50% off on all Criterions. Gets more cheaper if you know anyone who has membership at Barnes and Noble

www.barnesandnoble.com/holiday-gifts/col...9&linkid=1503673

Bought yesterday:

Kiran Nagarkar - Ravan & Eddie
Neil Gaiman - Fragile Things
Richard Appignanesi & Zarate - Freud For Beginners (Comic)
Alan Weisman - The World Without Us

Book Hauling that happened at Bengaluru over the new year:

Haruki Murakami- The Wind Up Bird Chronicles (haven't read this and Norwegian Wood yet)
Neil Gaiman- Neverwhere (The Author's Preferred Text) (because I have the vanilla edition)
Patrick Suskind- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (someone told me the book is better than that fabulous piece of confectionary which is the movie)
Jaime Hernandez- Woah, Nellie! (this was the high point of the hauling as it was the only Hernandez i have ever seen in book stores and it was only 150 bucks)
An old issue of New Yorker Magazine (this shop had incredibly cute kittens, unfortunately caged)
Plaza Magazine's Nordic Architecture special (never heard of the magazine but picked it up for the nordic architecture bit)

Got tons of books over the last few days:

From Bangalore: a whole bunch of horror compilations.

the Folklore of Discworld Terry Pratchett

Unseen Academicals Terry Pratchett

Wylder's Hand - J Sheridan Le Fanu

The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton

Raffles - Ernest William Hornung

Thug - Mike Dash

Vol 2 of a collection of Indian plays



And then from a booksale yesterday:

Govardhan's Travels - Anand

Little Big John Crowley

Air - Geoff Ryman

The Caliph's House - Tahir Shah

Book of the new sun Vol 2 - Gene Wolfe

The house on the borderland - graphic novel
There's at least half a dozen more I am missing. Shall go home and update this list.

While in Delhi managed to pick up the following books from Dariya Ganj.

Mammoth book of Fantastic Science Fiction
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
and a bunch of old Mad magazines

pickings were a bit slim possibly because of the cricket match happening right next door.

Also got Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett from Searchword in Colaba who were kind enough to message when the book was available and then held it for me.

Oh and also Mammoth Book of Monsters

Woken Furies - Richard Morgan

Angels of Death - Inside the Biker Gang's Crime Empire

Got a bunch of books from a sale.

Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Was - Geoff Ryman
Second Variety , Dr Bloodmoney , Flow My Tears the Policeman said & Martian Time-slip - Philip K. Dick
Mockingbird - Walter Tevis
The Second Book of Lankmhar - Fritz Leiber
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Olympos - Dan Simmons
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Dickens
The Mammoth Books of Monsters and Extreme Fantasy
Gradisil - Adam Roberts

also a couple of orders turned up today
Hot Fuzz 2 disc Special Edition
Tropic Thunder - 3 disc special edition
and 1916 by Motorhead

On a recco from Cowstub, picked up Chariots of the Gods by Erich Von Daniken from Landmark.

LOL. Make this your first and only EVD purchase and you should get on just fine. Everything else he's written is just further attempts at substantiating what was a pretty outrageous claim to start with. Once you are done reading the book, trawl through the interwebs for people who call bullshit on Danniken - don't do it before you read the book, or you are going to spoil it for yourself big time.

I've reached the stage where I pretty much pick up anything by Osamu Tezuka and expect it to be at least good. Black Jack at least so far has not disappointed. I got the first 8 volumes at a sale yesterday. Black Jack is a gonzo docctor who operates without a medical license but who has become something like a court of last resort for the terminally ill. Some very interesting concepts and great art though nothing to beat the flat out testicle shrivelling wierdness of MW or Ode To Kirihito. Anyway I'm just halfway through the first volume and I expect it to get better still going forward.

Hey Hathya, I seem to remember from somewhere that you live around Vashi? Any idea if that booksale/fair next to Vashi station still happens?

I used to read a lot of EVD as a kid. Then I saw him on TV and burnt all my books.

Yeah its more or less a permanent fixture now. The sale I got this last haul from is at Sunderbhai Hall. It's run by the same guys though — Ashish Book Depot.

Bargain heads-up. The Original Alien v/s Predator is now available on Steam for $4.99, tweaked to run on modern systems and supports the XBox 360 controller. No multi-player as yet.

Steamy link HERE

I love to go hunting for books in stores like Blossoms or Book Worm, the one next to Qwikies on MG road. They have a lot of rare, possibly out-of-print books, unfortunately i'm still in college, so my budget is shit. I always try to get one book a month though...

Here's some i picked up over the last couple of months,

Acid House - Irvine Welsh [A collection of mindfuck short stories, the guy who wrote Trainspotting]
Dinosaur Planet - Anne McReary [Found this in the attic, its been lying there for some 10 odd years i guess, very interesting read, haven't finished it yet, but would be a huge add in any sci-fi fan's collection]
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts [love the way he describes Mumbai in such gritty detail]
Letters to Penthouse Vol. 4 [:P]
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

am a huge sci-fi fan though, and i know it's sacrilege but i haven't picked up Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy yet :P, and they only come in those fuckin' hardbound editions.

RK Narayanan brings back alot of memories of school mostly, started reading his books, after reading a story from Malgudi in one of those CBSE english texts.

MajorChut wrote:
am a huge sci-fi fan though, and i know it's sacrilege but i haven't picked up Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy yet
Why? Hitchhikers' is hardly what one would describe as compelling SF.