Last Book You Bought and Why

[Dickens59]

The English Novel: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

[Stieg]

That would be...

Fagles translation of The Odyssey on audiobook

Oh, nobody does Homer in English better than Fagles! :D

He is my only choice!

[aeroport]

On Becoming a Novelist - John Gardner
Moby-Dick, A Norton Critical Edition - Melville
Billy Budd and Other Stories - Melville

[Idril]

Those Who Seek by Daniil Granin

[mtpspur]

The Aquanauts by Daniel Bard was just delivered to me at work about 10 minutes ago. Paperback based on a TV series from 1960 I've been looking forthis on e-bay for almost two years with the attitude that all things come to those who wait--patiently. By-the-by no one has heard of this series and if it ever makes DVDs I shall be annoying the long suffering wife with a marathon viewing.

[malwethien]

Fodor's Amsterdam

[Lily Adams]

I bought an introductory book to philosophy. I LOVE it so far. Probably one of the best books ever.

[aabbcc]

Luigi Pirandello - Uno, nessuno e centomila
Adorable, unique, amazing :) Pirandello is seriously becoming my drug.

[Lyn]

She
H. Rider Haggard.
dunno why, just thought of it as I was walking round the bookshop feeling a bit depressed and looking for an adventure.

[Mortis Anarchy]

I Just Want My Pants Back by David J. Rosen

I found three books I wanted...but I settled on this one because I saw it first...:) Lets see how it turns out!

[Maida]

Youth in Revolt, CD Payne. It was hilarious, and now I really want to go book shopping again.

[Bakiryu]

Jinx (is this book named after me?!), Honk If You hate me, and Hollywood Hills.

[aeroport]

Waterland - Graham Swift
Grendel - John Gardner
October Light - John Gardner
complete stories (1884-1891) - Henry James

[Dickens59]

Village Voice Film Guide edited by Dennis Lim.
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen edited by Stephanie Harrison.
Paradise Lost by John Milton

[Madhuri]

Grapes of Wrath -- for myself.

Kite Runner -- as a gift for someone.

[Lote-Tree]

Kite Runner -- as a gift for someone.

have you read this book Madhuri?

[Madhuri]

have you read this book Madhuri?

Yes. I have a copy of the same book with me as well. I liked the story very much :nod: .

[manolia]

"In cold blood", Truman Capote

[Granny5]

Walking the Trail (one man's journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears
by Jerry Ellis
Got it on sale...I thought it would be about him walking the Trail of Tears and he would write about what happened in 1838 where ever he was at any given timer....it's really about him needing a woman.

[syiah]

The Wanting Seed - Anthony Burgess
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe

:blush:

[Alexei]

"One" by Richard Bach
"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera

[Bakiryu]

Just got Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer and the last in the Vampire Edward Trilogy! (I think)

Got the book Uglies (soon getting Pretties)
Menoch the Devil by A. Rice

and A Princess Academy (PAY NO ATTENTION TO THIS: I'm A CYNIC WHO LOVES FAERIE TALES :blush:)

[Idril]

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Envy by Yuri Olesha

[aeroport]

Melville; His World and His Work - Andrew Delbanco
Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
Just ordered Lifting Shadows - the Dream Theater biography! Pretty excited; viciously expensive, though...

[Nossa]

Kite Runner -- as a gift for someone.

Now that's a GREAT book to give someone...It's on the top of my favorite books of all time!!!

As for me, the last books I bought were yesterday, I went to a used bookshop, and bought both The Iliad and The Odyssey, and a hardcovered edition of Khalil Gibran's The Prophet. I also, finally, got my hands on a rare used edition of Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie.

[Dickens59]

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

[Lambert]

William H. Gass -- The Tunnel
Samuel Beckett -- Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable)
Donald Bartheleme -- Sixty Stories
William Faulkner -- Collected Stories
T.C. Boyle -- Collected Stories

[Idril]

Under The Glacier by Halldór Laxness

[Niamh]

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

[andave_ya]

1. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
2. Divine Comedy 1 and 2 by Dante
3. Faust Part One by Goethe
4. Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories.

[aeroport]

Before someone remarks on my being obsessed or something, I would like to mention that I am planning to take an independent study sometime next summer or next year of Henry James. Thus, catching up with the following:
The Turn of the Screw and the Aspern Papers
The Wings of the Dove
The Portrait of a Lady
The American
And I have just ordered the following:
The Awkward Age
The Spoils of Poynton
The Europeans
The Bostonians
Italian Hours
What Maisie Knew
The Outcry
The Other House
The Tragic Muse
A Small Boy and Others
The Ivory Tower
The Princess Casamassima

Henry James at Work - Theodora Bosanquet
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

[Whifflingpin]

Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra

[Bakiryu]

My mum just bought me "The Comglomeroid Cocktail Party" by Robert Silverg

[Pensive]

I also, finally, got my hands on a rare used edition of Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie.

I have completed 3/4 of it, and so far I have liked it very much. I wish you do too and like to participate in its discussion which we are having in Forum Book Club this month. :p



Kite Runner -- as a gift for someone.

What an interesting novel! I hope the one you gift it to likes it!

[Idril]

Iceland's Bell ~ Halldór Laxness

[Psycheinaboat]

I received a package from B&N just the other day containing Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story and Johnny Got His Gun. I am looking forward to diving in to both when I get the time.

[sbmarti2]

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway, and the Dummies guide to Excel :yawnb:

I have to mix work and pleasure I'm afraid :(

[manolia]

"Ethan Frome", Edith Wharton
and
a book with obscure Lovecraft's tales

[Silvia]

"never let me go" Kazuo Ishiguro
"Fräulein Else" Arthur Schnitzler

[Virgil]

Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library) by John Updike (All four Rabbit novels in one book)
and
Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire

[higley]

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, from Half Price Books. :)

[andave_ya]

Before someone remarks on my being obsessed or something, I would like to mention that I am planning to take an independent study sometime next summer or next year of Henry James. Thus, catching up with the following:
The Turn of the Screw and the Aspern Papers
The Wings of the Dove
The Portrait of a Lady
The American
And I have just ordered the following:
The Awkward Age
The Spoils of Poynton
The Europeans
The Bostonians
Italian Hours
What Maisie Knew
The Outcry
The Other House
The Tragic Muse
A Small Boy and Others
The Ivory Tower
The Princess Casamassima

Henry James at Work - Theodora Bosanquet
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James


That is cool! That is --so--cool! just a couple of books bought by a book lover. Man, if there were only more people like you!

"When I have money I buy books, and if there is any left I buy food and clothing."
--Erasmus

[Madhuri]

What an interesting novel! I hope the one you gift it to likes it!

I hope that too :)

The Dark Room ~ R.K. Narayan

[manolia]

"The tin drum", Guenter Grass

[Dickens59]

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

[LadyWentworth]

Behind the Lines (collection of letters) - Andrew Carroll
Banishing Verona - Margot Livesey
Misfortune - Wesley Stace

Bought them all at the Dollar Tree last night! 3 nice, hardcover books. I've been meaning to get Behind the Lines as I had the other two collections. What luck, huh?!

[gothic]

It's one of my most irritating habits(especially for my big sis!)to buy books whenever I get hold of some money.My mom never trusts her daughter in this very case and is therefore ever reluctant to hand me money for any purpose.okay now,the last book I bought huh?well,it was...as far as I can recall...'A volume of stories of Misir Ali' by Humayun Ahmed,currently the most renowned author of my country,Bangladesh.

[Nick Rubashov]

the new Harry Potter

[aeroport]

That is cool! That is --so--cool! just a couple of books bought by a book lover. Man, if there were only more people like you!

"When I have money I buy books, and if there is any left I buy food and clothing."
--Erasmus

Many thanks. I'm thinking the wisest thing is to stop buying them now... I'm beginning a project of one chapter a night for the next year or so (perhaps ever after, if I like it) in order to acquaint myself with more of his works before the class, so I consider myself completely justified... ;)

[Demian]

The Ticket That Exploded by Burroughs and Lolita by Nabakov...

[WaxenWings89]

How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom.

