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I learnt about "brave new world" in this forum and since people are raving about it i thought i'd give it a go. As for "Brideshead revisited" i think it was either you or malwethien that recommended this book :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
I'd like very much to read "the rainbow". I have already purchased a copy and it is right here waiting to be read. So just pick a date, whenever it is most convenient to both of you and i'll join :)
Animal Farm, Nobody in Paris and London by Orwell
Hooligan's Confession by Yesenin
The Twilight Saga...
I bought it out of sheer Curiosity....cant stop reading it....
I know what you mean. You hear about it from everyone. I had to buy them too. And all I can say is that I thought the first one good and the second one, well ...... for me it went downhill from there. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I really enjoyed the first one...they second one wasnt as good, like the third one, and the last one iritated me to the point where i thought she could have ended the series in a completely different way from the story that was the fourth book and redeemed the power of the first.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guinivere
I have just finished The Pit by Frank Norris ( masterly ) and tomorrow will begin The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford which I purchased yesterday.
Why? Because although I read it years ago, I had forgotten it and Virgil gave it his recommendation in another thread recently.
Uh-oh, this thread is giving me ideas for more books I MUST have.
The last book I bought was the new Illustrated Origin of the Species. Next year is Darwin's 200 birthday. I'm reading Origin for a class. I have a copy of the Harvard classics, from l909! Everytime I try to dog-ear a page it breaks! I get a kick out of it but the new Darwin looked so beautiful with it's illustrations and footnotes, I just couldn't resist!
Used, but good, George Elliot's Middlemarch for $3.50. That's about 3 pages per penny, and many many hours of quality occupation. This is a perfect deal as far as entertainment in this world economy.
Recently had an excursion of sorts in Bethlehem, visiting various used book stores. I picked up a few works of Dickens, "Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy, "Animal Farm" by Orwell, "A Journal of the Plague Years" by Defoe, and a large, multi-thousand page book of Victorian poetry for twenty dollars in all. Quite the deal.
Oh, I love used book stores - sound like you got lucky and made a killing - twenty bucks for all those - wowy. Those are all good novels to find. I simply adored the Hardy book "Return of the Native". I love all of Hardy's work especially. In fact my first Hardy book I found at a local yardsale - I had not even heard of the author and that reading really launched me on a quest to read most or all of his work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Hill
Welcome to the forum, Dr. Hill!
The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.
Why? Because I read McCarthy's book Outer Dark and thought The Road looked interesting, as I do like apocalyptic stories. Chuck Palahniuk seems like a fun author and I wanted to start with something that wasn't his most well-known work (Fight Club) so I decided on Invisible Monsters, especially after I saw that the publishers initially rejected it for being too disturbing or something like that.
"The Structure of Evolutionary Theory" by Stephen Jay Gould.
I did not get much this time becasue I could not find the books I was looking for, but I picked up a couple of things
Women In Love and The Complete Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence Volume 3
Alright - Dark Muse! Good for you. :thumbs_up I thought you read and discussed with us "Women in Love". If not you can look up the discussion we had a year or so ago. It was excellent. Enjoy the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
No I have not. I know it feels like I have been here forever. Haha!
But I have only read The Rainbow and Sons and Lovers as far as novels go.