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21st June 2007, 05:00 AM
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| Have brain, will travel  | Re: Book Hauls! Ah, I'm weak, so very weak! (I blame it on that fact that it's now 5am and I didn't have a huge amount of sleep yesterday morning...or the simple fact that I can't stop buying books!) Anyway, just browsing the 3 books for £12 section on Amazon and ended up ordering: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? by Philip K. Dick The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales by Rudyard Kipling And it seems that I had a book lying at the bottom of my shopping basket that craftily worked its way into the final order page. So I thought what the hell, might as well buy it (See! Weak, I tells ya!) So I've also bought: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - Robert Heinlein Not a bad haul to say that it was completely spur of the moment! I've changed the dispatch address to my home address, so they'll be waiting when I return home next week. Gods know where I'm going to put them, I haven't room at all, at all... |
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21st June 2007, 10:46 AM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Australia, Victoria
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| Re: Book Hauls! I picked up.... Emphyrio - Jack Vance *SF Masterwork Dying Of The Light - George RR Martin Paths Of Drakness (incl. The Silent Blade, The Spine Of The World, Servant Of The Shard & Sea Of Swords) - R.A. Slavatore Reaper's Gale - Steven Erikson *Finally arrived Hooray!! The SFWA European Hall Of Fame - *16 stories translated from 13 languages. I hope I haven't upset the cat LOL!....  |
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21st June 2007, 12:40 PM
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| The Cat  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Malaysia
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| Re: Book Hauls! No you have not GOLLUM ... nothing's been upset.  I think I've worked out how to do this .... finally.Picked up a bunch of classics at a lunatic price. Most of them I already have but it was too good a bargain to pass up. They include Frankenstein Dracula Turn of the Screw The Scarlet Letter One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Orlando The Wide Sargossa Sea Jane Eyre The Decameron Faust The Crucible M Butterfly Death of A Salesman The complete poems of Donne The complete poems of Pablo Neruda |
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22nd June 2007, 10:22 AM
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| Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Australia, Victoria
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| Re: Book Hauls! Today I bought.... The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser And the following arrived in the post.... Gods In Darkness: Complete Novels Of Kane - Karl Edward Wagner *Finally got my hands on this legendary S&S Bran Mak Morn - Robert E Howard The Savage Tales Of Solomon Kane - Robert E Howard *The 2 Howard books are beautifully presented and illustrated incl. original notes/typescript from Howard.....  Last edited by GOLLUM; 22nd June 2007 at 10:39 AM. |
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22nd June 2007, 11:09 AM
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| Lemming of Discord  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: United Kingdom
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| Re: Book Hauls! Ordered Night of Knives by Ian Cameron Esslemont and In the Ruins and Crown of Stars by Kate Elliott from Amazon. May also pick up Paul Kearney's This Forsaken Earth in paperback and considering getting a published copy of Red Seas Under Red Skies (although I already have an ARC). |
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22nd June 2007, 03:58 PM
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| Have brain, will travel | Re: Book Hauls! Argh, I can't stop! (Not that I particularly want to, of course...but if I keep buying books I'm going to living on air like a chameleon!) I went to Hoopy's Favourite Bookshop again today because I knew it had at the least the next book in the Malazan Books of the Fallen. And hurrah, it had two of them: Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson But, of course, I couldn't just leave with only two books!  So I also bought:The October Country - Ray Bradbury Glory Road - Robert A. Heinlein |
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22nd June 2007, 05:09 PM
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| Win awards!  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: SOUTH AMERICA
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22nd June 2007, 05:27 PM
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| Magister Mundi sum  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden
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| Re: Book Hauls! I bought the last three books in the Pelbar Cycle, by Paul O Williams, today. I have really enjoyed the series so far and I hope that they don't fall short of my expectations. An Ambush of Shadows The Song of the Axe The Sword of Forbearance |
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23rd June 2007, 08:00 AM
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| Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Australia, Victoria
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| Re: Book Hauls! Fingers crossed this doesn't break the cat's tail so here's hoping.... Numbers in the dark and other stories - Italo Calvino Marcovaldo - Italo Calvino Our Ancestors (incl. Baron In The Trees, The Cloven Viscount & The Non-Existent Knight) - Italo Calvino Chronicles Of A Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Collected Stories - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Fatal Eggs - Mikhail Bulgakov The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde *Yes folks I've never read this classic! Tarzan Of The Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs Islandi - Austin Tapan Wright *First published in 1942 this classic underground Utopian fantasy apparently has as great a depth of worldbuilding as Tolkien's Middle Earth. I look forward to checking it out!! Last edited by GOLLUM; 23rd June 2007 at 08:16 AM. |
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23rd June 2007, 08:21 AM
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| Cogito ergo doleo...  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Southampton
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| Re: Book Hauls! Post your thoughts somewhen, please, Aleksei: I've got the first four as well, and have been looking for original p/b editions of those three for ages. Finally got a copy of The Children of Hurin by JRRT/CJRT, plus Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, by Robert Surtees I also found, in a charity shop, a wonderful book called: Aboudi's Guide Book: Egypt: 1954 (being a Guide to the Antiquities of Egypt Historically Treated with Many Illustrations, Map of the Nile, and Plans of the Principal Temples of Upper Egypt). It's full of phrases such as "The Waiters (at restaurants) are characterised with a smile shining on their faces when they receive any visitor" and "All means of Modern Transport are now available in Egypt"! |
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