[LadyMTL]

I just bought two during my lunch hour (yay for working super close to a bookstore!) :

Joe Abercrombie's Best served cold
Carlos Zafon's Shadow of the wind

Oh yeah, and the September issue of Vogue but that doesn't really count,

[Abyss]

jitsukerr, on Aug 27 2009, 06:55 AM, said:

_Heroes Die_ is on its way to me from Amazon.
...

Maia Irraz, on Aug 27 2009, 12:45 PM, said:

...
Carlos Zafon's Shadow of the wind
...

You will not be sorry, either of you.


- Abyss, fan of both.

[murphy72]

Just ordered Mike Carey's Dead Men's Boots and Thicker Than Water.

[Use Of Weapons]

_Heroes Die_ is waiting while I finish _Higher Superstition_. Man, this book is making me angry. I have to stop reading it to cool off periodically. But I do like reading books that make me angry...

[LadyMTL]

I have two coming from Amazon (would have been 3 if their release date for DoD had been accurate...rrrr)

Guillermo del Toro's The Strain
David Grann's The Lost City of Z: A tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

[Pilgrim]

Talon of the Silver Hawk. This is my first attempt at Feist, hopefully it'll be worth the buck I spent at the used book store.

Pilgrim

[Abyss]

murphy72, on Aug 27 2009, 01:52 PM, said:

Just ordered Mike Carey's Dead Men's Boots and Thicker Than Water.

heh. Just ordered THICKER and NAMING OF THE BEASTS.

I blame Deornoth for his review of Naming... i couldn't wait for Canada when the Book Depository was happy to send it to me from the uk, free, no shipping charge.

So psyched. Big fan of the Castor series.


- Abyss, dead man reading.

[RangerSG]

Pilgrim, on Sep 3 2009, 10:17 AM, said:

Talon of the Silver Hawk. This is my first attempt at Feist, hopefully it'll be worth the buck I spent at the used book store.

Pilgrim

Feist is surely worth a buck. But I'm not sure that's the book I would've chosen to start. I actually don't hate him. The one thing you know you're going to get is an action-packed story. I'm never convinced any of his major characters are in any real danger, but he does occasionally try to convince you they are. Magician and Daughter of the Empire are both good page turners. Not spectacular or earth shattering, but they have memorable moments.

[Nina]

The Black Company (yes, SE's comments have persuaded me into trying to read this - I didn't want to!).

[RangerSG]

Nina, on 06 September 2009 - 06:30 PM, said:

The Black Company (yes, SE's comments have persuaded me into trying to read this - I didn't want to!).

The Black Company is the birthplace of 'new fantasy' as I call it. Cook's characterization is great. And if you like droll humor, you're in for a treat. Croaker delivers it in spades. It's well worth the omnibus prices for the first 6 books (and 7-9 come out later this month). It's must read material for a fan of the genre, IMHO.

[murphy72]

Abyss, on 03 September 2009 - 04:00 PM, said:

QUOTE (murphy72 @ Aug 27 2009, 01:52 PM) Just ordered Mike Carey's Dead Men's Boots and Thicker Than Water.


heh. Just ordered THICKER and NAMING OF THE BEASTS.

I blame Deornoth for his review of Naming... i couldn't wait for Canada when the Book Depository was happy to send it to me from the uk, free, no shipping charge.

So psyched. Big fan of the Castor series.


- Abyss, dead man reading.

Read the same review and ordered Naming of the Beasts. Couldn't wait.

[Nina]

RangerSG, on 07 September 2009 - 07:09 AM, said:

The Black Company is the birthplace of 'new fantasy' as I call it. Cook's characterization is great. And if you like droll humor, you're in for a treat. Croaker delivers it in spades. It's well worth the omnibus prices for the first 6 books (and 7-9 come out later this month). It's must read material for a fan of the genre, IMHO.

Thank you )) I've got the Russian translation (it's 2 first books together). But perhaps I should consider reading the original sometimes.