[Domer121]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows~J.K Rowling..
I need to go to the bookstore.....

[jon1jt]

Leaves of Grass, First and "Death-Bed" Editions,
--Barnes & Noble Classics

i have to thank virgil for his high praise of the first edition which inspired the purchase.

[subterranean]

Turning Training into Learning: How to Design and Deliver Programs that Get Results by Sheila W. Furjanic and Laurie A. Trotman.

It's for my next job. :)

[Virgil]

Leaves of Grass, First and "Death-Bed" Editions,
--Barnes & Noble Classics

i have to thank virgil for his high praise of the first edition which inspired the purchase.

Thanks Jon. I'm no expert on Whitman, but I think the first edition is the better. I don't think he edited well. When he just let it out he was at his best. In all fairness to him, he was really breaking ground with his form and didn't have any models to go by. I've grown to really respect Whitman as I read him more.

[sbmarti2]

I do book orders from chapters.ca, so:

The Last Day of a Condemned Man- Victor Hugo
Notes from the Underground- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gambler- Fyodor Doestoevsky
The Death of the Korosko- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Mortis Anarchy]

The Psycho Ex Game by Merrill Markoe and Andy Prieboy

I saw it when I was 13(5yrs ago) and I knew I had to have it...but I forgot about it...so wandering around looking for AP study prep guide, I saw it and bought it...instead of the study prep:lol: :D :banana:

[Stieg]

Father Raven and other tales by A E Coppard

[Riesa]

The Stranger ~ Albert Camus

whoooozzzzzeeee....pause. (trying to figure out exactly what makes someone so damned obstinate at times) :lol:

[Scheherazade]

The Stranger ~ Albert Camus One of my favorites; please do write a review once you finish reading (that is, if you have time). :)

[NEDJ293]

The Silmarillion -- J.R.R. Tolkien

[JoanS]

Ecce hommo by Nietzsche.. wouldnt be better ask, last book you have stolen?

[Niamh]

An evil cradling-Brian Keenan
Atonement- McEwen
Inferno-Dante
sabbaths theatre- Philip Roth
What Maisie Knew- Henry James
Voice of the gods- Trudi Canavan

[grace86]

On amazon.com I bought:

Marriage on the Rock - Jimmy Evans (Pastor is going to start pre-marriage counseling and that is his choice)

and

How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success fromt he Country's Top Students - Cal Newport (I think I am getting all psyched out about starting school)

[~*Dark Faerie*~]

Hmm I think it was


Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence

[Anza]

Eclipse, by Stephanie Meyer. AWESOME BOOK, AWESOME SERIES!!!!

[Alexei]

"Women in love" by D.H. Lawrence

[*Classic*Charm*]

La Vita Nuova- Dante

[mcvv09]

The Rainbow-Dh Lawrence

[LadyWentworth]

Until the End - Harold Coyle

The sequel to his Civil War novel Look Away.
I was SO happy to finally see it somewhere. I read the first book well over a year ago. I can finally see how he decided to finish the story.

[stormy sky]

Cinnamon Peeler-Micheal Ondaatje

[Idril]

The Yellow Arrow by Viktor Pelevin
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
The Rat by Günter Grass
Dog Years by Günter Grass

[Riesa]

The Schopenhauer Cure ~ Irvin D. Yalom :wave: :D

[Moandor]

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

[Alexei]

"Rainbow" by D.H. Lawrence
"Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Takeahnase]

I bought three books yesterday (well, unless you'd count textbooks too... but bah, they're no fun :sick:)- Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Shakespeare's Hamlet and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (God knows if I'll ever finish it, though...).

Hamlet and Hard Times I needed for my English Lit. course, but since I decided to make good use of the 3 for 2 offer I thought I'd pick up W&P, too. It was a toss up between that and The Count of Monte Cristo, but I know I'll be loaning the latter from the library some time soon anyway if I don't have my own copy and it probably won't take me too long to finish it. Whereas, with War and Peace... I'm not so confident I'll be finishing that one any time soon, so it might be more useful for me to keep my own copy at home, rather than perpetually having to take it out from the library until I can muster up the motivation to actually finish it.

I love buying books. Too bad I have neither the funds nor the room to make it a regular thing! Still, makes for a nice treat every now and again. And there's always those second hand shops which sometimes house a little gem or two.. though the ones around here seem to be fairly dissapointing (Mills & Boon-esque et al.) Shame.

[Nossa]

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Just bought it this morning :D

[Planet]

JOHN
by Cynthia Lennon

[Oniw17]

Just bought the Gita.

[Virgil]

I just bought Donald Hall: White Apples and the Taste of Stone, Selected Poems 1946-2006.

[capek]

The most recent books I've bought are the Cambridge Texts version of Nietzche's On the Genealogy of Morality (listening to a couple of Robert Rodderick's lectures about the post-modern condition via TTC got me to wanting to read some Nietzche, and Genealogy was one of his books I'd never got around to reading back when I was reading that kind of stuff). And Taschen's Alchemy & Mysticismart book, which is a completely awesome collection of about 550 pages worth of medieval mystical art, which I found on sale at B&B for $10.

[Janine]

"Rainbow" by D.H. Lawrence
"Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hi Alexei, good for you! You bought another Lawrence book....great! I just love Lawrence's writing. Virgil knows all about "The Rainbow" - it was his favorite L book, but not sure now if it still is, since we all read and disgused "Women in Love". I read both and liked them both very much. I need to re-read now "The Rainbow", I think I would understand it better now. I usually read Lawrence's books at least twice. I am glad you enjoyed the last one, wasn't that "Women in Love" or was it "Sons and Lovers"?
Several of us plan on reading "Sons and Lovers" in soon and disgusing it. I read something about your enthusiasm for Lawrence's style of writing in another thread. I have to recruit you for the Lawrence short story thread. Currrently we are on break and will start up in October on the story that we picked last month..."Odour of Chrysanthamums" - it is one of his most well known and acclaimed stories. Please join us if you have time... also in the "Sons and Lovers" discussion. I will let you know by email when we will start it.

[Janine]

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Just bought it this morning :D

Nossa, hi - you will have to ask Malwethian all about "Northanger Abbey" - she loves that book and thinks it is hilarious. I also read it twice now. It is quite amusing! You will enjoy it.

[Nossa]

Nossa, hi - you will have to ask Malwethian all about "Northanger Abbey" - she loves that book and thinks it is hilarious. I also read it twice now. It is quite amusing! You will enjoy it.

I LOVE Jane Austen :D I'm sure I'll enjoy it..lol
I've decided that I'm gonna read all of her works...including the ones I've read before..I'm almost done with perusasion...then I'll start Northanger Abbey :D then the rest of couse..lol

[Janine]

I LOVE Jane Austen :D I'm sure I'll enjoy it..lol
I've decided that I'm gonna read all of her works...including the ones I've read before..I'm almost done with perusasion...then I'll start Northanger Abbey :D then the rest of couse..lol

I love her books, too... and I enjoy the film adaptations, as well. I had to watch "Northanger Abbey" again after discussing how humorous it was with Malwethian. She had me laughing out loud. I would like to buy the film version of "Persausian". I really liked that book emensely. On second readings one gets so much more out of the text, don't you think?

How funny, Nossa, I just re-read your profile - to refresh my memory and see you want to learn violin. I am now listening to Joshua Bell - an early album, it is so lovely. Good for you - do learn the violin - wonderful instrument....so emotional, don't you think?

[Woland]

Dante's Purgatorio

[Granny5]

I just bought a new copy of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I read it years ago and loved it so I thought I'd read it again and see what I've forgotten.

[malwethien]

Case Files - Kate Atkinson

[Poppy]

I just bought a new copy of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I read it years ago and loved it so I thought I'd read it again and see what I've forgotten.

Woodrow Call: "What do you want legs for anyway? You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey! "
Gus McCrae: "I like to kick a pig every once in a while. How would I do that? "

[Nossa]

I love her books, too... and I enjoy the film adaptations, as well. I had to watch "Northanger Abbey" again after discussing how humorous it was with Malwethian. She had me laughing out loud. I would like to buy the film version of "Persausian". I really liked that book emensely. On second readings one gets so much more out of the text, don't you think?

