Book Hauls!

[chopper]

a cursory trawl thru a book clearance shop in crystal peaks found me Nights of Villjamur (hardback) by Mark Charan Newton - signed copy too!

[thesoothsayer]

Just got these, not all are SFF:

Flowers for Algernon
Children of God - I liked the Sparrow, hope this is as good.
The Wasp Factory
Hyperion
The Ancestor's Tale
Flowers in the Attic - Thought I saw this one was rated highly somewhere and put it into my wishlist. Read a bit and I'm not sure if it's a good choice, though.
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night time - Was discounted and I think it's a book I can pass around for my younger cousins to read.

Think I have to stop buying books soon or start selling some of them. I'm running out of space to store them, and even worse, heard my lab will be moving to a smaller place, so I have to bring some stuff back to my room.

[Rosemary]

Not so much of a haul but a bargain....

Badger's Moon - A Mystery of Ancient Ireland by Peter Tremayne.

History, mystery and religion in AD 667 sounds like my kind of book!

[Hypnos164]

Originally Posted by thesoothsayer

Just got these, not all are SFF:

Flowers for Algernon
Children of God - I liked the Sparrow, hope this is as good.
The Wasp Factory
Hyperion
The Ancestor's Tale
Flowers in the Attic - Thought I saw this one was rated highly somewhere and put it into my wishlist. Read a bit and I'm not sure if it's a good choice, though.
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night time - Was discounted and I think it's a book I can pass around for my younger cousins to read.

Think I have to stop buying books soon or start selling some of them. I'm running out of space to store them, and even worse, heard my lab will be moving to a smaller place, so I have to bring some stuff back to my room.

Nice haul - Flowers for Algernon and Hyperion are amongst my favourite books of all time.

I quite liked the Wasp Factory - although there are certainly moments of "hold on ... isn't this Catcher in the Rye with the serial numbers filled off?"

I also really liked The Sparrow, its one of those books that really stays with you, but oddly I now realise I never read anything else by Mary Doria Russell after that.

[dask]

Originally Posted by dask

I'm fairly certain (though I'd need to go back and double check) there were two Hainings with Irish in the title, one with horror stories and the other with terror. I've seen the "horror" around but the "terror" was new --- and less expensive. If I'm correct in all this and I work a full week I'll return next Friday and get both.

Had some free time today so I did go back and double check. The book is called IRISH TALES OF TERROR, a hardback from 1970 (Wing Books), edited by Peter Haining with an introduction by Ray Bradbury. It was originally published as THE WILD NIGHT COMPANY: IRISH TALES OF TERROR, and is not less expensive as I stated above, but rather costs about twice as much as GREAT IRISH TALES OF HORROR (in used book prices). I can get a nice mid-sized paperback (bigger than mass-market but smaller then trade, at least that's how it appears) for $5.50 while the hardback goes for $10.50. I'll make some final decisions come Friday.

[thesoothsayer]

Originally Posted by Hypnos164

Nice haul - Flowers for Algernon and Hyperion are amongst my favourite books of all time.

I quite liked the Wasp Factory - although there are certainly moments of "hold on ... isn't this Catcher in the Rye with the serial numbers filled off?"

I also really liked The Sparrow, its one of those books that really stays with you, but oddly I now realise I never read anything else by Mary Doria Russell after that.

I didn't really get all the hype about Catcher in the Rye. Hopefully I'll appreciate the Wasp Factory more.

I think the reviews for Children of God haven't been as good as the Sparrow, and the rest of her books aren't SFF. Not surprising if she hasn't crossed the path of a SFF reader again.

[j. d. worthington]

Picked up a copy of Adventure, Vol. 1, ed. by Chris Roberson. Though I had heard mention of this one, I don't recall seeing it before, or I would have picked it up (it came out in 2005), as it contains a tale by Moorcock that I don't have: "Dogfight Donovan's Day Off", described as:

a yarn of aviation and adventure in the more innocent days before the London Blitz, [which] draws its inspiration from the comics Moorcock wrote nearly half a century ago, most notably "Dogfight Dixon, RFC" in Fleetway's Thriller Picture Library

[CyBeR]

Just ordered, second hand, a group of books that I expect to receive this Friday. It started from a single book, but the guy asked for a minimum purchase from him so he'd deliver. So I chose some more.

First and foremost, Joe Haldeman with 'Eternal peace'. I want to see, after so many years since I got 'Eternal War', what the sequel is actually about. I've searched for it high and low and now that I've found it, I'm all giddy about it.
Safe to say, this is the reason I got most of the others.

Also, chose the next:
Marc Davenport - 'Visitors from time: The secret of the UFOs'
Alexandru Pele - 'Death of the fantastic' - a series of 1970s essays by a Romanian author. I don't think it ever got out of the country.
Serge Brusollo - I have no idea what the book's called in English, literary translation from Romanian would be "The wall eaters" but I highly doubt it, especially since the author is French.
Albert Camus - 'The stranger / The plague / The fall / Exile and the kingdom'
George R.R. Martin - again, can't find the English title for it. Literarly, 'Night Flyers', but I doubt it.

Heh, another haul without rhyme or reason for me hehe. I think I'm stocking up for books these days.
I'm also planning on heading out soon to get:
'Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets' and 'Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkabam', both by J.K. Rowling...I want to finish reading the series, one day.
'The Gargoyle' by Andrew Davidson. A friend recommended it highly to me and I feel like the main character may be one that my girlfriend would enjoy.
'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho. This is an old recommandation from years past, reinforced by my girlfriend. What the heck, I'll try anything once.

Ah, spring spending for summer joyous reading.

[dask]

A CENTURY OF GREAT WESTERN STORIES edited by John Jakes. If I was grading this $28 hardback like a comic I'd say it was a good solid near mint. $3 at Goodwill.

OFFSPRING by Jack Ketchum. Sixty-nine cent paperback. Not too badly beat up; still has that nice glossy new book cover.

[pyan]

Originally Posted by CyBeR

George R.R. Martin - again, can't find the English title for it. Literarly, 'Night Flyers', but I doubt it.

No, that's correct, CyBeR - it was a novella, iirc, only ever published in paperback, and not in any other collections as far as I know.

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Originally Posted by CyBeR

Alexandru Pele - 'Death of the fantastic' - a series of 1970s essays by a Romanian author. I don't think it ever got out of the country.

What's this about?

[CyBeR]

Originally Posted by knivesout

What's this about?

I haven't the foggiest actually. It's hard to find info on it and I ordered it mostly on bits of what I could find. Once I get it, I'll post about it...but I don't really think it was actually translated out of Romanian.
If what I believe is right, it's about the death of legends as they became understood, with examples out of Romanian lore...but that's just my supposition from what I've found.

Thank you Pyan...really couldn't find the name for it when I searched. It'll be my first George R.R. Martin read so I'm looking forward to it.

[Hilarious Joke]

Happy one hundredth post Cyber!!

Do you realise that you are one tenth of the way to the prestigious 1000-post club?!?

[CyBeR]

Here's 899 more to go then hehe. And beyond that!

I'm currently trying to get a fix on a few of my mom's childhood reads that she wants to rediscover. Got one of the 'Jeeves' books and I'm currently in 'treaties' for 'Svejk'.
Never thought I'd see the day I'm hunting down stuff for my mom. Oh, how the years have passed.

[Lady of Winterfell]

Got these for $1.25 at a half off used/library book sale:

The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon