[Salt-Man Z]

Just received an ARC of David Wong's This Book Is Full of Spiders. I want to crack into right now, but I just started A Clash of Kings...

[worry]

Ah, I thought it was gonna be yet another ongoing urban fantasy series with no particular end in sight. That definitely makes your choice harder! Plus even though Abercrombie's trilogy is done (which is why it's the one I've already read), the rest of his books are set in the same world anyway, right? I think it's just time for eeny meeny miny moe. They've all got good reps.

[Una]

I found this omnibus edition of the Foundation Trilogy. It's leatherbound, has the gold edging along the outside of the pages, and even has that little ribbon attached to the spine that you can use as a bookmark. So classy. This was one of the first SF books I read as a kid. It began the irreversible process by which I became a nerd, so I got it mostly for the nostalgia value. I haven't read it in years, so I'll have to see how it holds up.

[Hound]

Uhm..... RED COUNTRY by Joe Abercrombie (which should be delivered tomorrow, very much looking forward to!), THE LIONS OF AL-RASSAN by Guy Gavriel Kay and the first 11 DRESDEN FILES books by Jim Butcher. I already read them all and have them as ebooks, but I want them on my bookshelf.

[Abyss]

Briar King, on 15 October 2012 - 11:16 PM, said:

Help me decide friends as Im torn in 3rds. I want to order 1 of these 3 tonight: The Steele Remains(Morgan), 1st 1st Law Book(Abercrombie) or 1st Bobbie Dollar(Tad Williams)....

worrywort, on 15 October 2012 - 11:52 PM, said:

I haven't read the first or third one yet, but the third choice is the most stand-alone right? The Morgan is waiting for a capper, and the Abercrombie trilogy is complete but very much in the To Be Continued vein so you might want to wait to buy all three at once. I dunno...depends what you mind waiting for, but I've heard almost nothing but good things about all of them obv.

Briar King, on 16 October 2012 - 12:09 AM, said:

It's the 1st in a tril I think worry. I'm gonna get them all eventually. I've never read Joe before and I really need to. I'm finishing up Woken Furies now and I know that there is a connection to Steel. I just don't know I'm really torn lol.

worrywort, on 16 October 2012 - 01:27 AM, said:

Ah, I thought it was gonna be yet another ongoing urban fantasy series with no particular end in sight. That definitely makes your choice harder! Plus even though Abercrombie's trilogy is done (which is why it's the one I've already read), the rest of his books are set in the same world anyway, right? I think it's just time for eeny meeny miny moe. They've all got good reps.

Any connection between Morgan's KOVACS books and the LAND FIT FOR HEROES series is tenuous at best, but TSR and TCC are so inherently awesome i can only highly reco them.

Abercrombie's FIRST LAW trilo ... i strongly suggest starting 1 with 2 and 3 standing by. I thought the three read best together and would suffer a bit if read separately. He then wrote (and writes) standalones in the same world which, imnsho, are leaps better than the first trilo - BEST SERVED COLD is an awesome revenge caper and THE HEROES is a great battle story - but i think might suffer a bit if read out of order.

I'll wait for Williams to get a few more of the DOLLAR series out before i commit any time to them, but his WAR OF THE FLOWERS was mostly urban fantasy and very readable so i'm encouraged.

[Baco Xtath]

Didn't buy but borrowed from the library, the audiobooks The Gathering Storm and The Towers of Midnight in preparation of the January release of A Memory of Light. It generally takes me about three weeks to listen to a book so I'll be cutting it close. I've yet to read either of these books so I'm pretty exited.

[Defiance]

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. It was one of the only mandatory books that I actually enjoyed reading in school. I know a lot of people hate Holden, but I found him and his angst to be really endearing.

My girlfriend (amazing lady!) bought me Summer Knight by Jim Butcher for when I finish up Grave Peril (been too busy for the last two days to really get this one started).

[MTS]

Today I bought:

The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Jack de Crow and The Well At The World's End by AJ Mackinnon
Crack'd Pot Trail by SE
and finally The Winter of the World by Ken Follett

Have to wait a week to read any of them though.

[worry]

I got the last two Black Company omnibuses, and they're freaking huge. The first two held three books each, and are half the size of these latter two, which only have two books each. I was not expecting that at all, but on the other hand, it's awesome. I also had to replace my copy of MOI because I am making my sister read them, and my mmpb was falling apart.

[Salt-Man Z]

Today I found the entire First Law trilogy in trade paperback for $6. Bought. Also picked up Eco's Foucault's Pendulum for $2, and Jorge Luis Borges' A Universal History of Infamy. Also picked up Michael Moorcock's Kane of Old Mars omnibus over the weekend, which looks pretty cool.

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 22 October 2012 - 03:21 PM

[Salt-Man Z]

Clearance shelves at Half Price Books. MMPBs for $1-2 TPBs and HCs for $2-3.

[Morgoth]

Salt-Man Z, on 22 October 2012 - 03:10 PM, said:

Today I found the entire First Law trilogy in trade paperback for $6. Bought. Also picked up Eco's Foucault's Pendulum for $2, and Jorge Luis Borges' A Universal History of Infamy. Also picked up Michael Moorcock's Kane of Old Mars omnibus over the weekend, which looks pretty cool.

Alternating between The First Law trilogy and Focault's Pendelum seems like a fantastic litterary experience. I had to take breaks from FP to read other things inbetween, but it was a fantastic book all the same.

[Tsundoku]

Great North Road by Peter F Hamilton, for only $21 TPB*.

* this is a very good price in our overpriced market, $10 or so under the usual retail. Yes, we are pathetically grateful for any sort of discount.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 23 October 2012 - 11:03 AM

[T77]

Went on a Gene Wolfe Kindle spending spree:

Free Live Free
The Devil In A Forest
Pandora By Holly Hollander
Castleview

[Wanderer]

The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie
World War Z - Max Brooks
Consider Phlebas - Ian M Banks

And finally finished The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker so picked up the first in his next series - The Judging Eye.

[Baco Xtath]

Caine Black Knife
Caine's Law

[Overactive Imagination]

I bought books 2-4 of the Song of Ice and Fire series hardcover, and ordered a used copy of Midnight Tides as well.

[Overactive Imagination]

I've read them all before.. but since I have some disposable income right now I'm upgrading to the hardcovers. I know I'm going to read each series at least a couple more times in the future, and they look so nice on my shelf

[Vengeance]

Picked up The Hydrogen Sonata by Banks on the kindle. Very excited about another culture book.

[polishgenius]

So today (well, yesterday) I bought:

The Breach, by Lee Child
Black Bottle, by Anthony Huso
The River of Shadows, by Robert V.S. Redick
The Red Knight, by Miles Cameron.