Hva var den siste boka du kjøpte?

[SteinErik]

Margaret Millar - Beast in View £5.26 The Book Depository.

 

"At thirty, Helen Clarvoe is only: her only visitors are the staff at the hotel where she lives, and her only phone calls come from a stranger. A stranger whose quiet, compelling voice lures the aloof and financially secure Miss Clarvoe into a world of extortion, pornography, vengeance, madness and murder...

 

Beast In View is a brilliant, classic whodunit, and a deep, disturbing study of the dark places of the human Psyche.

"

 

Raymond Khoury - Sanctuary £3.95 Butikk i London.

 

"Naples, 1750. In the dead of the night, three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis. The intruders' leader, the Prince of San Severo, accuses the marquis of being an imposter, and demands to know a secret that he believes the man harbours. In the fight that ensues, the false marquis escapes over the rooftops, leaving behind a burning palazzo and a raging prince who is now obsessed with finding his quarry at any cost. Baghdad, 2003. An American army unit hunting down Saddam's inner circle makes a horrifying discovery: a state-of-the-art, concealed lab where dozens - men, woman, children - have died after enduring gruesome experiments.

 

The mysterious scientist they were after, a man believed to be working on a bioweapons program and known only as the hakeem - the doctor - escapes, taking with him the startling truth about his work. A puzzling clue is left behind, crudely carved into the wall of one of the underground prison's cells: a circular symbol of a snake feeding on its own tail. So begins Raymond Khoury's explosive new novel, placing two bold women at the centre of the action as they get caught up in a murderous trail of ancient clues.

 

Ripped from the history books and coupled with cutting-edge science, THE SANCTUARY delivers even more of the brilliant mystery and rapid-fire suspense that made Khoury's debut novel, THE LAST TEMPLAR, a Sunday Times, New York Times and #1 international bestseller."

 

James Rollins - The Judas Strain £1.50 Butikk i London.

 

"Buried deep within a jungle, ancient ruins conceal a deadly secret...Buried in a tomb in Venice, a great explorer hides a truth that could shatter history...Buried in our own genetic code, a mystery like no other...But nothing stays buried forever-and it will be up to Sigma Force to face what will be unearthed: a plague beyond any cure, a scourge that turns all of Nature against mankind. From the high seas of the Indian Ocean to the dark jungles of Southeast Asia, from the canals of Venice to the crypts of ancient kings, Sigma Force must piece together a mystery that, unless solved, will end all life on our planet. But even this challenge may prove too large for Sigma Force alone. With a worldwide pandemic growing, Painter Crowe and Commander Gray Pierce turn to their deadliest adversaries for help, teaming up with a diabolical foe who thwarted them in the past. But can the enemy be trusted even now? Or will they prove to be another Judas?

"

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Mytologi av Arthur Cotterell

[Uin Viel]

A Thousand Splendid Suns av Khaled Hosseini. En veldig sterk bok om det å være kvinne i Afghanistan. Jeg har ikke lest "Drageløperen" av samme forfatter, men fikk jammen meg lyst til det etter at jeg leste denne. Anbefales!

[SteinErik]

A Thousand Splendid Suns av Khaled Hosseini. En veldig sterk bok om det å være kvinne i Afghanistan. Jeg har ikke lest "Drageløperen" av samme forfatter, men fikk jammen meg lyst til det etter at jeg leste denne. Anbefales!

 

Eg har bare lest "Drageløperen", men fikk samme lyst som du, til å lese flere bøker av samme forfatter etterpå.

 

"Drageløperen" Anbefales

[SteinErik]

Margaret Millar - Beyond this Point are Monsters £3.95 Amazon Marketplace

 

"At 8.30pm on the evening of October 13th, Robert Osborne left his ranch house to look for his dog. When he failed to return by 9.30pm, his wife roused the foreman of the ranch and a search was organised. It was the first of many searches covering a period of many months and an area of hundreds of square miles...

 

Evidence proved Beyond all reasonable doubt that Robert Osborne was killed by a band of itinerant Mexican Labourers - but the solution to the mystery was not quite so straightforward...

 

Once again Margaret Millar has written a superb and absorbing novel - with a macabre twist at the end."

[Morgaine]

Selv leste jeg også Tusen strålende soler først, og likte den så godt at jeg kastet meg over Drageløperen etterpå. Førstnevnte bok var mye, mye bedre etter mitt syn. Den kommer jeg nok til å kjøpe etter hvert, men ikke Drageløperen. Ellers er jeg mest på biblioteket for tida, og har ikke kjøpt noe siden sist.

