I was told that it's a great book. Would you be kind enough to share your opintion DM :D?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
Printable View
I was told that it's a great book. Would you be kind enough to share your opintion DM :D?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
I would agree. I am really enjoying it. It is very interesting.
I bought The Red Tree because a picture from it was used in the picture poetry contest thread and when I looked it up it looked very interesting. So I bought that.
My boyfriend just arrived home from Spain and brought with him a book for me- so I didn't buy it but he did, anyways it is The Complete Guide to Narnia by Collin Doriez, in Spanish. It's really great. I'm going to buy thhe english version just for comparison, especially since I can only understand about half of the book.
I went to one of the big bookstores in Athens....Big mistake: I must have spent about 2 hours in there without realising it...and came out with only one book (I'm good at restraining myself :p ).
Anyway, found Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse five for only 5 euros!! Shocking!! Unfortunately that seemed to be the only bargain of the day...
Last week I accidentaly bought 5 books... I bought 2 at first because they were on offer: both Persuasion AND Mansfield Park for £3 seemed too good to miss.
And then I went into Waterstones 3-for-2 offer, intending to get a birthday present for a friend, picked one for her out of the 3-for-2 so HAD to get 2 more... then chose another book for her and kept the three myself :blush:
They are Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier, The Conjorors Bird by... someone... and A Hat full of Sky by Terry Pratchet. I have to stop spending so much on books!!!
which means? i think badelaire wrote totally two spleens included in the fleurs du mal.. but is possible iam wrong...Quote:
Originally Posted by johann cruyff
A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy.
Light in August by William Faulkner - my second copy. I'm writing my thesis on it this fall, so I needed a clean copy.
Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope
Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
[QUOTE=Lioness_Heart;601532]Last week I accidentaly bought 5 books... /QUOTE]
You are a gal after my own heart, LH! I thought I was the only one who 'accidentally' bought books - they just sort of leap off the shelf at you, don't they?
There is no proper bookshop in the nearest town to me, so when I get near a bookshop I tend to behave in an unrestrained fashion. Was in Oxford last week and asked my sister-in-law to keep me out of bookshops but the bus stopped right outside Waterstones.... and the return bus picked up outside Borders.....so one or two volumes went home with me....If on a Winter's Night by Italo Calvino because I've seen it mentioned on the Forum several times, Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell because I'm off to S Africa soon and I like Mankell's books, My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk because I'm in the middle of Snow and I want to read more Pamuk, Binu and the Great Wall of China by Su Tong because I was there last year and anything Chinese still grabs my attention, An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears because it's set in Oxford and I suspect I won't see it in my part of the world unless it becomes a Best Seller and/or a film/tv series and Touching Distance by Rebecca Abrams, an Oxford author (ditto last title). Then there were the odd detective stories, volume 2 or 3 of series, latest titles by previously enjoyed authors....Good job I was only there for a few days and we didn't get as far as Blackwell's.
Hope you enjoy The Conjuror's Bird btw - I found it a most entertaining read.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I thoroughly enjoyed the reading of his first novel The Kite Runner and it served as an inducement to purchase another novel written by him.
Nossa just mentioned that novel too. I forget which thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bijou
I picked up "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts" (ed. by David Dunbar & Brad Reagan) today. I bought it because I've had several people recently mention that they believe the terrorist attacks on 9/11 were an "inside job" and I want to give them more detailed reasons for why I think they are delusional idiots.
Finally bought my own copy of Cormac McCarthy's The Road :D
About Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns, you can find my review here:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=36316
:D
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
bought it in london impulsively because my friend was rushing me to leave the bookstore to catch a movie, so i ran through the fiction section and grabbed anything that looked interesting. I had been meaning to buy marquez because it's supposedly a classic. It's quite good.
The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton
-Because I've been interested in poetry for a while and one has to start somewhere.
Tales for the Midnight Hour ~ J.B. Stamper
Merlin ~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Exiles: The Ruins of Ambrai ~ Merlanie Rawn
The House of the Seven Gables ~ Nathanial Hawthorne
The Return of the Native ~ Thomas Hardy
The Day of the Locust ~ Nathanael West
The Portrait of A Lady ~ Henry James
Fathers and Sons ~ Tugenev
Howards End ~ E.M. Forster
The Music of the Spheres ~ Elizabeth Redfen
The Naked Empire ~ Terry Goodkind
Aztec Autumn ~ Gary Jennings
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. I bought this partly because I wanted to get more into literature of the world, since I have mostly read British and some American. Also was interested in a novel in verse.
Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer. I had to finish the crappy series.
The Poisoned Crown by Amanda Hemingway - to finish the trilogy.
The Singing by Alison Croggon - to finish the ..... quadruple? is that what a series of four is called?
DM, I read all 4 of these; let me know how you like them, when you finish them. In my opinion, they are all excellent. I recently bought Hawthorne's ~ "The Mable Fawn"; and I have read most of Hardy and Forster's work. They are two of my favorite authors.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
Hehe, I will be sure to let you know once I have read them
Ok, good. Have fun reading them!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
Civil War Poetry: An Anthology
Narrative of My Escape from Slavery - Moses Roper
Art Now- Vol 2 by Uta Grosenick (2008 edition):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Now-25th...9330906&sr=8-3
Why I bought it? Well, my short review should appear on Amazon page very shortly. I bought a copy for an artist friend a couple of months ago for £25. I liked the book but couldn't afford another copy for me but this new and updated edition costs only £5.99! An excellent book for the price of a Macdonald's meal and a beer!
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Gracia Marquez
I liked the title and the cover. I liked the story itself, so I got it a gift to someone since I only give books or copybooks as gifts (I lack other tastes). Awhile later, I got another one for myself.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, a special version for high-school students and college juniors.
