a giant alongside Borges and of course the Whitehead is great too.

Everyone but me is picking up on this Kirk fellow....I don't wanna be left behind ARGH!... I'll have to order something when the Chritsmas cash/vouchers come in.

[Fried Egg]

I just blew my promise to myself not to buy anymore books until next year.

"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
"Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card
"Death of Grass" by John Christopher
"Time out of Joint" by P. K. Dick

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

These things happen.

Some recent purchases:

The Beast With Five Fingers: W.F. Harvey
All Saint's Eve: Amelia Edwards
The Charlie Chan Omnibus: Earl Derr Biggers
Voices From The Street: Philip K. Dick
The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton

[Rothgar]

Well I had been doing good staying away from the used book store.

Double Star - Heinlein
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Shaman's Crossing - Robin Hobb
Nightwatch - Sergei Lukyanenko
Daywatch - Sergei Lukyanenko

[blacknorth]

Two issues of Supernatural Stories - issues 71 and 99, both lead off with stories by RL Fanthorpe.

[Triceratops]

Meg by Steve Alten. Why do I keep thinking this book is so derrivative of Jaws, with only a bigger shark? Because it is? And this has turned into a small series. Good action adventure and research, but no real surprises here.

Chris

[Kalyissa]

Picked up Witchling - Yasmine Galenorn the other day, it's an interesting read, i'm enjoying it its about 3 sisters who are half faerie, 1 is a witch, another is a werecat and the last is a vampire.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by knivesout

These things happen.

Some recent purchases:

The Beast With Five Fingers: W.F. Harvey
All Saint's Eve: Amelia Edwards
The Charlie Chan Omnibus: Earl Derr Biggers
Voices From The Street: Philip K. Dick
The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton

I have all of those Wordsworth edns. but not the PKD. Needless to say I haven't had time to read them yet, so it will be interesting to see your views on these.

Don't forget my earlier query on Javier Marias though..

[murphy]

Set to arrive at my house next week:

Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero by Dan Abnett
The Cardinal's Blades by Pierre Pevel
The Better Part of Darkness by Kelly Gay
The Other Lands by David Anthony Durham
Burn Me Deadly by Alex Bledsoe
The Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon