Ha! Imagine my chagrin – I thought it was a farming manual.Quote:
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Today I bought: Day Hiking the Northern Cascades
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Ha! Imagine my chagrin – I thought it was a farming manual.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seasider
Today I bought: Day Hiking the Northern Cascades
a thousand splendid suns by Khaleed hoseini. it is based in war stricken Afghanistan with an up close and personal view of women in Afghanistan and how they suffered for ages without the world taking notice.
Animal Farm and 1984, by George Orwell
-a single edition set with a preface by Christopher Hitchens
Because I feel like my thoughts have overly policed lately.
Also because it's raining in the Northern Cascades tody, making it a good day to read.
a book of poetry by an author from the ice named Sigfús Daðason, he was one of the so called atom poets here on the ice and wrote such beautiful poetry, I bought the collection of his work.
A Lover's Discourse, by Barthes. Guy at the bookstore said it was good when I sold them Camera Lucida and said I was afraid to read SZ.
" A company of swans" by Eva Ibbotson
I really enjoyed "A countess below stairs" and "the morning gift". I also like ballerinas so I decided to read this book!
Hey Rube; Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness, by Hunter S. Thompson
Does anyone really need a reason to buy an HST book when they find one they don't already own?
Here's a sample from the first essay:
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Autumn is always a time of Fear and Greed and Hoarding for the winter coming on. Debt collectors are active on old people and fleece the weak and helpless. They want to lay in enough cash to weather the known horrors of January and February. There is always a rash of kidnapping and abductions of schoolchildren in the football months. Preteens of both sexes are traditionally seized and grabbed off the streets by gangs of organized perverts who traditionally give them as Christmas gifts to each other to be personal sex slaves and playthings.
Most of these things are obviously Wrong and Evil and Ugly - but at least they are Traditional. They will happen. Your driveway will ice over, your furnace will blow up, and you will be rammed in traffic by an uninsured driver in a stolen car.
Shogun by James Cleavell.
I've been reading how many people here are talking about it in here, I saw it on monday when I went to the library to buy a book I needed for school. It got glued to my hand and I buyed it
i just bought "The Masque of africa" by V. S. Naipaul. after i read chinua achebe's Things Fall Apart, my interest in african culture has increased and so i bought this book to know more about it. since the writer is not european and has spent a considerable time in Caribbean continent so his stand point on african culture can be impartial.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I read two of the books, and enjoyed it so I decided to get the whole.
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Mistress in the art of Death by Ariana Franklin
I found both at a very cheap price and i enjoy these kinds of books
The Time Machine by Wells. I needed to replace my very worn copy ;)
Last book I bought - Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Why? - Now that I'm thoroughly lost in the latter half of the book, I am asking myself that question. Actually, it was two fold; one to introduce myself to a new author and secondly as a result of a past discussuion comparing Hemingway and Faulkner.
THE SON OF ENLIGHTENMENT- by Christian Jacq
Nice and interesting story, I was tempted to read more.Good Storyline with interesting character setting.
the dharma bums by jack kerouac
mainly because i'll be leaving for thailand in about a week!
The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
Amongst Women, John McGahern
That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern
The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions, Martin Amis
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman is really good although if you hate sad books stay away from it. Even though it is sad it is very good and I recomend you to read it.
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Miss Lonelyhearts & Day of the Locusts by Nathanael West
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
Because...they look good, and somehow I ended up with money.
Violin Mastery by Fredericks Herman Martens
Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John the Cross
Then there were books I bought through Kindle :wink5:
Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John the Cross
San Juan de la Cruz! Great poet. What translation did you pick up?
It by Stephen King. I have been wanting to read some of his work, but never got around to it until recently. It's taking a while to build up, but the plot is fairly interesting.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
I need to read it for class.
The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire
The Selected Poems of Li Po
ABC of Reading - Ezra Pound
I've started reading a lot more poetry, not only because it's easier to fit a few poems around my assigned reading, but because something's... clicked. I've started to enjoy reading poetry as much, if not more than reading novels. These are the poets that have caught my interest recently.
This thread is broken for me. Stuck on page 98.
