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20th July 2007, 04:23 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sweden
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| Re: Book Hauls! From the Library i have : Gateway - Fredrick PohlThe Bicentennial Man and Other Stories - Isaac Asimov Tinker,Tailor,Solider,Spy - John Le Carrè The Dead Zone - Stephen King Different Seasons - Stephen King Cell - Stephen King Vagabond - Bernard Cornwell Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Flow My Tears,The Policeman said - Philip K. Dick |
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20th July 2007, 04:54 PM
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| Flaming Poltergeist  | Re: Book Hauls! Oh, yeah! That's weird! I was going to suggest to you, in the King section, that if you were enjoying his work and thought that The Dead Zone was a much stronger, then you could try something even more recent by him like...ahem...Cell!  I hope you like it, I really enjoyed Cell.Different seasons is a very good book as well. The Breathing Method is particularly eerie. |
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20th July 2007, 06:20 PM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Different Seasons i choosed cause of Shawshank story. I heard the short novel was even better than movie who i think is by far the best SK movie. Apparently many people think that too since it shares the nr.1 spot in imdb.com best movie of all time list  |
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20th July 2007, 10:20 PM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Well, if we're including library hauls....  H. P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study, by Donald R. Burleson (I've read this one before, but it's one of the better books I've come across; well-written, enjoyable, and thought-provoking) Specter or Delusion? The Supernatural in Gothic Fiction, by Margaret L. Carter American Horror Writers, by Bob Madison (a slim book of brief biographies from Poe to King) H. P. Lovecraft, by Peter H. Cannon (an entry in the Twayne's Authors Series) New England's Gothic Literature: History and Folklore of the Supernatural from the Seventeenth through the Twentieth Centuries, by Faye Ringel Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic: Lovecraft, Matheson, and King, by David A. Oakes |
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21st July 2007, 12:14 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! We can geuss who you wanna read most of right now I wonder if our Library has Lovercraft. I tried once buying him in a second hand store just to see what he was about. But they only had Poe in swedish, i dont read translation of english books. |
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21st July 2007, 03:38 PM
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| Flaming Poltergeist | Re: Book Hauls! Well, I gave into temptation and bought Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows while out and about. I knew I would. Useless  . I'll probably read it tonight.Well, I've started the first chapter, so I might just finish that, and leave the rest for tonight.................. |
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22nd July 2007, 10:15 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Go HOOPY!.....  Today I got some classics second hand.... Red Moon and Black Mountain - Joy Chant Beyond The Golden Star - Hannes Bok Excalibur - Sanders Anne Laubenthal The Silver Stallion - James Branch Cabell Figures Of Earth - James Branch Cabell The Cream Of The Jest - James Branch Cabell Camouflage - Joe Haldeman The Face In The Abyss - A. Merritt Deathbird Stories - Harlan Ellison The Gates Of Noon - Michael Scott Rohan |
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22nd July 2007, 10:21 AM
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22nd July 2007, 10:30 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Thanks for the insights JD, looks like I did well, that haul cost me only $50 AUS, which I'm pretty pleased with. Better watch out for the cat in case she gets jealous...... No-one's picked it up yet but all of these and several recent hauls have been inspired by the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series from the '70s I know you're familiar with..... I'm working dogmatically to have the entire Ballantine series (got about 70% now) & Vandermeer's list of recommendations (have about 75% now) to go with my collection of all World Fantasy Award winners since 1975 and the entire Fantasy Masterwork set plus a good percentage of the SF Masterworks too. Let's face it I'm a man on a mission ahead of WorldCon. |
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22nd July 2007, 10:37 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! In case you were needing information on that one... http://www.chronicles-network.com/fo...y-library.html |
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22nd July 2007, 12:48 PM
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| The Cat  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Malaysia
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| Re: Book Hauls! Am jealous of 2 books GOLLUM ... you can guess which two. I rescued from the garbage dump four books, all of which are older than my dad, but which some person in my condo complex decided to throw out: Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson Four Stories - Robert Louis Stevenson Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Sex in Daily Living the author of which I cannot remember right this minute. |
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23rd July 2007, 10:07 AM
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| Re: Book Hauls! Hi Nesa *Waves To Nesa*... Today I got... A Princess Of Roumania - Paul Park *Yhis YA novel has been described by Kelly Link as the best of Pullmann, Le Guin and Wolfe, quite a wrap. The Tourmaline - Paul Park The White Tyger - Paul Park Dark Benediction (Collected Novels) - Walter M Miller Jr. *SF Masterwork The Cat's Pajamas & Other Stories - James Morrow And in the Post... Lanark - Alasdair Gray |
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