My birthday was the sunday before last, the 17th, and I got, unsurprisingly, books. A lot of books. A lot of books. Which made me very happy. I've been trying to get my hands on a digital camera to photograph the pile and put the pic up here, but that seems to be harder than I thought, as I don't own said camera, so I've pretty much given up on the idea. Still, I feel like posting a rather narcissistic list, so here goes:
Daniel Abraham - Leviathan Wept
Iain M. Banks - Surface Detail
Iain M. Banks - Against a Dark Background
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Justin Cronin - The Passage
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
Felix Gilman - Gears of the City
Felix Gilman - The Half-Made World
Joe Hill - Horns
Thomas Ligotti - Noctuary
George RR Martin - Sandkings
George RR Martin - A Song for Lya
Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
Frank Miller - Batman: Year One
Alan Moore - V for Vendetta
K.J. Parker - Devices and Desires
K.J. Parker - Evil for Evil
K.J. Parker - The Escapement
K.J. Parker - Purple and Black
Steph Swainston - No Present Like Time
Brian K. Vaughn - Y: Cycles
Dan Wells - Mr. Monster
Willingham - Fables: Legends in Exiles
Almost all bought used, but generally in quite decent condition. I think I've got some good reading coming up...
So long, and thanks for all the books
9 years ago
You have a Ligotti... *drools* I'm told he's the dude to go for horror and well, I'm still daydreaming for the day, when I will have a novel penned by his hand.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, all my friends try to give me presents that are not books. Healthy, they say. Can you imagine the horror???
Songs of a Dead Dreamer blew my freakin' mind, so getting more of him was top priority. If you want a cheaper one, My Work is Not Yet Done and Teatro Grottesco are both still in general print (paperback), and I hear they're both quite good.
ReplyDeleteIf I don't specify books, everyone I knows gives me gamestop gift cards. My xbox broke a year ago. Didn't even slow the tide.
I have to order... someday. Need to be restrictive in my book buying habits.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean there, I've been trying to restrict my own purchasing habits. With the exception of birthdays and new releases. So not all that much of a restriction. But I'm trying!
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