Books you are itching to put your hands on.

[Aternox]

We all love books (well, if you landed in that part of the forum, it's because you love books. Surely.), but there's something annoying with litterature thirst: you can't always have the books you want to.

I'm pretty sure everyone has the same problem. So rant here, and maybe people can help each others finding rare books, why not?

There's a lot of great books in this world (okay, a lot of crappy ones too), but there's always a handfu of books that you want (badly), but that you can't get, for different reasons ( it's not out yet, it's out of print, you can't find it in your lost countryside, it's not translated in your language, you don't have enough money to afford it, and so on.)

Me, I currently have 3 itches :
Terry Pratchett's "Thud" -> : I really can't wait for it to be out, I'm gnawing at my desk each time I see the cover. *it's sad, I know*

Yamada Fuutarou "Jiraiya ninpouchou" : GAH, I just can't find it, I must be doomed! Yamada Fuutarou's take on the Kabuki legend, Jiraiya. GAH, I need it ;_;

Steven Brust, the whole "Vlad Taltos" serie. I've heard of it recently, and it sounds SO DAMN interesting, but I absolutely don't have the money to buy it now. So I keep on drooling in front of Amazon, looking at the covers scans.


And what about you people? =3

[MurasakiNeko]

I guess mines would be the entire Vampire Hunter Novels collection ^ ^
Hideyuki Kikuchi is like Japans very own Stephen King to me

[Aternox]

I guess mines would be the entire Vampire Hunter Novels collection ^ ^
Hideyuki Kikuchi is like Japans very own Stephen King to me


Hnn. Beware, I'm going to ask you a stupid question.

Why can't you have those?
(If it's because you can't read japanese, just ignore the next paragraph.)

If you can read Japanese, you can always use this (http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/250-9191394-8409804), or if you're not at ease/can't use that, or if they are too expensive; I guess I could always buy those in a second hand bookshop, and send them to you. (I live in Tokyo)

Now, I hope I didn't startled you too much with my stupid question. ^^;

[BakaKage]

I wanna get The Otori trilogy. I've been meaning to get it for ages.

[dont_look_back]

do you know the books b4 LotR like the silmaril & maps of middle earth??

them

[Angelush]

I wanna get The Otori trilogy. I've been meaning to get it for ages.


^ i read that thats was really good~ u shud definetly get it.. i want to get digital fotress and deception point by dan brown

[lekki]

I wanted to read the Da Vinci code for a while but since everyone was making a big deal of it and I never jump on the bandwagon, I read Angels and Demons instead:)

But I just bought it and I got though 220 pages in one night!!

[jkingler]

The Sookie Stackhouse Series, by Charlaine Harris.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?SID=323516
Why I want it: Vampires, Werewolves, and other occult phenomena--occuring in the modern American South. It sounds soooo interesting, and all of my friends who have read this series are in love with it!
Why I can't have it: I can't afford it :sad

HP6
Why I want it: Because I love HP, and I have been wanting this one since the end of book 5 (because I want more HP, despite 5 being a bit of a let down).
Why I can't have it: I can't afford it--but my GF is bringing it, along with her smexy self, tomorrow :dance

[Giant Enemy Crab]

HP7 but its gonna be at least a two year wait.:sad

[Khaavren]

Steven Brust, the whole "Vlad Taltos" serie. I've heard of it recently, and it sounds SO DAMN interesting, but I absolutely don't have the money to buy it now. So I keep on drooling in front of Amazon, looking at the covers scans.


Oh my...a Brust fan. I'm looking forward to the next Vlad book. Brust says in his blog that Dzur is now in the editing process.

As far as the books being expensive....I grab it from my library. :smile-big
Are you in Japan? And can't get a hold of a copy?

[Batman]

Harry Potter Book 7

Eldest: Book 2 of the Inheritance trilogy

The princess bride

Somthing else that doesn't fit into the stereotypical genre.

[Aternox]

As far as the books being expensive....I grab it from my library. :smile-big
Are you in Japan? And can't get a hold of a copy?


Yeah, most of the time I'm in Japan, and American/English bookstore have really HIGH prices, lol.
I went back to London two month ago, but when I heard of Burst's books, I had already left London ( darn it to heck, lol)
(But since I bought an insane amount of Terry Pratchett's books, I'm still happy X3)


The princess bride

THAT's a GREAT book, lol. (Westley never dies!)

[Powerman]

I've been meaning to read, Angels and Demons. I realy enjoyed the Da Vinci Code so I've been wanting to read Angels and Demons. I guess I should get around and get it and read it!!!

[lekki]

If you really want to enhance your understanding of Da Vinci code and Angels and Demons, read Holy Blood Holy Grail.

Because of that book, I got through Da Vinci code in just 2 nights.

The Historian is a pretty good book.

[Devilish Angel]

I wanted anything by Robert Cormier and Caroline Thompson. Also, Interviw With A Vampire. Actually, something doing with the supernatural will do for me.

[Darth Judicar]

Book 7 of Harry Potter, Dark Lord by James Luceno(Star Wars book), and the Labyrinth of Evil/Revenge of the Sith combined version.

