[End of Disc One]

Recently picked up:

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
The Darkness that Comes Before - R. Scott Bakker
Mistborn: The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson

The first books of three different trilogies...not sure which I'll start first.

[murphy72]

What arrived today were:

Dead to Me by Anton Stout (described as "a genuinely fun book". I need some fun)
New Tricks by John Levitt (to ease my Dresden files addiction)
Grave Peril (hardbound) by Jim Butcher (now replacing my paperbacks with books with super neat covers)
Princeps' Fury by Jim Butcher
The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison
The White Tyger by Paul Park

[Astra]

The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Collector's Edition) by J. K. Rowling

[LadyMTL]

I bought "Bloody Confused: A clueless American sportswriter seeks solace in English soccer" by Chuck Culpepper. Of course, then my Brit boyfriend got annoyed because (and I quote) it's football, not soccer! Anyway, it sounds interesting enough, fingers crossed.

Before that I bought book 1 of the Dresden files and Perdido Street Station.

[Dr Trouble]

I had a big one today. I treated my self to some christmas presents.

The Seer King - Chris Bunch
The Skinner - Neal Asher
World War Z - Max Brooks
The Ten Thousand - Paul Kearney
The Book of Jhereg - Steven Brust
Blindsight - Peter Watts
Heroes Die - Matthew Stover

I'm really looking forward to Heroes Die. I couldn't get his second book anywhere though.

[Fist Gamet]

It always amazes me that you guys buy so many books at once!

My most recent purchase was The Naked God but haven't gotten around to it yet. Hoping for many xmas books!!

[Mentalist]

Boxing day was yesterday and my Chapters gift card's been itching to be used since my b-day in early October

so:
"The Neutronium Alchemist" by Hamilton--Vol. 2 of the Night's dawn trilogy
"Red Seas under Red Skies" by Lynch
"Empire of Black and Gold" by Tchaikovsky
"Stormcaller" by Tom Lloyd
"Evil for evil" by K.J. Parker

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 28 December 2008 - 06:07 AM

[Sir Thursday]

Just got my hands on Century Rain by Alistair Reynolds. I've got a lot to read before I get round to that though.


Sir Thursday

[Aptorian]

Bought Empire in Black and Gold before christmas. It's good so far. A bit like a mix between China Mieville and Avatar the last airbender.

[The Drum]

Two books for me today -

AZINCOURT by Bernard Cornwall, a stand-alone novel, half price this one so had to get it.

THE GRAVE THIEF by Tom Lloyd, third book in the Twilight Herald series, enjoyed the other two so had to get this one to complete the set.

[LadyMTL]

Mentalist, on Dec 28 2008, 01:07 AM, said:

Boxing day was yesterday and my Chapters gift card's been itching to be used since my b-day in early October

so:
"The Neutronium Alchemist" by Hamilton--Vol. 2 of the Night's dawn trilogy
"Red Seas under Red Skies" by Lynch
"Empire of Black and Gold" by Tchaikovsky
"Stormcaller" by Tom Lloyd
"Evil for evil" by K.J. Parker

Oooh, I think you'll love Red Seas, I picked it up the week it came out and never regretted it. As for Stormcaller, well...let's just say it's now in my pile of books to give away. It's a shame cos it had promise but I really didn't like it.

[Terez]

Forums were boring tonight, so I bought Obama's first book, Dreams From My Father. I checked out his second book at the library about a month ago and it was good, and so far, this one is very good too.

[Camel]

I bought John Grisham's "The Appeal" (average), Gregory Maguire's newest Wicked sequel (about the Lion) (average), and L.E. Modesitt Jr's "The Eternity Artifact" (average).

[caladanbrood]

For Christmas I got given:

Gaiman - The Graveyard Book
Peter F Hamilton - The Temporal Void
Neal Asher - The Gabble and other stories
Sergei Lukyanenko - Last Watch

Not a half bad haul

[Apocalypse Now]

Well, I spent most of my Christmas money on books, and also, before you guys wonder, I bought all the Erikson books because before, well, I'd been borrowing them off my dad, lol, so:

Books I have read but wanted to own:

Gardens of the Moon
Deadhouse Gates
Memories of Ice
House of Chains
Midnight Tides
The Bonehunters
Reaper's Gale
Toll the Hounds
A Song of Ice and Fire(all of them) - Martin
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut
Timequake - Vonnegut
The Stranger - Camus

Books I haven't read:
Chronicles of the Black Company(first three Black Company books) - Glen Cook. I'm about 80 pages in and I'm really liking it.
Chronicles of the Black Company: Book of the South - Glen Cook - Glen Cook
The First Law trilogy - Abercrombie

[Salt-Man Z]

Christmas $ spending time!

With money from my grandparents, I purchased Donaldson's Fatal Revenant and Stover's Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor. They'll ship tomorrow, and when they arrive I'll have all the books written by those two authors (two of my absolute favorites.)

I hit Half Price Books on the way to work this morning in an attempt to whittle down the gift card I got from my brother. I found a lot of books I was looking for, but passed on because of the book's condition: Legend (Gemmell), Perdido Street Station (Mieville), Giant's Star (Hogan), and Absolution Gap (Reynolds). I ended up grabbing Scar Night on the recommendations given here, and Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, which I read last year in a collection from the library, but is easily worth owning on its own.

[Aptorian]

caladanbrood, on Dec 30 2008, 01:06 AM, said:

Sergei Lukyanenko - Last Watch

Is that the russian vampire hunter trilogy?

If it is are they any good - As in better than the films, Nightwatch (I think it was called)? Because while the first film was interesting, it was more weird than good.

[Cougar]

I recently got 'Lukyanenkos Nightwatch, so I'll be reporting back on that soon.

[teholbeddict]

I've just finished purchasing books 1-5 of Butcher's Codex Alera for my Sony reader. I must say I really love this e reader! Five books in one go without the hassle of worrying whether they are in stock and I they are only a fraction of the cost of the hard copies!

[Aptorian]

How were you able to get the e-versions of the series? Is there an e-reader site like itunes? How many books do they have?