Book Hauls!

[dask]

I don't need to buy many new books anymore but these were on sale, and with my birthday discount was able to pick up about $35 worth of new trade paperbacks (University Of Nebraska Press)for $12.

[GOLLUM]

Hey Dask, that's a sweet haul. I have some of their publications e.g. Lord Of Samarcand.

Howard's boxing stories e.g. Steve Costigan and Wild West tales are the only ones I don't have single volume collections of to date.

I was planning on purchasing one of the Nebraska press edns. either End Of The Trail or Boxing Stories.

[dask]

The Samarcand book sounds like a winner. Not crazy about boxing but I'm sure Howard does a good job. Wouldn't avoid reading one if I came across it in a collection. I probably even have some in one or more of my Howard anthologies. Have to check that out.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by dask

The Samarcand book sounds like a winner. Not crazy about boxing but I'm sure Howard does a good job. Wouldn't avoid reading one if I came across it in a collection. I probably even have some in one or more of my Howard anthologies. Have to check that out.

Yes, well I recall his boxing stories aren't rated quite as highly as his other work but as I'm a Howard tragic I still want to complete the Canon this year.

I haven't really gotten into Samracand (Tales from the Orient) yet but of the little I've so far presued it's defnitely a winner.

[Connavar]

I got The Samarcand book last year, it was a great read. It was REH at his most grim,sombre. The kind of crusade stories,historical fiction i want to read.

End of trail and Waterfront is next for me.


I bought a couple of cheap new paperback hard boiled crime books.

The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli
Quarry in the Middle(Hard Case Crime #61) by Max Allan Collins

[dask]

PASSPORT TO PERIL by Robert B. Parker. Not Robert Brown Parker who just passed away and penned the Spenser mysteries, but "the original Robert B. Parker", B as in Bogardus (1905-1955). A Hard Case Crime "rediscovered pulp classic...first publication in over 50 years"...an "extraordinary novel of post-war intrigue." Looks hot.

[j. d. worthington]

On Howard's boxing stories... while I have not read that many of them, I did read a couple of collections including them, and one collection made up exclusively of such (The Iron Man). I am not a fan of sports stories of any type, generally speaking, but I found these to be quite entertaining, and they showed Howard's usual verve, gusto, and often sense of the tragic (and heroic) in life, as well. (Of course, he also wrote a number of humorous boxing stories, and those fall closer to his Breck Elkins/Buckner J. Grimes tales in nature and manner.) Howard's love of the ring comes through loud and clear, and he most certainly brings all that passion to bear in the life he imbues into these characters....

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Some of Doyle's boxing stories are oddly entertaining.

[Connavar]

I read Howard's boxning tale in a sampling page in amazon. Its as vivid,entertaining as his fantasy stories. I was staying clear of his boxning collections before that.


Anyone who have ordered Del Rey's new complete El Borak collection ?

I cant wait i have never read an El Borak story of his, my cover is from the Del Rey book

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Connavar

Anyone who have ordered Del Rey's new complete El Borak collection ?

I didn't even know it was being published. Thanks for the tip...

[GOLLUM]

Mini second-hand haul...

Snow - Orhan Pamuk *Hailed as both a brave and profound work for our times and one of Pamuk's masterpieces alongside My Name Is Read and Black Book.
Maigret At The Crossroads - Georges Simenon *A classic amongst Maigrets ..or so I've been reliably informed by my agent.
Little Mountain - Elais Khoury *Surreal-like work featuring war-torn modern Lebanon by one her most celebrated writers. *Part of the Harvill classics series.

To pick up....

The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati *Comparable to Kafka's The Castle.

[Lamont Cranston]

Boris Akunin:
Murder on the Leviathan
Turkish Gambit
missing Murder on the Leviathan
Special Assignments
The State Counsellor
The Coronation
New Worlds 9, edited by Hilary Baily
Leigh Brackett:
The Jewell of Bas
Alpha Centauri or Die!
The Big Jump (turns out I already have this one - anyone in Melbourne want it?)
The Ginger Star
Best Science Fiction of the Year: I part one, edited by Terry Carr
Flashing Swords 2, edited by Lin Carter
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, edited by Lester Del Rey
Philip Jose Farmer:
Lord of the Trees
After the King, edited by Martin H. Greenburg
Rooms of Paradise, edited by Lee Harding
Terry's Universe, edited by Beth Meacham
New Worlds 4, edited by Michael Moorcock
Mervyn Peake:
Gormenghast
The Inner Landscape - Mervyn Peake, J.G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss
Galaxy volume 2, edited by Frederik Pohl Martin H. Greenburg Joseph D. Olander
Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder

...and this is in spite of already having a large to-read pile, and no more room in my bookcase.

[Hypnos164]

Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

...and this is in spite of already having a large to-read pile, and no more room in my bookcase.

Never let such mine details stand in the way of accumulating more books

Trip to the post office to pick up accumulated parcels yeilded:

The Man With the Getaway Face - Richard Stark
The God Engines - John Scalazi
A Fortress in Shadow - Glen Cook
Shadowline - Glen Cook
An Empire Unacquainted With Defeat - Glen Cook

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Hypnos164

Never let such mine details stand in the way of accumulating more books

Trip to the post office to pick up accumulated parcels yeilded:

The Man With the Getaway Face - Richard Stark
The God Engines - John Scalazi
A Fortress in Shadow - Glen Cook
Shadowline - Glen Cook
An Empire Unacquainted With Defeat - Glen Cook

Very nice collection.

Shadowline (part of the Starfisher series) and the DarkWar trilogy are just about the only things I don't have by Glen Cook.

The other titles (Dread Empire) I received in beautifully presented HB edns. Do you have A Cruel Wind too? That completes the current Dread Empire canon EXCEPT for the final omnibus, which after much angst, may hopefully be released this year...we live in hope anyway.

[Hypnos164]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Very nice collection.

Shadowline (part of the Starfisher series) and the DarkWar trilogy are just about the only things I don't have by Glen Cook.

The other titles (Dread Empire) I received in beautifully presented HB edns. Do you have A Cruel Wind too? That completes the current Dread Empire canon EXCEPT for the final omnibus, which after much angst, may hopefully be released this year...we live in hope anyway.

I have the hard cover of A Cruel Wind and I agree that the NSB editions are very nice books.

Good to know the last dread empire books are coming.

The NSB web site lists Darkwar as comming in Omnibus in Fall 2010

Of this shipment I think i'm most looking forward to Shadowline - I really rate what SF i have read by Glen Cook (currently only The Dragon Never Sleeps and A Passage at Arms).