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I bought the "Complete Works of Oscar Wilde" ^^ I got it at a second hand bookshop/cafe that's around the corner from my house, quite nice.
I love him, so it's great to have everything he ever wrote (I'm re-reading him now to find quotes for some essays I'm writing as well...).
I can't usually buy that many books so I make more use of the library :P
collected stories by lord berners
The Genius of America
last book i bought: girl with a pearl earring. not halfway through it yet. bought it with a bunch of books we had to buy for my cousin.
Last book I bought was Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame by Bukowski. There was God, and God sits at the right hand of Bukowski. :p
Have you ever heard Modest Mouse's Bukowski? It's a good song, you should check it out. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1jt
Hey Idril, long time no see! I'll check them out, thanks!
And for Christmas I got:Quote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon
JPod by Douglas Coupland
1984 by George Orwell
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
The last book I bought was Think for Yourself! by Steve Hindes. The book has some great points, but I find the author's anti-God rhetoric tiresome.
I remember reading the secret agent at school. I think it is his best book and the furthest away from what he normally wrote... it's one of the books that make him an early modernist. It has big, commedia del arte type characters and a cruel, nonsensical plot.Quote:
Originally Posted by watuknocankillu
The last book I bought for myself (for) Christmas was - Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Oh I'm DYING to read that one. I hear it's a great read :)Quote:
Originally Posted by toni
Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin. Nice read, but it didn't live up to the hype I'd heard about it.
For my birthday, I bought (okay, used my parent's credit card) the Feynman Lectures on Physics!!! The whole set...it's so useful (and fun to read). I got so happy I didn't touch the books for a week so that they won't get 'ruined'. :banana:
:bawling: I don't get books for presents anymore. Leo complains that I have too many now.Quote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon
I bought one for myself though, Irish Dreams by Nora Roberts. Never really heard of it before, but the books I have in mind to write have a lot to do with Ireland, so I couldn't really resist.