Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. I liked Wolf Hall and was curious about how she would develop the story further.
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Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. I liked Wolf Hall and was curious about how she would develop the story further.
William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books because I only have a smaller edition of the illuminated Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and I am hungry for more of this beautiful coupling of words and images.
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The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Bought on the recommendation of a fellow litnet user...Also as a reward to myself for getting straight A's last quarter. Can't buy any books for a long while now, though.
Summer (Edith Wharton)
Family Matters (Rohinton Mistry)
On Beauty (Zadie Smith)
What I Loved (Siri Hustvedt)
Dead Air (Iain Banks)
Wild Swans (Jung Chang)
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Currently reading: The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
The Penny Falls by Mark Bastable
Why: The title and cover art intigues me.
Secondly; to support Forum member and Bloke.
Just illuminated the screen (cracked it open). Plan to delve into it with conviction this weekend.
Cheannaich mi s an seachdainn seo chaidh mar a leanas: The Vivisector, Cloud Atlas, Wonder, Land of Decoration, Wild Coast, The Collected Poems of Philip Larkin and ASJ Tessimond. And a copy of The Songs of DR Maclachlan of Rathuaidhe. Ah but when will I read them? Well into Tessimond already.
The Wealth of Nations-Adam Smith, 1937 Modern Library, cannan edition full of annotations and footnotes.
Why: I have a nearly complete, 1952 set of Great Books of the Western World, which while being awesome for tracing ideas between great minds through generations, has generally small print and is in their original forms without annotation and such. Plus, besides enjoying leatherbound books, I like crusty old books that are in decent shape because it makes me feel connected to the past by having a piece of it in the present, sort of.
The Tale of Heike, as translated by Royall Tyler, because I loved his 'Genji' so much.
Me and my boyfriend ordered some books yesterday. He really wanted to read the A Song of Ice and Fire series, so we got all published books so far. As for myself, I noticed that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie had released a new book, Americanah, so I got that (I've been waiting for it for years!) - as well as The Fault in Our Stars by John Green that I have been recommended to read by several people now.
Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
The Virgin in the Garden (A.S. Byatt)
Auto da Fé (Elias Canetti)
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
Just bought the 28 book set of the civil war published by time life, they're hardback and in perfect shape. I got them for $150 at a flea market, and after googling them online didn't see a price that cheap. I purchased them because I love having complete series of books (I just got the complete set of history of civilization by will durant a week ago), I love history, and my grandfather left me the complete set of the time life WWII books. Also, I have just plowed through a song of ice and fire, and the boyfriend of the previous poster will love them. However, I am definitely in need of some non-fiction after five straight fantasy books; luckily I just replenished my supply
Shakuntala and Other Writings by Kalidasa. I don't know any other book that has those translations of his epic poems The Birth of the War God or The Dynasty of Raghu, plus it comes with two minor plays and other epic poems I've already read but didn't own.
UN ETE A BADEN-BADEN (Leonid Tsypkin)
LA MAISON AUX ESPRITS (Isabel Allende)
LE PONT SUR LE DRINA (Ivo Andric)
HOMO FABER (Max Frisch)
LE STECHLIN (Theodor Fontane)
I believe the last book that I bought was The Portrait of Dorian Grey.
Because I had heard of the story from a couple of people and it caught my interest immensely.
''Foucault's Pendulum''- Umberto Eco
''Being and Nothingness''- Jean Paul Sartre
''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''- Ludwig Wittgenstein
''Paradise Lost''- John Milton
''The Waste Lands''- T.S Eliot
''Waves''- Virginia Woolf
Baburnama, translated by Wheeler Thackston
linear algebra, 2nd edition, by Michael O'Nan. Had to get it in a used book store. I was working on a problem that required the use of matrices and I needed to review the theory. Since this was the text I used in college and knew it had what I needed, I hunted around for it rather than just picking up any of the other more easily available texts...$6...
I bought Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev last week. My aunt suggested it to me. Turgenev is one of her favourite writers.
Salinger's Franny and Zooey. I've already read Franny, I liked it very much!
Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)
Ilustrado (Miguel Syjuco)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
The Moor's Last Sigh (Salman Rushdie)
The Joke (Milan Kundera)
England Made Me (Graham Greene)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Mario Vargas Llosa)
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Currently reading: La Faim (Knut Hamsun)
Unwind by Neal Shusterman is amazing!!
The last book I bought was Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
The last book I bought was ''I am God'' by Giorgio Faletti...I don't know why,I just love thrillers xD
Ann Veronica by HG Wells because it was June bom, but nobody likes it.
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace and The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino. I'm just getting familiarized with these two authors, that's why. And it's on sale, 30% off. Good deal.
Speaking of good deals, this one was a freebee from Project Gutenberg:
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Co. Aytch, A Side Show of the Big Show, by Sam R. Watkins.
It's a fascinating first-person account of the American Civil War from the perspective of a private soldier in the Confederate Army (Company H of the 1st Tennessee).
The Great Gatsby because I have heard a lot about it around here actually, haven't read it yet, though.
The last book I bought was "Very Good Jeeves" By Wodehouse. I absolutely love the Jeeves series and just cannot get enough of the amazingly clever Jeeves and foppish with a heart of gold Bertie Wooster.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Have you read it?Quote:
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No, I haven’t read it yet. I’m currently reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.Quote:
Originally Posted by hannah_arendt
Oxford and Cambridge: An Uncommon History, by Peter Sager (a German),translated by David Wilson. Fascinated by the simultaneous grandness and pettiness of these British institutions.
I bought The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad a couple of days ago and gave it to my younger sister as a gift. She just told me that she didn’t like it. What an honest reply!
I am in the middle of "Dune" now :) Then I am going to re-read "Lord of the ring".Quote:
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A hardcover of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I have that and Atlas Shrugged. I haven't read her work yet, and I have no idea what I'll think of it, but I have heard that they are excellent reads even if one does not agree with the philosophy espoused by them.
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg)
Les Enfants Terribles (Jean Cocteau)
Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
Choke (Chuck Palaniuk)
Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
Les Désarrois de l'Eleve Törless (Robert Musil)
The Return of the Soldier (Rebecca West)
The Blessing (Nancy Mitford)
Wigs on the Green (Nancy Mitford)
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Currently reading: Le Pont sur la Drina (Ivo Andric)
The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
Uncle Silas (J.S. Le Fanu)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
Good Morning, Midnight (Jean Rhys)
Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
Intimacy (Hanif Kureishi)
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Amok (Stefan Zweig)
Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)
Canada (Richard Ford)
La Conscience de Zeno (Italo Svevo)
Collected Stories (Tennessee Williams)
King Solomon's Mines (H. Rider Haggard)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
A Pale View of the Hills (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Awakening and Other Stories (Kate Chopin)
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Currently reading: Les Braises (Sandor Marai)
Gods of the Greeks and The Heroes of the Greeks by Karl Kerényi: I'm delving into latin and greek mythology almost from five months among essays, epic (-and not) poetry and ancient philosopy.
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
An American Dream - Norman Mailer
Back to Blood - Tom Wolfe
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr.
Reheated Cabbage - Irvine Welsh
All at 20% off. Not too bad.
African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou.
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis.
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
I've been wanting to read the first for a while, and decided to when I was buying the other two. The second one is for my fiancee who has read many books by Bret Easton Ellis and enjoyed them all. And Cormac McCarthy is the next read in my book club.