[Murrin]

Bought A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire by Glen Cook; the Night Shade omnibus of his Dread Empire trilogy.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

The first two Prince of Nothing books, and American Gods. I have been on a tear of good fantasy lately.

[Optimus Prime]

Sigh.

No luck looking for Before They are Hanged, so I just ordered it off Amazon for only 9 bucks

I bought

Rules of Ascension by David B. Coe
and
In A Time of Treason by David Keck today.

I've heard some good stuff about Coe, and loved Keck's first book. I'm hoping Coe is better than the awful cover for his book

[Dagger]

Still waiting for my order of Charlie Wilson's War and Before They are Hanged.

[Abyss]

So this was intersting... generally, i buy most of my books online, with the odd trip to Chapters/Indigo, or Waterstones or Borders if i happen to be in an appropriate part of the world. I also seem to buy books in airports a lot (occassionally to my regret).

Anyrate, a week or so ago i found myself with an hour to kill downtown Ottawa and wandered into Perfectbooks - an independently owned little store that's been there forever but that i hadn't been to in years because it used to be a very academic/hippy/self-improvement sort of place.

It was actually really nice to browse through a small store as opposed the a massive one for a change. They had a great fant/sf section and some nice touches - foreign versions, a few books i had been watching for but not seen elsewhere, and a LOT of little staff recommendations posted on the shelves, along the lines of 'If you liked Gaiman, you'll like this....'.

Pure spontaneaity, i grabbed WHITECHAPEL GODS by S. Peters - steampunk fantasy sf alt hist sortof thing, i'll let you know if it's any good, but this was a fun change in the buying experience from the usual massive store with coffee and CDs type thing.

- Abyss, enlightenedish...

[stone monkey]

I generally only buy obscure or out-of-print books online. As my local Waterstones has a very comprehensive sf & fantasy section. At the end of the month I'll be shelling out on some nice editions of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Outlaws of the Marsh, as I've been on an ancient Chinese literature tip since I finally got hold of another copy of Barry Hughart's The Story of the Stone

I'm lucky in that there are a good few 2nd books shops to be found in my home town - not as many as there used to be, more's the pity. So it's possible to occasionally pick up some interesting books from them; for example I recently found a 1950s Penguin edition of Boule de Suif by Guy De Maupassant.

[Optimus Prime]

The shitty part is, at least in a lot of places I have lived in the U.S., the bookstores take too long to get the books. The books sometimes have been available online for a few months before they even sniff the bookstore.

I might as well get a Amazon Credit Card

Oh, @Brood---Took your advice and ordered The Red Wolf Conspiracy as well. Got a used copy for 12 dollars. Hope it is good!

[Macros]

Crusade by robin young. (robert young? its upstairs)
I was shopping at asda and I saw it so threw it into the basket. I'll read it sometome this or next week and get back to you

[Optimus Prime]

I also bought a new copy of Deadhouse Gates. My older brother has my original...and it has been a few years since I read it...love that book.

[Macros]

eh, just checked on Amazon, its Robyn Young, aparently not the first book of a trilogy. and aparently not a terribly good trilogy. might hold off reading it

[caladanbrood]

Never heard of it. But ignoring amazon reviews is generally a good plan

[Macros]

true, but i dislike starting in the middle of a series, i might request the first book at my library, see if it any good.

[acesn8s]

Mulengro by Charles DeLint.

Charles DeLint writes a lot of 'urban fantasy' often fusing Irish mythology/faries with Native American spirits and setting his novels in modern times. It's nice to take a break from typical fantasy and read about magic in everyday life (fans of Gaiman, Butcher's Dresdan novels, and Feist's Faire Tale might like DeLint).

Mulengro is one of DeLint's horror-esque novels. After writing Mulengro he used the pen name Samual M. Kay for further 'horror' novels.

So far my favorites of his have been his Jack of Kinrowan collection and the book Someplace to be Flying.

[Mentalist]

so, I got "Scar night" for the Book club

Also, our Chapters/Indigo loooves to play head games with me... Every time I go into one, they carry one of Butcher's Dresden novels, but none of the others!!!! I mean, seriously! luckily., they're always the next one, but still!!!!
Oh, and also, there are literally DOZENS of Trade Paperbacks of Feast for Crows... WTF?????

well, long story short, also got "Summer Knight"...

[Slum]

@ Kud -- I've never been to bookstore that carries all of the Dresden books. Usually there's only a couple. I still haven't read the first two.


Badkind and Jordan always have multiple copies of each. Shows what bookstores know about anything.

[Mentalist]

oh, god, there are three authours in my local indigo with nearly a whole shelf to themselves--Brooks, Goodkind and Jordan... Whereas MBotF is represented only by tBH, NoK and GotM--shows what's selling, lol

I figured a series like Dresden i should start from the beginning. I've been fortunate enough to find "Storm Front" and "Fool Moon" around Kingston, and i got "Grave peril" when I went home for reading week...

[caladanbrood]

kud13;266750 said:

oh, god, there are three authours in my local indigo with nearly a whole shelf to themselves--Brooks, Goodkind and Jordan... Whereas MBotF is represented only by tBH, NoK and GotM--shows what's selling, lol

I figured a series like Dresden i should start from the beginning. I've been fortunate enough to find "Storm Front" and "Fool Moon" around Kingston, and i got "Grave peril" when I went home for reading week...

Erikson gets a whole shelf to himself in Waterstones at the moment Of course Pratchett gets 4 and Tolkien an entire floor-to-ceiling section, but every little helps!!

[Optimus Prime]

Just got my copy of Before they are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie in the mail today, woot!

Already 50 pages in, brilliant stuff. He appears to be getting better as we get deeper into the story, a great sign of things to come

[caladanbrood]

Picked up Before they are Hanged too. Nearly finished The Blade Itself and really enjoying it, so no reason not to buy the second book

Also Jim Butcher's Furies of Calderon, the first Codex Alera book. I'll be honest, he needs to impress me with this, as I ran out of steam with the Dresden Files - had no real desire to continue reading, and his odd writing style doesn't help.

[Abyss]

I've been seeing entire shelves of Malazan in Chapters/Indigo in Ontario lately.
Occasionaly an end of row display too.

@Brood - re Dresden, i could see that happening if you powered through the series. I digested it in 2-3 book chunks which worked nicely, but too much would be like sitting through an extended STALLONE/AH-NALD/CHUCK NORRIS action movie marathon - great fun initially but at some point you just need SILENCE OF THE LAMBS to mix things up.

- Abyss, notes Chuck Norris would have stopped Lechter with one roundhouse kick to the creepy.