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21st October 2006, 11:50 PM
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| Super Moderator  | Re: Book Hauls! Hooray for library used book sales! I picked these up today when I went to take some books back to the library: My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok (Fiction; this is a very good book; I've read it a couple of times) The Eight - Katherine Neville (Fiction; I read this one a long time ago; all I recall is that I liked it) First Edition A Man For All Seasons - Robert Bolt (the play) The Birth of Europe- Robert Lopez (Non-fiction/history) The Roosevelts: An American Saga (Non-fiction/biography) And the total price, for all five books, all hardbacks? $1.00 Edit to add: I've been buying in the bookstores this week, as well. My purchases (all full price trade paperbacks, alas): Rule by Secrecy - Jim Marrs (a look at conspiracy theories) A People's History of the United States, 1492 - Present - Howard Zinn (US history from the point of view of the non-winners) The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock (about the conservative media in the US) And one mass market paperback that I picked up at the grocery store, just because it looked like fun: Atlantis, by David Gibbins - it had archaeologists in it, so I couldn't resist.  |
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27th October 2006, 04:46 PM
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| bibliophile  Join Date: Jun 2006
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| Re: Book Hauls! I ordered eleven (eek! No self-restraint!) books off bookcloseouts.com recently. The fantasy ones are: Gardens of the Moon, by Steven Erikson Melusine, by Sarah Monette The Mabinogian Tetralogy, by Evangeline Walton A Sudden, Wild Magic, by Diana Wynne Jones A Shadow in Summer, by Daniel Abraham The others are history/historical fiction :-) But now I think I need to put myself on a moratorium! |
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29th October 2006, 07:19 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Today in the city at Minotaurs spotted and bought: Limited Nighshade HB edition of A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle Of The Dread Empire (Original trilogy) - Glen Cook. Introduction by Jeff Vandermeer. Not cheap but I'm yet to read these so looking forward to this. The Forsaken Earth - Book 2: Sea Beggars - Paul Kearney Season One on DVD of the Brother Cadfael Mysteries starring Derek Jacobi. |
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29th October 2006, 07:35 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Quote:
I'll post something further next week. Cheers.. | |
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29th October 2006, 08:13 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! I've seen a few of the Cadfael series (not enough, frankly) and, though differing at times from the books, they do try to remain pretty faithful... and have an excellent cast, are well done overall. Definitely worth watching. |
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29th October 2006, 10:39 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Halfway through watching one of these episodes and it's very well done. Enough to recommend this series... @JD: Don't know if you're aware of Cook but his A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle Of The Dread Empire (Original trilogy) according to Vandermeer is somewhat reminscent of Weird Tales in combination with Vance and Leiber (Yes who was a WT contributor in the '40s). He's considered a bit of a trail blazer of the Genre in terms of bringing gitty realism to the High Fantasy sub genre. Of course quite influential on authors like Steven Erikson and Jeff Vandermeer. If you're interested I can give you a precis on this book once I get around to reading it, which probably won't be too long. Last edited by GOLLUM; 29th October 2006 at 10:50 AM.. |
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