I just bought.....

[Hobbit]

The entire top shelf of my bookcase is stuff i haven't read yet....and yet i continue to buy!

This is how it starts......prepare to embrace THE DARK SIDE, Sammie....



Wait until you get into different copies with new covers, or *gasp* signed ones.....

 

[Rob B]

The to read pile usually hovers around 4-10 books. However, right after Christmas it topped off around 35 or so.

 

[Eventine]

Microsoft .NET programming

That's not fantasy, it's horror.

I'm saying this being half way through a session at uni of programming c#...

 

[Gagged Man]

New purcahses!!! Sense of lightness (empty wallet) and yet a feling of gratification (book urge sated):

1. Geomancer (can't remember author)
2. Dragons of a Vanished Moon (Weis & Hickman)
3. A Good Old Fashioned Future (bruce Sterling, SF but hey...)
4. All Tommorrow's Parties (William Gibson, SF again but for balance between genres...)

Now the penny pinching can begin.

 

[dragondrool]

Terry Pratchet's Guards! Guards! (I wanted Witches Abroad, but they didn't have it so I have to go to the other store).

Also Eragon, by Christopher Paolini. The author's 18 and lives in Paradise Valley, where we go camping. Kind of a support the locals purchase, but I hear the book is excellent as well, and it is picking up great reviews around the country. So I thought I'd try it.

 

[Sammie]

Dragondrool - Guards!Guards! is MUCh better than Witches Abroad, anyway, imo!

FF - 35 books in the to-read pile!!!! That's kinda like heaven, in a way

My book didnt come today - even tho they SAY it left yesterday

 

[Rob B]

Originally posted by Sammie
FF - 35 books in the to-read pile!!!! That's kinda like heaven, in a way

Gotta love the amazon.com wishlist. My birthday and Christmas are pretty close, so the pile grew quickly.

 

[DarthV]

Sammie:

35 is nothing Mine constantly hovers around 150-170. I think I had some pictures posted in an older thread. I'll borrow a digital camera from work and get some more up-to-date ones done.

 

[Sammie]

150 to 170!!!! Jesus!

Posted by FF:
Gotta love the amazon.com wishlist. My birthday and Christmas are pretty close, so the pile grew quickly.

Amazon wishlists RUUUULE. I use mine to keep a running record of anything that looked interesting, tho, so i have to seriously edit it when my b-day/xmas comes up, to avoid getting a pile of ****. My birthday's about as far as Christmas as can be, but i find this works quite well for me . (biannual top up of books )

 

[Warewolf]

Hmm....Amazon wish list currently at 730 items including DVDs, CDs, and cookbooks.

To read pile now stands at somewhere between 400-500 books (probably closer to 500). I have 926 on my shelf (read and unread).

I just picked up (and only because I had a gift certificate...never spend my own money on books...I spend it all on comics instead ):

American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The King's Peace - Jo Walton
Circle at Center - Larry Niven
Sea of Swords - R.A. Salvatore
Dragons of a Lost Star - Weis & Hickman

The only one I'll be able to read right away (if I so choose) would be American Gods. The others are books from series that aren't complete (I won't start a series these days until all the books are out) or, in the case of Sea of Swords, I've got about three books that come before it that I need to read first...

 

[Lobat]

I just Bought:
The Lady of the Sorrows - Cecilia Dart-Thornton. Had to order it from Australia. A loooong way from Norway .
The Bone Doll's Twin - Lynn Flewelling
The Shadow Sorceress - L.E. Modesitt, jr

Next book i will buy is The Isle of Battle by Sean Russell, but i have to wait to 5. September .

Lobat

 

[DarthV]

Just got back from a couple local stores...

Guardians of the Lost - Weiss & Hickman
Octagonal Raven - Modesitt
House Corrino - Anderson & Herbert
The Beasts of Barakhai - Reichert

All in all a pretty cheap trip... $25 coupon at Chapters helps a lot. Also filled up a stamp card worth $6 at a local indie bookstore, so the next trip will be cheap too!

 

[SusF]

Just bought, and read half of, Mary Gentle's Ash, a secret history. WHOH. Very good, riveting reading.

Yep, put Jordan down for a while. I was getting nowhere with it.

Also bought JV Jones Cavern of Black Ice. The first chapter of it is pretty good to (but once I picked up Ash, I couldn't put it down).

Susan

 

[Sammie]

Oh God, I did it again!

Went to Charing X Rd yesterday......(never a good idea!) Left with The Lions of Al'Rassan, by GGK, WOT 6 and Pratchett's Thief of Time.

I resisted several others tho!!

 

[Kingslayer]

Le Morte D'Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory(thanks to everyone who recommended I get it )

The Lions Of Al-Rassan - G.G. Kay

The Snow Queen - Joan D. Vinge(again thanks for the recommendations)

The Name Of The Rose - Umberto Eco

What Ho!, The Best of P.G Wodehouse - P.G. Wodehouse

Should also be getting The Dragon Reborn soon.Way too many books.

 

[Nimea]

King Rat by Miéville, A Hero Born by Stackpole and Murder in Halrua by Richard Meyers.

All during the last two weeks . . .

 

[Rob B]

Just came back from the big B&N down the road with:

• Little, Big by John Crowley
• The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel

 

[Gooch]

I've been on a summer reading hiatus, so I haven't posted her in a few months!

But...I'm back!

I just got back from Borders with American Gods by Gaiman and The Black House by King/Straub

 

[kegasaurus]

I just purchased Gardens of the moon and the deadhouse gates by Erikson, Perdido Street Station and The Scar by Mielville, the Rincewind Trilogy by Pratchett and the two albino books by Moorcock. Also a television, a car, a couple of twenty-five kilo weights, a playstation and a brand new cap to cover my bald spot.

 

[Rooster]

The most recent: some Borges, some Calvino, some Beagle, some Lawhead, some Vance, some more Vance, some Stasheff, some Shea, some Gentle, some Duncan, some May, some Howard and some Kay.