Last Book You Bought and Why

[aeroport]

Well, I suppose we might as well have this discussion.
The idea for this thread is, um, rather self-explanatory, so, without further ado, I shall begin...

(The what)
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope

(The wherefore)
I've rather enjoyed what I've heretofore read of the unfortunately-named Trollope, and am informed that this is one of his best. Plus it was just big and inviting. I was seduced.

[dramasnot6]

Just got a trio of James's!

Daisy Miller
Washington Square
The Europeans

Why?
1) Inspired by avid James fan, who coincedentially started this thread too :D
2) Why those particular ones? There were the only bloody things available by James at the shop :p

[Stanislaw]

hmmm...it would be three...for some reason I tend to buy books in threes...not sure why?, but what the heck!

okay so last book(s) I bought:
Tyrants of History, Serenity, The History of the Computer.

reason(s):

tyrants: well, just a good reference for research and believe it or not...game design.
serenity: Joss Whedon is a genious who's skill for tv is unequelled (well atleast for the series Firefly...buffy wasn't so hot, nor was angel)
Chronicles of Riddick: well...recreational...bathroom reading...also, I work as an IBM Helpdesk guy, so I have some spare time (nightshift) :D

[Madhuri]

1. East of Eden
2. Self help book to learn Spanish.

Why?

1. I had finished reading Kite Runner and was looking for a new book to read, I browsed the litnet book club and this was the book that came to my attention again and again.

2. Dont ask me why I bought it :D But I thought it will be nice if I learned a new language. I bought the self help book to see if I get interested in this language, so far I have just learnt how to say Good Morning, Afternoon and, Night. :D Very bad progress I say....

[Nightshade]

the last book I bought and I swear this is its name
A very short, Fairly interesting and reasobly cheap book about studying organizations i thought it might be useful for my essay.



okay so last book(s) I bought:
Tyrants of History

reason(s):

tyrants: well, just a good reference for research and believe it or not...game design.


Is that the one that starts with Alexander the great? if it is its so full of mistakes on the first page alone that I wanted to get it withdrawn from our library or scribble down the side c***P! this person obviously knows nothing at all about his sources and has no idea how to research!


I hope its not though...

[Matsiah]

"Cell" by: Stephen King

Firstly: I'm actually more of a writer than a reader; however, I realize that One can only grow from where he choses to go... you know? So, therefore, I set out in search of a new book whilst I roamed the vibrant halls of Fred Meyer. Mr. Meyer, not possessing a very vast selection, had me searching rather finicky. I intended upon buying a fantasy novel; however, there stood the upright novel of "Cell", looking shining because of the reflecting invitation. Knowing Stephen King is a rather remarkable fiction writer, I chose to buy this book rather than the others.

Secondly: I had money

[Pendragon]

A Opened Grave by L. Frank James. Sherlock Holmes goes back into to investigate the ressurection. Couriousity about the book's content was why I bought it. It's causing a bit of a debate. ;)

[Eagleheart]

"Short stories of the 19th century"...- why?...Well first I had to buy myself a book/ I have entered the bookstore,so couldn't help it/...We do not have very much of a variety of choice of books in English here -most were already in my library, so I decided to buy a collection, it gave me access to more writers...

[Shannanigan]

Hmm...erm..I can't remember if I went to the bookstore first or Amazon, lol...

Bookstore: "Witch" by Christopher Pike...because I had a giftcard and I haven't read in a loooong time and I remembered I used to like Pike. And "A Stroke of Midnight" by Laurell K. Hamilton because I still had gift card money left and I like to escape my boring life with sexy fantasy novels :p

Amazon: "Rookie Teaching for Dummies" because of a recommendation by someone in the Teacher's Forum on this site, and another book I can't remember the title of, but it was along the lines of an "English Teacher's Companion" because I plan to start student teaching English soon...

[papayahed]

Taming of the Shrew.


Why? Because I wanted to participate in the Shakespeare book club reading.

[Poetess]

From Blake to Byron

The Pelican Guide to English Literature (part 5)


Why? I found a heaven of books infront of me.. Suddenly I chose it.. this is it..

[higley]

Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Doris Kearns Goodwin)

Because: I've had my eye on this book for a while. Abraham Lincoln is posthumously awesome.

[Idril]

(The what)
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope


Oh, that's a good one. I think you'll be pleased. :nod:

But I want to know, it is pronouced Trol-up as in a woman of ill repute or Tro-lope with a long 'o'? I prefer to think it's the later. :p


Serenity


There's a book?!


The last couple of books I bought were White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov and that I bought because I have grown very fond of Bulgakov and the other book was No Ordinary Summer Pt. 2 because I read part one and now it's time for part 2.

[Niamh]

Today i bought a 1911 edition of Synges Well of the Saints, from an antiquarian seller. I already have Deirdre of the Sorrows in the same edition. If i can find the rest, i'd be happy! It cost me 45 Euros though!:sick:

Same seller is going to have a look at a my Poetical Works of Thomas Moore from c1900. It possibly has Count John Francis MaCormacks Signature in it. Apparently he had a habit of signing all the books in his personal collection. Only Difference is, is that if this sig is genuine, it would be worth more than the others because he's famous for singing Thomas Moores poems etc. All about association. fingers crossed!:(

[cuppajoe_9]

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath.

I have to read it for my American Lit class, and I can't stand to read anything of any length out of those enormous anthologies. I've been meaning to read it anyway (along with the rest of the long list secreted away in my wallet, and the tall stack of the results of my used book store hauntings next to my bed).

[Shalot]

Female Chauvenist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

This book was featured on Fresh Air and it sounded like a good read. I like it so far.

[Stanislaw]

the last book I bought and I swear this is its name
A very short, Fairly interesting and reasobly cheap book about studying organizations i thought it might be useful for my essay.



Is that the one that starts with Alexander the great? if it is its so full of mistakes on the first page alone that I wanted to get it withdrawn from our library or scribble down the side c***P! this person obviously knows nothing at all about his sources and has no idea how to research!


I hope its not though...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0572030258
...I hope it's not the same one...the pages I've glanced at so far have seemed okay...I had best check closer...:(

[Riesa]

I bought the first in Anthony Trollope's Palliser Series.

It's called Can You Forgive Her?

I bought it because it came highly recommended by Idril, whose opinion I trust.

[mtpspur]

Well it would have Sharpe's Fury by Bernard Cornwell on the 26th--Christmas gift card from my second son Daniel and this entry then would be cool

B U T

Yesterday picked up an ordered copy of a reprint of Secret Agent X: Legions of the Living Dead from the Sep 1939 issues (#18) which Wildside Press is reprinting stories from----"X" is no where in the Shadow's league but I've liked him a LOT better then the Phantom Detective. As I get older I read more 'fun' stuff then heavy--except for the Biblical commentaries I read from time to time.

