Seneca's Essays and Dialogues (Oxford World Classics) - I wanted to learn more about stoicism from 'the horse's mouth'. I thought this might be a tough, boring (if worthy!) read, instead it's an easy, exciting (as well as worthy!) read.
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Seneca's Essays and Dialogues (Oxford World Classics) - I wanted to learn more about stoicism from 'the horse's mouth'. I thought this might be a tough, boring (if worthy!) read, instead it's an easy, exciting (as well as worthy!) read.
Oxford Romeo and Juliet. I wanted an individual copy of R&J to read outside of my home; the RSC is a bit too big to be carrying around.
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernières
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Boy's Own Story - Edmund White
The House Gun - Nadine Gordimer
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Oranges are not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
House of Meetings - Martin Amis
How the Dead Live - Will Self
Liver - Will Self
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
A Death in the Sanchez Family - Oscar Lewis
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Wasp Factory -Iain Banks
God's Grace - Bernard Malamud
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Across the River and into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Love All the People - Bill Hicks
Big fan of his comedy and it was cheap.
The Stars' Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry
Big fan of Fry as usual and I love his novels.
The last book I bought was Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October. I read the first few chapters and got bored, but it's very well-written and anyone in the Navy would probably enjoy it. It's a widely liked book, and it is good, but it is just not my type of literature. I bought it because I thought I would enjoy it.
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Mars by Ben Bova
As strange as it might sound I got them for research for a short story I've had running around in my head for a while.
Infinite Jest, thanks to this forum. Lit Nit should abscond some type of nudge fee to Barnes & Noble, eh?
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
'The Gathering Night' (Margaret Elphinstone)
She ran a one-day writing course I attended a fortnight ago so I did the courteous thing and bought a signed copy of her latest book - and I'll admit it is a very good read.
Published by The Limited Editions Club in the early 1930s in Haarlem in a tremendous letter press edition of 950 pages. It is to be rebound in Scarlet 1/2 Nigerian goatskin and hand marbled paper.
History of Madness -Michael Foucault
I've been wanting to read up on insanity for a while, haven't known where to begin. Not exactly what I was looking for on the subject, but it's more than I could ask for. I really love this book.
I'm thinking of picking up M/F by Anthony Burgess... but I'm a little scared to follow through with it.
I would like something to aid my feeling of emptiness inside, my feeling of aimlessness (even though I have 'goals')... don't know what that would be.
The Comedian mentioned the book Walden to me. I did some reading up on it. Not sure if I'm ready for it, but the idea of it is somewhat inspiring.
The way of shadows by brent weeks
why?
A friend recommended it and was a new york times best seller
I actually bought three books together.
Cosmocomics by Italo Calvino, because it was highly praised here on Litnet.
The Complete Works of Kafka, because I desperately wanted to read something different.
Clockwork Orange by Burgess because I thought it'd be a good time to read it.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
I heard of it on another forum and was intrigued.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, because it was mentioned here.
Usually I am more into classical literature but after the first pages I have the impression that it seems to be a quite nice book.
So you won't be sorry for luring me. ;)
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