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Lucimay wrote:here's my TBR pile:

The Bonehunters - Erikson
Blood Follows - Erikson
Thousandfold Thought - Bakker
Chronicles vol 1 - Bob Dylan
The Colorado Kid - King
re-read TCTC
re-read Gap Cycle
re-read all Erikson
re-read all Bakker
more Conrad
Reading that lot would take me about five years. Seriously. 8O
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Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks
Part 3 and 4 of Osamu Tezuka's Buddah graphic novels
Scar Night by Allan Campbell
Latest Interview: George R.R. Martin

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Went out today and found as usual that I couldn't resist the temptation to buy another book. After considering several - Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Memories Of My Melancholy Whores; something by James Joyce (early stuff - Im going to work slowly up towards Ulysses and Finnegans Wake); Lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora (which shouldn't be out until tomorrow but Borders had lots of copies in); various others - I decided it would be better to get something different from what I had been buying recently, and that wasn't by an author I already have books on my to-read shelf by (plus I've entered two seperate competitons for Lynch's book, and thought it better to wait). So I ended up getting one I'd been thinking of getting for a while: Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks.
I've been meaning to read all of Banks' novels anyway, in published order. I was originally going to read all his novels as Iain Banks before moving onto his sci-fi stuff, but changed my mind.
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Consider Phlebas is great! (thanks Lore!) yeah it's not just Pat--I've been poking around Fantasybookspot (as you know I haven't been there in months (sorry Ain), man what a production they're becoming-and now e-zines! 8O ) ASOIAF, Locus and other places and "Lies" is all the rage. Fantasy-wise I think it's 3rd on my list now after TPTP & AFFCs. 8)
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Courtesy of the UPS book fairies:

The Crow by Alison Croggon
The Oracle's Queen by Lynn Flewelling
The Tainted by Glenda Larke
Emperor by Stephen Baxter (3rd copy now so I'd better read it already I guess!)
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
Rifkind's Challenge by Lynn Abbey
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This afternoon I bought the Serenity prequel comic book thing, and also Sandman volume three.

The Serenity one was good, but a bit short. Sandman was also good, but not, I thought, as good as the first two. Especially vol. 2. But there you go.
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Been ordering some stuff in the last couple of days (and kicking myself for spending money). First, I ordered the new issue of Electric Velocipede, because all the blogs I read were mentioning it, it had a pretty cool cover, and it only cost about £4 (international price, $8; US price is $4). I was a little upset when I realised that the issue is smaller than they usually are, and the next one will have a lot of stuff in it that I'd want to read, but it's my own fault for not looking around the site more.
Then, today I read in one or two places that small publisher Wheatland Press have a special offer - buy a book, get a copy of their journal, Polyphony, free. I decided to look around their catalogue, see what it was like, and I ended up ordering the collection American Sorrows by Jay Lake, because he's yet another of the authors I've been meaning to read sometime.

I'm going to try not to make a habit of ordering stuff like this - because of the exchange rate, it'd be too easy to convince myself that I'm not spending much. ($24?? Oh, it's only £13, that's alright...)
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Went for a walk at lunchtime, and now that i'm reading Zindell's "The Broken God" I decided I'd better grab a copy of "The Wild". So I did. My TBR pile will not be thanking me anytime soon :)
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My order from Wheatland Press arrived today: American Sorrows, a collection of four novelettes by Jay Lake, and (for free!) Polyphony 5, an anthology co-edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake, which I was slightly surprised to see is three times the size of American Sorrows, having some thirty short stories therein.
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Saw a second hand copy of Zindell's "War in Heaven" in a local bookstore, and me being the book snob that I am, I decided to see if Borders would have a new copy, and sure enough they did. So rather than spend AU$8 on the second hand copy, I spent $19 on a new one.

Supporting the author (so I keep telling myself) :)
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Matriarch by Karen Traviss
Farthing by Jo Walton
Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley
The Harsh Cry of the Heron by Lian Hearn
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Just bought 2 great books for 54 cents: Iain M. Bank's Look to Windward--and L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the Future:
featuring: Algis Budrys
Robert Silverburg
Theodore Sturgeon-What Are You Doing Here?
Jack Williamson
Roger Zelazny
Mary France Zamreno
& David Zindell-Shanidar the short story that laid the groundwork for Neverness!!! :S

Bet you can guess what I'll be reading on the plane to New York :wink:
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Spellbinder by Melanie Rawn (which gets bumped to top of the 'to read' piles).

The Hero Strikes Back by Moira Moore

The Grays by Whitley Steiber

Lessek's Key by Robert Scott and Jay Gordon

Sorcerer's Moon by Julian May
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What do you know...another enjoyer of Melanie Rawn. :D I think there's a thread somewhere.

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I'll have to check it out Avatar, thanks.

A friend picked up Forest Mage by Robin Hobb for me from London yesterday so I have that now.
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Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
Cyteen by C.J.Cherryh.
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The Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko. The first english edition of the book on which the movie Night Watch was based.
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Finished first Earthsea book. I think it's going to be my favorite fantasy series, after TCTC. The whole zen/Tao feel just really appeals to me. Sorry, George Martin, your Ice and Fire goes to third place. :P

Now beginning on The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Forgot how great a writer Philip K. Dick is. Perhaps my favorite sci-fi guy, along with Frank "The Tank" Herbert.
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Finally got Kate Elliott's Spirit Gate in the mail today.
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I missed out on Waterstone's 3 for 2 offer on all SF&F, so when I went today it was pretty hard to find anything good on offer there. Managed eventually to get:
An Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami
Birthday Stories, ed. by Haruki Murakami
Knife of Dreams, by Robert Jordan

I was hoping I could get the last one for free, but there weren't any books more expensive than it I wanted, so I'll have to just pretend I got it for £1, so I feel better about spending money on it. I wouldn't have bought it at all, but there's something about having the physical copy in my hands, and since I'm rereading the series now I thought I might as well buy it.
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