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I shall be taking a class in Popular Fiction this semester - and so I just ordered some of the literature for that class, some are books I've read before, and some will be new reads to me. I bought:
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales - Stephen King
Ödets hav - Elisabet Nemert
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I downloaded it for free on my e-reader. I have not read him yet, and as I have just started, I am very encouraged by how good the beginning is.
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. It sounds intriguing. I'm also going to buy on Kindle an Alan Massie who does a detective fiction set in Vichy France.
Dostoyevsky is the kind of writer where for the first hundred pages or so you'll be a little bored and on the verge of putting the book down, then something will be said or happen that will make everything come together. The character will come to life and everything that happened up to that point which you previously didn't understand will become profound and you will bother all your friends with your observations. I dig some of Tolstoy's work more. The last book I bought was the U.S.A three volume set by John Dos Passo's. I bought the book because Bukowski speaks highly of Dos and Bukowski's recommendations have never failed me.
I just bought a copy of Casanova's Voyages and Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. I just started in Woolf's one, so far it seems a very good deal. :)
Bought The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall because it sounded reminiscent of House of Leaves and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy because I loved The Road.
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Le Désert des Tartares (Dino Buzzati)
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Currently reading: Franny and Zooey (J. D. Salinger)
The Gospel According To Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago.
written of favorably by Harold Bloom in his book Genius.
BIOCHIPS - William Gibson. Cost me 1 Euro on a Flea-Market. Why I bought it ?
I really don't know. Read it years ago, so maybe nostalgia.
The Presidents Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
Best American Short Stories 2004 (Lorrie Moore as Selector) excellent annual book - really the best of each year.
Book sale at the American Library in Paris -
Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
The Book of Illusions (Paul Auster)
Amsterdam (Ian McEwan)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Smilla et L'Amour de la Neige (Peter Hoeg)
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Currently reading: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
La Princesse de Cleves.
Someone gave me a gift certificate to a bookstore, and I heard it about in reference to Sarkozy and was curious.
i bought a glossary of literary terms by Abrams
because i needed some information also i have to read this book for my major.
I recently bought 19 novels for school. It would be a long list if I wrote them all down but I am gonna read them all in the next three months.
The wine of Solitude by Irene Nemirovsky
In the Sea there are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda