I think you're in safe hands with the Seidensticker translation. I haven't read his Genji, but I did read his Snow Country, and that was fantastic.
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I think you're in safe hands with the Seidensticker translation. I haven't read his Genji, but I did read his Snow Country, and that was fantastic.
Stopped by the book store to find a gift for my mom's birthday when I saw Nineteen Eighty-Four. I have heard about it so I decided to buy it to start reading soon.
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
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Currently reading: Max Havelaar (Multatuli)
The Snowman (Christmas present for a friends little boy)
READING-An Essay by Hugh Walpole, a small and quaint old hardcover book from 1927, about, well, reading; the book is not about reading criticism though, rather, the joy of reading.
Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd)
On the Black Hill (Bruce Chatwin)
Slow Man (J.M. Coetzee)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Burmese Days (George Orwell)
La Leçon d'Allemand (Siegfried Lenz)
Melmoth the Wanderer (Charles Maturin)
Like Life (Lorrie Moore)
Them (Joyce Carol Oates)
I just bought Kafka The Trial
Why?
It's simply I have heard so much about him that I wanted to read his work. And The Trial caught my eyes.
I’ve bought a couple of books yesterday, Madame Bovary and Tender is the Night, looking forward to read both.
The Best American Short Stories (Tobias Wolff, ed.)
Parade's End (Ford Madox Ford)
Platform (Michel Houellebecq)
March (Geraldine Brooks)
The Debriefing (Robert Littell)
Gargantua & Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Mémoires d'Hadrien (Marguerite Yourcenar)
Classic English Short Stories (Derek Hudson, ed.)
How to Raise a Gentleman (Kay West)
Waterland (Graham Swift)
The Magus (John Fowles)
Wool, by Hugh Howey. I picked up this 550 page book on kindle because I needed something to do during an 8 hour roadtrip so I figured I'd get a little way in and see if I liked it.
Two days later I still could not put this book down.
It's 5 bucks on kindle and I loved every page of it.
Just bought a fine Hardcover first edition of Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy at Half-Price books for 7.50. Why? Great writer, and I have limited Western themed books even though I enjoy that genre.
Hwo Thumb-I read Wool as well a couple months ago and enjoyed it very much. It stuck with me more than I thought it would, enough that I plan to upgrade to a hardcover pretty soon.
Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse 5'. Why? I had heard good things about it, and when I read the first sentence it made me laugh, so I took the plunge and pulled out my wallet.
I got "Everything and More: A Brief History of Infinity" by David Foster Wallace. Why? Because it's David Foster Wallace... on infinity! Mind blowing.
Shikasta (Doris Lessing)
The Swimming Pool Library (Alan Hollinghurst)
Foe (J. M. Coetzee)
Indigo (Marina Warner)
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Currently reading: Un Eté à Baden-Baden (Leonid Tsypkin)
World's End by Upton Sinclar-old hardcover in good condition. I loved his book The Jungle and heard that this was an awesome series. considering it's predominantly out of print it will take awhile to track down the whole set.