I just bought.....

[brightcrow]

These contain my TBR books only! First photo, lit fic on the left, fantasy/scifi on the right (more in another room). Second photo, young adult fantasy, TBR...my kids won't read them but I will.

And as for book title submissions, I think you all have it backwards: isn't the idea to submit and vote for titles you want everyone else to read?

And thanks for the info about the Undset books, Ficus.

 

[magze]

Hey over the weekend I bought a box of books that were mix of horror and fantasy I bought them without going through it properly because it was starting to rain and the books were getting wet so I handed £3 over and took the lot amongst them were these
Piers Anthony's Centuar Isle
Robert E Vardeman's The Accursed
Tom Holland's Deliver us from Evil ( may be horror not sure only read the back)
Brian Lumley's Mythos Omnibus
Alan Cole's When The Gods Slept
now are any of them worth reading or should I just put them at the back of a cupboard and forget about them.

 

[FicusFan]

Hey over the weekend I bought a box of books that were mix of horror and fantasy I bought them without going through it properly because it was starting to rain and the books were getting wet so I handed £3 over and took the lot amongst them were these
Piers Anthony's Centuar Isle
Robert E Vardeman's The Accursed
Tom Holland's Deliver us from Evil ( may be horror not sure only read the back)
Brian Lumley's Mythos Omnibus
Alan Cole's When The Gods Slept
now are any of them worth reading or should I just put them at the back of a cupboard and forget about them.

Well for what it is worth here is what I can say about your list:

I can't tell you how little I think of Piers Anthony, but I know other people do like him. You might need to get a fan to tell you what his good points are.

I read Tom Holland's Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron where he wrote a book to explain how Lord Byron became a vampire. It was ok, but I only read the first book in the series, and I am a vampire fan. It tried too hard to be literary and 'like' Byron, and seemed to lose interest/excitement as the book wore on. Amazon says your book is about a murder mystery involving a vampire at the end of Cromwell's reign. Not sure if it is part of the Byron saga or not.

I read a book about carnivorous angels by an Adrian Cole, which was good - he seems to write horror. On Both US/UK amazons Alan Cole looks like he writes real religious books (which could be horror I gues depending on your view ).

I have read 12 or 13 of Brian Lumley's Necroscope series, which is an interesting twist on death in service to protect the living from evil. It also has vampires - but they are pretty cliched bad guys who just do walk-ons when horror/danger/evil is needed. Though there are a couple of the books from the vamp's perspective, and those were good. Haven't read any of his other stuff. He is trying to continue the Necroscope series with the son of the original Necroscope, and I am Necroscoped out and probably won't read any of the new ones unless he continues with the books from the vampire's POV.

Hope that helps.

 

[Priestvyrce]

I used to love Piers Anthony's Xanth books.But after a while, the books just started to get repetitive. I think that I stopped reading Piers Anthony with "Golem in Gears" or something like that. Still his first few Xanth books and the first trilogy of the Blue Adept were very good and original.

 

[Zsinj]

I recently went to one of my local used bookstores and found a very valuable treasure, and I think my fellow Stoverites here would agree! I found "Heart of Bronze", which is a hardback omnibus of the two installment's in Matthew Woodring Stover's Barra the Pict Duology: "Jericho Moon" and "Iron Dawn". I'm really glad I bought this because the stories look awesome, and also you can only get this book if you're in the Science Fiction Book Club. Plus, the cover of this omnibus is a lot better than the covers of the two books themselves, which I personally think look like the covers off of some romance novel series.

 

[brightcrow]

I just got:
Eastern Standard Tribe, Cory Doctorow
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow
The Shape-Changer's Wife, Sharon Shinn

I look forward to all of them, except maybe I wish I hadn't gotten Down and Out, I read more about it after I ordered.

edit: fixed oversight, Sharon Shinn is author

 

[FicusFan]

I just got:
Eastern Standard Tribe, Cory Doctorow
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow
The Shape-Changer's Wife, Cory Doctorow

I look forward to all of them, except maybe I wish I hadn't gotten Down and Out, I read more about it after I ordered.

I have read his short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More it was ok, but nothing memorable. I will pick up Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom when it shows up in TP in my local store. I am going to wait and read it before buying any more of his stuff.

And don't you mean Shape Changer's Wife by Sharon Shinn ? Couldn't find that title listed for Doctorow

Cool bookcase pictures by the way, but you are stacking them wrong. If you put them in sideways you can probably get a back HC/TP layer and a front PB layer on the same shelf. you'll have to read your way in to find the second layer - sort of like hidden chocolate in a candy bar or cookie

 

[brightcrow]

Cool bookcase pictures by the way, but you are stacking them wrong. If you put them in sideways you can probably get a back HC/TP layer and a front PB layer on the same shelf. you'll have to read your way in to find the second layer - sort of like hidden chocolate in a candy bar or cookie

I like to see all my preciousssssssssesssss all at once. That's why the shelves are nice and tidy (not counting the kids' books)... I like to play with my books. I actually have two shelves of TBRS (to be read sooner) shelves, and am continually rotating things in and out of that, changing my mind, finding room for new books, etc. It's a sickness really.

 

[magze]

Thanks for the feedback I have finished Centaurs Isle and found it very immature ,started the Mythos omnibus it is a bit dated but seems ok so far

 

[Priestvyrce]

Thanks for the feedback I have finished Centaurs Isle and found it very immature ,started the Mythos omnibus it is a bit dated but seems ok so far

Anthony's only really good Xanth novels are A Spell For Chamelon and The Source of Magic , everything else comes off as a retread of those stories. Some of the Xanth books were light weight, yet fun reads and some were just tired and boring. But when I was reading them, they came to be 'comfort' reading and I just kept on reading them, until the terrible Golem In Gears . I think that Anthony are for those just starting out reading fantasy though he has tried to do more adult books.

 

[Hobbit]

On a tidy up..... As this thread is now 36 pages long, and over two years old I'm going to trim it and start a new one (which is HERE by the way.

So thread closed.

Please carry on in the new one!


Hobbit