Book Hauls!

[GOLLUM]

Today for my library I bought....

Paladin Of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Sharing Knife - Lois McMaster Bujold
Coraline - Neil Gaiman

[GOLLUM]

In stocking the new 'library' today I got...

Books:

The War Of The Flowers - New Edition - Tad Williams
Metamorphosis and Other (short) Stories - Franz Kafka
The Heart Of A Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Merlin Trilogy incl. The Crsytal Cave, The Hollow Hills & The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart

Graphic Novel:

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Beautiful watercolour illustrations by David Wenzel!

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

In stocking the new 'library' today I got...
The Heart Of A Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov

Aha. I quite loved his The Master and Margarita.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by ravenus

Aha. I quite loved his The Master and Margarita.

Yep, got that one too and I agree it's a beauty!! Probably the novel he's also best known for although I have it on good authority that Heart Of A Dog is 'extra' weird but in a good way....

[Connavar]

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card really impulse buy, something made me buy it despite i had no plan to buy it before i went into the book shop.

Echo Park - Michael Connelly

[Sathai]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card really impulse buy, something made me buy it despite i had no plan to buy it before i went into the book shop.

I really liked that book, hope you enjoy it Connavar.

[Connavar]

It sounds interesting. I was reading the introduction and half of it is about how great Assimov was hehe.

I hope its good i havent read good military space story.

[GOLLUM]

Whilst rummaging around a second hand bookshop after work today I picked up the following for a very reasonable price.....

The Lions Of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay.

Tailchaser's Song - Tad Williams.

Land Of Dreams - James P. Blaylock *Compared to Bradbury's classic Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (Eidtied by Michael Moorcock) incl. Balzac, Poe, Bierce, Walcott, Collins, Hawthorne, Dickens, Le Fanmu, O'Brien, James, Kipling, Machen and Lovecraft.

Australian Science Fiction (1848 - 1982) edited bu Van Ikin * Earmarked for 'the Cat'....

Don't you just love it when you come across gems by chance...

[Rosemary]

That's really a good 'haul' Precioussss!

I think I got a great deal with The Serpent Bride (Book 1 of Darkglass Mountain) by Sara Douglass. This size paperback usually sell at around $AU30 - my copy set me back only $AU 19

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (Eidtied by Michael Moorcock) incl. Balzac, Poe, Bierce, Walcott, Collins, Hawthorne, Dickens, Le Fanmu, O'Brien, James, Kipling, Machen and Lovecraft.

Another nifty haul, GOLLUM. But, if you don't mind... could you send me more information on this particular book? Thanks.

[GOLLUM]

Check your Inbox Sir...

[Connavar]

Gollum looking at your buys makes me so jealous you just keep buying


Heh anyway i made two great buys. I got paperbacks of Harlan Coben's Tell No One for only 30 kronor or 4.3 dollars and The Lincoln Lawyer for 35 kronor or 5 dollars. Heh put that together its not even what one of them cost in my book shop.

[GOLLUM]

Yeh I'm on a buying spree alright!!!

Today I bought...

Un Lun Dun - China Mieville.
Dark Alchemy - Magical Tales from Masters Of Modern Fantasy incl. Gaiman, Card, Colfer, Nix, Wolfe, McKillip, Beagle, Ford & Lee.

[Nesacat]

GOLLUM ... That's a wonderful haul there.

I do like the sound of Classic Tales of Horror and Dark Alchemy. Will try and see if Brian the bookdealer can chase copies down for me.

Heart of a Dog is wonderful though I think Master & Margarita is still a favourite. It's probably a cat thing.

Coraline is very good and I think you'll never take buttons for granted or look at them the same way again. I'm curious about what you'll think of Un Lun Dun. I liked it myself and think Mieville should do more of the same.

The Hobbit graphic novel is a piece of loveliness. The artwork was very well done indeed. I just got George RR Martin's Hedge Knight graphic novel and that was beautiful. Okay ... so I cried my way through it.

Also got Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser in a graphic novel. It's made of many tales with the first being about how they met. Again a well done collection though the artwork is less intricate than Hedge Knight.

I liked the Book Thief and Death's role in it. Another writer I hope to read more of. There's been many books lately about books and most make interesting reading. This one particularly and Shadow of the Wind and Thirteenth Tale and he Book Without Words.

The Mary Stewart books are an old favourite. I read them way back when I was in school. Was one of the things that set me on the path of things Arthurian.

[GOLLUM]

Thanks for the interesting input as always Nesa!...

After going to the dentist for a root canal earlier today I thought I'd hover around one of my local bookshops as you do and ended up picking out:

The Court Of The Air - Stephen Hunt.

It's described as "a hugely engaging adventure set in a Victorian-style world -- a fantastical version of Dickens -- that will appeal to fans of Susanna Clarke and Philip Pullman"

Naturally after a wrap like that I just had to buy it, didn't I?...