What have you bought lately? And what was good? I recently went on a book-buying spree. Here's what I've bought so far:
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
Chuck Palahnuik - Choke
OSC - Treasure Box
Philip K. Dick - The Simulacra and Lies, Inc.
Anthony Burgess - One Hand Clapping
Aldous Huxley - Ape and Essence
Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
Time to go read. Yay!
-pH
Posted by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged (Member # 7476) on :
Terry Pratchett- The Color of Magic OSC- Enders Game (for like the 10th time). Joseph Heller- Catch-22
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
Matt Ridley - The Origin of Virtue (bought it for my Basis of Evolution class since I have to write a term paper based off a non-required book)
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
This seems to be in chronological order from most recent all the way back to 6 months ago or so. I wish that I could say I've read them all, but I've only finished one or two of these.
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (awesome)
Terry Pratchett- The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
LM Montgomery - The Road to Yesterday (collection of short stories)
Dickens - The Tale of Two Cities
TH White - The Once and Future King
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Library cards rock!
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
Terry Pratchett--Thud (excellent, excellent: Pratchett fully lives up to expectations, even if the ending is a tad predictable)
Jasper Fforde--Something Rotten (the final Thursday Next book is clever and ties up loose threads; I fully reccoment reading the other three)
Secret Identity (every bit as good as OSC's review promised)
Neil Gaiman--Marvel 1602 (there's a reason I call Gaiman a genius)
Chaim Potok--The Chosen (wow. Just wow)
Chuck Palahniuk--Fight Club (I'm sorry, I simply hate this book. After I finished reading it, I felt like throwing up in pure disgust. I'll stick with the movie, thanks)
I went on a spree of my own a couple weeks ago.
Posted by ambyr (Member # 7616) on :
Fiction:
Michelle Sagara - Cast in Shadow (There is a story in here that I really like, but it's almost buried by the author's stylistic prose. Perhaps it will grow on me on reread.)
Octavia E. Butler - Fledgling (OSC held her Wild Seed up as the epitome of quality exposition, with good reason. So why is this novel one indigestible lump of exposition after another? I -want- to like this book. I really do. But I can't find anything in it that's not better done in Clay's Ark and Xenogenesis.)
Patrick Nielsen-Hayden - Starlight I (not read yet)
Peg Kerr - Emerald House Rising (not read yet)
Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle (not read yet)
Nonfiction:
Samuel Hideo Yamashita - Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies (I need to find time to do more than skim this; I've seen a lot of the material before, but I think I'll learn a lot from reading it all in one piece.)
Robert Jay Lifton - Death in Life (not read yet)
Ordered and not yet arrived:
Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys
Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
George R. R. Martin - A Feast for Crows (from England, of course, to take advantage of the earlier release date.)
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
I haven't bought any books since just after last Christmas. However, here are some recent library books (all read for personal enjoyment, even the non-fiction):
George R.R. Martin - Song of Ice and Fire series
A bunch of non-fiction that I don't feel like looking up the authors for:
The Wisdom of Crowds Almost Human Animals in Translation The War Against Boys The Opium Wars
I'm sure there are others but I don't remember them.
--Mel
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
What was so bad about Fight Club the book?
I tried reading the Man in the High Castle a while ago, but I gave up.
-pH
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
My most recent shopping spree last Thursday consisted of the following:
What to Expect the Toddler Years (for work) Shopoholic and Sister (for brainless time) Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (for fun) Blink- Malcolm Gladwell (fun and school) A Short History of Nearly Everything (school and fun)
Posted by ambyr (Member # 7616) on :
Well, I really liked Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and I like World War II-era history, so I have high hopes for it.
Anyway, it was free.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Across the Wall : A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories - Garth NIx
The Keys To The Kingdom #3 : Drowned Wednesday - Garth Nix
Shadow of the Giant - OSC
The Runes of the Earth (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1) - Stephen R. Donaldson
First Meetings : In the Enderverse (Paperback) - OSC - even though I read the original first edition hardcover - cause you know I just had to read that 4th story. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I bought OSC's Lost Boys at the Indianapolis signing. All books since then have been cheap drivel which shall not be mentioned, but include Louis L'Amour and Nora Roberts.
But, I just looked it up and found out that my childhood First Edition White Stallion of Lipizza, by Marguerite Henry is probably worth $60 even without the dust jacket.
AJ
Posted by Parsimony (Member # 8140) on :
The System of the World - Neal Stephenson
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel - Susanna Clarke
The Runes of the Earth - Donaldson
If Chins Could Kill - Bruce Campbell
Ambyr! I am incredibly jealous of your copy of A Feast For Crows. I have been waiting so long! GRRRRRR. Only a little while longer, only a little while longer...
--ApostleRadio
Posted by ambyr (Member # 7616) on :
I didn't say I HAD one yet! ::laughs::. I said "ordered and not yet arrived." I'm not willing to shell out the hundreds an ebay copy demands.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Deep Six, Chindi, Omega by Jack McDevitt Some books by an author I don't remember. (I like reading different stuff...changes things up a bit) Lost Scriptures by Bart D. Ehrman
Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
Flabbergasted-Ray Blackston A Delirious Summer-Ray Blackston Lost in Rooville-Ray Blackston Shadow of the Giant-OSC Shadowed-Jerry B. Jenkins (no it's not part of the Left Behind series)
Posted by Parsimony (Member # 8140) on :
Yes, I see that now, ambyr.
Regardless, you will have it before me, so I have no choice but to passively dislike you for it.
--ApostleRadio
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
quote:Chuck Palahniuk--Fight Club (I'm sorry, I simply hate this book. After I finished reading it, I felt like throwing up in pure disgust. I'll stick with the movie, thanks)
Really? I found the book and movie almost identical. One of the most faithful adaptations of a novel to a movie I have ever seen (The other one being Holes). Much of the dialog was identical word for word.
Posted by BADPLMR1 (Member # 8580) on :
Lions Game by Nelson DeMille Killing Floor by Lee Child Deception Point by Dan Brown Angels and Demons by Dan Brown The Great Book Of Amber by Roger Zelazny Battlefield Earth by L.Ron Hubbard The Legacy Of Herot by Niven,Pournell,Barnes Through The Looking Glass by John Ringo The Swords Trilogy by Fred Saberhagen America The Book by Jon Stewart Night Passage by Robert Parker A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo Gust Front by John Ringo Enders Game(again) by OSC
Posted by BADPLMR1 (Member # 8580) on :
Of course it helps to have insomnia
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
This order goes in today for my classroom library. I love buying books with other peoples money.
Shamman's Crossing - Robin Hobb Eldest - Christopher Paolini The Door in the Hedge - Robin McKinley The Hero and the Crown - Robin McKinley Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton Street Magic - Tamora Pierce Wayside School is Falling Down - Louis Sacher American Gods - Neil Gaiman Watership Down - Richard Adams Dragon SOng - ANne Mcaffree Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer Speaker for the Dead - OSC The City of Embers - Jeanne Duprau My Teacher is an Alien - Bruce Corville Sang Spell - Phyllis Reynolds Naylos
As you notice I have quite a range of reading levels here. I have kids any where from a 2nd to post high school level, which is great because I can buy books I want to read and still have kids be interested and lower level books that I still think are fun to read in an hour or so.
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
My recent book store trip was- Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara. The Ten Thousand, Michael Curtis Ford The Case for Peace, Alan Dershowitz.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
'kay, I'm a geek. The last book splurge I went on was for two books...VBA Developer's Handbook, which I haven't yet started and Transact-SQL, which is very good and I'm having fun trying out new stuff I knew could be done but didn't know how.
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
I just picked up Orwell's 1984 and Wells' The First Men in the Moon for 25 cents each at the library's used book store. A couple of weeks ago I got The Princess Bride and The Hobbit the same way. I do practically all of my book buying at the library now. The last book I bought at a store was the Half-Blood Prince, and that was quite a while ago.
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I wish that I could say I've read them all, but I've only finished one or two of these.