Both are excellent books Click. :thumbs_up Good choices. :)Quote:
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Both are excellent books Click. :thumbs_up Good choices. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ClickForth
I've recently ordered:
The Basic Works of Aristotle
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America -- Christopher Hitchens
Library of America's one volume compilation of some of Thomas Jefferson's writings
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson -- Joseph J. Ellis
Yesterday my sister bought me the book Almost Dead by Lisa Jackson.
I recently dropped by a used book store and picked up:
George R.R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle -- Windhaven
Joseph Silk -- The Big Bang
Leonard Susskind -- The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
S is for Space a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.
I have finally bought my own copy of "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind. I read the book a year ago, after I borrowed it. Since I have read it and enjoyed it immensely, I have wanted to buy a copy, but there was always something else. I decided to brought it now, because my Book Club is going to read it this month and I would need my own copy this time.
I actually picked up three last night:
Ranier Maria Rilke's- Sonnets to Orpheus translated by Edward Snow
(I have greatly admired Snow's translations of Rilke's other collections and finally got around to buying this one)
Fernando Pessoa- A Little Larger than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems translated by Richard Zenith. Pessoa is certainly one (or I should say several) of the strongest poet(s) of the 20th century that no one has ever heard of. I have been obsessively collecting his writings since I first came across him (and much still remains to be published and translated) and I have an earlier, smaller collection of poems translated by Zenith.
Luis de Góngora- Selected Poems- translated by John Dent-Young. Góngora has long had a reputation as one of the giants of the Spanish Baroque... as labyrinthine and difficult as Donne, Mallarme, or Joyce. I've only ever come across a few sonnets in translation by Longfellow and others in old anthologies and have had to accept his reputation on faith. I'm hoping this book changes that.
"The sound and the fury" W Faulkner
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Originally Posted by manolia
a beautiful, if difficult one. :thumbs_up
The God Delusion ~ Richard Dawkins
The Last of the Mohicans ~ James Fenimore Cooper
'The War' by Geoffry C. Ward and Ken Burns, and 'The Complete Longer Non-Fiction and Journalism' by George Orwell.
You might find our TSATF discussion threads interesting, Manolia:Quote:
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Silar Marner by George Eliot, both for my novel course!
The First Crusade - A Modern History & The White Devil by John Webster
Women in Love by DH Lawrence
Six Easy Pieces -- Feynman
The Trouble With Physics -- Smolin
Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context -- Ghazoul
Night of the Shadow by Maxwell Grant (Dennis Lynds) part of the infamous Shadow revival in the 60s. This was thru a book serach service as I felt it was high time I completed the run of this paperback series. Nine books--the first written by the Shadow's creator Walter Gibson (Return of the Shadow), the other eight by Lynds. Now have 5 of the 9 and my supplier Tina at the News Outlet has orders to continue the hunt hang the cost (which has avergaged $20 for a 50 cent book.
Still not buying with money tight, but I'm an avid patron of the library:D The most recent for me was the Three Muskateers trilogy by Dumas. I'm determined to read them all when I find the time.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, by G.W. Dahlquist (for an autumn/creepy-book-themed challenge :) )
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike (woefully late for the September book group discussion....sigh)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman (for my Medical Anthropology course)
That's nice. i bought a short story collection in English of a famous Indian author "R.K.Narayan".