[SteinErik]

James Sallis - Time's Hammers - The Collected Short Fiction £3.95 Amazon Marketplace

 

"This is a superb collection displaying Sallis's exceptional range. His detective stories are recommended by Ian Rankin and Walter Mosely; his literary fiction, with its edgy associations with pop culture, is enjoyed by Moorcock and his 'antimodernist' colleagues. Sallis formed part of that revolutionary group which, with M.John Harrison, Disch, Sladek, Aldiss, Thomas, MacBeth, Carter and others, was published in New Worlds, described by Ballard as the most important literary magazine of its time. This is an outstanding collection of his short fiction, written over a long literary career as belles-lettrist, editor, translator (of Queneau

and Vian) and pop intellectual. He's big in France, of course, with his delicious mix of noir and existentialism, but he's also big news with London's coolest readers. Get this while you can. It's not often you can find a collection as good as this."

 

James Sallis - Ghost Of A Flea £3.95 Amazon Marketplace

 

"In his old house in uptown New Orleans, Lew Griffin is alone again...or almost. He and Deborah are drifting apart. His son David has disappeared again, leaving behind a note that sounds final. Heading homeward from his retirement party, his friend, Don Walsh has been shot while interrupting a robbery. Worst of all, Lew himself is directionless, no longer teaching, with little to fill his days. He hasn't written anything in years. Even the attempt to discover the source of threatening letters sent to a friend leaves him feeling rootless and lost. Through five previous novels, James Sallis has enthralled and challenged readers as he has told the story of Lew Griffin, private detective, teacher, writer, port, and a black man moving through a white man's world. And now Lew Griffin stands alone in a dark room, looking out. Behind him on the bed is a body. Wind pecks at the window. Traffic sounds drift aimlessly in. He thinks if he doesn't speak, doesn't think about what happened, somehow things will be alright again. He thinks about his own life, about the other's, about how the two of them came to be here...In a series as much about identity as it is about crime, Sallis has held a mirror up to society and culture, while at the same time setting Lew Griffin the task of discovering who he is.

As the detective stands in that dark room, the answers begin to come clear and the highly acclaimed series builds to a brilliantly constructed climax that will resonate in readers' minds long after the story is finished.

"

[SteinErik]

James Sallis - Death Will Have Your Eyes £2.58 Play.com

 

"David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for almost a decade he has been out of the rat race and working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the great board that is the American landscape, through the diners and motels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board.

 

Michael Moorcock:

 

"Sallis investigates the cynical, violent, sophisticated world of modern espionage with authority and originality. His adult view of spies and their world has all the delicious ambiguous atmosphere, the complexity of plot and character we expect from Graham Greene or John le Carre - and it goes like a bullet train. Sallis is a superb writer and this is his best novel yet!"

 

[cathped]

Kathe - alltid vært i Norge og Boktyven

[cyclo]

J.R.R. Tolkien - The children of Hurin

Ellis Peters - The fourth Cadfael omnibus

Ellis Peters - The fifth Cadfael omnibus

Todd McCaffrey - Dragon's blood

Anne McCaffrey - Dragon's fire

Terry Books - The sword of Shannara

C. J. Sansom - Revelation

Anne McCaffrey - First warning (møkkebok)

Anne McCaffrey - Second wave (møkkabok)

 

Det var siste bokpakke fra Amazon som utgjorde min sommerlektyre

[SteinErik]

Michael Gruber - The Book Of Air And Shadows £4.93 Amazon Marketplace

 

"A clever, pacey thriller set around the search for a lost Shakespearean play. Tap-tapping the keys and out come the words on this little screen, and who will read them I hardly know. I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say, Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare. Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives? These are the words of Jake Mishkin, whose seemingly innocent job as an intellectual property lawyer has put him at the centre of a deadly conspiracy and hunt to find a priceless treasure connected to William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killer-or killers-unknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began when a fire in an antiquarian bookstore revealed the hiding place of letters containing a shocking secret, concealed for four hundred years. In a frantic race from New York to England and Switzerland, Jake finds himself matching wits with a shadowy figure who seems to anticipate his every move.

 

What at first seems like a thrilling puzzle waiting to be deciphered soon turns into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, where no one -- not family, not friends, not lovers -- is to be trusted. Moving between twenty-first-century America and seventeenth-century England, 'The Book of Air and Shadows'is a modern thriller that brilliantly re-creates William Shakespeare's life at the turn of the seventeenth century and combines an ingenious and intricately layered plot with a devastating portrait of a contemporary man on the brink of self-discovery ...or self-destruction. "

[kthulin]

De siste bøkene jeg kjøpte:

 

Oscar Wilde (biografi), Richard Ellmann, 200 kr, bokklubben.no

Melachonia, Jon Fosse, 239 kr, bokklubben.no

Backgammon "the bible", Paul Magriel, $52, bgshop.com

Ulysses, James Joyce, 198 kr, bokklubben.no

[Anonym234]

Stieg Larsson - Menn som hater kvinner. 99,- på Tanum.

