Last Book You Bought and Why

[Dori]

After pouring over several sources (The Story of Philosophy, An Incomplete Education, and even this forum (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=385&page=7)) for recommendations, I have narrowed down my searches and bought the following from BarnesandNoble.com (http://www.bn.com).

The Bible (King James Version)
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Ethics by Benedict Spinoza
On the Improvement of Understanding by Benedict Spinoza
Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Seven more books to add to Mount TBR. :D All of this was purchased with the $50 B&N Gift Card I recieved as an early Christmas present today.

[papayahed]

For Christmas I recieved:

Von Braun; Dreamer of space, Engineer of War
The Portable Dorthy Parker

[LadyWentworth]

Well, today I bought:

Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
Talk to the Hand - Lynne Truss

Got them both at a drugstore for 2/$10. That is a very good deal considering Alexander Hamilton is hardcover and goes for $35.00 regularly. I only got it for $5!! :D

[LadyW]

The Secret Diary of Miss Miranda Cleever - Julia Quinn

[Bakiryu]

Children's books :blush:

the first two books in the Leven Thump series.

[Dori]

For Christmas, I recieved a handful of money and a B&N gift card. With this, I bought:

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary ~ Samuel Johnson
Virtues of War ~ Steven Pressfield
Caesar: A Biography ~ Christian Meier
The Divine Comedy ~ Dante; trans. by Henry W. Longfellow, illustrated by Gustave Dore

Then I bought five books from Barnes and Noble's Library of Essential Writers. I bought:

Jules Verne: Seven Novels (Five Weeks in a Balloon, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island)
Gustave Flaubert: Five Novels (Madame Bovary, Salammbo, Sentimental Education, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Bouvard and Pecuchet)
Bram Stoker: FIve Novels (Dracula, The Mystery of the Sea, The Jewel of Seven Stars, The Lady of the Shroud, The Lair of the White Worm)
Charles Dickens: Five Novels (Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, The Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations)
James Fenimore Cooper: Five Novels (The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer)

All of this costed me around $85. Not too bad, I think. The most expensive book was the illustrated version of the Divine Comedy.

[watuknocankillu]

I just bought heart of darkness and the secret agent by joseph conrad.
anyone ever read or heard of conrad?

[Remarkable]

I have recieved only one book until now(I usually get my presents after Christmas)and it is "The Fifth Child"by Doris Lessing.It is quite good unitl now...And I'm also hopeing for more books in the days to come...

[grace86]

I've read Heart of Darkness...not an incredibly easy one to get through but it is definitely worth the read.

I unfortunately did not get any new books for Christmas except one. My uncle gave me some cash for Christmas and since I was finished with the books I brought with me, I knew that I would need one for the plane trip back home on Friday, so I bought Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I've never read anything by him.

But for Christmas my boyfriend did get me a second bookcase to match the one I currently have!!! I get to put more of my books out.

[aeroport]

It was either The Riverside Shakespeare or Madame Bovary in the original; they were both a few weeks ago...

[Nocturna]

I bought the "Complete Works of Oscar Wilde" ^^ I got it at a second hand bookshop/cafe that's around the corner from my house, quite nice.
I love him, so it's great to have everything he ever wrote (I'm re-reading him now to find quotes for some essays I'm writing as well...).

I can't usually buy that many books so I make more use of the library :P

[loggats]

collected stories by lord berners

[Aeltya]

The Genius of America

[amanda_isabel]

last book i bought: girl with a pearl earring. not halfway through it yet. bought it with a bunch of books we had to buy for my cousin.

[jon1jt]

Last book I bought was Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame by Bukowski. There was God, and God sits at the right hand of Bukowski. :p

[Idril]

Last book I bought was Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame by Bukowski. There was God, and God sits at the right hand of Bukowski. :p

Have you ever heard Modest Mouse's Bukowski? It's a good song, you should check it out. ;)

[jon1jt]

Hey Idril, long time no see! I'll check them out, thanks!

[thelastmelon]

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

And for Christmas I got:
JPod by Douglas Coupland
1984 by George Orwell
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg

[DigitalLove]

The last book I bought was Think for Yourself! by Steve Hindes. The book has some great points, but I find the author's anti-God rhetoric tiresome.

[loggats]

I just bought heart of darkness and the secret agent by joseph conrad.
anyone ever read or heard of conrad?

I remember reading the secret agent at school. I think it is his best book and the furthest away from what he normally wrote... it's one of the books that make him an early modernist. It has big, commedia del arte type characters and a cruel, nonsensical plot.

[toni]

The last book I bought for myself (for) Christmas was - Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

[Nossa]

The last book I bought for myself (for) Christmas was - Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

Oh I'm DYING to read that one. I hear it's a great read :)

[ThePianoMan]

Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin. Nice read, but it didn't live up to the hype I'd heard about it.

[crazefest456]

For my birthday, I bought (okay, used my parent's credit card) the Feynman Lectures on Physics!!! The whole set...it's so useful (and fun to read). I got so happy I didn't touch the books for a week so that they won't get 'ruined'. :banana:

[Shea]

And for Christmas I got:
JPod by Douglas Coupland
1984 by George Orwell
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg

:bawling: I don't get books for presents anymore. Leo complains that I have too many now.

I bought one for myself though, Irish Dreams by Nora Roberts. Never really heard of it before, but the books I have in mind to write have a lot to do with Ireland, so I couldn't really resist.

[Remarkable]

Would it be too much if I said I recieved 9 books as presents?...
Well,here it goes...

The Fifth Child-Doris Lessing
Seeing-Jose Saramago
Women in Love-D.H.Lawrence
The Ground Beneath Her Feet-Salman Rushdie
Shame-Salman Rushdie
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket-Edgar Allan Poe
A short introductin in Social-Cultural Anthropology
Un Amour de Swann-Marcel Proust
Selected Poetry of Lord Byron

Yes,a happy new year for me...At least for some time...

[quasimodo1]

To Remarkable: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket-Edgar Allan Poe
A short introductin in Social-Cultural Anthropology
Un Amour de Swann-Marcel Proust
Nice windfall of great books. I would start with these three.. quasi

[Ruth?]

I've just bought (Hurrah for christmas money) The Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, and Selected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy and Louis MacNeiece.

I'm really getting into poetry-I used to hate it!

[grace86]

I forgot to mention a couple of books I did get for Christmas...why I said I didn't get any is beyond me, but oh well.

