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Because I needed new books, they were cheap and I really wanted them:
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained~ Milton
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Death Note 1 and 2
Loveless 1
The Wallflower 1
Traitor to the Blood~ Barb and Jc.Hendee
A wizard of Earthsea
Inkdeath
and some others :)
I've been wanting that book for a while! Is that the one about all the evil women, are am I combining two books in my head?Quote:
Originally Posted by ~*Dark Faerie*~
Portnoy's complaint (i keep hearing about Roth and i thought it was time to have a look)
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovic
Portnoy's complaint, eh? You're in for an outrageous book. I loved it, but I have strange tastes.
haha, three copies of Crime and Punishment! The only book I have multiple copies of is The Little Prince - I started collecting it in different languages some years ago.
I got a shipping from amazon: Marxism and Modernism (I'm hoping what's written there will make sense to me some day), The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett (because it had to be done), and Die Schachnovelle (unfortunately it's in Turkish......)
Hehe you just recommended the book by saying it's outrageous ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by kandaurov
I was standing before a shelf of Roth's books and i just picked that randomly. Any other that you'd recommend?
I've read Marx (a bit from Das Kapital) and some works related to marxism..my fav will always be Engel's the origin of family..really really interesting ;)
Oh yes, I do intend to recommend it! I was reading it in boring lectures and sometimes found it hard to suppress fits of laughter. Takes full advantage of the 'shock value' factor :D
Sadly I haven't read any other Roth (though I do have three of his novels in the reading queue) so I'm not the one to give recommendations. Started reading his Everyman but had to abort it because of pressing course work. Did seem to have a completely different tone to it (in relation to Portnoy's, that is).
'Tis a pity the Marxist thinkers of the likes of Adorno and Benjamin aren't as easy to read as Marx. Engel on his own I've never read, will add to my list :)
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Light in August by William Faulkner
I bought Light in August to participate in the reading exercise that *Classic*Charm* & Joreads decided to start up. As for the other books they were on the top 100 book list and I had simply not read them yet.
Lets see..
I bought Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, author of the fight club,
for my eng 102 class and absolutely hated it. It has it's points
and views but just disgusting and disturbing. So I want to
scratch that out and say MacArthur Study Bible. Well it was a
gift but I was going to buy anyway. I usually do not buy books
but maybe I will :D
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams- Wayne Johnston
In the Skin of a Lion- Michael Ondaatje
Unless- Carol Shields
Whittier's Poetry
Milton's works (x2)...These three were old collectible-types
I just purchased a big boxed set entitled, Japanese Woodblock Prints. It is comprised of three separate volumes, each devoted to one of the three major Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock masters: Utamaro, Hiroshige, and Hokusai. The volumes are lavishly illustrated with the most marvelous quality reproductions, and the text is an modern edit of the essays of Edmond de Goncourt. The set was fairly expensive... but after having seen it with envy yesterday, it seemed but fate that today I received a differential check in the mail for my position as department chairman in my school. Combined with a 20% off coupon I just had to have it. And how could I refuse it? My own work has been profoundly impacted by Japanese art as of recent, and I am currently preparing for a return to grad school and the completion of a Masters in Art History which will involve a unit on non-Western art (or so I say to myself to justify the expense:lol:)
stlukes, that set sounds marvelous. I think it was worth every penny. How much you will enjoy it and be enriched by your viewing. Fortunate that fate allowed you the pleasure of buying it today and this way you won't feel guilty for your expensive purchase. Coupons always help, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
Also marvelous that you will be returning to school for completion of your Masters in Art History. That fits you perfectly. You seem to have such a storehouse of thought and knowledge of the arts and artists. I wish you all the luck in the world and great success!
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Biography of Thomas Hardy
Bought them because they were 3 for 2 in the shop. The 1st two had the movie tie-in covers, which I HATE, but I've wanted to read them for a while so bought them anyway!
Have since finished The Reader and will launch into one of the other two once this week of work is over.
First edition of The Playboy of the Western world.
Why? Because its a First edition of The Payboy of the Western World!!!!!
The selected works of Virginia Woolf
Because I've wanted to get it for about a year so I finally decided to buy it.
The Hellbound Heart by Cliver Barker
I've been meaning to get ahold of a copy for years then I saw it in a supermarket for £1 so I thought I'd buy it.
