Last Book You Bought and Why

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Originally Posted by Mortis Anarchy

Notes from the Underground-Dostoevsky

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I did the same thing, but I got the MLC version with five other short stories thrown in. I wanted to read some of Dostoevsky's shorter stories. With how much attention books like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov get, sometimes people forget that he Dostoevsky wrote in anything besides the novel form. I was particularly interested in "The Dream of The Ridiculous Man" which is supposed to be pretty intelligent. Maybe I'll start a thread on it.

I also bought The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal: That's how confident I am it will get picked for the Bastille Day reading.

I found The Dream of the Ridiculous Man to be pretty much..well....a standard anti-atheism polemic of the sort that Dostoevsky is known for. St. Petersburg Nights and The Meek One were brilliant, however.

Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Catch-22 by Heller, and Uglies by Westerfield

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Originally Posted by Quark

I did the same thing, but I got the MLC version with five other short stories thrown in. I wanted to read some of Dostoevsky's shorter stories. With how much attention books like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov get, sometimes people forget that he Dostoevsky wrote in anything besides the novel form. I was particularly interested in "The Dream of The Ridiculous Man" which is supposed to be pretty intelligent. Maybe I'll start a thread on it.

I also bought The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal: That's how confident I am it will get picked for the Bastille Day reading.

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I really liked the cover of the book. Plus it was printed on recycled paper...:) :thumbs_up Save the Earth!!! I'm being really bad and buying books left and right with my very limited money limit!

A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hosseini

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this is going to sound weird, but it is an actual book and my friend recommended it to me...:blush:

Porno-Irvine Welsh

hmmm I didn't buy it...but my friend sent me 2 books which I got today...

1. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

2. Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk

The Action Heroine's Handbook, for my girlfriend, from Barnes & Noble.

I bought Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

Well, I didn't actually BUY anything, but I did visit recycling center and found 5 books that were given away for free...:)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce. Haven't started it yet.

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Originally Posted by Annamariah

Well, I didn't actually BUY anything, but I did visit recycling center and found 5 books that were given away for free...:)

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And those were...? :p

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Originally Posted by Dark Star

Good job! I've heard great things about that book. :)

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I'm liking it; Dawkins is always a lot of fun to read, and the way he lays it out like the Canterbury Tales is pretty amusing.

Oh yes, yesterday I bought Edith Wharton's Novellas and Other Writings, which looks like a lot of fun.

My father reads Dawkins. I don't know much about him or his work, but for some reason after reading his books, my dad seems to think he can lecture me about religion and philosphy.

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Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*

My father reads Dawkins. I don't know much about him or his work, but for some reason after reading his books, my dad seems to think he can lecture me about religion and philosphy.

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I have an idea...why don't you read Dawkins and then lecture him back. Get some debating practice, not to mention maybe teach your dad what it feels like to be lectured to.

The last three books I bought were:
1. Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas
2. A Journey into the Deaf-World by Lane, Hoffmeister and Bahan
3. HalfLife by Meghan O'Rourke

It has been ages since the last time I bought a book, but it was Elizabeth Barett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese and other Poems", which I found extremely delightful. And I bought it for only a bit more than a dollar!

The Flying Inn~ G.K Chesterton and C.S Lewis and the Catholic Church~~ Joseph Pearce