How funny, Nossa, I just re-read your profile - to refresh my memory and see you want to learn violin. I am now listening to Joshua Bell - an early album, it is so lovely. Good for you - do learn the violin - wonderful instrument....so emotional, don't you think?

Yup..that's actually why I decided to learn the violin..something about it is so captivating and charming...though it's a bit hard to play..but I'll manage :D I think I should have started playing it years ago, cuz being 19 is a bit old when it comes to learning musical instrument..but it's so much fun..and it's also relaxing, after a long day in college...:D

About Jane Austen, she's my favorite female writer of ALL time...Actually, when I plan on reading Jane Austen, it's like a date, I can't wait to get to the book and read it. I just love her style, her characterization, her wit, the plots and complications she creates...she keeps me hooked up till the end. But mainly, what I like most about her, is how she portraits the characters in the novels, you can almost see them moving and talking in front of you.
And you're SO right..re-reading the novels makes you see and notice things that you didn't know before..this is part of her greatness as well, you'll never get bored while reading Jane Austen..no matter how many times you read even ONE of her works, it's still charming.

[manolia]

"Three men in a boat" Jerome K Jerome
"A portrait of the artist as a young man" James Joyce

[blazeofglory]

What was the last book you bought?

I got two today, one that I'm especially proud of.


The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Lawrence Sterne

and


Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes

The last book I bought was of Kiran Dersai's the inheritance of loss, the booker prize winner writer. I like the book immensely.

If you have read the book, please share what you like of it.

[aabbcc]

A book of poems by Francis Ponge (bilingual edition, French original with translation). Andrić's A Bridge Over Drina, which I own already, but the price was so ridiculously low that I had to buy another copy. A book by some psychiatrist on variety of topics.

All three bought today, on used books fair. :D

[metal134]

Underworld by Don DeLillo

[thelastmelon]

Gentlemen And Players - Joanne Harris

[jon1jt]

From Where We Stand: Recovering A Sense Of Place, Deborah Tall

[stlukesguild]

My last book purchase consisted of four art books: one on Caspar David Friederich, one on Whistler, one on J.M.W. Turner, and one on Monet. As an artist I can almost honestly tell people I don't read 'em, I just look at the pictures.:lol: My last literary purchase was of The Curved Planks, a collection of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy which I discovered was a marvelous book.

I got two today, one that I'm especially proud of.

The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Lawrence Sterne

and

Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes

Perhaps you shouldn't be proud... but rather a bit embarrassed to admit to not having read them already.:lol: They are both fabulous novels. I try to read them each again every few years. My next foray with Cervantes should be with Edith Grossman's highly praised new translation. I see it there calling to me from my shelves.:p

[manolia]

"The Master and Margarita" , Mikhail Bulgakov

[Nossa]

Perhaps you shouldn't be proud... but rather a bit embarrassed to admit to not having read them already.:lol: They are both fabulous novels. I try to read them each again every few years. My next foray with Cervantes should be with Edith Grossman's highly praised new translation. I see it there calling to me from my shelves.:p

:lol: I'm impressed that you're called to read Tristram Shandy more than once :lol: I'm sorry to say, but it's one of the most boring books I've ever came across..lol

[andave_ya]

Perhaps you shouldn't be proud... but rather a bit embarrassed to admit to not having read them already.:lol: They are both fabulous novels. I try to read them each again every few years. My next foray with Cervantes should be with Edith Grossman's highly praised new translation. I see it there calling to me from my shelves.:p

LOL...no, I'm notoriously strange about my reading. I never found Tristram Shandy before. I tried to read Don Quixote before I was ready and it was mind-boggling for me. I started Shandy but had to put it aside because I've got around eight already-started books to finish, and am saving the Don until I have absolutely nothing else to read.

[Alexei]

"The Master and Margarita" , Mikhail Bulgakov

I love this book! Wonderful choice, Manolia. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as i did.

[manolia]

I love this book! Wonderful choice, Manolia. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as i did.

Thanx Alexei :) I have heard a lot about it. I think i will enjoy it :)

[bibliophile190]

My last purchases were:

The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux

And all for only a couple of dollars. I was very proud of myself.

[Alexei]

My last purchases were:

The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux

And all for only a couple of dollars. I was very proud of myself.

I read "The Phantom of the Opera" few months ago and I really like it. It's an intriguing reading :)

My newest book is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. I have already started reading it and find it wonderful. I think that there is no way to be disappointed.

[vheissu]

My newest book is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. I have already started reading it and find it wonderful. I think that there is no way to be disappointed.


I read that a few years ago, it was quite good! If you like Kundera, you should also try The book of laughter and forgetting

[Idril]

I read that a few years ago, it was quite good! If you like Kundera, you should also try The book of laughter and forgetting

And The Joke...and Life Is Elsewhere...and Immortality. :D

[Alexei]

I read that a few years ago, it was quite good! If you like Kundera, you should also try The book of laughter and forgetting

Cool! I have bought it last month, but I haven't read it yet. I thought to read it after finish my previous reading, but somehow I bought and started with "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".




And The Joke...and Life Is Elsewhere...and Immortality. :D

Thanks, Idril, I plan to read them tooq especially after you have recommended them :)

[manolia]

"Barnaby Rudge" Charles Dickens
"Our mutual friend" Charles Dickens
"Northanger Abbey" Jane Austen
"The man in the iron mask" Alexandre Dumas

[ClickForth]

okokok

[papayahed]

I know I said I wasn't going to buy anymore books until I got rid of some books but I couldn't help myself.

The Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Stories - HP Lovecraft
This is your Brain on Music, The Science of a Human Obsession - Daniel J Levitin

The first is for the book club and the second because it looked really interesting, the author is a sessions musician turned nueroscientist.

[Virgil]

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Both are excellent books Click. :thumbs_up Good choices. :)

[Dark Star]

I've recently ordered:

The Basic Works of Aristotle
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America -- Christopher Hitchens
Library of America's one volume compilation of some of Thomas Jefferson's writings
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson -- Joseph J. Ellis

[MaryEliFit]

Yesterday my sister bought me the book Almost Dead by Lisa Jackson.

[Dark Star]

I recently dropped by a used book store and picked up:

George R.R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle -- Windhaven
Joseph Silk -- The Big Bang
Leonard Susskind -- The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

[Bakiryu]

S is for Space a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury

[poofyhead15]

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.

[Alexei]

I have finally bought my own copy of "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind. I read the book a year ago, after I borrowed it. Since I have read it and enjoyed it immensely, I have wanted to buy a copy, but there was always something else. I decided to brought it now, because my Book Club is going to read it this month and I would need my own copy this time.

[stlukesguild]

I actually picked up three last night:

Ranier Maria Rilke's- Sonnets to Orpheus translated by Edward Snow
(I have greatly admired Snow's translations of Rilke's other collections and finally got around to buying this one)

Fernando Pessoa- A Little Larger than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems translated by Richard Zenith. Pessoa is certainly one (or I should say several) of the strongest poet(s) of the 20th century that no one has ever heard of. I have been obsessively collecting his writings since I first came across him (and much still remains to be published and translated) and I have an earlier, smaller collection of poems translated by Zenith.

Luis de Góngora- Selected Poems- translated by John Dent-Young. Góngora has long had a reputation as one of the giants of the Spanish Baroque... as labyrinthine and difficult as Donne, Mallarme, or Joyce. I've only ever come across a few sonnets in translation by Longfellow and others in old anthologies and have had to accept his reputation on faith. I'm hoping this book changes that.

[manolia]

"The sound and the fury" W Faulkner

[Riesa]

"The sound and the fury" W Faulkner


a beautiful, if difficult one. :thumbs_up


The God Delusion ~ Richard Dawkins

[andave_ya]

The Last of the Mohicans ~ James Fenimore Cooper

[Nico87]

'The War' by Geoffry C. Ward and Ken Burns, and 'The Complete Longer Non-Fiction and Journalism' by George Orwell.

