I've just bought.... (Fantasy, version VI)

[AlvinFlummox]

Received Hogfather (pb) and Making Money (hb) by Pratchett today, bought off eBay. Combined price of around £2.50! Bargain!

[owlcroft]

I last night ordered an armload of books by Joan Aiken. If you're not familiar with her, she was Conrad Aiken's daughter, and a prolific writer, producing fantasy, supernatural, children's YA, and adult tales, both novels and short stories. Her best work, many feel, is her short-story output. Even (or perhaps especially) her "children's books" are, like so many so labelled, eminently readable by adults.

For the curious, there is available an excellent bibliography of Joan Aiken's works, nicely organized by type of book (and sortable); the site it's on is itself a nice Aiken site.

[Obtuse]

Just picked up...

Lord of the Silent Kingdom - Cook
The Tower of Fear - Cook
The Pirate King - Salvatore
Night of Knives - Esslemont

[Mithfânion]

I also picked up Glen Hirshberg's The Two Sams (story collection) in trade pb for a friend. If there's a Book Warehouse near you and you like intelligent, thoughtful ghost/horror stories (not gory, but intense stories of unease) then you should check for the Hirshberg collection.

I have that one as well, very nice. Just bought American Morons, plus Inferono, the new horror anthology which has Hirshberg's prize winning novellette "The Janus Tree", plus The best horror of the year vol.1 which has new story "Esmeralda".

Also just bought:

The Blood Knight-Keyes ( hopefully some good Green Man action)
Giant Bones- Peter Beagle ( this man is an awesome writer and I want all his shorter work).

[Winter]

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington
The Other City by Michal Ajvaz
Under the Dome by Stephen King

[Seak]

The local library is having a sale this week, so of course I had to hit it up. Today is one of the last days and everything that's already cheap is not marked down 60%. Yay!

Legends (with New Spring, The Hedge Knight, and some others by a bunch of unknown authors )

The Book of Lost Swords - Saberhagen - this one has the first three books of the series

The Summer Tree (book 1 in The Fionavar Tapestry) - Kay

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - Donaldson
Lord Foul's Bane
The Illearth War
The Power that Preserves

Needless to say, I was pretty excited to find these and all for just $3.60.

[PeterWilliam]

Nice value grab, Seak. In the opposite direction, I had to spend a lot (for me - i.e. $28) for an author I've been looking for. It's not the author that's rare, but the omnibus and that of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles.

♫♫Get down with omnibus
Yeah you know us♫♫

[Rob B]

Speaking of omnibuses/omnibii

For my birthday from my in-laws, I just received three Glen Cook omnibii:

Chronicles of The Black Company
The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company
The Black Company Returns

[Dwagginz]

I went and bought Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

[PeterWilliam]

Originally Posted by Rob B

Speaking of omnibuses/omnibii

For my birthday from my in-laws, I just received three Glen Cook omnibii:

Chronicles of The Black Company
The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company
The Black Company Returns

Man, your in-laws must think you're the bomb. I'm wiping tears away just thinking about how much love goes into a gift like that.

[Cymric]

Theif with no shadow by Emily Gee
Monarchies of God books 1&2 by Paul Kearney

[DarthV]

Took advantage of Chapter's 25% off regular priced items sale yesterday. Picked up 5 books as xmas gifts, plus some for myself!

Ravensoul - James Barclay
House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds (scifi)
Lord of Silence - Mark Chadbourn
The Steel Remains - Richard Morgan

[Randy M.]

Originally Posted by Mithfânion

I have that one as well, very nice. Just bought American Morons, plus Inferono, the new horror anthology which has Hirshberg's prize winning novellette "The Janus Tree", plus The best horror of the year vol.1 which has new story "Esmeralda".

American Morons is on the TBR, as is his novel, The Snowman's Children.

[...]Giant Bones- Peter Beagle ( this man is an awesome writer and I want all his shorter work).

I hope to revisit Giant Bones in the new year. All of the stories are connected to his novel, The Innkeeper's Song, so I read 3 of them several years ago but only read the novel this year; those stories were same world, but not directly connected to the events in the novel. Now I want to read them all. The last one, "The Tragical Historie of the Jiril's Players" was one of my favorite short fantasies in the '90s.

Randy M.

[beniowa]

Got several books at a sale at the public library. Also bought a couple this morning when doing some book shopping for Christmas.

The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Song of Roland
The Word For World is Forest, Ursula Le Guin
Dead Man's Ranson, Ellis Peters
The Initiate Brother, Sean Russell
Cryptomonicon, Neal Stephenson

The Return of the Sorcerer, Clarke Ashton Smith
5 Cities That Ruled the World, Douglas Wilson

[Obtuse]

This week's score is:

The Sleeping God - Malan
Dragon in Chains - Fox
The Shadow Isle - Kerr
Wizard of the Winds - Cole
The Weavers of Saramyr - Wooding

EDIT: Decided to pick up a few more; these from half.com

The Cygnet and the Firebird - McKillip
Brokedown Palace - Brust
Legacy - Bujold
The Goblin Mirror - Cherryh
A Darkness Forged in Fire - Evans
Ghost King - Gemmell
Wolf in Shadow - Gemmell

Got this second set all for $20.31. Where ya at, PW?