Last Book You Bought and Why

Tolstoy - Resurrection
Why? Because I don't have it!

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Originally Posted by Domer121

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!! :)

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They were all in one volume? Or each novel in a separate book?
I have all her six novels myself, they're def. worth the money spent on them :D

With my birthday book tokens (yay!!!) I've bought Ariel, the restored edition (by Sylvia Plath). I got it because I keep trying to get more into poetry, and have found her poems relatively accessible in the past.

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

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.

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Here is the link to Amazon (US) for Moorish Architecture in Andalusia. For $10.19, it is cheap, very very cheap!

http://www.amazon.com/Moorish-Archit...3318157&sr=8-1

This book should also be of interest to you:

http://www.amazon.com/Theft-History-...3318285&sr=8-1

Brisinger. Why? because i read the other two books and i want to know what happens. :D

The Silmarillion. For my friend's b-day.

The nice old man and the pretty girl, and other stories, by Italo Svevo, because I liked The Confessions of Zeno and Senilita, and had never ever heard of this one.

My last one was A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Why? It was only a penny+shipping on amazon and I'm about 3 years late knowing what the big fuss was about.

Gogol - The Collected Stories
Pushkin - The Collected Stories
Dante - The Divine Comedy
Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time

All from Everyman's Library and I bought them for pretty obvious reasons. :)

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All from Everyman's Library and I bought them for pretty obvious reasons. :)

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To put them on top of each other to climb and reach higher shelves in the kitchen?

:p

Collins English Dictionary ( from Oxfam) because I unpacked all my books when I got to my new house and discovered that I do not own a dictionary, the ones that had been living on my shelves were my mums.
:rolleyes:

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee. It was on sale :p

Death of a Naturalist-Seamus Heaney
Why? because it contains most of my favourite Heaney poems.

LOTR, whole serial, for only 4€!!!! New, hard cover! I couldn't believe it!

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

To put them on top of each other to climb and reach higher shelves in the kitchen?

:p

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Haha, I use my old schoolbooks for that :D

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LOTR, whole serial, for only 4€!!!! New, hard cover! I couldn't believe it!

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That is cheap. I spent like 100 euro on this - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lord-Rings-5...3497222&sr=1-7 - some years ago.

1. Ireland - Frank Delaney
2. Outlander - Gil Adamson
3. Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs - John Lindow
4. Othello, Signet Classics Edition
5. Midsummer Nights Dream, Signet Classics Edition
6. Myths and Legends of Japan - F. Hadland Davis
7. Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable - Thomas Bulfinch

I bought them all at the same time. I have this rising interest in folklore, hence the books on mythology. I saw Ireland and I was impressed with the summary on the backcover.;) As for Shakespeare, I'm going to go see Othello on stage very soon and so I intend to read it before then. I'm sure a lot of people here have read The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. It explains the interest in MND. :thumbs_up

The Hours by Michael Cunningham. I liked the movie and decided to give the actual book a try.

I just got a marvelous coffee-table scaled book published by Könemann on Florence. The work is hundreds of pages of gorgeous, glossy photographs of the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Florence. I purchased the book because it is easily worth $75... but I got it for less than $15 as part of a teacher's discount promotion. I already have similar books on Rome, the Romanesque, the Gothic, and the Italian Renaissance. I still want to get the volume of Venice... and Islamic Art and Architecture. I also got another book on William Blake... because the 14 I already have just weren't enough.:lol:

Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris, who is absolutely hilarious.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Anniversary Edition - J.K. Rowling. It's a really nice copy with a new cover, the actual book cover has stared, and it has a few extra illustrations. I'm going to keep it in good condition. Versus my old copy which I picked up once and the pages fell out of the spine. It's a bit worn.

Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale. Why? Because we are reading it for the poetry bookclub. Come and join in: http://www.online-literature.com/for...258#post631258

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

E. M. Forster - Maurice
F. S. Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

Cause it's a shame not owning them.

It was actually Germiane Greer's The Whole Women.

Heterosexual male feminism is not as rare as you may think.

Just bought Homer's Iliad translated by Richmond Lattimore (any good?) for 33p plus postage, really that is about equivalent to a Sunday newspaper.

