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Just arrived home with my copy of ORB, SCEPTRE, THRONE from my local bookstore. Have to go out to a meeting in a few minutes, so no time to start it, but I'll get to make a big start into it tonight. Yay.
The Book I bought today is...
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 07:38 PM
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 11:44 PM
Picked up:
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CAPED CRUSADER - Neil Gaiman & Andy Kubert
BANEWREAKER - Jacqueline Carey
IMPACT - Douglas Preston
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CAPED CRUSADER - Neil Gaiman & Andy Kubert
BANEWREAKER - Jacqueline Carey
IMPACT - Douglas Preston
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"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Posted 18 January 2012 - 05:58 PM
QuickTidal, on 17 January 2012 - 03:12 PM, said:
According to Amazon.co.uk, my copy of OST has dispatched. So I'm guessing a week to get it here in Canada.
Sigh...I'm always the last to get my copy.
I ordered it from Book Depository a few days before Christmas and as of today it's still "processing." Oh well, at least I didn't have to pay for shipping.
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Posted 21 January 2012 - 04:50 AM
Ordered Absolute Sandman vol 2, The first three books of the Long Price Quartet, and then entire Gap Cycle today. Now to play the waiting game...
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Posted 21 January 2012 - 03:01 PM
The Incredible Kitsu, on 21 January 2012 - 04:50 AM, said:
Ordered Absolute Sandman vol 2
This is my next major purchase!
I will eventually have them all, oh yes, I will.
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Posted 22 January 2012 - 09:23 AM
QuickTidal, on 21 January 2012 - 03:01 PM, said:
The Incredible Kitsu, on 21 January 2012 - 04:50 AM, said:
Ordered Absolute Sandman vol 2
This is my next major purchase!
I will eventually have them all, oh yes, I will.
I'm pretty much investing in them one a month right now. So good. So so good.
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Posted 24 January 2012 - 11:49 PM
Picked up THE JUNGLE BOOK - Rudyard Kipling (which I've never owned, but this new version has an introduction by Neil Gaiman) and LOST IN SHANGRI-LA by Mitchell Zuckoff.
"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
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 03:07 PM
Continuing to purchase every Glen Cook Kindle book I bought, Dread Brass Shadows: A Garrett, P.I. Novel, An Ill Fate Marshalling (Last Chronicle of the Dread Empire) and A Path to Coldness of Heart (Dread Empire).
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Posted 26 January 2012 - 01:36 AM
Half Price Books had 7 Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights books bundled together for $2, so even though I already own 3 of them in omnibus form, I couldn't pass it up.
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Posted 26 January 2012 - 02:29 PM
Picked up a (signed) copy of THE CHIMPS OF FAUNA SANCTUARY by Andrew Westoll. A non-fic book about a sanctuary where chimps that were used in experiments an the like are rehabilitated. It will be my 1st non-fic book of 2012 likely.
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"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Posted 28 January 2012 - 06:06 PM
I need to stop buying stuff...gods...
today I got
SHADOW OPS: CONTROL POINT by Myke Cole (think US Military with magic)
IREDEEMABLE: Vol. 1 by Mark Waid and Peter Krause
today I got
SHADOW OPS: CONTROL POINT by Myke Cole (think US Military with magic)
IREDEEMABLE: Vol. 1 by Mark Waid and Peter Krause
"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
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Posted 28 January 2012 - 10:30 PM
John Connolly - The Killing Kind
I like his prose and his books, I like them a lot. Sometimes this series tends to be really grim and depressing, though.
I like his prose and his books, I like them a lot. Sometimes this series tends to be really grim and depressing, though.
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Posted 06 February 2012 - 07:44 PM
Picked up a couple of Repairman Jack novels at Half Price Books today (#3 Conspiracies and #12 By the Sword.)
"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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Posted 07 February 2012 - 06:44 AM
small Chapters run today
Ken Scholes third "Psalms of Isaak" book, Antiphon, is out in mmpb-finally.
Picked up "City of Dreams and nightmare"--volume 1 of a trilogy by Ian Whates
also, grabbed two volumes of the "darkness" series by Harry Turtledove--an alternative-world Epic story of WW2 with magic and dragons. I buy them when I see them, since they aren't in bookstores often. today picked up volumes 2 and 3.
Ken Scholes third "Psalms of Isaak" book, Antiphon, is out in mmpb-finally.
Picked up "City of Dreams and nightmare"--volume 1 of a trilogy by Ian Whates
also, grabbed two volumes of the "darkness" series by Harry Turtledove--an alternative-world Epic story of WW2 with magic and dragons. I buy them when I see them, since they aren't in bookstores often. today picked up volumes 2 and 3.
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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:
And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 10:25 PM
Bit of a shopping splurge yesterday, a few authors I have read nothing of, before.
OST - ICE.
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion plus Ilium - my first foray into Simmons. Started Hyperion before OST and so far, it looks like a game of mafia.
Rise of Empire - Sullivan, will wait until my order of book 1 and 3 arrives
Shadow on the Glass - Ian Irvine. Know nothing about the man and if I had seen the thread on him, I might not have bought it, but let's try.
The Second World War - sir John Keegan. Best military historian of the past 50 years, and a great narrator too, fail safe.
White House Years - Henry Kissinger. Read his Diplomacy and I'm stunned by the man's knowledge. Having read a decent share of Halberstam, it will be interesting to see how much Kissinger shows from the other side.