My secret santa at church gave me Introduction to the History of Christianity it's got a CD-ROM and color pictures everywhere (I think secret santa was paying too much attention to me :p )

Think I mentioned somewhere else that my best friend bought me a hardcover copy of Crime and Punishment, she knew I had ruined by paperback copy.

[thelastmelon]

:bawling: I don't get books for presents anymore. Leo complains that I have too many now.

Too many? You can't have too many.
If you could though.. then me and my boyfriend has too many. We can only fit one bookshelf into the apartment right now, and we are using a shelf in the kitchen for books now as well. If we had the room for it, we'd have two more bookshelves filled with books. :p (I didn't think when I wrote and wrote the word money instead of books at first.. but two bookshelves with money would be good too, lala)

[Morad]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

[Shea]

Too many? You can't have too many.
If you could though.. then me and my boyfriend has too many. We can only fit one bookshelf into the apartment right now, and we are using a shelf in the kitchen for books now as well. If we had the room for it, we'd have two more bookshelves filled with books. :p (I didn't think when I wrote and wrote the word money instead of books at first.. but two bookshelves with money would be good too, lala)

:lol: We're in the process of looking for a new house now and I keep thinking, wouldn't it be great to have a library room? That would never happen.

On my last birthday, I asked for a specific book. Our cofee maker happened to bite the dust a few days before. Guess what I got for my birthday....?

[vheissu]

The one I'm currently reading, The wind-up bird chronicle, which I bought at Heathrow airport, as a xmas present to myself ;)

[Lily Adams]

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.

[hellsapoppin]

Bodyline - The Novel by Paul Wheeler.

This deals with the famous (or infamous) cricket Test series between Australia and England of 1932/3.

In the USA, we have had very good fiction writing about baseball and how it reflects our society. Little do we know that the British, Australians, Indians, and West Indians have also produced a great deal of meritorious fiction on the subject of cricket.

[metal134]

Bewteen my birthday and Christmas, I got 10 new books (12 if you caount the fact that two of them are 2-in-one books):
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The Collected Short Stories of William Faulkner
The Great American Novel - Philp Roth
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
The Complete Poems of William Blake
Metamorphasis/The Trial - Franz Kafka
Candide/The Maid of Orleans - Voltaire
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Beowulf
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James joyce

[subterranean]

My last book shoppings in the last day of 2007 were:

Fight Club by Chuck, I've seen the movie like dozens of times and when I looked this book on the shelf, I got moved to pick it up

Junky by Bill, no particular reason why and just want to know more about his writing.

[quasimodo1]

To metal134: Your collection of new books is great but "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" - James Joyce...is a delightfull work, suprising and the most accessable of Joyce's works. quasi

[Lioness_Heart]

The Evolution of Cooperation for my mum's birthday. It was really hard to find, so I had to get it off Amazon via a friend seeing as I'm not 18 so don't have a credit card.

Last book I bought for me was Silverthorn by Raymond E Feist, but the last one I acquired was a lovely new hardback copy of War and Peace for Christmas.

[metal134]

To metal134: Your collection of new books is great but "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" - James Joyce...is a delightfull work, suprising and the most accessable of Joyce's works. quasi
Yeah, I'm still slowly working my way through "Ulysess".

[brainstrain]

I last bought about 6 books at Barnes & Noble while my sisters and mom were shopping. The last one of them that I found, and bought on kind of a whim, was The Sword of Shannara.

It looked like the epic masterpiece sort of book that I enjoy, but only time (and my progression through a lengthy reading list) will tell.

[Rogers_68]

"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. The story was worth 4 or 5 times what I paid for the book. Excellent.

[Nossa]

"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. The story was worth 4 or 5 times what I paid for the book. Excellent.

Lucky you!!!!!!! It's WAY too expensive here, and I'm dying to read it. Maybe you can tell me what you think of it when you're done with it. And if it's as good as Hosseini's The Kite Runner :)

[manolia]

I bought and received as presents some very nice books.

"Breakfast to Tiffany's" Truman capote
"Herzog" S. Bellow
"Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" M. Twain
"Anna Karenina" L Tolstoy
"The Divine comedy" Dante (a leather bound edition, translation by N. Kazantzakis :banana: )
"Zorba" N. Kazantzakis (a leatherbound edition :D )
"The 120 days of Sodom" Marquis de Sade
"The Metamorphoses" F Kafka
"The turn of the screw and the Aspern papers" H. James

and last but not least

a fancy book with 1000 buildings from all over the world..that was the best gift :)

[quasimodo1]

"The Edge of Evolution" (The search for the Limits of Darwinism) by Michael J. Behe

[Kafka's Crow]

'Proust' by Edmund White:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Proust-Edmund-White/dp/0753809184/ref=pd_bbs_sr_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199435504&sr=8-9

Kafka on the Shore (Audio book):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kafka-Shore-Haruki-Murakami/dp/9626344059/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199435789&sr=8-1

[THX-1138]

the Road by Cormac Mccarthy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James joyce

[amalia1985]

Resistance by Owen Sheers

She by H.Rider Haggard

The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding

The African Queen by C.S.Forester

The Magician by W.Somerset Maugham

The Robe by Lloyd C.Douglas

[Idril]

The Atom Station ~ Halldor Laxness
The Foundation Pit ~ Andrey Platonov
Jenny ~ Sigrid Undset
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin ~ Vladimir Voinovich

[thelastmelon]

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

[Dark Muse]

From the First Americans serirs by William Sarabande:

Forbidden Land
Corridor of Storms
Beyond the Sea of Ice

and I got

Reindeer Moon, by Elizabeth Marshal Thomas

[Tosca]

"The Inferno"
"Purgatorio" - all three by Dante
"Paradiso"

And "Far From the Madding Crowd" by Hardy

[grace86]

Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent - Brian Fagan
Man the Hunter - (Can't remember author)
Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany - Michael Balick
Botany for Gardeners - Brian Capon
College Algebra - (Barf...remedial class) Beecher

These are all my textbooks for winter quarter. The first four are pretty interesting, but as for math - I could do without it. A little spiteful considering I aced Statistics.

[LeonMello]

My last three bought:

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
The City and the Mountains - Eça de Queiroz
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe

[OnyxRose]

1984 - George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
We the Living - Ayn Rand
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
Airframe - Michael Crichton
For One More Day - Mitch Albom
Black House - Stephen King and Peter Straub

[thelastmelon]

The Simple Past by the Moroccan writer Driss Chraibi.
I also bought a book with quite many poems by 26 different contemporary Lithuanian poets.

