The last book I bought was Gunnar by the Swedish poet/author Bob Hansson. I'd only read some of his poetry before, and it's quite original, and when I saw this novel in the store I just couldn't keep my eyes from it. I just had to buy it.
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The last book I bought was Gunnar by the Swedish poet/author Bob Hansson. I'd only read some of his poetry before, and it's quite original, and when I saw this novel in the store I just couldn't keep my eyes from it. I just had to buy it.
I've bought a few books recently:
"Hygiène de l’assassin" by Amélie Nothomb
That's the first Nothomb's book I've bought, but I have serious expactations. I've seen some good reviews on it and I hope I'll like it.
"Ask the Dust" by John Fante
It was recommended to me by a friend. I wasn't so sure if I am going to like it, but I decided to give it a try it was worth it definitely. I've finished reading it yesterday, just the day after I've bought it :lol:
"Foam of the Daze" by Boris Vian
It was an easy choice - to get the last copy on the shelf of the book by one of my favorite authors, especially after it supposed that the edition to be depleted.
"Tke Brooklyn Follies" by Paul Auster
"Timbuktu" by Paul Auster
"Moon Palace" by Paul Auster
"The Book of Illusions" by Paul Auster
What could I say? Paul Auster is definitely on of my favourite authors.
"Dreams of My Russian Summers" by Andreï Makine
This one caught my interest in the shelf with newly published books, so I decided to try something new ;)
I ended up buying quite a couple books yesterday.
Two new books
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Stephen King - The Dark Tower vol 2 (The dawning of the three)
and a couple of 2nd books at a bookmarket.
Bernard Shaw - Play's Pleasant
Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper
Ernest Hemingway - A farewell to arms
The Short stories of H.G. Wells
I got two books printed in Barcelona in 1861 and like 1910 respectively, while I was in Barcelona a couple of weeks ago. Very exciting...
But as far as ones I'm planning to read...I got The Catcher in the Rye, The Martian Chronicles, Candide, and (on a different note) Guns Germs and Steel recently. I've read the first three and have yet to pick up the fourth because I got out a few C.S. Lewis books from the library...
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Originally Posted by EricP
The Decameron ~ Giovanni Boccaccio
The Last September ~ Elizabeth Bowen
Life Before Man ~ Margaret Atwood
Lady Oracle ~ Margaret Atwood
All the Kings Men ~ Robert Penn Warren
Stories Selected from the Unexepcted
Don Quixote by Cervantes, because it was only fifty pence and I couldn't possibly not buy it at that price. I'm a bit scared of starting it, though. Could anyone who has read it here tell me what they thought of it? :) .
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Hi Loike!
I started it a while back (and was scared of it at first as well), but couldn't finish it because I took to long with it and it had to go back to the library.
I suppose it all depends on the translator - I read the Edith Grossman translation and it was really good, so I decided to buy it (next payday :)). But the story is really easy to get into and very readable - I was pleasantly surprised... So don't let the size of the book or its age put you off! It's nothing to be scared of :)
I got all of these books from the thrift store.
Saffron Skies by Lesley Lokko
Legion by William Peter Blatty
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Omen by David Seltzer
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Why? Because I love reading, that's why!
The last book I bought was Homeros' Ilias.
You choose your books due to the author's gender? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamesian
I read it in Spanish, but then I suppose you must have bought a good translation. It's wonderful, and still very funny after four hundred years... but you must have a little context, because Cervantes intended to satirize the "errant knight" stories in fashion at that time, and that's what Don Quixote is... a magnificent parody.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loike
...was "Armageddon in Retrospect."
Because I like Vonnegut and wanted to see something I hadn't seen before.
I borrow far more often than I buy, and the last book I borrowed was "Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard.
Because my favorite cartoonist mentioned Patrick O'Brian in an e-mail and I had never read any of his work. I chose this particular one because it was published when he was fifteen and I thought it might inspire me to actually write something.
My last shopping spree resulted in:
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Greer
White Fang by Jack London
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Edit: No reason why, just one of those pick what looks interesting.
