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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll)
Junky (William S. Burroughs)
The Stories (John Cheever)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger)
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (Victor Serge)
Zadig/L'Ingénu (Voltaire)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut)
Complete Works (Nathanael West)
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Currently reading: The Leopard (Giuseppe di Lampedusa)
todays little haul to feed my addiction!!
"The Tiger In The Smoke" by Margaret Allingham
"Black Powder, White Smoke" by Loren D. Estleman
"There's Something About A Convent Girl" a collection of short stories.
"the catcher in the rye"
schooltask, but..I like it
I picked up a slew of books at Half-Price Books... the used book store here.
I picked up two giant art books... one on the Louvre and the other on the Musee d'Orsay. I already had the latter, but its a $75 book and was on sale for $8 so I got it for my studio mate for next Christmas. The Louvre book was an equal deal... but this I got for myself.
I also go a great book on Degas that included a lot of color reproductions of paintings I don't already have in reproduction in the other books on have on the artist. Degas has long been one of my favorite artists and one of the artist most influential upon my own work.
The final art book I purchased was a decent book with some good photographs of the "buried army" of Qin Shi Huang, in China.
In the realm of literature, I picked up one book of selected plays by Jean Giraudoux. I also got a volume of selected plays by Tennessee Williams, and another volume of three plays by Lope de Vega. In another great buy, I picked up the complete plays of George Bernard Shaw in 6 hardback volumes for $15!! Obviously, I've been doing some reading of plays or theater lately: Aeschylus, Euripides, Tennessee Williams, Cornielle, etc...
Sounds like some great finds there St. Lukes. I have a rather large book titled "The Modern Poster" that I had purchased at HPB a few years ago for a steal at $10.00. It is a MOMA publication printed in conjunction with an exhibition. Great images throughout.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
My most recent purchase was Guy Mannering by Walter Scott a decision that was driven by a posting on the 101 dogs thread. I had associated Scott with a breed of dog in something he wrote which turned out to be Guy Mannering, but I hadn't actually read it.
I had to satisfy my curiosity.
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The Trial, Kafka
I can vouched for those two, they were both excellent books. Group Portrait with Lady is another great one from Böll, if you haven't already read it and I have yet to read a book by Serge that didn't leave a strong impression.Quote:
Originally Posted by bouquin
Saramango - Blindness. Didn't buy it, actually, borrowed from library as an experiment. What a revelation! A deserved Nobel prize.
Last book I actually bought was "A New History of Western Philosophy" by Kenney. I wanted to take a synoptic view of philosophy after a lot of jumping around, to try and pull it all together! It's actually four large volumes in one massive hardback - actually not too massive, a bit like Dr Who's Tardis, I don't know how they packed so much information in so small space. So far it's going well, really well written and making some good points. Only another 750 pages to go :)
Giles Goat Boy by John Barth...Been stocking up on brick-sized absurdities.
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, cause his commentary on Faulkner seemed so profound, and, being of mixed race (if not black mixed race), I'm fascinated by the Black experience in America. I'm finishing my Baldwin project first, tho, so I have some context. XD
Recent purchases in roughly chronological order: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, Rodney Merrill's translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, Frank Ryder's translation of the Nibelungenlied, Christina Hoff Sommers' The War on Boys, Twelve Plays by Shakespeare, The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Sonnets and Poems, and The Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky.
Bought 2 used books in Strand Book Store in NYC recently!
Mapping Time by E.G. Richards
Europe: A Cultural History by Peter Rietbergen
I've bought Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell but considering seize of the book I put it aside. I'll try to read it after finishing War and Peace.
The last book I bought was Before the Throne by Naguib Mahfouz. I was just browning through a bookstore, and I came across his section. I had read a bit about him before, but had never come across any of his work. I had a bit of money on me, so I grabbed it and voila! It is sitting on my bookshelf just begging to be read.
I went to a couple of bookstores in Toronto the other day and purchased several books I've been meaning to read like The Secret Agent, Absalom, Absalom!, The Woman in White, The Castle, and The Island of the Day Before. I've got a lot of my reading for the summer already in front of me.