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SharonLynette

31st December 2012 07:10 PM

What Books Have You Bought Recently?

Apologies if this is a duplicate but I couldn't see it, nor find it when searching. I know there is a what are you currently reading thread but I'm pretty sure other people are like me and buy a lot more books than they get a chance to read!

I will take better photos of what I received for Christmas at some point, plus I will hopefully have new books in the post any day too.

So what have you bought or been given recently?

Nordicdusk

31st December 2012 07:43 PM

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Im only half way through book one but i was given a book voucher so i got book two to motivate me to finish the first one.

Prince_Vajda

31st December 2012 08:23 PM

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Greetings!

SharonLynette

31st December 2012 10:17 PM

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Greetings!

I've been meaning to pick up The Little Book of Big Penis for a while but it slipped my mind, seeing the other variety has peaked my interest. again I think I'm going to add that Terry Richardson book to my wishlist although I think I'll have to wait until it's cheaper and I have money - I went on a bit of a spree today :ohwell:

SharonLynette

31st December 2012 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by nordicdusk (Post 307588)

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Im only half way through book one but i was given a book voucher so i got book two to motivate me to finish the first one.

I have never read any of his books but they were always heavily borrowed from the library, what are they like? Who would you compare to? I'm wondering whether my James would be interested.

Nordicdusk

31st December 2012 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by SharonLynette (Post 307622)

I have never read any of his books but they were always heavily borrowed from the library, what are they like? Who would you compare to? I'm wondering whether my James would be interested.

The first 400 pages of the first book are really good. I know alot of fantasy borrows from Lord of the Rings but this starts almost the same. A group of young people that have never left their small farm village have to leave to find a relic that will bring back fallen heros to save the world.

There are 14 books in the series so im sure the similarities will fade out eventually.

Prince_Vajda

1st January 2013 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by SharonLynette (Post 307620)

I'm a sucker for Terry Richardson! I almost can't wait till I receive Terrywood. I've got the following books:

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Kibosh is his best book (if you love his pretty "naughty" and direct style), but it ain't no bargain. :/

Greetings!

PS: He has got a great photo blog - http://www.terrysdiary.com

SharonLynette

1st January 2013 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda (Post 307645)

I've always liked Terry Richardson's work, I just have a problem spending so much on books. This may seem daft but I suppose I'm the same with everything, I like bargains, I like to buy lot's of stuff. I need to keep an eye out for cheaper second hand copies, I need to make more of an effort. I haven't really bought an "art" book since the Charlie White photographs book a decade ago.

SharonLynette

4th January 2013 07:12 PM

A couple of coffee table books;

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Already have the Taschen Film Noir book and have had my eye on the Horror one for a while.

SharonLynette

9th January 2013 12:40 PM

Another new book that I'm very excited about.

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Part of the book description:

House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and examination of female madness, both onscreen and off.

demonknight

9th January 2013 02:33 PM

Waiting on Too much horror business by Kirk Hammett.

Pete	9th January 2013 03:54 PM

Bought the Kindle version of Vic Armstrong's book 'The True Adventures of The Worlds Greatest Stuntman'.

Demdike@Cult Labs

9th January 2013 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete (Post 310641)

Bought the Kindle version of Vic Armstrong's book 'The True Adventures of The Worlds Greatest Stuntman'.

Thats supposed to be really good.

I look forward to your verdict.

Make Them Die Slowly

14th April 2013 09:58 PM

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A few books and the latest Shindig magazine...

platostotal

14th April 2013 10:13 PM

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Picked up 'Fear and Loathing' audiobook in a charity shop for 50p, great narration by Harry Dean Stanton.

Refused

16th April 2013 01:59 PM

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Girlfriend bought me this for my birthday the other day, a signed copy too.
Wish it would hurry up and arrive.

