The last book I bought for myself (for) Christmas was - Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
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The last book I bought for myself (for) Christmas was - Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Oh I'm DYING to read that one. I hear it's a great read :)Quote:
Originally Posted by toni
Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin. Nice read, but it didn't live up to the hype I'd heard about it.
For my birthday, I bought (okay, used my parent's credit card) the Feynman Lectures on Physics!!! The whole set...it's so useful (and fun to read). I got so happy I didn't touch the books for a week so that they won't get 'ruined'. :banana:
:bawling: I don't get books for presents anymore. Leo complains that I have too many now.Quote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon
I bought one for myself though, Irish Dreams by Nora Roberts. Never really heard of it before, but the books I have in mind to write have a lot to do with Ireland, so I couldn't really resist.
Would it be too much if I said I recieved 9 books as presents?...
Well,here it goes...
The Fifth Child-Doris Lessing
Seeing-Jose Saramago
Women in Love-D.H.Lawrence
The Ground Beneath Her Feet-Salman Rushdie
Shame-Salman Rushdie
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket-Edgar Allan Poe
A short introductin in Social-Cultural Anthropology
Un Amour de Swann-Marcel Proust
Selected Poetry of Lord Byron
Yes,a happy new year for me...At least for some time...
To Remarkable: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket-Edgar Allan Poe
A short introductin in Social-Cultural Anthropology
Un Amour de Swann-Marcel Proust
Nice windfall of great books. I would start with these three.. quasi
I've just bought (Hurrah for christmas money) The Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, and Selected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy and Louis MacNeiece.
I'm really getting into poetry-I used to hate it!
I forgot to mention a couple of books I did get for Christmas...why I said I didn't get any is beyond me, but oh well.
My secret santa at church gave me Introduction to the History of Christianity it's got a CD-ROM and color pictures everywhere (I think secret santa was paying too much attention to me :p )
Think I mentioned somewhere else that my best friend bought me a hardcover copy of Crime and Punishment, she knew I had ruined by paperback copy.
Too many? You can't have too many.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shea
If you could though.. then me and my boyfriend has too many. We can only fit one bookshelf into the apartment right now, and we are using a shelf in the kitchen for books now as well. If we had the room for it, we'd have two more bookshelves filled with books. :p (I didn't think when I wrote and wrote the word money instead of books at first.. but two bookshelves with money would be good too, lala)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
:lol: We're in the process of looking for a new house now and I keep thinking, wouldn't it be great to have a library room? That would never happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon
On my last birthday, I asked for a specific book. Our cofee maker happened to bite the dust a few days before. Guess what I got for my birthday....?
The one I'm currently reading, The wind-up bird chronicle, which I bought at Heathrow airport, as a xmas present to myself ;)
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.
Bodyline - The Novel by Paul Wheeler.
This deals with the famous (or infamous) cricket Test series between Australia and England of 1932/3.
In the USA, we have had very good fiction writing about baseball and how it reflects our society. Little do we know that the British, Australians, Indians, and West Indians have also produced a great deal of meritorious fiction on the subject of cricket.
Bewteen my birthday and Christmas, I got 10 new books (12 if you caount the fact that two of them are 2-in-one books):
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The Collected Short Stories of William Faulkner
The Great American Novel - Philp Roth
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
The Complete Poems of William Blake
Metamorphasis/The Trial - Franz Kafka
Candide/The Maid of Orleans - Voltaire
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Beowulf
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James joyce
My last book shoppings in the last day of 2007 were:
Fight Club by Chuck, I've seen the movie like dozens of times and when I looked this book on the shelf, I got moved to pick it up
Junky by Bill, no particular reason why and just want to know more about his writing.
To metal134: Your collection of new books is great but "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" - James Joyce...is a delightfull work, suprising and the most accessable of Joyce's works. quasi
The Evolution of Cooperation for my mum's birthday. It was really hard to find, so I had to get it off Amazon via a friend seeing as I'm not 18 so don't have a credit card.
