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What's the difference?Quote:
Originally Posted by illiterati
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
because I am a 21st century wannabe beatnik hipster haha
Slaughterhouse Five. I bought it because I wanted to! And I got to flirt with the sales guy (bonus)
1. Alice Walker - The Color Purple.
This one got the Pulitzer lately and I heard tell it's a good story to read. Still sitting on my bookshelf.
2. Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading
I was intrigued, and I wanted to find out about that elusive and indescribable crime of "gnostical turpitude" for which the protagonist was sentenced to death by head-chopping. The narrative doesn't try to explain it and the protagonist is never beheaded. In that, disappointing.
3. E.L. James - Fifty Shades of Gray
I wanted to know how a third-rate, cliched-ridden nonsense can make so much money and who are the idiots who think it's good writing. Got plenty of answers.
The Lonely Londoners (Sam Selvon)
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Currently reading: The Ghost Road (Pat Barker)
That's a good book. Enjoy it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bouquin
Paperback editions on The winter's tale and A Midsummer night's dream. The Wadsworth editions, hope they're decent, but were the only ones I could afford right now. I think they'll arrive end of this week.
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
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Currently reading: Them (Joyce Carol Oates)
All About H. Hatterr
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Currently reading: The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
Bought the following books recently.
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake [I watched the film, like it, and wanted to read the media celebrated work to see for myself how good it is]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Autumn of the Patriarch [sheer brilliance of his art of storytelling]
Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood [heard good word, read it, liked it. Good book but not a spectacular piece of writing]
Dilip Hiro [ed. & tr.] - Baburnama [non-fiction/history: the autobiography of the founder of the Mughal Empire]
Hello!
The last book I bought is 'Daniel Deronda' by George Eliot.
Why? Because Eliot is one of my favourite writers.
The last book i bought was 'The Sorrows of Young Mike' by John Zelazny.
Because recently I am all about first time authors.
À rebours, the 1966 Penguin edition, translated as Against Nature, because it crops up in Withnail & I and sounds similar to a piece I'm currently writing.
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney. I don't usually read too many critics since I much prefer to form my own impressions and judgements. However, have read Heaney's poems since the late 1960's and just this once thought - 'I would like to see how far people do or do not see some of this as I do'.
The Graduate (Charles Webb)
Group Portrait with Lady (Heinrich Böll)
Coming Up for Air (George Orwell)
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Currently reading: The Thinking Reed (Rebecca West)