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3rd February 2010, 10:30 PM
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| 2013, time to write  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Canada
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| Re: Book Hauls! I have a nice big TBR pile going on Curse of the Mistwraith _ Janny Wurts It, The Stand, Needfull things all from Stephen King Bloodheir - Brian Ruckly Deadhouse Gates - Erikson Lair of Bones - David Farland And I am rereading many old ones right now! when will I find time for them all? |
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3rd February 2010, 11:42 PM
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| resident pedantissimo  | Re: Book Hauls! That's easy; you've only got to give up visiting the Chrons to have lots of free time to read. Of course, there is the slight problem of turning pages with your toes, as that nice long-sleeved jacket won't let your hands forward enough to do it. And the injections they keep giving you makes it hard to concentrate on the words, which are apparently trying to squirm off the page… |
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4th February 2010, 02:19 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! Went back to the local op-shop and found yet more. I don't mind kids/young adult fiction as you can tell  The Scarecrows by Robert Westall Super Nova and the Rogue Satellite by Angus MacVicar Plague Ship by Andre Norton Cosmic Kaleidoscope by Bob Shaw Tony Hall, Space Detective by Hugh Walters (First ed, HC) The Slaves of Heaven by Edmund Cooper (First ed, HC) Bill the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Robot Slaves by Harry Harrison (First ed, HC) Orbit 7 Edited by Damon Knight (First ed, HC) |
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4th February 2010, 04:32 PM
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| Foxy Lady  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Arizona
Posts: 1,956
| Re: Book Hauls! Quote:
Before I joined Chrons, I had a hard time finding new books to read. But since joining, my TBR is very long, and I feel like I have too many books I want to read, and I will never get around to reading them. That's a good thing though. | |
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5th February 2010, 11:47 AM
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| Save punctuation!  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cambridgeshire
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| Re: Book Hauls! I've been very good and haven't brought any books in ages in order to reduce my TBR pile. Well, except for signed copies of Neal Asher's Cowl and Shadow of the Scorpion a couple of weeks ago. |
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5th February 2010, 06:03 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 471
| Re: Book Hauls! More book parcels... Flood by Stephen Baxter (want to give him another try ... Ark sounded more my thing but I dislike reading series out of order) The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon - highly regarded fantasy ... hope its closer to Speed of the Dark than Vatta in quality Poul Anderson - Tau Zero - can't remember why this was on my to-buy list but it sounds interesting enough Fevre Dream by George R R Martin - this has been recommended multiple times here The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko - another book with a good following here The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli - sounded interesting when Con and Gollum? we discussing it in the January reading thread. |
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6th February 2010, 12:14 PM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Australia, Victoria
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| Re: Book Hauls! Got Tales Of Hoffman it's a good'un..... OK my haul includes.... Palace Of Dreams - Ismail Kandare *possibly this Albanian writer/poet's best know work. The Bridge of the Drina - Ivo Dranic *The novel that generated the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature for this Yugoslav author, features numerous events that take place in people's lives on a bridge built over 300 years earlier in the Balkans by the Ottoman Empire. An historical fiction with a difference. Street of Crocodiles and other stories - Bruno Schultz *Masterly compilation of surreal-like stories, personally recommended to me by China Mieville. A Maggot - John Fowles *Recommended to me by my agent as Fowles' best imaginative novel. WitchWood - John Buchan * A classic from the author of the Richard Hannay thrillers incl. Thirty-Nine Steps and the author's favourite amongst all his novels. The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese *NYRB edn. From an Italian literary Maestro who was Calvinos' close personal friend and mentor and whom Calvino obviously admired greatly. |
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6th February 2010, 12:49 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sweden
Posts: 7,996
| Re: Book Hauls! The Warlord of Air The Land Leviathan The Steel Tsar All by Michael Moorcock and in a Omnibus called A Nomad of Time. Hope i like it like i enjoyed Corum books because Elric stories was a bit overrated.... Second hand haul. |
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