Hawkmonger

18th April 2013 06:21 PM

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PAYDAY!!!! So with more money on my hands I did my usual of setting aside X amounts for Uni, driving lessons, holiday savings, rent fund and present money, I found I had enough to buy a few DVD's or a few books. Been on a high recently with improving art skills so thought I'd look about for fresh inspiration and bought these today. Loved Appleseed and had no idea Dark Horse had released the entire run here so, yup. :happy:
Oh, and Guido Crepax is simply a leviathan of comic law, excited to finally own a physical copy of some of his work. :happy:

Demoncrat

20th April 2013 10:18 AM

Armando Iannucci's The Audacity Of Hype, a collection of pieces he wrote for the Observer etc, not as funny as Facts & Fancies, but I did read it in a hurry haha.

Delirium

12th May 2013 04:33 PM

Found this in a charity shop today:

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While I have all the previous Dark Tower books, I've actually only read up to IV (Wizard and Glass), so I must start Vol V (Wolves of the Calla) next.

I'm a bit out of touch though, as I read it a fair few years ago, and it took me so long to pick up the next in the series that I fell out habit and started reading other stuff instead. I think I've forgotten everything that's happened.

troggi

12th May 2013 05:21 PM

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I picked this up in a charity shop yesterday and a cursory glance through stopped 2 hours later!

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SCM	12th May 2013 05:36 PM

just bought alan moore's the killing joke
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troggi

12th May 2013 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by SCM (Post 341003)

just bought alan moore's the killing joke

I keep meaning to pick this up. Alan Moore is up there with Wells, Verne, Moorcock and Poe as one of the greatest storytellers of all time!

Whilst I'm talking about great writers check out my posts on "No Place Like Home" by Angelo Tirotto and Richard Jordan. I think that the kid is one to watch.

http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/333616-post669.html

http://www.facebook.com/NoPlaceLikeHomeComic
:rockon::peep::rockon:

SCM	13th May 2013 08:33 AM

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I'll definitely check it out.
Another good Batman story if you haven't read it is Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison.
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SCM	20th May 2013 11:57 AM

my copy of killing joke came through and I got a copy of Batman Confidential #50 and Batman the Brave and the Bold #18, I don't know why I got them as well....:confused:

troggi

20th May 2013 06:31 PM

At the school that I work for we have to put what we are currently reading in the signature of every email we send. As a comics reader my sig tends to be longer than any email I send. Here is a copy of this months:

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I am currently reading;
Dial H by China Mieville from DC 10/10 great art & story,
"Hellraiser: Dark Watch" from BOOM! Comics 8/10 nasty and bloodsoaked
Batman, The Dark Knight from Titan 9/10 dark and tasty,
Incredible Hulks from Marvel 7/10 confusing for a 1st timer,
Iron Man from Marvel, 9/10 good stories
Mark Millar's Clint magazine, 10/10 but may be too adult for some
2000 AD and The Judge Dredd Megazine, 10/10 the galaxy's best comic
a series of rather adult graphic novels based on Grimm's Fairy Tales, 4/10 a little sleazy
"Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 10/10 magnum opus
"No Place Like Home" by local writer Angelo Tirotto 10/10 very dark, very adult, scariest flying monkeys ever.
AND:
a series of graphic novels from Marvel, this month; "Fantastic Four: Unthinkable" and "Wolverine: Origin". 10/10 they are not called the "Ultimate Marvel Collection" for nothing!
Yes, I'm a comics nerd!

Yes, I am still reading "Watchmen", it is a constant companion for whenever I lose interest in comics, I just pull it out of the pile at the side of the bed and my faith is restored. My darling daughter still has my copy of "No Place Like Home" which I want to read again (and she has a surprising number of my dvds) but she has lent Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing" vol.1 which is almost as good as "Watchmen".

The "Ultimate Marvel Collection" is possibly the very best part work I have ever subscribed to.

BUT (and to emphasize
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The-Best-Work-I-Have-Read-In-A-Long-Time-IS
"No Place Like Home"
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Have a look at it on one of the on-line vendors like Digital Comics - Comics by comiXology. The first volume in graphic novel form is only £7.50, try it and you'll love it.

demonknight

5th June 2013 02:46 PM

Nice package arrived today; The Zombies that ate Pittsburgh
The films of George A Romero :coolblue:

Hawkmonger

5th June 2013 02:55 PM

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Books i'm currently reading...

demonknight

5th June 2013 03:29 PM

Currently reading The Mammoth Book Of Zombies.

troggi

5th June 2013 03:42 PM

I stumbled upon this in a charity shop for £1.99 last week:
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Promethea Book 3. After a quick look through at the, quite frankly, gorgeous art work and my own admiration for Alan Moore's writing I put it to one side.

