[Abyss]

Some rather nice scores at a Used Book Store the middle of nowhere Ontario yesterday...


Rollins - DEVIL COLONY - because i'm backlogged on my Sigma Force reading, but sooner or later this was going to come up. For $3 how could i not?

Hearn - HOUNDED - seen mixed comments here re this Iron Druid series, so for $3...

Stirling - TAINT IN THE BLOOD - i've loved everything by Stirling i've ever read (with the exception of The Difference Engine, but i can blame William Gibson for that), so despite my misgivings at him writing an urban fantasy vamps vs werewolves series... hey, $3...

Tchaikovsky - THE SEA WATCH - Shadows of the Apt bk 6 - this series is slowly compiling in my TRP... haven't glanced at it yet but now i have the first six books standing by....

[QuickTidal]

Pre-ordered FORGE OF DARKNESS from amazon.co.uk baby!

[worry]

Oh yah, it seems like Canada isn't getting it early this time. Now you know how we feel!

[Abyss]

We rarely do and even when we're supposed to we usually don't.

Not that i'm bitter. Or vengeful. Or mildly homicidal.

[worry]

Well, I got all the ICE books from Canada, maybe not the SE books. But who doesn't love a good ICE book eh?

[JPK]

Found a hardcover of Embassytown on sale for $10. I failed my willpower check.

[McLovin]

Found this awesome used book store in like an old house or something. Picked up THREE OF SWORDS, a collection of Fritz Lieber's first three Lankhmar novels.

[QuickTidal]

Needed a new Non Fiction read, so I grabbed Neil DeGrasse Tyson's SPACE CHRONICLES: FACING THE ULTIMATE FRONTIER. Looking forward to reading it!

[worry]

Pre-ordered Forge of Darkness, definitely pretty thrilled that the date is fast approaching. I was excited to see the sequel to The Passage is finally coming out soon too, but I didn't order it. The price has gotta drop and I can wait on that one.

[worry]

Sci-fi/horror I suppose....a play on vampires, some post-apocalypse, survivors surviving, that sort of thing. Didn't realize it was the first of a trilogy when I originally read it, so flummoxed by the finale and had to read up on it, but now I'm eager to continue the story.

[Bozworth]

Picked up Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett. Planning to start reading the Lymond Chronicles series when I wrap up the main Malazan series, so I figured I'd go ahead and pick up the first one so it can stare at me for the next few months, reminding me to hurry my ass up. Also picked up A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias. I heard him on Fresh Air a year or so talking about it and have been meaning to pick it up for a while. I think it can basically be summarized as the happy early days of a new relationship juxtaposed with the ending of that relationship 30 years later due to terminal cancer. You know, rainbows and lollipops. That, and some Burgmuller sheet music.

[yuna_anomander25]

pickep up:

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, Books of the South by Glen Cook & Dragonfly Falling by Adrian Tchaikovsky

i noticed its all 2nd book of a series,
I'm a little frustrated that I have to cancel my order of the complete trilogy of Joe Abercrombie, tsk, oh well, there's still some other time,
I still haven't started the 2 other books by Tchaikovsky & Cook, I may finally start it after I finish Fool Moon, and I will have to suspend my read of The Wise Man's Fear I'm afraid, but since I'm all up for Butcher, I really don't mind, and well, the WMF really haven't gotten me to like it a lot, I'm more frustrated and I still don't like Denna, which this book could even be better without,

[Abyss]

Picked up Mieville's THE CITY & THE CITY 2nd hand yesterday. Psyched... RAILSEA reminded me of just how much i enjoy his writing. EMBASSYTOWN was good, i missed the sheer mad creativity of KRAKEN.

Also since it was hugely on sale i added PRINCE OF THORNS to my FORGE OF DARKNESS/APOCALYPSE CODEX amazon.uk pre-order.

Briar King, on 25 July 2012 - 11:29 PM, said:

Cool I got Woken Furies in mail today.
...

Oh you're in for a treat.

Briar King, on 26 July 2012 - 01:40 AM, said:

worrywort, on 25 July 2012 - 11:47 PM, said:

Pre-ordered Forge of Darkness, definitely pretty thrilled that the date is fast approaching. I was excited to see the sequel to The Passage is finally coming out ...

I haven't heard of The Passage I don't think. Fantasy, Sci Fi?

worrywort, on 26 July 2012 - 01:56 AM, said:

Sci-fi/horror I suppose....a play on vampires, some post-apocalypse, survivors surviving, that sort of thing. Didn't realize it was the first of a trilogy when I originally read it, so flummoxed by the finale and had to read up on it, but now I'm eager to continue the story.

