"The Death of Jim Loney" by James Welch. I saw it mentioned in a creative writing book I'm reading.
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"The Death of Jim Loney" by James Welch. I saw it mentioned in a creative writing book I'm reading.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Reasoning: Well I was in the philosophy section of Barnes and Nobles, and I hate leaving a bookstore without buying at least something. Also, it was between that and Utopia by Sir Thomas Moore, and Manifesto just felt lighter ^_^
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Got recommended to me.
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
I haven't read this one yet, and I'm a big fan of Flannery O'Connor.
infinite jest - david foster wallace
heard it was AMAZING and SO CLEVER and THE BEST BOOK EVER. sadly it's not. not at all. it's quirky hipster drivel. note to self: stop reading books that aren't at least 50 years old.
El Paciente Ingles
Because it was cheap, I was bored, and it's been recommended on several occasions.
My last two books were a volume entitled Byzantine Art and another 1492, a catalog from an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington from some years back. I bought both books for the wealth of color photographs of some beautiful art work and because they were both grossly inexpensive.
after all that heavy stuff....
the last book I bought was Legends O f Australian Fantasy edited by Jack Dann & Jonathan Strahan.
I like fantasy.
My Antonia by Willa Cather because many people on here seem to rate it and Selected Letters of Jane Austen, out of interest.
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky P/V translation.
Working my way through P/V translations as I enjoyed their C&P immensely.
The Last book I bought was Burma Boy. I had no specific reason for buying this one. I walked randomly into this bookstore, had a look at the books, found it. Then I turned it around to read the synosis and found it interesting.
Perfume by Patrick Süskind and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I bought Perfume because I've wanted to read it for ages and The Virgin Suicides because I'd read about it recently and thought it sounded promising.
Machiavelli's The Prince - I have heard so many thing about it I was curious to see what its about.
(The what)
The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table - Oliver Wendell Holmes
(The wherefore)
I had not read it, it was in perfect condition for a second printing and only 50 cents at a charity shop.
Rimbaud's complete works. I'd heard references in Dylan songs and decided to check it out.
I love "My Bohemian Life", which I read first due to its influence on the Dylan tune "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues".
Wuthering Heights - Like the Kate Bush song, and want to see if its novelization lives up to the musical version. :ciappa:
Making Money, Terry Pratchett - this makes my Discworld collection complete.
Yeah, I hear Ms Bronte made some quick buck by writing that book based on the song but writing seems a little dramatic and sensationalist.Quote:
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The Zookeeper's War..By Steven Conte.
It has won Prime Minister's Award..2008 (Australia).
I also like the cover:thumbsup:
I like to read about animals, my favourite was Water For Elephants.:seeya
Entire Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Because I had not read any of his writing, yet of course had hear about the Raven and other snips, so thought I would try to read a piece at a time between other books.
"Subculture: The Meaning of Style" - Dick Hebdige
"The Hip Hop Wars" - Tricia Rose
"Lords of Chaos" - Michael Moynihan
"Sober Living for the Revolution" - Gabriel Kuhn
"The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise" - Craig O'Hara
"Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture" -Stephen Duncombe
"Make a Zine!" - Bill Brent
"Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore" - Albert Mudrian
"We Owe You Nothing" - Daniel Sinker
"Zine Yearbook #9" from Microcosm Publishing
Big ole' order for school, for a humanities class I'm taking about underground subcultures (primarily subcultures centered around music). I'm super excited for the class, since I'm a fan of and very interested in all of the genres we're covering (black/death metal, punk/hardcore, and hip-hop) and the class is (from what I understand) going to be very independent and research oriented.
Just bought Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time by Joseph Frank. It's the abridged (only 1,000 pages lol) version of his epic 5-volume biography. Dostoevsky is my favorite writer, I'm borderline obsessed with him, and I'm really psyched to travel through his life.
Well, I just received an Amazon shipment of 31 books: novels, short story collections, and a couple Latin textbooks, all for the upcoming semester. I will not bother listing all of them, but at the moment I am reading Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme. I LOVE it.
Yes... Barthleme can be quite marvelous.
