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Post by killercrab on May 22, 2008 15:59:06 GMT
Finally got CYBORG by Martin Caidin - Mayflower '72 edition. Took awhile for it to arrive off evilbay - but for a fiver it was a bargain I think. Runs 268 pages ( longer than I thought it would be) - it's great to add this brilliant Clifton Day cover to my collection too!
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Post by bushwick on May 22, 2008 16:53:52 GMT
Got three George G Gilman 'Undertaker' books (3, 4 and 6) in OK nick for 50p each from a market last week, which i was chuffed about. Have read 3 and it wasn't bad. He's the politest and most well-spoken PC Western antihero I've come across.
Was also excited when I saw "Scorpions: Second Generation" for 50p, snapped up in a chazza shop the other day.
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Post by killercrab on May 24, 2008 2:10:51 GMT
Was also excited when I saw "Scorpions: Second Generation" for 50p, snapped up in a chazza shop the other day. >>
I'd be too ! - I've got the first one - *great* books both. Pity Linaker didn't do more horror actually as SCORPIONS is as good as Guy N Smith on a roll !
Nobody else bought anything exciting?!
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Post by nightreader on May 24, 2008 9:27:36 GMT
The purchases that most excited me were really the ones that started my collection off again after a long-ish hiatus, getting the books back that I'd had as a teenager then lost over the years - the Peter Saxons, the Errol Lecales, the Robert Lorys in particular. Now of course its madly out of control, and largely due to the influence of this very Vault I get well chuffed over almost everything I get  Think it's because I know there'll be someone on here who will appreciate it as much as me. My friends just don't get it of course... A book I'm enjoying a lot at the moment (but haven't bought yet, its from the library) is Joe Hill's 'Heart Shaped Box' - I'm just over a third through it and it's really very good. Also enjoying Douglas Clegg's work too. Surprising myself here about liking modern stuff! |
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Post by redbrain on May 24, 2008 12:29:31 GMT
This will not surprise people who know me well...
The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun by Richard Parkinson - published this year by The British Museum Press.
As a teenager, I gazed upon the Nebamun paintings in the British Museum many times - and loved them. They have not been on display for a number of years. It is interesting to discover that, since they vanished from the walls, they've been undergoing a process of restoration. It's quite wonderful to have a first glimpse of the newly-restored paintings in the excellent photographs in this book.
There is also a nostalgic charge for me in the photo on page 23 showing the gallery where the paintings used to be displayed.
At 14.99, I think the book is a bargain.
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Post by weirdmonger on May 24, 2008 12:53:25 GMT
This will not surprise people who know me well... well, it surprises me ... slightly. ;D Mine is 'The Attempted Rescue' - the very odd autobiogaphy of one of my top three favourite writers: Robert Aickman. The surprise is, I suppose, that this book even exists. And that I should be reading an autobiography at all!  |
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Post by killercrab on May 24, 2008 14:08:27 GMT
A book I'm enjoying a lot at the moment (but haven't bought yet, its from the library) is Joe Hill's 'Heart Shaped Box' - I'm just over a third through it and it's really very good. Also enjoying Douglas Clegg's work too. Surprising myself here about liking modern stuff! >> I read Marcus Sedgwick's My Swordhand is Singing recently . It takes vampirism back to it's folklore roots - set in a snowy woods . For a kid-adult book - it didn't shy away from bloodshed overly and has a wonderful atmosphere. I enjoyed it rather alot and would read more of his output. For those intrigued - check out his website: www.marcussedgwick.com/homeframeset.htmlade |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on May 27, 2008 19:27:52 GMT
Kenneth Morris 'Book of the three Dragons'. High fantasy of the glorious days. Akin to the Worm Ouroborous. Pure poetry. need to be a died in the wool dull person to throuoghly enjoy it though.
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Post by dem on May 31, 2008 18:50:58 GMT
Hugh C. Rae - Skinner (Richard Drew, 1988: originally Anthony Blond, 1965) Just finished it. Nasty - and convincing - psycho novel set on the outskirts of Glasgow and before the abolition of capital punishment. Skinner isn't yer average Norman Bates, mummy-fixated screw-up type. He's a regular hardnut who kills because he can and he gets off on the grief caused to the relatives of the missing/ deceased. And what's that walled up in the disused factory? Started to review it but there's not much more I can say without blowing whole game. There seem to have been regular-ish editions so if you come across one pick it up. Very recommended.
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Post by troo on Jun 3, 2008 10:30:29 GMT
You know, I've not been excited by a book purchase in quite some time now. Not really, really excited... Other than some art books I picked up in Japan last week.
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 3, 2008 12:13:07 GMT
not an oldie and not really a horror but the last book i bought that i really enjoyed was 'last light' by alex scarrow. it's all about the oil supply being cut off and centres around one family trying to survive. the 'teenage street slang' really really grated with me as it seemed the author had simply either made it up or misunderstood the 'correct' usage. all in all though i havent read a novel that has held my interest throughout like this did for a while.
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 19, 2008 10:58:02 GMT
^but this week i'm half way through robert wilsons 'instrument of darkness' which is excellent! again not horror but brilliant.
the black books of horror have also been excellent recent purchases ...but i think we al already knew that...
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Post by thecoffinflies on Jul 6, 2008 14:13:15 GMT
Last books I remember being genuinely excited about:
1. Bone, volume 9, crown of horns, in the paperback edition! The way it came into my hands is an epic tale involving a tangled skein of white lies and subtlety, though I ended up paying nothing for a book worth at least £60 or more!
2. Original 1823 edition of the life of Marie Antoinette by her maid Madame Campan, published in Campan's lifetime! this two-volumer is older than the building I live in, by a good century!
3. The Virago Book of Ghost Stories Vol II, edited by Richard Dalby - a copy SIGNED BY DALBY ADDRESSED TO JOAN AIKEN, thanking her for her contribution to the volume!
Otherwise, like Troo, I've not been too thrilled by anything much...
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Post by kale on Jul 15, 2008 20:26:11 GMT
George R.R. Martins A Feast Of Crows was the last book that really had me slavering with anticipation. I've had it for over a year and still haven't found time to read it. It's the fourth book in an excellent series ( A Song Of Fire and Ice) that I can't recommend highly enough.
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Post by Jaqhama on Sept 15, 2008 15:46:04 GMT
You know, I've not been excited by a book purchase in quite some time now. Not really, really excited... Other than some art books I picked up in Japan last week. I'm the same. Been reading all my life. It's really hard to find something that makes me go 'wow', much less a book that I can't put down. An oft overlooked book is Jeff Long's The Descent. Action/adventure/military/sci-fi/horror. Bit of everything really. Journey to the Centre of the Earth meets The Eaters of the Dead with a goodly mix of boys own adventure and religious legends thrown in for good measure. I'm sure that UK movie The Descent, with the girlies trapped underground was a rip-off of the novel. A shite rip off mind you. Never bothered watching it. Like the Fallen was a rip off of S. Gallaghers, City of Lights novel. Hmmm...a pulp style book I really enjoyed recently, full of sex and violence and making a welcome change to the more serious, mainstream sci-fi novels was David Gunn's Death's Head. But I cannot recommend the second book in the series. Just the first one. And probably the best sci-fi action/adventure/thriller novel I have ever read is The Legacy of Heorot. Cheers: Jaq. |
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Think it's because I know there'll be someone on here who will appreciate it as much as me. My friends just don't get it of course...
