Book Hauls!

[Rane Longfox]

Masterworks series are only published in paperback, I believe, nixie.

[elvet]

I was happy to find The Barbed Coil in stock at my bookstore today. It's been mentioned a few times recently in the threads.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Rane Longfox

Masterworks series are only published in paperback, I believe, nixie.

I think Rane is right about this. My copies were in paperback. Never seen any of the series here in HB or ever advertised in HB. Are you saying you have seen this series ih HB Nixie???

[GOLLUM]

Today:

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Name Of The Rose - Umberto Eco
Anubis Gates - Tim Powers (Masterwork edition)
Scar Night - Alan Campbell

[Robert M. Blevins]

Picked up a signed hardback of '2010' over at a country bookstore in the middle of nowhere. (In Washington State, USA) The bookstore is a former old-time Wild-West looking saloon. Nice reading section in the back corner. I dropped off a couple of sci-fi AB titles and the owner (seeing I was into sci-fi) showed me the book, which he had put away in a locked drawer.
I love Clarke...I was probably a sucker for spending the money but I bought it anyway.

Bookkeeper Gayla scolded me later. She said: "I send you out to drop off a few books, and you spend forty dollars on a book."

Hey, it was my own money.(lol)

[nixie]

Woops sorry my mistake, my copy of the Book of the New Sun (The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Concciliator) its Hard back but was published as part of Fantasy& SF book club's 25th birthday library collection. Not as part of masterworks The second book which was part of the masterworks is paperback.

[HoopyFrood]

Last week I went for a spree on Amazon, even though I don't have time for recretional reading really (I was hoping to perhaps read them over Christmas, but now...well I'll explain anon).
So I purchased:
Lisey's Story by Stephen King (woot!)
A H.P Lovecraft one, because everyone seems to rave about him
Night Watch (the russian one, not the Terry Pratchett one.
Day Watch (yes, the sequel to the above!)
Um...I swear there was one more...maybe I bought two H.PL ones...
Anyway, so I was all set to enjoy these over the Christmas holiday...but then I find out they won't even reach me until JANUARY!! Ack. So I've fallen out with Amazon at the moment (I realise Christmas is approaching, but I ordered them in OCTOBER!) Grr.

[Nesacat]

From Silverfish due to a lunch date. Have now decided not to make decisions to not buy books.

The Purity Of Blood - Arturo Perez Reverte
Satyr Of The Subway - Anita Nair
The Devil's Cup: A History Of The World According To Coffee - Stewart Lee Allen
These Foolish Things - Deborah Moggach
Con Brio - Brian Svit
The New Life - Orhan Pamuk

Hoopy ... What are the tales in your Lovecraft books? And please tell me how you feel about him and his writing.
Nixie ... Hope you are having fun with the Old Gentleman From Providence.

[j. d. worthington]

Got a package in the mail today ... someone sent me a copy of Peter Cannon's The Lovecraft Chronicles, and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari's edition of the Mahabharata. Both look very inviting indeed! Thanks!

[Nesacat]

From Porcupine Books in the UK's catalogue of used Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror:

The Case Of The Philosopher's Ring by Dr John H Watson (1st edition) - Randall Collins
Our Lady Of The Snow (1st edition) - Louise Cooper
Haunted (1st edition) - James Herbert
HR Giger's Alien Film Design
HP Lovecraft Dagon and other Macabre Tales
Haunted Tales Of The Grotesque (1st edition) - Joyce Carol Oates
Poison (1st edition) - Chris Wooding
Perdido Street Station (1st edition) - China Mieville

j.d. ... That is the first edition of the Mahabharatha that I ever read aside from the Amar Chitra Katha simplified graphic novel version and it's still my favourite so tell me how the reading goes. Am glad books arrived alright.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

From Porcupine Books in the UK's catalogue of used Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror:

The Case Of The Philosopher's Ring by Dr John H Watson (1st edition) - Randall Collins
Our Lady Of The Snow (1st edition) - Louise Cooper
Haunted (1st edition) - James Herbert
HR Giger's Alien Film Design
HP Lovecraft Dagon and other Macabre Tales
Haunted Tales Of The Grotesque (1st edition) - Joyce Carol Oates
Poison (1st edition) - Chris Wooding
Perdido Street Station (1st edition) - China Mieville

j.d. ... That is the first edition of the Mahabharatha that I ever read aside from the Amar Chitra Katha simplified graphic novel version and it's still my favourite so tell me how the reading goes. Am glad books arrived alright.

Indeed they did, Nesa, thank you very, very much. The Cannon sounds like a great deal of fun indeed, and I like Cannon as a Lovecraftian scholar -- who always has a good seasoning of humor -- and the Mahabharata, from the little bits I've dipped into in this translation, seems to be utterly charming. The writing has that deceptively simple tone that the early Dunsany had, with that added wry, even wise, humor flashing throughout... I am definitely looking forward to this!

And I'm very curious to hear what you have to say about the Collins and the Oates.

[aarti]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

j.d. ... That is the first edition of the Mahabharatha that I ever read aside from the Amar Chitra Katha simplified graphic novel version and it's still my favourite so tell me how the reading goes. Am glad books arrived alright.

Oh, I LOVE the Amar Chitra Katha comics! Totally Hindu-slanted version of history, for the most part, but such fun :-)

[Nesacat]

Yes indeed Aarti. They are my very first memories of books and my mother reading them to me. I've still got all the original ones from over three decades ago and new ones I've picked up on each trip to India. Amar Chitra Katha are a very good intriduction to Hindu mythology, especially since it's broken down into manageable pieces, have very good artwork and are well-written.

Am always happy to see them in stores and am glad that they are still being read. It's great to find someone who has alo read and liked them.

[Taltos]

So much about my no bookshop routine: 3 out of 4 books have arrived and I'm picking them up on saturday. So, it was 13 days without visiting bookshops this time. (And it was about 3 days if you take into account online bookshops )

[ravenus]

@ JD, Nesacat, Aarti:

Yea, I'm a grand fan of Amar Chitra Katha comics as well.

Btw ACK has a website from where you can order comics Click here

As for the Mahabharata... C. Rajagopalachari's version is alright but its brief interpretation of an original work of more than 100,000 stanzas obviously cuts a number of corners. The problem with modern interpretations of the Mahabharat is that most of them pretty much tail off at the end of the Great War, whereas from what I have heard, somewhere between a third to a half of the original work is dedicated to the events after the war. I do wish I could get hold of a work that more faithfully transcribes those events.

Anyway if you're interested in the Mahabharata, I also highly recommend a companion piece called Krishnavatara - written by K.M. Munshi as a series of 7 short books, unfortunately incomplete because he passed away and it ends on something of a cliffhanger note, this series offers a striking frieze of the events in the life of Krishna who is also one of the cenral figures of the Mahabharata, beautifully shows how his actions at every point of time are guided by what he sees as the fulfilment of his Dharma or religious duty, and provides a wonderful tie-in with the events and characters of the Mahabharata.