The Book I bought today is...

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 08:46 AM

God Created The Integers - ed. by Stephen Hawking

The Darkness that Comes Before - R. Scott Bakker

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 09:22 AM

Didn't buy these today, but they arrived today, and as such I think of them as my latest buys:

Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War (translated by Rex Warner)
Suetonius - The Twelve Caesars (translated by Robert Graves)
Tacitus - The Annals of Imperial Rome (translated by Michael Grant)

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 10:56 AM

GardenGnome;111639 said:

Nice, nothing like a bit of classical history to tuck under your belt

I ALMOST bought The Lies of Locke Lamora, but I ran out of money...

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 12:26 PM

excession by ian m banks

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 04:12 PM

@ Saint Chains - The Twelve Caesars is fantastic

I bought over the weekend:

Persian Fire by Tom Holland (a history of the Peleponessian Wars)
Crimes Against Humanity by Geoffrey Robertson QC (a history of human rights legislation and organisations)
The Well of Stars by Robert Reed (sequel to Marrow)
Only Revolutions by Mark Z Danielewski (a novel whose structure appears to be so arbitrary that I'm not sure where I should have started reading it...)

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 04:32 PM

The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford (99p!)
Temeraire by Naomi Novik (HB £3.99)
Turns out they occasionally get some good books at Bookworks, and pretty cheap, too.

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 04:52 PM

Murrin;111710 said:

The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford (99p!)
Temeraire by Naomi Novik (HB ?3.99)
Turns out they occasionally get some good books at Bookworks, and pretty cheap, too.

Yep, sometimes they do

I bought there Neil Gaiman - Stardust for ?3.99 - hardback
I saw there The Song of Susane - Dark Tower 6 hardback for 3.99. Unfortunatelly, I already had one.

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Posted 05 September 2006 - 04:41 AM

Shriek: an afterword - Jeff Vandermeer (signed)
The Charnel Prince - Greg Keyes (arc version)
The Priest of Blood - Douglas Clegg (arc version)

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Posted 05 September 2006 - 11:08 PM

Received from local Amazon (UK

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Into a Dark Realm: No. 5 (Hardcover) by Raymond E. Feist (50% price!)

Forest Mage by Robin Hobb

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Posted 06 September 2006 - 03:40 PM

got gemmell last book shield of thunder.. pretty good...

but we wouldn;t be able to get the ending of the series

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Posted 06 September 2006 - 08:24 PM

gemmells wife is going to finish the troy series.

hit the used store and found;

The Lord of Castle Black - Brust (1st hardcover VGC)
The Sparrow - Russell (1st hardcover GC)
Forever Free - Haldeman (1st hardcover VGC)
Wild Cards 2; Aces High - Martin (editor) (1st trade paper VGC)

and found in my mail box at home a signed copy of

The Thousandfull Thought - Bakker (new)

and a UK Hardcover copy of

Midnight Tides - Erikson (new)

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Posted 07 September 2006 - 11:22 AM

Yesterday I bought Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions. I'm not expecting anything as good as House of Leaves, but it should still be worth the read.

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Posted 07 September 2006 - 07:51 PM

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and a UK Hardcover copy of

Midnight Tides - Erikson (new)

Where did you but it?

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Posted 07 September 2006 - 09:38 PM

Broken Angels by Richard Morgan

I need my fix of Kovacs!

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Posted 08 September 2006 - 04:19 AM

astra_lestat;112926 said:

Where did you but it?

shocking as it may seem a US seller dealing in mystery books had it for sale :confused:

and sorry, they only had the one copy.

and today was a good day

China Mieville - The Scar - 1st Uk ed and 1st printing
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Neil Gaiman- ANANSI BOYS - Signed UK Proof

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Posted 10 September 2006 - 05:14 PM

Woken Furies by Richard Morgan

More Takeshi! I'll be turning this place into a castle soon!

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Posted 11 September 2006 - 11:27 AM

Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (sequel to Spin State)

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Posted 11 September 2006 - 11:49 AM

Les Bienveillantes --- Jonathan Littell , an american guy but he writes in french . A big sucess in France , a man , Max Aue speaks about his past , he was an SS in 41-45 , killed a lot of jewes but don't feel guilty , it was his job , it's cynical but whatever he may says , his past haunts him -of course no one of his family know he was an SS

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Posted 13 September 2006 - 03:50 PM

The Dark Elf trilogy by R.A. Salvatore

Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks (50% hardback on Amazon.co.uk)

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Posted 16 September 2006 - 12:42 PM

Finally!

I received from UK amazon a book I ordered in March.
Cruel Wind, A: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire (Hardcover) by Glen Cook
It is published by Night Shade Books. It was supposed to be published 15 July, but they were a bit late. I have read that it is not as good as BC but not bad either. Night Shade promised to publish the rest of the books in the series if this one sells well.

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