[Stanislaw]

Well it would have Sharpe's Fury by Bernard Cornwell on the 26th--Christmas gift card from my second son Daniel and this entry then would be cool

B U T

Yesterday picked up an ordered copy of a reprint of Secret Agent X: Legions of the Living Dead from the Sep 1939 issues (#18) which Wildside Press is reprinting stories from----"X" is no where in the Shadow's league but I've liked him a LOT better then the Phantom Detective. As I get older I read more 'fun' stuff then heavy--except for the Biblical commentaries I read from time to time.

:thumbs_up cool! Secret agent x! :D...

...have you checked out the new Phantom release?

[Nightshade]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0572030258
...I hope it's not the same one...the pages I've glanced at so far have seemed okay...I had best check closer...:(

**puts on the "Im afraid that..."library assistant face**
*Im sorry to tell you dear it is :nod: note the bit where it says the quaran callas alexander the 2 horned and obviously that means hes evil? Well the thing is koran says and the two horned, he was truly a man of God.
now my point is if the man can look to the end of the sentance how sure are we about the rest of the book??



ahhh Im late Ill find the proper quote later but its worth comparing just to see how much of a mess the man made:nod:

EDIT: ok if you want to look it up yourself the man should have refernced it The Qua'ran 18:83-18:98. (18 being the chapter called el kahf or the cave if you do look it up) oh and zulquarnain, Dhu'l-Qarneyn, or Zul-qarnain. however they choose to spell it is the same thing means 'he of 2 horns' . Actally when I look at it we dont know its Alexander the great all we know is that this was one of the 'wise kings' andfor some reason scholars have come to the conlclusion that its alexander the great but since the book you have actually refers to this but somehow managed to take a wise noble and kind king and change it to wicked tyrant I dont know:rolleyes:

[aeroport]

Oh, that's a good one. I think you'll be pleased. :nod:

But I want to know, it is pronouced Trol-up as in a woman of ill repute or Tro-lope with a long 'o'? I prefer to think it's the later. :p


I am informed by the page director at my library and a former English major (which is all to say, my boss), that it is in indeed the former. She claims, however, that he would have been almost dead, if not already so, by the time the word came into wide use, so it would not have mattered much. Doesn't stop me, however, from having my fun!

**edit**
Oh yes, I believe I remember coming across it in a dictionary as well which gave the former pronunciation.

[Shannanigan]

Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers," "A Christmas Carol," and "Oliver Twist" becase I am taking a class on Dickens and we are going to read all of those PLUS "A Tale of Two Cities" by the end of April (yay! I HAVE to read unabridged literature...what a class!)

and I bought "Invisible Man" by Ellis for myself because it was mentioned in my African-American literature course last semester and it sounded good...

[Idril]

She claims, however, that he would have been almost dead, if not already so, by the time the word came into wide use, so it would not have mattered much. Doesn't stop me, however, from having my fun!



Well, that's good for him but what about his poor descendants?! ;) :p :lol:

[JaneEyre1986]

The other day I bought "Jekyll and Hyde" because I saw part of the movie, and now want to read the book. I also bought " 'Tis: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt, because I'm currently reading "Angela's Ashes" and can barely get my nose out of it.

[Bii]

Just bought 2 books:
Fiction : The Wind up Bird Chronicle - because I love Murakami
Non-fiction : In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russell - because Russell has to be one of the greatest modern philosophical thinkers and his words are worth reading

[brokenheartpoet]

The outsiders by h.g. wells I bought it for school and has not yet came. It sounds like an instering book from the title.

[Madhuri]

Collected Stories of Saki -- Hector Hugh Munro (Saki). I didnt buy it, as it is a gift from my brother, I am looking forward to reading it...:)

[Janine]

I bought a biography about "Nureyev", one of the greatest ballet dancers in history, from Amazon. I also bought a book I found in Barnes and Noble, on the reduced shelf, called "Glorious Britain - Places of Legend . The cool thing about this book is it is made up of old sepia prints. It is devoted to homes and locations of famous British novelists and poets, such as Austen, Hardy, Shelley, Shakespeare, the Brontes, etc. It really attracted my attention, loving British authors/poets so much from that era. The pictures are truly priceless and hold history in the pages of this interesting book. One can imagine just how these authors lived and perceived their surrounding and how their environments greatly inspired the plots and subjects of their books.

[bouquin]

November by Gustave Flaubert ... because it was at 50% off! And I do want to read more of Flaubert's works, having been favorably impressed by Madame Bovary.

[Schokokeks]

I recently bought Selected Pieces by Oscar Wilde, featuring all of his plays and some letters and poems. Plus, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.

Actually, they caught my eye because they were both on sale :blush:.

Oh, and today, I'm going to by History of the Theatre by Peter Simhandl, a non-fiction book I need to do a presentation on. It's awfully expensive, I hope it's worth it...

[Tinita09]

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Must reads :nod: , I had already read Twilight and Speak, but there was a sale, I had been meaning to get the books anyway, Twilight is like my favorite book in the world, and Uglies looked pretty interesting front and back. BTW, there was a get 3 for 2 sale, so it was all pretty convenient.: ;)

[Adudaewen]

I just bought Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly. I bought it because I love him, and its really turned out to be an interesting read so far. :)

[thevintagepiper]

The Book of Lost Tales, by J.R.R. Tolkien. For my sister's Christmas present. Yea, it was awhile ago...

[Idril]

Well, I didn't really buy these books, I got them on a book exchange site but I did pay for postage so that's something...anyway, I got Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera and with that I believe I will have all of Kundera's novels. I also got The Golovlyov Family by Shchedrin because the review sounded interesting.

[Boris239]

I'v recently bought Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift", Kostova's "Historian" and "The Forging of the Rebel" by Arturo Barea. Now I just have to find time to read them

[andave_ya]

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

[mtpspur]

The last books (paid for them together) was The Shame of Motley by Rafael Sabatini and the 6th book in the 24 series--Chaos Theory (based on the TV show) by John Whitman Thursday of last week.

[Lily Adams]

I'm pretty sure the last one I bought was Candide by Voltaire. <3

[Stieg]

Candide by Voltaire

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

Strangers On a Train by Patricia Highsmith

Also a hardcover containing the original the talented Tom Ripley trilogy by Patricia Highsmith

The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

Moonchild by Aleister Crowley (the Beast's most popular fictional work)

Viriconium by M John Harrison

[the silent x]

the prestige - christopher priest, i mainly get books from the library nowadays

[Stieg]

Suggestion, why not make this thread a sticky? :D

[andave_ya]

I can do that? I thought only the mods do that? I'll check.

