Kevin's Watch

LMAO!

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Murrin wrote:Amazon Marketplace on amazon.co.uk has 7 copies listed. The six from the UK are priced £0.29-£3.50, and the one from the US is priced £76.23. Supply and demand, eh?

That or the sucker born every minute rule. You can get a brand new edition of the hardcover 1988 Dutton edition for $21.95 at Amazon.com through the marketplace. Or you can spend $80.00 for the imported 1989 UK edition.

Local Goodwill still has my donated copy sitting for a buck last time I was in to drop off more bleh.

On a happier note.

Currently resting on my shelves?



Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey (ARC)
Thirteen by Ricahrd K. Morgan (ARC)
Hunter's Moon by David Devereux (ARC)

I also received my signed hardcover copy of Ysabel

I phoned home today for the first time in a couple of weeks, and got a surprise: my copy of Hal Duncan's Ink has been delivered there. I was unaware it had dispatched (the website claimed they were waiting for the copies to be signed) and I had ordered it to deliver to this address, not home.

I may have been mistaken. Double checking tells me that Goldsboro still do not have the books in stock, that I had definately ordered to the correct address, and that they've not charged me.
I remembered today, though, that the Book of All Hours website had a thing saying the first hundred to sign up would receive the book. I wasn't informed that I was one of those, but it's the only reason I can think that the book has shown up. I'll have to cancel my order, then.

Bonus.

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I have it: It's an ARC. Number 180 of 300. Pretty cool.

Picked up Pratchett's Thud[/] and Feist's Krondor: The Assassins (completing my Riftwar Legacy series) this weekend.

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Popped into the publishers clearance store on Friday, £2 each on these:
-River of Gods, Ian McDonald
-The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

Second-hand book shopping on my holiday.

Bio of a Space Tyrant Vol 1 - Piers Anthony (Thanks Cail. )

Radio Free Albemuth - P.K Dick (Cail again probably.)

Caves of Steel - Asimov classic.

The Lottery - S Jackson.

White Wolf & Ravenheart - David Gemmel.

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From Amazon this week:
Reaper's Gale, Steven Erikson
Volapuk, Andrew Drummond

And today, after I had given up all hope, 10 weeks since ordering, my package from Clarkesworld arrived:
Hammered,
Scardown,
Worldwired, all by Elizabeth Bear

Picked up Dark Tower IV, Wizard and Glass, and V Wolves of the Calla in paperback from a bookstore in the city (Melbourne).

$20 AU each, so not a bargain like everyone else's book buying, but I read so slowly that I treat myself to new books.

I just bought The Real Story by some immortal bloke.

Sheep Look Up - Brunner, & Sirius and Odd John - Stapledon.

Robin Hobb - Renegade's Magic. Gotta finish reading it by Harry Potter weekend (21/22 July) so I can leave it with my wife in Sydney.

Outlander-Diana Gabaldon. And am trying to find a copy of The Dosadi Experiment-I have a deal with Avatar @ the Hangar to reread that book if he rereads Herbert's Whipping Star.

Got in the BIG book itself. Though the ARC I got is from Gollancz which is odd as I don't get a whole lot through them when I am in U.S.

Just bought and read "Blindsight" by Peter Watts. A hard sci-fi story of first contact with an alien intelligence that turns out to be much, much different than humanity could have imagined.

Also just bought Vandermeer's "Shriek: An Afterword".

Murrin wrote:I phoned home today for the first time in a couple of weeks, and got a surprise: my copy of Hal Duncan's Ink has been delivered there. I was unaware it had dispatched (the website claimed they were waiting for the copies to be signed) and I had ordered it to deliver to this address, not home.

Aha! Someone here has read Hal Duncan.

My wife bought <i>Vellum</i> for me earlier today. I'm 100 pages in and so far I'm diggin' it...though I gotta admit I have a hard time following it here and there. Let us know what you think of <i>Ink</i>, I've noticed people either loved or hated these books, doesn't seem to be an in between opinion on them.

danlo wrote:Outlander-Diana Gabaldon.

Heh! This book sat on my self for over a year after my roommate gave it to me, so I passed it on to a friend, who liked it and has recommended it to me. Looks like it'll be coming back home again.


Just picked up: Atlas of the Land by Karen Fonstad for $7.50 (hardcover), and Fellowship. . . and Return. . . paperbacks from Tolkien. Both are 1969 versions, and I paid $2 each for them. A good haul, if I say so myself!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows purchased at 11:10-ish PM, EST, July 20th!