[Eivind218]

Advance PHP

 

Kjøpt på amazon.co.uk , Ca 300 kr inkl. frakt,

Kjøpt med et par andre bøker.

Forfatter er ukjent

Endret 9. august 2008 av Eivind218

[SteinErik]

Margaret Macmillan - Seize The Hour - When Nixon Met Mao £6.50 Play.com

 

"In February 1972, Nixon amazed the world with a trip to China. He was the first US President to go there -- in fact officially the first American since the Communist takeover. It was like a visit to the far side of the moon, but also a brilliant stroke of policy. With China on side Nixon could get out of Vietnam; US technology could help Mao recover from his disastrous Cultural Revolution; most of all, both needed a buttress against Soviet Russia in aggressive mood. Yet the visit set a tone that still lingers. Did the Chinese see Nixon, coming to them, as a supplicant, and has the US been at a disadvantage ever since? Will the two countries cooperate, or will China challenge American dominance? Not just a great historical event, the visit is a great story too, filled with extraordinary people: Nixon himself, red-baiter, crook and shrewd statesman; Mao, frail, erratic, ruthless; the twin machiavellis Chou En-lai and Henry Kissinger; brittle Pat Nixon with her designer coat of 'prostitute's red'; and Mao's wife Jiang Qing, a small-time Shanghai actress now scourge of Chinese civilization.The clash of cultures was almost deafening too: China ancient and contemptuous, with nothing to learn from barbarians beyond the Middle Kingdom, the USA so different but also in its own eyes exceptional - the beacon for the world. "

 

Greg Iles - Blood Memory £2.76 Play.com

 

"A woman finds a link between a present-day murderer and unresolved issues from her own troubled past in this psychological thriller from the author of THE FOOTPRINTS OF GOD. A serial killer who targets white family men over 40 and leaves their bodies covered with human bite marks is prowling the streets of New Orleans. The cops call in Dr. Cat Ferry, an expert forensic odontologist (specialist in human teeth and bites) who with equal expertise hides her alcoholism, her depression, and her affair with a married detective from her colleagues. But the repeated panic attacks she mysteriously suffers during her examinations of the bodies gets her dumped from the case. Hoping to regain some control over her rapidly destabilizing life, Cat goes home to her family's estate in Natchez, Mississippi, where she inadvertently finds evidence that calls into question the accepted explanation for her father's long-unsolved murder--and where traumatic memories resurface.

"

 

Greg Iles - 24 Hours £2.76 Play.com

 

"Greg Iles's explosive suspense thriller 24 Hours gets off to a blistering start: the kidnapping of a little boy--in eight breathless pages--that culminates with the child's safe return and the disappearance of the successful kidnappers. That sets the stage for the book's centrepiece, the abduction of little Abby Jennings, daughter of Will, a successful physician and Karen, a slightly dissatisfied suburban woman who's wondering where the passion in her marriage went. The criminals' modus operandi is established early on. They target the progeny of Mississippi doctors, demand a reasonable (to an affluent MD) ransom, release the child after the money's been paid and promise the victim's parents that if they ever breathe a word of the incident to anyone, their child will be taken again and killed. The kidnappings are carefully set up, targeted to take place when one parent is out of town at a medical meeting or convention, thus ensuring the cooperation of the other. And the victim is held by a sweet, slightly retarded but humongous and powerful man whose loyalty to his cousin, the mastermind, is unquestioned.

 

24 Hours is a version of the locked room school of kidnap mysteries and a very good one indeed."

 

Chris Kuzneski - Sign Of The Cross £2.76 Play.com

 

"No secret will keep for ever ...

 

A Vatican priest is found murdered on the shores of Denmark – nailed to a cross in the shadow of Hamlet’s castle. He is the first victim in a vicious killing spree that spans the world. Each horrific murder exactly mirrors the crucifixion of Christ … Meanwhile, deep in the Roman Catacombs of Orvieto, an archaeologist uncovers an ancient scroll dating back two thousand years. The scroll, he knows, holds the key to a dark and treacherous secret that will rock the very foundations of the Church. But only if he can decipher its lost meanings – and only if he can live long enough to reveal them ...

 

The enemies of the truth know no law of man …"

[Paulineyeah]

Den siste boka jeg kjøpte var The End of Mr. Y av Scarlett Thomas. Etter å ha gått forbi den et par ganger inne på Tanum, Gardermoen, så måtte jeg bare ha den. Coveret var innbydende, det samme var svartfargen på sidene. Den kostet 99,- for pocketversjonen. Jeg kjøpte den med mine siste kroner, slik at jeg akkurat hadde nok til å kjøpe en banan til hjemreisen.