*Edit*Don't think I can. Tried to find the button but no go. Sorry. :(

[Demona]

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

[Fen]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit. Mostly I just go to the Library or read online though

[Ethrin]

The last book I bought was Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, we read the first book in the series, Ender's Game in my American Lit class and I loved it, they're both great stories. Worth the whole $13

[papayahed]

Women in Love - dh Lawrence. I wanted to get this from the library but don't have a card yet.

[Monica]

I studied in York last semester and there are loads of second-hand bookshops, and I bought there so many books that I was hardly able to come back with them all :) The very last I bought was "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".

[linz]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/3190000/3190831.gif
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

[kenikki]

The Complete Prose of Woody Allen since then I mainly bookmooch my books as it saves on money as I keep buying books I don't read for ages!!

[Behemoth]

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Emma
Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp
William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Interesting mix of books for pleasure/for my course in the autumn, it's lovely having the time now to just READ, unrestrainedly and without distraction! :D

[grace86]

Thursday I went to the bookstore. I bought:

Don Quixote because I broke my other copy :bawling:

Women in Love because I didn't care to read that one online.

(Grrr Linz I want that copy of Crime and Punishment!)

[Silvia]

I have bought some books that I'm supposed to read during my summer holiday:
Brave New World by Huxley
1984 by Orwell
The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
Wuthering Heights by E. Bronte

And I'm reading all of them in English...at least I hope I'll manage to!!

[Turk]

"Lawrence" a biography and essay about D.H Lawrence. I paid 1 dollar for it.

[Pensive]

Dastak Nah Do (Don't knock!) by Altaf Fatimah.

[Niamh]

Blart 2 by Dominic Barker! (ok so i'm a big kid! Whatca gonna do eh!)

[Bii]

I just bought an Albert Camus book (as I've never read any but have only heard good things about him here!), it's a collection of three of his books which are, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom plus some essays. It's in hardback, and it's beautiful, and it was a bargain!

[BrckBrln]

The Good Guy by Dean Koontz

[quasimodo1]

O. Wilde the complete works part of a sale at a wellknown bookstore chain. quasimodo1

[fallingup]

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

[kandaurov]

Among others (which I can't remember right now), I bought Factotum. Really looking forward to reading it, I've great expectations :)

[tudwell]

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

and

Our Ecstatic Days by Steve Erickson

[manolia]

"The unbearable lightness of being"

[CaptureLife]

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
I bought it yesterday at a secondhand shop for a dollar. Hardcover, excellect shape. Probably never actually read. Best deal ever. I'm super excited to re-read it.

[symphony]

It's been a real long time since I last bought a book. Lately I've been either downloading books from the web or getting them from friends and acquaintances. Bu I remember buying a bengali epic poem (by Michael Modhusudhan) and a Mario Puzo book called The Last Don a few months back.

[Haven]

"The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought"
[Eds] Alan Bullock & Stephen Trombley.
The Economist "How did one exist whithout this splendid book?"... an incomparable guide...there are new entries on God, communitarianism, perestroika, new world order, afrocentricity, ebonics, third wave feminism, hypertext, virtual reality, culture jamming, cloning, spin-doctors, post-colonialism, fuzzy logic, artificial life, paper architecture, infopreneur...

[cranberry]

Harry Potter and the Half blood prince by J.K Rowling
actually got them all :) but thats the last book i got :)

[AC_fan]

The last book I bought was Scarlett, from Alexandra Rippley. This is the following book to Gone with the Wind.

[Aiculík]

On Friday I bought book of collection of works by my favourite Slovak poet, Milan Rufus. Some of his poems were even translated into English (I think the book's name is And That's the Truth or something like that) but unfortunatelly I cannot get hold of that translation. And though I love his poetry, my love doesn't go so far as to ordering translation of his poems from Amazon for some 30 $. :)

I have few others on my list, but my mother said that if I bring another one in the house she'll throw me out toghether will all my books... And as Sometimes A Great Notion is arriving from UK next week, and in July also Harry Potter, better not to provoke her with any other just now. :D

[sstaplet]

candide by voltaire
doubliners by joyce
and "love's labor's lost" by shakespeare

[malwethien]

Good Omens - Terry Prachet & Neil Gaiman

Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl

[jedi]

A second-hand "The Hobbit" by Tolkien, and "20,000 leagues under the sea" by Verne

[abcpoet]

'The Diary of Anne Frank'

[malwethien]

The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman (a gift actually...does that count?)

[applepie]

I believe it was a complete set of Shakespeare's work. Hardbound and with gold leaf pages. I frequent the library more since the books I'm eyeing at the moment are too expensive. I'm looking at some leather bound classics, but I don't have the $50-60 a book for the 20 or so I've found I want.

[Niamh]

just bought the following in work;
Shalimar the clown
Brideshead revisited
and a paulo Coelho book. Title gone out of my head but i remember it was a collection of short stories.
they were three for price of two in work and with a 30% discount in work only cost me about €17 altogether! Sweet!:D

[Stieg]

The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
The Town That Forgot to Breathe by Kenneth J Harvey

[Julian Koller]

the Everyman's Library edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I am so amazed with the quality of Everyman's Library's books that I am currently updated all my favorite novels to their Everyman's respectful editions.

[mtpspur]

Escapades of the Eel by Hugh B. Cave published by Tattered Pages Press, 1997. Reprints 15 tales of the Eel, a pulp character from Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective and Spicy Mystery magazines from the '30s. Think Indiana Jones by way of Humphrey Bogart. This one slipped past me when first published but found it at my home away from today the Bookery Fantasy in the pulp reprints section.

[xaqxit]

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut (already read it and loved it!)
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated by Vladimir Nabokov with annotations by Alfred Appel Jr.

[Stieg]

the Everyman's Library edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I am so amazed with the quality of Everyman's Library's books that I am currently updated all my favorite novels to their Everyman's respectful editions.

Absolutely, I have the Roald Dahl Collected Stories and Highsmith's Ripley trilogy (actually she wrote five books featuring this sociopathic genuis last two not included in this volume). Soon will be purchasing Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy and Nabokov's Lolita in Everyman's Library amongst whatever else I can find.

www.everymanslibrary.com

[Bebbin]

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Nora Zeale Hurston
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Persuasion by Jane Austen

[BlueSkyGB]

The Art of Discworld Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby

[Reccura]

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott. Actually, I'm addicted to the series.

