Last Book You Bought and Why

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Originally Posted by malwethien

A Supposedly Funny Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace

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(malwe you better stop buying books and start reading them :lol: of course that goes for me too :D )

"The mystery of Edwin Drood" by Dickens

and "Shirley" by C Bronte

Pascal Bruckner - Qui de nous deux inventera l'autre

The book I bought most recently was "Cheapest Nights" by Yusuf Idris, in Arabic; I bought a little more than a week ago.

It is the first collection of short stories to be published for this great Egyptian author in 1955.
It was translated into English in 1978 by Peter Owen.

It is a collection of 21 short stories expressing many views of the common Egyptian citizens along with deep symbolic representation of moral and political topics; characters that show Idris's genius that was nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1988, the same year when another Egyptian prominent author, Naguib Mahfouz, won the prize.

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Originally Posted by James Wallace

The book I bought most recently was "Cheapest Nights" by Yusuf Idris, in Arabic; I bought a little more than a week ago.

It is the first collection of short stories to be published for this great Egyptian author in 1955.
It was translated into English in 1978 by Peter Owen.

It is a collection of 21 short stories expressing many views of the common Egyptian citizens along with deep symbolic representation of moral and political topics; characters that show Idris's genius that was nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1988, the same year when another Egyptian prominent author, Naguib Mahfouz, won the prize.

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I love Yusuf Idris..can you write the book's name in arabic...I might have it in my library:D If not, I'll buy it..lol

The One Percent Doctrine

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Originally Posted by manolia

(malwe you better stop buying books and start reading them :lol: of course that goes for me too :D )

"The mystery of Edwin Drood" by Dickens

and "Shirley" by C Bronte

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I know! I can't help it...it's like some kind of disease that I don't want to be cured from :lol:

I've just got

Stardust by <3 Neil Gaiman *sights*
Dhampir, thief of Lives and sister of the dead by J.C. Hendee and Wife
and some others! Hurrayyy!

Padded my collection alittle more...

The Tenant by Roland Topor

Maldoror and the Complete Works of Comte de Lautreamont

I, Zombie by Curt Selby

My last two purchases consisted of The Bhagavad Gita -- As It Is translated by A. C. Prabhupada and an NIV Bible.

Moderators,

I request this thread to be changed to a sticky, many DVD and movie forums usually feature these types of stickies. And, why not a literary here at LitNet?

thank you! :D

The American by Henry James. Got it for a buck in the used section of my local library.

the driving theory test book. I had to go out and buy the new one. Yikes! the original one was dead easy! This new improved one is rotten!

The Giving Tree- Shel Silverstein (This was my favorite book as a child.)
The Victim- Saul Bellow

Abinger Harvest by E. M. Forster. A collection of articles, essays and poems by one of my favorite authors.

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

The Pugilist At Rest by Thom Jones

Dying To Live by Kim Paffenroth