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[I'm Murrin]

If you're enjoying it, then I can't recommend The Worm Ouroborus by E. R. Eddison enough. It's also flawed, but magnificent. Add it to your lists! Add it now!

Guess what else is coming in that next order? Heh.

[Myste]

Good.

Re: your sig....I'll just go mind my own business now. I'm such a sucker sometimes.

[Warmark]

I fell for it too

[Encryptic]

We seem to be reading a lot of the same stuff recently, Encryptic.

I've got to point a finger at Ainulindale for that since he has provided some pretty solid recommendations so far (Mieville, for one).

[Vector]

It's still there, Vector--very very addictive, but more given over to stuff than books. The stuff is great, though, whether you're a genuine collector or a goofball fangirl/boy like me.

I have seen some of that transformation, though it has been about 7 years since I was there last, it was already emphasizing collectibles - though they still had a decent selection of books.

I remember going there in my teens 20 -25 years ago (my grandfather lived in Manhattan at that time) and they just had so many fantasy/sci-fi titles - it seemed like paradise at the time.

[duchess of malfi]

I'll have to bring it up with Fist & Faith, but a store that carries such items as Monty Python action figures, sounds like a good place to visit.

[Warmark]

i just bought The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin.

[Myste]

It's a quintet, now, Warmark. The fifth Earthsea book came out last year.

[Warmark]

I bought a Four-in-one paperback which includes:

The Wizard of Earthsea.
The Tombs of Atuan.
The Farthest shore.
Tehanu.

Is this the right order?
What is the Fifth called?

BTW, 500th post.
I am so proud.

[I'm Murrin]

I've always thought it a little strange that they seem to still be selling the same Puffin edition of "The Earthsea Quartet" that I bought a decade ago. Warmark, does yours have a cover divided into four pictures, with a title in a box in the center? A brownish colour scheme?

I've not read the fifth book, but I've seen it in stores. Trying to remember the name - The Other Wind?

[CovenantJr]

Part of what makes it so marvelous is seeing the flaws ... It's also flawed, but magnificent.

Gormenghast is flawed?!

[Myste]

Murrin--yes, the fifth Earthsea book is called The Other Wind.

CJ--:lol: The third book of the Gormenghast trilogy just isn't as well put together as the other two. Peake had some weird idiosyncrasies that showed up more as his mental state deteriorated. Like I said, it doesn't mean Gormenghast isn't magnificent, or one of the greatest epics of the 20th century.

[Ainulindale]

The third book of the Gormenghast trilogy just isn't as well put together as the other two. Peake had some weird idiosyncrasies that showed up more as his mental state deteriorated. Like I said, it doesn't mean Gormenghast isn't magnificent, or one of the greatest epics of the 20th century

May have got stuck as last on post on last page:

Regarding the third book in Gormenghast , the different tone and the admittedly lack of quality in comaprison to the prior 2 novels is due to it being largely written from Mervyn Peake's notes, as he was suffering both mentally and physically at this time in his life he suffered from Parkinson's disease and a until later in life the dormant Encephalitis Lethargica (sleeping sickness). That said the first two books, are IMHO, if such a thing exists, THE two masterpieces of the genre.

Boy in the Darkness, a novella also is Gormenghast related and appeared in an anthology entitled Somewhere, Never

I've not read the fifth book, but I've seen it in stores. Trying to remember the name - The Other Wind?

There is also a Tales of Earth Sea collection that has some related short stories. Also in her collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters there are a 2 more short stories that are Earthsea related.

[Warmark]

I've always thought it a little strange that they seem to still be selling the same Puffin edition of "The Earthsea Quartet" that I bought a decade ago. Warmark, does yours have a cover divided into four pictures, with a title in a box in the center? A brownish colour scheme?

Yep, thats the one, only read first two chapters but i like it.

[CovenantJr]

Today I discovered two reasonble used-book stall in Victoria Market (this is the first time I've found even a hint of second-hand books in Nottingham city). I bought The Business by Iain Banks, because it sounded interesting, and the first Wheel of Time book, since it's one of the many series I've been meaning to read for years.

I returned to those book stalls yesterday and bought Dune by Frank Herbert (finally) and Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice.

[I'm Murrin]

Cursing myself for my continued lack of spending restraint, I ordered a signed copy of No Present Like Time by Steph Swainston, from an online store Ain linked to on FBS - only £9.99!

[Loredoctor]

Just picked up Dr Who - 4 Decades in Television

[Encryptic]

Just ordered Book of the New Sun and the Gormenghast trilogy from Amazon.

Welp, the first half of my order arrived, so I've got Shadow & Claw/Urth of the New Sun sitting on the bookshelf while I wait for Gormenghast and Sword & Citadel to arrive (hopefully today or tomorrow).

[duchess of malfi]

Picked up a used copy of E.R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros. It's all that Myste's fault.

[Myste]

Yay!

"O Queen," said Juss, "somewhat I know of grammarie and divine philosophy, yet must I bow to thee for such learning, that dwellest here from generation to generation and dost commune with the dead."

I just brought home a copy of the Gourmet cookbook. If that's not proof that I live in a fantasy world, nothing is.