[Salt-Man Z]

Speaking of Glen Cook, I made use of Half Price Books' 20% off Labor Day sale and finally landed a Dread Empire book and a Garrett, P.I. book. Can anyone tell me whether these two series need to be read in order or if I can read individual books on a standalone basis?

Complete haul:

Cold Copper Tears (Garrett P.I. #3) by Glen Cook
Reap the East Wind (Dread Empire #7) by Glen Cook
Exodus from the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun #4) by Gene Wolfe
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds
A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
Tales of H. P. Lovecraft edited by Carol Joyce Oates
Captain's Blood by William Shatner

[Hinter]

RangerSG, on 07 September 2009 - 07:09 AM, said:

Nina, on 06 September 2009 - 06:30 PM, said:

The Black Company (yes, SE's comments have persuaded me into trying to read this - I didn't want to!).

The Black Company is the birthplace of 'new fantasy' as I call it. Cook's characterization is great. And if you like droll humor, you're in for a treat. Croaker delivers it in spades. It's well worth the omnibus prices for the first 6 books (and 7-9 come out later this month). It's must read material for a fan of the genre, IMHO.

Totally agree. I've only read the books of the north so far but I find them as good as SE, and there is no other fantasy author I'd claim that about.

[stone monkey]

Just bought The Year's Best Science Fiction: 26th Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois. Short stories are the lifeblood of sf and if you want to see what the up and coming writers of the future are up to (as well as some of the more established names) this is the place to do it. If you're only going to buy one collection of short fiction per year then this is the one. I've been buying these, on and off, for over 20 years now and they never fail to reward the purchase, in spades. Past editions have had some truly classic short stories in them.

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 10 September 2009 - 09:48 PM

[murphy72]

Salt-Man Z, on 08 September 2009 - 04:13 PM, said:

Speaking of Glen Cook, I made use of Half Price Books' 20% off Labor Day sale and finally landed a Dread Empire book and a Garrett, P.I. book. Can anyone tell me whether these two series need to be read in order or if I can read individual books on a standalone basis?

Complete haul:

Cold Copper Tears (Garrett P.I. #3) by Glen Cook
Reap the East Wind (Dread Empire #7) by Glen Cook
Exodus from the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun #4) by Gene Wolfe
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds
A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
Tales of H. P. Lovecraft edited by Carol Joyce Oates
Captain's Blood by William Shatner

On the P.I. Garrett books, it is better to read them in order, starting with Sweet Silver Blues. Each book is a stand alone, but things are mentioned in later books that occurred in earlier ones. I'm not as familiar with the Dread Empire series.

[murphy72]

Arrived today:

The Jeeves Omnibus by P. G. Wodehouse
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey
Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey


Arrived last Friday:

The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey (the PO messed up my delivery, but I finally got them straightened out. You don't mess with a Murphy!)

[Hinter]

The Ill-Made Mute by Cecelia Dart-Thornton.

Cost me 50 pence in the local charity shop, which is just as well because 30 pages in I am struggling to maintaing interest.

[Pilgrim]

@Salt-Man

Dread Empire should definitely be read in order, as it's really just one story broken up into 3 parts (IMHO). I've read a few of the Garret books and loved them, but in no particular order. I felt a little lost at times, but quickly picked up on the characters and was able to understand without much problem.

As for me, I'm currently on Deadhouse Gates in re-read mode. Getting ready for US release of DoD.

Pilgrim

[Use Of Weapons]

Today I bought:

Mike Carey: _The Number of the Beasts_
Neal Asher: _Orbus_ (new Spatterjay novel -- woo-hoo!)
Patrick Rothfuss: _The Name of the Wind_

together with
Oliver James: _Affluenza_

Currently reading the Carey.  Much darker in tone than previous instalments, so far.  Juliet is still the best character in the series by miles, closely followed by Asmodeus.