I was told that it's a great book. Would you be kind enough to share your opintion DM :D?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
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I was told that it's a great book. Would you be kind enough to share your opintion DM :D?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
I would agree. I am really enjoying it. It is very interesting.
I bought The Red Tree because a picture from it was used in the picture poetry contest thread and when I looked it up it looked very interesting. So I bought that.
My boyfriend just arrived home from Spain and brought with him a book for me- so I didn't buy it but he did, anyways it is The Complete Guide to Narnia by Collin Doriez, in Spanish. It's really great. I'm going to buy thhe english version just for comparison, especially since I can only understand about half of the book.
I went to one of the big bookstores in Athens....Big mistake: I must have spent about 2 hours in there without realising it...and came out with only one book (I'm good at restraining myself :p ).
Anyway, found Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse five for only 5 euros!! Shocking!! Unfortunately that seemed to be the only bargain of the day...
Last week I accidentaly bought 5 books... I bought 2 at first because they were on offer: both Persuasion AND Mansfield Park for £3 seemed too good to miss.
And then I went into Waterstones 3-for-2 offer, intending to get a birthday present for a friend, picked one for her out of the 3-for-2 so HAD to get 2 more... then chose another book for her and kept the three myself :blush:
They are Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier, The Conjorors Bird by... someone... and A Hat full of Sky by Terry Pratchet. I have to stop spending so much on books!!!
which means? i think badelaire wrote totally two spleens included in the fleurs du mal.. but is possible iam wrong...Quote:
Originally Posted by johann cruyff
A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy.
Light in August by William Faulkner - my second copy. I'm writing my thesis on it this fall, so I needed a clean copy.
Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope
Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
[QUOTE=Lioness_Heart;601532]Last week I accidentaly bought 5 books... /QUOTE]
You are a gal after my own heart, LH! I thought I was the only one who 'accidentally' bought books - they just sort of leap off the shelf at you, don't they?
There is no proper bookshop in the nearest town to me, so when I get near a bookshop I tend to behave in an unrestrained fashion. Was in Oxford last week and asked my sister-in-law to keep me out of bookshops but the bus stopped right outside Waterstones.... and the return bus picked up outside Borders.....so one or two volumes went home with me....If on a Winter's Night by Italo Calvino because I've seen it mentioned on the Forum several times, Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell because I'm off to S Africa soon and I like Mankell's books, My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk because I'm in the middle of Snow and I want to read more Pamuk, Binu and the Great Wall of China by Su Tong because I was there last year and anything Chinese still grabs my attention, An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears because it's set in Oxford and I suspect I won't see it in my part of the world unless it becomes a Best Seller and/or a film/tv series and Touching Distance by Rebecca Abrams, an Oxford author (ditto last title). Then there were the odd detective stories, volume 2 or 3 of series, latest titles by previously enjoyed authors....Good job I was only there for a few days and we didn't get as far as Blackwell's.
Hope you enjoy The Conjuror's Bird btw - I found it a most entertaining read.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I thoroughly enjoyed the reading of his first novel The Kite Runner and it served as an inducement to purchase another novel written by him.
Nossa just mentioned that novel too. I forget which thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bijou
I picked up "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts" (ed. by David Dunbar & Brad Reagan) today. I bought it because I've had several people recently mention that they believe the terrorist attacks on 9/11 were an "inside job" and I want to give them more detailed reasons for why I think they are delusional idiots.
Finally bought my own copy of Cormac McCarthy's The Road :D
About Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns, you can find my review here:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=36316
:D
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
bought it in london impulsively because my friend was rushing me to leave the bookstore to catch a movie, so i ran through the fiction section and grabbed anything that looked interesting. I had been meaning to buy marquez because it's supposedly a classic. It's quite good.