[Idril]

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller...although I didn't technically buy it, it was a very thoughtful gift. ;) :D

[LadyWentworth]

"Beauty and the Beast" Vocal Selections
The book made for the movie "Sweeney Todd"

Yes, I know they aren't "story" books, but they are still books, nonetheless! :D

[Alexei]

I bought another Lawrence's book - "The Plumed Serpent". I was browsing a new book shop I stumbled on and I just saw it on the bookshelf, so i decided to buy it :lol:

[Riesa]

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller...although I didn't technically buy it, it was a very thoughtful gift. ;) :D


I agree, it surely was. ;)

In a similiar vein are the newest additions to my library, one being an EXTREMELY thoughtful gift...just look at the thoughtful inscription: "devastation has never been so beautiful"
Independent People ~ By Halldor Laxness

and Ceremony~ Leslie Marmon Silko~ is officially the last book I bought, thanks IP

[aeroport]

Just bought Hitchens's Portable Atheist and The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing.

[ben.!]

Bought three in Borders!

Slow Man - J. M. Coetzee (for the forum book club).

The Time Machine - H. G. Wells

The Shining - Stephen King

[AimusSage]

I almost bought The God Delusion By Richard Dawkins. I saw it in the book store the other day. Upon closer examination I found that I forgot my wallet, so I didn't get it after all.

[Niamh]

A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J.Ellory

[Idril]

I agree, it surely was. ;)

In a similiar vein are the newest additions to my library, one being an EXTREMELY thoughtful gift...just look at the thoughtful inscription: "devastation has never been so beautiful"
Independent People ~ By Halldor Laxness


Oh, I just can't wait until you read it. I really think it will speak to the poet in you. :D

[Hira]

Just bought a few days ago, 'The Brothers Karamazov' (woohoo finally found it), 'The Name of the Rose', 'The Golden Notebook' and the 'Dubliners'.

[mness421]

Does it count if they're not literature? I'd received some money for X-mas and decided to get some books. It's a relatively small list, but it was a pretty good chunk of change:
A Brief History of Time
The Practical Geologist
Restless Skies
The 50 Best Sights in Astronomy and How to See Them
Astronomy for Dummies

My birthday is next month and I'm planning on at least getting the complete works of Robert Frost and Edgar Allen Poe.

[Dark Muse]

I just bought

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

and

The Age of Innocence by Edith Whorton

[aeroport]

Just got the rest of my textbooks. The Penguin Anthology of American Literature, vol. 2; Milton: Major Works; The Bedford Anthology of World Literature vol 1 - The Ancient World; Blackwell Annotated Anthology of Seventeenth Century Poetry

[andave_ya]

which courses are those? I'd like that class. :D

[PoeticPassions]

The Sufferings of Young Werther and Don Quixote (the books I should have read ages ago, but never got around to...)

Half Price Books is great :)

[Niamh]

Does it count if they're not literature? I'd received some money for X-mas and decided to get some books. It's a relatively small list, but it was a pretty good chunk of change:
A Brief History of Time
The Practical Geologist
Restless Skies
The 50 Best Sights in Astronomy and How to See Them
Astronomy for Dummies

My birthday is next month and I'm planning on at least getting the complete works of Robert Frost and Edgar Allen Poe.

The Practical Geologist? Let me know if its any good.:) And Yes its okay to post non-lit.

[Tersely]

The Bostonians by Henry James and The Green Mile by Stephen King.
I always buy one serious and one for enjoyment. Almost always read the enjoyment ones first haha.

[manolia]

"Cider house rules" - J Irving
"The world according to Garp" J Irving

[Lost Arts]

I stopped by my local used bookshop on Tuesday and came out $60 lighter. Half of that went to a single book: Behind a Mask: The unknown thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. It's a mint condition first edition. Now I'm afraid to read it because the binding is so tight I don't think anyone ever read it before. I also got The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Writers in Residence (a picture book about the homes of American authors) and a jazz piano book I'll use for teaching. So there goes my Christmas cheque that my mom sent me.

[sir orange]

The posthumous papers of Pickwick Club

[Annamariah]

I just bought Tulta ja tuulta on huuto.net (it's like a Finnish ebay). I've been looking for a copy of that book a couple of years already, since it was printed in 1939 and it's pretty much forgotten that it even exists.

[Kafka's Crow]

A Year of Reading Proust by Phyllis Rose which goes nicely with my reading of A Remembrance of Things Past:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Year-Reading-Proust-Memoir-Real/dp/0684839849/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1200676040&sr=8-2

[mmanuelap]

last book I bought was The Pact, by Jodi Picoult. :)

[Niamh]

The Name of the Rose- Eco

[Splendour]

Atonement -- MacEwan

Now I want to buy some new history books......but perhaps I should first get through Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, that's a physics book if you are wondering.

[andave_ya]

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

[Kafka's Crow]

The postwoman just delivered my lovely hard-bound bilingual edition of Waitng for Godot: En Attendant Godot :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waiting-Godot-En-Attendant/dp/0571229107/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200741335&sr=1-19

[Splendour]

lol...the Waiting for Gadot I have is a sad photocopy used in English class..........I've suddenly realized highschool English teachers are probably one of the largest groups who violates copyright...

[Rogers_68]

I tend to buy or collect in waves, hence:

-I bought V. at this great place called Ophelia's in Fremont (Seattle)
-I have Gilead coming via bookmooch
-I have Water For Elephants and The Raw Shark Texts sitting on the shelf from Christmas

And if that isn't enough:

-I just mooched the 3 Lord of the Rings books because I've never read them

I've got some reading to do...

[Rogers_68]

The Sufferings of Young Werther and Don Quixote (the books I should have read ages ago, but never got around to...)

Half Price Books is great :)

For sure!

[LadyWentworth]

The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor

[Igetanotion]

The last book I bought was "Schindler's List" by Thomas Keneally.
And before that I got a book of Robert Frost poetry. I love buying books.. Its really a terrible habit :lol:

[Kafka's Crow]

lol...the Waiting for Gadot I have is a sad photocopy used in English class..........I've suddenly realized highschool English teachers are probably one of the largest groups who violates copyright...

I have more editions of Beckett's works than I could remember including the first editions of Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable. I have various audio and video productions of Godot and a nice little bronze statue of Samuel Beckett's which sits on my bookshelf. I can't resist such things, a lot of time and money spent on Beckett. I have been grappling with his works for 18 years now (that's almost half of my life).

