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Cinnamon Peeler-Micheal Ondaatje
The Yellow Arrow by Viktor Pelevin
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
The Rat by Günter Grass
Dog Years by Günter Grass
The Schopenhauer Cure ~ Irvin D. Yalom :wave: :D
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
"Rainbow" by D.H. Lawrence
"Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I bought three books yesterday (well, unless you'd count textbooks too... but bah, they're no fun :sick:)- Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Shakespeare's Hamlet and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (God knows if I'll ever finish it, though...).
Hamlet and Hard Times I needed for my English Lit. course, but since I decided to make good use of the 3 for 2 offer I thought I'd pick up W&P, too. It was a toss up between that and The Count of Monte Cristo, but I know I'll be loaning the latter from the library some time soon anyway if I don't have my own copy and it probably won't take me too long to finish it. Whereas, with War and Peace... I'm not so confident I'll be finishing that one any time soon, so it might be more useful for me to keep my own copy at home, rather than perpetually having to take it out from the library until I can muster up the motivation to actually finish it.
I love buying books. Too bad I have neither the funds nor the room to make it a regular thing! Still, makes for a nice treat every now and again. And there's always those second hand shops which sometimes house a little gem or two.. though the ones around here seem to be fairly dissapointing (Mills & Boon-esque et al.) Shame.
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Just bought it this morning :D
JOHN
by Cynthia Lennon
Just bought the Gita.
I just bought Donald Hall: White Apples and the Taste of Stone, Selected Poems 1946-2006.
The most recent books I've bought are the Cambridge Texts version of Nietzche's On the Genealogy of Morality (listening to a couple of Robert Rodderick's lectures about the post-modern condition via TTC got me to wanting to read some Nietzche, and Genealogy was one of his books I'd never got around to reading back when I was reading that kind of stuff). And Taschen's Alchemy & Mysticismart book, which is a completely awesome collection of about 550 pages worth of medieval mystical art, which I found on sale at B&B for $10.
Hi Alexei, good for you! You bought another Lawrence book....great! I just love Lawrence's writing. Virgil knows all about "The Rainbow" - it was his favorite L book, but not sure now if it still is, since we all read and disgused "Women in Love". I read both and liked them both very much. I need to re-read now "The Rainbow", I think I would understand it better now. I usually read Lawrence's books at least twice. I am glad you enjoyed the last one, wasn't that "Women in Love" or was it "Sons and Lovers"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexei
Several of us plan on reading "Sons and Lovers" in soon and disgusing it. I read something about your enthusiasm for Lawrence's style of writing in another thread. I have to recruit you for the Lawrence short story thread. Currrently we are on break and will start up in October on the story that we picked last month..."Odour of Chrysanthamums" - it is one of his most well known and acclaimed stories. Please join us if you have time... also in the "Sons and Lovers" discussion. I will let you know by email when we will start it.
Nossa, hi - you will have to ask Malwethian all about "Northanger Abbey" - she loves that book and thinks it is hilarious. I also read it twice now. It is quite amusing! You will enjoy it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nossa
I LOVE Jane Austen :D I'm sure I'll enjoy it..lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Janine
I've decided that I'm gonna read all of her works...including the ones I've read before..I'm almost done with perusasion...then I'll start Northanger Abbey :D then the rest of couse..lol
I love her books, too... and I enjoy the film adaptations, as well. I had to watch "Northanger Abbey" again after discussing how humorous it was with Malwethian. She had me laughing out loud. I would like to buy the film version of "Persausian". I really liked that book emensely. On second readings one gets so much more out of the text, don't you think?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nossa
How funny, Nossa, I just re-read your profile - to refresh my memory and see you want to learn violin. I am now listening to Joshua Bell - an early album, it is so lovely. Good for you - do learn the violin - wonderful instrument....so emotional, don't you think?
Dante's Purgatorio
I just bought a new copy of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I read it years ago and loved it so I thought I'd read it again and see what I've forgotten.
