Recently I bought Mann's Magic Mountain. At a garage sale I found a red Complete Works of Shakespeare from 1909 for $5! I also got a better translation of Cervantes Don Quioxte.
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Recently I bought Mann's Magic Mountain. At a garage sale I found a red Complete Works of Shakespeare from 1909 for $5! I also got a better translation of Cervantes Don Quioxte.
The Red and the Black by Stendahl. I always buy used books on-line and this was a nice one in half red leather amd black linen. Haven't read it since 1963 so it will be like a first read. Anyway, I am tired of reading Mickey Spillane.
Richard Dawkins - "The Greatest Show on Earth". Half price in Border's! (Not the only reason...)
The last book I bought was Notes On A Scandal by Zoe Heller. Why did I buy it? It was a pound, bargain!
Demons, by Dostoevsky.
Why? Because I have been eyeing it for a long time, and finally got enough money.
Either of these: Mad World...Evelyn Waugh and the secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne.
The secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings.
I went into Foyles with the intention of buying the Waugh biography but I couldn't resist getting the Maugham also.
The book: The Complete Poems - John Keats
Why? It's like you don't know me anymore.:bawling:
Went to B & N the other night to browse the discount books. I bought a rather nice large size book of Dali prints (portfollio) - suitable for framing. Lynne50 got the same book and showed me the other night when we got together socially and I wanted a copy as well. We both went to the Philadelphia Museum special Dali exhibit a few years ago - marvelous! Very nicely printed works in this book. A few I am interested in framing eventually.
I also picked up this neat book of arial shots all throughout Europe. It showed a lot from the UK, England, Wales, Scotand, Ireland; I loved the various ruins and castles so much, I had to have this book. A thick hardbound book for only $8.49 - a cool photo book I will enjoy emensely. A shame I didn't have this before Petrarch's Love went on her trip. It gave me a lot of good idea on places she could visit.
I also picked up this neat little book called "Must-See Movies"...hahah.. I thought this would aid me in the movie game threads. Each page is a movie with stills and information on the cast, director, etc. I was happy to realise that about 80% of these films, I have seen....guess I do have good taste in films afterall. It also gave me ideas on the ones I need to seek out and see in the near future. It's a mix of older and newer films - all classics in their own right. It was a neat find.
I bought these at my library recently - over 8 volumes of a set of books on various actors...just some of the ones I got were - Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Ingrid Bergman and one thicker one of Cecile B. DeMille films. I was thrilled to find these and found I could even sell them later on Amazon, if I grow tired of them. For now, I am keeping them to browse through. They are large hardbound editions and in really great condition - hey, 50 cents each - you can't beat that!
I also got Butler's "The Way of all Flesh" and "An American Tragedy" by Dreisler. I also bought Emerson's Essays to give to my friend Lynne. I have a book of his essays already. All hard bound books were only 50 cents. I think I get the best buys at my library! hahah....
"A Farewell to Arms" by Hemingway. Aside from the fact that it's a classic, also because it was mentioned in the movie "The Mirror has two faces". One of the movies I watch from time to time. Probably my favorite romance movie.
was Little Dorrit because I wanted to read it and it was not at my library.
Today I bought "Pride & Prejudice" and Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"...just because I haven't read them and plan to soon.
I just bought Saramago's Blindness, Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, and The Bible because I wanted read some relatively recent works and study the Bible as a literary text.
I read Eco's "on Ugliness" and loved it. I think a lot of the quotes in this books inspired me to want to read a lot of the darker literary pieces.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarous
Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus". I want to read more of his works after finishing "Portnoy's Complaint".
"catch 22 " by J Heller
"Gravity's rainbow" and "the crying of lot 49" by T Pynchon
"Slaughterhouse 5" by K Vonnegut
all ordered from amazon and are on the way.
All the above are books mentioned many times here in litnet, so i thought to give them a try (that's why i love litnet :D it may make my purse lighter but it's full of book recommendations).
Johnny Cash's autobiography. I bought it after googling Johnny Cash and Elvis. Someone had put up a portion of his writings about Elvis from his book. So, I went and bought it :)
Online:
North by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Rigadoon by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I bought these because Celine is my favorite writer, and those two books complete his war trilogy, of which I've read the first book. I bought Emerson because I've heard a lot of good things about him lately, and I feel he's essential anyways. Plus they were all fairly inexpensive.
In store:
Stories by Anton Chekhov
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
These two are just essential Russian lit that appeal to me at the moment.
" Ancient Rome - The Rise and Fall of an Empire " by Simon Baker. I misssed the BBC series and i'm interested in Caesar.
