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The Charnel Prince by Greg Keyes

The Ill Earth War by Stephen Donaldson

The Last Colony by John Scalzi

The Classic tradition of haiku : an anthology by Faubion Bowers

Smith of Wooten Major and Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The cave by José. Saramago

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Member: Anks

CollectionsYour library (345), To read (91), All collections (345)

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Tagspaperback (304), fantasy (161), series (146), fiction (104), to read (91), classic (65), secondhand (47), scifi (42), epic (41), hardcover (38) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsR. Scott Bakker, Jim Butcher, Steven Erikson, Robin Hobb, George R. R. Martin, Haruki Murakami, Matthew Woodring Stover, Kurt Vonnegut (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresStrand Book Stall

About meThere’s not much to tell truthfully.

Haven’t been reading for all that long—started really getting into it around about 2002. Had no taste initially.

About my libraryI used to buy most of my books second-hand, and return the terrible ones. Now it’s different: I buy the books I want, and I usually can’t find them anywhere except for online stores. I like ‘weird’ stuff—SciFi, Fantasy, et cetera—and there’s not much of an Indian market for such books.

My offline store of choice is Strand. Not a large collection, but it’s the cheapest store I can find.

Amazon rocks for browsing, but charges way too much for international delivery. If wishes were horses, I’d have all these books.

I've built a small app to help me decide where to buy books from—it compares prices of books across some Indian shopping sites, and uses LibraryThing's excellent thingISBN service to get alternate editions. You can try it out here.

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Member sinceJan 15, 2006

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And Another Thing: The Sixth Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Eoin Colfer

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The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan

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A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Judging Eye by R.Scott Bakker

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Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

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Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian C. Esslemont

Noticed you liked Lovely Bones, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here, as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it also contains a young female narrator struggling with a series of tragic circumstances. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the book before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 1:41 am (EST) on Sep 19, 2009

Hey man you really need to finish updating your book prices tool... its a lifesaver for me and it feels like you've been updating it forever...

posted by Catharsis at 4:00 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2009

I've only read his A Song of Ice and Fire series myself, but others tell me his novel Fevre Dream is quite good.

Steven
http://steventill.com

posted by StevenTill at 11:53 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2008

Always nice to find other fans of Martin. I still have A Feast for Crows left to read in ASOIF. I'm about half-way through it now. How did you like it?

Steven
http://steventill.com

posted by StevenTill at 2:58 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2008

we share some now....:)

posted by herodotus2008 at 3:16 am (EST) on Feb 24, 2008

Yes...

posted by herodotus2008 at 2:34 am (EST) on Feb 24, 2008

Congratulations! Your review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was one of the fifty prize winners. See the blog post announcing the winners. You've won a gift membership and a CueCat barcode scanner.

Send an email to info@librarything.com to claim your prize. Include your user name on LibraryThing, as well as your mailing address (so we can send out the CueCat!).

Cliff
cliff@librarything.com

posted by dinner_bell at 4:04 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2007

Ya, I got all my books in Canada cause I was studying there... going to have to ship them all to India cause I can't bear the thought of parting with them! I checked out Sify and First and Second but their sci-fi/fantasy section is rather limited. Any other options?

posted by Catharsis at 2:44 pm (EST) on Jan 21, 2007

Hi,
A great place to buy books online in India is www.firstandsecond.com. I've bought most of my books from there. The collection is excellent (not as good as Amazon of course, but still excellent). You should be able to find most of the books on your wish list there.

posted by weemadarthur at 1:04 am (EST) on Oct 29, 2006

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