OST - ICE.
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion plus Ilium - my first foray into Simmons. Started Hyperion before OST and so far, it looks like a game of mafia.
Rise of Empire - Sullivan, will wait until my order of book 1 and 3 arrives
Shadow on the Glass - Ian Irvine. Know nothing about the man and if I had seen the thread on him, I might not have bought it, but let's try.
The Second World War - sir John Keegan. Best military historian of the past 50 years, and a great narrator too, fail safe.
White House Years - Henry Kissinger. Read his Diplomacy and I'm stunned by the man's knowledge. Having read a decent share of Halberstam, it will be interesting to see how much Kissinger shows from the other side.
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 11:32 PM
I just bought Scott Lynch's "Republic of Thieves" from the Book Depository. Am a bit confused because on Amazon it says it's nowhere near being released but the Depository says it's going to be next week. Fingers crossed!
I'm also debating buying Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" but I've never read any of his work so I'm still on the fence there.
I'm also debating buying Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" but I've never read any of his work so I'm still on the fence there.
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 11:55 PM
Tapper, on 08 February 2012 - 10:25 PM, said:
Bit of a shopping splurge yesterday, a few authors I have read nothing of, before.
OST - ICE.
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion plus Ilium - my first foray into Simmons. Started Hyperion before OST and so far, it looks like a game of mafia.
Rise of Empire - Sullivan, will wait until my order of book 1 and 3 arrives
Shadow on the Glass - Ian Irvine. Know nothing about the man and if I had seen the thread on him, I might not have bought it, but let's try.
The Second World War - sir John Keegan. Best military historian of the past 50 years, and a great narrator too, fail safe.
White House Years - Henry Kissinger. Read his Diplomacy and I'm stunned by the man's knowledge. Having read a decent share of Halberstam, it will be interesting to see how much Kissinger shows from the other side.
OST - ICE.
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion plus Ilium - my first foray into Simmons. Started Hyperion before OST and so far, it looks like a game of mafia.
Rise of Empire - Sullivan, will wait until my order of book 1 and 3 arrives
Shadow on the Glass - Ian Irvine. Know nothing about the man and if I had seen the thread on him, I might not have bought it, but let's try.
The Second World War - sir John Keegan. Best military historian of the past 50 years, and a great narrator too, fail safe.
White House Years - Henry Kissinger. Read his Diplomacy and I'm stunned by the man's knowledge. Having read a decent share of Halberstam, it will be interesting to see how much Kissinger shows from the other side.
Good Luck with Irvine. it can be.... trying.
And if you like Hyperion, make sure to get the 2 Endymion books--they complete the Quartet.
This post has been edited by Mentalist: 08 February 2012 - 11:56 PM
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:
And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
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Posted 09 February 2012 - 01:03 AM
Mentalist, on 08 February 2012 - 11:55 PM, said:
Tapper, on 08 February 2012 - 10:25 PM, said:
Bit of a shopping splurge yesterday, a few authors I have read nothing of, before.
OST - ICE.
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion plus Ilium - my first foray into Simmons. Started Hyperion before OST and so far, it looks like a game of mafia.
Rise of Empire - Sullivan, will wait until my order of book 1 and 3 arrives
Shadow on the Glass - Ian Irvine. Know nothing about the man and if I had seen the thread on him, I might not have bought it, but let's try.
The Second World War - sir John Keegan. Best military historian of the past 50 years, and a great narrator too, fail safe.
White House Years - Henry Kissinger. Read his Diplomacy and I'm stunned by the man's knowledge. Having read a decent share of Halberstam, it will be interesting to see how much Kissinger shows from the other side.
OST - ICE.
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion plus Ilium - my first foray into Simmons. Started Hyperion before OST and so far, it looks like a game of mafia.
Rise of Empire - Sullivan, will wait until my order of book 1 and 3 arrives
Shadow on the Glass - Ian Irvine. Know nothing about the man and if I had seen the thread on him, I might not have bought it, but let's try.
The Second World War - sir John Keegan. Best military historian of the past 50 years, and a great narrator too, fail safe.
White House Years - Henry Kissinger. Read his Diplomacy and I'm stunned by the man's knowledge. Having read a decent share of Halberstam, it will be interesting to see how much Kissinger shows from the other side.
Good Luck with Irvine. it can be.... trying.
And if you like Hyperion, make sure to get the 2 Endymion books--they complete the Quartet.
I agree. The Hyperion quartet is epic (not epic in the overused "epic, man" kind of way but truly epic). Some people don't care much for the Endymion books but I, personally, loved them. I wasn't a huge fan of Ilium or Olympos however, though it may have just been because they were bedside books and only received scant attention.
Anyway, happy to say, I've bought no books lately. After my birthday splurge, I'm set for a year (plus, anything I want to read outside of what I own is usually at the local library).
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Posted 09 February 2012 - 04:04 PM
I had $5 in my pocket, so I hit Half Price Books planning on picking up Reynolds' The Prefect (which I had seen there earlier.)
Instead, I came across a Samuel R. Delany boxed set of Dhalgren, Nova, and Triton for $2.50. I've been intrigued by Dhalgren for a while now, so I couldn't pass it up.
Instead, I came across a Samuel R. Delany boxed set of Dhalgren, Nova, and Triton for $2.50. I've been intrigued by Dhalgren for a while now, so I couldn't pass it up.
"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?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