[quasimodo1]

The Edge of Evolution by Michael J. Behe

[mapgirl]

Last book was and illustrated version of The Divine Comedy. Haven't been able to get to it because of my university studies but I can't wait.

[aeroport]

I have been grappling with his works for 18 years now (that's almost half of my life).
I can think of no more appropriate word...


Just picked up The New Kings of Nonfiction (edited and w/an introduction by Ira Glass) and Ian Fleming's Doctor No.

[grace86]

Ahhh! I have just discovered my library's "Book Cellar" - yes I have never bought used books from my library before. I ended up getting six books for three dollars! I bought:

Gone with the Wind
The House of Mirth
Brave New World
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Wicked (this one is for my sister)

And I was just on one wall!!! There were so many more I could have checked out! I bought these on top of borrowing some from the library.

[toni]

The Horse Dealer's Daughter - D.H. Lawrence


I was reading it at the bookstore and decided to purchase it!
~

[Kafka's Crow]

Received my copy of A Man without Qualities by Robert Musil along with a pile of books for my boy from Amazon yesterday:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Without-Qualities-Robert-Musil/dp/0330349422/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1201429845&sr=8-1

[Kafka's Crow]

The Edge of Evolution by Michael J. Behe

Behe was expertly taken apart by Dawkins see 'The God Delusion' pages 129-131 and page 133.

[aeroport]

Bodies In Motion and At Rest - Thomas Lynch

[Niamh]

three late medieval morality plays: Mankind, Everyman, Mundus Et Infans

[Idril]

The theme this shopping trip was Scandinavia and Russia...I just can't seem to get away from Russian thing. :p

The Treasure by Selma Lagerlof
Victoria by Knut Hamson
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
Ward No. 7; An Autobiographical Novel by Valerii Tarsis

[thelastmelon]

The theme this shopping trip was Scandinavia and Russia...I just can't seem to get away from Russian thing. :p

Victoria by Knut Hamson


Just a correction in the spelling. His name is Knut Hamsun with a u instead of an o. :p
By the way, do you read a lot of Scandinavian literature?

[Idril]

Just a correction in the spelling. His name is Knut Hamsun with a u instead of an o. :p
By the way, do you read a lot of Scandinavian literature?

Oh! Sorry about that. :blush:

And I haven't read all that much Scandinavian literature yet but I'm interested in delving into that pool. I've read a fair amount of Halldor Laxness, whom I love; Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlof (I think you recommended that one ;) ), which I also loved and Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset. I'm currently reading Jenny, also by Undset. Oh, and O.E. Rolvaag but I'm not sure if he counts since he's now a US citizen...or was, I think he might be dead (oh yeah! I just checked and he's been dead for quite awhile :blush: )... but the book of his I've read, The Boat of Longing takes place, at least in part, in Norway. I have his Giants in the Earth in my to-read pile but that's a book about Norwegian immigrants in the Dakotas, which will be a world I'm familiar with, that being my paternal heritage. :D

Any recommendations you have will be very welcome. I ran into a book on Amazon that looked interesting, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, do you know anything about it? Is it any good?

[Sparrow]

I bought Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, at the urge of my friend, and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, at the behest of another friend.

[mmanuelap]

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

[Dark Muse]

Well I just bought a bunch of new books:

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Daughter of Troy by Sarah B. Franklin
She Who Remebers, and Voice of the Earth, by Linda Lay Shuler
To the Hilt by Dick Francis
The Haunter of the Dark and other stories by H.P. Lovecraft

[Sucundus]

I just bought a hard cover, I believe 1980 print of Vonneguts "Slaughter House Five" in good condition for 8$ on e-Bay. One of my favorites.

[LadyWentworth]

Everyman
Have you ever read this one before?

[Ultravox]

I bought several the other day, three for my university course:

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Poetics, Aristotle

and two others:

Middlemarch, George Eliot
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce.

I seem to buy books at a rate much quicker than the rate at which I can read them.

[Dark Muse]

Good choices, I have read and enjoyed Northanger Abbey, and Franekstein, and I am currently reading A Protrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[Takeahnase]

I picked up some cheap, second-hand copies of Jude the Obscure, Middlemarch and Tess of the d'Ubervilles the other day. They'll just be lying unread on my shelves for decades most probably because, like Ultravox, I'm buying/borrowing more books than I can get through... my room's absolutely bursting at the seams at the moment and yet I still keep on buying/borrowing more.

[aeroport]

Myths and Legends of the Celts - James MacKillop
Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey

[Erichtho]

Yesterday I bought
My Name be Gantenbein by Max Frisch
and
Kino by Hermann Kant.

[Alexei]

Today I bought "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens for the BookClub reading ;)

[Scheherazade]

Art of Hugging People: A 10-Step Guide to Being More Hug Oriented (Especially Those Towards You Have Met On Cyberspace)

[manolia]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

"A prayer for Owen Meany" J Irving

[Scheherazade]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

"A prayer for Owen Meany" J Irving;)

The discussion thread: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24399

[muhsin]

Violets Are Blue by James Patterson.

[Ultravox]

Cash, Johnny Cash (Autobiography)
The Hippopotamus, Stephen Fry
The Liar, Stephen Fry
Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry (Autobiography)
Touching from a Distance - Ian Curtis & Joy Division, Deborah Curtis (Biography)

[Idril]

Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass

[PEACHWRITE]

The layout is beautiful. but haven't finished reading the book.

feng shui your life

[Janine]

Alphonse Mucha, Masterworks ~ I love art books!

[johann cruyff]

A complete collection of Kafka's short stories.Finally found it!

[Sir Bartholomew]

i bought Durrell's vol2 and vol4 of his Alexandria Quartet in a used book store. Frustrating because you only get half of the quartet and you can't even start reading it at least. In a way I'm lucky because these books are rarities if you're living in my country.

[Scarlet'sWalk]

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

[optimisticnad]

The island of Doctor Moreau - H.G.Wells (worth every penny)

'Half man. Half beast. All terror' lol. cracks me up everytime.

[aeroport]

The Poetry of Robert Frost
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan

[Remarkable]

Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck

An absolute wonder!

[manolia]

I know i shouldn't buy any more books (not until i finish the 100 un-read books i have already :blush: ) but somehow i couldn't resist buying

"The magus" by J Fowles

i have read the review here on litnet (i think it was by vheissu or scher) and today i saw the book on the shelf (of the bookstore which i wasn't supposed to enter anyway) and then something happened and everything went blank..next thing i remember was me carrying the book :D

[Aluno49]

"His Illegal Self" by Peter Carey.

