The stuff I got on Saturday, from the Best Book Stall. I admit I went a little out-of-breath. But yeah, I was in control. Got only the stuff I really wanted. Really.<\/p>\n
All these were for 75 rupees each.<\/p>\n
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Vampires. Any well-writen book about vampires has been on my must-by list. <\/p>\n
This one’s supposed to be a controversial book on Hollywood and the biggest scandals. Beautiful photographs, and a nice commentary.<\/p>\n
After the Sabriel<\/i> book, could the sequel be far behind? Glad I got it at a low price, though I wanted a hardcover….<\/p>\n black-mask.com has the eBook of this, and I enjoyed the first couple of pages. Besides, who can forget? This was the book that inspired a movie starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. One night, in distant Gotham city, a young boy named Bruce went to see that movie with his parents. For him, that night would never end…..<\/p>\n The Talisman was good<\/i>. I had been waiting for the sequel for a long time. And when the sequel came out, I waited for it to come to Best Book Stall. Ah! <\/p>\n One heckuva white-heat read, this one I finished on Saturday itself. Bradbury had initially written short stories about a family, referred to as The Family, who live in The House, the great-Grand-mere being Nef, a mummy who occasionally needs 2000-year old wine to wet her lips. (Some of the stories I remember reading in the “Collected Short Stories of Ray Bradbury”. )Couple of things I didn’t know about the book – one of the short stories here, the first was rejected by all horror magazines, until one such mag decided to use it as a basis of a Theme issue. This led to Bradbury meeting illustrator Charles Addams ( him of the Addams family fame), and they planned to create this book together. however, Addams passed away before the book could be completed.<\/p>\n Another book I had been waiting to read for a long time.<\/p>\n I had heard of the Tom Ripley books long after<\/i> the movie was released. And turns out there is a series of books. Crime noir. A neat Anti-hero. Trivia: Patricia HIghsmith also wrote Strangers on a Train<\/i> which was made by Hitchcock into the movie of the same name.<\/p>\n This one promises to be different, not the usual fanstasy stuff that Barker writes. Let’s see.<\/p>\n JIm Morrison’s biography. i would be crazy if I didn’t buy it.<\/p>\n These are two of the newest Burke novels. Just when Vachss was falling into a rut – having an indestructible anti-hero doesn’t help woo new readers – he decides to kill off a major character and nearly<\/i> kill Burke. Bound to be good!<\/p>\n Another long-awaited read.<\/p>\n Laurell Hamilton wrote the Anita Blake vampire series, which are so very cool. In this, she deals with The Faerie.<\/p>\n No comment.<\/p>\n The first book was too good. I hope I get the third book soon and at an equally low price.<\/p>\n Saw this in Odyssey, the back-page promised an interesting read. It’s got nothing to do ith Samurai or Japan or the upcoming Tom Cruise movie. It’s about a kid and a single mom who compensates for the lack of a father-figure in her son’s life by Akira Kurosawa movies. One of those books I never thought I would get to read, let alone buy….<\/p>\n After all the fuss I made out of Michael Chabon after Adventures of Kavalier and Klay<\/i>, I went nutzo about finding this. Now I have to search fot Summerland<\/i>, too.<\/p>\n More, more, more.<\/p>\n I finished this yesterday. My faith ( or the lack of it) in Hollywood has fallen to unmentionable levels. The movie is good, no doubt, but it has nothing<\/i> to do with the book other than that it’s about an idiot savant. Even the starting line has been bowdlerized in the movie! I don’t recall seeing Gump going to space or walking among English-speaking, Chess-playing cannibals, or having an ape named Sue as a partner anywhere in the movie.<\/p>\n *rubs hands* Eh heh heh heh.<\/p>\n Long-awaited. I am going to finish this tonight.<\/p>\n There are two other Joanne Harris books there. let’s see if I get them too.<\/p>\n Simple rule of thumb – Philip K Dick rules!<\/p>\n For the first time in my life, I got a huge stack of Star Wars novels and I was forced to ignore the bulk of them for sometime. Got three from the New Jedi Order series, which I just found out are numbers 6, 8 and 13. I will have to wait for the others now.<\/p>\n The end of a problem, and the beginning of a new one. I now have the complete Sally Lockhart Trilogy. But because I bought Book 3 of His Dark Materials Trilogy, I can’t do anything much, other than waiting for the first two.<\/p>\n Minor Update: Sheesh! How could I forget this? Along with the above list, there was also –<\/p>\n This is a collection of short stories by different authors who interpret the Sandman mythos. And this has a story behind it. Rishi bought it when we were still in the Twelfth. And I borrowed it, and (ahem) lost it. 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