Last Book You Bought and Why

I've just bought quite a lot of Ackroyd's works both for the Library and myself, as I had read some of his fiction, and thought his biographies were supposed to be very good. His Shakespeare and Dickens works were very highly regarded, and I have the latter on my TBR pile at the moment, as I love Dickens, and thought he was the acclaimed expert on him. I've bought Hawksmoor and his biogs. on Chaucer, Turner, Blake and Shakespeare, along with some history books on Rome, Greece and the Ancient World for the Library.

I want to read Hawksmoor so much, as I've read so much about it, but I don't want to be disappointed. I read his Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, (I think it was called that) a long time ago and really liked it, but I couldn't get into The Lambs of London. I will try again I think, as sometimes it's not the book, but ourselves, and I freely admit I have had a rough few years, where I couldn't concentrate on reading.

Les Miserables (Volume Two) by Victor Hugo

The last book I bought was T.S. Eliot 'selected poems'. I bought Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' a few days ago and I love it so far.

House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family: Paul Fischer
Basic Writings of Nietzsche: translated by Walter Kauffman

Cathedral Of The Sea by Ildefonso Falcones

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Les Miserables (Volume Two) by Victor Hugo

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oh my god it's a really good book, and hes famous because of it :P

anyway the last book that i bought was "JANE EYRE" for charlotte bronte

Last book bought:

Ancient Religions by Sarah Iles Johnston.

Not really a novel but I'm doing an anthropological study on ancient religions so it'll help.

Last novel bought:
Tale of Two Cities.

I just got back from Minneapolis and while I was there, I picked up a few books,

Devil's Midnight by Yuri Kapralov
The Patrician by John Galsworthy
Faust by Ivan Turgenev
Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
and The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy

I like Idril's list above and would love to read all of his(?) books! Postman delivered a nice hard-bound copy of Jules Supervielle: Selected Writings today. Thanks Pecksie for this recommendation. Amazon took six weeks to deliver this out of print and rare volume but it was worth it in the end!

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Last book bought:

Ancient Religions by Sarah Iles Johnston.

Not really a novel but I'm doing an anthropological study on ancient religions so it'll help.

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I'm doing a personal study of the same, so I would be interested in your thoughts on the book.

My lovely and reliable post lady just delivered Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Russian Literature. Thanks Inderjit Sanghe for your recommendation.

I bought the long-coveted Amos Oz memoir "A Tale of Love and Darkness" for USD 0.5 on Amazon!!! And, after I had raided the clearance sale at a local bookstore, I made a friend go back and get me Margaret Drabble's "Jerusalem the Golden" and John Galsworthy's "The Man of Property".

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What is his writing like? I've been toying with reading some of his work for a while but for some reason never do. Would you reccommend him?

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I'm not a big fan of García Márquez. He's vastly overhyped, in my opinion (there are threads on this issue). If you want to read good Latin American authors, I'd recommend Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian), José Donoso (Chilean), Jorge L. Borges and Julio Cortázar (Argentines), and Juan C. Onetti and Horacio Quiroga (Uruguayan).

That's my best Latin American list!!! :p

The book: Instant Word Power by Norman Lewis

The reason: I would like to be a writer, and since my vocabulary skills leave much to be desired, I thought that I might try to improve them.

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A gift for a little book worm who has just had an operation.