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[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Great haul Lancer wow

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

I have come to the realization that I will never finish all my books. Well maybe in 30-40 years when I am retired, but not until then.

[Veronica]

sir Lancer wrote: "So I just returned from the Semi-Annual giant used book sale that happens near me and once again went waaaay overboard. Here is my haul:

Paperbacks:
-Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes (have this as ebo..."

That's a great haul! Is it your public library that holds the sale?

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Nice one Lancer, great haul!

[Melanie]

sir Lancer wrote: "Tuesday is the first day of the week long bi-annual giant used book sale near me. I am usually the crazy person waiting outside the doors on the first day. This time hoping to score some of the Ber..."

so...being crazy pays off?

[Paul]

Fantastic haul. Did you take a trolley this year?

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

It is held at the mall near me, sponsored by the Children's hospital of Winnipeg. No trolley but did remember to take reusable grocery bags rather than using the plastic ones they get donated.

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Good man Lancer :-)

[Whitney]

I have been waiting for this book for years so I really hope its good.

[Cupcakes & Machetes, Hybrid Creature]

Lancer, I like this buddy read plan!

[Veronica]

I didn't buy it but I did just get email notification that I won a copy of Michael Sullivan's Age of Myth via Goodreads Giveaway.

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Veronica wrote: "I didn't buy it but I did just get email notification that I won a copy of Michael Sullivan's Age of Myth via Goodreads Giveaway."

Lucky!! I'm quite jealous

[Greg]

Veronica wrote: "I didn't buy it but I did just get email notification that I won a copy of Michael Sullivan's Age of Myth via Goodreads Giveaway."

Congrats Veronica!

I've as yet never won a Goodreads giveaway contest, but I keep entering them - hopefully one day!

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Lucky you Veronica

[Veronica]

Thanks, gentlemen. This will be my first book by Mr. Sullivan though I've had his Riyria trilogies in my TBR stack for awhile.

Greg, keep at it. Your persistence will pay off one day. :-)

[Dawn]

Veronica wrote:I won a copy of Michael Sullivan's Age of Myth via Goodreads Giveaway.

Nice one Veronica! I can't wait to read his new series.

[Gary]

I just picked up an E-book version of Camber of Culdi for $1.99 which is good today only and I think is good for both Nook and Kindle. I sure love Early Bird Books emails.

[Veronica]

Dawn wrote: "Veronica wrote:I won a copy of Michael Sullivan's Age of Myth via Goodreads Giveaway.

Nice one Veronica! I can't wait to read his new series."

I'm excited!

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Veronica wrote: "I didn't buy it but I did just get email notification that I won a copy of Michael Sullivan's Age of Myth via Goodreads Giveaway."

Congrats! That's a good one to win.

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Hybrid Creature (devours books instead of brains) wrote: "I didn't buy these myself, but it was my birthday last week and these are the books that I received as gifts:

The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
(I have never read Pr..."

I enjoyed both those Pratchetts, hope you enjoy them too! :)

[Gary]

Kirsty wrote: "Hybrid Creature (devours books instead of brains) wrote: "I didn't buy these myself, but it was my birthday last week and these are the books that I received as gifts:

[book:The Color of Magic|344..."

I have read both of those twice. In my head I always heard them being read or performed by Monty Python....that was years before there actually was a connection.

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

sir Lancer wrote: "I have come to the realization that I will never finish all my books. Well maybe in 30-40 years when I am retired, but not until then."

That's why I'm planning to haunt libraries and book stores when I die. Hopefully, not needing to eat and sleep will free up a lot of time.

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

Audrey it's as good a plan as any :p

[Cupcakes & Machetes, Hybrid Creature]

Thanks, Kirsty! I'm sure I will. :)

[Paul]

Hybrid Creature (devours books instead of brains) wrote: "Thanks, Kirsty! I'm sure I will. :)"

Happy Birthday too

[Cupcakes & Machetes, Hybrid Creature]

Thank you Paul. :)

[Dawn]

Audrey wrote: That's why I'm planning to haunt libraries and book stores when I die. Hopefully, not needing to eat and sleep will free up a lot of time.

Ha! ha! Wonderful plan Audrey! The true thought processes of a dedicated book worm :-)

[Sarah]

All the books I have purchased lately are ebooks. Most of them are books someone in this group recommend:
Hot Lead, Cold Iron
Space Knight
Assassin's Apprentice
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Mistborn: The Final Empire (was initially reading a copy from the library, decided to just buy the ebook)
The Confession of Brother Haluin (I tried really, really hard to like the audio book but the narrator was horrible. I don't understand the people that loved it)
The Relic Guild

[Sarah]

Raven Rebecca wrote: "Sarah wrote: "All the books I have purchased lately are ebooks. Most of them are books someone in this group recommend:
Hot Lead, Cold Iron
Space Knight
[book:Assass..."

Poe narrated by Basil Rathbone sounds like it would be great!

With a good narrator, I really enjoy audio books.
Tim Gerard Reynolds does a great job with the Riyria books. Simon Vance usually does a good job with the classics. Martin Freeman did a great (and hysterical) job with the Hitchhiker's Guide series. David Tennant or Richard Armitage could read me the phone book and I'd be happy...
But this one was terrible. I have an audible subscription and have returned books because of poor narrators a couple of times. Usually I can tell by listening to the preview but sometimes one that sounds good for a few minutes becomes grating after 5 or 6 hours.

