[JPK]

East of West vol 5
League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville

[JPK]

Oh, and that book about the sexually transmitted city mentioned in the reading at the moment thread. It sounded to weird to pass up.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Whoa! I'm digging through piles of old documents and comic books from when I was 13–14 to get rid of a lot of it, and what do I find but a copy of Gene Wolfe's The Knight! What a find! I have no recollection of buying or owning this, and from the condition it's in, I doubt I read it!

Something new(old) to add to my TBR!

EDIT: Not to mention all the awesome silver/golden/modern age comics I'm (re)finding!

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 27 August 2016 - 03:13 PM

[Puck]

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee. Just saw it on sale and remembered seeing it mentions on here a couple of times. For the next time I feel like reading something along those lines.

[Macros]

Purchased 3 Gaiman novels, to be waiting for ne when I get home.
Stardust, I forgrt the other 2

[Mentalist]

on a whim, dropped by the Book Depository. Brasyl was on a good sale, so grabbed it.

[Tatterdemalion]

Book Blurb had THE VAGRANT and MALICE by Peter Newman for $4 each, so I bought 'em both. Heard good things.

[Mentalist]

Since I'm being told that finding more books in Italy might be a problem if I run out, I picked up the 2nd and 3rd Kate Daniels books. They're small-sized paperbacks, so won't be heavy, but in case I find my current planned reading material to "heavy" and need a something lighter, this should be good in-between books.

[Macros]

Tatterdemalion, on 10 September 2016 - 06:39 PM, said:

Book Blurb had THE VAGRANT and MALICE by Peter Newman for $4 each, so I bought 'em both. Heard good things.

I didnt really like either of them. Though Vagrant wasnt painful to finish, I just found Malice a chore, like the author (gwyne or something?) Wanted to be early asoiaf grrm and failed massively at it

[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 06 September 2016 - 11:01 AM, said:

Purchased 3 Gaiman novels, to be waiting for ne when I get home.
Stardust, I forgrt the other 2

Enjoy STARDUST. Easily one of my top ten favourite books of all time. Just charmingly written and enjoyable throughout.

[Macros]

The other two are Anassi Boys and Neverwhere.
Prob start one tonight

[Tiste Simeon]

Went into a charity shop. Bought a bunch of John Grisham novels dead cheap. Nice.

[Macros]

oh my god but Folio societies small gods looks beautiful.
I can not afford to keep looking at that website, I just want to buy everything


went to amazon instead and picked up:
Banks - Consider Pheobas, Use of Weapons and The Player of Games
Polanksy - Low town books 2&3
The Illiad and The Aeneid

I have the 2 low town novels in ebook, but saw the first one in PB on my book pile, and they're preowned....
I had the Illiad, can't find it anymore, and always wanted to read the Aeneid, and they're pre owned....
I've been recommended the Culture series and these 3 are, (afaik) the first 3 in series, and they're preowned....

only for bloody postage being a killer these books would have been for near to nothing, as it was, with postage and all in the 7 books cost me £22 delivered. Which is a bit of bullshit on the sellers part as there's no way every book has to be shipped separately and I took my time to limit it to 2 retailers, the low town novel would definitely double up as they're quite short. other retailers have doubled, and in one case, tripled up for me, I need to hunt back and see which shops they were and give them my business instead.

[Macros]

further spending. oh dear.

da landed home today with some books he'd picked up at a charity shop. book 2 of the red wolf series, and the final book of the legends of the red sun series.
so naturally I had to go buy the earlier books to read first. Amazon preowned to the rescue!

picked up The Red Wolf Conspiracy, The river of shadows and The Night swarm, by Robert V.S. Redick
and Nights of Villajamur, The city of Ruin and The Book of Transformations by Mark Charan Newton.

5 of them were 1p each and night swarm was £4.49. tried to keep to one shop but greener_books didnt have them all. I'm fairly sure they're the company thats doubled up before but not this time, but if the ruling sea is anythign to go by, the red wolf books are hefty toomes. so £21.34 all in I think, £2.80 postage per book. I get that they have to make money and charging an arbitrary postage fees lets them make something on selling books for 1p. but when the book is costing me nearly a fiver, they should scale it back a bit, still an average price of 3.50ish? not too bad, just wish we had some decent second hand bookstores about here

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Macros, on 14 September 2016 - 03:03 PM, said:

further spending. oh dear.

da landed home today with some books he'd picked up at a charity shop. book 2 of the red wolf series, and the final book of the legends of the red sun series.
so naturally I had to go buy the earlier books to read first. Amazon preowned to the rescue!

picked up The Red Wolf Conspiracy, The river of shadows and The Night swarm, by Robert V.S. Redick
and Nights of Villajamur, The city of Ruin and The Book of Transformations by Mark Charan Newton.

