Book Hauls!

[sloweye]

Well i wont spoil them for you, but i think you will like them

[fitzchivalry]

Death is one of the best characters ever

[Mouse]

Yeah I've heard they're really good and that everybody loves Death!

I also got (acquired from bro) Haunting Christmas Tales by Joan Aiken and others. Not sure I'll keep this'n though. Although I've read The Wolves of Wiloughby Chase by Joan Aiken and thought it was all right.

[Grimward]

And two more ("What? 2 entries from Grim over the course of a weekend?" ).

Against All Things Ending by Stephen R. Donaldson
Bearers of the Black Staff by Terry Brooks (part of the Legends of Shannara series).

'Scuse me. Got some reading to do.

[dask]

CTHULHU: MYTHOS AND KINDRED HORRORS by Robert E. Howard (edited by David Drake). This appears to be a collection exclusively devoted to REH horror stories. I probably have the bulk of them in other Howard collections but to have all horror in one place makes my mouth water for a dark and stormy night, preferably towards the end of October.

[Daisy-Boo]

Originally Posted by fitzchivalry

Death is one of the best characters ever

I second that. I hope that when my time is up, Death will shepherd me into the hereafter. The hereafter being the Discworld and my room in the Vimes house.

[Menion]

and my room in the Vimes house.

As Vimes? or just living there? I'd wanna live in the unseen university

[GOLLUM]

OK. tonight....

On Our Selection - Steele Rudd *The popular all time Australian bush comedy classic with those enduring characters Dad and Dave. A nice way for me to complete my Australia collection.

[Daisy-Boo]

Originally Posted by Menion

As Vimes? or just living there? I'd wanna live in the unseen university

Not as Vimes. As a much-loved house-guest.

I'd visit the Unseen University but I wouldn't like to live there. Bit too exciting for me. Also, at the Vimes house I could help Lady Sybil with the swamp dragons. They seem like sweet (if combustible) little things.

My first trip outside Ankh-Morpork would be to Lancre, to meet Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Agnes Nitt. After that, off to Sto-Helit for tea with Susan. I'd beg her to take me to Death's domain, so I could meet Alfred and spend some time with Binky. Then Death would take me on a tour and I wouldn't be completely terrified all the time.

[J Riff]

Everybody loves Death. Sounds like a SS mystery title from th' fifties.
Some good haulage*
A Book of Classical Stories 1930 edited by A.J. Merson M.A. Rector of Carrick Academy Maybole Ayrshire. whew. All the legends and myths, Heroes, Tragedy, Odysseus etc.... and maps.. in a nice condensed form so in future i won't appear quite so classically ignant no more.
A Streetcar Named Desire 1947 Tennessee Williams - the play in three acts with scene design and property list. Brando, Malden, Kim Hunter as Stella!
How to Write Mysteries 1989 Genre writing series. By Shannon OCork.
Oh look out now, Raymond Chandler.

[Hilarious Joke]

Hahaha you make it sound like fun Daisy-Boo but what about the terrible Discworld food?!

[neuroticdog]

Today at the used place...

The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien Volume Two: Dream Stories and Fantasies

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayone, Gent.-Washington Irving

Tales of Terror and the Unknown-Algernon Blackwood
This one is really vintage. The price on the cover is $1.95 and it says "A Dutton Paperback original". It has eleven stories including "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". and is in pretty good condition.

best
Michael

[GOLLUM]

Today at work got the following Allende novel from the second hand bookshop around the corner. This is the only Allende work of fiction I don't have...and yes I did check so I'm not making the same mistake as calling too early vis a vis Christopher Priest's entire oeuvre as noted by Fried Egg....

Zorro - Isabel Allende *Blurb:A child of two worlds -- the son of an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner and a Shoshone warrior woman -- young Diego de la Vega cannot silently bear the brutal injustices visited upon the helpless in late-eighteenth-century California. And so a great hero is born -- skilled in athleticism and dazzling swordplay, his persona formed between the Old World and the New -- the legend known as Zorro.

[Fried Egg]

Just had an unexpected haul from my local second hand book store which I've found out is closing down in a month. Looks like most of my future books will be coming from the internet...

"The Hungry Moon" by Ramsey Campbell
"Wetware" by Rudy Rucker
"The Canopy of Time" by Brian Aldiss
"The Fountains of Paradise" by Arthur C. Clarke
"The Jewels of Aptor" by Samuel R. Delany
"The Dream Master" by Roger Zelazny

[No One]

Swung by Waterstones with the intention of picking up the last book in The Dark Tower series - which I did, and it's nice to have a seven book series waiting on me for a change.

However, they also had two SF Masterworks books (of the correct edition for my budding collection) that I hadn't seen in there before, so I grabbed them up:

The Dark Tower by Stephen King
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick