What book did you buy today, part 2.

[boyhangover]

John Grisham- The Confession

Grisham really hasn't put out a decent adult book since A Painted House really. The Summons was okay and I liked Brethren and The Bleachers but everything else was meh. King Of Torts had the least likable protaganist ever.

[boyhangover]

Paths of Glory By Jeffery Archer.

I finally finished this just now. It was a good book but obviously from the time difference between when I picked it up and when I finished it, it wasn't the page turner I am used to. It was more of a romance. Between George and Ruth Mallory, and between Mallory and Everest.

[boyhangover]

Michael Crichton's A Case Of Need.

[dupersuper]

Grisham really hasn't put out a decent adult book since A Painted House really. The Summons was okay and I liked Brethren and The Bleachers but everything else was meh. King Of Torts had the least likable protaganist ever.

Funny name, though.

[Serik]

The Emerald Planet, which examines how plants have shaped Earth's history, particularly during the Phanerozoic Eon.

[berk]

Picked up a few cheap SF ppbs at a used bookstore today:

The Sword of Aldones - Marion Zimmer Bradley
- I remember trying one of the Darkover books way back in the 70s and not liking it enough to finish, but this one looked more like a straight space opera and I did like Zimmer Bradley's Hunters of the Red Moon along with its sequel.

The Valley of Creation - Edmond Hamilton
- Haven't ever read anything by Hamilton, but this 1948 book looked and was billed as an ERB-style lost-civilisation adventure, so couldn't resist grabbing it.

The Glory that Was - L. Sprague de Camp
- Saw this recommended on the Community board by SlamBradley, I think it was.

Dark Crusade - Karl Edward Wagner
- have always meant to try Wagner's Kane series, but they seem to be hard to come by, so I was glad to see this on the shelf today. Hope I can find the others one of these days for as good a price.

[CannonballX]

picked up Magic Kingdom for sale Sold by Terry Brooks for $1.50 fantastic so far

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Neal Stephenson's REAMDE.

[Roquefort Raider]

Gardner F. Fox's Kothar and the wizard slayer, 1$ on e-bay. I knew that if I waited long enough I'd manage to get that one at a decent prize!

Kothar is a blatant Conan rip-off, without any pretense of being anything else. Other books in the series were quite entertaining, and one Kothar novel was even adapted as a Conan story in the Conan the barbarian comic in the '70s. I love Gardner Fox.

[Deathstroke]

Richard Castle - Heat Rises

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Richard Castle - Heat Rises

Have they ever said who's ghosting these?

[Deathstroke]

Have they ever said who's ghosting these?

Not that I can find.

I originally thought people were saying James Patterson but no one has made anything clear.

[blackphoenix]

I recently brought The Magician King by Lev Grossman. It's a sequel to The Magicians, his 2009 book about a young adult named Quentin who learns magic, but finds out that it doesn't solve all of life's problems. Kind of like Harry Potter for adults.

[berk]

Gardner F. Fox's Kothar and the wizard slayer, 1$ on e-bay. I knew that if I waited long enough I'd manage to get that one at a decent prize!

Kothar is a blatant Conan rip-off, without any pretense of being anything else. Other books in the series were quite entertaining, and one Kothar novel was even adapted as a Conan story in the Conan the barbarian comic in the '70s. I love Gardner Fox.

I don't think I ever read any of Kothar books, but looking at Fox's entry on the Fantastic Fiction site], they had some nice covers - done by Jeff Jones, maybe?

Looks like Fox had a couple other series in the REH vein as well, Kyrik - ever read those? And another called Llarn that seems more ERB-like. Might have to check those out some time.

[Karl O'Neill]

I spent 100 euro on Nobel and Man Booker prize winning novels, and left them on the bus.

Damn it. Puff. Gone.

Books by Peter Carey, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jose Saramago and more.