[Aternox]

If you really want to enhance your understanding of Da Vinci code and Angels and Demons, read Holy Blood Holy Grail.

If you want to read intelligent stuff, and I *really* mean intelligent, you need to read Umberto Ecco's Foucault’s Pendulum.
Really, I mean it. DaV.Code is not really a great book, IMHO.
But Ecco's books are a bit elitist, and that can turn out to be a problem.
(in In the Name of the Rose, he didn't translate at all the latin parts of his books, so...)

[jormundelver]

HP7, of course. Hp6 just made it really interesting, made me wonder about Harry's last book.

^ i read that thats was really good~ u shud definetly get it.. i want to get digital fotress and deception point by dan brown
Digital Fortress was released back in 1997 if I'm not mistaken, so it's quite old, and from what I heard it has inaccuracies about crypto. Still, it's thrilling Dan Brown style.
I wanted to read Romance of Three Kingdom, 'cause I played the Dynasty Warriors series, which made it interesting :)

[sel]

checkmate - malorie blackman, cos the first two in the series were amazinhg

[*ZOE*]

those books are really good and are freat as an after read when you finished LOTR but they are so hard to come by since the movies have come out. i used to always see the books in second hamd shops but now if anyone sees JRR TOLKIEN they just grab it and now all the books are so expensive! for second hand scummy books!:mad do you know the books b4 LotR like the silmaril & maps of middle earth??

them

[Vikrat]

I wanna get The Otori trilogy. I've been meaning to get it for ages.


What he said.

[jkingler]

Dead as a Doornail -- in the mail

Brilliance of the Moon -- in the mail

A Feast for Crows -- not out yet

:sad

[Hermie]

DAMIT, I saw this thread on the front page and read "boobs"....



Anyways, I really want to read Dune..

[Lien]

DAMIT, I saw this thread on the front page and read "boobs"....

Pervert. c/=

-At the moment no books in mind >.< Just wanted to comment on Hermie's post

[NeophyteNihilist]

Anyways, I really want to read Dune..
Dune is the best science fiction book I've ever read. You shouldn't have much trouble finding it at a library though.

I'm dieing to read the final book in Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series. I'd like to buy it, since I have the rest of the series, but its so freakin expensive. I'll be getting it from the library soon.

[Gaara-fan]

I really want Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2), and The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4). I also wanna start reading Da Vinci code, but my sister is reading it right now and she won't give it to me :notrust

[FitzChivalry]

Not really any books at all except for Harry Potter 7. That series has made me break records for pages read and number of books, relating to the same character in a series, read. I'm eagerly anticipating this book because there are still so many unanswered questions that should be answered. That and the fact that this book kinda got me into reading.

[fireball]

Ptolemy's Gate(third book of bartimaeus trilogy)
The last book of the Inheritance Trilogy
Harry Potter book 7
also the dark tower series.

[organizedcrime]

Ugh, I've been trying to get the Dune series (or at least the first one) but I can't ever get to the library, and I doubt I'll be able to buy the damn thing.

[green tea96]

sloppy firsts...it's never there when i go to the library T.T

[aLkeMiSt]

Brahma's Dream, it's by a canadian author

[Ruri]

Harry Potter, book 7.

I also really want to read Wicked by Gregory Maguire, but so far I just haven't gotten around to buying it/going to the library.

[XxKaexX]

Um... Dunno... Anything by Christian Jacq and Checkmate by Malorie Blackman

[spyglassfire]

The 6th Harry Potter Book because I wasn't able to read it over the summer due to my summer reading schedule. :sad

Also, I want to continue with my fruits basket series. I'm on #9 and I'm DYING to get to the other ones. :laugh

[Katara]

Now that the Ender octet is over, Shadowmarch Volume 2. :drool I can't wait till it comes out.

And the third volume of Scott Westerfeld's Succession trilogy. I swear, he's putting it off! T_T

Me, I currently have 3 itches :
Terry Pratchett's "Thud" -> : I really can't wait for it to be out, I'm gnawing at my desk each time I see the cover. *it's sad, I know*So did you get it yet? :amuse

Yamada Fuutarou "Jiraiya ninpouchou" : GAH, I just can't find it, I must be doomed! Yamada Fuutarou's take on the Kabuki legend, Jiraiya. GAH, I need it ;_;Have you searched a Japanese bookstore and asked in person?

[darkspark]

"knife of dreams" - Robert Jordan (just came out, but i'm poor -_-)
and a series... can't remember the first book.... "myth directions", etc, etc. by a guy name aspirin or something like that... looked for it in the library the other day, only found three book of the series, and not the first one -_- owell. putting it on hold right now... (well, trying to)

[narutosimpson]

i didn't even read da vinci code yet

[ezxx]

Write now I'm reading the novel "The color of water" and I'm hoping to find more books to read by the author who wrote it.

[Narikaa]

I've been reading the Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix recently, and I'm really beginning to love it. Almost done reading Lirael after 2 days... ^^ and as soon as I find the third, I'll be swallowing that whole too.

