Among others (which I can't remember right now), I bought Factotum. Really looking forward to reading it, I've great expectations
Among others (which I can't remember right now), I bought Factotum. Really looking forward to reading it, I've great expectations
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
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Our Ecstatic Days by Steve Erickson
"The unbearable lightness of being"
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
I bought it yesterday at a secondhand shop for a dollar. Hardcover, excellect shape. Probably never actually read. Best deal ever. I'm super excited to re-read it.
I try and just kick it but what can I do.
We've all got our junk, and my junk is you.
-Steven Slater, Spring Awakening
It's been a real long time since I last bought a book. Lately I've been either downloading books from the web or getting them from friends and acquaintances. Bu I remember buying a bengali epic poem (by Michael Modhusudhan) and a Mario Puzo book called The Last Don a few months back.
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...the smell of flowers through metal labyrinths.
"The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought"
[Eds] Alan Bullock & Stephen Trombley.
The Economist "How did one exist whithout this splendid book?"... an incomparable guide...there are new entries on God, communitarianism, perestroika, new world order, afrocentricity, ebonics, third wave feminism, hypertext, virtual reality, culture jamming, cloning, spin-doctors, post-colonialism, fuzzy logic, artificial life, paper architecture, infopreneur...
"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy".
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Location: Turks and Caicos Islands,2003
Harry Potter and the Half blood prince by J.K Rowling
actually got them all
Smile to the world and world Smiles Back!
The last book I bought was Scarlett, from Alexandra Rippley. This is the following book to Gone with the Wind.
On Friday I bought book of collection of works by my favourite Slovak poet, Milan Rufus. Some of his poems were even translated into English (I think the book's name is And That's the Truth or something like that) but unfortunatelly I cannot get hold of that translation. And though I love his poetry, my love doesn't go so far as to ordering translation of his poems from Amazon for some 30 $.
I have few others on my list, but my mother said that if I bring another one in the house she'll throw me out toghether will all my books... And as Sometimes A Great Notion is arriving from UK next week, and in July also Harry Potter, better not to provoke her with any other just now.
candide by voltaire
doubliners by joyce
and "love's labor's lost" by shakespeare
Good Omens - Terry Prachet & Neil Gaiman
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
"Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and universe...there is a reason."
- Douglas Adams
A second-hand "The Hobbit" by Tolkien, and "20,000 leagues under the sea" by Verne
'The Diary of Anne Frank'
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman (a gift actually...does that count?)
"Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and universe...there is a reason."
- Douglas Adams
I believe it was a complete set of Shakespeare's work. Hardbound and with gold leaf pages. I frequent the library more since the books I'm eyeing at the moment are too expensive. I'm looking at some leather bound classics, but I don't have the $50-60 a book for the 20 or so I've found I want.
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