[Scheherazade]

"The sound and the fury" W FaulknerYou might find our TSATF discussion threads interesting, Manolia:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16592

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16940

:)

[Nossa]

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Silar Marner by George Eliot, both for my novel course!

[xJessicax]

The First Crusade - A Modern History & The White Devil by John Webster

[River]

Women in Love by DH Lawrence

[Dark Star]

Six Easy Pieces -- Feynman
The Trouble With Physics -- Smolin
Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context -- Ghazoul

[mtpspur]

Night of the Shadow by Maxwell Grant (Dennis Lynds) part of the infamous Shadow revival in the 60s. This was thru a book serach service as I felt it was high time I completed the run of this paperback series. Nine books--the first written by the Shadow's creator Walter Gibson (Return of the Shadow), the other eight by Lynds. Now have 5 of the 9 and my supplier Tina at the News Outlet has orders to continue the hunt hang the cost (which has avergaged $20 for a 50 cent book.

[applepie]

Still not buying with money tight, but I'm an avid patron of the library:D The most recent for me was the Three Muskateers trilogy by Dumas. I'm determined to read them all when I find the time.

[CdnReader]

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, by G.W. Dahlquist (for an autumn/creepy-book-themed challenge :) )
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike (woefully late for the September book group discussion....sigh)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman (for my Medical Anthropology course)

[soumyakans]

That's nice. i bought a short story collection in English of a famous Indian author "R.K.Narayan".

Very recently, i was in a management workshop and won a book as a prize in the quiz conducted on the last day. The book was

"See you at the top"
by
Zig Ziglar

[Idril]

The Waiting Seed by Anthony Burgess
World Light by Haldor Laxness
Penquin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
Buddha's Little Finger by Viktor Pelevin

[quasimodo1]

The Oxford Book of American Poetry (anthology), chosen and Edited by David Lehman. Copyright 2006, note from the introduction: "I have opted to provide succinct headnotes for each of the poets in the pages that follow. I hope that these notes stimulate further reading of the poets and their critics, biographers, and historians. And I would echo F.O. Matthiessen's closing declaration from 1950, which applies with even greater force today: 'We have produced by now a body of poetry of absorbing quality: If this poetry reveals violent contrasts and unresolved conflicts, it corresponds thereby to American life.'" ....Ithaca, NY, December, 2005,

[Xcape]

Possession - A.S Byatt
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre

Started reading the latter after I'd put down Byatt. Not a good move. Might give it another go soon. ;)

[Dori]

V for Vendetta; Alan Moore (illustrator), David Lloyd
The Decameron; Giovanni Boccaccio
Medieval Combat; Hans Talhoffer, Mark Rector (translator)

[Whifflingpin]

"Powers" Ursula le Guin
"Angel Isle" Peter Dickinson
(and "Pirates of the West Country" E.T. Fox, but only to give away)

[lorrainea]

"Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte

[Dickens59]

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte

[Nossa]

The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

[Niamh]

Fragile things-Niel Gaiman
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad

[Big Al]

I Will Destroy All the Civilized Planets - The Comics of Fletcher Hanks

[Janine]

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Hi Dickens, Just to let you know we are currently discussing "Sons and Lovers" in a thread by that name. Come and join in, if you have the time. So far the discussions are going well. Some of us are still reading the book, but most have finished.

[manolia]

:wave: Hi Janine

"Middlesex" Jefrey Eugenides
"The catcher in the rye" J.D. Salinger
" A clockwork orange" Anthony Burgess
"Junky" William S. Burroughs

[Janine]

I have finally bought my own copy of "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind. I read the book a year ago, after I borrowed it. Since I have read it and enjoyed it immensely, I have wanted to buy a copy, but there was always something else. I decided to brought it now, because my Book Club is going to read it this month and I would need my own copy this time.

Hi Alexei, Did you see the film by any chance? I just saw it the other night and thought it was really strange, but totally captivating and very well done. Photography and set design were something to see. I wondered (if you have seen it) what you thought, or for that matter, anyone else who has seen it thought of it. You must let me know how the book is? I heard the descriptions of 'smell' and 'odours' was extraordinary....so realistic. The film was almost too visually realisic...some parts were so gross it was hard to take. London in that century must have been a cess-pool...yuk. Some scene were John Baptiste is walking out into the country and precieving the odours were wonderful.

[Dark Star]

Breaking The Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon by Daniel Dennett.

[Alexei]

Hi Alexei, Did you see the film by any chance? I just saw it the other night and thought it was really strange, but totally captivating and very well done. Photography and set design were something to see. I wondered (if you have seen it) what you thought, or for that matter, anyone else who has seen it thought of it. You must let me know how the book is? I heard the descriptions of 'smell' and 'odours' was extraordinary....so realistic. The film was almost too visually realisic...some parts were so gross it was hard to take. London in that century must have been a cess-pool...yuk. Some scene were John Baptiste is walking out into the country and precieving the odours were wonderful.

Yes, I have seen it, actually more than once, I like it so much :D It's very good, but not perfect considering the book ;) but I suppose I want too much :D There are a few changes and moments left out that make the idea a bit different, but in general it is an extraordinary accurate interpretation. And, of course, in spite of some scenes it is a beautiful film :D
I think you would like the book, sometimes may be it is more realistic than it is needed, but the descriptions generally are so beautiful and vivid that the book entrap you in it's world. There is a lot of space for interpretations and reflections on it, so that makes quite an ideal reading. At least for me - remarkable writing style and stimulus for reflections, what more could i want from a book? :D :D :D

Hey, Manolia, great choice! :thumbs_up

[Janine]

:wave: Hi Janine

"Middlesex" Jefrey Eugenides
"The catcher in the rye" J.D. Salinger
" A clockwork orange" Anthony Burgess
"Junky" William S. Burroughs

:wave: Hi manolia, I see you listed "The Catcher in the Rye" - I am always meaning to read that book. A good friend of mine from high school days and college loved it. I will have to make the effort one of these days between my countless Lawrence books;) :lol: Let me know how you like it.
Going now to check out your post in the Lawrence thread.:thumbs_up I won't be on much today; maybe later tonight. I had a test at the hospital and am really bummed out now...tired.:as-sleep: Not to worry; just a catscan but I did not sleep well last night...insomnia. Hope I sleep tonight or today. See you later, J


Yes, I have seen it, actually more than once, I like it so much :D It's very good, but not perfect considering the book ;) but I suppose I want too much :D There are a few changes and moments left out that make the idea a bit different, but in general it is an extraordinary accurate interpretation. And, of course, in spite of some scenes it is a beautiful film :D
I think you would like the book, sometimes may be it is more realistic than it is needed, but the descriptions generally are so beautiful and vivid that the book entrap you in it's world. There is a lot of space for interpretations and reflections on it, so that makes quite an ideal reading. At least for me - remarkable writing style and stimulus for reflections, what more could i want from a book? :D :D :D


:wave: Hi Alexei, great! So you did see the film and liked it. I thought it was so well done and interesting, that I just had to watch all the features on the DVD, as well. Looked great on my new LCD TV, too...the detail was amazing - what wonderful photograpy - just the way the photographer captured Jean Baptiste's dark shadowy face. Also he and the director knew just what was enough to show to build up suspense. Everyone was really good in the film, too - all the actors. I don't think many directors could depict this story so well on film, but I have to hand it to this director that he must have come close to the original book, although I had not read the book yet. It was interesting to hear the crew and he talk about the making of the film and his thoughts on adapting the book. I had posted in the movie thread, but no one responded to whether they had seen the film , that I know of; I should go check that thread now. It is definitely a film that needs discussion, because it is very unlike anything I had ever seen before.
So did you read the book before? I can't believe the amount of reading you do, Alexei. Do you ever come up for air?:lol:

[Alexei]

:wave: Hi Alexei, great! So you did see the film and liked it. I thought it was so well done and interesting, that I just had to watch all the features on the DVD, as well. Looked great on my new LCD TV, too...the detail was amazing - what wonderful photograpy - just the way the photographer captured Jean Baptiste's dark shadowy face. Also he and the director knew just what was enough to show to build up suspense. Everyone was really good in the film, too - all the actors. I don't think many directors could depict this story so well on film, but I have to hand it to this director that he must have come close to the original book, although I had not read the book yet. It was interesting to hear the crew and he talk about the making of the film and his thoughts on adapting the book. I had posted in the movie thread, but no one responded to whether they had seen the film , that I know of; I should go check that thread now. It is definitely a film that needs discussion, because it is very unlike anything I had ever seen before.
So did you read the book before? I can't believe the amount of reading you do, Alexei. Do you ever come up for air?:lol:

Well, I will see and may be join in the discussion later. It's one of my favorite, so I will try not to miss the opportunity ;)

Yes, this was my first rereading.