[silent_speech]

definitely knife of dreams, of the wheel of time series, and harry potter 7
although i've been wanting to get my hands on the book "the rule of four" for quite some time too...

[FitzChivalry]

Book 3 of the Inheritance Trilogy. Finished Book 2, Eldest, and I'm itching to get my hands on the last book of the series. Have no idea when it'll come out, though.:sweatdrop.

[moer]

the zombie survival book, and hitch hikers guide to the galaxy

[Fayt]

Angels and Demons
Harry Potter 7

[botoman]

Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan by Alex Kerr

The only book, other than comics, that I'm looking to buy. Read a bit of it while in Japan, and the author brings up a lot of aspects of Japan that are in need of reformation, such as the construction idustry. He by no means dislikes Japan, it's the complete opposite. I met Alex Kerr after he gave a lecture at my Uni and he lives in a country side in Japan building his own house. He wrote the book in hopes that criticism would lead to positive change there.

[Naoko Tasaki]

Any book by Tamora Pierce, I NEED the 2nd Protector of the Small!

Oh,I read Trickster's Choice, but my friend told me that Trickster's Bride really sucked. Any second opinions?

[Dream Brother]

*Thread revival*

Haha, Selly and Bats were posting in the LD back in 2005? Damn.

Anyway, my current list:

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Caine Black Knife, Matthew Stover
Perdido Street Station, China Miéville
The Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari
A Dance with Dragons, George R.R Martin (not out yet)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

[Lord Yu]

I want to get my hands on
The Black company books by Glen Cooke
The Lies of Locke Lamore by Scot Lynch
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Lolita

[Adonis]

Anyway, my current list:

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
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Man, I had a chance to get Catch-22 when I went to Borders but they only had the hardcover for 25 bucks. Next time. I was also going to get The Great Gatsby but it cost $15 and considering I got an 816 page book, Ulysses, for only two bucks more, spending that much on one not even over 200 pages didn't seem worth it at the moment.

Other than that, I'm set for the time being. I stole a lot of the books I wanted from school. They were old and no one was reading them, anyway.

[horsdhaleine]

@Lord Yu: try to get the annotated lolita version by penguin. it's good.

[Kage no Yume]

-Vampire Hunter D volume 11: Pale Fallen Angels.

-The rest of the Vampire Hunter D novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi. They're up to around 20 in Japan and we're only on 9 by Japan's system (they count all the volumes of one storyline as a single volume with multiple parts)

-Solomon's Key by Dan Brown (bit of a guilty pleasure :amuse).

-Tamora Pierce's novel on Numair's past! I hope she gets this out soon, although I've yet to read the series on Alanna's daughter and George's ancestor.

[Dream Brother]

I was also going to get The Great Gatsby

Beautiful book. One of my favourites.

I got an 816 page book, Ulysses

Let us know how you find that -- most people seem to find it utterly inaccessible, to put it lightly.

[Tyrael]

Catch-22 is one I cannot recommend highly enough. It's one hell of a hard book to stomach though.

Whilst on the subject of book prices, I got a second hand first edition paper back Chapter House Dune. The RRP was £2.95.:argh

[sel]

*Thread revival*

Haha, Selly and Bats were posting in the LD back in 2005? Damn.

Anyway, my current list:

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Caine Black Knife, Matthew Stover
Perdido Street Station, China Miéville
The Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari
Sea of Faith, John Brehm
A Dance with Dragons, George R.R Martin
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami

Yep. Because we're awesome and old-school like that. Funny how I never actually got my hands on that Blackman book.

My newfangled list.

The Great Gatsby, F.S. Fitzgerald
Under the net, I. Murdoch
Norwegian Wood, H. Murakami.

That's all I remember off the top of my head.

Oh, speaking of book prices, I picked up my copy of Hard-Boiled Wonderland for £1.45. Oh yeah

[Crimson Dragoon]

Turn Coat, book 11 of the Dresden Files.

[Moogoogaipan]

I wanted to read the Da Vinci code for a while but since everyone was making a big deal of it and I never jump on the bandwagon, I read Angels and Demons instead:)

But I just bought it and I got though 220 pages in one night!!


That's a pretty stupid reason not to do something.

Angels and demons is a good book though. The twist at the end actually had me surprised



As for me I want to read the last Eragon book. Forgot what the title was.

[Mashed Potato]

A book by Albert Camus, but I can't be arsed trudging to the library.

[inkwell]

The Mermaid Chair is sitting on my desk right now, and is one of the books on my summer reading list.

[Sen]

The last couple of books in Anne/Todd McCaffrey's Dragonrider of Pern series.

It's not so much the money, but I don't have any time with school books to read. But I can't wait until break so I can read them. :wtf

[Senekis]

Anything and everything by Paul Feval :ohpek

[StrawHat4Life]

The last three books in The Dark Tower Series which are collecting dust in my bookshelf but I just haven't gotten around to reading.

Slaughterhouse-Five, The Road, the last Harry Potter book, Duma Key, and many others which I'm too lazy to read at the moment.

[Dream Brother]

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Updated my list. Sad to see the small progress over so much time, ouch.