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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. I came on these forums, looking through the author section to see who had been talked about and who hadn't, and this author came up on the page and I noticed no one had started a topic on him so I thought I would read some of what he wrote so that in the future I could start a topic myself. Plus, its good to expand your horizons.
Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, by Haruki Murakami:
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Homer's Odyssey, they're classics and I hadn't read them yet. I finished Dorian and I enjoyed it very much.
Middlemarch by George Elliot.
There is this bookstore I go to that's 98 minutes from my house by bus, it's the only bookstore I like that brings classics and has a good atmosphere to it. And there is this cafe right next to it called Cinema Cafe; A great place to start the first chapter of the book I buy. Anyway, every time I go there I pick a book that I haven't heard of before and open the middle section of the book and read 2 pages. If I like it, I buy it. Just like that :)
I'd say you got lucky this time. Middlemarch is a fantastic book.Quote:
Originally Posted by farnoosh
Tipping the Velvet (Sarah Waters)
The Colour (Rose Tremain)
London Fields (Martin Amis)
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Currently reading: I'm the King of the Castle (Susan Hill)
In an age of grainy, pale, yellow-by-birth recycled paper and fragile paperbacks with crawling-ant font, I bought some beautiful hardbound English classics printed in Hungary on high quality paper by a German publisher, as if they have come straight from the old days, a celebration of good printing. These books were being sold at throwaway prices. Perhaps they couldn't meet sales in the German market and were too happy to ship them off to anyone who'd take them.
Books are from Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, William Makepeace Thackeray and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Plus I got a couple of second hand copies of John Updike [S, The Witches of Eastwick]. I also bought Milan Kundera's The Art of Novel, in English translation, to see what that wonderful artist has to say. Looks promising and it is the one I am going to start on first as soon as I'm done with what I'm already reading. Hallelujah.
The Purity Of Desire: 100 poems by Rumi
Rumi is a magnificently beautiful and simple poet who brings the greatest thoughts of love and understanding into my otherwise mundane life. A true master of the craft who keeps the otherwise rampant complexities of most poetry to a slight breeze through the branches of my imagination in what is usually a billowing sail on a roaring sea.
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Small Hand (Susan Hill)
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Currently reading: Agnes Grey (by Anne Brontë)
Give Me Your Heart (Joyce Carol Oates)
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Currently reading: On Beauty (Zadie Smith)
a travel essay entitled "Book cafe in Europe" by Goo Hyun-jung.
I love going to book cafes and reading about book cafes is fun. I actually bought the book at a book cafe.
Rupert Sheldrake, "Morphic Resonance". I bought it because it wasn't in the library, but also because I wanted to have the digital version handy so I could reference it and mark it up.
What I hope to understand from reading this is what is more likely putting constraints on us. The previous likely candidates, quantum particles and selfish genes, only go so far and, as far as I can see, don't explain anything of real importance. He offers the idea of morphic fields which is appealing because it is field based rather than particle based.
for me i spend all my time to prepare free ebooks for people to read online
I bought The Rebel by Camus, because I am studying Revolutions as one of my modules.
The Verificationist - Donald Antrim
The Death Father - Donald Barthelme
The Cannibal - John Hawkes
Wanted something short, and been feeling a surreal vibe lately.