Janine, of course I go out! Reading in the park is so much better! :lol: :p :D ;)

[manolia]

:wave: Hi manolia, I see you listed "The Catcher in the Rye" - I am always meaning to read that book. A good friend of mine from high school days and college loved it. I will have to make the effort one of these days between my countless Lawrence books;) :lol: Let me know how you like it.
Going now to check out your post in the Lawrence thread.:thumbs_up I won't be on much today; maybe later tonight. I had a test at the hospital and am really bummed out now...tired.:as-sleep: Not to worry; just a catscan but I did not sleep well last night...insomnia. Hope I sleep tonight or today. See you later, J


I'll let you know when i read it :) But it would take a while :D I have three rules of reading 1) Never read books of the same author in a row. 2) if i finish a book i have to wait at least a day till i start a new one 3) New books have to wait (old books first..hehehe something like the elder daughters of a family in old movies, they have to get married first or else they will reamain spinsters).
I hope you are ok and this was just a routine test you did in the hospital.

[Virgil]

I'll let you know when i read it :) But it would take a while :D I have three rules of reading 1) Never read books of the same author in a row. 2) if i finish a book i have to wait at least a day till i start a new one 3) New books have to wait (old books first..hehehe something like the elder daughters of a family in old movies, they have to get married first or else they will reamain spinsters).
I hope you are ok and this was just a routine test you did in the hospital.

The Catcher In The Rye is a cool read but not a very deep one. It's like getting stuck in the mental workings of a teenager - Ack! :eek2: - God forbid. :D

But it's set in New York and I always like that. ;)

[manolia]

Hmmmm..my mom has read the book and said exactly the same thing..i have a thing with lists of books and this one seems to be in EVERY single one of them..i am very curious to read it..when it's turn comes eventually..i hope i am not too old by then and end up having the same opinion with you and my mom :p :lol: (i have hoarded so many books lately :lol: )

[Virgil]

Hmmmm..my mom has read the book and said exactly the same thing..i have a thing with lists of books and this one seems to be in EVERY single one of them..i am very curious to read it..when it's turn comes eventually..i hope i am not too old by then and end up having the same opinion with you and my mom :p :lol: (i have hoarded so many books lately :lol: )

Actually I first read it in high school. I must have been around 17 and it was a great read for that age. ;)

Of your reading list that I truely recommend is Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange.

[Janine]

manolia,I did hear that it is an adolescent type of book, but quite good. I don't think it is very long or complicated. I had a conversation, awhile back about it, with Malwethien. She could shed more light on it for you, I would imagine.

[Old Crow]

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The Complete Poems of William Carlos Williams (Vol. I. and II.)
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

[manolia]

Of your reading list that I truely recommend is Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange.

Yep, i have seen the Kubrick adaptation of the book (more than three times) and i am sure this is a great book :)


manolia,I did hear that it is an adolescent type of book, but quite good. I don't think it is very long or complicated. I had a conversation, awhile back about it, with Malwethien. She could shed more light on it for you, I would imagine.

Thanx Janine :)

[Shakira]

I bought Orientalism by Edward Said and Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon. In our university we had to make a departmental presentation on the topics of Colonialism & Orientalism so needed these texts.

[Nossa]

" A clockwork orange" Anthony Burgess


I've been meaning to buy this book for sometime now...did you start reading it? Is it good? lol

[manolia]

No, i haven't read it yet :) but i am sure this is a good book :)

[Bakiryu]

One of the books on the Uglies, series. Extras by Scott Westerfield.

[Jane's Nemesis]

I've lost track, but I think the last thing I bought was "Hamlet".

[Nossa]

No, i haven't read it yet :) but i am sure this is a good book :)

I'll make sure I buy it in the book fair then :D
I have a great book by Anthony Burgess that I studied in the first year in college called English Literature...it's one of the best books tackling the topic actually.

[Niamh]

Okay so today i bought the following,
Irish folk and fairy tales
five plays- Chekhov
Catharine and other writings- Jane Austen.
:D

[Lezlie]

Oh I am sooo excited, today I bought....

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Bejamin Franklin

All for only 30 bucks!! And four of them are leather bound books!! YEAAAA! LOL

[thelastmelon]

A few days ago, I bought:
Ett bluesliv: Berättelsen om Cornelis Vreeswijk - Klas Gustafsson
The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith

[aeroport]

Atonement - Ewan McEwan
London Fields - Martin Amis

[Niamh]

Atonement - Ewan McEwan


Read that recently. Not bad!:thumbs_up

[metal134]

Robinson Crusoe, because someone stole the copy I had while I was in the middle of it.:flare:

[Alexei]

Selected works by Franz Kafka

[manolia]

"Lolita" by Nabokov

[quasimodo1]

IN PRAISE OF FERTILE LAND: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY, PARABLE AND STORY

Author: Mauro, Claudia, Ed.
Cover: PAPERBACK
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2006
Publisher: Whit Press
ISBN: 978-0-9720205-1-0
Price: $14.95


Description:
Poetry. Environmental Studies. IN PRAISE OF FERTILE LAND is a unique publishing project. All sales from the book go directly to programs that preserve and protect our remaining farmlands. Included in the anthology are Lucille Clifton, Wendell Berry, Emily Dickinson, Joy Harjo, Langston Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Ebon, Jones, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Li Young-Lee, Pablo Neruda, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marge Piercy, Ntozake Shange and many others. {7 used books available from B&N online at 1.99}

[Rheingold]

Henry Fielding: Tom Jones.

[Niamh]

Henry Fielding: Tom Jones.

Thats a great book. Very satirical.:thumbs_up

just bought collector edition harvard classics marlow and Shakespeare. Not sure of date though. Will find out when i recieve it.

[Dark Star]

Solitude (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) -- Ed. Carmela Ciuraru

[Behemoth]

The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory :eek:
and, in lighter news, Don Quixote, which i'm liking very much.

[andave_ya]

I GOT TWELVE BOOKS FOR THREE BUCKS AT A PAPER BAG SALE!!!!!!!

1. Matilda by Roald Dahl
2. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbie
those were children's classics then!!!!

3. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
4. Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
5. Modern British Poetry edited by Louis Untermeyer
6. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Marie Roboff
7. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
And the real treat of the day was five Harvard classics. Five lovely hardbound books!

8. Scientific Papers
9. Sacred Writings
10. Continental Drama
11. Famous Prologues and Prefaces
12. Essays

Smilies all the way!

[Erna]

The last books I bought:
- Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami
- Born on a blue day by Daniel Tammet
- A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson

And ordered and still on it's way to me:
- Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

[Bakiryu]

The Kite Runner
And Naruto volumes 16,17,18,19,20, and 21 (I know I'm a fangirl)
I also got Lipshtick (yup, the tittle was spelled that way), The Supernaturalist and a few others.

[metal134]

I just found an unbelieveable deal on a old-style hardcover book that contains the first three novels o Virginia Woolf for $20.

[blackbird_9]

I just bought Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories. I've read some of his other work and have fallen in love with it.

[Idril]

Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf

[Moandor]

The last book I bought is the Sea Wolf written by Jack London. It is also one of my favourite book and Wolf Larsen is one of my favourite book characters.

[mtpspur]

The Mummy: Dark Resurrection by Michael Paine (from Dark Horse publishing based on the Universal Movie series) and The Kolchak Papers by Jeff Rice (from Moonstone) reprinting the first two Kolchak novels Night Stalker/Night Strangler from the early 70s in one volume.

