" A company of swans" by Eva Ibbotson
I really enjoyed "A countess below stairs" and "the morning gift". I also like ballerinas so I decided to read this book!
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" A company of swans" by Eva Ibbotson
I really enjoyed "A countess below stairs" and "the morning gift". I also like ballerinas so I decided to read this book!
Hey Rube; Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness, by Hunter S. Thompson
Does anyone really need a reason to buy an HST book when they find one they don't already own?
Here's a sample from the first essay:
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Autumn is always a time of Fear and Greed and Hoarding for the winter coming on. Debt collectors are active on old people and fleece the weak and helpless. They want to lay in enough cash to weather the known horrors of January and February. There is always a rash of kidnapping and abductions of schoolchildren in the football months. Preteens of both sexes are traditionally seized and grabbed off the streets by gangs of organized perverts who traditionally give them as Christmas gifts to each other to be personal sex slaves and playthings.
Most of these things are obviously Wrong and Evil and Ugly - but at least they are Traditional. They will happen. Your driveway will ice over, your furnace will blow up, and you will be rammed in traffic by an uninsured driver in a stolen car.
Shogun by James Cleavell.
I've been reading how many people here are talking about it in here, I saw it on monday when I went to the library to buy a book I needed for school. It got glued to my hand and I buyed it
i just bought "The Masque of africa" by V. S. Naipaul. after i read chinua achebe's Things Fall Apart, my interest in african culture has increased and so i bought this book to know more about it. since the writer is not european and has spent a considerable time in Caribbean continent so his stand point on african culture can be impartial.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I read two of the books, and enjoyed it so I decided to get the whole.
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Mistress in the art of Death by Ariana Franklin
I found both at a very cheap price and i enjoy these kinds of books
The Time Machine by Wells. I needed to replace my very worn copy ;)
Last book I bought - Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Why? - Now that I'm thoroughly lost in the latter half of the book, I am asking myself that question. Actually, it was two fold; one to introduce myself to a new author and secondly as a result of a past discussuion comparing Hemingway and Faulkner.
THE SON OF ENLIGHTENMENT- by Christian Jacq
Nice and interesting story, I was tempted to read more.Good Storyline with interesting character setting.
the dharma bums by jack kerouac
mainly because i'll be leaving for thailand in about a week!
The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
Amongst Women, John McGahern
That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern
The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions, Martin Amis
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman is really good although if you hate sad books stay away from it. Even though it is sad it is very good and I recomend you to read it.
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Miss Lonelyhearts & Day of the Locusts by Nathanael West
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
Because...they look good, and somehow I ended up with money.
Violin Mastery by Fredericks Herman Martens
Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John the Cross
Then there were books I bought through Kindle :wink5:
Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John the Cross
San Juan de la Cruz! Great poet. What translation did you pick up?