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Post by **Lord of the Gyre** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:10 pm

Well yeah, but I'm assuming that being locked in a car trunk ain't gonna do wonders for his already fragile health

Post by **Orlion** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:06 am

All right, went to a couple of Half-price bookstores and obtained Tad Williams' Shadowmarch, Patricia McKilip's Riddlemaster Trilogy, King's Duma Key (for a buck in HC!) Asimov's Currents of Space, Jordan's Winter Heart (Ninth out of a planned 14 in the infamous Wheel of Time), Herbert's Dune, let's see...there has to be at least one more in there...Ah, Reave the Just with a Dust Cover!!! M-O-O-N, that spells sweeet, laws yes!

All books except the Riddlemaster Trilogy are hardback (don't much care for paperbacks). I made an exception for Riddlemaster because apparently, any self-respecting Donaldson fan has read it... and I could use the self esteem boost

Post by **aliantha** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:36 pm

Nice haul, Orlion!

MsMary is a big Riddlemaster fan.

I like her later stuff better, but Riddlemaster was good.

On Saturday, I picked up Jasper Fforde's latest, Shades of Grey, at the library, and an omnibus volume of the first three Vlad Taltos novels at Borders with a 33% off coupon.

So now I've got the first 5 Taltos books waiting for me. If I hate 'em, I'm blaming you, danlo!

Post by **danlo** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:01 pm

You can't resist Vlad he's a cocky, smug, son of a bitch-you'll want to kill him (that's where the fun begins!).

Post by **danlo** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:11 pm

Just got Bakker's Warrior Prophet, well I had to-almost done with The Darkness That Comes Before...

Post by **Orlion** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:51 am

Well, I'm almost done with Gardens of the Moon, when what do I come upon? A hardcover copy of Deadhouse Gates for one dollar. Looks like I'm meant to read this series

I also got (in hardcover, I'm kinda snotty like that) Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver by Neil Stephenson. Also, for whenever I have time, I got Baker's The Darkness that Came before.

Post by **danlo** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:46 pm

There was a nice used mass-paperback copy of Cryptonomicon at the bookstore that I was very tempted to buy, oh well, next time...

Post by **Cleburne** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 9:33 am

Finally after a year since reading the first book , Ive started "A Clash of Kings" by Mr George R.R Martin

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:21 am

Mechanicum, by Graham McNeill.

Post by **Onos T'oolan** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:45 am

Orlion wrote:Well, I'm almost done with Gardens of the Moon, when what do I come upon? A hardcover copy of Deadhouse Gates for one dollar. Looks like I'm meant to read this series

Oh! I have my favorite - MoI - in hardcover, but I'd LLLOOOVVVEEE to have DG!! A very very close second favorite.

Post by **Orlion** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:11 pm

Onos T'oolan wrote:
Orlion wrote:Well, I'm almost done with Gardens of the Moon, when what do I come upon? A hardcover copy of Deadhouse Gates for one dollar. Looks like I'm meant to read this series
Oh! I have my favorite - MoI - in hardcover, but I'd LLLOOOVVVEEE to have DG!! A very very close second favorite.

Yeah, I have that in hardcover too...I'm a real snob when it comes to books being in hardcover

Incidently, people don't like to move me because of my massive collection of hardcover literature.

Speaking of which, I just got Gateway by Frederik Pohl (in hardcover:P) for 30 cents.

Post by **aliantha** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:34 pm

I used to have the same problem, Orlion.

Even when we hired movers, we'd get a U-Haul for the books....

So yeah, danlo, Vlad Taltos is pretty entertaining. I got through the fifth book and ran out of mojo a little, tho.

Spoiler

Does he keep on being an assasin?

Now, thanks to Duchess, I'm hooked on an urban fantasy/romance series in which the main character is a werewolf named Kitty (yes, really!) who hosts a late-night radio talk show in Denver. Lots of paranormal goings-on, and the writing's not bad, and hey, it's about *radio* in *Denver*.

I started out downloading one for the Reader, and then went back and bought two or three more, and then just said the hell with it and bought the rest of them....

Post by **danlo** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:46 pm

ali-

Spoiler

He gives it up and it gets much more interesting...keep going

Post by **Avatar** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:57 pm

Spent far too much on books today...

Got The Wee Free Men, Hat Full of Sky & Wintersmith by Prachett, A Game of Thrones by Martin, The Reality Disfunction by Hamilton and Colin Wilson's Spiderworld: The Tower.

--A

Post by **stonemaybe** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:17 pm

A good day in a charity bookshop today - I got the Le Guin's Earthsea quartet, Banks' Excession, and a pot luck Ian irvine 'A Shadow on the Glass' for £2 each (as well as a 6-track Bjork cd-single)

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 5:27 am

Come join us at the Hangar for the Earthsea dissections.

--A

Post by **stonemaybe** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:36 pm

Avatar wrote:Come join us at the Hangar for the Earthsea dissections.

--A

I have

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:39 pm

Oh, so you're who posted in the Immanent Grove on the Hangar! I responded with a link to The Archives of Roke where the group read and discussion is taking place.

I'm looking forward to seeing you there, Stone!

Post by **Spiral Jacobs** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:48 am

I just ordered Matter by Iain M Banks, and the first two instalments of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I read the latter on my computer screen (barely legal

) but I'd like to have the original and read it on the couch.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 2:59 pm

Today bought Donaldson's Against All Things Ending, and Charles Yu's How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe. I've heard a lot of good things about the second one.

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