Bought a few other books but they were comic reprints material, Moon Knight, Avengers, Teen Titans, Werewolf by Night so don't count plus a Secret Agent X reprint from 1936.

[amalia1985]

"Hochwasse", a play by Gunder Grass

[Dickens59]

From Reverance to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly Haskell.

[thelastmelon]

Today I bought:
Emma - Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

[Alexei]

Today I bought:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

I am reading it in the moment. It seems to be a very good choice :p

[TheFifthElement]

The Cloudspotter's Guide

[befida]

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Süskind

[Lily Adams]

"From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne.

I ran out of science fiction to read months ago and now I'm happy I have a new one. :D

[TheFifthElement]

"From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne.



Good choice Lily Adams :)

[thelastmelon]

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Süskind

Interesting book, Befida.

[Lily Adams]

Good choice Lily Adams :)

Oh, yay, I was hoping it was. Read the intro and chapter one last night...

[Pretty^Athens]

eleven minutes by paulo quilho and in the country of men by hisham matar

[Whifflingpin]

"The Horn of Merlyns" Violet Needham - Not one of her best, I think.

[quasimodo1]

"Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson 'The Eyewitness Account Of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10" {a real page turner} quasimodo1

[Alexei]

"The Hours" by Michael Cunningham. I wanted to buy it for a long time. I have watched the film based on it and I liked it, I have read "Mrs. Dalloway" and I was curious. May be a month ago I have read one of his other books - "A Home at the End of the World" and I was impressed, so it was about time :)
I have also bought a copy of French edition of "La Peau de chagrin" by Balzac. When last year I read "Le Père Goriot" I quite liked it so I've decided to try something else by Balzac. I actually have a translation of the whole "La Comédie humaine", but I wanted to work a bit on my French too.

[stlukesguild]

Well... this past week lead to several new purchases. Among these was Inner Voices a volume of collected poems by Richard Howard. I also got a new collection of translations of Aristophanes plays. Closer to my own area of expertise... the visual arts... I got a book entitled Degas and the Dance which focuses on Degas' marvelous pastels drawings of ballerinas. I almost forgot how much I loved his work... and how much I use to love working in charcoal, terra-cotta and paste. Another art book is a brief essay entitled The Piero Della Francesca Trail by the art historian John Pope-Hennessy exploring the work of the marvelous Italian Renaissance painter. How could I resist after this opening line?:

"There comes a point in life when the artists one has known cease to be objects of research and become friends."

In perhaps perfect compliment to the Degas book I also had to get Whistler and his Circle in Venice which includes many of his great prints and pastels... but also paintings and prints by other ex-patriots... most importantly, John Singer Sargent.

Three books that I have torn into already include a newer translation of The Gospel of Thomas with comments by Harold Bloom, The Schools We Need (& why we don't have them) by E.D. Hirsch (one of those books geared at my professional interests as a teacher) which argues convincingly for standards and points out that progressive notions of "higher order thinking skills" are useless without a student having a core knowledge upon which to build. And then... A Splendor of Letters by Nicholas A. Brisbanes, the bibliophile author of A Gentle Madness who has made his own bibliophilia/bibliomania into a career. The chapter entitled From the Ashes which examines the deliberate destruction of the library of Sarjevo by the Serbs during the recent Bosnian/Serbian war, the destruction of the library of Louvaine by the invading Germans in WWI or almost the entirety of written history by the Khmer Rouge is quite heart-wrenching for any book-lover.

[novelsryou]

Green Hills Of Africa~Hemingway

[quasimodo1]

To stlukesguild: Great information and you do have diverse interests. Now to find what I can't remember about Richard Howard, quite the scholar and poet. quasimodo1

[Domer121]

Tess of the D'Ubervilles~ Thomas Hardy... 1 buck!!!

[manolia]

"The rainbow" D.H Lawrence
"The tower" Franz Kafka

[brimstone]

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

[Niamh]

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

:sick: I just could not get into that book. Hope you enjoy it better than I did. Couldnt finish it and its not like me not to finish a book.

Bridge to Terrabithia by Kathrine Paterson

[bazarov]

I had a great day at book mall!

Here we go:

Mihail Bulgakov - Master and Margarita
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Poor Folks, Adolescent,The Gambler, and numerous of his short stories. The Idiot is now his only piece of work I don't posses. But I will, soon!:)
Ivan Turgenev - Waters of spring
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Richard Overy - The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia

[yewon]

Doris Lessing, London observed: Stories and Sketches

i've been thinking of buying this for almost 2 weeks but i didn't have time to go to bookstore. but finally i got it on last saturday! and finished it by last monday, i found it really interesting, interesting enough to get nobel prize :)
next time i'm gonna read "The 5th child" by Lessing.

[bouquin]

I got 3 at the second-hand bookstore today:
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett

[Walja]

H.P. Lovecraft ~ The Dreams in the Withchouse and other Weird stories

[bazarov]

I've added Idiot to my Dostoevsky's collection( now it's finally completed :) ), and Pushkin's poems and plays.

[manolia]

"In search of lost time" vol 1 M. Proust

[Dark Star]

The Portable Atheist edited by Christopher Hitchens

[livelaughlove]

Ines de alma mia (Ines of my soul) by Isabel Allende

[Annamariah]

I bought some books a couple of weeks ago when there was the annual book fair in Helsinki Fair Center :) (I really have to go there every year :lol:)

- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emilys Quest
- Torey Hayden - Somebody Else's Kids and Beautiful Child
- Neil Gaiman - Stardust
- Finnish-Russian-Finnish Dictionary

...and all that only cost me 25 euros!

[Joreads]

At a local book fair i bought a few classic novels

A passage to India
Journey to the centre of the earth
And three or four Clive Cussler novels.

These days I tend to borrow more books from the Library then I buy i am running out of room to store them:flare:

[Ana Lovejoy]

The adaptation of Arnaldo Jabor's movie Love Me Forever or Never (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122480/)

(hey, I loved the English title, it's better than the Portuguese one - something like "I know I'll love you")

[Dark Muse]

Here is a list of books I just bought today

Four Dark Nights, four original novellas by Bently Little, Douglas Clegg, Christopher Golden and Tom Piccirilli

Jack Maggs, by Peter Carey

Shroud of Shadow, by Gael Baudino

Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculpotors, and Architechts.

[Dickens59]

Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories by P.G. Wodehouse

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

[LadyWentworth]

I just bought two books today that were in the bargain section. One about Jane Austen's life and times. The other was American Brutus. That is about John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln conspiracies. I was actually thrilled to find that one. It was a hardcover for $7. I only saw it as $30 otherwise! :) Pretty decent deal!

[Dori]

The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov, Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, This is not a Book by Micheal Picard

[livelaughlove]

I have a hard time resisting book stores so I brought home a copy of Crime and Punishment from the mall the other day. I can't wait to start it but I'm trying finish Brothers Karamazov first (which is very good as well).

[amalia1985]

Thomas Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes".

[Alexei]

I have a little pile of new books :p :banana:

1. a french edition of "99 francs" by Frédérick Beigbeder
2. "Je crois Moi non plus : Dialogue entre un évêque et un mécréant" by Frédérick Beigbeder (again :lol: )
3. "L'Herbe rouge" by Boris Vian
4. "Exercises in Style" by Raymond Queneau
5. "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" by Vladimir Nabokov
6. "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk
7. "The Complete Ilustrated Works of William Shakespeare"
8. "La sagesse des Modernes" by André Comte-Sponville and Luc Ferry

[Janine]

I have a little pile of new books :p :banana:

1. a french edition of "99 francs" by Frédérick Beigbeder
2. "Je crois Moi non plus : Dialogue entre un évêque et un mécréant" by Frédérick Beigbeder (again :lol: )
3. "L'Herbe rouge" by Boris Vian
4. "Exercises in Style" by Raymond Queneau
5. "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" by Vladimir Nabokov
6. "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk
7. "The Complete Ilustrated Works of William Shakespeare"
8. "La sagesse des Modernes" by André Comte-Sponville and Luc Ferry

Hi Alexei, :lol: *She has 'a little pile' of new books! :lol: ...just a little pile, A? #7 - being a world in it's own - "The Complete Illustrated Works of William Shakespeare"!!! You leave me in the dust once again, Alexei....*sigh*

How nice, an illustrated volume of Shakespeare - splendid!

