The Book I bought today is...

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Posted 12 July 2004 - 07:48 AM

@Unoriginal. HP Lovecraft is one of my ol' faves also. Also see the spoofy HPL tale in Gaimans "Soaoke and Mirrors".

Bought today : "The Locus Awards" the best award winning short fiction from the last thirty years of the Locus awards. Contributors include GRRM, Neil Gaiman, Ted Chiang, Connie Willis, Bruce Sterling, Ursula Le guin etc.

I've read the GRRM tale ( SF future religous thing ) Pretty good.

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Posted 12 September 2004 - 03:14 PM

Bought a few recently - The first Two of the Viscount of Adrilankha (steven Brust, who I will agree with DD and say, his books probably go out of print the day after publication); Downbelow Station and Cyteen, by CJ Cherryh; Something Rotten, fourth in the Thursday Next series by Jasper FForde, and Iron Council by we all know who.

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Posted 04 August 2004 - 03:30 PM

bought "Jennifer Government", by Max Barry; Neal Asher's "Gridlinked", and a book called "House of the Scorpion", or something... can't remember who its by.

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Posted 01 April 2005 - 10:44 AM

The 2 swords - RA salvatore (last one in drizzet series)

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Posted 17 March 2005 - 05:38 AM

The Warrior Prophet, The Healthy Dead, The Mark of Ran and The Black Gondolier

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Posted 16 August 2004 - 11:25 AM

Alastair Reynolds - Chasm City

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Posted 06 August 2004 - 07:24 AM

Shadow Warrior series - Chris Bunch
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan

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Posted 20 March 2005 - 04:09 PM

quote:
Originally posted by First Seguleh:
I bought no books today. Someone else bought one for me. You see, having got one of my friends into Mieville, he decided, for some reason, to go out and buy the big, expensive, hardback copy of the Iron Council, and because he had other books to read, gave it to me first He he he.

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Posted 07 August 2004 - 02:38 AM

Uuhh, all my books (well, nearly all) came in at once today. I bought:

Waifs and Strays - Charles de Lint
The Wild Wood - Charles de Lint
In the Forests of Serre - Patricia A McKillip
Callahan's Con - Spider Robinson
Natural History - Justina Robson
Zandru's Forge - Marion Zimmer Bradley & Deborah J Ross

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Posted 13 July 2004 - 02:33 PM

Swamp Thing is my favourite Moore.As it was poetic as well as magical. Watchmen was and is a classic. Skizz anyone ? D.R and Quinch ?

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Posted 07 July 2004 - 06:31 AM

Killing Custer by James Welch and Paul Stekler

Custer had it coming." This has been the popular litany for more than 120 years. Acclaimed novelist James Welch, in his first nonfiction work, restores dignity to both native people whose pride had been systematically stripped away and to an army officer whose own pride and impetuousness collided with unquestionable bravery. Along the way, the author examines the validity and relevance of latter-day symbols such as the movies Little Big Man and Dances with Wolves. No sugar-coating of facts here: "Almost all of the clichÃ¢â‚¬Å¡s about Plains Indians are true"..."Where was Sitting Bull during the fight?"..."Long Hair's scalp was not worth taking." A terrific addition to anyone's library. Many illustrations, maps, and vintage b&w photos.

B&N

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Posted 20 March 2005 - 06:13 PM

Well I bought Healthy Dead and Blood Follows a while back, but its a pre-order so Hood knows when they'll find their way to my door. But I'll be buying Black Jewels Trilogy and Dreams Made Flesh pretty soon Posted Image

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Posted 16 July 2004 - 03:10 PM

Bought The Hedge Knight. Looks nice

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Posted 12 September 2004 - 12:06 PM

After a long wait the mailman has finally delivered the Charnel Prince today (Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes).

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Posted 29 June 2004 - 11:05 AM

Last week:
Ilium - Dan Simmons
The Scarbard's Song - Kim Hunter (I have no idea why I bought this, I haven't opened it and I already know it sucks)
The Vampire Armand - Anne Rice
Grass - Sheri Tepper

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Posted 13 July 2004 - 02:30 PM

Smiley Faces a la Rorshauchfdkldhjfdlkaj (you know, the masked dude out of watchmen)...

I loved V, and his Jack the Ripper, and Watchmen, in fact I admit I enjoy mostof his stuff... good lefty sbvesive lit at its best

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Posted 12 August 2004 - 02:12 AM

Yeah, my copy of Songs of Leaving by Crowther arrived in the mail yesterday. Nice looking book.

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Posted 27 July 2004 - 04:03 AM

Robin D Laws is quite a good author, if I remember rightly its an Angelika novel and also the first of the two.

Hope that you enjoy it.

Im recommending that no one buys the forthcoming Alexander book by Steven Pressfield. THe guy is doing my nut in with the use of the word mates, its appearing all over the place and I really dont thing Alexander the Great would have used it or if he did it would surely have been broken up with the use of either friends or copatriots or something like that.

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Posted 01 April 2005 - 01:30 AM

I think Manchester (central and suburban) is actually pretty crap for getting your hands on anything other than the latest Harry Potter or Jordan's autobiography.

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