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That's a good book. Enjoy it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bouquin
Paperback editions on The winter's tale and A Midsummer night's dream. The Wadsworth editions, hope they're decent, but were the only ones I could afford right now. I think they'll arrive end of this week.
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
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Currently reading: Them (Joyce Carol Oates)
All About H. Hatterr
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Currently reading: The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
Bought the following books recently.
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake [I watched the film, like it, and wanted to read the media celebrated work to see for myself how good it is]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Autumn of the Patriarch [sheer brilliance of his art of storytelling]
Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood [heard good word, read it, liked it. Good book but not a spectacular piece of writing]
Dilip Hiro [ed. & tr.] - Baburnama [non-fiction/history: the autobiography of the founder of the Mughal Empire]
Hello!
The last book I bought is 'Daniel Deronda' by George Eliot.
Why? Because Eliot is one of my favourite writers.
The last book i bought was 'The Sorrows of Young Mike' by John Zelazny.
Because recently I am all about first time authors.
À rebours, the 1966 Penguin edition, translated as Against Nature, because it crops up in Withnail & I and sounds similar to a piece I'm currently writing.
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney. I don't usually read too many critics since I much prefer to form my own impressions and judgements. However, have read Heaney's poems since the late 1960's and just this once thought - 'I would like to see how far people do or do not see some of this as I do'.
The Graduate (Charles Webb)
Group Portrait with Lady (Heinrich Böll)
Coming Up for Air (George Orwell)
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Currently reading: The Thinking Reed (Rebecca West)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. I came on these forums, looking through the author section to see who had been talked about and who hadn't, and this author came up on the page and I noticed no one had started a topic on him so I thought I would read some of what he wrote so that in the future I could start a topic myself. Plus, its good to expand your horizons.
Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, by Haruki Murakami:
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Homer's Odyssey, they're classics and I hadn't read them yet. I finished Dorian and I enjoyed it very much.
Middlemarch by George Elliot.
There is this bookstore I go to that's 98 minutes from my house by bus, it's the only bookstore I like that brings classics and has a good atmosphere to it. And there is this cafe right next to it called Cinema Cafe; A great place to start the first chapter of the book I buy. Anyway, every time I go there I pick a book that I haven't heard of before and open the middle section of the book and read 2 pages. If I like it, I buy it. Just like that :)
I'd say you got lucky this time. Middlemarch is a fantastic book.Quote:
Originally Posted by farnoosh
Tipping the Velvet (Sarah Waters)
The Colour (Rose Tremain)
London Fields (Martin Amis)
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Currently reading: I'm the King of the Castle (Susan Hill)
In an age of grainy, pale, yellow-by-birth recycled paper and fragile paperbacks with crawling-ant font, I bought some beautiful hardbound English classics printed in Hungary on high quality paper by a German publisher, as if they have come straight from the old days, a celebration of good printing. These books were being sold at throwaway prices. Perhaps they couldn't meet sales in the German market and were too happy to ship them off to anyone who'd take them.
Books are from Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, William Makepeace Thackeray and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Plus I got a couple of second hand copies of John Updike [S, The Witches of Eastwick]. I also bought Milan Kundera's The Art of Novel, in English translation, to see what that wonderful artist has to say. Looks promising and it is the one I am going to start on first as soon as I'm done with what I'm already reading. Hallelujah.
The Purity Of Desire: 100 poems by Rumi
Rumi is a magnificently beautiful and simple poet who brings the greatest thoughts of love and understanding into my otherwise mundane life. A true master of the craft who keeps the otherwise rampant complexities of most poetry to a slight breeze through the branches of my imagination in what is usually a billowing sail on a roaring sea.
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Small Hand (Susan Hill)
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Currently reading: Agnes Grey (by Anne Brontë)
Give Me Your Heart (Joyce Carol Oates)
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Currently reading: On Beauty (Zadie Smith)
a travel essay entitled "Book cafe in Europe" by Goo Hyun-jung.