Last book I bought for me was Silverthorn by Raymond E Feist, but the last one I acquired was a lovely new hardback copy of War and Peace for Christmas.
Yeah, I'm still slowly working my way through "Ulysess".Quote:
Originally Posted by quasimodo1
I last bought about 6 books at Barnes & Noble while my sisters and mom were shopping. The last one of them that I found, and bought on kind of a whim, was The Sword of Shannara.
It looked like the epic masterpiece sort of book that I enjoy, but only time (and my progression through a lengthy reading list) will tell.
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. The story was worth 4 or 5 times what I paid for the book. Excellent.
Lucky you!!!!!!! It's WAY too expensive here, and I'm dying to read it. Maybe you can tell me what you think of it when you're done with it. And if it's as good as Hosseini's The Kite Runner :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogers_68
I bought and received as presents some very nice books.
"Breakfast to Tiffany's" Truman capote
"Herzog" S. Bellow
"Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" M. Twain
"Anna Karenina" L Tolstoy
"The Divine comedy" Dante (a leather bound edition, translation by N. Kazantzakis :banana: )
"Zorba" N. Kazantzakis (a leatherbound edition :D )
"The 120 days of Sodom" Marquis de Sade
"The Metamorphoses" F Kafka
"The turn of the screw and the Aspern papers" H. James
and last but not least
a fancy book with 1000 buildings from all over the world..that was the best gift :)
"The Edge of Evolution" (The search for the Limits of Darwinism) by Michael J. Behe
'Proust' by Edmund White:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Proust-Edmun...9435504&sr=8-9
Kafka on the Shore (Audio book):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kafka-Shore-...9435789&sr=8-1
the Road by Cormac Mccarthy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James joyce
Resistance by Owen Sheers
She by H.Rider Haggard
The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
The African Queen by C.S.Forester
The Magician by W.Somerset Maugham
The Robe by Lloyd C.Douglas
The Atom Station ~ Halldor Laxness
The Foundation Pit ~ Andrey Platonov
Jenny ~ Sigrid Undset
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin ~ Vladimir Voinovich
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
From the First Americans serirs by William Sarabande:
Forbidden Land
Corridor of Storms
Beyond the Sea of Ice
and I got
Reindeer Moon, by Elizabeth Marshal Thomas
"The Inferno"
"Purgatorio" - all three by Dante
"Paradiso"
And "Far From the Madding Crowd" by Hardy
Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent - Brian Fagan
Man the Hunter - (Can't remember author)
Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany - Michael Balick
Botany for Gardeners - Brian Capon
College Algebra - (Barf...remedial class) Beecher
These are all my textbooks for winter quarter. The first four are pretty interesting, but as for math - I could do without it. A little spiteful considering I aced Statistics.
My last three bought:
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
The City and the Mountains - Eça de Queiroz
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
1984 - George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
We the Living - Ayn Rand
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
Airframe - Michael Crichton
For One More Day - Mitch Albom
Black House - Stephen King and Peter Straub
The Simple Past by the Moroccan writer Driss Chraibi.
I also bought a book with quite many poems by 26 different contemporary Lithuanian poets.
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller...although I didn't technically buy it, it was a very thoughtful gift. ;) :D
"Beauty and the Beast" Vocal Selections
The book made for the movie "Sweeney Todd"
Yes, I know they aren't "story" books, but they are still books, nonetheless! :D
I bought another Lawrence's book - "The Plumed Serpent". I was browsing a new book shop I stumbled on and I just saw it on the bookshelf, so i decided to buy it :lol:
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Originally Posted by Idril
I agree, it surely was. ;)
In a similiar vein are the newest additions to my library, one being an EXTREMELY thoughtful gift...just look at the thoughtful inscription: "devastation has never been so beautiful"
Independent People ~ By Halldor Laxness
and Ceremony~ Leslie Marmon Silko~ is officially the last book I bought, thanks IP