Steve Jobs's biography.
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Steve Jobs's biography.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley....
I wanted a dystopian future book as I was feeling a bit glum and wanted something that fit that. And I always figured I ought to read Brave New World, I'd just never gotten around to it before now!
A hardbound copy of Done: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs. There is no space for books in this house any more. My library of ebooks and audiobooks is growing fast as well but buying physical books is an addiction.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Donne-T...7&sr=8-3-spell
Awe shucks, there's always room for more books - you just have to clear out the food in the pantry.
Today I bought Swamplandia! by Karen Russell. I bought it cold. I know nothing about it, but I read the first couple of chapters in the store and I liked the narrative voice.
Angels and Demons
The Da vinci code
The lost symbol
all by Dan Brown . i bought these all in the same day because i wanted to read the series
De Naam van de Wind (The Name of the Wind) by Patrick Rothfuss because it came highly recommended by some of my friends.
Some people think it's a slow read, but I quite liked it!Quote:
Originally Posted by RicMisc
The Floating Opera and The End of the Road (John Barth)
The Poor Mouth (Flann O'Brien)
Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein)
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Currently reading: My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
The Woman in The Dunes (Suna no Onna) by Kobo Abe.
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen.
Both are acclaimed works. The former is a japanese classic, the latter promises some kind of emotional turmoil. Enough said.
Settlers: The Emigrant Novels Book 3 ~ Vilhelm Moberg
Kornel Esti ~ Deszö Kosztolányi
Living Souls ~ Dmitrii Bykov
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich ~ Danilo Kis
I shamefully admit it: The Hunger Games. It's kind of good.
The Lost City of Z by David Grann. I'm in the mood for some non-fiction :)
I've bought "Robocalypse" lately and as I stared reading it I couldn't put it down. Very decent and well written book. And quite surprising. Highly recommend this read!
I looked this title up, but I only found video games. Can you share who the author is?
Picked up a copy of The Celestial Steam Locomotive by Michael Coney from an Op Shop, basically because the cover artwork caught my eye, then the title, lasty the blurb:
Allen Blue-Cloud is pure intelligence, immortal, ineffable, a being who rembers not only what was, but what will be. Set in the year 143,624 Cyclic, in a future so distant man has evolved into five distinct species on an Earth that is but one of many possible Earths. True Humans are few and far remote, and those remaining have withdrawn into the Domes, where with the aid of the Rainbow they dream time away. But there is Manuel, the artist; and an old man; and a sleeping girl. And together with Starquin the Omniscient they will come together to form the Triad, to challenge the age-old forces that hold the Earth - their Earth - in thrall and change the history of the galaxy.
Can't argue with that
Also a '91 edition of The Hutchinson Encyclopedic Dictionary published by Oxford Press apparently, but the illustrations aren't much to write home about, featuring mainly grainy b&w photographs of various famous people in different areas of pursuit - but hey, five bucks...