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I'm liking it; Dawkins is always a lot of fun to read, and the way he lays it out like the Canterbury Tales is pretty amusing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Star
Oh yes, yesterday I bought Edith Wharton's Novellas and Other Writings, which looks like a lot of fun.
My father reads Dawkins. I don't know much about him or his work, but for some reason after reading his books, my dad seems to think he can lecture me about religion and philosphy.
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Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
I have an idea...why don't you read Dawkins and then lecture him back. Get some debating practice, not to mention maybe teach your dad what it feels like to be lectured to.
The last three books I bought were:
1. Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas
2. A Journey into the Deaf-World by Lane, Hoffmeister and Bahan
3. HalfLife by Meghan O'Rourke
It has been ages since the last time I bought a book, but it was Elizabeth Barett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese and other Poems", which I found extremely delightful. And I bought it for only a bit more than a dollar!
The Flying Inn~ G.K Chesterton and C.S Lewis and the Catholic Church~~ Joseph Pearce
That's kind of funny. I'm curious about what he would say, in light of Dr. D., but I'm with MaryLupin; fight the power!Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
- Perfume - The Story of a Murderer by Patrick SüskindQuote:
Originally Posted by Dark Star
- Desirée by Annemarie Selinko
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- The Rainbow and the Rose by Nevil Shute
- Moonraker's Bride by Madeleine Brent
I was raised catholic, and my mother is very catholic, and so he insists on being rude and ignorant and tryng to disprove the whole Catholic belief system. He can believe whatever he wants, but it's really unnessessary (wow I can't spell) for him to try to shove his view down our throats. He especially loves the whole creation vs. evolution. He quotes what Dawkins says about Darwin. I told him to actaully read Darwin, as I have, and then we'd talk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamesian
The worst part is: he never actaully bothers to ask what I believe. My views have long since strayed form traditional catholic beliefs but he's so busy trying to prove me wrong, that he's no longer aware that I don't care. I just bugs me that he does it to my mom.
I just recently purchased War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
Why'd you do that? Kinda weird to read something in latin that has its origin in english, I assume you do speak english?Quote:
Originally Posted by Orual
Why not? I think it can be a) for studying Latin or b) just for fun. I've read Harry Potter -books in Swedish, even though my mother tongue is Finnish and the original Harry Potter language is English. (Of course I've read them in English and Finnish, too)Quote:
Originally Posted by tinustijger
My reasons were a) to learn Swedish better and b) to see how different translations vary from each other and the original text, and that was just for fun :)
Maybe it would help if you pointed out to him that the Catholic church has accepted evolution.Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
I guess I am not following the book market as closely as probably I should. In any event, I was browsing the new novels in the English language section of a book store in Malmö today, and all of sudden a new book by Don DeLillo was staring me in the face! The title is Falling Man, and, being a fan of DeLillo's past novels, I immediately bought it, and just placed it firmly at the top of my "to read" pile.
You know I had a rather brutal father. He was an emotional bully and my mother tolerated it. But what is true is that they were in the weird-relationship together. They both caused the pain we all suffered, and until I learnt to speak calmly to both my mother and father (I studied books to give me the poise, words and arguments), and only speak when I could clearly and succinctly say what I experienced as a true and accurate rendition of the world, I learnt to simply watch them fall around each other getting some kind of weird satisfaction from all the pain they both produced. Once I achieved some distance and a calm voice, what I discovered is that both my mother and father were delightfully silly human beings. And then, there was no more pain. In between those two states I became one heck of well read woman.Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
The last book I bought was Quo Vadis by Henryk Sieniewicz. Apparently it's a very good historical fiction, but I haven't been able to read it yet.
confederacy of dunces. good stuff. think i'm getting murphy, by beckett, today.
Oh I don't remember. ;) I try not to buy books anymore (can't afford :() and so rely on the library or Bookmooch.com for my literary needs. The last book I actually bought was in May, The Good Guy by Dean Koontz. It was worth it!
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
I bought these books yesterday...
I just got: Avalon High by Meg Cabot
The Misadventures of Benjamin Bartholomew Piff: volume 2 by Jason Lethcoe
Naruto: Volumes 1 and 11 by Masashi Kishimoto
Prom Dates from Hell by Rosemary Clement-Moore
Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud (3rd in the Bartimaeus trilogy)
and Maximum Ride: Saving the World and other extreme sports (3 in the maximun ride series) by James Patterson.
I just bought a bunch of books:
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground, The Double, and Other Stories - Dostoevsky
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk - Dostoevsky
Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Essential Thinkers: Descartes (Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy, The Principles of Philosophy) - Descartes
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oscar Wilde: Collected Works (The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, The Ballod of Reading Gaol, De Profundis, and more)
All for $50!
Prom Dates from Hell is good!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bakiryu
Oh, *cocks eyebrow* really? I haven't begun to read it yet. Perhaps i should begin now, when i finish with <3 Naruto <3
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Spring Torrents by Turgenev...this is my second attempt at buying this one, the first one got 'lost in the mail'.
A Life Under Russian Serfdom: The Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800 by Boris B. Gorshkov and Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii
And for a little fun, I got Scandinavian Humor and Other Myths by John Louis Anderson. It's all about growing up Scandinavian and lutheran in the northern plains, it focuses mostly on Minnesota but the Dakotas get a mention or two, and it's hilariously funny...although probably only to those that have shared that experience.
Peril at the end house-Agatha Christie
Oh I loved it! Could never guess the culprit till the end. It was the last person I could ever have thought of! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by formality hater
"Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" was the last book that I remember buying but I haven't bought any new books in a long time. I just borrow my sister's or check some out from the library.
Pride and Prejudice as my old copy was falling apart!!
The Wolfen by Whitley Strieber
The Wild by Whitley Strieber
at the local library for a 50 cents apiece, geez, people dont know what treasures they cast away.
Just ordered:
The Fall of Never by Ronald Damien Malfi
Dark Woods by Jay Kumar
Bought Infinite Jest today (only ten bucks!) even though I'm still reading the copy from the library. :)
Tis a dry day for discussion. 'All of the Days and Nights', William Maxwell.
"Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens
"Tender is the night" Scott Fitzgerald
"Hunchback of Notre Demme" By Hugo
"Hellraiser" by Clive Barker
The Kellys and the O'Kellys: Or Landlords and Tenants by Anthony Trollope
Oh man, I haven't bought a book in sooooo long.
I think I bought a Saddle Club book in 6th grade from a garage sale. I expect my literature to be given to me!!@321!!
A History of the End of the World by Jonathan Kirsch. It's about the book of Revelation and how it has been used throughout the centuries. Quite interesting.
Talbot Mundy's Jimgrim and Allah's Peace which I've waited over 40 years to be reprinted to read the debut of Mundy's character James Schulyer Grim which was one of his longer series characters.
The creepiest thing just happened to me: I wanted this book i saw on the Oprah Book Club: Middlesex for weeks. But i didn't know where to find it. I didn't tell anybody about it but today my mother with ESP-like knowledge bought it at her work (walmarts!) for me! and she didn't even know i would like it since it's written in english and she doesn't understand it :)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
Selected Poetry, Wordsworth
and
The Odyssey, Homer
lovely old hardback books in perfict condition at a yard sale for only 1 dollar each!
"On the road" by Kerouac