I forked out 10 squid(!!) for The Count of Monte Cristo last night at the airport, while waiting for my plane to actually arrive before it could depart again!
Was a crazy moment which will probably not be repeated soon....
Thank you Pecksie and TurquoiseSunset for your replies about Don Quixote. I'm now reading The Portrait of a Lady because I've heard so many good and often very enthusiastic comments about James that I thought reading him might be a good plan. But after I've finished it, I shall definitely read Don Quixote, because from what you said it seems rather exciting. :D.
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Today I bought Sophie's World and Ulysses. I have my own copy of Ulysses for the first time.
Wistawa Szymborska, Poems, New and Collected.....Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, translated by John J. L. Mood.....The Book of Images, Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow.....Rilke's Book of Hours, Love poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.....{reason for buying them, tremendous admiration and appreciation of both poets}
The Portrait of a Lady- Henry James
The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux (an English version)
I just bought Unruly Americans and the Origins of The Constitution byWoody Holton and A People's History of the Supreme Court byPeter Irons. I picked both up because I'm planning on going to law school (mainly focusing on U.S. constitutional law) once I finish my Bacherlor's.
I just had a little trip to the book market and bought:
The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol
Ibsen: Four Major Plays
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Men Without Woman - Ernest Hemingway
Selected Essays - D.H. Lawrence
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
Bend Sinister - Vladimir Nabokov
Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay - Robert DiYanni
:D
1) Crusade by Robyn Young
2) The Interpretation Of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
I went to the city a short while back, to go book shopping :D. Ended up with some art books, and a few random novels. Mostly $2 used books from the library.
My boyfriend and I just ordered two books each. He got Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson, as well as The Difference Engine by William Gibson. And I got PS, I Love You by Cecilia Ahern, and also Enduring Love by Ian McEwan. I chose my books because I've heard a lot of things about Ahern, both good and not so good comments, and I want to get an opinion on the book myself. And as to McEwan, I just finished Atonement, which I loved, and now I want to keep on reading his books, to see how I like them.
I wanted to buy this book (and On Chesil Beach too), after reading Atonement, hopefully you'll share your opinion about the book :DQuote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon
thus spoke zarathustra.. why did i buy it? cos i was dying. I spent my last money. thougt iam starving now, i feel like a superman
curtain
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Originally Posted by sprinks
and you entered to the Black books where a drunk irish wanted to kill you
for having obliged him to sell something...
I bought Lady Susan, The Watons and Sandition by Jane Austen. Why? because i saw it in Newcastle airport, and havent seen it over here.
I really enjoy lady susan Niamh, though she wrote it when she was 17 and it actually shows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
good. I'll let you know what i thought when i read it. :)
When I was on vaccation I went into this little used book store and picked up The Manticore becasue it was the last book I needed for the Deptford Trilogy
Flight by Alexander Alexie
This is my novel. I can't tell you of a book that I love more. If you ever read this book (its really quick, like 2 hours) I'd love you forever.
http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Novel-S...6790444&sr=8-1
I just ordered "Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard" by Richard Brody after reading a glowing review in today's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/bo...=1&oref=slogin
The Godfather by Mario Puzo, just today.
why? i dunno, why not? i wouldve read it some time or the other.
The favorite from Yasushi INOUE
Story of the tragical love between the chinese Emperor Siuan-Tsong and his favorite in the 8th century...
Chose this book because relates a love story which is as famous in China as the occidental "Tristan and Yseult".
Historical book written like a romance with a sensitive way of describing the human mind...the search of innerself, the desire of conquest, the meaning of "identity"...
Hands Off (a very cute manga)
Why? Because I loved that book, however I lent my previous copy to a friend and she stole it!
And another art book, I can't resist them.
Having a few hours to kill at a local shopping center, I purchased Russell's The Problems of Philosophy since it was short. simply written and could be finished whilst waiting.
A few days ago I purchased "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexander Dumas because I understand that it is perhaps the finest revenge story in all of literature.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
I am reading that right now, and getting close to finnishing it
Le Spleen de Paris by Baudelaire.