Yes it did.:nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by kandaurov
Sean O'Casey
Three Dublin PLays
The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and Paycock, The Plough and the Stars
Can't wait to read it. Saw the first play performed for the BBC on Youtube; I was highly impressed with the material.
Salome and Other Plays- Oscar Wilde.
Why: for the boy. He loves Oscar Wilde, and this was a really fantastic, gorgeous leather bound book.
A Passage to India- E.M Forster
Why: because I loved it when I read it in grade eight or so, but lost my copy a few household moves ago.
I bought 4 new books this past Sunday at WaldenBooks in the mall.
1. Frankenstien- Mary Shelly. (I've been wanting it.)
2. Breaking Dawn- Stephenie Meyer (I have the other 3 and have been wanting this one.)
3. Harry Potter: Tales of Beedle the Bard. (I've been wanting it.)
4. A Joker graphic novel called Going Sane. (I only got it because I couldn't find the 4th book I was looking for.)
P.G.7.
Becca, I read all of Oscar Wilde's plays, but this one. I love his work! I really must do so. Lately, I have been into plays; I saw one on a DVD the other night. Just curious, who is 'the boy'?Quote:
Originally Posted by BeccaT
Great book and a cool movie, as well. Have you seen the film based on it? It is an older film and quite good. Another author I totally adore - Forster. His books are wonderful.Quote:
A Passage to India- E.M Forster
Why: because I loved it when I read it in grade eight or so, but lost my copy a few household moves ago.
Bought: Watchmen
Because: Everybody was reading it and it was supposed to be really good.
I read it and, yes, it is.
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.
I'd been meaning to buy this one for quite a while and I'm glad I finally did!
Ballad of sad cafe by Mccullers
Yesterday I bought Pushkin - Jewgeni Onegin (wannted to read it for quite some time), John Updike - Rabbit at rest (after reading his short stories I want to read one of his novels and I really liked the title) and Steinbecks - Grapes of Wrath in a really cool looking edition (I've read so much about here on the forums, I decided to buy it and eventually read it during the holidays).
I had quite a long list of books to buy, including Catch 22, To kill a mockinbird and some of Beckett's english work, but even the best english bookshop in vienna didn't have half of the books, so I ended up ordering "The Sun also rises" by Hemingway, "As I lay Dying" by Faulkner (even though I kinda regret not getting "The Sound and the Fury" instead) and "Portrait of the artist as a young man" by James Joyce (I really enjoyed Ulysses, so I figured it would be only logical if I read more of his work). And my father got me a copy of 1984 by Orwell too, about time I read that one.
Yesterday, I bought Umberto Eco's On Ugliness, after I'd been saving for it for a couple of months. Such a great book.
I don't really buy books because the library here is so great.
The most recent book I bought would be Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, as I was itching to read it, couldn't find it anywhere in this town and just happened to be in the USA. This was almost a year ago, though.
Why?
I collect books published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC). This is the only Verne novel published by the LEC which I don't have and have never read.
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Mark Twain - The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson
Why? They were cheap enough and sounded interesting
wigan pier, by orwell.
i often buy books from charity shops and so this was both a bargain and one of the few orwells i've not read
When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris, because I'm an unabashedly wild flaming fangirl of his :D
Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling, an Xmas gift for my best friend, aka Potter fanatic
Dante: The Poet, the Political Think, the Man - Barbara Reynolds, because while I was researching for my Dante paper, I discovered this book conjectured that Dante smoked weed to bring on his spiritual visions. :lol:
AND
T.H. White's The Once and Future King - Elisabeth Brewer for $70 on amazon!! :eek: Why amazon? Cuz I couldn't find it at any of the other SIX bookstores I snooped around. Why else? Cuz I'm an Arthurian superfreak. Oh, and I was writing a paper. :D
The Sagas of the Icelanders because I've decided I want to read all the sagas and this is a wonderful collection of several of them all in one place, only one of which I've already read so it was quite a bargain.
I bought following books because I received a gift card for books this Christmas, and I only bought books that I've either been recommended or simply been wanting to read for a while.
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens.
John Ajvide Lindqvist: Handling the Undead.
Went on a bit of a buying spree thanks to this forum... :)
Doctor Zhivago (Everyman's Library)
Boris Pasternak; Hardcover
Oblomov (Everyman's Library)
Ivan Goncharov; Hardcover
The Complete Short Novels (Everyman's Library)
Anton Chekhov; Hardcover
The Adolescent (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Hardcover
Notes from Underground (Everyman's Library)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Hardcover
Dead Souls (Everyman's Library)
Nikolai Gogol; Hardcover
The Collected Tales (Everyman's Library)
Nikolai Gogol; Hardcover
The Portrait of a Lady (Everyman's Library)
Henry James; Hardcover
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Everyman's Library)
James Joyce; Hardcover
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo; Hardcover
The Child of Pleasure, 1898 edition
Gabriele D'Annunzio
The Triumph of Death, 1st Ed 1923
Gabriele D'Annunzio
The Flame of Life, 1919 edition
Gabriele D'Annunzio
I have come up with a plan with my friend, in which we each buy a book from a second hand bookshop (a bookshop which we are both in love with), read the books, swap them a week later, read the swapped books and then re-donate them to the shop a week after that. Today was the first day, and I ended up purchasing three books. I tried to buy things that we'll both enjoy, and I didn't want anything heavy because this week I am hoping to read some other books too.
The first book I picked up was Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg. This jumped out at me immediately because of the word 'snow' in the title. This week, we've had an more snow here than I have ever experienced in my life, so I thought it was quite fitting. I wasn't sure that my friend would necessarily enjoy it though, and I was after something slightly shorter (this around 400 pages; not long long long but I am aiming to read quite a lot this week and wanted something really light).
The second book was Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. This is exactly the sort of thing I was after; entertaining and light.
The third book was JPod by Douglas Coupland. I just couldn't help myself.
Unfortunately when I came home, my mum immediately told me that she has both of the former two books so I needn't have spent money on them. I can't really get a refund as it's a charity shop, but oh well. At least I've donated money to a nice charity and therefore feel like a good citizen. ;p
I've read the first one, Miss Smilla's feeling for snow quite a while ago, it was a good read. A few weeks later I saw the movie, and was really disappointed.
The movie version of High Fidelity on the other hand is really really great, I never read the book but the movie with John Cusack is among my favourite movies of the last years.
@topic: Finally got my hands on a copy of "The Sound and the Fury", I was looking for that for quite some time and I think it will be the next book after finishing the amazing Anna Karenina.
I tend to avoid films made from good books, if I can help it. In primary school I absolutely refused to watch any part of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone during an English lesson, because at the time I sincerely felt that the film had ruined my life. I was somewhat obsessed with the Harry Potter books at a young age, until the first film was released, to which I reacted ...quite negatively.
Films always tend to be disappointing if you've actually read the book, even if the film in and of itself is superb.
...sorry, off topic.
Lucky me, I never read the book.
And I added Rawls- A theory of justice to my libary.
If I would only read books at the same rate I buy them.
I recently went on a book buying trip just because i felt like it. I got three boks. Here they are:
The Importance of Being Earnest-Oscar Wilde- Because I watched the movie and wanted to see what the book was like. Btw, I loved it!!!
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne- I just started reading it. It seem interesting but the language is complicated. We'll see.
A Passage to India- E. M. Forester- The back of it looked good. And it was relatively cheap. only 5 or 6 dollars.
So, now you know.
Bethy
Welcome to the forum, Beth! I have read all of the books below and love them all exceedingly. I love other books by the same authors. I read a lot of each. I am sure you will enjoy all three of these books.
I loved the film based on the play "The Importance of Being Ernest"; if you enjoyed that one, try "An Ideal Husband". I like that one even more. I believe that Rupert Everet is in both.Quote:
Originally Posted by beth01081
Incredible book; great complex characters; language may be a bit difficult, but stick with it, since it is worth the effort. Several films I found to be good, which are based on the novel. Another novel by Hawthorne which I enjoyed was "The House of the Seven Gables".Quote:
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne- I just started reading it. It seem interesting but the language is complicated. We'll see.
Great book and wonderful film version directed by David Lean. I own both and love them both equally. I also love his book "Room with a View". I read it twice. The movie with Helene Boheme Carter is marvelous.Quote:
A Passage to India- E. M. Forester- The back of it looked good. And it was relatively cheap. only 5 or 6 dollars.
Yes, now we know you real name. Nice to meet you!Quote:
So, now you know.
Bethy
The Grateful Dead and Philosophy.
I couldn't help myself. I'm a Dead Head.