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[Dracarya]

cseresz.reborn, on 04 September 2012 - 01:52 AM, said:

Sylvia Plath: The Unabridged Journals

This is still in my Amazon basket, I think I'll put it on my wish list for Christmas. Please let me know what you think

[pig]

Picked up a first edition of The Left Hand of Darkness the other day for 5 bucks.

Bought 4 more books today for a buck a piece:
Up In Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard
Needful Things by Stephen King
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Time of Our Time (signed) by Norman Mailer

I love used book stores.

[Inigima]

Fragile Bird, on 05 September 2012 - 04:49 PM, said:

The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely are also great, if you like The Lady in the Lake, Ini.

Thanks -- I actually have, and have read, The Big Sleep. I settled on Lady because everyone in ES' detective fic thread agreed it was good but not everyone felt that way about Farewell.

[williamjm]

I had a card in the letterbox saying that they'd tried to deliver an Amazon parcel, which initially surprised me since I haven't ordered anything recently. Upon checking my e-mail I found that it is Tim Powers' Hide Me Among The Graves which I ordered earlier this year before they moved the UK release date back 6 months.

[OwaynOTT]

Railsea (slipcase edition) by China Meiville
Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi
King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence, which was a tremendous read. Some very clever and elegantly written inner dialogue. Enjoyed much more than its predecessor.
1st UK edition Game of Thrones

[dornish prince]

OwaynOTT, on 07 September 2012 - 11:47 AM, said:

Railsea (slipcase edition) by China Meiville
Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi
King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence, which was a tremendous read. Some very clever and elegantly written inner dialogue. Enjoyed much more than its predecessor.
1st UK edition Game of Thrones

bolded by me...how did you get this????

[chinadoog]

Return of the Crimson Guard, Stonewielder, and Orb, Sceptre, Throne, all by Ian Esslemont.

[boiled leather]

I bought a 2nd copy of the Armageddon Rag (1st edition) to have GRRM sign (which he did with a smile) and give to a family member.  I already have 1.

[OwaynOTT]

dornish prince, on 07 September 2012 - 01:32 PM, said:

bolded by me...how did you get this????

Sorry, that was a preorder but I did just buy it. Itching to get my hands on it though.

[cseresz.reborn]

Dracarya, on 05 September 2012 - 04:58 PM, said:

This is still in my Amazon basket, I think I'll put it on my wish list for Christmas. Please let me know what you think

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[Alex the Andal]

New York: The Novel (Edward Rutherford)
The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell)
The Pale Horsemen (Bernard Cornwell)
Chronicles of the Black Company (Glen Cook)
Imperial China 900-1800 (F.W. Mote)

Some historical fiction, some fantasy, and some history.

[cseresz.reborn]

G. B. Kerferd: The Sophistic Movement (in English: $47, in Hungarian: cca. $5 - It was a hard decision to decide which one to choose to purchase.)

[cseresz.reborn]

Arthur C. Clarke: Rendezvous with Rama (replacing a tattered copy)

Florian Znaniecki - William Isaac Thomas: A lengyel paraszt Európában és Amerikában I-VI (The Polish Peasant in Europe and America) - new, pb, circa $8)

[Guinevere Seaworth]

Did a delighted squee once I found out that I could get The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer for only $6.00 on the Baen e-book site.  And this a month before the actual physical copy hit the stores!

[wolverine]

Alex the Andal, on 07 September 2012 - 11:53 PM, said:

New York: The Novel (Edward Rutherford)
The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell)
The Pale Horsemen (Bernard Cornwell)
Chronicles of the Black Company (Glen Cook)
Imperial China 900-1800 (F.W. Mote)

Some historical fiction, some fantasy, and some history.

Don't know your tastes but here is what I thought:

New York: The Novel (Edward Rutherford)-have not read
The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell)-Great, better than most Cornwell
The Pale Horsemen (Bernard Cornwell)-Ditto above
Chronicles of the Black Company (Glen Cook)-Different and really good
Imperial China 900-1800 (F.W. Mote)-Have not read

EDIT:  I wanted to comment in this thread.  I really can't buy anything for awhile.  I have like 40 books to read and I read way too slow the way it is.

Edited by wolverine, 20 September 2012 - 03:35 PM.

[cseresz.reborn]

David C. Douglas: William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England (used, circa $11)

Winckelmann: Muvészeti írások (Writings on Art) - new, circa $3

James Joyce: The Complete Novels of James Joyce (Wordsworth)

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

David Deutsch - The Beginning of Infinity: Explainations that Transform the World

Peter Watson - The Great Divide: Nature and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

George Dyson - Turing's Cathedral: Origins of the Digital Universe

[red snow]

I decided I was going to limit book buying until I get on top of everything. That said, I went to pre-order Abercrombie's "Red country" and noticed in the check-out queue they had a range of "try the author" for £2.99 and wound up with Cornwell's "Azincourt" and Bank's "Player of games". Very clever marketing by the waterstones folk and I've been considering trying both authors for a while (I actually tried "consider phlebas" by Banks but required a push to try more "culture" books).

Very tempted to buy "Fractal Prince" as I really enjoyed "Quantum Thief" but seeming though it's going to be a while before I can read it I may as well just wait.

[Procrastimancer]

James S.A. Corey - Caliban's War
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
Brent Weeks - The Blinding Knife
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Forge of Darkness - Steven Erikson
Grimscribe - Thomas Ligotti
Noctuary - Thomas Ligotti

[cseresz.reborn]

Anna Maria Mäki: Zárt helyek igézete (original title: Suljetun paikan lumo)

Rudyard Kipling: Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)

Hankiss Elemér: Félelmek és szimbólumok (English title: Fears and Symbols: An Introduction to the Study of Western Civilization) - A "friend" stole this book ...