Okay, folks. Here's the deal: after consideration, I've decided to give away whatever books people want from that giant lot I pulled from my shelf. The full list is
here. The books are in varying condition, some more scruffy than others, others rather old, but none with pages falling off. I take good care of my dears. Pay attention to what says on
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Unless... Don't you study in Lisboa? If you do, we can arrange for me to bring them to you.
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Well, as a great fan of Terry Pratchett, it's a sin that I haven't read Bons Augúrios/Good Omens yet, so I'll have that, also all books by Juliet Marillier except for the Sevenwaters trilogy (since I read those years ago and looooved them). Oh, oh, and Abarat, because Clive Barker rules (and his birthday's the same as mine but that's not important). Finally, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell sounds very interesting, so I'll have that too! :D
PS: You're awesome for doing this. My bookshelf needs more (fantasy) books like burning. I'm trying to read through the Dragon Age novels but the writing is so bad. It's by the lead writer of the games, and the stories/lore are amazing, but he's no novel author, I guess.
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Oh, I know, I'll get the first one in the meantime, maybe, hopefully I can find it cheap. Sometimes I find good, cheap stuff on amazon.com (the magic of second-hand!) so I'll give it a look.
Mine is kind of like that too, but I definitely need more because I've read through all I have more than once. :P
Do recommend!
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Amazon US tends to be quite expensive, especially considering shipping, when compared to Amazon UK, in my experience. I buy most of my online books from The Book Depository, which has no shipping fees! The company sells inside Amazon UK too, but it's a tad more expensive there.
If you saw the photos from my previous entry, you know what I mean when I say I ought to have enough books to only read them once xD I've taken to doorstoppers/treekillers. If a book has less than 400 pages it's hardly worth the price, I read it too quickly ._.
Alright, then. Anything by Neil Gaiman. And I seriously mean anything. The man has yet to produce a book I don't love, and if you haven't read anything by him yet, you'll see just what I mean in Good Omens. He manages to create characters and situations so poetic with such few words. One of my favorite books, American Gods, was written by him. He also wrote The Sandman series, which ( ... )
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ORLY.
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I adore vampires. (Sparklepires need not apply, kthx.) I've played White Wolf's Vampire: the Masquerade and Vampire: the Requiem RPGs, but sadly it's not easy to get time to run roleplaying campaigns with a set group of people. So I play Vampire: the Eternal Struggle, the corresponding cardgame (going to Paris at the end of the month to participate on the European championship), and read the source novels. Somewhat corny, yes. Bubble gum books, most definitely. But I love them.
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I never played the actual RPGs but I played the videogames, Masquerade remains one of my favourite to this day. And I never read the novels, but I used to devour Anne Rice (before she went all Lord Christ Is Our Saviour and ruined Lestat in the process) and the likes, Bram Stoker's dracula is one of my favourite vampire novels (go classics!). Then I read Twilight - waaay before the hype, I had no idea how it was - and wanted to kill myself of boredom a few pages in, and after the hype happened, it sort of killed it for me.
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I played both, but Bloodlines was my favourite, and I hardly remember Redemption because I played it a good while ago.
I know, right?! Why oh why would you want to keep going to High School when you have all that power and the ability to do anything? It doesn't make you evil to live up to your powers, ffs.
I love that concept, I do! Don't get me started on the sparkling, I remember vividly shaking the book and going "WHAAAT" a la Bernard Black when I read that. I like my vampires scary, ambiguous and not very trustworthy just by their nature. Even if they're good people, they need an edge.
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