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I read it in Spanish, but then I suppose you must have bought a good translation. It's wonderful, and still very funny after four hundred years... but you must have a little context, because Cervantes intended to satirize the "errant knight" stories in fashion at that time, and that's what Don Quixote is... a magnificent parody.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loike
...was "Armageddon in Retrospect."
Because I like Vonnegut and wanted to see something I hadn't seen before.
I borrow far more often than I buy, and the last book I borrowed was "Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard.
Because my favorite cartoonist mentioned Patrick O'Brian in an e-mail and I had never read any of his work. I chose this particular one because it was published when he was fifteen and I thought it might inspire me to actually write something.
My last shopping spree resulted in:
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Greer
White Fang by Jack London
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Edit: No reason why, just one of those pick what looks interesting.
I forked out 10 squid(!!) for The Count of Monte Cristo last night at the airport, while waiting for my plane to actually arrive before it could depart again!
Was a crazy moment which will probably not be repeated soon....
Thank you Pecksie and TurquoiseSunset for your replies about Don Quixote. I'm now reading The Portrait of a Lady because I've heard so many good and often very enthusiastic comments about James that I thought reading him might be a good plan. But after I've finished it, I shall definitely read Don Quixote, because from what you said it seems rather exciting. :D.
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Today I bought Sophie's World and Ulysses. I have my own copy of Ulysses for the first time.
Wistawa Szymborska, Poems, New and Collected.....Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, translated by John J. L. Mood.....The Book of Images, Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow.....Rilke's Book of Hours, Love poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.....{reason for buying them, tremendous admiration and appreciation of both poets}
The Portrait of a Lady- Henry James
The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux (an English version)
I just bought Unruly Americans and the Origins of The Constitution byWoody Holton and A People's History of the Supreme Court byPeter Irons. I picked both up because I'm planning on going to law school (mainly focusing on U.S. constitutional law) once I finish my Bacherlor's.
I just had a little trip to the book market and bought:
The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol
Ibsen: Four Major Plays
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Men Without Woman - Ernest Hemingway
Selected Essays - D.H. Lawrence
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
Bend Sinister - Vladimir Nabokov
Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay - Robert DiYanni
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1) Crusade by Robyn Young
2) The Interpretation Of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
I went to the city a short while back, to go book shopping :D. Ended up with some art books, and a few random novels. Mostly $2 used books from the library.
My boyfriend and I just ordered two books each. He got Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson, as well as The Difference Engine by William Gibson. And I got PS, I Love You by Cecilia Ahern, and also Enduring Love by Ian McEwan. I chose my books because I've heard a lot of things about Ahern, both good and not so good comments, and I want to get an opinion on the book myself. And as to McEwan, I just finished Atonement, which I loved, and now I want to keep on reading his books, to see how I like them.
I wanted to buy this book (and On Chesil Beach too), after reading Atonement, hopefully you'll share your opinion about the book :DQuote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon