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#3181 QuickTidal

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Posted 08 January 2014 - 03:41 PM

Seeing as my Bday is early Feb, I'm not allowed to buy any new books between Xmas and Feb.

Sigh.

Otherwise I'd be posting about picking up such and such...

#FirstWorldProblems

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#3182 Serenity

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Posted 15 January 2014 - 09:22 AM

For Christmas I got:

The Once and Future King by T. H. White (Voyager Classics hardback)
The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings - boxed set of the Alan Lee illustrated editions
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

Then I set about completing my David Gemmell collection by getting the paperbacks of:

Ghost King
Last Sword of Power
Morningstar
The Last Guardian
Bloodstone
Ironhand's Daughter
Quest for Lost Heroes

Only three more Gemmells to get now for the whole set.

Then I had a major buying spree, thanks to Amazon Kindle daily deals and '12 days of Christmas' sale:

All 21 of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels (99p each)
All 7 of James Barclay's Raven novels (£18)
All 7 of Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space novels (£18) - already read a couple of these, but still worth getting the whole set at that price

Then all of the following were £1 or less:

The Red Knight - Miles Cameron
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
Harvest - Jim Crace
The Passage - Justin Cronin
Grunts - Mary Gentle
Emperor: The Death of Kings - Conn Iggulden
Emperor: The Field of Swords - Conn Iggulden
Emperor: The Gods of War - Conn Iggulden
Emperor: The Blood of Gods - Conn Iggulden
The Oracles of Troy - Glyn Iliffe
The Mangle Street Murders - M. R. C. Kasasian
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome Book 1) - Colleen McCullough
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
Lionheart - Sharon Penman
The Queen's Man - Sharon Penman
Beyond Hades (Prometheus Wars Book 1) - Luke Romyn
Slaves of Valhalla (Prometheus Wars Book 2) - Luke Romyn
House of the Vestals - Steven Saylor
A Gladiator Dies Only Once - Steven Saylor
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Son of Heaven - David Wingrove
The 5th Wave - Rick Yancey

My TRP was below 50 before that lot

#3183 Puck

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Posted 15 January 2014 - 09:39 AM

You've got some really good ones in there, Serenity.

Not today, but my purchases in the fiction department within the last couple of weeks amount to:
Margo Lanagan - Tender Morsels
Jonathan Lethem - The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem - Chronic City
William S. Burroughs - Junky
Norman Spinrad - Void Captain's Tale

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Posted 16 January 2014 - 05:14 PM

QuickTidal, on 08 January 2014 - 03:41 PM, said:

Seeing as my Bday is early Feb, I'm not allowed to buy any new books between Xmas and Feb.

Sigh.

Otherwise I'd be posting about picking up such and such...

#FirstWorldProblems

EXPURGATORY streets this week.
Just saying...

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#3185 QuickTidal

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Posted 21 January 2014 - 04:24 AM

Bought SHARPE'S RIFLES by Cornwell (to continue my chronological read of the series), and also grabbed Mary Stewart's THE CRYSTAL CAVE.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon

#3186 worry

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Posted 21 January 2014 - 05:15 AM

The man's a rebel.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#3187 Nicodimas

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Posted 21 January 2014 - 05:58 AM

Bought the Emperors blades.

I really really enjoyed this one..id recommend it for certain.

http://www.amazon.co...eror%27s+blades

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#3188 QuickTidal

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Posted 21 January 2014 - 12:06 PM

Briar King, on 21 January 2014 - 05:03 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 21 January 2014 - 04:24 AM, said:

Bought SHARPE'S RIFLES by Cornwell (to continue my chronological read of the series), and also grabbed Mary Stewart's THE CRYSTAL CAVE.

wtf Scott I thought you were on lockdown till Feb?

LOL. Neither of these books were on my list....I didn't figure it was going to cause any issues. Ssshhh.

I MAY have an addiction.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 21 January 2014 - 02:13 PM

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#3189 MTS

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Posted 21 January 2014 - 01:19 PM

I didn't exactly buy it but my gf bought me The Alexiad by Anna Komnene the other day on a whim because she saw me getting really into a book on Manzikert and the Komnenoi emperors (Byzantine Empire history).

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Posted 21 January 2014 - 04:01 PM

QuickTidal, on 21 January 2014 - 12:06 PM, said:

Briar King, on 21 January 2014 - 05:03 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 21 January 2014 - 04:24 AM, said:

Bought SHARPE'S RIFLES by Cornwell (to continue my chronological read of the series), and also grabbed Mary Stewart's THE CRYSTAL CAVE.

wtf Scott I thought you were on lockdown till Feb?

