Both are excellent books Click. :thumbs_up Good choices. :)Quote:
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Both are excellent books Click. :thumbs_up Good choices. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ClickForth
I've recently ordered:
The Basic Works of Aristotle
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America -- Christopher Hitchens
Library of America's one volume compilation of some of Thomas Jefferson's writings
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson -- Joseph J. Ellis
Yesterday my sister bought me the book Almost Dead by Lisa Jackson.
I recently dropped by a used book store and picked up:
George R.R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle -- Windhaven
Joseph Silk -- The Big Bang
Leonard Susskind -- The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
S is for Space a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.
I have finally bought my own copy of "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind. I read the book a year ago, after I borrowed it. Since I have read it and enjoyed it immensely, I have wanted to buy a copy, but there was always something else. I decided to brought it now, because my Book Club is going to read it this month and I would need my own copy this time.
I actually picked up three last night:
Ranier Maria Rilke's- Sonnets to Orpheus translated by Edward Snow
(I have greatly admired Snow's translations of Rilke's other collections and finally got around to buying this one)
Fernando Pessoa- A Little Larger than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems translated by Richard Zenith. Pessoa is certainly one (or I should say several) of the strongest poet(s) of the 20th century that no one has ever heard of. I have been obsessively collecting his writings since I first came across him (and much still remains to be published and translated) and I have an earlier, smaller collection of poems translated by Zenith.
Luis de Góngora- Selected Poems- translated by John Dent-Young. Góngora has long had a reputation as one of the giants of the Spanish Baroque... as labyrinthine and difficult as Donne, Mallarme, or Joyce. I've only ever come across a few sonnets in translation by Longfellow and others in old anthologies and have had to accept his reputation on faith. I'm hoping this book changes that.
"The sound and the fury" W Faulkner
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Originally Posted by manolia
a beautiful, if difficult one. :thumbs_up
The God Delusion ~ Richard Dawkins
The Last of the Mohicans ~ James Fenimore Cooper
'The War' by Geoffry C. Ward and Ken Burns, and 'The Complete Longer Non-Fiction and Journalism' by George Orwell.
You might find our TSATF discussion threads interesting, Manolia:Quote:
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http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=16940
:)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Silar Marner by George Eliot, both for my novel course!
The First Crusade - A Modern History & The White Devil by John Webster