Book Hauls!

[Mouse]

Well I finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray today so figured that was a good enough excuse to buy more books. Just bought about ten mins ago: Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter by AE Moorat and Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by Chris Priestley.

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Gosh, another lavish weekend haul:

The Book Of Robert E. Howard
The Prehistory Of Mind: Steven Mithen (This and the next volume are non-fiction books, bought for our own reference and to help with my wife's job - she teaches psychology and something called Theory of Knowledge)
Please Explain: Dr. Karl Kruszelniki
Wilderness Tips: Margaret Atwood
Time Patrol: Poul Anderson
The Last Defender Of Camelot: Roger Zelazny (I've enjoyed Zelazny's novels, but somehow never sampled his short stories, which is weird because I generally see myself as a more of a connoisseur of the SF short story than a novel-reader; a recent exchange with another SF short-story connotative and sparked off the impetus to purchase this volume)

[Daisy-Boo]

Today I bought:

My Dead Body (the 5th and final *wail* book in the Joe Pitt series) - Charlie Huston
The Folklore of Discworld - Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson

[Nesacat]

Over the weekend I invest in:

My Antonia - Willa Cather
Summer School - DOmenica de Rosa
The Collected Stories - Lorrie Moore
Nomad's Hotel: Travels In Time & Space by Cees Nooteboom
The Secret Lives of the Dalai Lama: Holder of the White Lotus - Alexander Norman
The Boat - Nam Le

I Served The King Of England - Bohumil Hrabal
House of Mist - Maria Luise Bombal

Fantastic Tales edited by Italo Calvino
The Legend of Redenta Tiria - Salvatore Niffoi

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels From Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer - Selected by Kasia Boddy, Ali Smith & Sarah Wood

The Complete Dracula adapted by Leah Moore & John Reppion
The Chronicles of Solomon Kane - Roy Thomas, Ralph Macchio, Howard Chaykin, Bret Blevins & Others
Solomon Kane: The Castle of the Devil - Scott Allie, Mario Guevara & Dave Stewart
The Chronicles of Kull: Vol 1: A King Comes Riding & Other Stories - Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Bernie Wrightson, Marie & John Severin & Others

[Diggler]

I got The Ruins of Earth in the mail today. It's a collection of apocalyptic short stories by Ballard, Dick, Harrison, Vonnegut, Leiber and others. The editor is Thomas Disch.

[Diggler]

Originally Posted by knivesout

Gosh, another lavish weekend haul:
Please Explain: Dr. Karl Kruszelniki

Dr Karl, as pretty much all Aussies call him (because nobody seems to remember how to pronounce his name) is a literal walking encyclopedia.

He does all sorts of radio shows and tv segments. People just call up and ask him anything and he has a simple, though in-depth answer.

Great guy, and extremely funny to boot.

[Nesacat]

The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald (I bought this one from a remainder book sale because of the last paragraph).

The Wild Things - Dave Eggers
Craig Strete - Death Chants Short Stories
The Imago Sequence - Laird Barron
Queen of K'n Yan - Asamatsu Ken

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

What's the Craig Strete book? Short stories? Genre?

The Asmatsu Ken is not bad, but not a classic, perhaps. I did like it, but it wasn't weird enough for long enough. Laird Barron is a dark lord of the horror short story.

[richrock]

For March, I've managed to pick up some of the Dune series (early ones) and started on the Halo novelisations:

• Dune Messiah, Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune - all of which I'll tackle after a re-read of the original Dune.
• Halo: The Cole Protocol
• Rainbow six (not sf but always wanted to try some Tom Clancy)

However, I'll be some way from reading them, as I'm currently tackling 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson. It's really rather good once you understand the alternative terminology...

[Nesacat]

Death Chants is a collection of short stories yes.

It came off the catalogue of Porcupine Books run by my friend in London. This is where I get most of my books from. he deals in science-fiction, fantasy and horror. used books.

It's got an introduction by Salvador Dali and it's a pretty unusual collection of fantasy tales. They draw on the legends and cultural background of the American Indians. There's creation myth tales, stories of life and death and some of the relations between the Indians and white people.

As for Asamatsu Ken, I have a 4-volume set of his mythos tales. I suspect they would have been much better for being read in Japanese. The errors in grammar certainly did not help. But all in all it was a decent effort and yes here too, they were not weird enough for long enough for the most part. Still it's a place to start building upon. I do like the cover though.

[thatollie]

The Gormenghast Trilogy - Peake
The Castle Brass Trilogy - Moorcock
Podkayne - Heinlein

I love my 2nd hand book dealer.

[Nesacat]

thatollie ... my sentiments exactly. I love my second hand book dealer as well.

The most recent acquisitions including those in a parcel from said dealer are:

Sunstroke & Other Stories - Tessa Hadley
The Keeper - Natasha Mostert
The Pyrates - George MacDonald Fraser
The Miniaturist - Kunal Basu
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (short stories) - Daniyal Mueenuddin
Witch House - Evangeline Walton
The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sisteen Comtemporary Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continent - edited by James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow
Tales Wierd & Whimsical - T.M. Lally

Non-fiction:
Serendipities: Language & Lunacy - Umberto Eco
Hitler's Private Library - Timothy W. Rybach

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Death Chants sounds fantastic! That Evangeline Walton book is a great find, too.

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Finally got paid. Put in a small internet order:

The Emigrants by W G Sebald
Your Face Tomorrow 1 - Fever And Spear by Javier Marias
Moth (Lew Griffin) by James Sallis
Bruges-La-Morte (Dedalus European Classics) by Georges Rodenbach

[GOLLUM]

The Marias and Rodenbach will be of particular interest to me J.P......

The SFWA European Hall of Fame is a particularly fine collection from what I've thumbed through Nesa.

Fantastic Tales edited by Calvino is a superb collection!

Name Le's The Boat won the prestigious (Australian) Prime Minister's Award, so I'll be looking out for your thoughts on that one and Walton's Witch House is certainly a nice addition!

HMMM....another one getting Laird Baron, this will have to be placed at the top of my list.