[Idril]

The Art of Discworld Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby

What exactly is this book? Is it just a collection of various artists' depictions of Discworld characters or is it one specific artist, Paul Kidby perhaps? :p I'm a big fan of Discworld and this sounds like something I should maybe have.

[vheissu]

The witches of Smyrni by Mara Meimaridi

[BlueSkyGB]

What exactly is this book? Is it just a collection of various artists' depictions of Discworld characters or is it one specific artist, Paul Kidby perhaps? :p I'm a big fan of Discworld and this sounds like something I should maybe have.

Its just the artist Paul Kidby with text by Pratchett...
Its great, especially if you're a Discworld fan.....:lol:

[AC_fan]

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon

[Turk]

A story collection choosen by Alfred Hitchcock. I paid 60 cents for it. Such a Scottish i am. :D

[kilted exile]

I ordered Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Tasso today. Hopefully it'll arrive end of next week.

[NickAdams]

Molly, Malone Dies, Unnamable- Samuel Beckett
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
Finnegans Wake- James Joyce
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand

[quasimodo1]

To NickAdams: Are you sure you are ready for Finnegans Wake. I don't say this because I am. I got to Ulysses and then tried FW but soon mired down. When Joyce finished that particular work, he said something like...that will keep the critics busy for ten or twenty years. Try 60 to 100. Stream of Consciousness in the EXTREME. Good luck. quasimodo1

[Julian Koller]

NickAdams: Molly, Malone Dies, Unnamable- Samuel Beckett

enjoy! I'm finishing Unnamable at the moment.

[Turk]

Well, NickAdams is not a critic, Joyce had to know that. :D

[NickAdams]

To NickAdams: Are you sure you are ready for Finnegans Wake. I don't say this because I am. I got to Ulysses and then tried FW but soon mired down. When Joyce finished that particular work, he said something like...that will keep the critics busy for ten or twenty years. Try 60 to 100. Stream of Consciousness in the EXTREME. Good luck. quasimodo1

I'm far from ready. I saw it for six dollars and never pass a deal. I want to read the work in progress essays first.


NickAdams: Molly, Malone Dies, Unnamable- Samuel Beckett

enjoy! I'm finishing Unnamable at the moment.

Keep an eye out on a discussion thread. After reading Godot, I'm sure this will be something to talk about.


Well, NickAdams is not a critic, Joyce had to know that. :D

I think he mentions me in the book.;)

[l'étranger]

The Videonight in Kathmandu
A travelougue of south-east asia by Pico Iyer.

[kemal]

avesta by real zaradhoustra

[F.Emerald]

the Everyman's Library edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I am so amazed with the quality of Everyman's Library's books that I am currently updated all my favorite novels to their Everyman's respectful editions.

I agree. I currently have seven sitting on my book shelf, and they look beaaaautiful.

The last books I bought were;
Five Plays - Chekhov
The Best Stories of Dostoevsky

[Nirome]

The other day, I hit the jackpot, so to speak, at a library book sale. For .50 cents each I bought the following books: The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, Pliny the Elder Historical Naturalis, A Medieval Miscellany, and William Blake Selected Engravings (All of which are color reproductions of medieval text and artwork-- with the exception of the Blake book).

Needless to say, I was pleased with my $2.00 purchase and actually felt somewhat guilty later, as though I had shoplifted the items!

[BunnySummers]

Ptolemy's Gate -- Jonathan Stroud

[Stieg]

Just ordered Nam-A-Rama by Phillip Jennings along with some DVDs. I had picked up this book various times at the local Borders. But was uncertain if the author was simply just aping Vonnegut, Heller, Burgess, etc.

However, he is receiving plenty of rave and looks to be a good buy. Depending how much I appreciate this book will determine if I purchase the semi-sequel Goodbye Mexico Jennings recently released. Both stories are interesting and hopefully quite hilarious.

www.phillipedwardjennings.com

[andave_ya]

The entire Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

[malwethien]

A Supposedly Funny Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace

[Amanda29]

Cages of Glass, Flowers of Time. I read it once years ago, and I simply have to read it again.

"To thine own self be true" Shakespeare

[Nossa]

I think that the last book I bought was Candide by Voltaire...and another book that had a collection of stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[manolia]

A Supposedly Funny Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace

(malwe you better stop buying books and start reading them :lol: of course that goes for me too :D )

"The mystery of Edwin Drood" by Dickens

and "Shirley" by C Bronte

[Moira]

Pascal Bruckner - Qui de nous deux inventera l'autre

[James Wallace]

The book I bought most recently was "Cheapest Nights" by Yusuf Idris, in Arabic; I bought a little more than a week ago.

It is the first collection of short stories to be published for this great Egyptian author in 1955.
It was translated into English in 1978 by Peter Owen.

It is a collection of 21 short stories expressing many views of the common Egyptian citizens along with deep symbolic representation of moral and political topics; characters that show Idris's genius that was nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1988, the same year when another Egyptian prominent author, Naguib Mahfouz, won the prize.

[Nossa]

The book I bought most recently was "Cheapest Nights" by Yusuf Idris, in Arabic; I bought a little more than a week ago.

It is the first collection of short stories to be published for this great Egyptian author in 1955.
It was translated into English in 1978 by Peter Owen.

It is a collection of 21 short stories expressing many views of the common Egyptian citizens along with deep symbolic representation of moral and political topics; characters that show Idris's genius that was nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1988, the same year when another Egyptian prominent author, Naguib Mahfouz, won the prize.

I love Yusuf Idris..can you write the book's name in arabic...I might have it in my library:D If not, I'll buy it..lol

[daedalus]

The One Percent Doctrine

[malwethien]

(malwe you better stop buying books and start reading them :lol: of course that goes for me too :D )

"The mystery of Edwin Drood" by Dickens

and "Shirley" by C Bronte

I know! I can't help it...it's like some kind of disease that I don't want to be cured from :lol:

[Bakiryu]

I've just got

Stardust by <3 Neil Gaiman *sights*
Dhampir, thief of Lives and sister of the dead by J.C. Hendee and Wife
and some others! Hurrayyy!

[Stieg]

Padded my collection alittle more...

The Tenant by Roland Topor

Maldoror and the Complete Works of Comte de Lautreamont

I, Zombie by Curt Selby

[Dark Star]

My last two purchases consisted of The Bhagavad Gita -- As It Is translated by A. C. Prabhupada and an NIV Bible.

