Search saltmanz's books

Random books from saltmanz's library

Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe

Members with saltmanz's books

Member connections

Friends: Elasticlad, rahgsu, synchroswimr, trinibaby9

Interesting library: 1001Fantasy, 111ScienceFiction, jnwelch, Locke, magemanda, readafew, Sakerfalcon, StormRaven

Member gallery (8)

(see all 8 pictures)

RSS feeds

Recently-added books

saltmanz's reviews

Reviews of saltmanz's books, not including saltmanz's

Helper badges

see all 8 pictures

Member: saltmanz

CollectionsYour library (1,202), Comic books (984), Comic strips (16), Textbooks (4), Contest entries (375), Wishlist (117), Upcoming books (9), Currently reading (3), Read (704), Read but unowned (72), Previously owned (5), To read (113), Favorites (11), Out on loan (1), Recommended for Sarah (22), Cover scans (1,664), All collections (2,687)

Reviews94 reviews

Tagsowned (2,192), my cover (1,668), comic book (982), issue (940), mass market paperback (814), sci-fi (736), unread (505), purchased used (497), purchased from Half Price Books (459), X-Men (428) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror

Recommendations16 recommendations

GroupsBooks off the Shelf Challenge, Bug Collectors, FantasyFans, Malazan, Orson Scott Card, Star Trek Books, Star Wars Books, The Green Dragon

Favorite authorsRichard Adams, Orson Scott Card, Glen Cook, Stephen R. Donaldson, Steven Erikson, H. P. Lovecraft, Dan Simmons, Matthew W. Stover, Karen Traviss, Gene Wolfe (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Apple Valley, Half Price Books - Apple Valley, Half Price Books - Crystal, Half Price Books - St. Louis Park

Favorite librariesDakota County Library - Apple Valley Galaxie Branch, Hennepin County Library - Golden Valley Branch

About meFamily: Married since 2001, with three children, a boy and two girls.
Interests: I love reading, composing on the piano, playing boardgames, cartooning, and Transformers.

About my libraryQuick link to Member Giveaways with filters.

-------------------------------------------------
You can follow my reading journal here.
-------------------------------------------------

My library is predominantly sci-fi and fantasy, though much of the standard-fare "epic" fantasy (Brooks, Eddings, Feist) belongs to my wife. I basically grew up reading the Pocket Books Star Trek novels, so you'll see a lot of those (the complete TOS numbered series, in fact.) Up through college, I read mostly sci-fi, and very little fantasy (besides Lord of the Rings, natch) but lately I've been branching out into that genre, while avoiding the aforementioned mainstream authors.

Collections notes:

YOUR LIBRARY - This collection is for books that I own (mostly sci-fi/fantasy fiction) that don't fall into another "owned" collection.

COMIC BOOKS - Comic books (owned), including graphic novels and trade paperback collections. All entries tagged "comic book" for search purposes.

COMICS STRIPS - Collected comics (owned), originally published in strip form. "Calvin & Hobbes", etc.

TEXTBOOKS - College textbooks (owned).

CONTEST ENTRIES - Prizes for contests/giveaway that I've entered, regardless of whether I won the book or not. Includes blog giveaways, LT Early Reviewers, and LT Member Giveaways. Books I actually won are marked with the tag "won".

WISHLIST - Books that I don't own, but would like to. Includes books that have piqued my interest, though I wouldn't necessarily spend my own money on them.

UPCOMING BOOKS - Wishlist books that have yet to be published.

READ - Books that I've read, regardless of ownership. Does not include comic books, textbooks, etc., which may or may not be tagged "read".

TO READ - Books that I would like to read sometime in the coming year or so, as well as books I would like to re-read. (Distinguished by "to read" and "to reread" tags.)

OUT ON LOAN - Books from my library out on loan to others.

COVER SCANS - Book covers I've scanned. May include books not otherwise catalogued, or duplicates of books in other Collections. For high-res versions of my cover scans, visit this link.

Homepagehttp://www.saltmanz.com

Also onBlogger, BoardGameGeek, delicious, Facebook, LiveJournal, Twitter

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

Real nameChris Hawks

LocationApple Valley, MN

Emailchristopherhawkshotmail.com

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/saltmanz (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/saltmanz (library)

Member sinceApr 21, 2008

Currently readingMidnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 5) by Steven Erikson
The Citadel of the Autarch (Book of the New Sun, Book 4) by Gene Wolfe
Endangered Species by Gene Wolfe

Most recent activity

saltmanz reviewed, rated:
Test of Metal (Magic: The Gathering: Planeswalkers) by Matthew Stover

(read review)

saltmanz added:
Triton by Samuel R. Delany

saltmanz added:
Nova by Samuel R. Delany

saltmanz added:
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

saltmanz rated:
The Citadel of the Autarch (Book of the New Sun, Book 4) by Gene Wolfe

saltmanz rated:
Caine Black Knife (Acts of Caine, Book 3) by Matthew Stover

Hi Chris!

Thank you very much for describing carefully each of the books. The three of them seem to be kind of thing I like, so I'll be looking for all of them! I am very open-minded when it comes to fantasy book, I am just a bit sick of the cliche-filled books they have in our bookstores! I think eBay and Book Depository will be my companions in this hunt for all these great suggestions I got today.

Thank you for your help and for your time!

posted by saturness at 3:31 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2012

Sorry for the delay! It totally sin't necessary to have the second read. In fact all three largely stand on their own!

posted by eoinpurcell at 4:13 pm (EST) on Dec 28, 2011

Greets:

You seem to be the one watching over the Star Wars series stuff so I'll ask.

http://www.librarything.com/series/Star%2520Wars

I'll be indexing my Star Wars RPG material by West End Games in a few days. (I;m working on a list) I see some of the material listed there but much of it is missing. Do we want it in there or off on a different series?

thanks,
-drmike

(Please make mention of the topic if and when you comment back.)

posted by theapparatus at 2:47 pm (EST) on May 8, 2011

I happen to notice you had recently added Nyphron Rising to your "list." I wandered through your library trying to find it or the other two books in the series. I wanted to let you know that Nyphron was the third in case you hadn't read the two prior. Then I figured out--due to your careful notations--that you have not read these yet, but rather entered into the Fantasy Book Critic's contest to win them. I hope you have good luck with that as judging by your library (in which we share a good number of books (most of mine are still not posted here) I think you'll enjoy them.

Michael J. Sullivan

posted by MichaelSullivan at 10:01 am (EST) on Oct 16, 2009

Yep it was me! I just noticed the comments box on here, so I have missed a lot of messages from various people. Lol. I still need to get used to the site.

posted by trinibaby9 at 12:53 pm (EST) on Oct 14, 2009

I happened upon your mention of Shardik in LT Talk and just wanted to say I too think it is a great book. I had read Maia first and wasn't expecting all that much -- wow!

posted by selkins at 7:28 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2009

Happy belated Thingaversary!

posted by sparrowbunny at 6:07 pm (EST) on Apr 27, 2009

Hey there! This is Tif from malazanempire. Looks like you have a really interesting library going here so I hope you don't mind if I add you to my 'interesting libraries list'. Also, don't forget to join the malazan group!
Cheers!

posted by iftyzaidi at 11:07 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2008