Book Hauls!

[knivesout]

The Jesus Incident (co-written with Bill Ransome) is an excellent book, and the opening round in a trilogy that, I think, easily matches up to Dune. It can be read on its own too, of course.

Angrybuddhist, nice to see someone whose taste within sf/f seems close to my own. I found the Lieber book a bit minor, but very exciting and also charming in a whimsical way. A Voyage to Arcturus strikes me as a book that you simply have to read more than once, if you liked it at all the first time around.

[Foxbat]

I've gone with some recommendations here and splashed out on Perdido Street Station and Iron Council.

I'll let you know my opinion on them (when I finally get around to actually teading them)

[Leto]

Originally Posted by knivesout

The Jesus Incident (co-written with Bill Ransome) is an excellent book, and the opening round in a trilogy that, I think, easily matches up to Dune. It can be read on its own too, of course.

Yes, it's one of his best. Althought I'm quite partial to Dosadi outside of the Dune saga.

[angrybuddhist]

Originally Posted by knivesout

Angrybuddhist, nice to see someone whose taste within sf/f seems close to my own. I found the Lieber book a bit minor, but very exciting and also charming in a whimsical way. A Voyage to Arcturus strikes me as a book that you simply have to read more than once, if you liked it at all the first time around.

It's been over 10 years since I last read A Voyage to Arcturus, I will have to revisit it soon. Btw, C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter to Charles Brady:

The real father of my planet books is David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus, which you will also revel in if you don't know it. I had grown up on Wells's stories of that kind; it was Lindsay who first gave me the idea that the "scientifiction" appeal could be combined with the "supernatural" appeal.

So, I would highly recommend this book to any fan of C.S. Lewis, or any fan of fantasy, for that matter. It is a classic.

[Princess Ivy]

i've discovered a cheaper way to buy. and have a few outstanding on e-bay. cross fingers for me.

[erickad71]

Fingers are crossed...but are you going to share this new discovery?

[knivesout]

Well, I've finally picked up Gene Wolfe's The Book Of The New Sun series, in the 2-volume monibus version (Shadow & Claw and Sword & Citadel).


Also bought Hellblazer: Original Sins, which contains Jamie DeLano's original stint as writer for the series.

Eyeing several other books such as the whole of Dan Simmons' Endymion series and various 2nd hand buys as well, but must pay my bills first. Yes indeed.

[knivesout]

Bills payed, so here's my haul from the 2nd-hand shops:

John Shirley: Demons
Jack Vance: To Live Forever
Fritz Leiber: The Swords of Lankhmar
John Crowley: Beasts
John Varley: Steel Beach
Michael Moorcock: THe city in the autumn stars
Philip Jose Farmer: To Your Scattered Bodies Go

[knivesout]

Some books I'd ordered online a while back just arrived:


The Etched City: KJ Bishop
City of Saints and Madmen: Jeff VanderMeer
Secret Life: Jeff VanderMeer
Newton's Wake: Ken MacLeod

[Mark Robson]

Have just received my copy of The Hidden Stars by Madeline Howard (aka Kelpie). Very much looking forward to reading this as soon as I've finished Troll Fell, which is a fun read so far - about half way through. I'll review both books once I've finished them.

[rune]

I ordered a few books back in October with the fantasy and sci fi book club and they didnt come, and I thought they had gone missing and I was waiting for a credit.


Then suddenly they turned up today , several weeks after they were shown as dispatched mind, but hey, they're here

I got -

Iron Council - China Mieville
The Golems Eye - Jonathan Stroud
Blood Price & Blood Trail - Tanya Huff
Bitten, Stolen, Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic - Kelley Armstrong
Prisoner of Ironsea Tower - Sarah Ash

And two weeks ago there was a sale at WHS and I got-

Mister Monday & Grim Tuesday - Garth Nix
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

Not forgetting two books I got from the 2nd hand store last week -

The Fey Sacrifice - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Stone and Sky - Graham Edwards

Got loads to read now, I'm in seventh heaven

[Leto]

Received by PR, the first book of Prince of Nothing : the Darkness that comes before by Scott Bakker. Hope it will be better than the last fantasy book this publisher sent me.

[jenna]

i've bought a bit of a mixed bag lately!

Feel - the Robbie Williams biography
the SAS survival handbook
Napoleon on the Art of War by Jay Luvaas
The DaVinci Code
The Book of Irish Legends by Iain Zaczek
a new copy of the Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley, because my old one is falling apart, must stop lending books to people who have no respect for them!
a new dictionary (old one also falling apart!)
and a book that was my favourite when i was young called I Am David. lol, i looked around for it on the net for ages and couldn't find one. then i found it in a BOOK STORE of all places, go figure!

[Leto]

Paintful afternoon for my credit card :
A bunch of comics (Marvel, DC, and Image) and in original version :
Singularity sky by Charles Stross
Gridlinked by Neal Asher
Equal rites and Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.
plan to read them the week after Chrismas.

[knivesout]

The year's first book haul (all 2nd hand):


Christopher Priest - The Seperation
Jonathan Carroll - The Wooden Sea, The Land of Laughs
John Crowley - The Deep
Hope Mirlees - Lud-in-the-mist
Vladmir Nabokov - Lolita
Richard Dawkins - A Devil's Chaplain
Jane Yolen - Sister Light, Sister Dark
Frights - A horror anthology, ed. Kirby McCauley