Aluno

[superunknown]

Just ordered:
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
Ham on Rye - Bukowski
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

[mtpspur]

Jane and the Barque of Fraility by Stephanie Barron. The 9th Jane Austen mystery. She's 35 at this point as Barron interweaves her real life with a mystery (usually with political ovetones related to the Napoleonic wars). I think the authoress might be able squeeze one or two more books out of her life as she tends to move each book up a year of so.

A Jimgrim book by Talbot Mundy (Jimgrim and the Lady Ayisha) is on order but must wait until Monday of next week to be paid for. Due in this Tuesday.

[Takeahnase]

I walked to a couple of local charity shops during my college break and raided their books shelves again. I picked up a copy of The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins and also The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I'm a little gutted though, there was a lovely looking little second-hand bookshop very close to my college that I've always wanted to have a snoop around in but never got around to, and the very day I decide to pop in I find that it's closed down. 'Tis never to be known what little treasures might have been lying in wait within.

On a side note, has anyone ever visited the second hand book stalls underneath Waterloo bridge in London? I had a quick browse there this staurday and I must admit, I found the prices quite steep... most books I had a look at seemed to be around £4, just your average paperback in an ok-ish condition. Just seemed to me to be fairly expensive for books that aren't even new and would probably cost around a pound elsewhere depending on where you look.

[Joreads]

I just bought the whole Jane Austen collection. I am looking forward to reading them.

[Niamh]

the sword in the stone- T.H.White

[tractatus]

"The magus" by J Fowles

i have read the review here on litnet (i think it was by vheissu or scher) and today i saw the book on the shelf (of the bookstore which i wasn't supposed to enter anyway) and then something happened and everything went blank..next thing i remember was me carrying the book :D


I read this book years ago, many detail is not on my mind, but the theory of psychology was really boring. I dont like anything theoritical in literature, anyway.
but I would like to see the island, no matter how frightening.
= = = = =
I did Bernieres "Birds Without Wings", and was a mistake.

[Erichtho]

Yesterday I bought L. Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.

[thelastmelon]

Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Eagle in the Sky - Wilbur Smith
The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith
Candide - François Voltaire
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Tsotsi - Athol Fugard

It's a big booksale in Sweden!

I also bought a book called Nobeller (Nobels) and it's a book with novels by many authors that has won the Nobel Prize during the years. There are novels by: Selma Lagerlöf, Octavio Paz, Halldór Laxness, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gao Xingjian, John Steinbeck and many more.

[Aiculík]

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

[Remarkable]

A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens

Finally I'll be able to join the book club!

[V.Jayalakshmi]

Dear Members,

I am glad to answer the post.I bought Lee Child's 'Trip wire',also his 'Die trying','the Visitor'.Yet to start reading though.

[Takeahnase]

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo and The Golden Treasury by Palgrave.

[livelaughlove]

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou.. so far it's been great. :)

[thelastmelon]

The Narrows - Michael Connelly
Sleepwalking Land - Mia Couto
Desert Children - Waris Dirie
Half Of A Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Lover - Marguerite Duras

[grace86]

On my latest two occasions (sp?) I bought:

Night - Elie Weisel
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ - Anne Catherine Emmerich
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Evolution and Ethics - Thomas H. Huxley

Sounds like I'm a bit eclectic, but I promise, there is reason behind the madness.

[thelastmelon]

The Attack - Yasmina Khadra

[Ryduce]

Yesterday I purchased The Snows of Kilimanjaro and As I Lay Dying.

Also, in the mail I have three political books on the way.

[asilef73]

All Men Are Mortal-Simone de Beauvoir

[bouquin]

Yesterday I bought L. Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.



I have read some of Pirandello's short stories; they're excellent.

I recently purchased the following:
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee.

I bought them at a second-hand book shop in Avignon, on the Rue Trois Faucons. I paid 8 euros for the 3 volumes.

[mohakom]

Kim by Rudyard Kipling i'v never heard of it but i found sth pushed me to by it may be the short title...... ..........

[Niamh]

Stardust by Gaiman
Candide By Voltaire

[Sir Bartholomew]

2nd hand copy of A Clockwork Orange for about $1

[toni]

I'm taking advantage of the holyweek to read all the books I have purchased from booksale last month! Yay now I have the time to read them.

The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce
Selected Stories - Butch Dalisay
101 Things You Didn't Know About Shakespeare
The Elements of Style - E.B White
Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert

[aeroport]

Conversations with Ingmar Bergman
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form - Helen Vendler

[moose gurl]

I was given Special Topics in Calamity Physics. I think the last book I actually purchased was a book on running techniques. The last novel I actually purchased was Fahrenheit 451.

[sprinks]

The last books i bought would be
Ten Things I Hate About Me - Randa Abdel-Fattah
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
m or f? - Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Will - Maria Boyd

[Mockingbird_z]

well i didnt buy but was given as a present a book of short stories by F.Scott Fitzgerald "The diamon as big as the Ritz"

[summersun]

'The rules of attraction' - Bret Easton Ellis
'American Psycho' - Bret Easton Ellis
'Neither here nor there' - Bill Bryson
and some german book by Charlotte Link

[muhsin]

Deception Point by Dan Brown

[Mockingbird_z]

all the King's men by Robert Penn Worren

[aeroport]

'The rules of attraction' - Bret Easton Ellis
'American Psycho' - Bret Easton Ellis


He's an interesting one; I just read Less Than Zero last summer. Creepy...

Today, in the mail, I received:
The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman - F.O. Matthiessen
Roderick Hudson - Henry James

[asilef73]

The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand
Doctor Faustus-Thomas Mann
The Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning

[superunknown]

I went on a bit of a spree when I came across a second hand shop near where I live... I can never resist those.

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hemingway - True at First Light
Faulkner - Light in August
Solzhenitsin - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

[Janine]

Deception Point by Dan Brown

mushsin, This is so funny; I was in my library last night and saw this book in the free bin. I never heard of it before, but my friend likes Dan Brown, so I picked it up for her. Is it a good read? Just curious. It did look sort of interesting from the cover and unlike his "DaVinci Code" and other books.

