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Hmmmm..my mom has read the book and said exactly the same thing..i have a thing with lists of books and this one seems to be in EVERY single one of them..i am very curious to read it..when it's turn comes eventually..i hope i am not too old by then and end up having the same opinion with you and my mom :p :lol: (i have hoarded so many books lately :lol: )
Actually I first read it in high school. I must have been around 17 and it was a great read for that age. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
Of your reading list that I truely recommend is Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange.
manolia,I did hear that it is an adolescent type of book, but quite good. I don't think it is very long or complicated. I had a conversation, awhile back about it, with Malwethien. She could shed more light on it for you, I would imagine.
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The Complete Poems of William Carlos Williams (Vol. I. and II.)
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Yep, i have seen the Kubrick adaptation of the book (more than three times) and i am sure this is a great book :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Thanx Janine :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
I bought Orientalism by Edward Said and Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon. In our university we had to make a departmental presentation on the topics of Colonialism & Orientalism so needed these texts.
I've been meaning to buy this book for sometime now...did you start reading it? Is it good? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by manolia
No, i haven't read it yet :) but i am sure this is a good book :)
One of the books on the Uglies, series. Extras by Scott Westerfield.
I've lost track, but I think the last thing I bought was "Hamlet".
I'll make sure I buy it in the book fair then :DQuote:
Originally Posted by manolia
I have a great book by Anthony Burgess that I studied in the first year in college called English Literature...it's one of the best books tackling the topic actually.
Okay so today i bought the following,
Irish folk and fairy tales
five plays- Chekhov
Catharine and other writings- Jane Austen.
:D
Oh I am sooo excited, today I bought....
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Bejamin Franklin
All for only 30 bucks!! And four of them are leather bound books!! YEAAAA! LOL
A few days ago, I bought:
Ett bluesliv: Berättelsen om Cornelis Vreeswijk - Klas Gustafsson
The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
Atonement - Ewan McEwan
London Fields - Martin Amis
Read that recently. Not bad!:thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Jamesian
Robinson Crusoe, because someone stole the copy I had while I was in the middle of it.:flare:
Selected works by Franz Kafka
"Lolita" by Nabokov
IN PRAISE OF FERTILE LAND: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY, PARABLE AND STORY
Author: Mauro, Claudia, Ed.
Cover: PAPERBACK
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2006
Publisher: Whit Press
ISBN: 978-0-9720205-1-0
Price: $14.95
Description:
Poetry. Environmental Studies. IN PRAISE OF FERTILE LAND is a unique publishing project. All sales from the book go directly to programs that preserve and protect our remaining farmlands. Included in the anthology are Lucille Clifton, Wendell Berry, Emily Dickinson, Joy Harjo, Langston Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Ebon, Jones, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Li Young-Lee, Pablo Neruda, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marge Piercy, Ntozake Shange and many others. {7 used books available from B&N online at 1.99}
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones.
Thats a great book. Very satirical.:thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Rheingold
just bought collector edition harvard classics marlow and Shakespeare. Not sure of date though. Will find out when i recieve it.
Solitude (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) -- Ed. Carmela Ciuraru
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory :eek:
and, in lighter news, Don Quixote, which i'm liking very much.
I GOT TWELVE BOOKS FOR THREE BUCKS AT A PAPER BAG SALE!!!!!!!
1. Matilda by Roald Dahl
2. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbie
those were children's classics then!!!!
3. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
4. Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
5. Modern British Poetry edited by Louis Untermeyer
6. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Marie Roboff
7. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
And the real treat of the day was five Harvard classics. Five lovely hardbound books!
8. Scientific Papers
9. Sacred Writings
10. Continental Drama
11. Famous Prologues and Prefaces
12. Essays
Smilies all the way!
The last books I bought:
- Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami
- Born on a blue day by Daniel Tammet
- A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
And ordered and still on it's way to me:
- Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Kite Runner
And Naruto volumes 16,17,18,19,20, and 21 (I know I'm a fangirl)
I also got Lipshtick (yup, the tittle was spelled that way), The Supernaturalist and a few others.
I just found an unbelieveable deal on a old-style hardcover book that contains the first three novels o Virginia Woolf for $20.
I just bought Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories. I've read some of his other work and have fallen in love with it.
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf
The last book I bought is the Sea Wolf written by Jack London. It is also one of my favourite book and Wolf Larsen is one of my favourite book characters.
The Mummy: Dark Resurrection by Michael Paine (from Dark Horse publishing based on the Universal Movie series) and The Kolchak Papers by Jeff Rice (from Moonstone) reprinting the first two Kolchak novels Night Stalker/Night Strangler from the early 70s in one volume.
Bought a few other books but they were comic reprints material, Moon Knight, Avengers, Teen Titans, Werewolf by Night so don't count plus a Secret Agent X reprint from 1936.
"Hochwasse", a play by Gunder Grass
From Reverance to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly Haskell.
Today I bought:
Emma - Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
I am reading it in the moment. It seems to be a very good choice :pQuote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon
The Cloudspotter's Guide
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind
"From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne.
I ran out of science fiction to read months ago and now I'm happy I have a new one. :D
Good choice Lily Adams :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lily Adams