Umberto Eco, The mysterious flame of Queen Loana, because I love everything he writes.
Soljenitsyne, Our young (novellas), ditto.
Nerval, Pandora, because I'd never seen that one around and it was cheap!

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Umberto Eco, The mysterious flame of Queen Loana, because I love everything he writes.

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how do you know about this writer?
hes a brazilian guy

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E. M. Forster - Maurice

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FANTASTIC NOVEL!!! One of my all-time favorites. I cannot praise it enough!

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Originally Posted by weltanschauung

how do you know about this writer?
hes a brazilian guy

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Erm, no, he's Italian. :D
And famous, at least in my parts of the world.

'Of Grammatology' by Derrida trans. by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak because it came in cheap and because it's worth keeping in the collection: even if i don't read it now at one go, i'll definitely go back to it innumerable times in the future.

The Octopus by Frank Norris, because I am interested in the influence of French naturalist literature on its American counterpart. I have recently finished McTeague by the same author ( fourth reading ) and it's my contention that anyone who claims to be fully up on American writing and hasn't read Norris, is deluding themselves.

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein.. i loved Lord of the Rings and i am a great fan of the Hobbits
i love Fiction , adventure books.. so i think readin it is wonderful...
am in the mid of the book & i can't stop readin it :-)

Ensaios radioativos, by Marcio-Andre.

He was a colleague, at school (university). We became friends. I like him, as a ... business man (him).

The book looks like interesting, by the way. I intend to read it on my hollidays, next month. I myself wrote some essays, some time ago, enough to compose two books, and sent to him, so as to know what he thought about, and until now he wishes to publish me, but neither he nor I have the money. He has enough "courage" to sell his own stuff. I don't intend to live of this.

I liked to buy his last two books, this one, and another one, intitled Intradoxos.

"Ensaios radioativos" mean "Radioactive essays". I might translate it into English, if he agreed ... I'll talk about it with him.


So ...


librarius
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"Ma i'm gettin meself a new mammy" by Martha Long.
I bought it for my mam because she loved her first book, "Ma, he sold me for a few cigerettes". I mean to read them too.

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Originally Posted by Epistemophile

'Of Grammatology' by Derrida trans. by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak because it came in cheap and because it's worth keeping in the collection: even if i don't read it now at one go, i'll definitely go back to it innumerable times in the future.

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I have gone through Derrida several times and I could not comprehend the book for it is pretty hard to understand. Derrida is too hard like James Joyce. Most of us keep collections of such books but we hardly read and even if we read we can not complete.

We know they are great books and such books are recommended in our texts in colleges but we can not find them appealing except for the fact that we do read since we have so many referrals for reading such classics.

In my college I read Shakespeare and Milton, and of course some passages were interesting but some are very tough for me, and I read just for the sake of reading not for enjoyments.

So most classics fail as sources of enjoyments and there are a few books that can entertain and enlighten us.

I have been reading the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by a great Management Guru. This book is wonderful and writes about reaching out to the poor and encourage entrepreneurs, regulators and non government organizations to reach out to the poor and take the poor as not burdens but potential consumers and at the same time the book encourages to involve the poor in entrepreneurial skills and they can turn out to be capable individuals adding value the way capitalists do.

This is really a must-read book by C.K. Prahalad.

Revenge of the Lawn
In Watermelon Sugar
Abortion: A Love Story
Trout Fishing in America

All by Richard Brautigan (gone a bit mad!)

Revenge of the Lawn and Trout Fishing in America are great.

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, cause I saw the John Huston film starring Albert Finney and felt like reading the novel.

South of No North by Bukowski, I need my monthly dose.

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. I didn't really buy it, it was a gift from my cousin :D I'm currently reading it, and I love it!

Last two books i bought:

Faust - Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe

Milan Kundera's Laughable Loves. Been looking for it for a long time, 'til today I found this pocket-book edition and well, I just took the chance.

Gravity's Rainbow By Thomas Pynchon

I've just finished V and loved it. I was browsing in a secondhand bookshop and it caught my eye, plus it is a much lauded novel.