Hi Amalia, I read "A Pair of Blue Eyes" by Hardy, also. I don't recall too much about that book, but at the time, I believe I did like it. I read nearly all of Hardy's novels once. Someday I will probably read them all again.

Personally, I have not bought any new books lately. I often find some they are giving away at my library, but these past few months, I have not found any really good ones there...oh well.. I did find a book that looked sort of interesting of 20th Century Mystery stories and last night I found the book "The Secret Life of Bees" - either I will read that eventually, or give it away to a friend. I don't know much about the book, just that I have seen it on some reading lists.

I did buy some audiobooks recently - mostly William Shakespeare and some short stories of Chekhov, narrated by Kenneth Branagh; oh and the audiotapes of "Frankenstein", the original text, also narrated by Kenneth B. Can't wait to get to those. Currently, I am listening to the audiobook of "Women in Love" and enjoying it very much...it is so different listening to someone narrating the book. I sometimes stop and say - 'did I really read this book before?' - and I read it twice, so that statement is a bit strange. I must have read it, when I was falling asleep or with one eye open...;)

[LeonMello]

I bought five books some weeks ago:

The Sickness Unto Death (Soren Kierkegaard)
The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

[Alexei]

Hi Alexei, :lol: *She has 'a little pile' of new books! :lol: ...just a little pile, A? #7 - being a world in it's own - "The Complete Illustrated Works of William Shakespeare"!!! You leave me in the dust once again, Alexei....*sigh*

How nice, an illustrated volume of Shakespeare - splendid!

Hi, Janine! :wave: I've wanted to buy a copy from this edition of Shakespeare's works for almost two years and I finally did :banana: :banana: :banana: I have tired from sighing, while I am looking it in the bookstore :lol:
There actually was an occasion about all this "shopping". Between 5th and 9th of December this year in Sofia took place the annual book fair (officially Sofia International Book Fair) and, of course, seeing so many books, I couldn't resist the temptation and start buying :D



I did buy some audiobooks recently - mostly William Shakespeare and some short stories of Chekhov, narrated by Kenneth Branagh; oh and the audiotapes of "Frankenstein", the original text, also narrated by Kenneth B. Can't wait to get to those.

A month ago I watched Kenneth Branagh's version of "As You Like It" (I think it is from 2006) and I liked it very much. Everything was so vivid and beautiful, one could really feel the spirit of the play. I knew he made a lot of films, based on Shakespeare's plays, but I didn't know he had narrated audiobooks. It's seems interesting, I will try to find a few although i am not a big fan of audiobooks. I prefer reading the book by myself. With audiobooks I link too strongly the narrator's voice with my general impression of the book.



I bought five books some weeks ago:

Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)


Hi, LeonMello! Welcome to the forum. "Fathers and Sons" is the Christmas reading of the forum book club. It will be nice if you join us in the discussion:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30901

[Janine]

Hi, Janine! :wave: I've wanted to buy a copy from this edition of Shakespeare's works for almost two years and I finally did :banana: :banana: :banana: I have tired from sighing, while I am looking it in the bookstore :lol:
There actually was an occasion about all this "shopping". Between 5th and 9th of December this year in Sofia took place the annual book fair (officially Sofia International Book Fair) and, of course, seeing so many books, I couldn't resist the temptation and start buying :D


A month ago I watched Kenneth Branagh's version of "As You Like It" (I think it is from 2006) and I liked it very much. Everything was so vivid and beautiful, one could really feel the spirit of the play. I knew he made a lot of films, based on Shakespeare's plays, but I didn't know he had narrated audiobooks. It's seems interesting, I will try to find a few although i am not a big fan of audiobooks. I prefer reading the book by myself. With audiobooks I link too strongly the narrator's voice with my general impression of the book.




Hi, LeonMello! Welcome to the forum. "Fathers and Sons" is the Christmas reading of the forum book club. It will be nice if you join us in the discussion:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30901

Alexei, Thanks for you mini-review; I have wanted to know if the film was any good. I am dying to see it; in fact, I really want to buy it, to add to my KB collection - I am an avid fan of KB's and of Shakespeare, so you can imagine my film collection, by now. Ok, so I went and bought the soundtrack and I have been listening to it ever since - it is grand and so lovely - I love Patrick Doyle's soundtracks and own all the ones from KB films and others as well. Immediately, after hearing the music, I knew I must also love the film; and what I have read about it from reviews makes it sound totally delightful and beautiful.

How lovely - a whole book fair...and what fun!:D You must have had a time choosing just 'a small pile'... :lol: That Shakespeare book sounds terrific...it seems like something I would fully appreciate being an artist. I must look into it.

Yes, LeonMello, do join us in the discussion group. It should be very good and lively. Welcome to Lit Net. This is a great site with many nice people.... and other avid readers, like Alexei! :lol: I like your dancing bananas very much, A!

[motherhubbard]

I just won these books on e-bay

1) Father And Sons by Ivan S. Turgenev.
2) Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
3) How To Judge Of A Picture by John C. Van Dyke.
4) The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Dori]

The last books that I bought were "early Christmas presents" from my Grandma. She gives me $50 every Christmas (and then buys more gifts on top of that). So, from BarnesandNoble.com, I bought the following.

An Incomplete Education: 3,684 THINGS YOU SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BUT PROBABLY DIDN'T by Judy Jones and William Wilson

This book is my favorite of the three I purchased. It's pretty self-explanatory; it is divided into twelve chapters, each dedicated to a specific subject, ie. American Studies (Lit and History), Art History, Economics, Film, Literature, Music, Philosophy, etc. These chapters have several things included in them. For instance, in Chapter 5 Literature, there is a section entitled "The Carriages: Wheels of Fortune" which describes carriages that we might encounter when reading literature (such as a phaeton, a curricle, a cabriolet, a broughman, a gig, etc.). Very informative indeed!

The Politcally Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Elizabeth Kandor (I think.)

This book is very amusing and informative at the same time. It is what the title says, a guide to English and American literature. However, it is from a conservative point of view (or better yet, a politically incorrect point of view). I've learned a lot from simply skimming over the pages.

The Superior Person's Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive, and Downright Dangerous Language by Peter Bowler

This book is not exactly what one might think from reading the title. Essentially, it's a compendium of euphemisms and their 'real' meanings. For example, Bowler defines Adult (n.) as "pornographic." He also covers such things as "Accessible Parking" (which is supposedly parking for cripples, to be blunt), and points out that all parking is accessible, therefore making the term "accessible parking" confusing, to say the least.

[n_maw]

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Eragon by Christophre Paolini
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Working in a Very Small Space by Mark Shelton
The Jane Auten Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

[grace86]

Dori let me know if you enjoy An Incomplete Education, I've been thinking of picking it up.

Some books I bought recently:

King Lear - Shakespeare (Penguin Paperback)
Macbeth - Shakespeare (B&N Paperback)

*These first two were for school. Complete collections of Shakespeare are awesome to have, but not when you have to lug a dictionary size book to class every day along with three other textbooks and a notebook!)

Then I bought:

The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

*These were to help complete my collection of major works of D.H. Lawrence, seeing how we're all so fond of reading them recently! ;)

[amalia1985]

1) El Greco, the painter of God written by a famous Greek writer

2)The Song of Troy - Colleen McCullough

3)La Reine Crusifee- Gilber Sinoue

4)Love in the Time of Cholera-Gabriel Garcia Marces

[Dori]

Dori let me know if you enjoy An Incomplete Education, I've been thinking of picking it up.

I do! My friend owns a copy, but because I liked it so much I decided to buy it myself.

[Alexei]

Alexei, Thanks for you mini-review; I have wanted to know if the film was any good. I am dying to see it; in fact, I really want to buy it, to add to my KB collection - I am an avid fan of KB's and of Shakespeare, so you can imagine my film collection, by now. Ok, so I went and bought the soundtrack and I have been listening to it ever since - it is grand and so lovely - I love Patrick Doyle's soundtracks and own all the ones from KB films and others as well. Immediately, after hearing the music, I knew I must also love the film; and what I have read about it from reviews makes it sound totally delightful and beautiful.