I love going to book cafes and reading about book cafes is fun. I actually bought the book at a book cafe.
Rupert Sheldrake, "Morphic Resonance". I bought it because it wasn't in the library, but also because I wanted to have the digital version handy so I could reference it and mark it up.
What I hope to understand from reading this is what is more likely putting constraints on us. The previous likely candidates, quantum particles and selfish genes, only go so far and, as far as I can see, don't explain anything of real importance. He offers the idea of morphic fields which is appealing because it is field based rather than particle based.
for me i spend all my time to prepare free ebooks for people to read online
I bought The Rebel by Camus, because I am studying Revolutions as one of my modules.
The Verificationist - Donald Antrim
The Death Father - Donald Barthelme
The Cannibal - John Hawkes
Wanted something short, and been feeling a surreal vibe lately.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (George Orwell)
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Currently reading: The Bell (Iris Murdoch)
120 days of sodom by Sade
Le Bleu du Ciel (Georges Bataille)
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Currently reading: Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Stonemouth : Banks Because it's right to support widows.
for the reading list:
The Once and Future King (T. H. White)
Le Jour des Morts (Cees Nooteboom)
Rituels (Cees Nooteboom)
L'Année de la Mort de Ricardo Reis (José Saramago)
Rabbit is Rich (John Updike)
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
Casino Royale (Ian Fleming)
Rosshalde (Hermann Hesse)
Fools of Fortune (William Trevor)
The Heart of Redness (Zakes Mda)
Empire of the Sun (J G Ballard)
Lost Illusions (Honoré de Balzac)
The Lost Language of Cranes (David Leavitt)
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Currently reading: The Temple of My Familiar (Alice Walker)
I love that bookQuote:
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Last book I bought was The Strain by Guillermo del Toro because its been on my wish list for a while and it dropped to £0.99 for the Kindle version
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Black Water (Joyce Carol Oates)
The Cider House Rules (John Irving)
The Time of Indifference (Alberto Moravia)
Antic Hay (Aldous Huxley)
The Crow Road (Iain Banks)
. . . all on my reading list.
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Currently reading: The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Old Wives' Tale (Arnold Bennett)
The Glass Key (Dashiell Hammett)
The First Circle (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)
The Folding Star (Alan Hollinghurst)
Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis)
I'm Not Stiller (Max Frisch)
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Currently reading: Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
Uzma Aslam Khan - Thinner Than Skin
Enjoy! :thumbsup: Read him before?Quote:
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No, my first Kawabata book. I have heard a lot of praise and am expecting a great reading experience!Quote:
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Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Because it's about time I read it.
The Maltese Falcon and Heart of Darkness by Conrad for their reputation, well and because Heart of Darkness was only $2.25 haha. I am waiting for them to get delivered.
When I was at the Quest Book Store I picked up a copy of Amit Goswami's "The Self-Aware Universe". Nothing by Goswami was in my local library and so I figured this might be worth buying. This was another book on quantum physics and consciousness, but as I read further he seemed to have a view point similar to the one I was coming up with and even called it "monistic idealism". Most of my ideas have been thought by others before as I have come to realize again and again.
He wasn't as fond of George Berkeley as I currently am, thinking that Berkeley was implicitly a dualist, but my challenge was to find where I disagreed with Goswami. That book was published in 1993 and so I looked for something more recent from him and bought his 2012 ebook, "God Is Not Dead".
What makes monistic idealism work is the non-locality of quantum physics which pushes influence outside space-time (assuming one defines space-time as the place where local field influences can operate). Berkeley would not have had that to shield him from dualism.
1. Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders
2. Daniel Defoe. Roxana
3. John Locke. An Essay concerning Human Understanding
4. Ben Jonson. The Alchemist and Other Plays
Reasons: I always give myself books as presents for special occasions; Now for New Year! Moreover, I am studying Literature, and I want to read my own books and write notes on although some of these books I am re-reading. Unfortunately, I couldn't find Richardson's Pamela at the bookstore else it would be on the list!