[SteinErik]

B. R. Burg - Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean. £12.16 The Book Depository

 

"Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of countless movies, books, children's tales, even a world-famous amusement park ride.

 

In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition, historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men, often on the high seas for years at a time, do for sexual fulfillment? Buccaneer sexuality differed widely from that of other all- male institutions such as prisons, for it existed not within a regimented structure of rule, regulations, and oppressive supervision, but instead operated in a society in which widespread toleration of homosexuality was the norm and conditions encouraged its practice.

 

In his new introduction, Burg discusses the initial response to the book when it was published in 1983 and how our perspectives on all-male societies have since changed.

"

 

Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling - Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 £14.82 The Book Depository

 

"From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly male-dominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their co-authors explore the relationship of gender and seafaring in the Anglo-American age of sail. Drawing on a wide range of American and British sources -- from diaries, logbooks, and account ledgers to songs, poetry, fiction, and a range of public sources -- the authors show how popular fascination with seafaring and the sailors' rigorous, male-only life led to models of gender behavior based on "iron men" aboard ship and "stoic women" ashore.

 

Yet Iron Men, Wooden Women also offers new material that defies conventional views. The authors investigate such topics as women in the American whaling industry and the role of the captain's wife aboard ship. They explore the careers of the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, as well as those of other women -- "transvestite heroines" -- who dressed as men to serve on the crews of sailing ships. And they explore the importance of gender and its connection to race for African American and other seamen in both the American and the British merchant marine. Contributors include both social historians and literary critics: Marcus Rediker, Dianne Dugaw, Ruth Wallis Herndon, Haskell Springer, W. Jeffrey Bolster, Laura Tabili, Lillian Nayder, and Melody Graulich, in addition to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling.

 

"This collection not only sketches life at sea in all its detail and diversity but also expands our understanding of the connections of gender, occupation, class, colonization, and race at sea and on land in the nineteenth century. The book combines first-rate scholarship with lively, accessible writing -- no small accomplishment!" -- Jeanne Boydston, University of Wisconsin-Madison"

 

Christopher R. Hill - Olympic Politics £12.94 Amazon Marketplace

 

"The author's thesis is not original to anyone who follows sport. The Olympic movement, Hill (politics, Univ. of York) argues, has been transformed into a major business dominated by money, power, and rank commercialism. Neither are his sources original. But he does a competent--although at times pedantic--job of chronicling how the Olympic movement has veered from its original intent. As the author concludes, "The whole thing has got out of hand." No recommendations for saving the games are presented, and the author leaves the reader wondering if it may be too late. Recommended for both academic and large public libraries.

 

Christopher R. Hill (1992) - Olympic Politics. Dette er en klassiker! Her finner du de viktigste fortellingene om OL og politikk fram til 1992. Her står det blant annet mye om konflikten mellom Kina og Taiwan i den olympiske bevegelse. -

Andreas Selliaas"

 

Matthew Reilly - Ice Station £5.49 Play.com

 

"After a team of American scientists at Wilkes Ice Station discover what seems to be a spaceship in a four-million-year-old cavern below the ice, two of the divers disappear while checking out the craft. Lt. Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield and his highly trained team of Marines respond to the scientists' distress signal. By the time the leathernecks reach Wilkes, three days later, one of the scientists has killed another, six more members of the Wilkes team have disappeared in the ice cave and eight French scientists from a nearby station are for some reason at the U.S. base. Would the French government kill Americans to capture a frozen UFO? Probably: six of the French "scientists" turn out to be the members of the French special forces. From that discovery onward, this first novel offers nonstop thrills as Schofield and his team fight for their livesAand for those of the remaining American scientistsAagainst French and British commandos and a secret American spy group; against killer whales and strange aquatic mammals; and against time, for both the French and British commandos harbor "eraser" plans to wipe out all survivors in case of mission failure. Reilly's debut evokes a host of predecessors, including Jaws, The Andromeda Strain, The X-Files and the combat novels of Tom Clancy. It also echoes the work of Ian Fleming, as the outrageously heroic Schofield comes off as less a real Marine than a fantasy action figure on a par with Bond. There's not much that's original hereAeven the set-up is reminiscent of the classic SF film The Thing, about a saucer buried in Arctic iceAbut Reilly doesn't really need to be original, not at the pace at which he whips his story line past readers. Employing crude but effective prose, a nonstop spray of short, punchy paragraphs and cliffhangers galore, this is grade-A action pulp."

[SteinErik]

John F. Baddeley - The Russian Conquest Of The Caucasus £23.24 Amazon Marketplace

[b-real]

Stieg Larsson - Menn som hater kvinner. 99,- på Tanum.

Glimrende bøker, rett og slett. Skal lese mer av han her.

[cathped]

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