LOL. Neither of these books were on my list....I didn't figure it was going to cause any issues. Ssshhh.

I MAY have an addiction.

Admitting you have a problem is the first step in dealing with it by buying more books btw EX-PURGATORY was awesome.

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#3191 Serenity

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Posted 21 January 2014 - 05:21 PM

I may just have bought the three David Gemmell books I was missing to complete my collection:

The Hawk Eternal
Lion of Macedon
Dark Prince

That's it, I have them all, and there'll never be anymore :smoke:

#3192 Baco Xtath

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Posted 30 January 2014 - 02:38 AM

On audible got: Infinite Jest, the Dirty Streets of Heaven, and pre-ordered Words of Radiance.

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#3193 D'iversify

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Posted 30 January 2014 - 12:11 PM

Picked up a second-hand Forge of Darkness yesterday for £3 in my local Oxfam. No excuse not to read it now (but finishing Citadel of the Autarch first - is Urth of the New Sun something I can go back to a while after reading Book of the New Sun, or should I really go straight onto it whilst I have the main series fresh in mind?).

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Posted 30 January 2014 - 01:41 PM

Baco Xtath, on 30 January 2014 - 02:38 AM, said:

On audible got: Infinite Jest, the Dirty Streets of Heaven, and pre-ordered Words of Radiance.

How would Infinite Jest work on audiobook? That's blowing my mind thinking about it...

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

#3195 Baco Xtath

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Posted 30 January 2014 - 02:49 PM

McLovin, on 30 January 2014 - 01:41 PM, said:

Baco Xtath, on 30 January 2014 - 02:38 AM, said:

On audible got: Infinite Jest, the Dirty Streets of Heaven, and pre-ordered Words of Radiance.

How would Infinite Jest work on audiobook? That's blowing my mind thinking about it...

It got some shit reviews because of the lack of endnotes but I'm going to give it a go. I've had the book sitting around for three years and I've yet to crack the cover so I've resigned myself to just listening to it. 56 hrs long. Should be interesting. And I'll probably browse the book as my bedside read.

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Posted 30 January 2014 - 05:08 PM

D, on 30 January 2014 - 12:11 PM, said:

is Urth of the New Sun something I can go back to a while after reading Book of the New Sun, or should I really go straight onto it whilst I have the main series fresh in mind?

That's a tough one. It's very much a separate beast from TBotNS, but on the other hand it has a ton of callbacks to the series. I'd probably read it next, simply because it'll be a quicker, lighter read than FoD.

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―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

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Posted 31 January 2014 - 08:33 PM

The Complete Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance. I know very little about other than a friend who is the biggest Tolkien fan I know telling me it's the only book he's re-read more often than The Lord of the Rings. That's high and rare enough praise to convince me!

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#3198 QuickTidal

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 06:22 PM

Birthday gifts:

INNOCENT BLOOD - James Rollins & Rebecca Cantrell

SOMETHING MORE THAN THE NIGHT - Ian Tregillis

UNDER THE EAGLE - Simon Scarrow

THE EMPERORS BLADES - Brian Stavely

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 03 February 2014 - 02:24 AM

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 09:13 PM

20% off sale in Waterstones UK.

Combined with about £90 in saved vouchers / points, leads to today's purchase of:

Cold Magic by Kate Elliot,
Children of Fire by Drew Karpyshyn,
Ill Made Knight by Christian Cameron,
The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey,
The Fell Sword by Miles Cameron,
Company of Liars by Karen Maitland,
The Tournament by Matthew Reilly,
Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison,
Moon's Artifice by Tom Lloyd,
Arcanum by Simon Morden,
False Gods of Rome by Robert Fabbri,
Hawk Quest by Robert Lyndon,
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan,
Andromeda's Fall by William C Dietz.

All in all?

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#3200 Baco Xtath

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Posted 02 February 2014 - 09:31 PM

Bought Daemon by Daniel Suarez on audible. Saw that it was recommended for those that liked Ready Player One. Tomorrow I get 2 credits so I'll get it's sequel (both got rave reviews) and I'm hoping Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch comes out the next day, so I'll be buying that as well.

And, Vandermeer's Annihilation will be released in two days (which I pre-ordered on my kindle) so that too, kind of.

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