Today I picked up:
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Promethea Book 1. It looks just as gorgeous. I also got two of my usuals; Dial H #13
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and Hellraiser: The Dark Watch#3
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I'll rate the last 2 later Promethea is going to have to wait, I have a to read list longer than my to watch list!

Demoncrat

5th June 2013 04:30 PM

5 Ballard novels

The Drowned World
The Drought
Crash
High-Rise
Cocaine Nights.

All have "extra features" haha.

Also found a picture book about Bowie's Elephant Man stage production!!:)

Demdike@Cult Labs

5th June 2013 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Demoncrat (Post 345592)

5 Ballard novels

The Drowned World
The Drought
Crash
High-Rise
Cocaine Nights.

All have "extra features" haha.

Also found a picture book about Bowie's Elephant Man stage production!!:)

Have you read them before D-crat?

I've not read The Drought but the rest are brilliant. I'm sure High Rise was an influence on Paradise Towers.

troggi

5th June 2013 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Demoncrat (Post 345592)

5 Ballard novels

The Drowned World
The Drought
Crash
High-Rise
Cocaine Nights.

All have "extra features" haha.

Also found a picture book about Bowie's Elephant Man stage production!!:)

My favourite band, Hawkwind, had a lead singer and song writer called Robert Calvert in the '70s who was very literary inspired. He was also bi-polar and schizophrenic and was kicked out of the band...no, get it right... the band ran away from him in Paris and he chased them with a Samurai sword and hand grenades!

Hawkwind's best work came from the Calvert era and some of the songs, inspired by books and films, written by him are absolute classics; "Steppenwolf" (not the band) from the novel by by Herman Hesse, "Reefer Madness" inspired by the anti-pot propaganda film, "Damnation Alley" inspired by the novel by Jack Vance and "High-Rise" inspired by Ballard.

If you've never heard of Hawkwind, Lemmy of Motorhead was their roadie and bassist and singer for a time, but think you'd like to hear some retro- trippy rock it is worth looking at the Calvert years as they were some of the most accessible of their works.

Robert, after "being left by Hawkwind" wrote some poetry and a couple of albums. His two first solo albums are mad and brilliant "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters" about the number of deaths caused to German pilots by Lockheed "Starfighter" jets and "Lucky Leif and the Longships" about how America might have been if the Vikings had successfully settled in "Vinland".

If you're of an adventurous auditory nature give 'em a trial on "Spotify" or something similar!

Sorry about that, I know it should go elsewhere but it was the mention of "High-Rise" that got my gears grinding.

:rockon::peep::rockon:

troggi

7th June 2013 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by troggi (Post 345616)

Hawkwind's best work came from the Calvert era and some of the songs, inspired by books and films, written by him are absolute classics; "Steppenwolf" (not the band) from the novel by by Herman Hesse, "Reefer Madness" inspired by the anti-pot propaganda film, "Damnation Alley" inspired by the novel by Jack Vance and "High-Rise" inspired by Ballard.

I do apologise for this dismal error, I am supposed to know about a couple of things about this band...

"Damnation Alley" inspired by the novel by Jack Vance

Roger Zelazny wrote "Damnation Alley", the film of which stars Jan Michael Vincent and some spectacularly bad SFX, even for the time.

:pray:

Demdike@Cult Labs

7th June 2013 11:44 AM

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@ Troggi - Did you ever collect the hardbacks from the sci-fi book club in the sixties to mid seventies?

You mentioning Vance and Zelazny made me think of them.

I have around a hundred of them and approximately forty have their original dust jackets.

This pic is from Ebay but you'll know the series i mean.

Demoncrat

7th June 2013 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Demdike (Post 345607)

Have you read them before D-crat?

