Books you have recently bought

[mrbasehart]

Ooh, I love Richard K Morgan.  He gets a good fusion of Sci-Fi and Film Noir into his books.

[torgosPizza]

I almost bought Our Dumb World at Barnes and Noble this weekend, but $30 is pretty steep. I'm gonna wait for it to come down on the used sites and get it in a year or two.

I thought the same thing, but I found more things to laugh at on the front cover alone than I have in most of the comedy movies I've watched this year. So it was kind of a done deal. Plus I love books you can just open up to any random page and find something worth reading. (All of the Onion books are like that). It was worth it so far

Ooh, I love Richard K Morgan.  He gets a good fusion of Sci-Fi and Film Noir into his books.

He is a new author for me, who came highly recommended. I haven't read a good sf novel in a long time (let alone read for pleasure) so this will be interesting. Glad to hear you like the author though, what I've read so far is great.

[mrbasehart]

I recently bought a few books, though I haven't received them:

[Racer™]

[Thrashalla]

Picked this guy up yesterday:

[Tripe]

Does it hold to Gibbon's theory about the root causes?

[Thrashalla]

Does it hold to Gibbon's theory about the root causes?

I've not read Gibbons(not for lack of wanting) and I only picked it up yesterday...so I couldn't tell you; but thus far he's been doing comparisons to us and Rome at various points pre-collapse, but he has mentioned sticking more to the internal causes of collapse as opposed to barbarian invasion as in Peter Heather's book.

[Tripe]

OK so probably at least the revised version of Gibbon then (though personally I think Gibbon had it down perfectly )

[mrbasehart]

Is that the over-taxation, over-expansion theory?

[Tripe]

Over extension but most importantly a weakening of the civic spirit, principally the fact that Christianity weakened the Empire.

I wondered if a similar theme will be touched on in the book.

[itsjuststeffnow]

I try not to buy books unless I'm going to keep them and re-read them, or my library doesn't have the ones in particular I'm after.

So, without further ado...

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A novel I know next to nothing about, other than vague memories of an older brother loving it when I was younger, and the fact that Norman Spinrad wrote one of the best original series Trek episodes, "The Doomsday Machine."  It was. $.01 on Amazon, plus $3.50 shipping.  Not bad.

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No idea about this book either--it's apparently a First Doctor adventure, and I know next to nothing about him.  Might be a fun way to get to know a bit more--the only other contact I've had with Doctor One is through a Target novelisation of "The Romans" I read a number of years ago.

Another one cent book.

And then finally:

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Yep, I was a fan of Enterprise.  This apparently un-does the crappy ending of the series.  I don't plan to keep this--I'll donate it to my library when I'm through.  It cost full price, but I feel like I get so much value from my local library that I'm happy to donate books to them when I'm finished with 'em.

Yes, I read a lot of genre-fiction.  Sue me.

i concur

[wurwolf]

APGIL and I were in Barnes & Nobles yesterday to get an engagement calendar for him, and I saw that some of their leatherbound classics series were on sale for half price. I've long admired the bindings on these books, so I think I will try to pick some up. I started off with these two:





Never read either; I think I will try to read these at home rather than take them on the train.

[mrbasehart]

100 Years of Solitude is one of my favourite novels.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

[Tripe]

American Gods is a better bag of ideas than a novel I thought, I liked Anansi Boys better

[wurwolf]

I bought 100 Years of Solitude on APGIL's recommendation and his recommendations are usually pretty right on (In Cold Blood notwithstanding), so I have high hopes for it. And I've been wanting to read something by Neil Gaiman for a while so I figured this was a good opportunity.

They also had a compilation of Mark Twain novels (the most prominently featured being Huck Finn, one of my favorites), but it wasn't half price so I didn't pick it up.