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Though I have not read The Dubliners before, I have read Joyce before, and honestly I am not exactly enthusiastic about pursuing more of his work from my prior experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by djy78usa
I really want to read A Clockwork Orange, but I can never find it at my bookstore.
not to sound like a creep or anything... but PM me your address and I'll send a copy !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
I agree with you completely... it seems like it is one of those rare books that the movie could be better than the book;) ... Same with his previous book Empire of a Thousand Splendid Suns.. My girlfriend at the time, loved them both, so she convinced me to read them... needless to say I was horribly disappointed.. very very mediocre writing... But that explains why it was a bestseller... generally books become bestsellers nowadays because they are accessible, and easy to read for the general public, which is not a very good sign if one is looking for something of quality.. Something that could be called good Literature...Quote:
Originally Posted by Antiquarian
Oh yeah, and the last book I bought was Borges' Collected Fictions.... I loved Labyrinths as well as the El ALeph collection so I just had to go for the rest.... I am eagerly anticipating its arrival...
before that was Dostoevsky's A Raw Youth ( or The Adolescent).. the least well known, and in my opinion, the most underrated of his five major works... in fact one of the most underrated books I have read...
My sister gave me a gift certificate to B&N for my bday, so I bought the 5 Novels of Flaubert B&N volume, and Dostoevsky's The Idiot. So far I've started on Flaubert's The Temptation of St Anthony, quite excellent.
it is indeed one of Dostoevsky's bestQuote:
Originally Posted by islandclimber
The Secret Agent, and the Master and Margarita
Dan Brown's Deception Point.
The last book I got was the 2008 Poet's Market (if you want to get technical...:).)
As far as novels...The Freedom Writers Diary by the original Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell. (It's funny, as I read it, I realized these now young adults were from my graduating class of 1998. I doubt I would have lived through everything they've been through.)
This past summer we had to put my grandmother in a nursing home. When Mom came home after a weekend of cleaning Grandma's house, (that she lived in since 1948), she brought home several of Grandma's old books.
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Cat Who:
Talked to Ghosts
Went Underground
Lived High
Knew A Cardinal all by Lilian Jackson Braun
Earlier Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One Hundred and One Famous Poems compilation by Roy J. Cook
The Face Is Familiar by Ogden Nash
phewwwwwww :p
Good choices!! I love The Woodlanders and Camille was quite good! :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Antiquarian
and Sir Bartholomew.. I don't know if you've read it before but Master and Margarita is just amazing!! I would recommend it to anyone...:D
The Second Plane - September 11: Terror and Boredom - Martin Amis
(Some essays and a couple of short stories pertaining to extremism and terrorism and the day of infamy...)
Daisy Miller - Henry James (new Penguin edition with intro by David Lodge; hopefully it uses the New York Edition text, as the previous Penguin edition did not...)
Contes du jours et de la nuit ("Stories of Day and Night") - Guy de Maupassant
Reading Myself and Others - Philip Roth
The Feminine Mystique :D
last book I bought... Well that depends, the last book I bought in a shop was "The best short stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky". The last book I bought online and have received in the post was "Antigone - Sophocles" and the last book that i bought online and have yet to receive is "The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky".
The Master & Margarita (Bulgakov)
Brave New World - reread (Huxley)
Am in process of reading The Master and Margarita. Very strange! The last book I bought was 'The Last Tycoon' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Am planning to buy 'Giovanni's Room' by James Baldwin also. :)
Stephen King- CELL
A while back I bought following books:
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Odyssey - Homeros
Just today for a total of fifteen dollars:
Light in August - William Faulkner
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
(these last two are in preparation for an Adolescent Lit. class for teachers I'll be taking in the fall)
and The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin
Anyone have some commentary about this book?
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Sabine Kuegler - Jungle Child
Yesterday I bought The Collected poems of Thomas Hardy - My favourite poet, and a verse adaptation of Homers odyssey - originally for radio 4 apparently so I expect I'll like it. Did anyone else catch Harold Pinter's landscape on 4 yeasterday? I thought it was brilliant.
Last month, at a couple of bookstores in Manila :
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Gathering by Anne Enright
I was at the Buenos Aires book fair last Monday and bought Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" (I've heard so much about her, good and bad, I want to check out for myself) and Virginia Woolf's "The waves" and "To the lighthouse".
hmm, now that you mention it, p.a.m., i've been looking to read "To the Lighthouse" for a while now.
have two books waiting for my fingerprints to disturb the dust that has settled on them since the last time i picked it up, but i think i'm looking forward to starting another book my mom got for me just today: Far From the Madding Crowd. does that count as the last book i bought ? :)
yesterday I bought Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, the Subterraneans by Kerouac and The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
dunno when I will get to read them - I have about 40 books on the shelf that are still unread. I seem to have an addiction where I cant walk past a book shop without buying something, especially when there is stuff you want in the 3 for 2 offers!
Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
I've gone on a bit of a buying binge, in the last few weeks I've bought:
Paradise Reclaimed by Halldor Laxness
Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
Monumental Propaganda by Vladimir Voinovich (my new favorite author)
The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union by Vladimir Voinovich
Candide by Voltaire
and lastly, The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
'What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire' - Charles Bukowski. It's a large collection of his poetry.
I also bought some of Poe's short stories the other day.
The Host by Stephenie Meyer...
"Vellum" and "The Ink" by Hal Duncan
I read Anna Karenina this year. It's the most absolutely engrossing, sweeping, moving narrative I've read in a very, very long time. Good buy!Quote:
Originally Posted by fallingup
I read Anna Karenina this year. It's the most absolutely engrossing, sweeping, moving narrative I've read in a very, very long time. Good buy!Quote:
Originally Posted by fallingup
Light In August, In Evil Hour, Julius Caesar and Che's Bolivian diary. All at once. :)
At a second-hand bookshop,
3 titles by W. Somerset Maugham:
Cakes and Ale
The Moon and Sixpence
The Razor's Edge
and Ordinary Love & Good Will by Jane Smiley.
My favourite Conrad - hope you enjoy it, Sir B.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Bartholomew
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova