Last Book You Bought and Why

I just ordered a few books on amazon the first being Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years by Thomas Mann because my uncle, who actually did his thesis on Thomas Mann, recommended it and since I already like Thomas Mann, it was an easy choice.

The second is House of Babel by P. C. Jersild because a Swedish friend of mine said he was an amazing author. I added several of his books to my wishlist and the choice of this as the first one was completely random.

The third is Petersburg by Andrei Bely which amazon recommended because I liked The Master and Margarita, We and Envy.

And the fourth, Darkness at Noon: A Novel by Arthur Koestler, was another recommendation by amazon because I liked Monumental Propaganda and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

I'm also seriously considering ordering some José Saramago. I saw a discussion about him on here that piqued my curiosity so I googled him and he looks quite fascinating! I added about 4 of his books to my wishlist but I think I'm going to Barnes and Noble this afternoon and see if they have anything there and if not, I will place an order tonight.

The last book I bought (not the last one I read) was 'The broken mirror' by Agatha Christie (maybe that's not exactly the title of the book, because the one I bought was translated into Spanish, so I'm not sure what's the original name). Why? Because it was on sale and because my mom likes Agatha's work, and so I finally bought it. I thought it was going to be a bad one, but it surprised me though. I would recommend it :)

1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) - Robert Louis Stevenson
2. The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
3. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
4. Bagdad, City of Peace - Taha Al Rawi (in Arabic)
5. First Love - Ivan Turgenev
6. The Turn of the Screw -Henry James
7. Six Short Stories (Junior Series) - Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde
8. (An Arabic book with an Arabic title for an Arabian writer lol)
9. How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History and Theory of Film and Media - James Monaco


Why?
Well.. That`s the reason why I wait for the annual book exhibition! I walk around and pick books..

As for book number 9, I am the representative and responsible student for my class in college. I have to always check around for useful book for our major, and How to Read a Film was a good one. I then got it > classmates and teachers agreed on it and got it too.

The last book I bought was a hardcover edition of 28 Science Fiction Stories of H.G. Wells. I bought it for one dollar at a yard sale.
Why? Because I like Wells, and--are you kidding?--one dollar for a hardbound edition--I snapped that sucker up.

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Originally Posted by Stanislaw

hmmm...it would be three...for some reason I tend to buy books in threes...not sure why?, but what the heck!

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Yes, that goes for me as well. Neither I'm not sure why, but anyways I bought:
-The Complete Poems of John Keats
-The Complete Poems of W.B. Yeats
-The New Routledge Dutch Dictionary

Because I am a great fan of poetry and thus decided to start collecting poetry from English authors and I want to learn Dutch...

That was yesterday. Today I bought Mircea Eliade's Shamanism.

Mircea Eliade, what a wonderful old friend.

I last bought "The Immense Journey" by Loren Eiseley

It is a gift to my nephew. This is a beautiful book that
I love to give to anyone that I think might appreciate it.
The science is a little outdated (remarkably only a little)
but it is, to me, a masterpiece, a small treasure.

I forgot, I bought a copy of The Texas Cherokees on a discount rack.
I already own one but I could not pass up the bargain.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. It came highly recommended and so far it has been excellent.

I guess the last book I bought was a dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory for next semester. It's proven rather useful.

Sayings of the Buddha and Other Masters. No need to say why.

East of Eden. An impulse buy I don't think I'll ever regret.

Two books, actually.

Three Novels by Samuel Beckett because I've always wanted to read one of Beckett's novels and figured three would be thrice the fun. Also, it was about sixteen dollars, and I figure that's pretty good for three twentieth-century novels.

Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey because after reading On the Road, and thinking about the Beat Generation and counterculture a bit, I remembered the fun I had reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and wanted to read something else by Kesey.

I bought Nelson Mandela's 'A Long Walk To Freedom'. I've been wanting to read it for quite a while now, so I'm really excited about it!

bought a few at a used book store the other day

Sun Also Rises by Hemingway - I didn't like the parts of this in high school English class, but in the years since, I have some to like other books by Hemingway, so I figured I'd give this one a full read

Letters from Earth by Twain - all the current editions of this are greatly edited and incomplete - so when I saw an old, full version in the used book store, I got my second copy, in case I ever want to lend it out or give it to a friend

In Dubious Battle by Steinbeck - and old hardcover. An old hardcover by Steinbeck for cheap - I'm there dude

Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
Essays - Michel de Montaigne - I was however disappointed to realise after i bought it that it was only a selection, and not the whole thing :(
Inferno - Dante - I wanted to get the whole divine comedy but alas was thwarted by a poor stock manager.