What book did you buy today, part 2.

[Gizmoduck]

Big Trouble was great, but Tricky Business didn't do much for me. I'd be interested in hearing what you think about this one.

It was good, but there have been better. Many times i laughed out loud, but like most books it does have its slow parts. I say you should get it.

[Rawhide Kid]

Star Wars: Red Harvest by Joe Schreiber (Gothic and survival horror in the Star Wars universe, why not ? And it is Big Names Free ! No Skywalkers, no Solos, no one from the movies !)

Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates (Marilyn seems back these days and thirty hours of airplane to kill)

[CaptainCanada]

I waited for a while to check out the Hunger Games trilogy , given how the second and third books were only available in hardcover, but it's been over two years with no paperback in sight, I came across a set of the hardcovers for only $42, so I bought that.

[Roquefort Raider]

Star Wars: Red Harvest by Joe Schreiber (Gothic and survival horror in the Star Wars universe, why not ? And it is Big Names Free ! No Skywalkers, no Solos, no one from the movies !)

Mmmh... Sounds like Star Wars is going the Perry Rhodan way!

[Expletive Deleted]

The Palencar Project, edited by David Hartwell. It's a set of five short stories (by Gene Wolfe, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gregory Benford, Michael Swanwick, and James Morrow) all inspired by the same painting. I probably shouldn't have since Tor's releasing all five stories weekly on their website this month, but the ebook was reasonably priced at three bucks.

[Castel]

The feudal civilization, by Jerome Baschet.

[berk]

I waited for a while to check out the Hunger Games trilogy , given how the second and third books were only available in hardcover, but it's been over two years with no paperback in sight, I came across a set of the hardcovers for only $42, so I bought that.

I bought the first one as an e-book a couple weeks ago - my very first e-book purchase, in fact. Although I've had an e-reader for several months now I've only been reading free stuff from Gutenberg.org so far.

Today I bought used copies of a Robert Sheckley short story collection, The People Trap, and W. F. Kirby's 1907 translation of the Kalevala, which apparently was a favourite of Tolkien's.

[Libaax]

Its annual book sale in Sweden late February as usual and i just made my best second hand book haul ever!


The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Oxford World's Classics) by G.K Chesterton
The Master of Ballantrae & Weir of Hermiston (Wordsworth Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Woman in White (Wordsworth Classics) by Wilkie Collins
The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories (Penguin 60th special) by O. Henry
The Secret sin of Septimus Brope (Penguin 60th special) by SakiEach cost a sale price of 10 kronor which is barely 1£.

[Lee Kaye]

Just had delivered The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. I hope it's as good as all the reviews/awards would have you believe. Often this level of expectation leads to being let down...

[The Greatest Hero]

I just got my first Doctor Who novel, Paradox Lost. I'm almost half-done with it. There were only a few DW books at the Barnes & Noble I was at. I decided to get this one because I like the name.

It's pretty interesting. I can see why they have these books, they are a lot darker and violent than what they portray on TV. Not by a lot, but the beginning of the book was more gruesome than what I expect from DW, not that that bothers me because I liked it.

Can anyone recommend some DW books? I'd prefer a good DW book about the Daleks.

[Graham Vingoe]

Friday I received my copy of the Gollancz SF Masterwork of James Blish's Cities in Flight Tetralogy which I managed to get for the amazing price of £2.80 (Amazon UK shipping charge only) and on Saturday I picked up a copy of Brasyl by Ian Mcdonald for 50p from a local charity shop. Bargain shopping at it's best

[Roquefort Raider]

Tomorrow Mr. UPS should bring in A rising thunder, the latest Honor Harrington novel. That one was unexpected since it doesn't feel like such a long time since the previous one... But maybe I'm working on a GRRM timescale, now!

[Julusnc]

The Secret Journeys of Jack London: The Wild By Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon
6 books from the Sam McCain Mysteries by Ed Gorman

all seven books in hardback from a local book sale for $1.00 each in near-mint condition

[berk]

Today I bought a couple of cheap used PPBs:

The Limits to Growth, by Meadows, Meadows, Randers, & Behrens, who were a group of MIT scientists. I've heard about this for years, but it was only after reading about the original book and a proposed update or sequel from the same authors in New Scientist a few weeks ago that I decided to keep an eye out for it. Glad to find a nice Signet PPB from 1972. Now I have to decide if I'm going to read it before the new one comes out.

Les meilleurs récits de Weird Tales II (1933-37) ed. by Jacques Sadoul. Some of these stories I haven't seen collected in English so I went ahead and bought this collection of translations. Famous WT writers like Clark Ashton Smith, REH, Seabury Quinn, and Robert Bloch are represented, and this should be a fun way to practise reading in French.

Mmmh... Sounds like Star Wars is going the Perry Rhodan way!

I've been meaning to ask: have all the Perry Rhodan books been translated into English? I remember seeing them around a lot in the 70s but the covers and the name never really caught my imagination. But after seeing you mention them here a few times and reading a recent article I'm starting to get interested.

[Rawhide Kid]

Les meilleurs récits de Weird Tales II (1933-37) ed. by Jacques Sadoul. Some of these stories I haven't seen collected in English so I went ahead and bought this collection of translations. Famous WT writers like Clark Ashton Smith, REH, Seabury Quinn, and Robert Bloch are represented, and this should be a fun way to practise reading in French.

I'm french and I didn't heard of Jacques Sadoul until today !
What I've heard of and read a lot is books from the edition "J'ai lu" paperbacks, which he was the editor during 30 years !
Those paperbacks opened the magic of Science-Fiction for a lot of people in France with author as Matheson, Spinrad, Van Vogt, Pratchett, Dick, Gibson, Asimov, Clarke... and some french authors too !
Thank you berk, I certainly will buy his biography now and his cycle of novels featuring a bad-ass lesbian heroine !