I've not read The Drought but the rest are brilliant. I'm sure High Rise was an influence on Paradise Towers.

I've read Crash & High-Rise (best opening line ever) countless times Dem. TDW once before. They just sat on the shelves for a week!:crazy:
Surrounded by philistines haha, so they went to a good home (MINE), don't have enough of his stuff really.....

SCM	7th June 2013 02:36 PM

Bought Judge Dredd Case Files 1 at Waterstones and asked the guy who served me if they could get Nemesis for me so hopefully getting Nemesis the Warlock in a couple of Weeks time.

Demoncrat

7th June 2013 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by SCM (Post 345966)

Bought Judge Dredd Case Files 1 at Waterstones and asked the guy who served me if they could get Nemesis for me so hopefully getting Nemesis the Warlock in a couple of Weeks time.

"Be pure...Be vigilant...BEHAVE!!"

troggi

7th June 2013 04:09 PM

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from Demdike:
Troggi - Did you ever collect the hardbacks from the sci-fi book club in the sixties to mid seventies?

You mentioning Vance and Zelazny made me think of them.

I have around a hundred of them and approximately forty have their original dust jackets.

This pic is from Ebay but you'll know the series i mean.

No mate I used to get all my sci-fi and fantasy, and a lot of vinyl, at a little shop near Sheffield University called "Rare & Racy." It was one of those magic places that sold "the Goods". Whenever you walked in the same two beatniks wood say "hi," without smiling, over the top of some avant garde jazz spinning on a very expensive Rega turntable. They knew you didn't like the stuff they played but didn't give a toss! In the first room, where the guys serving hatch was, was all the stuff that students had sold them for a third of the cover price. They knew that the same students, or the following years students would turn up and by 'em again at two-thirds the cover price. The back room, where I headed first, was the paperbacks, every genre you could think of, I went straight for "Fantasy & Sci-Fi" from Piers Anthony to Roger Zelazny. Then it was back through to "the Vinyl Room," mostly Jazz and Blues but a whole wall of A-Z Rock.
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That mono picture on the door was stamped on almost every vinyl inner sleeve I had. I passed the place, mid-evening, last year and it is still going although the frontage has been done up.

My pal, SCM stuck this up:

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Bought Judge Dredd Case Files 1 at Waterstones and asked the guy who served me if they could get Nemesis for me so hopefully getting Nemesis the Warlock in a couple of Weeks time.

I think, and you might want to ask the 2000AD Archivist, Hawkmonger, about this, but I think that "Nemesis" appeared as 2000AD started to "grow up." As "Nemesis" got more adult in theme so did the rest of the comic until you reach the fine magazine we have now, a comic fit for grown-ups.

As Demoncrat says:

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"Be pure...Be vigilant...BEHAVE!!"

Andra Jai

7th June 2013 04:28 PM

I recently bought a complete James Herbert collection off a member on another forum for £1 per book delivered (absolute bargain)

I last read these when in school and have never read anything he wrote after around 1990 so I am really looking forward to making my way through the full set
and its nice to have a complete collection all in one go.

Demdike@Cult Labs

7th June 2013 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by troggi (Post 345998)

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="3"]No mate I used to get all my sci-fi and fantasy, and a lot of vinyl, at a little shop near Sheffield University called "Rare & Racy." It was one of those magic places that sold "the Goods". Whenever you walked in the same two beatniks wood say "hi," without smiling, over the top of some avant garde jazz spinning on a very expensive Rega turntable. They knew you didn't like the stuff they played but didn't give a toss! In the first room, where the guys serving hatch was, was all the stuff that students had sold them for a third of the cover price. They knew that the same students, or the following years students would turn up and by 'em again at two-thirds the cover price. The back room, where I headed first, was the paperbacks, every genre you could think of, I went straight for "Fantasy & Sci-Fi" from Piers Anthony to Roger Zelazny. Then it was back through to "the Vinyl Room," mostly Jazz and Blues but a whole wall of A-Z Rock.

I never collected the hard backs when they came out as i wasn't born. :lol:

Its something i did a few years ago - trawling second hand book shops in Manchester and such like.

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