Feild Work by Seamus Heaney
Why? because i Love Seamus Heaney
God of Small Things By Arundhruti Roy
Why? Forum Bookclub
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Feild Work by Seamus Heaney
Why? because i Love Seamus Heaney
God of Small Things By Arundhruti Roy
Why? Forum Bookclub
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and i'm reading it.:)
Freaky! I just bought the Collected Works of Hawthorne which includes The Scarlet Letter. I had no interest in Hawthorne until I read The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster but now I'm very intrigued. I'd be interested to know what you think of The Scarlet Letter.Quote:
Originally Posted by mercy_mankind
Well, I had no interest in Hawthorne too :) until reading a part of the scarlet letter.It is very interesting, I'm sure you will like it.It's about morality and ethics, it addressed spiritual and moral issues of course from a uniquely American standpoint. The scarlet letter represents the height of Hawthorne's literary genius, dense with terse descriptions and it has a philosophical&psychological depth make it remains.
The Scarlet Letter is excellent. There's some great imagery, especially satanic imagery in reference to a certain character.
I loved reading "The Scarlett Letter" - it was very fascinating and especially the parts that *Classic* is referring to. Interesting and complex book and characters, and the story draws you in right away. I did like Hawthorne's "House of the Seven Gables", as well. I think that "The Scarlett Letter" is more dynamic though, with greater impact.
Goodbye Mr chips to replace a copy that I gave away, this is the second time I've done this!
Lucky you. Wish I were reading some early American literature right about now...Quote:
Originally Posted by mercy_mankind
Just bought The Faerie Queene, to read in preparation for the GRE.
Oh my gosh, I bought a bunch of books the other day; Dover Publications had this big sale - called Private Sale with 25% off anything one ordered, even included the bargain bin books. They already said they shipped the order so I better make space for some new books. God knows where I am going to put them. Here are the ones I bought (they were relatively cheap)...and my friend and I placed a full order so we didn't have to pay any shipping.
The Ambassadors ~ Henry James
The Encantadas and Other Stories ~ Melville
The Golden Age ~ Kenneth Grahame, Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
Mother: A Book of Quotations ~ various authors (probably for a gift)
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories ~ various, I believe
The Voyage Out ~ Virgina Woolf
Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories ~ various
Dulac's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color
Edited this post; Jamesian pointed out to me that The Encantadas is by Melville...my confusion and bad memory.
Original Shirley Temple Paper Dolls in Full Color (either for nostalga's sake or for my grand-daughter)
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ~ Arthur Rackham Illustrations
Ulysses by Joyce
After hearing it brought up in nearly every conversation about the greatest books, I just had to get it when I started to read again. Although I am now a little intimidated by it and it's sitting in my door just waiting to be picked up.
Not Melville?Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Jamesian, Yes, you are absolutely right - it was Melville; just that I mixed it up, because I almost bought another similar book by Conrad. Thanks for pointing that out, I edited my former post. I wanted to read the lead story, because it stated that it is about the Galapodos Islands, which never cease to fascinate me; plus can you believe it (?), I have never read any Melville...figured this would introduce me to the author. Do you know the story - is a good one?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamesian
"Naked lunch" W.S Burroughs
"Brideshead revisited" E Vaugh
"Brave new world" A Huxley
I found The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson at a book fair. I'm not a great fan of Tennyson, but I guess I just wanted to extend my poetry collection and complete works of poetry are usually quite expensive so for a bargain I could do worse.
And I also bought Simon Wiesenthal's memoirs, The Murderers among us. Can't wait to start that one.
:wave:Hi manolia, I didn't read the first one, but I can attest for the other two. Both are excellent reads! Huxley wrote "Brave New World" and since I hadn't read it in years, I decided to revisit the book to view in in a new perspective. This came about because I was amazed to find out that he fashioned his protagonist after D.H. Lawrence (they were good friends up until Lawrence early death). I found my second reading really rewarding. Than after that I found this essay by Huxley free at my library "Brave New World Revisited"...I read that and found it quite interesting although one has to project yourself back in time, because some of the ideas are now antiquated, yet some have actually come into fruition, which to me made the two books fascinating.Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
"Brideshead Revisited" is such a different type of book - very unique. I really liked it and the mini-series, by the BBC is excellent.
Virgil and I just talked about discussing "The Rainbow" in the winter or the early spring of next year. Hope you can come aboard again. It will be such fun.
I wouldn't miss it. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Janine;639848[B
I know; it is your favorite book of L's.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
East of Eden - because I recently reread Of Mice and Men and was reminded how much I love Steinbeck.
Midnight's Children - because I've never read any of Rushdie's work :eek:and I noticed this one was on the table for Booksellers' Choice of 2008.
