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15th October 2011, 11:28 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Oh I should mention today I picked up a MMPB edn of... Corvus - Paul Kearney *Book 2 in this entertaining military Fantasy series that began with The Ten Thousand. Kearney is one of my favourtie contemporary authors when it comes to Fantasy and in particular all things military. |
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16th October 2011, 05:27 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Another package arrived in the mail; this time containing Charles L. Grant's final Oxrun book, The Black Carousel, which I had previously not even known existed.... Which, I believe, means I finally have all the Oxrun Station stories in one form or another.... |
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17th October 2011, 04:42 PM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Books i was forced to buy for "literary scholar paper writing" reason and for my modern novel class: Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett by Christopher Metress The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (Vintage) £50 for the Hammett critical book that i could have gotten for free if the uni library hadnt lost their copy recently really really hurts..... |
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17th October 2011, 04:44 PM
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Blog Entries: 3 | Re: Book Hauls! Nipped into Waterstones on my way back from buying some lunch and I decided that I had to buy some new books; I've got a decent fantasy collection, so I thought I'd stick with SF this time. I picked out a few on Play.com, coming to just over £20. However, the poor student in me wanted to go one better and see how many books I could find for £25 when I utilised the Internet. In the end, I found eleven books in decent condition on eBay, for £34 (yeah, I might have ignored my rules... but hey, eleven books at £3.09 each is better than three for £20). The list: Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card Foundation - Isaac Asimov Hyperion - Dan Simmons Neuromancer - William Gibson Seeds of Earth - Michael Colbey Surface Detail - Iain M. Banks Revelation Space series - Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space, Chasm City, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap, The Prefect) --- As I said, my library is predominantly fantasy, with a few SF books here and there, like Herbert's Dune trilogies and most of Banks' Culture novels. With Surface Detail, I complete my Iain M. Banks collection (not just the Culture), the Revelation Space series will make decent companions for Pushing Ice, which I got over Christmas, and the other five books will hopefully turn into nice little collections themselves. If I may be excused, I believe I have Snuff to pick up from reception. |
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19th October 2011, 01:39 PM
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| Purr-fectly crazy  | Re: Book Hauls! Aloha From Hell - Richard Kadrey Blood Line - Lynda la Plante Snuff - Terry Pratchett I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett Dead Eye: Pennies for the Ferryman - Richard Bernheimer Dreamsongs Vol 1 - George RR Martin The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman |
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19th October 2011, 02:45 PM
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21st October 2011, 11:00 AM
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| Beam Me Up Scotty  Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Australia, New South Wales
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| Re: Book Hauls! Not really buying too many books nowadays. Area 7 by Matthew Reilly Ghost Story by Peter Straub The Monitors by Keith Laumer Seahorse by Graham Petrie (completely unknown, but the cover is great and it looks suitably odd) Rushing to Paradise by JG Ballard Other than Area 7, these are all H/B editions. |
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22nd October 2011, 05:37 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Received in the mail the final (so far) book of the Orangefield cycle by Al Sarrantonio, Halloweenland. (There is another story available on the 'net -- "All Soul's Day" -- but aside from that, I now have the set.) (For the short story, it can be found at the link below.) http://www.horrordrive-in.com/serend...h-Minnion.html |
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22nd October 2011, 02:36 PM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Just a couple although I'm also getting the subterranean edn. of Barry Hughart's classic Chronicles of Number Ten Ox and Master Li and Murakami's latest and I think longest by a decent margin work to date IQ84. Of Men and Monsters - William Tenn *Latest in the Sf masterwork series. Not a name familiar to me but this novel seems to be well regarded. Blurb: Giant, technologically superior aliens have conquered Earth, but humankind survives - even flourishes in a way. Men and women live, like mice, in burrows in the massive walls of the huge homes of the aliens, and scurry about under their feet, stealing from them. A complex social and religious order has evolved, with women preserving knowledge and working as healers, and men serving as warriors and thieves. For the aliens, men and women are just a nuisance, nothing more than vermin. Which, ironically, may just be humankind's strength and point the way forward. Skylark - Dezso Kosztolanyi *Finally an English translation (NYRB edn) of an Hungarian classic from a leader of that country's literary traditions. Blurb: It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays—call them Mother and Father—live in Sárszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research and quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, and unmarried, Skylark cooks and sews for her parents and anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives. Now Skylark is going away, for one week only, it’s true, but a week that yawns endlessly for her parents. What will they do? Before they know it, they are eating at restaurants, reconnecting with old friends, attending the theater. And this is just a prelude to Father’s night out at the Panther Club, about which the less said the better. Drunk, in the light of dawn Father surprises himself and Mother with his true, buried, unspeakable feelings about Skylark. Then, Skylark is back. Is there a world beyond the daily grind and life’s creeping disappointments? Kosztolányi’s crystalline prose, perfect comic timing, and profound human sympathy conjure up a tantalizing beauty that lies on the far side of the irredeemably ordinary. To that extent, Skylark is nothing less than a magical book. |
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