Today I bought "Pride & Prejudice" and Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"...just because I haven't read them and plan to soon.
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Today I bought "Pride & Prejudice" and Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"...just because I haven't read them and plan to soon.
I just bought Saramago's Blindness, Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, and The Bible because I wanted read some relatively recent works and study the Bible as a literary text.
I read Eco's "on Ugliness" and loved it. I think a lot of the quotes in this books inspired me to want to read a lot of the darker literary pieces.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarous
Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus". I want to read more of his works after finishing "Portnoy's Complaint".
"catch 22 " by J Heller
"Gravity's rainbow" and "the crying of lot 49" by T Pynchon
"Slaughterhouse 5" by K Vonnegut
all ordered from amazon and are on the way.
All the above are books mentioned many times here in litnet, so i thought to give them a try (that's why i love litnet :D it may make my purse lighter but it's full of book recommendations).
Johnny Cash's autobiography. I bought it after googling Johnny Cash and Elvis. Someone had put up a portion of his writings about Elvis from his book. So, I went and bought it :)
Online:
North by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Rigadoon by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I bought these because Celine is my favorite writer, and those two books complete his war trilogy, of which I've read the first book. I bought Emerson because I've heard a lot of good things about him lately, and I feel he's essential anyways. Plus they were all fairly inexpensive.
In store:
Stories by Anton Chekhov
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
These two are just essential Russian lit that appeal to me at the moment.
" Ancient Rome - The Rise and Fall of an Empire " by Simon Baker. I misssed the BBC series and i'm interested in Caesar.
Just back off my hols, (a week in Carnforth.) Some of you may know that as well as brown shrimp (delicious)and the 'Brief Encounter' railway station, Carnforth is famous for its large second hand bookshop. So I was able to sneak off and browse the shelves for an hour or two. Unfortunately my wife has a one in-one out policy when it comes to books so I only bought three.
1 Romola, by George Elliot.
Because no one at my book club had heard of it when I suggested it for consideration. I read it years ago and remember liking it for its atmospheric and evocative setting in Renaissance Florence.
2 Medea and other plays, by Euripades
It's time I had my own copy of this one.
3 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte
It was being discussed in a thread on here and I hadn't read it and I reside in Bronteland and she's the only Bronte I hadn't read. I've started this one and like it so far.
I got all three for a fiver by the way.:D
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence. I'm not sure about the reason behind buying that book...May be because I want to read something by D.H. Lawrence, and there was no books by him but sons and lovers :D
The Book:As I Lay Dying
The Reason: I finished Light in August, and while I really liked the way that Faulkner writes I did not like Light in August. I bought As I Lay Dying because I like to highlight and write in the books that I read. They still frown upon that at the library.
The last book I bought was Ulysses, by James Joyce (a book I've mentioned quite a few times already in my other posts). I bought it because I've already read Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and really enjoyed both of them, so I figured I'd enjoy this one as well.
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
Written by a neurosurgeon about neurosurgery and I highly recommend it.
The last book I bought was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Getting prepared for Octobers book club selection.
I went to my University Bookstore yesterday and got Villette , Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , The Return of the Native, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Crime and Punishment.
Why? because they were all books i've been meaning to read, which my local bookstore rarely carries, for a reasonable price. I was ecstatic :)