The Book I bought today is...

#2341 Dammon

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 05:16 AM

American Gods by Neil Gaiman (10th Anniversary Edition)

*WARNING* May melt when added to water.

#2342 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 06:42 PM

Couldn't help myself: Half Price Books had the Tor hardcover of GotM on the clearance rack for $2. I now own one copy for each time I've read it (3).

"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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#2343 Fist Gamet

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 09:17 PM

Gone a bit retro...

Legend
The King Beyond the Gate

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#2344 McLovin

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 12:39 PM

Bought the entire HERITAGE OF SHANNARA quad.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

#2345 QuickTidal

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 06:31 PM

On a bit of a Pratchett kick (seeing as I only owned all the City Watch Discworld books so far, and decided that was a travesty), so I was out today and grabbed WYRD SISTERS and THE WEE FREE MEN.

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

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#2346 QuickTidal

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Posted 19 May 2012 - 03:41 PM

Two (I was leaving the store and saw them) buys:

THE STORIES OF IBIS - Hiroshi Yamamoto (a future earth where artificial intelligence is dominant and a human meets an android who tells hims seven stories about the fall of humanity)

THE DAKOTA CIPHER - William Dietrich (An adventurer/spy who helped Napoleon win a decisive battle then travels across the United States with a norseman in search of Thor's Hammer)

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

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#2347 QuickTidal

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 11:00 AM

So after the recent news that the US publisher who does Tolkien's books filed for bankruptcy a few days back I began to fear that the other covers that match my new copy of THE SILMARILLION (latest US softcover trade, art by Alan Lee) would become quite scarce (and I dislike HarperCollinsCanada's new versions), I picked up UNFINISHED TALES, and replaced my existing HOBBIT, and LOTR books as well. $90 later...but what the hell right?

Anyways, they look pretty slick together on the shelf.

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Number of downloads: 2

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

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#2348 Nocturnal

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 11:23 AM

The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall, a spoof of detective novels, the cover was so flashy I couldn't resist buying it.

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#2349 Use Of Weapons

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 01:02 PM

_Kushiel's Avatar_ has arrived! But it's the TPB version :-( Will have to get the MMP for the look of the whole set.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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#2350 McLovin

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 11:29 AM

LORD FOUL'S BANE
THE ILLEARTH WAR
THE POWER THAT PRESERVES

Tried Thomas Covenant a long time ago but for various reasons (one being physically misplacing the book) I never got through LORD FOUL'S BANE. However, I am a big fan of Donaldson's Gap series, so am going back to give this a try.

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

#2351 yuna_anomander25

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 08:07 PM

QuickTidal, on 25 May 2012 - 11:00 AM, said:

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nice collection, that is one of the reasons why i like my books to be the same cover/edition so that it will really look to be one complete collection,
i had my malazan books 1-4 on TOR mmpb, i have one HoC bantam edition, as i hated the tor cover,
MT on TPB, books 6-8 on mmpb, then both DoD and TCG on tpb, but i still want it to be all mmpb, but guess i have to get by this,
NoK on mmpb, RoTCG on hard-bound!! but i'm a little disappointed with this one, its good but could have been better,

just ordered a copy of patrick rothfuss books, as i don't want to read on advance WMF, tNotW is sold-out right now on my local bookstore, but i'm willing to wait,
trying to decide if i should just go with glen cook's black company paperback story collection or buy them as separate books, might be more expensive at that,

on topic, just bought the hunger games book 1, on paperback,

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#2352 LadyMTL

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 09:00 PM

I pre-ordered Stephen King's 11.22.63 in paperback, and then I bought John Connolly's Bad Men and Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles. I was hesitating over Achilles for a while but finally caved so fingers crossed that it was worth my $10. :lol:

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#2353 MTS

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 06:40 AM

Picked up the entire Long Price Quartet for $8 at a sale in the uni bookshop today. I've read them before, but I don't own them and $2 each was too good to pass up. :lol:

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

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#2354 Ukjent

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 10:33 AM

Needed something to read while I wait for my next bundle of books from Amazon to arrive, so I Bought Trudi Canavan's Last of the Wilds and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Salute the dark. The price difference between Norway and the UK is just ridiculous. In Norway a new hardback book cost about 42 £, but if I order them form the UK I can get'em as cheap as 13-14£..

#2355 LadyMTL

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 05:53 PM

Apparently I'm on a book-buying binge as yesterday after work I went to Indigo and bought four new ones: Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, Piers Anthony's On a pale horse, Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and lastly, Cook's Bleak Seasons / She is the Darkness collection. I'd never read anything by Card before but holy hell, I'm tearing through it...started it this morning and I'm already halfway done.

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#2356 QuickTidal

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Posted 03 June 2012 - 05:20 PM

It's that time of year again (AKA when Chapters/Indigo does their yearly summer reading push and offers Buy 3 get the 4th free).

So I decided it was to be used to buy books I've always wanted to read but never have, so I got.

LORD OF THE SILVER BOW - David Gemmell

THE TERROR - Dan Simmons

THE SEARCH FOR WANDLA - Tony Diterlizzi

GREEN RIDER - Kristen Britain

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#2357 worry

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Posted 03 June 2012 - 07:42 PM

Aren't you a little old for those Where's Wandla books?

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#2358 QuickTidal

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Posted 03 June 2012 - 08:02 PM

worrywort, on 03 June 2012 - 07:42 PM, said:

Aren't you a little old for those Where's Wandla books?

When I read books I don't see "age limit's".

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#2359 worry

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Posted 03 June 2012 - 10:47 PM

I know, I just wanted to say Where's Wandla.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#2360 Fist Gamet

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Posted 09 June 2012 - 10:08 AM

Got Kindled up on...

Chronicles of The Black Company, Cook
Son of Heaven (Chung Kuo Recastong), David Wingrove

The To Read list just grows and grows

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