Case Files - Kate Atkinson
Woodrow Call: "What do you want legs for anyway? You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey! "Quote:
Originally Posted by Granny5
Gus McCrae: "I like to kick a pig every once in a while. How would I do that? "
Yup..that's actually why I decided to learn the violin..something about it is so captivating and charming...though it's a bit hard to play..but I'll manage :D I think I should have started playing it years ago, cuz being 19 is a bit old when it comes to learning musical instrument..but it's so much fun..and it's also relaxing, after a long day in college...:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Janine
About Jane Austen, she's my favorite female writer of ALL time...Actually, when I plan on reading Jane Austen, it's like a date, I can't wait to get to the book and read it. I just love her style, her characterization, her wit, the plots and complications she creates...she keeps me hooked up till the end. But mainly, what I like most about her, is how she portraits the characters in the novels, you can almost see them moving and talking in front of you.
And you're SO right..re-reading the novels makes you see and notice things that you didn't know before..this is part of her greatness as well, you'll never get bored while reading Jane Austen..no matter how many times you read even ONE of her works, it's still charming.
"Three men in a boat" Jerome K Jerome
"A portrait of the artist as a young man" James Joyce
The last book I bought was of Kiran Dersai's the inheritance of loss, the booker prize winner writer. I like the book immensely.Quote:
Originally Posted by andave_ya
If you have read the book, please share what you like of it.
A book of poems by Francis Ponge (bilingual edition, French original with translation). Andrić's A Bridge Over Drina, which I own already, but the price was so ridiculously low that I had to buy another copy. A book by some psychiatrist on variety of topics.
All three bought today, on used books fair. :D
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Gentlemen And Players - Joanne Harris
From Where We Stand: Recovering A Sense Of Place, Deborah Tall
My last book purchase consisted of four art books: one on Caspar David Friederich, one on Whistler, one on J.M.W. Turner, and one on Monet. As an artist I can almost honestly tell people I don't read 'em, I just look at the pictures.:lol: My last literary purchase was of The Curved Planks, a collection of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy which I discovered was a marvelous book.
I got two today, one that I'm especially proud of.
The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Lawrence Sterne
and
Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes
Perhaps you shouldn't be proud... but rather a bit embarrassed to admit to not having read them already.:lol: They are both fabulous novels. I try to read them each again every few years. My next foray with Cervantes should be with Edith Grossman's highly praised new translation. I see it there calling to me from my shelves.:p
"The Master and Margarita" , Mikhail Bulgakov
:lol: I'm impressed that you're called to read Tristram Shandy more than once :lol: I'm sorry to say, but it's one of the most boring books I've ever came across..lolQuote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
LOL...no, I'm notoriously strange about my reading. I never found Tristram Shandy before. I tried to read Don Quixote before I was ready and it was mind-boggling for me. I started Shandy but had to put it aside because I've got around eight already-started books to finish, and am saving the Don until I have absolutely nothing else to read.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
I love this book! Wonderful choice, Manolia. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as i did.Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
Thanx Alexei :) I have heard a lot about it. I think i will enjoy it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexei
My last purchases were:
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
And all for only a couple of dollars. I was very proud of myself.
I read "The Phantom of the Opera" few months ago and I really like it. It's an intriguing reading :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bibliophile190
My newest book is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. I have already started reading it and find it wonderful. I think that there is no way to be disappointed.
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Originally Posted by Alexei
I read that a few years ago, it was quite good! If you like Kundera, you should also try The book of laughter and forgetting
And The Joke...and Life Is Elsewhere...and Immortality. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by vheissu
Cool! I have bought it last month, but I haven't read it yet. I thought to read it after finish my previous reading, but somehow I bought and started with "The Unbearable Lightness of Being".Quote:
Originally Posted by vheissu
Thanks, Idril, I plan to read them tooq especially after you have recommended them :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Idril
"Barnaby Rudge" Charles Dickens
"Our mutual friend" Charles Dickens
"Northanger Abbey" Jane Austen
"The man in the iron mask" Alexandre Dumas
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I know I said I wasn't going to buy anymore books until I got rid of some books but I couldn't help myself.
The Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Stories - HP Lovecraft
This is your Brain on Music, The Science of a Human Obsession - Daniel J Levitin
The first is for the book club and the second because it looked really interesting, the author is a sessions musician turned nueroscientist.