What book did you buy today, part 2.

**Tadhg** · 10-11-2011, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by Expletive Deleted

Terry Pratchett's Snuff and Richard Morgan's The Cold Commands.

You're copying me again.

**Roquefort Raider** · 10-13-2011, 04:21 AM

The magic of reality, by Richard Dawkins and Dave McKean. An all-ages (read "children") book on how science is a better way to understand the world than magic, and on how it can be as full of wonders.

**Expletive Deleted** · 10-16-2011, 06:58 AM

A couple e-books of Shadow Unit, a collaborative urban fantasy series by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, and a number of other witers, in the style of a procedural TV show. Think Criminal Minds by way of X-Files. It's all free on the web, but I bought a few because I like the model and want to support it.

Also, I got an updated version of Snuff via Amazon Customer Service. The typos in the first version were embarrassing.

**berk** · 10-16-2011, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by Gordon Smith

On Saturday, I somehow persuaded myself to pick up a new biography featuring Canada's longest-serving and most batshit crazy prime minister..

Looks good. This one, Richard Gwynn's Sir John A. MacDonald bio, and Canada 1911: The Decisive Election that Shaped the Country are the three Canadian history books I'm drawn to right now.

Recent purchases for me: the two Penguin collections of Charles Dickens's Christmas books, none of which I've ever read before, not even A Christmas Carol. I'm going to try to read one story each Christmas for the next few years. Also picked up a couple nice old Brian Aldiss paperbacks: a short story collection called No Time Like Tomorrow and a short novel, Bow Down to Nul.

**boyhangover** · 10-17-2011, 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by Deathstroke

Richard Castle - Heat Rises

Death how are these? I bought the first one a while back but returned it with out reading it because I needed the $. I've been watching the series this season and I kinda want to read them but they are so small for such a price. Are they worth it?

Also I hate Patterson. I really hope he isn't writing them.

**The Beast Of Yucca Flats** · 10-20-2011, 06:53 AM

Joe R. Lansdale's The Complete Drive-In.

**Haydn C** · 10-20-2011, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by Tadhg

You're copying me again.

I bought those as well, I am copying you both it seems.

Snuff was good, just starting The Cold Commands.

**sHayden** · 10-21-2011, 12:23 AM

Borderlands, an early 90s collection of horror/suspense short stories.

**DubipR** · 10-22-2011, 04:16 PM

Choke Hold by Christa Faust
The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers

**Expletive Deleted** · 10-25-2011, 12:47 PM

Aliette de Bodard's Master of the House of Darts (the third volume in her Aztec fantasy detective series, "Obsidian and Blood"), Richard Kadrey's Aloha from Hell (the third urban fantasy in the "Sandman Slim" series), and L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s Ghosts of Columbia (an omnibus of the first two novels in his alternate-history-with-ghosts series)

**Expletive Deleted** · 10-25-2011, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by DubipR

Choke Hold by Christa Faust

I'd be interested to know if this one's any good. I liked Money Shot well enough, but the main character's story seemed pretty well played out by the end of it.