I think you will like it very much, it's such a lovely interpretation. And the music was great, I will try to find it. I hadn't thought of buying the soundtrack before, it's a great idea ;)



How lovely - a whole book fair...and what fun!:D You must have had a time choosing just 'a small pile'... :lol: That Shakespeare book sounds terrific...it seems like something I would fully appreciate being an artist. I must look into it.

I love going there and I am always impatient in December. But with so much books at one place it's hard to decide what to buy. Well, I am not complaining of course :lol:


I like your dancing bananas very much, A !
There are some especially for you, Janine
:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

[thelastmelon]

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz

[Janine]

Some books I bought recently:

King Lear - Shakespeare (Penguin Paperback)
Macbeth - Shakespeare (B&N Paperback)

*These first two were for school. Complete collections of Shakespeare are awesome to have, but not when you have to lug a dictionary size book to class every day along with three other textbooks and a notebook!)

How true about heavy books! I even have a few here that are hard to hold up in bed when reading, like my old Shakespeare collected works edition...my poor arms get tired out...anyone have a solution? I did pick up some Shakespeare in paperback - individual plays because they are so much more portable, so I know what you mean, Grace. I picked up these two large textbooks at my library with hardly any wear to them - they are over 2000 pages long and no wonder someone got rid of them but they do contain great stuff. I had to have pity for any student trying to carry these books to class - one would get a herniated disk in their back.:(



Then I bought:

The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

*These were to help complete my collection of major works of D.H. Lawrence, seeing how we're all so fond of reading them recently! ;)

Grace,...and two very good choices. Start with "Sons and Lovers" of course, and work up to "The Rainbow" - which is Virgil's favorite. "Women in Love" is still my favorite. However I recently bought a new copy of "The Rainbow" and plan on re-reading it sometime next year. It has been years since I read it, so I feel it is important to refresh my memory of it since, we all have been into reading Lawrence recently and also I can debate it with Virgil - :lol: ,I want to compare the two books - WIL and TTR.
Hang in there, Grace, eventually we will get to "Lady Chatterly's Lover"!;)


I think you will like it very much, it's such a lovely interpretation. And the music was great, I will try to find it. I hadn't thought of buying the soundtrack before, it's a great idea ;)

I love going there and I am always impatient in December. But with so much books at one place it's hard to decide what to buy. Well, I am not complaining of course :lol:

Alexei, Oh, now I can't wait to see the film and to own it. I looked last night on Amazon but could not decide on a seller; I will look again tonight. I don't know, if I will get a better price, after the holidays or before. There are a lot listed and available, but not too cheap yet. It seems so many people like it, that it might actually go up in price, so maybe I should order it now. You will love the soundtrack. It is so beautiful, with the touches of Japanese melodies intermingled...it is very atmospheric and lovely - one of Doyle's best, I think. Do you own any of his other soundtracks? I collect them and have enjoyed all that I have, over and over again. I am adicted to the "Hamlet" and the "Henry V" ones! I love dramatic scores, so these really appeal to me.


I went to one booksale (outside) in the fall, in a small town near me, but it seemed that they had tons and tons of Nora Roberts and other 'Best Seller' writers who I just hate, and so I felt a bit ill, after awhile. I was able to come up with a few winners though, like a nice edition of "Frankenstein";I forget what else, now. I like routing for things, so it was kind of fun, anyway.
A, I bet that one you go to is amazing! I can imagine how I would feel and would not be able to decide what to buy either. I would go broke at that sale!





There are some especially for you, Janine
:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Thanks so much for the line of dancing bananas! They are so cute, aren't they? and somehow one feels so happy when you see them dancing their little hearts away!:D

[Idril]

Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope (I had declared that I wasn't going to read anymore Trollope for awhile but I guess I lied. :p)
Gunner's Daughter by Sigrid Undset
When Neitzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
Generations of Winter by Vassily Aksyonov

[Dark Muse]

I just went to one of my faveorite book sales and picked up

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allen Poe
The Curst of the Blue Tattoo by L.A. Meyer

[*Classic*Charm*]

I just bought The Master and Magarita. Christmas is coming so I hope there will be a few new ones then too!

[Alexei]

Yesterday I made a trip to the book store, I wanted to buy a few Christmas presents and, of course, I ended up buying in addition something for me :lol:

"Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo" by Mary Douglas. It was recommended by one of my teachers for my culture studies, so I buy it. It seems interesting :)
"The Kreutzer Sonata" by Margriet De Moor. I've wanted to buy since I first saw it in September, but I wasn't able to find it till now.

[Hira]

I just bought 'Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man', Moby Dick and this book containing three short stories of Franz Kafka. I know they are going to lie around, unread, till I finish the ones I haven't already, but couldn't resist.

By the way, Alexei, just out of curiosity, how can you read six books together? Thats phenomenal! I can at the most manage two, lol.

[Alexei]

By the way, Alexei, just out of curiosity, how can you read six books together? Thats phenomenal! I can at the most manage two, lol.

It's a question of habit, I am just used to it. I am very easily distracted :blush: and I usually read one or few chapters of one book per day and that means I can do this quite a lot of books. it's very useful when I don't like the book I am read but still I want to or have to finish it :)

[andave_ya]

Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert
Common Sense by Thomas Paine

[Nossa]

Monsieur Ibrahim et Les Fleurs du Quran by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (An Arabic translation)

[Alexei]

Monsieur Ibrahim et Les Fleurs du Quran by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (An Arabic translation)

I bought this book two years ago, but I never get around to finishing it, it was on French and it was a little hard for me, but I like it and I got to the middle of it. Yet I am not sure whether I should try rereading it, I will be glad if you tell me what you think when you finish it :)

[Beijing-Doll]

Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby

[Alexei]

"The Four Loves" by C. S. Lewis. It is necessary reading for my philosophy classes. It is additional to our discussion of Plato's "Symposium".

[Janine]

Alexei, how do you like "The Rainbow" so far? I am planning on reading it early this coming year. We will be discussing it sometime next year, also. I read it before - but it has been years ago now and I hardly remember it.

[Alexei]

Alexei, how do you like "The Rainbow" so far? I am planning on reading it early this coming year. We will be discussing it sometime next year, also. I read it before - but it has been years ago now and I hardly remember it.

I have started it long ago, but I haven't even finished the first chapter so far :bawling: For now I know only that I like it :D I think the greatest impression on me made the description of Tom's years in school. I am not exactly surprised, but once again I was stroked by the richness of the description when it comes to emotions. Everything seems so based on the senses and emotions and yet it is perfectly logical and rational. I think Lawrence is the only author I've read that can depict so rationally emotions and the irrational in human nature.

[thebooklass]

The last book I bought was Knit Together by Debbie Macomber. Very good book, Christian based and very motivating.........not just for Christians, but anyone trying to accomplish goals and dreams in their life. Lori

[Nossa]

I bought this book two years ago, but I never get around to finishing it, it was on French and it was a little hard for me, but I like it and I got to the middle of it. Yet I am not sure whether I should try rereading it, I will be glad if you tell me what you think when you finish it :)

I bought the book in Arabic, so it was an easy read. I liked it a lot actually, I liked the idea of two people from different religions, bonding together and having a great friendship. It's the kind of thing that we miss these days very much. So I'd really recommend it, not sure about the book being in French though..I was never that good in French..lol..but you already got to the middle of it, I think you should def. finish it :)

[Alexei]

I bought the book in Arabic, so it was an easy read. I liked it a lot actually, I liked the idea of two people from different religions, bonding together and having a great friendship. It's the kind of thing that we miss these days very much. So I'd really recommend it, not sure about the book being in French though..I was never that good in French..lol..but you already got to the middle of it, I think you should def. finish it :)

Thank you, I will definitely finished it. May be you should try reading it on French if you like, it wasn't so hard, it was only my second year of studying, so it was a hard reading for me, but if you have studied more than two years I suppose you will menage easily :D