the prestige - christopher priest, i mainly get books from the library nowadays
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the prestige - christopher priest, i mainly get books from the library nowadays
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit. Mostly I just go to the Library or read online though
The last book I bought was Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, we read the first book in the series, Ender's Game in my American Lit class and I loved it, they're both great stories. Worth the whole $13
Women in Love - dh Lawrence. I wanted to get this from the library but don't have a card yet.
I studied in York last semester and there are loads of second-hand bookshops, and I bought there so many books that I was hardly able to come back with them all :) The very last I bought was "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
The Complete Prose of Woody Allen since then I mainly bookmooch my books as it saves on money as I keep buying books I don't read for ages!!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Emma
Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Interesting mix of books for pleasure/for my course in the autumn, it's lovely having the time now to just READ, unrestrainedly and without distraction! :D
Thursday I went to the bookstore. I bought:
Don Quixote because I broke my other copy :bawling:
Women in Love because I didn't care to read that one online.
(Grrr Linz I want that copy of Crime and Punishment!)
I have bought some books that I'm supposed to read during my summer holiday:
Brave New World by Huxley
1984 by Orwell
The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
Wuthering Heights by E. Bronte
And I'm reading all of them in English...at least I hope I'll manage to!!
"Lawrence" a biography and essay about D.H Lawrence. I paid 1 dollar for it.
Dastak Nah Do (Don't knock!) by Altaf Fatimah.
Blart 2 by Dominic Barker! (ok so i'm a big kid! Whatca gonna do eh!)
I just bought an Albert Camus book (as I've never read any but have only heard good things about him here!), it's a collection of three of his books which are, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom plus some essays. It's in hardback, and it's beautiful, and it was a bargain!
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
O. Wilde the complete works part of a sale at a wellknown bookstore chain. quasimodo1
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Little Prince, and one of the various books by V.S. Naipaul
Among others (which I can't remember right now), I bought Factotum. Really looking forward to reading it, I've great expectations :)
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
and
Our Ecstatic Days by Steve Erickson
"The unbearable lightness of being"
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
I bought it yesterday at a secondhand shop for a dollar. Hardcover, excellect shape. Probably never actually read. Best deal ever. I'm super excited to re-read it.
It's been a real long time since I last bought a book. Lately I've been either downloading books from the web or getting them from friends and acquaintances. Bu I remember buying a bengali epic poem (by Michael Modhusudhan) and a Mario Puzo book called The Last Don a few months back.
"The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought"
[Eds] Alan Bullock & Stephen Trombley.
The Economist "How did one exist whithout this splendid book?"... an incomparable guide...there are new entries on God, communitarianism, perestroika, new world order, afrocentricity, ebonics, third wave feminism, hypertext, virtual reality, culture jamming, cloning, spin-doctors, post-colonialism, fuzzy logic, artificial life, paper architecture, infopreneur...
Harry Potter and the Half blood prince by J.K Rowling
actually got them all :) but thats the last book i got :)
The last book I bought was Scarlett, from Alexandra Rippley. This is the following book to Gone with the Wind.
On Friday I bought book of collection of works by my favourite Slovak poet, Milan Rufus. Some of his poems were even translated into English (I think the book's name is And That's the Truth or something like that) but unfortunatelly I cannot get hold of that translation. And though I love his poetry, my love doesn't go so far as to ordering translation of his poems from Amazon for some 30 $. :)
I have few others on my list, but my mother said that if I bring another one in the house she'll throw me out toghether will all my books... And as Sometimes A Great Notion is arriving from UK next week, and in July also Harry Potter, better not to provoke her with any other just now. :D
candide by voltaire
doubliners by joyce
and "love's labor's lost" by shakespeare
Good Omens - Terry Prachet & Neil Gaiman
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
A second-hand "The Hobbit" by Tolkien, and "20,000 leagues under the sea" by Verne
'The Diary of Anne Frank'
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman (a gift actually...does that count?)
I believe it was a complete set of Shakespeare's work. Hardbound and with gold leaf pages. I frequent the library more since the books I'm eyeing at the moment are too expensive. I'm looking at some leather bound classics, but I don't have the $50-60 a book for the 20 or so I've found I want.
just bought the following in work;
Shalimar the clown
Brideshead revisited
and a paulo Coelho book. Title gone out of my head but i remember it was a collection of short stories.
they were three for price of two in work and with a 30% discount in work only cost me about €17 altogether! Sweet!:D
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
The Town That Forgot to Breathe by Kenneth J Harvey
the Everyman's Library edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I am so amazed with the quality of Everyman's Library's books that I am currently updated all my favorite novels to their Everyman's respectful editions.
Escapades of the Eel by Hugh B. Cave published by Tattered Pages Press, 1997. Reprints 15 tales of the Eel, a pulp character from Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective and Spicy Mystery magazines from the '30s. Think Indiana Jones by way of Humphrey Bogart. This one slipped past me when first published but found it at my home away from today the Bookery Fantasy in the pulp reprints section.
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut (already read it and loved it!)
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated by Vladimir Nabokov with annotations by Alfred Appel Jr.