[Stieg]

Moderators,

I request this thread to be changed to a sticky, many DVD and movie forums usually feature these types of stickies. And, why not a literary here at LitNet?

thank you! :D

[poofyhead15]

The American by Henry James. Got it for a buck in the used section of my local library.

[Niamh]

the driving theory test book. I had to go out and buy the new one. Yikes! the original one was dead easy! This new improved one is rotten!

[NickAdams]

The Giving Tree- Shel Silverstein (This was my favorite book as a child.)
The Victim- Saul Bellow

[Dickens59]

Abinger Harvest by E. M. Forster. A collection of articles, essays and poems by one of my favorite authors.

[Stieg]

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

The Pugilist At Rest by Thom Jones

Dying To Live by Kim Paffenroth

[Stieg]

WoooHooo! I just bought two brand new hardcovers from Amazon Marketplace from debut writers combined for a mere $18.00 shipping included.

Rabid by T K Kenyon

Drive Like Hell by Dallas Hudgens this one only cost me .01 plus $3.99 shipping.

I suspect these could be Bookclub editions but there is still a few new/like new Hudgens hcs selling for a .01. Anyway, thought some would be interested.

[andave_ya]

1. City of God, by St. Augustine
2. Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe :brow: I've been wanting this one.
3. The Picture of Dorian Grey and Other Writings, by Oscar Wilde
4. Selected Poems of Byron, Keats, and Shelley
5. The Remembrance of Things Past vol. II by Marcel Proust

[James Wallace]

I love Yusuf Idris..can you write the book's name in arabic...I might have it in my library:D If not, I'll buy it..lol

Well, Nossa, the book's name in Arabic is "أرخص ليالي" meaning "Cheapest Nights".
In case that you live in Cairo and want to buy it, the publisher is Misr Bookshop "مكتبة مصر" the site of which is the following:
3 Kamel Sedky street (Al-Faggala street) near Ramsis square in Cairo.

The same bookshop published much of Yusuf Idris's and Naguib Mahfouz's works and some valuable books about novel writing.

Enjoy it!

[Stieg]

Yes, I've spent a small bundle of cash this past week so I probably won't be posting here again any time soon (rarely splurge like this).

Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link

Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link

EarthCore - Scott Sigler

Ancestor - Scott Sigler

[Scharphedin2]

Waiting around for a flight in the Oslo airport this past week, I bought two books (depressing how rarely I actually manage to go to a "real" bookstore these days).

First, I was looking through a rack of Modern Library Classics, and picked up a book called The Squatter and the Don by María Amparo Ruiz De Burton. I had never heard of the author or the book before, but reading the blurp and skimming a few pages, I was intrigued by this romance written and set at the time of the annexation of California. I bought the book, and it is now in pile of reading for the summer. Has anyone read this book?

Secondly, on my way out of the store, I nearly had a heart attack, when my eyes fell on a beautiful hardcover edition of a book entitled Divisadero... I thought my weak eyes were playing tricks on me, as the author's name looked like Michael Ondaatje, but as I picked up the book with trembling hands, I realised that my eyes had not failed me. A new book by Ondaatje! Reader's heaven! I had no idea that he had written a new novel. His other books have been nothing short of fantastic, so this one is sitting in my briefcase, and I will begin the reading tomorrow on the train.

[Mortis Anarchy]

1. City of God, by St. Augustine
2. Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe :brow: I've been wanting this one.
3. The Picture of Dorian Grey and Other Writings, by Oscar Wilde
4. Selected Poems of Byron, Keats, and Shelley
5. The Remembrance of Things Past vol. II by Marcel Proust

Yay for Wilde and Byron!!!

[bouquin]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
Herzog - Saul Bellow
(I bought them all second hand)

[malwethien]

1. The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon

2. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

(bought them last Saturday)

[aeroport]

Hard Times and Middlemarch.

[Pensive]

Hard Times

Read it! It's really good. :)

[Nossa]

Well, Nossa, the book's name in Arabic is "أرخص ليالي" meaning "Cheapest Nights".
In case that you live in Cairo and want to buy it, the publisher is Misr Bookshop "مكتبة مصر" the site of which is the following:
3 Kamel Sedky street (Al-Faggala street) near Ramsis square in Cairo.

The same bookshop published much of Yusuf Idris's and Naguib Mahfouz's works and some valuable books about novel writing.

Enjoy it!

Thank you :D
I'll sure check this bookshop soon :D

[aabbcc]

I bought a nice pile of books last week when I was in Rome; the last one amongst them was Se questo &#232; un uomo (P. Levi).

[emmsi_*tobyrox*]

White Teeth by Zadie Smith and The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde :-):)

[Argyroneta]

'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Orpheus]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Enders Game - Orson Scott Card

[aeroport]

Read it! It's really good. :)
I look forward to it!


White Teeth by Zadie Smith and The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde :-):)
White Teeth is pretty funny. Enjoy.

[aeroport]

Sorry for the double post, but today I've succumbed again...
The Ancestor's Tale - Dr. Richard Dawkins

[Matilda]

Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill
Had never heard of it when I bought it, but it was quite good actually.

[hastalavictoria]

War and Peace
Things Fall Apart
Invisible Man

[Mortis Anarchy]

1984-George Orwell
Too Much Too Late-Marc Spitz

[Dark Star]

Pulled in some stuff from a used book store and a Barnes & Noble today:

Yasunari Kawabata -- Beauty and Sadness, Snow Mountain
Yukio Mishima -- Sun and Steel
Natsume Soseki -- Kokoro

[grace86]

Tomorrow Barnes and Noble is having a book fair for my local library. 15-25% of puchases will be donated to my library, provided you have a voucher. So I am debating about what I want to buy.

Other than that, the last book I bought was my class catalog for university!

[jon1jt]

Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac

[Il Penseroso]

I think mine was the Canterburry Tales, with original middle english for six bucks at B and N.

[Dark Star]

Sorry for the double post, but today I've succumbed again...
The Ancestor's Tale - Dr. Richard Dawkins

Good job! I've heard great things about that book. :)

[mtpspur]

Last Thursday I bought two books:

Old Soldiers by David Weber which is a continuation of Keith Laumer's Bolos series about future war where tanks have artificial intelligence that is so advanced they can fight a war by themselves.

Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants by Lee Goldberg, the fourth novel based on the TV series. Now while this is a good thing the irritating thing is that unlike the three previous novels that debuted paperback this one was done in HARDCOVER which of course annoys the daylights out of me when placed next to the others on the bookcase. Even worse, Tina from News Outlet four stores down from the Bookery says it's selling so they'll probably do more that way. Sigh a year for the paperback and a donated hardcover to son Jim who surprised me by being a Monk fan (he's not a Columbo fan).

[EmilySian]

hmm the last book I bought was tess of the the d'urbervilles, and ive just finished reading it! Very good book!

[Stieg]

Blood County by Curt Selby (loved I, Zombie 4.5/5, Selby is the pseudonym of Sci-Fi writer Doris Piserchia)

Teenage Monsters by Mike Sharlow

Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones

[Mortis Anarchy]

Notes from the Underground-Dostoevsky

[Dark Star]

Which translator(s)? Assuming it wasn't the original.

[Quark]

Notes from the Underground-Dostoevsky

I did the same thing, but I got the MLC version with five other short stories thrown in. I wanted to read some of Dostoevsky's shorter stories. With how much attention books like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov get, sometimes people forget that he Dostoevsky wrote in anything besides the novel form. I was particularly interested in "The Dream of The Ridiculous Man" which is supposed to be pretty intelligent. Maybe I'll start a thread on it.

I also bought The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal: That's how confident I am it will get picked for the Bastille Day reading.

[Dark Star]

I found The Dream of the Ridiculous Man to be pretty much..well....a standard anti-atheism polemic of the sort that Dostoevsky is known for. St. Petersburg Nights and The Meek One were brilliant, however.

[Lag866]

Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Catch-22 by Heller, and Uglies by Westerfield

[Mortis Anarchy]

I did the same thing, but I got the MLC version with five other short stories thrown in. I wanted to read some of Dostoevsky's shorter stories. With how much attention books like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov get, sometimes people forget that he Dostoevsky wrote in anything besides the novel form. I was particularly interested in "The Dream of The Ridiculous Man" which is supposed to be pretty intelligent. Maybe I'll start a thread on it.

I also bought The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal: That's how confident I am it will get picked for the Bastille Day reading.

I really liked the cover of the book. Plus it was printed on recycled paper...:) :thumbs_up Save the Earth!!! I'm being really bad and buying books left and right with my very limited money limit!

A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hosseini

and
this is going to sound weird, but it is an actual book and my friend recommended it to me...:blush:

Porno-Irvine Welsh

[malwethien]

hmmm I didn't buy it...but my friend sent me 2 books which I got today...

1. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

2. Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk

[RobinHood3000]

The Action Heroine's Handbook, for my girlfriend, from Barnes & Noble.

[Orual]

I bought Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

[Annamariah]

Well, I didn't actually BUY anything, but I did visit recycling center and found 5 books that were given away for free...:)

[*Classic*Charm*]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce. Haven't started it yet.

[Dark Star]

Well, I didn't actually BUY anything, but I did visit recycling center and found 5 books that were given away for free...:)

And those were...? :p

[aeroport]

Good job! I've heard great things about that book. :)

I'm liking it; Dawkins is always a lot of fun to read, and the way he lays it out like the Canterbury Tales is pretty amusing.

Oh yes, yesterday I bought Edith Wharton's Novellas and Other Writings, which looks like a lot of fun.

[*Classic*Charm*]

My father reads Dawkins. I don't know much about him or his work, but for some reason after reading his books, my dad seems to think he can lecture me about religion and philosphy.

[MaryLupin]

My father reads Dawkins. I don't know much about him or his work, but for some reason after reading his books, my dad seems to think he can lecture me about religion and philosphy.


I have an idea...why don't you read Dawkins and then lecture him back. Get some debating practice, not to mention maybe teach your dad what it feels like to be lectured to.

The last three books I bought were:
1. Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas
2. A Journey into the Deaf-World by Lane, Hoffmeister and Bahan
3. HalfLife by Meghan O'Rourke

[toni]

It has been ages since the last time I bought a book, but it was Elizabeth Barett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese and other Poems", which I found extremely delightful. And I bought it for only a bit more than a dollar!

[Domer121]

The Flying Inn~ G.K Chesterton and C.S Lewis and the Catholic Church~~ Joseph Pearce

[aeroport]

My father reads Dawkins. I don't know much about him or his work, but for some reason after reading his books, my dad seems to think he can lecture me about religion and philosphy.

That's kind of funny. I'm curious about what he would say, in light of Dr. D., but I'm with MaryLupin; fight the power!

[Annamariah]

And those were...? :p

- Perfume - The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
- Desirée by Annemarie Selinko
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- The Rainbow and the Rose by Nevil Shute
- Moonraker's Bride by Madeleine Brent

[*Classic*Charm*]

That's kind of funny. I'm curious about what he would say, in light of Dr. D., but I'm with MaryLupin; fight the power!

I was raised catholic, and my mother is very catholic, and so he insists on being rude and ignorant and tryng to disprove the whole Catholic belief system. He can believe whatever he wants, but it's really unnessessary (wow I can't spell) for him to try to shove his view down our throats. He especially loves the whole creation vs. evolution. He quotes what Dawkins says about Darwin. I told him to actaully read Darwin, as I have, and then we'd talk.

The worst part is: he never actaully bothers to ask what I believe. My views have long since strayed form traditional catholic beliefs but he's so busy trying to prove me wrong, that he's no longer aware that I don't care. I just bugs me that he does it to my mom.

[icecappuccino]

I just recently purchased War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

[tinustijger]

I bought Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

Why'd you do that? Kinda weird to read something in latin that has its origin in english, I assume you do speak english?

[Annamariah]

Why'd you do that? Kinda weird to read something in latin that has its origin in english, I assume you do speak english?

Why not? I think it can be a) for studying Latin or b) just for fun. I've read Harry Potter -books in Swedish, even though my mother tongue is Finnish and the original Harry Potter language is English. (Of course I've read them in English and Finnish, too)

My reasons were a) to learn Swedish better and b) to see how different translations vary from each other and the original text, and that was just for fun :)

[Dark Star]

I was raised catholic, and my mother is very catholic, and so he insists on being rude and ignorant and tryng to disprove the whole Catholic belief system. He can believe whatever he wants, but it's really unnessessary (wow I can't spell) for him to try to shove his view down our throats. He especially loves the whole creation vs. evolution. He quotes what Dawkins says about Darwin. I told him to actaully read Darwin, as I have, and then we'd talk.

The worst part is: he never actaully bothers to ask what I believe. My views have long since strayed form traditional catholic beliefs but he's so busy trying to prove me wrong, that he's no longer aware that I don't care. I just bugs me that he does it to my mom.

Maybe it would help if you pointed out to him that the Catholic church has accepted evolution.

