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Absolutely, I have the Roald Dahl Collected Stories and Highsmith's Ripley trilogy (actually she wrote five books featuring this sociopathic genuis last two not included in this volume). Soon will be purchasing Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy and Nabokov's Lolita in Everyman's Library amongst whatever else I can find.Quote:
Originally Posted by Julian Koller
www.everymanslibrary.com
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Nora Zeale Hurston
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Art of Discworld Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott. Actually, I'm addicted to the series.
What exactly is this book? Is it just a collection of various artists' depictions of Discworld characters or is it one specific artist, Paul Kidby perhaps? :p I'm a big fan of Discworld and this sounds like something I should maybe have.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueSkyGB
The witches of Smyrni by Mara Meimaridi
Its just the artist Paul Kidby with text by Pratchett...Quote:
Originally Posted by Idril
Its great, especially if you're a Discworld fan.....:lol:
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
A story collection choosen by Alfred Hitchcock. I paid 60 cents for it. Such a Scottish i am. :D
I ordered Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Tasso today. Hopefully it'll arrive end of next week.
Molly, Malone Dies, Unnamable- Samuel Beckett
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
Finnegans Wake- James Joyce
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
To NickAdams: Are you sure you are ready for Finnegans Wake. I don't say this because I am. I got to Ulysses and then tried FW but soon mired down. When Joyce finished that particular work, he said something like...that will keep the critics busy for ten or twenty years. Try 60 to 100. Stream of Consciousness in the EXTREME. Good luck. quasimodo1
NickAdams: Molly, Malone Dies, Unnamable- Samuel Beckett
enjoy! I'm finishing Unnamable at the moment.
Well, NickAdams is not a critic, Joyce had to know that. :D
I'm far from ready. I saw it for six dollars and never pass a deal. I want to read the work in progress essays first.Quote:
Originally Posted by quasimodo1
Keep an eye out on a discussion thread. After reading Godot, I'm sure this will be something to talk about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Julian Koller
I think he mentions me in the book.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Turk
The Videonight in Kathmandu
A travelougue of south-east asia by Pico Iyer.
avesta by real zaradhoustra
I agree. I currently have seven sitting on my book shelf, and they look beaaaautiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Julian Koller
The last books I bought were;
Five Plays - Chekhov
The Best Stories of Dostoevsky
The other day, I hit the jackpot, so to speak, at a library book sale. For .50 cents each I bought the following books: The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, Pliny the Elder Historical Naturalis, A Medieval Miscellany, and William Blake Selected Engravings (All of which are color reproductions of medieval text and artwork-- with the exception of the Blake book).
Needless to say, I was pleased with my $2.00 purchase and actually felt somewhat guilty later, as though I had shoplifted the items!
Ptolemy's Gate -- Jonathan Stroud
Just ordered Nam-A-Rama by Phillip Jennings along with some DVDs. I had picked up this book various times at the local Borders. But was uncertain if the author was simply just aping Vonnegut, Heller, Burgess, etc.
However, he is receiving plenty of rave and looks to be a good buy. Depending how much I appreciate this book will determine if I purchase the semi-sequel Goodbye Mexico Jennings recently released. Both stories are interesting and hopefully quite hilarious.
www.phillipedwardjennings.com
The entire Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Supposedly Funny Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
Cages of Glass, Flowers of Time. I read it once years ago, and I simply have to read it again.
"To thine own self be true" Shakespeare
I think that the last book I bought was Candide by Voltaire...and another book that had a collection of stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(malwe you better stop buying books and start reading them :lol: of course that goes for me too :D )Quote:
Originally Posted by malwethien
"The mystery of Edwin Drood" by Dickens
and "Shirley" by C Bronte
Pascal Bruckner - Qui de nous deux inventera l'autre
The book I bought most recently was "Cheapest Nights" by Yusuf Idris, in Arabic; I bought a little more than a week ago.
It is the first collection of short stories to be published for this great Egyptian author in 1955.
It was translated into English in 1978 by Peter Owen.
It is a collection of 21 short stories expressing many views of the common Egyptian citizens along with deep symbolic representation of moral and political topics; characters that show Idris's genius that was nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1988, the same year when another Egyptian prominent author, Naguib Mahfouz, won the prize.
I love Yusuf Idris..can you write the book's name in arabic...I might have it in my library:D If not, I'll buy it..lolQuote:
Originally Posted by James Wallace
The One Percent Doctrine
I know! I can't help it...it's like some kind of disease that I don't want to be cured from :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
I've just got
Stardust by <3 Neil Gaiman *sights*
Dhampir, thief of Lives and sister of the dead by J.C. Hendee and Wife
and some others! Hurrayyy!
Padded my collection alittle more...
The Tenant by Roland Topor
Maldoror and the Complete Works of Comte de Lautreamont
I, Zombie by Curt Selby
My last two purchases consisted of The Bhagavad Gita -- As It Is translated by A. C. Prabhupada and an NIV Bible.
Moderators,
I request this thread to be changed to a sticky, many DVD and movie forums usually feature these types of stickies. And, why not a literary here at LitNet?
thank you! :D
The American by Henry James. Got it for a buck in the used section of my local library.
the driving theory test book. I had to go out and buy the new one. Yikes! the original one was dead easy! This new improved one is rotten!
The Giving Tree- Shel Silverstein (This was my favorite book as a child.)
The Victim- Saul Bellow
Abinger Harvest by E. M. Forster. A collection of articles, essays and poems by one of my favorite authors.
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Pugilist At Rest by Thom Jones
Dying To Live by Kim Paffenroth