What book did you buy today, part 2.

[berk]

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.

That's bad. Did you call the bus service already on the off-chance someone might hand them in, or maybe the driver could grab them before another passenger did? Probably too late, but you should make the call anyway.

[Karl O'Neill]

That's bad. Did you call the bus service already on the off-chance someone might hand them in, or maybe the driver could grab them before another passenger did? Probably too late, but you should make the call anyway.

The main office is back open tommorow. I'll make the call, but I am not holding my breath.
I already have them wrote off in my mind, but we'll see.

[sHayden]

Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary Wolf and The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain. Both for $2, and the Wolf book is in mint condition.

[dupersuper]

Who Censored Roger Rabbit

Can you tell us who did, or would that spoil it?

[Roquefort Raider]

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.

Fox was certainly a prolific writer, and it's a pity that his many stories aren't more easily available. Given the massive amount of crap that gets reprinted again and again, I thought such decent fair as his Kothar stories would at least warrant some compendium by the science-fiction book club or something. Luckily, the paperbacks seem to have had a large print run. I never read his Kyrik stories, but I'm sure they're as entertaining as the rest of Fox's work!


The covers were indeed done by Jeff Jones, whom Frank Frazetta (no less!) once called the best painter alive at one point.

[Expletive Deleted]

I'm still working my way through Neal Stephenson's REAMDE (it's very good and very long), but I did pick up Cherie Priest's Ganymede.

[Deathstroke]

I picked up two books today.

Tanya Huff's The Truth of Valor and Iris Johansen's Eve.

[Deathstroke]

Archer Mayor's Tag Man
John Sandford's Bad Blood

[Serik]

The Colonial Experience - Daniel Boorstin
The Great Crash, 1929 - John Galbraith
A Study of History (abridged) - Arnold Toynbee
History of Ancient Greece - Jean Hatzfeld
Of Time, Work, and Leisure - Sebastian de Grazia

Total cost $1.25. Love library book sales.

[Karl O'Neill]

The Colonial Experience - Daniel Boorstin
The Great Crash, 1929 - John Galbraith
A Study of History (abridged) - Arnold Toynbee
History of Ancient Greece - Jean Hatzfeld
Of Time, Work, and Leisure - Sebastian de Grazia

Total cost $1.25. Love library book sales.

You love history? Have you read any Herodotus?The father of history.

[berk]

Bought from an on-line second hand bookstore: 4 issues of Fantastic Adventures, all from the 1940s. Not in the greatest condition, but readable and reasonably priced. Was looking for a particular story I'd heard about somewhere or other and this set of four was the best bargain I could find.

Some enterprising company should issue reprints of these things, because the covers and many of the interior illustrations are absolutely gorgeous.

Also found a cheap 2nd-hand Penguin paperback collection of Borges stories, Labyrinths.

[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..

[Deathstroke]

Ellen Hart - The Lost Women of Lost Lake

[nieman]

Last week I bought Alias Billy the Kid by C.L. Sonnichsen and William V. Morrison. It was the story of Brushy Bill Roberts and whether or not he was Billy the Kid. It turned out to be a very interesting read

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