[Scharphedin2]

I guess I am not following the book market as closely as probably I should. In any event, I was browsing the new novels in the English language section of a book store in Malm&#246; today, and all of sudden a new book by Don DeLillo was staring me in the face! The title is Falling Man, and, being a fan of DeLillo's past novels, I immediately bought it, and just placed it firmly at the top of my "to read" pile.

[MaryLupin]

My views have long since strayed form traditional catholic beliefs but he's so busy trying to prove me wrong, that he's no longer aware that I don't care. I just bugs me that he does it to my mom.

You know I had a rather brutal father. He was an emotional bully and my mother tolerated it. But what is true is that they were in the weird-relationship together. They both caused the pain we all suffered, and until I learnt to speak calmly to both my mother and father (I studied books to give me the poise, words and arguments), and only speak when I could clearly and succinctly say what I experienced as a true and accurate rendition of the world, I learnt to simply watch them fall around each other getting some kind of weird satisfaction from all the pain they both produced. Once I achieved some distance and a calm voice, what I discovered is that both my mother and father were delightfully silly human beings. And then, there was no more pain. In between those two states I became one heck of well read woman.

[Dori]

The last book I bought was Quo Vadis by Henryk Sieniewicz. Apparently it's a very good historical fiction, but I haven't been able to read it yet.

[insomnia lodge]

confederacy of dunces. good stuff. think i'm getting murphy, by beckett, today.

[higley]

Oh I don't remember. ;) I try not to buy books anymore (can't afford :() and so rely on the library or Bookmooch.com for my literary needs. The last book I actually bought was in May, The Good Guy by Dean Koontz. It was worth it!

[Silvia]

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
I bought these books yesterday...

[Bakiryu]

I just got: Avalon High by Meg Cabot
The Misadventures of Benjamin Bartholomew Piff: volume 2 by Jason Lethcoe
Naruto: Volumes 1 and 11 by Masashi Kishimoto
Prom Dates from Hell by Rosemary Clement-Moore
Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud (3rd in the Bartimaeus trilogy)
and Maximum Ride: Saving the World and other extreme sports (3 in the maximun ride series) by James Patterson.

[Dori]

I just bought a bunch of books:

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground, The Double, and Other Stories - Dostoevsky
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk - Dostoevsky
Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Essential Thinkers: Descartes (Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy, The Principles of Philosophy) - Descartes
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oscar Wilde: Collected Works (The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, The Ballod of Reading Gaol, De Profundis, and more)

All for $50!

[Mortis Anarchy]

I just got: Avalon High by Meg Cabot
The Misadventures of Benjamin Bartholomew Piff: volume 2 by Jason Lethcoe
Naruto: Volumes 1 and 11 by Masashi Kishimoto
Prom Dates from Hell by Rosemary Clement-Moore
Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud (3rd in the Bartimaeus trilogy)
and Maximum Ride: Saving the World and other extreme sports (3 in the maximun ride series) by James Patterson.

Prom Dates from Hell is good!!

[Bakiryu]

Oh, *cocks eyebrow* really? I haven't begun to read it yet. Perhaps i should begin now, when i finish with <3 Naruto <3

[Idril]

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Spring Torrents by Turgenev...this is my second attempt at buying this one, the first one got 'lost in the mail'.
A Life Under Russian Serfdom: The Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800 by Boris B. Gorshkov and Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii
And for a little fun, I got Scandinavian Humor and Other Myths by John Louis Anderson. It's all about growing up Scandinavian and lutheran in the northern plains, it focuses mostly on Minnesota but the Dakotas get a mention or two, and it's hilariously funny...although probably only to those that have shared that experience.

[formality hater]

Peril at the end house-Agatha Christie

[Pensive]

Peril at the end house-Agatha Christie

Oh I loved it! Could never guess the culprit till the end. It was the last person I could ever have thought of! :D

[dumwitliteratur]

"Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" was the last book that I remember buying but I haven't bought any new books in a long time. I just borrow my sister's or check some out from the library.

[Elinor Dashwood]

Pride and Prejudice as my old copy was falling apart!!

[Stieg]

The Wolfen by Whitley Strieber
The Wild by Whitley Strieber

at the local library for a 50 cents apiece, geez, people dont know what treasures they cast away.

[Stieg]

Just ordered:

The Fall of Never by Ronald Damien Malfi

Dark Woods by Jay Kumar

[tudwell]

Bought Infinite Jest today (only ten bucks!) even though I'm still reading the copy from the library. :)

[Set of Keys]

Tis a dry day for discussion. 'All of the Days and Nights', William Maxwell.

[manolia]

"Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens
"Tender is the night" Scott Fitzgerald
"Hunchback of Notre Demme" By Hugo
"Hellraiser" by Clive Barker

[Idril]

The Kellys and the O'Kellys: Or Landlords and Tenants by Anthony Trollope

[hedbanger]

Oh man, I haven't bought a book in sooooo long.

I think I bought a Saddle Club book in 6th grade from a garage sale. I expect my literature to be given to me!!@321!!

[Dickens59]

A History of the End of the World by Jonathan Kirsch. It's about the book of Revelation and how it has been used throughout the centuries. Quite interesting.

[mtpspur]

Talbot Mundy's Jimgrim and Allah's Peace which I've waited over 40 years to be reprinted to read the debut of Mundy's character James Schulyer Grim which was one of his longer series characters.

[Bakiryu]

The creepiest thing just happened to me: I wanted this book i saw on the Oprah Book Club: Middlesex for weeks. But i didn't know where to find it. I didn't tell anybody about it but today my mother with ESP-like knowledge bought it at her work (walmarts!) for me! and she didn't even know i would like it since it's written in english and she doesn't understand it :)

[malwethien]

Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)

[motherhubbard]

Selected Poetry, Wordsworth
and
The Odyssey, Homer

lovely old hardback books in perfict condition at a yard sale for only 1 dollar each!

[manolia]

"On the road" by Kerouac

[chaplin]

The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov

[malwethien]

Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

[Janine]

Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

malwethien, how was your trip? I had to pop in to say hi and also to see what book you were listing currently. Sounds like something you would like. :lol: I like your quote and in white - nice formating. I miss hearing from you. Hope you had fun on that tiny Pacific island!:) J

[Annamariah]

- Ghost Fox by James Houston
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
- The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

I got those three books yesterday and only paid 3,20 euros for them :)

[CdnReader]

The Immaculate Conception, by Gaetan Soucy
Arthur & George, by Julian Barnes
The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Leguin
The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene

All bought used through amazon.co.uk. :)

[Tasartir]

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Spider's House - Paul Bowles
Quiet Days in Clichy - Henry Miller

[Captain Pike]

Faithful are the Wounds -- Mae Sarton

[Debrasue]

'The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Ken Greenwald....
based on the radio plays of Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

[ampoule]

Nine Horses by Billy Collins.