Very recently, i was in a management workshop and won a book as a prize in the quiz conducted on the last day. The book was
"See you at the top"
by
Zig Ziglar
The Waiting Seed by Anthony Burgess
World Light by Haldor Laxness
Penquin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
Buddha's Little Finger by Viktor Pelevin
The Oxford Book of American Poetry (anthology), chosen and Edited by David Lehman. Copyright 2006, note from the introduction: "I have opted to provide succinct headnotes for each of the poets in the pages that follow. I hope that these notes stimulate further reading of the poets and their critics, biographers, and historians. And I would echo F.O. Matthiessen's closing declaration from 1950, which applies with even greater force today: 'We have produced by now a body of poetry of absorbing quality: If this poetry reveals violent contrasts and unresolved conflicts, it corresponds thereby to American life.'" ....Ithaca, NY, December, 2005,
Possession - A.S Byatt
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
Started reading the latter after I'd put down Byatt. Not a good move. Might give it another go soon. ;)
V for Vendetta; Alan Moore (illustrator), David Lloyd
The Decameron; Giovanni Boccaccio
Medieval Combat; Hans Talhoffer, Mark Rector (translator)
"Powers" Ursula le Guin
"Angel Isle" Peter Dickinson
(and "Pirates of the West Country" E.T. Fox, but only to give away)
"Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Fragile things-Niel Gaiman
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
I Will Destroy All the Civilized Planets - The Comics of Fletcher Hanks
Hi Dickens, Just to let you know we are currently discussing "Sons and Lovers" in a thread by that name. Come and join in, if you have the time. So far the discussions are going well. Some of us are still reading the book, but most have finished.Quote:
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:wave: Hi Janine
"Middlesex" Jefrey Eugenides
"The catcher in the rye" J.D. Salinger
" A clockwork orange" Anthony Burgess
"Junky" William S. Burroughs
Hi Alexei, Did you see the film by any chance? I just saw it the other night and thought it was really strange, but totally captivating and very well done. Photography and set design were something to see. I wondered (if you have seen it) what you thought, or for that matter, anyone else who has seen it thought of it. You must let me know how the book is? I heard the descriptions of 'smell' and 'odours' was extraordinary....so realistic. The film was almost too visually realisic...some parts were so gross it was hard to take. London in that century must have been a cess-pool...yuk. Some scene were John Baptiste is walking out into the country and precieving the odours were wonderful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexei
Breaking The Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon by Daniel Dennett.
Yes, I have seen it, actually more than once, I like it so much :D It's very good, but not perfect considering the book ;) but I suppose I want too much :D There are a few changes and moments left out that make the idea a bit different, but in general it is an extraordinary accurate interpretation. And, of course, in spite of some scenes it is a beautiful film :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Janine
I think you would like the book, sometimes may be it is more realistic than it is needed, but the descriptions generally are so beautiful and vivid that the book entrap you in it's world. There is a lot of space for interpretations and reflections on it, so that makes quite an ideal reading. At least for me - remarkable writing style and stimulus for reflections, what more could i want from a book? :D :D :D
Hey, Manolia, great choice! :thumbs_up
:wave: Hi manolia, I see you listed "The Catcher in the Rye" - I am always meaning to read that book. A good friend of mine from high school days and college loved it. I will have to make the effort one of these days between my countless Lawrence books;) :lol: Let me know how you like it.Quote:
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Going now to check out your post in the Lawrence thread.:thumbs_up I won't be on much today; maybe later tonight. I had a test at the hospital and am really bummed out now...tired.:as-sleep: Not to worry; just a catscan but I did not sleep well last night...insomnia. Hope I sleep tonight or today. See you later, J
:wave: Hi Alexei, great! So you did see the film and liked it. I thought it was so well done and interesting, that I just had to watch all the features on the DVD, as well. Looked great on my new LCD TV, too...the detail was amazing - what wonderful photograpy - just the way the photographer captured Jean Baptiste's dark shadowy face. Also he and the director knew just what was enough to show to build up suspense. Everyone was really good in the film, too - all the actors. I don't think many directors could depict this story so well on film, but I have to hand it to this director that he must have come close to the original book, although I had not read the book yet. It was interesting to hear the crew and he talk about the making of the film and his thoughts on adapting the book. I had posted in the movie thread, but no one responded to whether they had seen the film , that I know of; I should go check that thread now. It is definitely a film that needs discussion, because it is very unlike anything I had ever seen before.Quote:
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So did you read the book before? I can't believe the amount of reading you do, Alexei. Do you ever come up for air?:lol:
Well, I will see and may be join in the discussion later. It's one of my favorite, so I will try not to miss the opportunity ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Yes, this was my first rereading.
Janine, of course I go out! Reading in the park is so much better! :lol: :p :D ;)
I'll let you know when i read it :) But it would take a while :D I have three rules of reading 1) Never read books of the same author in a row. 2) if i finish a book i have to wait at least a day till i start a new one 3) New books have to wait (old books first..hehehe something like the elder daughters of a family in old movies, they have to get married first or else they will reamain spinsters).Quote:
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I hope you are ok and this was just a routine test you did in the hospital.
The Catcher In The Rye is a cool read but not a very deep one. It's like getting stuck in the mental workings of a teenager - Ack! :eek2: - God forbid. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by manolia
But it's set in New York and I always like that. ;)