The Book I bought today is...

#1261 Stalker

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Posted 02 February 2010 - 03:38 AM

I just bought SE's Crack'd Pot Trail, Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains, and Glen Cook's Return of the Black Company.
Started with the first few chapters of SE, of course, and so far I have been enjoying it.

#1262 Jusentantaka

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Posted 02 February 2010 - 03:53 AM

Tapper, on 29 January 2010 - 11:09 AM, said:

only saw this now. Geoffrey Parker's Military Revolution and the Rise of the West was very readable/ accessible, but the period 1500-1800 has to appeal to you.

Awful short for $30... but might pick it up next time I buy buy though. Damned shame its considered a textbook though, might be on the nook library otherwise. *kisses*

#1263 wolf_2099

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Posted 03 February 2010 - 06:58 AM

Crack'd Pot Trail
TPB of Starship Troopers. I wanted a nicer copy than my MMPB.
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"HAIL THE MARINES!"

#1264 Tsundoku

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Posted 03 February 2010 - 10:54 AM

Bought the Robert E Howard complete Conan chronicles. Have no idea when I'll get around to reading it.

Running low on space on my dining table as I don't have a bookcase (furnished flat and I don't want to buy too much stuff with my itinerant lifestyle).

I can has bibliOCD.

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

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#1265 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 03 February 2010 - 11:28 AM

Bought yesterday:

1. Lois McMaster Bujold: _The Sharing Knife: Passage_
2. Steven Brust: _Iorich_ (latest in the Vlad Taltos series)
3. Sharon Shinn: _Dark Moon Defender_ and _Reader and Raelynx_, from the Twelve Houses series

Started Passage last night, continues directly from Vol.2, The Sharing Knife: Legacy.

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#1266 PeterWilliam

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Posted 07 February 2010 - 01:49 AM

Judas Unchained - Hamilton
Dust of Dreams - Erikson
Crack'd Pot Trail - Erikson
Night of Knives - Esslemont
Return of the Crimson Guard - Esslemont
Elric in the Dream Realms (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melnibone) - Moorcock
Dragon Keeper - Hobb
Mad Ship - Hobb
Ship of Magic - Hobb

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But its end is the way of death.

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#1267 PeterWilliam

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Posted 21 February 2010 - 10:59 PM

Thief of Lives - Hendee(s)
Rebel Fay - Hendee(s)
The Demon Princes (SFBC omnibus edition) - Vance
By Schism Rent Asunder - Weber
The Search for Fierra - Lawhead
The Siege of Dome - Lawhead
Shadowbridge - Frost
Lord Tophet - Frost
A Shadow on the Glass - Irvine
The Skewed Throne - Palmatier
In Legend Born - Resnick (Laura)
The Magicians' Guild - Canavan

There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.

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#1268 Abyss

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Posted 24 February 2010 - 08:52 PM

THE JENNIFER MORGUE by Charlie Stross, because THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES was too good not to want more geek secret agent vs cthulu awesomeness.

- Abyss, notes ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!!

THIS IS YOUR REMINDER THAT THERE IS A
'VIEW NEW CONTENT' BUTTON THAT
ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW NEW CONTENT

#1269 Puck

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Posted 24 February 2010 - 09:09 PM

Bought Shardik by Richard Adams off ebay. Sometimes, I just love ebay.

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Ninja Puck, Ninja Puck, really doesn't give a fuck..? - [King Lear]

#1270 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 24 February 2010 - 09:59 PM

eBay can be a great place to find out-of-print books at good prices. I actually prefer it to AbeBooks.

Also, I'm (perhaps ridiculously) excited to see Shardik getting a lot of love around here recently.

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―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

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Posted 25 February 2010 - 03:57 PM

The Silmarillion by Tolkien. I read the Lord of the Rings over 25 years ago and then re-read it when the movies started coming out. Never read The Silmarillion.

“The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.”
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#1272 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 27 February 2010 - 04:45 PM

Yesterday I picked the 2nd Instrumentalities of the Night book, as well as a $1 copy of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.

#1273 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 01 March 2010 - 04:41 PM

I joined the Science Fiction Book Club over the weekend, mostly to finish off my collection SFBC Malazan hardcovers. For less than $27, I ordered my introductory package of:

Gardens of the Moon / Deadhouse Gates / Toll the Hounds / Dust of Dreams by SE
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
Dragonheart by Todd McCaffrey
Lamentation / Canticle by Ken Scholes
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed by Sean Williams
Star Wars: Outcast / Star Wars: Backlash by Aaron Allston
Star Wars: Omen by Christie Golden
Star Wars: Abyss by Troy Denning

#1274 Fist Gamet

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Posted 04 March 2010 - 02:22 AM

Heading into the tail end of a nightmare's worth of overtime, I decided to have a good old book splurge to reward myself.

Twelve - Kent
Mockingbird - Tevis
A Magic of Twilight - Farrell
Vlad - C C Humphries
Black Sun Rising - Friedman
Man Plus - Pohl

All for less than thirty of your british pounds. Gotta love Amazon.
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Victory is mine!

#1275 wolf_2099

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Posted 04 March 2010 - 08:19 AM

George RR Martin - Wild Cards&Aces High
Richard Stark - The Hunter&The Man With the Getaway Face

"HAIL THE MARINES!"

#1276 MTS

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Posted 04 March 2010 - 09:26 AM

Picked up Retribution Falls/The Fade by Chris Wooding (Brood seems to love him), Suttree and Blood Meridian by McCarthy and And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave.

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Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.

Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades.

#1277 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 04:55 PM

Lucked into some Glen Cook books yesterday at Half Price Books. I picked up Doomstalker, Sweet Silver Blues, Cruel Zinc Melodies, and a second copy of Bleak Seasons which doesn't have the printing error that replaces page 200 with a copy of page 199.

#1278 stone monkey

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 06:53 PM

Bought Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds and the mmpb of Turn Coat by Jim Butcher...

The Butcher should be more of the same; unlike others I find them to be merely a light and moderately diverting read as opposed to the Greatest Thing Ever^tm. The Reynolds looks to have an intriguing setup and I do like the steampunk western vibe he's got going on. I expect that, given past experience with his work, things will get suitably cosmic later down the line; the hints are there already...

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#1279 Slow Ben

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 07:08 PM

Found a copy of Kings The Dark Tower at Big Lots for $3 over the weekend. I've always wanted to cut out the inside flap and put it on my bulletin board or something, but wouldnt ever let myself do it to my copy. Now i can.

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#1280 stone monkey

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Posted 09 March 2010 - 06:42 PM

Hopefully the Amazon fairy will soon be bringing me Yukikaze by Chōhei Kambayashi (the anime is very good and I'm told the novel is better) and volume 10 of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Company