Last Book You Bought and Why

Received the delivery of Fifty Poems by Boris Pasternak chosen and translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater.

Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

I got a big stockpile to read...so I think I won't be taking a trip to a bookshop anytime soon, though I am looking forward to reading Hannibal Lector's first outing after I've read the big pile.

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Originally Posted by Antiquarian

Yes! You do need to have a volume of Faulkner's short stories around the house! ;) I'm glad "A Rose for Emily" pushed you to buy it. Now you can discuss the stories with me. ;) I have The Collected Stories of William Faulkner, too. Of course. You know how much I love his writing.

Now, I just have to get you to buy The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner next. ;)

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Hehehe. Is the Uncollected much different than the Collected?

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Originally Posted by Antiquarian

All but those two. I've not read those. After I read The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller, I read Portrait of a Lady and I was hooked.

Your username is always confusing me. ;)

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You know I would love to go through a Henry James work here on lit net. I don't know which one, and I would hate to do a real long one, but it's been ages since i read a James novel or novela. The Ambassadors is very good by the way.

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Originally Posted by Antiquarian

All but those two. I've not read those. After I read The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller, I read Portrait of a Lady and I was hooked.

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Likewise. :thumbs_up

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Originally Posted by Virgil

You know I would love to go through a Henry James work here on lit net. I don't know which one, and I would hate to do a real long one, but it's been ages since i read a James novel or novela. The Ambassadors is very good by the way.

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My whole summer is going to be spent reading as much as I can of his major works (nearly done with The Wings of the Dove finally!), so I would very much be up for this. Something in the vein, perhaps, of Maisie or Poynton?

*sorry for double posting*

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Originally Posted by Kafka's Crow

You will enjoy the Tom Robbins book, one of my favorite contemporary humorous writers. Can't say the same about James. I think I have Fierce Invalid somewhere. Isn't it the one with the old lady's pet bird, some sort of a parrot? I once started reading it and then never finished. Naught wrong with the book, I was distracted by other things at that time. His Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas is hilarious and so is Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Good writer, that Robbins fellow is, he is mad!

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There is definitely a parrot involved somewhere. My cousin was passing through town and told me a bit about Robbins's books and read a little to me. He sounds very interesting. Looking forward to it...

Italian Journey by J.W. von Goethe.

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Originally Posted by Antiquarian

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

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One of my favorite stories ever. :D

Talk Talk - T.C. Boyle
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
A Burnt-Out Case - Graham Greene
Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations - Alexander McCall Smith
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields

I accidentally bought more books today
HG Wells - The country of the blind and other stories
Jules Verne - Around the world in 80 days
Patrick Suskind - Perfume
Hemingway - The sun also rises
and a bunch of Shakespeare (Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo & Juliet - read this about 15 years ago at school so looking forward to returning to it)

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Originally Posted by Hank Stamper

I accidentally bought more books today

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Oh, yes? Who do you think you are kidding, HS? :lol:

I've tried that one and none of my friends believe me. I've also tried 'It just jumped off the shelf into my hands', and 'It called out to me'. The only one they even begin to let me get away with is 'I bought it because I'll never see it again' and that only works with some really out of the way title.

I've got £25 worth of credit waiting for me on Amazon (belated birthday present). What to buy? Oh, decisions, decisions.....