gyrehead Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 Vintage was nice enough to send me a copy of Zafon's new book El Juego del Ãngel. It will take me simply forever as my Spanish is not that strong. Not sure when I will get to it. I'm thinking right after a marathon weekend of nothing but Telenovelas Also in today's post: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia (this is the second copy I've received so I'll pass this one on) Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory The King's Gold by Arturo Perez-Reverte Null-a-Continum by John C. Wright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubby Posted May 20, 2008 Author Share Posted May 20, 2008 The Last Argument of Kings - but laoise has it first so I have to wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
add-on Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Some more used bookstore raiding yesterday. Graham Greene - The End of the Affair Graham Greene - The Comedians John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck - The Winter of Our Discontent Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast William Faulkner - The Sound and The Fury Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One Stephen Crane - The Open Boat and other stories Some of these were books that I'd read in high school or college and wanted in my collection, while others (like the Greene and the Waugh) were from authors that I'm just starting to get into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eponine Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 After reading the threads in here, I just bought The Name of the Rose and Lord of Light. I also got One Hundred Years of Solitude as one of those books that I should have read long ago but never did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 I just bought: Ghost King-D. Gemmell In the Shadow of the Oak King- C. Jones The Mist-S. King Varanger-C. Holland Night of Knives-ICE Bloodheir-B. Ruckley Neuropath-S. Bakker The Steward of Song-A. Stemple The Wolfman- N. Pekearo And for some cool looking mainsteam reads: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle-D. Wroblewski The Other-D. Guterson So brave, young and handsome-L. Enger The Remains of the Day-K. Ishiguro Also picked up Thor vol. 1 by JMS and X-Men Messiah hardcover. Gyrehead The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia (this is the second copy I've received so I'll pass this one on) Let me know if you need my address They shifted the release date from May to July. Looks like a a very interesting book. Clockworks and gargoyles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuchulain Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Books which have arrived in the mail recently: Steven Pressfield - Tides of War Ian R. MacLeod - The House of Storms Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic Brian Aldiss - Non-Stop James Clavell - Shogun Oscar Wilde - The Collected Works Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 Ursula Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven John Sladek - The Complete Roderick Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Collected Poems H. Rider Haggard - Eric Brighteyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 I'm on PS Publishing's ARC list, which is interesting as this is the first I've heard of it. Anyway, a very nice ARC of Return of the Crimson Guard is now in my possession. Fricking sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumer Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Tim Powers' "Three days to never". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat catching Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Ted Chiang's "Stories of Your Life and Others". Long in the coming. Also, some good ol' Aussie lit: Shirley Hazzard's "The Great Fire", Alexis Wright's (massive) "Carpentaria", and Peter Carey's "Theft". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuchulain Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Just arrived today: Different Seasons - Stephen King Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg Traitor to the Blood - B. & J. C. Hendee Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman Un Lun Dun - China Miéville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Feeling the urge to start playing D&D again with the advent of 4th Edition, so I bought The Grand History of the Realms (my favoured campaign setting) to catch up on the setting (I lost track of it about 3-4 years ago). Nifty stuff, but: SPOILER: Forgotten RealmsDid they really need to nuke Faerun and reorder the way magic works in the setting in order to clear the decks for 4th Edition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malek Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 After reading the threads in here, I just bought The Name of the Rose and Lord of Light. I also got One Hundred Years of Solitude as one of those books that I should have read long ago but never did. Well done, as Name Of The Rose and Lord Of Light are both "must have" books for any decent book collector... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThRiNiDiR Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 I've ordered Paul Kearney's This Forsaken Earth...now the wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peadar Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Just bought a new, but battered copy of GRRM's Armageddon Rag. They gave me a few euro off for the decrepid state of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Seaworth Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Paul Kearney's Mark of the Ran and Forsaken Earth Jo Graham's Black Ships Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mashiara Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 I just bought Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan and The Afghan campaign by Steven Pressfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deedles Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 This month, so far I've bought Jim Butcher - books 3-9 in the Dresden files, 1-3 in the Codex Alera. Borges - The Aleph. Zelazney - realised I couldn't find my old copy of Lord of Light so picked up a new one. Maalouf - Samarkand Shriver - We need to talk about Kevin Ariely - Predictably Irrational. As well as the aforementioned internet books. At Peadar - or anyone else who may know - is the Harkaway book available in Dublin yet - might give it a shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peadar Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 Not until early June, Deedles! This month, so far I've bought Jim Butcher - books 3-9 in the Dresden files, 1-3 in the Codex Alera. Borges - The Aleph. Zelazney - realised I couldn't find my old copy of Lord of Light so picked up a new one. Maalouf - Samarkand Shriver - We need to talk about Kevin Ariely - Predictably Irrational. As well as the aforementioned internet books. At Peadar - or anyone else who may know - is the Harkaway book available in Dublin yet - might give it a shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Wolf Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 I've just bought "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It was part of my shopping list for the next Amazon order, but I found it today in a library. To my shame I didn't know that it was translated in Romanian already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
db1869 Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Last Argument of Kings by Abercrombie. I hope it is good since I ordered it from the U.K. The dollar is so weak that I practically had to cash out my 401k to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.