My own most recent purchase was that of The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino. Because of copyright issues (idiot lawyers!) Calvino's Cosmicomics only appeared in the US in a truncated form. Even at that, the collection was brilliant... but what can I say, I love Calvino. When I discovered that the complete edition (nearly 4 times as long as the US edition!) was available through Amazon, I had to immediately jump upon it... even if that meant paying for international shipping from the UK.
A few days ago I found a 1949 copy of The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald in a thrift store for a dollar, so I figured I might as well get it. I also found The Quincunx by Charles Palliser for the same price, and got it because I remember someone on this site saying that it was great, so...
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver
True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
I'm the King of the Castle - Susan Hill
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
In the Springtime of the Year - Susan Hill
The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Yesterday:
The Wild Palms (If I Forget Thee Jerusalem!)- Faulkner
Three Novels (Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable)- Beckett
A House for Mr Biswas- Naipaul
Why? I wanted The Wild Palms and the Beckett trilogy and my Borders had neither. So I decided to order them off Amazon since they have discounts too...but I needed to go over $25 to get the free shipping so...Mr. Biswas.
The Marquise of O - And Other Stories by Heinrich Kleist
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert
The Rebel by Albert Camus
Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Caesar: The Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Cousin Bette by Honore Balzac
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Why???
For those books concerned, I love history.
As for the others I love Camus and Hemingway
and I want to get into wider European literary material
The Mango Tree - Ronald McKie
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner - Alan Sillitoe
The first two will be re-reads from long ago, the last will be a first timer.
Why
They were all there in there in an op shop at the right price, pre-loved books:angel:
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. After I read Behind the Scenes at the Museum I was anxious to read any more she would write and I was disappointed in Human Croquet. But Case Histories is good and fulfils my need for a well written thriller.
After Many A Summer by Aldous Huxley. I bought it because I like to read.
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger.
Why? Because I loved The Time Traveller's Wife by the same author.
I picked up 5 books at a Labor Day 20% off sale at Half-Price Books:
Anne Carson- An Oresteia- a "translation" of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Elektra, and Euripides' Orestes. I quite like Carson as poet and translator and am interested in what she soes with these three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus.
Euripides- Medea tr. by Robin Robertson. This is a classic Greek tragedy and I am interested in how this acclaimed recent translation approaches the work.
Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey- Fragonard- A lovely little book on the paintings of the Rococo master at a price that could not be passed by.
Mark Rosenthal (ed.)- Vision of Paris: Robert Delaunay's Series- Another art book. The paintings of the French Modernist, Robert Delaunay. I had never really looked at his work much in the past, but I found that his Expressionistic approach to space is quite intriguing and something I could use in my own paintings.
Catherine Clark, etc...- Ascending Chaos: The Art of Masami Teraoka- Another art book. In this case it is a retrospective of the work of the contemporary Japanese painter, Masami Teraoka, known for his figurative paintings which explore eroticism in Western and Japanese culture. His most recent works are huge watercolor paintings with gold leaf framed like early Renaissance altarpieces with imagery exploring sexual hypocrisy in Western/American politics.
I went to Barnes & Noble the other day to look around and noticed they (re)released their collection of Jules Verne novels among their leatherbound classics line. I picked up that along with the HG Wells collection which I've been meaning to get anyway.
Except for the inclusion of a few poor and out-dated translations that seriously mitigate his work, the Verne collection was well worth $20.
Boy - by James Hanley
Transition by Iain Banks for a book club on another forum. Finished it now. Meh.
Flush by Virginia Woolf. To satisfy 3 of my passions, Woolf, Dogs and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. And it was one of the few books of hers that I hadn't read.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. I've never really been into science fiction, but as Heinlein is considered one of the greats of the genre I thought this would be worth a look. I also have an interest in anarchism which is why I chose this book specifically.
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. It appears on a lot of recommended reading and best book lists and has long been a source of intrigue.
Stand We At Last by Zoe Fairbairns, it follows five generations generations of women through the history of their emancipation. It opens in 1855 in Sussex England, a very interesting era for me.
Just obtained a book entitled, The Fin-de-Siècle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s (a collection of essays) edited by Joseph Bristow.
Know Bristow from Wilde studies.
by the antediluvian Noah. I hope the book is better than the movie.
I just bought Eyeless in Gaza just because Im on a huge Huxley kick right now.