Book Hauls!

[D_Davis]

Originally Posted by nomadman

The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon - Theo's first novel. Not his best, by most people's reckoning, but I would assume still worth reading.

I've read it four times, and absolutely love it. I'd say the "not his best" title goes to Venus Plus X.

[Extollager]

Originally Posted by antiloquax

Just got hold of a 2nd hand copy of Nicholls and Clute's "Encylopedia of Science Fiction" (the 1995 edition)!
They are making the most recent version available online free next month, I think, but I couldn't resist this ...
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I bought the 1979 paperback through the F & SF Book Co. (are they still around?) in 1980. My copy is well-used, although not as well as W. H. Auden's copies of the Oxford English Dictionary that, legend has it, were so worn that they looked as if they had been clawed by cats.

[antiloquax]

Originally Posted by Extollager

I bought the 1979 paperback through the F & SF Book Co. (are they still around?) in 1980. My copy is well-used, although not as well as W. H. Auden's copies of the Oxford English Dictionary that, legend has it, were so worn that they looked as if they had been clawed by cats.

Yes - I'm going to be getting a lot of use out of min, too!
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[Extollager]

Well, these are not my own books, but they are books that I requested the university library to buy. Just got the word they were in and tore over and checked 'em out:

Joshi's 2-volume biography of Lovecraft, I Am Providence
Finn's biog of Robert E. Howard, Blood and Thunder
Peter Ackyroyd's mini-biog, Poe: A Life Cut Short
also
Thomas de Waal The Caucasus
Erik Reece Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness
Kay Hymowitz Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys

[Mouse]

I just got:
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
The Possessions of Doctor Forrest by Richard T. Kelly
Jarka Ruus, Tanequil and Straken by Terry Brooks

All for 29p. Oh yes.

[Connavar]

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Penguin Modern Classics)

Curiosa this book was in 3 different shelves in the bookstore. It was in classic shelf with all the mainstream classic, it was in SF shelf and it was in general,non-genre fiction shelf. The SF fan in me thought he better be in SF shelfs too before i saw he was there. Dont let the people outside SF steal the book for their own hehe

[Fried Egg]

Originally Posted by Connavar

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell [B](Penguin Modern Classics)

Good one. Now you have a chance to experience what I think is one of the est books SF has to offer.

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by Fried Egg

Good one. Now you have a chance to experience what I think is one of the est books SF has to offer.

I didnt even have to buy but i didnt want to read a classic SF novel with old paperback.

I was reminded to read the novel because we will read him in modern novel class. Our teacher will have a class on Orwell and Nabokov's Lolita which i already own. I will use all my experience with SF, similars novels to dominate that class

[dask]

Originally Posted by Extollager

Well, these are not my own books, but they are books that I requested the university library to buy. Just got the word they were in and tore over and checked 'em out:

Finn's biog of Robert E. Howard, Blood and Thunder
Peter Ackyroyd's mini-biog, Poe: A Life Cut Short

Have you looked these over? They worth having?

Anyway, went to Goodwill and found:
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CHIAPAS AND YUCATAN by John L. Stephens (Dover, Volumes One and Two)
ZODIAC by Neal Stephenson
All a buck apiece.

[antiloquax]

Steph Swainston "The Year of our War"
Liz Williams "The Poison Master"

[Connavar]

Merkabah Rider: Tales Of A High Planes Drifter (Merkabah Rider #1) by Edward M. Erdelac.

[Vargev]

Recently, acting on a tip off from my mother (the charity annie that she is) I came upon a haul of 9 Iain M. Banks novels in a charity shop. Going for £2.50 each, I bought all 9, when I got my haul home, being hugely excited at my find, I found two of them were signed by the author.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Extollager

Well, these are not my own books, but they are books that I requested the university library to buy. Just got the word they were in and tore over and checked 'em out:

Joshi's 2-volume biography of Lovecraft, I Am Providence
Finn's biog of Robert E. Howard, Blood and Thunder
Peter Ackyroyd's mini-biog, Poe: A Life Cut Short

Originally Posted by dask

Have you looked these over? They worth having?

I don't know if Dale would agree, but I'd say Mark Finn's book is well worth having. He is one of those who has studied Howard for quite a long time, and writes clearly and informatively on the subject.

I'm curious about Ackroyd's piece myself. So much has been written about Poe from so many perspectives, and it varies widely from excellent scholarship to pure crap. I wouldn't expect the latter from Ackroyd, but I also don't know how well he would deal with the subject; however, I came across this review which, with one point on which I will argue, raises some serious doubts:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RQQBT...t#RQQBT7QPLXQT

Now, having recently spent nearly a year reading everything I could lay my hands on by Poe (not only his verse and tales, but essays, sketches, and letters), as well as writings by Profs. Quinn and Mabbott (including the latter's extremely scholarly edition of Poe's Poems and Tales and Sketches), the points he raises are of serious concern and, with that one exception, the reviewer is dead right where Poe is concerned. That one point is the "Outis" material, which caused controversy for some time concerning authorship; but the consensus -- and it is very strongly backed by some of Poe's own statements -- is that he used that Poe used this pseudonym to indulge in a peculiar type of satire to which he was inclined, one of many ways he used to forward his battles in the cause of American literature.

I would have to read Ackroyd's account to see whether the reviewer is right about that, and I may do so at some point; but the very fact the Amazon reviewer raised these issues in the fashion he did makes it likely there is some substance to his complaints.

[dask]

J.D., I haven't yet got around to posting my thoughts on Van Wyck Brooks in the newly discovered author forum yet but I found his two chapters on Poe, "Poe in the South" and "Poe in the North" from THE WORLD OF WASHINGTON IRVING to be some of the most enjoyable reading I've ever experienced, and the whole book's like that. You've probably already read it but on the teeny-weeny chance you haven't you might look into it.

[dask]

A few items I picked up for Halloween. The Scott set me back $6 but the Trevor-Roper was collecting dust on the library's free shelf. Wish the Ace had a better cover. When they were seventy-five cents new they sported some pretty slam-bang covers. How this blah thing slipped through is a mystery. Still, under the circumstances, I didn't buy it for the cover.