The Book I bought today is...

#1001 Terez

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Posted 11 January 2009 - 02:24 AM

I bought these today:

The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson (been wanting to have enough money for this one for a while - I'll start it tonight)
The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama (read it from the library last semester, but bought it today)
Thud! - Terry Pratchett (random, the hardback was in the Bargain Books section for $5.98)

Also, lots of textbooks.

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#1002 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 12 January 2009 - 04:01 PM

Used the last of my Half Price Books gift card to pick up The Great Book of Amber and Legend.

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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#1003 LadyMTL

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Posted 13 January 2009 - 12:53 PM

I bought Children of Hurin (hardcover on sale for $7.99, woo hoo!) and Adrian Goldsworthy's biography of Julius Caesar. I'm trying to track down Lees of Laughter's End but for some reason it seems to be hard to find here in Canada??

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 01:51 AM

Maia Irraz, on Jan 13 2009, 04:53 AM, said:

I'm trying to track down Lees of Laughter's End but for some reason it seems to be hard to find here in Canada??

It's hard to find in the States too. I went directly to the publishers, NightShade books. and ordered it.

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 05:59 PM

I bought Mean Streets today (a new Dresden File novella by Jim Butcher!!!! and new novella's by Kat Richardson, Simon Green, Thomas Sniegoski)

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 06:02 PM

I got Vorpal Blade by John Ringo. I like me some good sci-fi.

#1007 Dr Trouble

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Posted 18 January 2009 - 02:46 AM

I treated myself for my birthday, and stocked up:

The Prince of Nothing Trilogy - R Scott Bakker
The Judging Eye - R Scott Bakker
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Rafon
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 09:33 AM

Kinda went all out today and bought a few bookies...

Charlie Wilson's War: The Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World - Edward Said
Catch-22
The Names - Don Dellio
The Arabs in History - Bernard lewis
Kafka on the Shore
Ulysses
Underworld - Don Dellio
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
The Middle East - bernard Lewis
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow - Adam Zamoyski
My Name is Red - Orhan Pahluk
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History - David Christian

I know, only one is fantasy, others are fiction. Others aren't.
I still have plenty of unread sci-fi/fantasy to go through.

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 09:44 AM

Only bought one genre novel at the weekend:

Charles Stross -- _The Clan Corporate_
Is it only me who loves this series? It's great! Alternate history, economic theory, romance, danger, dimension-hopping -- awesome package! Am on the lookout for _Merchant's War_, the next in the series (it starts with _The Family Trade_ and continues with _The Hidden Family_ before TCC).

I also got Ben Goldacre's _Bad Science_, which is a great read, and John Grant's _Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science_, which compares the abuses of science reporting in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, and Bush's America. Shaping up nicely so far.

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#1010 Terez

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 10:23 AM

Bought one book today (Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond) and special-ordered three more (Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiography and the first two books of Pratchett's Discworld). I tried to special-order RotCG but Barnes & Noble didn't even have it in their database. :s

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 11:16 AM

Terez, on Jan 23 2009, 08:23 PM, said:

Bought one book today (Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond) and special-ordered three more (Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiography and the first two books of Pratchett's Discworld). I tried to special-order RotCG but Barnes & Noble didn't even have it in their database. :s

That's a fairly decent book. It ignores China way too much though with its general hypothesis. It only devots a about a small paragraph at the end of the book saying why China didn't/couldn't become a dominant power before the Eurotrash did, when you can write a whole book on why really.
Still very informative nonetheless.

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 11:18 AM

Kristin Cashore - Graceling.

Burned through it in one sitting; not exceptional but easy reading and pretty decent first novel.

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 12:10 PM

Looking For Jake...and other stories - China Miéville. Looked by far the best out of the craphole that is Dymocks, and I had to use my gift card there, unfortunately. I'm hoping it's a good read.

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 01:24 PM

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jan 26 2009, 01:10 PM, said:

Looking For Jake...and other stories - China Miéville. Looked by far the best out of the craphole that is Dymocks, and I had to use my gift card there, unfortunately. I'm hoping it's a good read.

It's a brilliant collection in my opinion

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#1015 Aptorian

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 01:46 PM

Devices and Desires - first book in the engineer trilogy.

At first, reading the first chapter, I feared I'd bought a copy of a Hobbs writtings, but it picked up as soon as the engineer was introduced. 4 chapters in and loving it. Not very epic or fantastic for a fantasy book, but it is intelligent and interesting in its own right.

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 11:11 PM

"The Worm Ouroboros" by E.R. Eddison

Sadly I don't think I will able to read it for an overly long length of time. Damn school, damn papers and damn midterms.

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 05:20 PM

Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong [and am reading it now]
aaand Color Mixing Bible by Ian Sidaway.. haha. Not much to read there, but lets see what it's worth.

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Posted 01 February 2009 - 03:27 PM

The Stepsister Scheme - Jim C. Hines
Nation - Terry Pratchett

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon