Book Hauls!

[thatollie]

Okay, here's the recently acquired stuff.

3001: The Final Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (finishes off my buying of the Odyssey books)

Before They Are Hanged & The LOast Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie (that's The First Law all bought up)

Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco, I tried to read Eco's The Name of The Rose when I was 17, I didn't really get into it. I'm hoping for better results this time around.

The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus Vol 3: The Haunter of Ther Dark
What can I say? It's Lovecraft.

Nine Tomorrows - Isaac Asimov
This one looks really interesting, I'm really looking forward to it.

The Runes of The Earth - Stephen Donaldson
Forbidden Knowledge - Stephen Donaldson
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
Rock and Hard Places - Andrew Mueller
The Velvet Underground Companion
Lost in The Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman

[Radix]

"Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos" - H.P. Lovecraft & Others &
"Hellbound Hearts" - Various - collection of stories inspired by Clive Barker's "The Hellbound Heart"

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by thatollie

Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco, I tried to read Eco's The Name of The Rose when I was 17, I didn't really get into it. I'm hoping for better results this time around.

I'm quite a big fan of Eco, having all of his fiction. I enjoyed Focualt's Pendulum and of course Name of The Rose, which I thought was brilliant. If you have not seen the film starring Sean Connery you should. It's very good. I will be interested to read your thoughts on this novel...

Also his non-fiction essays are amongst some of the best going around by an author today. A real intellect.

[GOLLUM]

Today....

The Best SF and Fantasy Of The Year Vol 5 - Ed. Johnathan Strahan. The best annual replacement I've been able to source since the demise of the superb Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ed. Link, Dozier et al *Blurb: Strahan's fifth anthology contains 29 wide-ranging tales. Neil Gaiman's "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" is a deceptively simple folktale-styled story of the price one may pay for gold. "The Sultan of the Clouds" by Geoffrey Landis untangles a complex knot of childish power. Sarah Rees Brennan's "The Spy Who Never Grew Up" gives a beloved childhood icon a sinister update; Diana Peterfreund's "The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn" turns unicorn lore on its head; and Rachel Swirsky's "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" puts a fantasy spin on the temporal culture shock of immortality. This year the fantasy tales outdo the SF in depth of storytelling and characterization, though all the inclusions are strong, with few ideas left by the wayside.

Les Chants De Maldoror (Maldoror) - Comte de Lautreamont *Very happy to finally spot a copy of this classic of surrealist function off the shelf today after looking for a copy for more than 12 months now. Blurb: This macabre but beautiful work has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. Maldoror is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an elaborate style and with a passion akin to religions fanaticism. The French poet-critic Georges Hugnet has written of Lautréamont: "He terrifies, stupefies, strikes dumb. He could look squarely at that which others had merely given a passing glance." When first published in 1868-69, Maldoror went almost unnoticed. But in the 1890s the book was rediscovered and hailed as a work of genius by such eminent writers as Huysmans, Léon Block, Maeterlinck, and Rémy de Gourmont. Later still, Lautréamont was to be canonized as one of their principal "ancestors" by the Paris surrealists. This edition, translated by Guy Wernham, includes also a long introduction to a never-written, or now lost, volume of poetry. Thus, except for a few letters, it gives all the surviving literary work of Lautréamont. Little is known of the author of Maldoror, Isidore Ducasse, self-styled Comte de Lautreamont, except that he was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1846 and died in Paris at the age of twenty-four.

[J Riff]

JIMI- by Curtis Knight
Tales from the 'White Hart' - Arthur C. Clarke

I left Complicity- Iain Banks- 1st ed. maybe should go back for this one.

[Connavar]

Samlade dikter (Complete poems collection) by Edith Södergran
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Södergran collection is my record breaking first ever poetry collection bought. No better place to start than with a woman who died at 31 and who is still the most important poet in Swedish,Finish lit history.

[J Riff]

Ridiculous SS freebie haul. The price is right though, because I'm probably going to have to give them all away again soon anyway.

John Varley- Persistence of vision
R. Silverberg- Best of New Dimensions
Ivan Howard - Novelets of Science Fiction
J. Merrill 7th annual Year's best SF
W. Nolan - Bradbury Chronicles
Groff Conklin- 12 great classics of SF
B. Aldiss - Penguin Science Fiction
Fredric Brown- What Mad Universe
Van Vogt- The far-out Worlds Of
I. Asimov- Mars, We love You
Poul Anderson- Nebula Awards 4
Gorman and Greenberg- Predators
T. Boardman- Connoisseurs SF
F. Pohl- Star short novels
M. Chabon - Thrilling Tales
R.S. Wilson- Those who can- A SF reader
L Del Rey- SF Hall of Fame
Datlow/Windling- Years best Fantasyand Horror
G Dozois- The Furthest Horizon
P. Haining- 20th century Ghost Stories
+ a dozen HC SFF SS anthologies. Whew.

[Heck Tate]

Downloaded a whole bunch of ebooks which are out of copyright, but I also bought a real book (with paper and everything) for the first time this year. Just purchased a new copy of The Great Book of Amber one of my favorite series, by Roger Zelazny, definitely my favorite author. I had this book, but lent it to a friend 3 years ago who has since moved across country. Some awesome director needs to come along and make at least the Corwin cycle into movies. Also, it pains me to see that the Zelazny board here is pretty much dead. QQ

[HoopyFrood]

Just popped into my favourite bookshop and picked up The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory, and as there was a buy one get one free going on, I also picked up Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Alien and Predator Films by David McIntee.

But my favourite bookshop is closing at the end of the month!

[planetocean]

For me I've been pretty tight with my books that I usally get. But one book I did get for class though CHRISTIANITY ON TRIAL.

[GOLLUM]

Yesterday...

Crippled God - Steven Erikson *Final Book 10 in the Malazan fantasy series that is my favourite EPIC fantasy series of all time. Yeh!....

[Connavar]

A couple of preorders of books coming out late march/early April.

Butcher's Moon by Richard Stark
Every Shallow Cut by Tom Piccirilli

Two fav noir authors i will read the same day i get the books

[blacknorth]

I bought three books by James Lovegrove because they were going cheap: Untied Kingdom, The Foreigners and Worldstorm. I've never read anything by this author - I'm hoping he's a new 'discovery'.

[dask]

Originally Posted by J Riff

Ridiculous SS freebie haul. The price is right though, because I'm probably going to have to give them all away again soon anyway.

John Varley- Persistence of vision
R. Silverberg- Best of New Dimensions
Ivan Howard - Novelets of Science Fiction
J. Merrill 7th annual Year's best SF
W. Nolan - Bradbury Chronicles
Groff Conklin- 12 great classics of SF
B. Aldiss - Penguin Science Fiction
Fredric Brown- What Mad Universe
Van Vogt- The far-out Worlds Of
I. Asimov- Mars, We love You
Poul Anderson- Nebula Awards 4
Gorman and Greenberg- Predators
T. Boardman- Connoisseurs SF
F. Pohl- Star short novels
M. Chabon - Thrilling Tales
R.S. Wilson- Those who can- A SF reader
L Del Rey- SF Hall of Fame
Datlow/Windling- Years best Fantasyand Horror
G Dozois- The Furthest Horizon
P. Haining- 20th century Ghost Stories
+ a dozen HC SFF SS anthologies. Whew.

You got all this stuff free? Stunning haul by any standards. You're the new king of the world as far as I'm concerned.

[itstito]

Have ordered Conan Chronicles Volume 1 and 2, as well as The First Book of Lankhmar by Leiber and The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino. Bought an Elric omnibus sometime back too.