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23rd December 2009, 03:36 AM
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| dark and stormy knight  | Re: Book Hauls! Boss closed shop early for Christmas today so went to Goodwill after stopping for a short read at Starbucks. Found THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF DRACULA edited by (I think) Stephen Jones. Left it in the car so am not sure that or whether they're stories about Dracula or just vampires. Didn't have to think too hard about it though; Mammoth Books are almost always worth snagging. |
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26th December 2009, 06:19 AM
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| Beam Me Up Scotty  Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Australia, New South Wales
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| Re: Book Hauls! I got a pile of books for Christmas. I Am Alive And You Are Dead: A Journey Into the Mind of Philip K Dick Paycheck and Other Stories by PKD The Minority Report and Other Stories by PKD Plus an autobiography by a really great Aussie film reviewer named David Stratton. A couple of true crime books, and the script of Pulp Fiction. |
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26th December 2009, 10:46 AM
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| Beam Me Up Scotty Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Australia, New South Wales
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| Re: Book Hauls! I got a gift voucher for a local online bookshop, so bought myself some zombie books  Day By Day Armageddon by J L Bourne World War Z by Max Brooks The Rising by Brian Keene |
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26th December 2009, 12:47 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sweden
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| Re: Book Hauls! Quote:
Wow PKD really got you hooked  Short stories wise there are new ones that are more complete. Look for them instead of paying for 3,4 old ones. | |
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27th December 2009, 05:30 AM
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| dark and stormy knight | Re: Book Hauls!    Got a little extra money for Christmas so I trotted down to a local antique store where I knew they had old sf mags but really couldn't afford them. The large ones like Startling and Planet Stories are ten bucks a piece and digest size like Amazing are five. Found three I couldn't walk away from. Planet Stories had a Jack Vance story I'd never heard of, "Temple Of Han". Cool cover, no artist listed I could find. Was surprised Jerome Bixby was the editor. Startling Stories, in addition to a genuine (and gorgeous) Earle Bergey cover, had another Vance story I wasn't familiar with: "Men Of The Ten Books". The Amazing is self-evident: the 30th anniversary issue, double-sized with fourteen stories from between 1927-1942, including an Edmond Hamilton Captain Future I'm pretty sure I don't have. Edward Valigursky does the cover. For the record, the above are Planet Stories, July 1951; Startling Stories, March 1951; Amazing Stories, April 1956. |
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27th December 2009, 12:03 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Devon
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| Re: Book Hauls! Christmas turned out a few good books: "The Blessing of Pan" by Lord Dunsany "We can Remember it for you Wholesale" (Collected short stories volume 5) by Philip K DIck "The Last Dragon" by J. M. McDermott |
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28th December 2009, 04:28 AM
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| dark and stormy knight | Re: Book Hauls! THE FINAL ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES "Completing The Canon By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" Collected and Introduced by Peter Haining. Evidently the fifty-six stories and four novels comprising the known canon of Sherlock Holmes adventures are not the end of the story. Other items, (stories, plays, poems, hidden from view in Beatle-vault fashion for one reason or other) have been "unearthed from obscurity" and presented here together for the first time. Didn't have my complete volume of Sherlock Holmes Stories with me to verify whether this was indeed true or merely the blatherings of a blabber-mouthed blurb writer, but for $2.99 at Value Village it seemed worth the chance. If nothing else I get an eighteen and a half page introduction by master editer Peter Haining. Either way I'm confident I got my money's worth. |
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28th December 2009, 04:54 AM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Australia, Victoria
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| Re: Book Hauls! Hey that's a nice get Dask...and agreed on Haining, I've got a few of his anthologies, a most excellent editor. I have the "known" canon ... so it would be interesting to know from you if it is indeed "extra" material. |
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28th December 2009, 09:12 AM
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| Beam Me Up Scotty Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Australia, New South Wales
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| Re: Book Hauls! Quote:
I really like these volumes. I have 4 now, each is around 400+ pages. I think the US versions are different though? I also got some money off a relative, so bought a Blu-Ray player and some more books. Still in the Zombie mood, so I grabbed. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies The Walking Dead Vol 1: Days Gone Bye (trade PB) City of the Dead by Brian Keene Asterios Polyp for the wife (she loves graphic novels) | |
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