[Idril]

I've been away for a bit and in that time, I've bought a fair amount of books. I was trying to get out of my Russian rut so I made a concerted effort to avoid anything Russian for awhile so I got:

Growth of the Soil and Victoria by Knut Hamsun
Nothing-Doting-Blindness by Henry Green
The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe...and
Scum by Isaac Bahevis Singer

...but then I got this overwhelming feeling that something was missing so yesterday I ordered:

The Law of Eternity by Nodar Dumbadze, who is actually Georgian so not Russian but a Soviet Georgian so...close...sort of... That book was recommened to me by someone at the librarything site.

Pretender to the Throne: Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich...and

The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf

Now I have a freakishly long 'to read' pile but all is right with the world now that it has some Russian in it. :D

[Lady Raven]

Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Frazer

[Dark Muse]

Well I am quite happy, I just got the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe

[ben.!]

I scoured the school bookshop in the past week for some holiday reading. To me it's all free, 'cause it gets billed on my parents' account! They'll never know!:D

Anyway, here's what I bought:

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Outsider - Albert Camus

Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert

Waiting for Godot (The play) - Samuel Beckett

And here's some other books I've bought, though they weren't from the school bookshop, in the past week:

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again - Andy Warhol

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

and then I bought one for my Father:

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Haha, spent all my debit card on those!

So, what you think, good selection?

[Kirby]

Recently bought:

Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire
Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

[Dark Muse]

Hatchet - Gary Paulsen: I read that book a long time ago, but I do remember enjoying it

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck: I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would, sense I really did not care for Of Mice and Men

Kim - Rudyard Kipling: This is a good book

Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert: I have just recently aquired a copy of this, have not read it yet, but look forward to doing so soon

[Kirby]

Stardust by Gaiman
Candide By Voltaire

:D :thumbs_up

[Ace]

Exit A by Anthony Swoffard - I didn't care for it that much...

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom - Thought it was decent, not as good as everyone says it is

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis - Haven't read it yet, looks promising

[aeroport]

The Collected Poetry and Prose of Wallace Stevens
How to Read a Poem - Terry Eagleton

[djy78usa]

I guess, technically, the last book I bought was a new Moleskine pocket journal. But I just ordered Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas. Looking forward to reading it after seeing the movie.

[grace86]

A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals
Language: Its Structure and Use
Evolutionary Medicine and Health

Those are for class this quarter. Intro to Music (theory), Intro to Linguistics, and Biological Approaches to Medical Anthropology classes (respectively)

This is going to be an interesting quarter.

[BelvoirPWOC]

Oops!!!

[Dark Muse]

Most of these I just got for one of my classes but most of them also happend to be upon one of my book lists as well.

Dubliners, James Joyce

A Passage to India, E.M. Forster

The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Wolf

*The Ambassadors, Henry James

*The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

*The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco

*Dark Voices, a collection of horror stories

* These ones I got for only for my personal reading pleasure, and are not school related.

[djy78usa]

Dubliners, James Joyce



One of my favorites! I just bought A Cloclwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. I've seen the movie countless times, but never read the book. I also bought Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, I've been told that no self-respecting U.S. soldier could go without reading this book.

[whf800]

The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon- Haven't gotten around to starting it yet, but I've heard it's his most accessible work and therefore probably the best way to introduce myself to his writing.

[Dark Muse]

One of my favorites! I just bought A Cloclwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. I've seen the movie countless times, but never read the book. I also bought Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, I've been told that no self-respecting U.S. soldier could go without reading this book.

Though I have not read The Dubliners before, I have read Joyce before, and honestly I am not exactly enthusiastic about pursuing more of his work from my prior experience.

I really want to read A Clockwork Orange, but I can never find it at my bookstore.

[djy78usa]

Though I have not read The Dubliners before, I have read Joyce before, and honestly I am not exactly enthusiastic about pursuing more of his work from my prior experience.

I really want to read A Clockwork Orange, but I can never find it at my bookstore.

not to sound like a creep or anything... but PM me your address and I'll send a copy !!!

[islandclimber]

Personally, I thought The Kite Runner was abysmal. Terrible, terrible writing, but a lot of people loved it.

I agree with you completely... it seems like it is one of those rare books that the movie could be better than the book;) ... Same with his previous book Empire of a Thousand Splendid Suns.. My girlfriend at the time, loved them both, so she convinced me to read them... needless to say I was horribly disappointed.. very very mediocre writing... But that explains why it was a bestseller... generally books become bestsellers nowadays because they are accessible, and easy to read for the general public, which is not a very good sign if one is looking for something of quality.. Something that could be called good Literature...

[islandclimber]

Oh yeah, and the last book I bought was Borges' Collected Fictions.... I loved Labyrinths as well as the El ALeph collection so I just had to go for the rest.... I am eagerly anticipating its arrival...

before that was Dostoevsky's A Raw Youth ( or The Adolescent).. the least well known, and in my opinion, the most underrated of his five major works... in fact one of the most underrated books I have read...

[capek]

My sister gave me a gift certificate to B&N for my bday, so I bought the 5 Novels of Flaubert B&N volume, and Dostoevsky's The Idiot. So far I've started on Flaubert's The Temptation of St Anthony, quite excellent.

[Julian Koller]

Oh yeah, and the last book I bought was Borges' Collected Fictions.... I loved Labyrinths as well as the El ALeph collection so I just had to go for the rest.... I am eagerly anticipating its arrival...

before that was Dostoevsky's A Raw Youth ( or The Adolescent).. the least well known, and in my opinion, the most underrated of his five major works... in fact one of the most underrated books I have read...

it is indeed one of Dostoevsky's best

[Sir Bartholomew]

The Secret Agent, and the Master and Margarita

[muhsin]

Dan Brown's Deception Point.

[DCD1979]

The last book I got was the 2008 Poet's Market (if you want to get technical...:).)

As far as novels...The Freedom Writers Diary by the original Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell. (It's funny, as I read it, I realized these now young adults were from my graduating class of 1998. I doubt I would have lived through everything they've been through.)

This past summer we had to put my grandmother in a nursing home. When Mom came home after a weekend of cleaning Grandma's house, (that she lived in since 1948), she brought home several of Grandma's old books.

Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Cat Who:
Talked to Ghosts
Went Underground
Lived High
Knew A Cardinal all by Lilian Jackson Braun
Earlier Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One Hundred and One Famous Poems compilation by Roy J. Cook
The Face Is Familiar by Ogden Nash

phewwwwwww :p

[islandclimber]

The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy

Camille - Alexandre Dumas

The Temptation of St. Anthony - Flaubert

Whitman: Poems - Walt Whitman

Good choices!! I love The Woodlanders and Camille was quite good! :thumbs_up


and Sir Bartholomew.. I don't know if you've read it before but Master and Margarita is just amazing!! I would recommend it to anyone...:D

[aeroport]

The Second Plane - September 11: Terror and Boredom - Martin Amis
(Some essays and a couple of short stories pertaining to extremism and terrorism and the day of infamy...)
Daisy Miller - Henry James (new Penguin edition with intro by David Lodge; hopefully it uses the New York Edition text, as the previous Penguin edition did not...)
Contes du jours et de la nuit ("Stories of Day and Night") - Guy de Maupassant
Reading Myself and Others - Philip Roth

[Bakiryu]

The Feminine Mystique :D

[Equilibrium]

last book I bought... Well that depends, the last book I bought in a shop was "The best short stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky". The last book I bought online and have received in the post was "Antigone - Sophocles" and the last book that i bought online and have yet to receive is "The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky".

[kelby_lake]

The Master & Margarita (Bulgakov)
Brave New World - reread (Huxley)

Am in process of reading The Master and Margarita. Very strange! The last book I bought was 'The Last Tycoon' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Am planning to buy 'Giovanni's Room' by James Baldwin also. :)

[detays]

Stephen King- CELL

[thelastmelon]

A while back I bought following books:
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Odyssey - Homeros

[Il Penseroso]

Just today for a total of fifteen dollars:

Light in August - William Faulkner
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
(these last two are in preparation for an Adolescent Lit. class for teachers I'll be taking in the fall)
and The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath

[LeonMello]

Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin

Anyone have some commentary about this book?

[Cayenne]

Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Sabine Kuegler - Jungle Child

[DapperDrake]

Yesterday I bought The Collected poems of Thomas Hardy - My favourite poet, and a verse adaptation of Homers odyssey - originally for radio 4 apparently so I expect I'll like it. Did anyone else catch Harold Pinter's landscape on 4 yeasterday? I thought it was brilliant.

[bouquin]

Last month, at a couple of bookstores in Manila :

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Gathering by Anne Enright

[Pecksie]

I was at the Buenos Aires book fair last Monday and bought Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" (I've heard so much about her, good and bad, I want to check out for myself) and Virginia Woolf's "The waves" and "To the lighthouse".

[amanda_isabel]

hmm, now that you mention it, p.a.m., i've been looking to read "To the Lighthouse" for a while now.

have two books waiting for my fingerprints to disturb the dust that has settled on them since the last time i picked it up, but i think i'm looking forward to starting another book my mom got for me just today: Far From the Madding Crowd. does that count as the last book i bought ? :)

[Hank Stamper]

yesterday I bought Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, the Subterraneans by Kerouac and The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
dunno when I will get to read them - I have about 40 books on the shelf that are still unread. I seem to have an addiction where I cant walk past a book shop without buying something, especially when there is stuff you want in the 3 for 2 offers!

[Sir Bartholomew]

Joseph Conrad's Nostromo

[Idril]

I've gone on a bit of a buying binge, in the last few weeks I've bought:

Paradise Reclaimed by Halldor Laxness
Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich (my new favorite author)
The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union by Vladimir Voinovich
Candide by Voltaire
and lastly, The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

[Trystan]

'What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire' - Charles Bukowski. It's a large collection of his poetry.

I also bought some of Poe's short stories the other day.

[Beautifull]

The Host by Stephenie Meyer...

[Moandor]

"Vellum" and "The Ink" by Hal Duncan

[Pecksie]

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Little Prince, and one of the various books by V.S. Naipaul

I read Anna Karenina this year. It's the most absolutely engrossing, sweeping, moving narrative I've read in a very, very long time. Good buy!

[Pecksie]

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Little Prince, and one of the various books by V.S. Naipaul

I read Anna Karenina this year. It's the most absolutely engrossing, sweeping, moving narrative I've read in a very, very long time. Good buy!

[cipherdecoy]

Light In August, In Evil Hour, Julius Caesar and Che's Bolivian diary. All at once. :)

[bouquin]

At a second-hand bookshop,

3 titles by W. Somerset Maugham:
Cakes and Ale
The Moon and Sixpence
The Razor's Edge

and Ordinary Love & Good Will by Jane Smiley.

[kasie]

Joseph Conrad's Nostromo

My favourite Conrad - hope you enjoy it, Sir B.

[Julian Koller]

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

[Dharmabeat]

Just ordered Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac.

Slowly building up my book collection, but running out of space for the buggers! :p

[Dark Muse]

I went bookshopping again:

The Family ~ Mario Puzo

The Dollmaker~ Harriette Arnow

Atlas Shrugged ~ Ayn Rand

Whip Hand ~ Dick Francis

[johann cruyff]

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.Bought it yesterday.

[Pyrrho]

My library just sold some old books. I bought:
1. Intruder in the Dust by W. Faulkner
2. J. Kerouac: On the Road (My second copy. Love the novel.)
3. S. Rushdie: Fury
4. H.G. Wells: The History of Mr. Polly
5. B. Easton Ellis: American Psycho

[Hank Stamper]

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.Bought it yesterday.

I read this a few weeks ago, definitely worth the hype... and while there are some sections that are fairly esoteric, it is to Hawking's credit that he makes pretty difficult concepts digestible to the non-physicist...

I think you probably need to have a basic interest/curiosity in astro-physics and cosmology though otherwise it could be pretty hard work ..

[johann cruyff]

I think you probably need to have a basic interest/curiosity in astro-physics and cosmology though otherwise it could be pretty hard work ..

Obviously...

[Nightshade]

The vindication on the rights of women by mary wollsencroft ( well actually im in the process of putting the amazon order in right now... so it sort of counts doesnt it?

[pussnboots]

I've bought several books recently

1 - Merle's Door : lessons from a freethinking dog
2 - Of Men and Their Mothers
3 - Mean Girls Grow Up
4 - Tell Me Where It Hurts: a day of humor, healing and hope. In my life as an animal surgeon

[grace86]

Could have sworn I posted this already, but:

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Tolkein
Mythology - Edith Hamilton

[aeroport]

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan

I just got Millicent Bell's Meaning in Henry James in the mail today and have pre-ordered the forthcoming new Penguin editions of The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors...

[aeroport]

Strange you would choose James. ;)

It's only a trick to mislead you about my username... ;)


I love his writing, too, but I have to confess I've not read The Ambassadors or The Bostonians. I think I've read everything else, though. The Golden Bowl is my favorite, though it all began with Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw.

