Bought: Watchmen
Because: Everybody was reading it and it was supposed to be really good.
I read it and, yes, it is.
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Bought: Watchmen
Because: Everybody was reading it and it was supposed to be really good.
I read it and, yes, it is.
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.
I'd been meaning to buy this one for quite a while and I'm glad I finally did!
Ballad of sad cafe by Mccullers
Yesterday I bought Pushkin - Jewgeni Onegin (wannted to read it for quite some time), John Updike - Rabbit at rest (after reading his short stories I want to read one of his novels and I really liked the title) and Steinbecks - Grapes of Wrath in a really cool looking edition (I've read so much about here on the forums, I decided to buy it and eventually read it during the holidays).
I had quite a long list of books to buy, including Catch 22, To kill a mockinbird and some of Beckett's english work, but even the best english bookshop in vienna didn't have half of the books, so I ended up ordering "The Sun also rises" by Hemingway, "As I lay Dying" by Faulkner (even though I kinda regret not getting "The Sound and the Fury" instead) and "Portrait of the artist as a young man" by James Joyce (I really enjoyed Ulysses, so I figured it would be only logical if I read more of his work). And my father got me a copy of 1984 by Orwell too, about time I read that one.
Yesterday, I bought Umberto Eco's On Ugliness, after I'd been saving for it for a couple of months. Such a great book.
I don't really buy books because the library here is so great.
The most recent book I bought would be Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, as I was itching to read it, couldn't find it anywhere in this town and just happened to be in the USA. This was almost a year ago, though.
Why?
I collect books published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC). This is the only Verne novel published by the LEC which I don't have and have never read.
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Mark Twain - The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson
Why? They were cheap enough and sounded interesting
wigan pier, by orwell.
i often buy books from charity shops and so this was both a bargain and one of the few orwells i've not read
When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris, because I'm an unabashedly wild flaming fangirl of his :D
Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling, an Xmas gift for my best friend, aka Potter fanatic
Dante: The Poet, the Political Think, the Man - Barbara Reynolds, because while I was researching for my Dante paper, I discovered this book conjectured that Dante smoked weed to bring on his spiritual visions. :lol:
AND
T.H. White's The Once and Future King - Elisabeth Brewer for $70 on amazon!! :eek: Why amazon? Cuz I couldn't find it at any of the other SIX bookstores I snooped around. Why else? Cuz I'm an Arthurian superfreak. Oh, and I was writing a paper. :D
The Sagas of the Icelanders because I've decided I want to read all the sagas and this is a wonderful collection of several of them all in one place, only one of which I've already read so it was quite a bargain.
I bought following books because I received a gift card for books this Christmas, and I only bought books that I've either been recommended or simply been wanting to read for a while.
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens.
John Ajvide Lindqvist: Handling the Undead.
Went on a bit of a buying spree thanks to this forum... :)
Doctor Zhivago (Everyman's Library)
Boris Pasternak; Hardcover
Oblomov (Everyman's Library)
Ivan Goncharov; Hardcover
The Complete Short Novels (Everyman's Library)
Anton Chekhov; Hardcover
The Adolescent (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Hardcover
Notes from Underground (Everyman's Library)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Hardcover
Dead Souls (Everyman's Library)
Nikolai Gogol; Hardcover
The Collected Tales (Everyman's Library)
Nikolai Gogol; Hardcover
The Portrait of a Lady (Everyman's Library)
Henry James; Hardcover
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Everyman's Library)
James Joyce; Hardcover
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo; Hardcover
The Child of Pleasure, 1898 edition
Gabriele D'Annunzio
The Triumph of Death, 1st Ed 1923
Gabriele D'Annunzio
The Flame of Life, 1919 edition
Gabriele D'Annunzio
I have come up with a plan with my friend, in which we each buy a book from a second hand bookshop (a bookshop which we are both in love with), read the books, swap them a week later, read the swapped books and then re-donate them to the shop a week after that. Today was the first day, and I ended up purchasing three books. I tried to buy things that we'll both enjoy, and I didn't want anything heavy because this week I am hoping to read some other books too.
The first book I picked up was Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg. This jumped out at me immediately because of the word 'snow' in the title. This week, we've had an more snow here than I have ever experienced in my life, so I thought it was quite fitting. I wasn't sure that my friend would necessarily enjoy it though, and I was after something slightly shorter (this around 400 pages; not long long long but I am aiming to read quite a lot this week and wanted something really light).
The second book was Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. This is exactly the sort of thing I was after; entertaining and light.
The third book was JPod by Douglas Coupland. I just couldn't help myself.
Unfortunately when I came home, my mum immediately told me that she has both of the former two books so I needn't have spent money on them. I can't really get a refund as it's a charity shop, but oh well. At least I've donated money to a nice charity and therefore feel like a good citizen. ;p
I've read the first one, Miss Smilla's feeling for snow quite a while ago, it was a good read. A few weeks later I saw the movie, and was really disappointed.
The movie version of High Fidelity on the other hand is really really great, I never read the book but the movie with John Cusack is among my favourite movies of the last years.
@topic: Finally got my hands on a copy of "The Sound and the Fury", I was looking for that for quite some time and I think it will be the next book after finishing the amazing Anna Karenina.