[Greg]

Sarah wrote "I have an audible subscription and have returned books because of poor narrators a couple of times..."

Love that feature of Audible Sarah! - I rarely return books, but I really appreciate knowing I can if I accidentally end up with a clunker.

Raven Rebecca wrote: "I simple cannot stand poor narrators, and I have no idea how they get work without understanding the lyricism of the written word, and the use of rise and fall within sentences..."

100% agree Raven

[Gary]

There was a record company many years ago that used top flight Hollywood types to record stories. Given that a story had to fit on an LP or one side of an LP the stories were edited depending on the length of the story. I have an LP of Basil Rathbone reading two Sherlock Holmes short stories The Speckled Band and The Final Problem. Both are well done. If I recall RAthbone did 4 such LPs of Holmes stories.

[Gary]

Raven Rebecca wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Raven Rebecca wrote: "Sarah wrote: "All the books I have purchased lately are ebooks. Most of them are books someone in this group recommend:
Hot Lead, Cold Iron
[book..."

Years ago Richard Burton was asked to do just that...it was so cool and funny at the same time.

[Sarah]

Raven Rebecca wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Raven Rebecca wrote: "Sarah wrote: "All the books I have purchased lately are ebooks. Most of them are books someone in this group recommend:
Hot Lead, Cold Iron
[book..."

The Hitchhiker's Guide stuff is funny enough to begin with. But the way he does it had me laughing so hard I cried more than once. His tone manages to convey that he is not amused with your shenanigans or this insanity you have dragged him into thank you very much and you can seriously see the disapproving look he must be wearing. Though the funniest thing from that Hitchhiker's Guide (definitely in the movie, I think in the book too but can't remember for sure) is his statement (when faced with a queue line and baffled aliens) "Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue."

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Simon Jones narrates the Bartimaeus trilogy very well. (He narrates the original Hitchhiker's Guide miniseries--the book entries.) Tim Curry does "Sabriel."

Do NOT listen to "Uglies" or "City of Bones." They will make you hate those books.

[Gary]

Raven Rebecca wrote: "Gary wrote: "Years ago Richard Burton was asked to do just that...it was so cool and funny at the same time. ..."

Wait....they asked him to... read the phone book?

I must find this."
I have looked and I think it was either on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson or The Today Show. I have not found it yet. Sadly many of the Tonight Show tapes were deleted by NBC years and years ago because they needed the shelf space.

[Vinca]

I just bought The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor. Hodder has deals on this and their other nominees for the Arthur C. Clarke award (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and Way Down Dark) so they're only £1.99 on Kindle at the moment. I've already got the other two but couldn't resist adding this one to my to read pile :-)

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

My copies of Stranger in a Strange Land and Retribution Falls arrived today. Looking forward to reading both. :@)

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Audrey wrote: "Simon Jones narrates the Bartimaeus trilogy very well. (He narrates the original Hitchhiker's Guide miniseries--the book entries.) Tim Curry does "Sabriel."

Do NOT listen to "Uglies" or "City of B..."

Tim Curry was Mog in my fantasy casting of Sabriel! Perfect :D

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Rinn wrote: "Audrey wrote: "Simon Jones narrates the Bartimaeus trilogy very well. (He narrates the original Hitchhiker's Guide miniseries--the book entries.) Tim Curry does "Sabriel."

Do NOT listen to "Uglies..."

Tim Curry was awesome as Mogget. The latest book, Clariel, had a different narrator. He was good, but Mogget was definitely lacking.

[Paul]

Got a review copy of Hunter Killer: Inside the lethal world of drone warfare by T. Mark McCurley and these from the library:
Around the Coast in Eighty Waves by Jonathan Bennett
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

A Gathering of Shadows and Thieftaker at a dealer table just now.

[Roger, Knight Radiant]

Didn't buy it but I am planning on reading The Aeronaut's Windlass so I can give a synopsis on four of the five Hugo books

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Raven Rebecca wrote: "Dictionary of Angels
Uprooted
Lies of Locke Lamora
Retribution Falls
and
Grave Sight (*buries it under everything else...walks away whistling*)"

Haha, I have read the 2nd and 3rd Harper books and... yeah. Keep it buried ;)

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Picked up Low Town and Long way to a small angry planet... Thanks guys!

[Gary]

Just picked up a free E-book copy of Dracula

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

Hope you like the Low Town series as much as I did Kirsty. Each book gets better and better.

[Freya, Dragon Rider]

I picked up a lightly used copy of Fairyland by Paul McAuley in a charity shop yesterday which looks interesting.

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Quicksilver - basically brand new in a charity shop, and only £1.50!

[Dawn]

Just picked up Those Above, book 1of Daniel Polansky's new series on Amazon uk for 99p at the moment.
Also snapped up a few bargains at the local 2nd hand book store Why Call Them Back From Heaven?, Time Is the Simplest Thing and The Raven Boys

[Kevin]

Raven Rebecca wrote: "Tagged along with my mom and my niece today while they shopped the market, and my niece told me, "if you are very, very good, Auntie, Grammie will buy you a book from the book people".

I must've ..."

"the book people". Makes them sound like some sort of hilarious cult. :)