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition

[Scharphedin2]

Collected Short Stories of Pushkin (Everyman's Library Edition)
Demons by Dostoevsky (Everyman's Library Edition)
Collected Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Everyman's Library Edition)
Troubled Sleep by Sartre (Vintage edition -- been looking forever for the third and final book in his Roads to Freedom series in this particular edition to have the full set)
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster (this is a small hardbound/illustrated edition of the story that Harvey Keitel tells William Hurt at the end of the film Smoke -- it is little more than a short story, but this book edition is a small object of beauty, so I could not resist)

Finally, I found that my edition of Oscar Wilde's collected works contains everything he wrote, except for the short stories, so I ordered a nice hardbound edition of the short stories (and other writings) from Amazon. When the book arrived, it turned out to be big as a millstone. Literally, it weighs 3 or 4 pounds, and the format is enormous. It also contains reproductions of the original illustrations and the pages have gilded edges -- another beautiful book, but one that I am actually not sure how I will physically go about reading.

[Stieg]

Four "lost" horror classics and one "lost" thriller classic.

The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Bereavements by Richard Lortz
Children of Dracula by Richard Lortz
Lovers Living, Lovers Dead by Richard Lortz
The Valdepenas by Richard Lortz

[Domer121]

Pride and Prejudice~~~Jane Austen....Colin Firth edition:)

[Domer121]

Nine Horses by Billy Collins.

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition

Am a HUGE fan of scrabble....was thinking about buying that just a few hours ago...:idea:

[grace86]

I was just given The Color Purple. My coworker gave it to me after reading it and said it was pretty good (coming from a guy who doesn't like to read).

Another one in the pile to be read! ;)

[Dickens59]

American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever.

[vheissu]

The one I'm reading now, Harold Pinter's Voices....though I've regretted that I bought in greek.

[malwethien]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling

[Shalot]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowlling

[Orpheus]

Harry Potter and the Deatly Hallows

[aeroport]

I hate to sound like I'm just going with the crowd here, but:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Additionally:
The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams
The Lynne Truss Treasury - Lynne Truss
Prelude to Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway ($4.00 at Borders!)

[manolia]

Jorge Luis Borges, "Ficciones"

[Annabel Lee]

In one purchase I bought The Complete Works Of Jane Austen, The Picture of Dorian Grey with other plays by Wilde, and The Importance Of Being Earnest with other plays by Wilde.

[Stieg]

The second selection from my Library of America bookclub www.loa.org

Philip Roth: Novels & Stories 1959-1962

and chosen to keep it.

[Riesa]

Journal of a Solitude ~ May Sarton

[Il Penseroso]

Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Fear and Trembling with Sickness Unto Death - Soren Kirkegaard
and American Models, a collection of modern short stories

all for two bucks apiece at the local Rescue Mission

[byquist]

Ibsen's Women by Joan Templeton and
Ibsen by Michael Meyer (very long)

These oughtta last a few years of reading pleasure, with some torture thrown in for good measure.

[patches0400]

The last book I bought was; Water for Elephants. It`s hard to put down.

[Moira]

Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown.

[Dickens59]

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.

[LoveToFreeRead]

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

[BlueSkyGB]

Salvador Dali by Gilles Neret

[Alexei]

"To the lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf
and
"Fury"by Salman Rushdie

[Pensive]

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

East of Eden? A wonderful book with a pretty descriptive style and an extremely interesting story with very complex and fascinating characters!

[Bii]

Just bought "The Kangaroo Notebook" by Kobo Abe. Abe was recommended in another thread so I've very much looking forward to reading it.

[Idril]

Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Independent People by Haldor Laxness

[papayahed]

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

[Idril]

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Oh! You have to let me know what you think it. I'm a big Gaiman fan and always get a twinge of excitement when I hear of someone reading his work. :blush:

[Stieg]

The Red Right Hand by Joel Townsley Rogers

The Literary Six by Vince A Liaguno

La-Bas by J K Huysmans Translated by Brendan King

[papayahed]

Oh! You have to let me know what you think it. I'm a big Gaiman fan and always get a twinge of excitement when I hear of someone reading his work. :blush:

Will do.

[Annamariah]

I bought and read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now my Potter-collection is almost complete, I'll just have to wait till March and then the Finnish translation will come out and I'll have 14 Harry Potter -books in my bookshelf <3 (Plus of course Quidditch Through Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

[Domer121]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban~ J.K Rowling.....I have waited until now to read them!

pills11.com ;))

[Seant018]

# 1 of: Fathers and Sons (Penguin Classics)
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Not from Amazon
Blaze - Stephen King
Dylan's Vision of Sin - Cristopher Ricks
Chronicles - Bob Dylan
After Dark - Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin
The Immortal Game - David Shenk

Some are school books, some are books for my enjoyment.

[Dori]

# 1 of: Fathers and Sons (Penguin Classics)
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Very good book. Enjoy it!

I haven't purchased a book for a while, but my grandma bought me Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows.

[Seant018]

Thanks, I bought it for an upper level English class and didn't know what to expect, I am happy to hear it is a good book :)

[Whifflingpin]

"Pirates of the West Country" E.T Fox

Well researched and racily written account of some West of England pirates.

(Declaration of interest: I am not the author, but do know him quite well)

[satyrane]

Toward an Anthropology of Women, ed. by Rayna R. Reiter; bought it online but thanks to near incessant postal strikes I am yet to receive it. I ordered it for Gayle Rubin's 'Traffic in Women', which I've had for years in a critical anthology, but one can hardly refer to one of those in an academic work.

[Mortis Anarchy]

Just got back from Barnes and Noble:)

#1- Why I Write-George Orwell-at the moment I've just revived my addiction of Orwell while in Mexico. I re-read 1984, Animal Farm and read Burmese Days. I've never seen this one in any of the bookstores I've been to and it just called out to me.

#2-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: And proud of it.:)

[Mortis Anarchy]

(Plus of course Quidditch Through Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

I had no idea that there were books like those?! Wow...

[Annamariah]

I had no idea that there were books like those?! Wow...

Oh yes! Rowling wrote those some years ago and all the profits go to comic relief :) I have them both in English but only Quidditch Through the Ages in Finnish, because someone wanted to read my copy of Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them and I never got it back. I can't buy a new one, because they haven't re-printed it in Finnish :bawling:

[Dark Star]

That would be...

Fagles translation of The Odyssey on audiobook and Biology; 7th edition by Campbell, et. al.