At Home, by Bill Bryson
As with my previous purchase (Hey Rube, by Hunter S. Thompson) I don’t think I really need an excuse to buy a book that was written by one of my favorite authors.
At Home may be a good choice for members of this web-site, since there seems to be lots of us from North America and lots from the other side of the pond. You see, Bryson speaks both languages.
In Our Time Ernest Hemingway
Purchased E-Book for my Nook in response to a suggestion by Sancho as a Hemingway warm up to Farewell to Arms
complete works of Robert Browning, I have only read a few of his poems and the book was on sale
Ironweed by William Kennedy.
It seemed to be the most interesting book on the shelf.
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Currently reading : The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
I always wanted to have that book and bought it for myself as a birthday present. There are some books that you can borrow from the library and there are others you want to see on your own shelf. This is one such book.
A book of Dashiell Hammett short stories for Dave for Christmas.
I just bought 'Dubliners' by Joyce because I have been planning to read it for a while and it was cheap.
I also bought 'Doctor Who and Philosophy, bigger on the inside' with a bunch of essays about the good Doctor. I bought it because I finished the series and I want to have something to pass the time 'till he appears on the screen again. Also my excuse is that I plan to write my B.A thesis about something sci-fi related so I NEED a lot of books like this...
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
The Complete Short Stories by Saki
The Berlin Novels by Christopher Isherwood
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Currently reading: Where Angels Fear to Tread (E. M. Forster)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rusdie. E-book for a Nook. Purchsaed in order to take part in the Man Booker Award February reading. Unfortuantely I was not able to finish by the end of last month. I'm on page 225 of 500+ pages.
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Plays - Anton Chekhov (Penguin Classics ebook). I've never read him before and I want to read more plays (and it was a good price so I just couldn't say no!).
Land of Wooden Gods ~ Jan Fridegard: Because Amazon thought I would like him since I bought some Vilhelm Moberg and it sounded quite interesting.
Conquered City ~ Victor Serge: Because I love Victor Serge
Evelina ~ Frances Burney
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories ~ Bruno Schulz : Both were more Amazon recommendations.
The Sheltering Sky to read with Qimi's reading group. It looks like an awesome book.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll)
Junky (William S. Burroughs)
The Stories (John Cheever)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger)
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (Victor Serge)
Zadig/L'Ingénu (Voltaire)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut)
Complete Works (Nathanael West)
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Currently reading: The Leopard (Giuseppe di Lampedusa)
todays little haul to feed my addiction!!
"The Tiger In The Smoke" by Margaret Allingham
"Black Powder, White Smoke" by Loren D. Estleman
"There's Something About A Convent Girl" a collection of short stories.
"the catcher in the rye"
schooltask, but..I like it
I picked up a slew of books at Half-Price Books... the used book store here.
I picked up two giant art books... one on the Louvre and the other on the Musee d'Orsay. I already had the latter, but its a $75 book and was on sale for $8 so I got it for my studio mate for next Christmas. The Louvre book was an equal deal... but this I got for myself.
I also go a great book on Degas that included a lot of color reproductions of paintings I don't already have in reproduction in the other books on have on the artist. Degas has long been one of my favorite artists and one of the artist most influential upon my own work.
The final art book I purchased was a decent book with some good photographs of the "buried army" of Qin Shi Huang, in China.
In the realm of literature, I picked up one book of selected plays by Jean Giraudoux. I also got a volume of selected plays by Tennessee Williams, and another volume of three plays by Lope de Vega. In another great buy, I picked up the complete plays of George Bernard Shaw in 6 hardback volumes for $15!! Obviously, I've been doing some reading of plays or theater lately: Aeschylus, Euripides, Tennessee Williams, Cornielle, etc...
Sounds like some great finds there St. Lukes. I have a rather large book titled "The Modern Poster" that I had purchased at HPB a few years ago for a steal at $10.00. It is a MOMA publication printed in conjunction with an exhibition. Great images throughout.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
My most recent purchase was Guy Mannering by Walter Scott a decision that was driven by a posting on the 101 dogs thread. I had associated Scott with a breed of dog in something he wrote which turned out to be Guy Mannering, but I hadn't actually read it.
I had to satisfy my curiosity.
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