The thread to post about all your recent acquisitions in Movies, Books and Games, or give heads-up to people here about good bargains available for the same.

As usual, please only post about legal maal, not pirated/downloaded stuff.

At the moment I have nothing to report :D<br><br>Post edited by: ravenus, at: 2007/08/28 02:08

I was checking out the Moser Baer releases. Some really good old tamil movies especially..vcds at 28 rupees and dvds at 34. Might soon go buy some old vijaykanth, rajini classics.

Just repeating what I had posted earlier...Got three DVD's this weekend:

Devil's Rejects (2-Disc Special Edition) Link
The Thin Red Line
Reservoir Dogs (2-Disc)

All for under $5<br><br>Post edited by: sabman, at: 2007/08/27 20:43

I need an opinion on this one. This is a 12 disc set with 50 horror movies for about 18$. There are some I know are really good but I am not sure about most of the them.


Link

In majority of the cases you will be faced by shoddy DVD transfers from very worn looking prints of movies, several of which may be public domain material, downloadable for free if you have the bandwidth.

In fact such collections are only good for seeing (and laughing at, if you're lucky) the miserable non-entity films that are not likely to get a more respectful treatment.<br><br>Post edited by: ravenus, at: 2007/08/27 22:52

Picked up a fair number of books the past week from Strand and a couple of stores in Colaba.

The Truth by Terry Pratchett
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
The Wind up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Mammoth book of best New Horror 17
The Mammoth book of Golden Age Science Fiction
At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
and The Wake by Neil Gaiman

Done reading the first two and was inspired enough by The Wee Free Men to pick up A Hat Full of Sky today.

Dude, read Wind-up Bird...One of my fav books and a great introduction to the Murakami style.

I'm reading a couple of books at the time so I'll probably start reading Wind-up Bird once I'm back from Thailand.
Btw does anyone know if any of the Bromeliad books by Terry Pratchett are any good?

Thailand huh? The best happy ending will be if you get some film DVDs, thai and otherwise, from there. Some insane grey market there it seems.

Hah. Does anyone have any info on places where I can get stuff?
I think I'll just have about half a day in Bangkok to myself so not enough time to go running about the city to find stuff.

Landmark sale was on, so a bit of impulse buying occurred:

Steven Erikson - Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice
Richard Matheson - The Incredible Shrinking Man
Terry Pratchett - The Bromeliad Trilogy (hardbound)
Dan Simmons - Ilium, Olympos (hardbound)
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

All for just under 2k. Think I'm done shopping for the month, though.

My 2-disc edition of Hot Fuzz arrived unmolested from CD-Wow, so YAY!



&quot;Is it true that there's a point on a man's head where if you shoot it, it will blow up?&quot;

I'm having a relative haul these over in a month and at the most a half.

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
R. K. Narayan: Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher (All hardbound together)
H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America hardcover version)
Jack Kerouac: On The Road/The Dharma Bums/The Subterraneans/Tristessa/Lonesome Traveler/Journal Selections (Library of America hardcover version)
Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Paperback)
Kafka: The Complete Stories (Paperback)
The Philip K. Dick Reader (Paperback - It's one of the many short story collection by the author)

Arrey, sounds like a cool haul. Is the RK stuff by Viking? I myself prefer the Mysore books paperbacks. They're far cheaper and also or evocative of the small-town ambiance that RK's works are focused on...unless you got it at some sale price [:D]

Lovecraft might have been expensive, I think. The cheapest I have found are the Del-Ray paperback collections. Go 'em from Fact n' Fiction in Delhi.

Poe hardcover sounds great too. I got the complete too, but in soft-cover and for what, 600 bucks I think [:(]. But the stuff is worth reading.

Had been to town today and some cool maal was hauled:

Dance Dance and Kafan (Moser Baer DVDs at 34 bucks each = Kanjoos Ravenus khush hua)

2-disc Ultimate Editions of Dr. No and From Russia with Love (599/- each). By the way this set seems to indicate the end of DVD imports from Singapore. Thankfully the transfer of FRwL seems good enough, in the correct aspect ratio with anamorphic enhancement. I'm hoping for The Spy Who Loved Me to also make its appearance, that should complete my Bond DVD craving.