Book Hauls!

[Nesacat]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Only one book for me lately (saving my pennies for a while): the new Chaosium anthology, Arkham Tales.

Chaosium is exceedingly addictive especially when you go in with a love for Lovecraft anyway. They sent e-mail about having added Arkham Tales to their catalogue so I went to have a look. I bought:
Arkham Tales
Necromicon: The Wandering Of Alhazred
Tales Out Of Innsmouth
The Innsmouth Cycle

They are being sent by surface mail so will take a couple of months I think to actually get here.

[GOLLUM]

Went to the City today, Sunday and one of the lcoal stores was having a sale: 40% discount off all books (incl. New Releases). Happily picked up:

System Of The World - Neal Stephenson (book 3 of the Baroque cycle).
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl (author of the intriguing Poe Shadow)
Throne Of Jade - Naomi Novak (book 2 in the Temeraire series)

A pretty good triumvirate at almost half the RRP I think.

[Nesacat]

Went to MPH and discovered they were giving a 25% discount and so I bought books. I'll have to wait on Perdido Street Station and Malazan since it would appear that books do not drink coffee and the secretary from the HR Dept fed them a whole pot. They didn't have those but they've been ordered and will arrive in about three weeks.

I did buy some books:
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Tanglewreck - Jeanette Winterson
I, Coriander - Sally Gardner
Scar - China Mieville
Looking For Jake & Other Stories - China Mieville (am going to start this later tonight)

Gollum: Tell me what you think of Dante Club please.

[Stenevor]

Had Friday off work and spent a nice day wandering around all the charity shops. Picked up

Lord of the Flies-William Golding
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Junky - William Burroughs
In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami

for a total of £5 all very good condition too.

Then went to Waterstones where they have a 3for2 offer on at the moment and bought

American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Use of Weapons - Iain M Banks
The Scar - China Mieville

[GOLLUM]

Just picked up for $3 (RRP $17) during my lunchbreak a mint copy of:

Centauri Device - SF Masterwork by M John Harrison....

[nixie]

After yesterday's upset and the interview today.I decided I needed to go book shopping.
I finally got my hands on Gene Wolfes third book of The New Sun,its in a two book volume(3&4)

Greg Keye's Blood Knight

Robin Hobb's Forest Mage

Scott Lynch's the Lies of Locke Lamora

[littlemissattitude]

Not me...but I just talked to my best friend on the phone and she just spent a queenly amount of money at the bookstore...don't know all the titles, but there was a good amount of both history (that's what she teaches) and science fiction in the haul.

[elvet]

On the advice of Gollum and Rosemary, I picked up the Axis trilogy (Sara Douglass). I also found another of her books on the bargain table, Beyond the Hanging Wall. I looked in vain for the Jewelfire trilogy by Freda Warrington. Might have to hit e-bay for those.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by elvet

On the advice of Gollum and Rosemary, I picked up the Axis trilogy (Sara Douglass). I also found another of her books on the bargain table, Beyond the Hanging Wall.

Yep I've read Hanging Wall, it's not too bad actually. The original Axis trilogy is her best work for me. Let us know how you go.

[steve12553]

Just got my newest Book Club shipment:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,
Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) by Paolini, Christopher, and
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
These title came up some many times in the forums that I figured I couldn't miss.

[jackokent]

Just picked up all the Harry Potter books. It's about time I understood what everyone is talking about.

[murphy]

Waiting on the mail for the delivery of:

Blood and Iron - Elizabeth Bear
When Darkness Falls - Lackey & Mallory
Blood Knight - Greg Keyes
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Cast in Courtlight - Michelle Sagara West

Will be here next Wednesday


(Isn't this thread getting way too long? Shouldn't another be started? Please)

[GOLLUM]

Maybe we could have books hauls by month in the same way we have monthly postings of what are you reading?

[murphy]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Maybe we could have books hauls by month in the same way we have monthly postings of what are you reading?

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[Cerberus]

Just joined today and decided to post my latest haul.

The Saga of Darren Shan (books 1-11)
David Eddings - Domes of Fire
William Gibson - MonaLisa Overdrive, Idoru (first edition)
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling - The Difference Engine