Last Book You Bought and Why

The Adventures of Amir Hamza by Ghalib Labhnaul and Abdullah Bilgrami

It is an Indo-Persian epic of tales dating back to the middle ages that was definitively collected in the 19th century by the authors. The work has been described as something of tapestry of tales not unlike the Arabian Nights or the Decameron and a heroic epic worthy of the Iliad and the Odyssey or the great European romances. It certainly sounds quite promising... and relates to by current interests in Persian/Middle-Eastern art and literature.

Dubliners with lithographs by Louis le Brocquy - a gift for someone else.

American Short Story Masterpieces -- edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks
Crime and Punishment -- by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales -- by Joseph Conrad
The Good Soldier -- by Ford Madox Ford

And also because I got them for a very good price.

The Outsider. It is book club selection for next year

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The Outsider. It is book club selection for next year

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Ooops...I still have that book from English class 4 years ago...

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

I had it recommended to me by several different people, and it was only $10 which is dirt cheap for a new book.

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Originally Posted by Dori

Ooops...I still have that book from English class 4 years ago...

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Is it any good Dori? I have only just started it so it is a little hard to tell.

Jo

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Is it any good Dori? I have only just started it so it is a little hard to tell.

Jo

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It was okay, I guess. I wasn't a big fan, but apparently a lot of people in my class really liked it.

Sadly, The Gift by Richard Paul Evans because someone asked for it for Christmas.

Time for me to explore the sufi poets. So i bought these three books:

1) Hafiz - The Gift
2) Rumi - The Essential Rumi
3) Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

"If on a winter's night a traveler" By Italo Calvino.

This one was quite spontaneous, since i picked the book and read the first page (something i never do in general) and it seemed quite fascinating.

Mesha Selimovich(Meša Selimović) - Dervish and The Death
Finally found it, the best book from Balkan so far, one of the greatest ever; I have quotes from it above my bed :D

The Luzhin Defence by Vladimir Nobokov.

Because it is about a chess player and, although I don't play it very well, the game fascinates me.

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Originally Posted by manolia

"If on a winter's night a traveler" By Italo Calvino.

This one was quite spontaneous, since i picked the book and read the first page (something i never do in general) and it seemed quite fascinating.

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I finished reading it a week ago. I think you will like it, it's a great choice. No wonder you've decided to buy after reading the first page. When I started it I thought it is going to be a great read after I read the first sentence. It makes you feel comfortable as a reader, makes you think the book was written specially for you :p. It consist mainly of beginnings and although at some point this become a bit tiring, it is definitely worth it. It's one of the best books I've read lately. I hope you will like it too :)

'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, ostensibly for my baby daughter, but actually for my own visual and verbal devourances.