5 of them were 1p each and night swarm was £4.49. tried to keep to one shop but greener_books didnt have them all. I'm fairly sure they're the company thats doubled up before but not this time, but if the ruling sea is anythign to go by, the red wolf books are hefty toomes. so £21.34 all in I think, £2.80 postage per book. I get that they have to make money and charging an arbitrary postage fees lets them make something on selling books for 1p. but when the book is costing me nearly a fiver, they should scale it back a bit, still an average price of 3.50ish? not too bad, just wish we had some decent second hand bookstores about here

Redick's Chathrand books are good fun! Nothing mindblowing or worldchanging, but they're a fun adventure series with a few good twists and some fun nautical stuff.

[QuickTidal]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 14 September 2016 - 06:28 PM, said:

Macros, on 14 September 2016 - 03:03 PM, said:

further spending. oh dear.

da landed home today with some books he'd picked up at a charity shop. book 2 of the red wolf series, and the final book of the legends of the red sun series.
so naturally I had to go buy the earlier books to read first. Amazon preowned to the rescue!

picked up The Red Wolf Conspiracy, The river of shadows and The Night swarm, by Robert V.S. Redick
and Nights of Villajamur, The city of Ruin and The Book of Transformations by Mark Charan Newton.

5 of them were 1p each and night swarm was £4.49. tried to keep to one shop but greener_books didnt have them all. I'm fairly sure they're the company thats doubled up before but not this time, but if the ruling sea is anythign to go by, the red wolf books are hefty toomes. so £21.34 all in I think, £2.80 postage per book. I get that they have to make money and charging an arbitrary postage fees lets them make something on selling books for 1p. but when the book is costing me nearly a fiver, they should scale it back a bit, still an average price of 3.50ish? not too bad, just wish we had some decent second hand bookstores about here

Redick's Chathrand books are good fun! Nothing mindblowing or worldchanging, but they're a fun adventure series with a few good twists and some fun nautical stuff.

I enjoyed the first one, but thought the ending was weak. I've not yet made it through the second book though.

[End of Disc One]

Macros, on 14 September 2016 - 03:03 PM, said:

picked up The Red Wolf Conspiracy, The river of shadows and The Night swarm, by Robert V.S. Redick
and Nights of Villajamur, The city of Ruin and The Book of Transformations by Mark Charan Newton.

Hey I remember these two books getting some buzz around the same time a number of years back. I never hear about these authors anymore. I haven't read Redick, but I'm a big fan of Newton and highly recommend Nights of Villjamur.

[polishgenius]

I like Redick. It took me a while to get into each book, but once I did there was a lot of good fun to be had.

I might have to try Nights of Villajamur again. I read the first one, really liked the setting and ideas but the writing didn't click with me much. Haven't followed up.

[Macros]

I'll try the first of each anyway.
I'm glad my dads reading more these days and is open to reading a bit of fantasy, for years all he read was clive cussler, lee child and wilbur smith. The sharpe books years ago.
He picked up abercrombies The Blade Itself off my shelf one day the westher was awful and he was bored and loved it so Ive been trying to give him what I have that isnt too heavy on the dragony type fantasy. He's read all abercrombies, just finished the Troy trilogy, gave him The Straight Razor Cure to see what he makes of it then going to hand him Legend

[WinterPhoenix]

Haven't picked them up yet, but in the next couple of days I'll be getting Fall of Light and Dancer's Lament as they are the only Malazan related books I don't yet have and I am fast approaching the end of tCG after I finally got another copy of Dust of Dreams (after losing mine in a pub, was a stupid idea to take it with me!) devoured the final coupla hundred pages and and I'm plowing though tCG as we speak - erm so to speak. Will also be picking up the Prince of Nothing trilogy, am yet to read any RSB, so I'm looking forward to it, will buy the Aspect-Emperor books if I enjoy them.

As for Folio society that website is absolutely delicious and gorgeous to look at, I have to avoid it for financial reasons I have a beautiful copy of To Kill a Mockingbird that a friend bought me for my birthday a few years ago, it comes with bittersweet memories though because me and her barely speak anymore, over a political argument of all the things in the world :/