Seriously...all of it? *very impressed* :thumbs_up :) :D

[Virgil]

I bought The Collected Short Stories of William Faulkner. After reading "A Rose For Emily" here on lit net, I decideed I needed to have a book of Faulkner's short stories in the house. ;)

[Kafka's Crow]

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan

I just got Millicent Bell's Meaning in Henry James in the mail today and have pre-ordered the forthcoming new Penguin editions of The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors...

You will enjoy the Tom Robbins book, one of my favorite contemporary humorous writers. Can't say the same about James. I think I have Fierce Invalid somewhere. Isn't it the one with the old lady's pet bird, some sort of a parrot? I once started reading it and then never finished. Naught wrong with the book, I was distracted by other things at that time. His Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas is hilarious and so is Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Good writer, that Robbins fellow is, he is mad!

[Kafka's Crow]

Received the delivery of Fifty Poems by Boris Pasternak chosen and translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater.

[ben.!]

Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

I got a big stockpile to read...so I think I won't be taking a trip to a bookshop anytime soon, though I am looking forward to reading Hannibal Lector's first outing after I've read the big pile.

[Virgil]

Yes! You do need to have a volume of Faulkner's short stories around the house! ;) I'm glad "A Rose for Emily" pushed you to buy it. Now you can discuss the stories with me. ;) I have The Collected Stories of William Faulkner, too. Of course. You know how much I love his writing.

Now, I just have to get you to buy The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner next. ;)
Hehehe. Is the Uncollected much different than the Collected?


All but those two. I've not read those. After I read The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller, I read Portrait of a Lady and I was hooked.

Your username is always confusing me. ;)

You know I would love to go through a Henry James work here on lit net. I don't know which one, and I would hate to do a real long one, but it's been ages since i read a James novel or novela. The Ambassadors is very good by the way.

[aeroport]

All but those two. I've not read those. After I read The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller, I read Portrait of a Lady and I was hooked.

Likewise. :thumbs_up



You know I would love to go through a Henry James work here on lit net. I don't know which one, and I would hate to do a real long one, but it's been ages since i read a James novel or novela. The Ambassadors is very good by the way.

My whole summer is going to be spent reading as much as I can of his major works (nearly done with The Wings of the Dove finally!), so I would very much be up for this. Something in the vein, perhaps, of Maisie or Poynton?

[aeroport]

*sorry for double posting*


You will enjoy the Tom Robbins book, one of my favorite contemporary humorous writers. Can't say the same about James. I think I have Fierce Invalid somewhere. Isn't it the one with the old lady's pet bird, some sort of a parrot? I once started reading it and then never finished. Naught wrong with the book, I was distracted by other things at that time. His Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas is hilarious and so is Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Good writer, that Robbins fellow is, he is mad!

There is definitely a parrot involved somewhere. My cousin was passing through town and told me a bit about Robbins's books and read a little to me. He sounds very interesting. Looking forward to it...

[Erichtho]

Italian Journey by J.W. von Goethe.

[Nossa]

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka


One of my favorite stories ever. :D

[bouquin]

Talk Talk - T.C. Boyle
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
A Burnt-Out Case - Graham Greene
Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations - Alexander McCall Smith
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields

[Hank Stamper]

I accidentally bought more books today
HG Wells - The country of the blind and other stories
Jules Verne - Around the world in 80 days
Patrick Suskind - Perfume
Hemingway - The sun also rises
and a bunch of Shakespeare (Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo & Juliet - read this about 15 years ago at school so looking forward to returning to it)

[kasie]

I accidentally bought more books today


Oh, yes? Who do you think you are kidding, HS? :lol:

I've tried that one and none of my friends believe me. I've also tried 'It just jumped off the shelf into my hands', and 'It called out to me'. The only one they even begin to let me get away with is 'I bought it because I'll never see it again' and that only works with some really out of the way title.

I've got £25 worth of credit waiting for me on Amazon (belated birthday present). What to buy? Oh, decisions, decisions.....

[Fire Mage]

It's a play, but:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

[papayahed]

I brought Trainspotting with me on the plane but quickly realized it is written in an accent. I really liked the movie buit I just can't see myself reading a whole book like that so while waiting for my connecting flight I bought Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.

I almost bought You Suck by Charlie Moore, has anyone read it? any good?

[_Shannon_]

Today my husband got me my vacation reading- Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini and Silence by Shusaku Endo.

LOL - anticipating driving 11 hours by myself with my kiddos and then having to stay at my *gulp* parents' house--those titles become kinda funny :D

[kasie]

You might consider The Gift of Rain. It's so beautiful.

Thanks for the suggestion, Antiquarian - it seems I can't get it through Amazon.co.uk, only through Amazon.com, priced in dollars, so I'm not sure if my credit will pay for it.

[Pyrrho]

Goethe - The Poems
Alice Walker - The Colour Purple

[amalia1985]

Luncheon Of The Boating Party by Susan Vreeland, an interesting (at least, I hope so) novel about the famous painting of Renoir.

[cipherdecoy]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

I decided to get it since I've read many positive reviews of it from this forum.

[Page Sniffer]

American Sea Writing - A Literary Anthology, pub by Library of America. Just found it onsale and bought it at the LOA website. Beautifully made book. Sixty-eight entries, 671 pages.

[Seant018]

Three Cups of Tea. Looked like an interesting story so I picked it up as a spur of the moment deal.

[PabloQ]

I was digging around a seedy used book store and found The Financier by Theodore Dreiser and Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos.

[EricP]

I bought the following ebooks yesterday for my Kindle:
"The Thief's Journal" by Jean Genet
"Our Lady of the Flowers" by Jean Genet
"120 Days of Sodom" by Marquis de Sade

[_Shannon_]

I was digging around a seedy used book store and found The Financier by Theodore Dreiser and Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos.Great Finds!:thumbs_up Two of my favorite authors!

[Kafka's Crow]

Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude- An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Finitude-Essay-Necessity-Contingency/dp/0826496741/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212075325&sr=8-1

[djy78usa]

I just bought Armageddon in Retrospect, a collection of 12 never before published writings by Kurt Vonnegut. I've only flipped through it so far, but I will begin actually reading it after work today. I'll let you all know what I think about it when I'm finished.

[dramasnot6]

Just bought Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" at our Guild sale because a) it was on sale and b) It's a Nietzsche I don't have.
:)