I ordered a couple of books from Abebooks.com on Monday, and they’ve already been shipped from the vendors. Loving the service, no Indian site has been this prompt. Just have to wait out the 20-30 days’ international shipping time now… The books were cheap, including the shipping cost. Am also loving the Dollar’s slump against [...]
I went to Daryaganj again last Sunday and bought me some new books. Eon by Greg Bear (finished reading) The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart (hardcover) Hyperion by Dan Simmons Smith of Wooten Major and Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien (almost done) Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger A Long Way Down by [...]
Indiaplaza.in has started spamming me with promotional emails. No more shopping there, unless I get a really great deal.
LibraryThing just keeps getting better and better. I like it :)
I don’t usually quote long bits of text, but this is just too good to not share: [I]’ve just finished Toll the Hounds, which is the eighth novel in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. At the moment I am working on a co-written novella with Ian C. Esslemont set in the same world, [...]
I deployed a parallel version of bookPrices here today, and it stopped working. Strange, as it works great for me locally. Reverted it back, will puzzle it out when I have some more time.
I read Stephen King’s On Writing a couple of weeks back. This book had been on my to-read list for years—I don’t even remember now where I first heard about it. Somehow I never got around to ordering it, and when I did finally get my own copy some six months back, somehow I couldn’t [...]
I haven’t had time to properly review the books I’ve read in the last month or so. So here I am, doing some instant reviews… Peace, by Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe is always fun to read, even though you don’t understand what’s going on half of the time. Peace is very open-ended—you are not sure [...]
After reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled, I was prepared for all sorts of weirdness; it turns out that The Remains of the Day is a deceptively simple story. Thankfully, I hadn’t watched the movie before reading it, so could approach the book without any preconceived expectations. Stevens, the narrator, is what in literary terms you’d [...]
Having heard so much about The Lies of Locke Lamora—the most hyped fantasy book of 2006—I was reluctant to give it a try. If people like Matt Stover and George R.R. Martin (highly) recommend a book, it does build up one’s expectations. So I waited until the mass market paperback came out, and then read [...]