I liked to see how it was abridged, and I was confused if I had the original story at home or not. So both ways, decided on reading it.
I just did some shopping on amazon. I had such a back log of books on my 'to read' pile so I haven't done any book shopping for a couple months and man, it felt good. :D Here's a list of what I got:
Moscow-2042 by Vladimir Voinovich...because I love him
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine...because it looked interesting and I'm trying get over my aversion to French lit.
The Sibyl by Par Lagerkvist...because I'm trying out a new Scandinavian author
Another Life and The House on the Embankment by Yuri Trifonov...because...I'm not sure but I would imagine it looked interesting. :p
The Galosh by Mikhail Zoshchenko...because Vladimir Voinovich recommended him. I couldn't find the book he specifically recommended but I'll at least be able to check out the author.
Viriconium by John Harrison...because Riesa told me too. :D
and finally,
The Trial by Franz Kafka...because I haven't read anything by him and it seemed like it was time.
I have an addendum, after getting some wonderful recommendations from a real Viking :D, I bought a few more books,
One of Life's Slaves and The Visionary by Jonas Lie and By The Open Sea by August Strindberg. I'm very excited!
Lord of the Rings, whole serial; hard cover, brand new. Why? It was only 6$!?!? :D
Yikes - here comes half the list, the other half next week. School just started, and this is just from my literature classes:
Stephen Adams, Poetic Designs (Broadview Press); The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th ed. abridged); Shakespeare, Sonnets (Signet); New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25 (Brick Books), Eliot, T.S., Four Quartets.
That for the course, "Reading Poetry". A rather slim list in comparison with the rest;
Donna Bennett, Russell Brown: A new Anthology of Canadian Literature in English
Thomas King: Green Grass, Running Water
Sinclair Ross: As for Me and My House
Hugh MacLennan: Barometer Rising
Margret Laurence: The Diviners
Alice Munro: Who Do You Think You Are
Robert Kroetsch: The Studhorse Man
Michael Ondaatje: In the Skin of a Lion
Thomson Highway: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Joy Kogawa: Obasan
Margret Atwood: Alias Grace
Douglas Glover: Elle
That's from Canadian Literature; I still haven't picked up the 12 or so books for my last class, which will bankrupt me utterly.
Yesterday I found a great little antique book shop(I just recently moved to a different city),bought a collection of Chekhov's short stories.
For some reason, I was under the impression that you were less than impressed by Tolkien and Lord of the Rings...why is that?! :p:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
All the books I ordered have started coming in. I'm only missing 2 right now and then I had coffee with my sister at Barnes and Noble the other day and picked up yet another book, Death In Venice and seven other stories by Thomas Mann. :D
I just send away for a book: D.H.Lawrence ~ Film Adaptations of his Novels/Stories; I have about 6 films, but did not know there were more. It will be a great addition to my DHL collection and interesting to read.
I also bought two books at the 5 Below Zero store - one on King Arthur and one on Fantasy - both are picture/text type books and should give me a break from difficult reading. I read another from the same store on the Holy Grail and loved it. These new ones look interesting as well.
Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)
Cup of Gold (John Steinbeck)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
An Obedient Father (Akhil Sharma)
Green Hills of Africa (Ernest Hemingway)
The Short Stories (Ernest Hemingway)
Falconer (John Cheever)
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. I've wanted to buy it for sometimes now, and while I was looking for another book today I found it, right there on the shelf :D It was the last copy, so I just had to take it :D
Moorish Architecture in Andalusia by Marianne Barrucand and Achim Bednorz. Beautiful book published by Taschen, the German publishing house that always bring out beautiful books. It is a large-sized hardbound book and at £5.99 it must be one of the best bargains out there. I love the history of Moorish Spain and after the Reconsquita zealots and inquisitors like Ximenes de Cisneros burned every single book written in Arabic (only three manuscripts of cultural importance survived that carnage out of the two million books that brought Renaissance to Europe. Further 300 books of medicine and science were 'pardoned' because Christians testified to their greatness). Architecture is the only surviving art form that speaks for the cultural greatness of that era and its achievements:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moorish-Arch...3233541&sr=8-1
Amazing buildings, amazing cities and absolutely beautiful paintings and calligraphy.
The Complete Jane Austen~Jane Austen:)
Does it need a reason??
I was reading pride and prejudice for the second time for class, and i realized how much I wanted to read all of Austens other works... I was lucky enough to nab it at a Half Price Books. 10 bucks for ALL 6!! :)
How's the quality of the book? good paper, any intro notes? I'm wondering, because it would need to be a big book.
Kafka'sCrow... sounds like a marvelous book. I'll need to look into it. I have been exploring non-Western art to a great extent for the last year... especially that of the Islamic cultures (particularly the Persians), India, and Japan. It is quite sickening to read of de Cisneros auto de fe of books. Unfortunately, such actions are in no way unique... nor even reserved for the ancient past when one considers Nazi Germany, Maoist China, and even the destruction in the Bosnian conflict.
Three fabulous books I have been leafing through a great deal are Traces of the brush:The Art of Japanese Calligraphy, Impressions of Ukiyo-e, and Utamaro. The first of these focuses on the elegant examples of Japanese calligraphy... especially from the "classical" Heian era. The latter two books focus upon works of the Japanese woodblock artists, the last book being a monograph of the late 18th/early 19th century woodblock master, Kitagawa Utamaro. All of the books are sumptuously illustrated and I am gleefully taking my fill... absorbing all that I can, while simply blown away by the originality and the marvelous sensitivity and sense of design of these works of art.