The Great Gatsby because I have heard a lot about it around here actually, haven't read it yet, though.
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The Great Gatsby because I have heard a lot about it around here actually, haven't read it yet, though.
The last book I bought was "Very Good Jeeves" By Wodehouse. I absolutely love the Jeeves series and just cannot get enough of the amazingly clever Jeeves and foppish with a heart of gold Bertie Wooster.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Have you read it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
No, I haven’t read it yet. I’m currently reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.Quote:
Originally Posted by hannah_arendt
Oxford and Cambridge: An Uncommon History, by Peter Sager (a German),translated by David Wilson. Fascinated by the simultaneous grandness and pettiness of these British institutions.
I bought The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad a couple of days ago and gave it to my younger sister as a gift. She just told me that she didn’t like it. What an honest reply!
I am in the middle of "Dune" now :) Then I am going to re-read "Lord of the ring".Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
A hardcover of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I have that and Atlas Shrugged. I haven't read her work yet, and I have no idea what I'll think of it, but I have heard that they are excellent reads even if one does not agree with the philosophy espoused by them.
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg)
Les Enfants Terribles (Jean Cocteau)
Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
Choke (Chuck Palaniuk)
Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
Les Désarrois de l'Eleve Törless (Robert Musil)
The Return of the Soldier (Rebecca West)
The Blessing (Nancy Mitford)
Wigs on the Green (Nancy Mitford)
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Currently reading: Le Pont sur la Drina (Ivo Andric)
The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
Uncle Silas (J.S. Le Fanu)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
Good Morning, Midnight (Jean Rhys)
Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
Intimacy (Hanif Kureishi)
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Amok (Stefan Zweig)
Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)
Canada (Richard Ford)
La Conscience de Zeno (Italo Svevo)
Collected Stories (Tennessee Williams)
King Solomon's Mines (H. Rider Haggard)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
A Pale View of the Hills (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Awakening and Other Stories (Kate Chopin)
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Currently reading: Les Braises (Sandor Marai)
Gods of the Greeks and The Heroes of the Greeks by Karl Kerényi: I'm delving into latin and greek mythology almost from five months among essays, epic (-and not) poetry and ancient philosopy.
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
An American Dream - Norman Mailer
Back to Blood - Tom Wolfe
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr.
Reheated Cabbage - Irvine Welsh
All at 20% off. Not too bad.
African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou.
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis.
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
I've been wanting to read the first for a while, and decided to when I was buying the other two. The second one is for my fiancee who has read many books by Bret Easton Ellis and enjoyed them all. And Cormac McCarthy is the next read in my book club.