Just back off my hols, (a week in Carnforth.) Some of you may know that as well as brown shrimp (delicious)and the 'Brief Encounter' railway station, Carnforth is famous for its large second hand bookshop. So I was able to sneak off and browse the shelves for an hour or two. Unfortunately my wife has a one in-one out policy when it comes to books so I only bought three.
1 Romola, by George Elliot.
Because no one at my book club had heard of it when I suggested it for consideration. I read it years ago and remember liking it for its atmospheric and evocative setting in Renaissance Florence.
2 Medea and other plays, by Euripades
It's time I had my own copy of this one.
3 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte
It was being discussed in a thread on here and I hadn't read it and I reside in Bronteland and she's the only Bronte I hadn't read. I've started this one and like it so far.
I got all three for a fiver by the way.:D
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence. I'm not sure about the reason behind buying that book...May be because I want to read something by D.H. Lawrence, and there was no books by him but sons and lovers :D
The Book:As I Lay Dying
The Reason: I finished Light in August, and while I really liked the way that Faulkner writes I did not like Light in August. I bought As I Lay Dying because I like to highlight and write in the books that I read. They still frown upon that at the library.
The last book I bought was Ulysses, by James Joyce (a book I've mentioned quite a few times already in my other posts). I bought it because I've already read Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and really enjoyed both of them, so I figured I'd enjoy this one as well.
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
Written by a neurosurgeon about neurosurgery and I highly recommend it.
The last book I bought was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Getting prepared for Octobers book club selection.
I went to my University Bookstore yesterday and got Villette , Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , The Return of the Native, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Crime and Punishment.
Why? because they were all books i've been meaning to read, which my local bookstore rarely carries, for a reasonable price. I was ecstatic :)
The Wonder That Was India II: Coz I lurrrrrve mah history!
The Golden Treasury (Palgrave): Coz I luuuuurves my poetry too!
I bought Lolita because everyone here keeps talkin' about it. I figured it was high time to read that sucker.
The Booker shortlist. Why, because for once I fancy all of them, and they were on special offer, for £35. I couldn't resist the bargain, even though I was going to wait a little to get my unread pile down.
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
The Children's Book - A.S.Byatt
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
Summertime - J.M.Coetzee
The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
There's some real doorstoppers amongst the list, but I can't wait :lol:. They've just been shipped, so I'm eager for them to arrive. The winner is announced on Tuesday 6th, and I'm guessing that it will be Wolf Hall, which is the favourite, but they all look good.
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1275
I bought an Icelandic book about literature and Beckett's collection of plays,poems and stories. I also bought Thomas the train and Aja Baja Alfons Aberg for my boy...
Troll: A Love Story ~ Johanna Sinisalo
Cancer Ward ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chronicle of a Death Foretold ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Kalevala
"The Coastwatchers" - non fiction. It was cheap.
I sure hope they close that book market soon. or I'll get broke
today I bought:
Koran
Jekyll and Hyde
stupid white men (as a gift)
two children books (as a gift)
aldingaršurinn (an Icelandic book)
and as gift for shopping there I got
Lucky
Picked up a paperback copy of The Fall by Albert Camus at the library. Why? Because I love Camus, because the paperback was in excellent condition and because it cost only $0.25. Can't get any better than that :-)
The Tarot - Alfred Douglas
Mastering the Tarot - Eden Gray
I purchased a Tarot deck a few months ago, but never gotten around to getting a book. I thought it might be interesting to use the Tarot to develop characters.
Last month
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (because it's the only Discworld book I haven't read), Pride and Prejudice because the last copy 'mysteriously' disappeared in the dc, 1984 because my friend 'borrowed' it last year and never gave it back and I want to read it, and two children' book for my little sis (Shakespeare's Secret and the third Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls)
Yesterday:
The Messenger -Markus Zusak
I loved The Book Thief.
On Fairy-stories - Tolkien
Recommended by wisp a while ago.
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
It's on my list.
I bought Midnigts Children by Salman Rushdie and Guernica by Dave Boling.
I bought Guernice because I was intrigued to see how it links to Picasso's piece, and because it was on offer in Waterstones. The last book I bought on offer was Netherland by Joseph O'Neill which was a really good read.
I just purchased Moby Dick, an Easton Press leatherbound edition, from a seller on ebay. I'm fairly certain the book was never read and possibly never opened.
I bought it because I've never read Moby Dick, I liked the idea of owning some classics bound in leather, the price was right ($15 shipped), and it's an early Christmas present.
Wuthering Heights, because my 13yr old daughter had read it and asked me to read it so many times, that I ended up buying it.
An anthology of Wordsworth, because it was on sale.