Dammit......

So yesterday morning, I parked my ass in the chair in front of the computer, armed with my Amazon.com wish list, two Barnes and Noble gift cards and my morning cup of coffee. After much to-and-fro-ing, selections were made, and a shopping cart with enough purchases to take all of the gift cards was taken to checkout.

Only to find out that apparently, Barnes and Noble only lets you use one gift card per order. Fuckers.

So, the cart was taken out behind the woodshed, some of the selections were removed to make the total fit the first gift card, and the purchase was made. The removals were put into another cart, and the second gift card was used.

( The total order, for those that are interested )

This morning, I check my e-mail, and note that the smaller order was packed and ready to go on the 26th (yesterday), and should be sent today, and the larger order will be ready to go on the 29th (mainly due to getting the Cooper books). One thing I realized is that I'll be getting two copies of the same damn book, because when splitting the order, I didn't keep track of things as well as I'd thought, apparently. So while it's nice that I'll have another book I can get, the fact that I had to go through these convolutions in the first place annoys me to no end.

At least I didn't have to pay shipping on the thing, and the 'reader discount' card I have covered the sales tax.

Bastards.....

While I'm on the subject of books

So, I'm ordering a copy of the Mabinogion, to get an overview of the Welsh mythos. I've also got a copy of Edith Hamilton's Mythology, which covers the Greek/Roman gods pretty well, as well as copies of The Illiad and The Odyssey, and I'm also pretty sure that I've got something on the Arthurian stuff somewhere.

At this point, though, I seem to have a pretty good gap on just about everything else. Anyone have any recommendations? I'm also interested in if anyone has any info on good versions of things like the Bible (King James?), Koran, Torah, etc. I'm more interested in good, general references that cover all of a particular mythos, then in retellings of specific bits (i.e. a good, overall covering of the Norse gods and heroes, then something that covers one story in detail).