Book Hauls!

[dask]

Did some book hunting today:

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by nomadman

I'd've thought McCarthy would've been known by at least a few posters around here. He's very much of the hard boiled school, with I believe a lot of his works veering into Western or crime fiction territory. I haven't read any Roth, yet, but ironically he was recommended to me on another SF forum discussing Gene Wolfe.

I also got a copy of Swords and Dark Magic a short while ago, which I've been steadily working my way through.

OH definitely McCarthy would be known by many posters here, my point being he's not generally seen as mainstream speculative. Having said that, you may be interested to read his post-apocalyptic tale 'The Road'. I thought it was very good.

Roth I'm a fan of and that Swords and Dark Magic looks like an interesting mix of old and new S&S contributors.

[nomadman]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

OH definitely McCarthy would be known by many posters here, my point being he's not generally seen as mainstream speculative. Having said that, you may be interested to read his post-apocalyptic tale 'The Road'. I thought it was very good.

Roth I'm a fan of and that Swords and Dark Magic looks like an interesting mix of old and new S&S contributors.

The S&S anthology is decent thus far, and introduced me to at least one great new writer in James Enge. Actually that's not quite true. I knew of Enge though the now defunct Flashing Swords ezine, and Black Gate, but had never read him until now. Excellent stylist, wonderful quirky humor and imagination.

Finished No Country a few days back, currently reading Blood Meridian. After that it'll be The Road. Haven't read any Roth yet, though everything I've read about him makes him seem right up my alley.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by nomadman

The S&S anthology is decent thus far, and introduced me to at least one great new writer in James Enge. Actually that's not quite true. I knew of Enge though the now defunct Flashing Swords ezine, and Black Gate, but had never read him until now. Excellent stylist, wonderful quirky humor and imagination.

Thanks for the heads up. Enge is not someone I am at all familiar with. According to wiki he was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for his novel Blood of Ambrose, part of the Morlock the Maker series. Given the high regard that I hold that particular award in, my interest in Enge continues to grow. In fact here is his website with several free stories to read...which I shall do later. Cheers. http://jamesenge.com/about/

[Connavar]

what a cool old version of the book i found and i can finally read this series from start

[pyan]

Just received, via Amazon, a book that I've been looking for for years: Prostho Plus, by Piers Anthony.

It's one of those pivotal books for me - all the other books I'd read in the distinctive yellow Gollancz bindings up until then had been serious stuff - but this was funny! It poked fun at SF cliches and characters. It was great.

I've kept a desultory eye out for it for the last 30 years or so, with no success. And now I've got a copy...

[dask]

Went back to Goodwill this afternoon:

[K. Riehl]

I picked up an interesting item on Ebay. My father is a retired mining engineer and I wanted to find something special. I couldn't afford the entire De Re Metallica (1557)so I settled for a single plate from a damaged copy.

[Grunkins]

Originally Posted by K. Riehl

I picked up an interesting item on Ebay. My father is a retired mining engineer and I wanted to find something special. I couldn't afford the entire De Re Metallica (1557)so I settled for a single plate from a damaged copy.

That's great!

[J-Sun]

Originally Posted by K. Riehl

I picked up an interesting item on Ebay. My father is a retired mining engineer and I wanted to find something special. I couldn't afford the entire De Re Metallica (1557)so I settled for a single plate from a damaged copy.

That's a weird, well, connection. I was watching some of Burke's Connections on Youtube and he referenced that and I downloaded a version of it from Gutenberg. I wasn't expecting to see it referenced the next day at the Chrons.

Anyway - cool present.

[algai'd'siswai]

a lot of reading ahead of me:
The Wheel of Time books 9 - 13
Song of Ice and Fire 1 - 5
The Book of the New Sun 1 - 4
The Kingkiller Chronicles 1, 2

[algai'd'siswai]

and the first 5 Dune novels

[Fried Egg]

Well, what do you know, I received for my birthday:

"Occultation and Other Stories" by Laird Barron
"Tempting Providence and Other Stories" by Jonathan Thomas

I can't wait to tuck into those...

[thatollie]

Originally Posted by algai'd'siswai

a lot of reading ahead of me:
The Wheel of Time books 9 - 13
Song of Ice and Fire 1 - 5
The Book of the New Sun 1 - 4
The Kingkiller Chronicles 1, 2

You now have half as many books of A Song of Ice and Fire as I do.
I'm jealous.

[Spade]

The Tel Aviv Dossier by Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv

It just looked incredibly bizarre... right up my alley.