Just bought Hitchens's Portable Atheist and The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing.
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Just bought Hitchens's Portable Atheist and The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing.
Bought three in Borders!
Slow Man - J. M. Coetzee (for the forum book club).
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
The Shining - Stephen King
I almost bought The God Delusion By Richard Dawkins. I saw it in the book store the other day. Upon closer examination I found that I forgot my wallet, so I didn't get it after all.
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J.Ellory
Oh, I just can't wait until you read it. I really think it will speak to the poet in you. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Riesa
Just bought a few days ago, 'The Brothers Karamazov' (woohoo finally found it), 'The Name of the Rose', 'The Golden Notebook' and the 'Dubliners'.
Does it count if they're not literature? I'd received some money for X-mas and decided to get some books. It's a relatively small list, but it was a pretty good chunk of change:
A Brief History of Time
The Practical Geologist
Restless Skies
The 50 Best Sights in Astronomy and How to See Them
Astronomy for Dummies
My birthday is next month and I'm planning on at least getting the complete works of Robert Frost and Edgar Allen Poe.
I just bought
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
and
The Age of Innocence by Edith Whorton
Just got the rest of my textbooks. The Penguin Anthology of American Literature, vol. 2; Milton: Major Works; The Bedford Anthology of World Literature vol 1 - The Ancient World; Blackwell Annotated Anthology of Seventeenth Century Poetry
which courses are those? I'd like that class. :D
The Sufferings of Young Werther and Don Quixote (the books I should have read ages ago, but never got around to...)
Half Price Books is great :)
The Practical Geologist? Let me know if its any good.:) And Yes its okay to post non-lit.Quote:
Originally Posted by mness421
The Bostonians by Henry James and The Green Mile by Stephen King.
I always buy one serious and one for enjoyment. Almost always read the enjoyment ones first haha.
"Cider house rules" - J Irving
"The world according to Garp" J Irving
I stopped by my local used bookshop on Tuesday and came out $60 lighter. Half of that went to a single book: Behind a Mask: The unknown thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. It's a mint condition first edition. Now I'm afraid to read it because the binding is so tight I don't think anyone ever read it before. I also got The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Writers in Residence (a picture book about the homes of American authors) and a jazz piano book I'll use for teaching. So there goes my Christmas cheque that my mom sent me.
The posthumous papers of Pickwick Club
I just bought Tulta ja tuulta on huuto.net (it's like a Finnish ebay). I've been looking for a copy of that book a couple of years already, since it was printed in 1939 and it's pretty much forgotten that it even exists.
A Year of Reading Proust by Phyllis Rose which goes nicely with my reading of A Remembrance of Things Past:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Year-Reading...0676040&sr=8-2
last book I bought was The Pact, by Jodi Picoult. :)
The Name of the Rose- Eco
Atonement -- MacEwan
Now I want to buy some new history books......but perhaps I should first get through Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, that's a physics book if you are wondering.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The postwoman just delivered my lovely hard-bound bilingual edition of Waitng for Godot: En Attendant Godot :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waiting-Godo...741335&sr=1-19
lol...the Waiting for Gadot I have is a sad photocopy used in English class..........I've suddenly realized highschool English teachers are probably one of the largest groups who violates copyright...
I tend to buy or collect in waves, hence:
-I bought V. at this great place called Ophelia's in Fremont (Seattle)
-I have Gilead coming via bookmooch
-I have Water For Elephants and The Raw Shark Texts sitting on the shelf from Christmas
And if that isn't enough:
-I just mooched the 3 Lord of the Rings books because I've never read them
I've got some reading to do...
For sure!Quote:
Originally Posted by PoeticPassions
The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor
The last book I bought was "Schindler's List" by Thomas Keneally.
And before that I got a book of Robert Frost poetry. I love buying books.. Its really a terrible habit :lol:
I have more editions of Beckett's works than I could remember including the first editions of Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable. I have various audio and video productions of Godot and a nice little bronze statue of Samuel Beckett's which sits on my bookshelf. I can't resist such things, a lot of time and money spent on Beckett. I have been grappling with his works for 18 years now (that's almost half of my life).Quote:
Originally Posted by Splendour
The Edge of Evolution by Michael J. Behe
Last book was and illustrated version of The Divine Comedy. Haven't been able to get to it because of my university studies but I can't wait.
I can think of no more appropriate word...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kafka's Crow
Just picked up The New Kings of Nonfiction (edited and w/an introduction by Ira Glass) and Ian Fleming's Doctor No.
Ahhh! I have just discovered my library's "Book Cellar" - yes I have never bought used books from my library before. I ended up getting six books for three dollars! I bought:
Gone with the Wind
The House of Mirth
Brave New World
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Wicked (this one is for my sister)
And I was just on one wall!!! There were so many more I could have checked out! I bought these on top of borrowing some from the library.
The Horse Dealer's Daughter - D.H. Lawrence
I was reading it at the bookstore and decided to purchase it!
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Received my copy of A Man without Qualities by Robert Musil along with a pile of books for my boy from Amazon yesterday:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Without-...1429845&sr=8-1
Behe was expertly taken apart by Dawkins see 'The God Delusion' pages 129-131 and page 133.Quote:
Originally Posted by quasimodo1
Bodies In Motion and At Rest - Thomas Lynch
three late medieval morality plays: Mankind, Everyman, Mundus Et Infans
The theme this shopping trip was Scandinavia and Russia...I just can't seem to get away from Russian thing. :p
The Treasure by Selma Lagerlof
Victoria by Knut Hamson
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
Ward No. 7; An Autobiographical Novel by Valerii Tarsis
Just a correction in the spelling. His name is Knut Hamsun with a u instead of an o. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Idril
By the way, do you read a lot of Scandinavian literature?