Whereas i've had it sitting in the TBR for like 2 yrs because i was warned of non-ending before i started it.
I have too many completed series standing be to be left hanging on yet another one i'm not already engaged by.

yuna_anomander25, on 26 July 2012 - 08:45 AM, said:

pickep up:

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, Books of the South by Glen Cook & Dragonfly Falling by Adrian Tchaikovsky
i noticed its all 2nd book of a series,

I'm a little frustrated that I have to cancel my order of the complete trilogy of Joe Abercrombie, tsk, oh well, there's still some other time,
I still haven't started the 2 other books by Tchaikovsky & Cook, I may finally start it after I finish Fool Moon, and I will have to suspend my read of The Wise Man's Fear I'm afraid, but since I'm all up for Butcher, I really don't mind, and well, the WMF really haven't gotten me to like it a lot, I'm more frustrated and I still don't like Denna, which this book could even be better without,

Just my never so humble opionion but Butcher's Dresden is the far best of thos options and worth your time.

Bummer about Abercrombie but he isn't going away and with the sixth book (after the FIRST LAW trilo there are now three books in the same world with loose connections to that series) you'll just have more of his bloody goodness to enjoy eventually.

[Salt-Man Z]

Recent acquisitions off the HPB clearance shelf for $2 each:

Hellburner by C. J. Cherryh
Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Marathon Man by William Goldman
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Also found a cheap new copy of Donaldson's Against All Things Ending from AbeBooks.

[amphibian]

Abyss, on 26 July 2012 - 01:43 PM, said:

worrywort, on 26 July 2012 - 01:56 AM, said:

Sci-fi/horror I suppose....a play on vampires, some post-apocalypse, survivors surviving, that sort of thing. Didn't realize it was the first of a trilogy when I originally read it, so flummoxed by the finale and had to read up on it, but now I'm eager to continue the story.

Whereas i've had it sitting in the TBR for like 2 yrs because i was warned of non-ending before i started it.
I have too many completed series standing be to be left hanging on yet another one i'm not already engaged by.

It's pretty good. At first, I was thinking "Okay, another Dean Koontz wannabe" and then it jumps radically. After the jump, things motor along quite well and he handles the characters and story very nicely.

I've read the book three times. It's actually that good.

[QuickTidal]

Salt-Man Z, on 26 July 2012 - 08:24 PM, said:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Haha! I JUST bought the ten year anniversary version of this too!

[worry]

amphibian, on 27 July 2012 - 01:41 AM, said:

Abyss, on 26 July 2012 - 01:43 PM, said:

worrywort, on 26 July 2012 - 01:56 AM, said:

Sci-fi/horror I suppose....a play on vampires, some post-apocalypse, survivors surviving, that sort of thing. Didn't realize it was the first of a trilogy when I originally read it, so flummoxed by the finale and had to read up on it, but now I'm eager to continue the story.

Whereas i've had it sitting in the TBR for like 2 yrs because i was warned of non-ending before i started it.
I have too many completed series standing be to be left hanging on yet another one i'm not already engaged by.

It's pretty good. At first, I was thinking "Okay, another Dean Koontz wannabe" and then it jumps radically. After the jump, things motor along quite well and he handles the characters and story very nicely.

I've read the book three times. It's actually that good.

Yah, I haven't read any Dean Koontz, so I suppose my closest comparison was Stephen King -- not in tone or voice necessarily, but on the focus on how a strained community interacts (The Stand meets Needful Things, so to speak) which naturally evokes King. It feels better than merely competent even from the start, in my opinion, but amph is right that somewhere along the line there is a big jolt and it becomes a lot more riveting. I'd say there's actually several moments where you realize the scope is a lot higher than Cronin previously let on, and realizing (towards the end) it wasn't a stand-alone book made me more excited rather than less. If you wanna take that as a compliment to the book, you're very welcome to.

[Salt-Man Z]

QuickTidal, on 27 July 2012 - 02:08 AM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 26 July 2012 - 08:24 PM, said:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Haha! I JUST bought the ten year anniversary version of this too!

I saw the movie trailer and thought it looked interesting, and coincidentally had just seen it on the clearance rack at Half Price Books the day before, so...

[McLovin]

Going way back for some classics:

H Rider Haggard - ERIC BRIGHTEYES

E R Eddison - THE WORM OREOCOOKIE
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON
OUROBOROS

[Nocturnal]

I bought a few for my Kindle the other day, but Maker knows when I'll be able to read them: Omnitopia Dawn, Ico: Castle in the Mist, Ready Player One and a graphic novel The Surrogates.