Tolstoy“s Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Picked them up from a local flea market, both paperbacks in unread condition and 0.50 euro each :D
Janine, unfortunately, of his short fiction so far I only know the stories that are regularly taught (Bartleby, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd - all three of which I recommend); I only recognized 'The Encantadas' because it is frequently the title-story in Melville collections. Do let me know how it is, though. I would welcome an excuse to dive back into some HM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Just ordered A Modern Instance and A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean Howells, along with Richter's The Critical Tradition, all for classes.
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
Heard a lot about it and just thought the time was right to try something different.
So far...I like it.
Even if it is all fiction
Both books have been discussed by the Book Club if you would like to join:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cailin
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ight=east+eden
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=27053
Hamlet: A Novel by John Marsden
I got book vouchers with my awards ($90 worth of them, $30 per award) and among some other books and things I got that one because it always caught my attention at work experience. Also, I love the story :)
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Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Thank you! Will do when I've digested them both - still stubbornly making my way through Shantaram :rolleyes:
I just purchased four lovely little books: Thomas ą Kempis The Inner Life, Seneca On the Shortness of Life, Francis Bacon Of Empire, and Marcus Aurelius Meditations. I largely purchased them... in spite of the fact that I already own copies of most of them... because they are such handsome books: beautiful graphics with letter types based upon the era in which the work was written... letters actually embossed in the cover. All quite beautiful... and also inexpensive:thumbs_up
I learnt about "brave new world" in this forum and since people are raving about it i thought i'd give it a go. As for "Brideshead revisited" i think it was either you or malwethien that recommended this book :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
I'd like very much to read "the rainbow". I have already purchased a copy and it is right here waiting to be read. So just pick a date, whenever it is most convenient to both of you and i'll join :)
Animal Farm, Nobody in Paris and London by Orwell
Hooligan's Confession by Yesenin
The Twilight Saga...
I bought it out of sheer Curiosity....cant stop reading it....
I know what you mean. You hear about it from everyone. I had to buy them too. And all I can say is that I thought the first one good and the second one, well ...... for me it went downhill from there. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I really enjoyed the first one...they second one wasnt as good, like the third one, and the last one iritated me to the point where i thought she could have ended the series in a completely different way from the story that was the fourth book and redeemed the power of the first.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guinivere
I have just finished The Pit by Frank Norris ( masterly ) and tomorrow will begin The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford which I purchased yesterday.
Why? Because although I read it years ago, I had forgotten it and Virgil gave it his recommendation in another thread recently.
Uh-oh, this thread is giving me ideas for more books I MUST have.
The last book I bought was the new Illustrated Origin of the Species. Next year is Darwin's 200 birthday. I'm reading Origin for a class. I have a copy of the Harvard classics, from l909! Everytime I try to dog-ear a page it breaks! I get a kick out of it but the new Darwin looked so beautiful with it's illustrations and footnotes, I just couldn't resist!
Used, but good, George Elliot's Middlemarch for $3.50. That's about 3 pages per penny, and many many hours of quality occupation. This is a perfect deal as far as entertainment in this world economy.
Recently had an excursion of sorts in Bethlehem, visiting various used book stores. I picked up a few works of Dickens, "Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy, "Animal Farm" by Orwell, "A Journal of the Plague Years" by Defoe, and a large, multi-thousand page book of Victorian poetry for twenty dollars in all. Quite the deal.
Oh, I love used book stores - sound like you got lucky and made a killing - twenty bucks for all those - wowy. Those are all good novels to find. I simply adored the Hardy book "Return of the Native". I love all of Hardy's work especially. In fact my first Hardy book I found at a local yardsale - I had not even heard of the author and that reading really launched me on a quest to read most or all of his work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Hill
Welcome to the forum, Dr. Hill!
The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.
Why? Because I read McCarthy's book Outer Dark and thought The Road looked interesting, as I do like apocalyptic stories. Chuck Palahniuk seems like a fun author and I wanted to start with something that wasn't his most well-known work (Fight Club) so I decided on Invisible Monsters, especially after I saw that the publishers initially rejected it for being too disturbing or something like that.
"The Structure of Evolutionary Theory" by Stephen Jay Gould.
I did not get much this time becasue I could not find the books I was looking for, but I picked up a couple of things
Women In Love and The Complete Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence Volume 3
Alright - Dark Muse! Good for you. :thumbs_up I thought you read and discussed with us "Women in Love". If not you can look up the discussion we had a year or so ago. It was excellent. Enjoy the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
No I have not. I know it feels like I have been here forever. Haha!
But I have only read The Rainbow and Sons and Lovers as far as novels go.