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The Immoralist - André Gide
Schooling - Heather McGowan
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
The Odyssey - Homer
Don't Move - Margaret Mazzantini
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
100 Selected Stories - O Henry
Dracula is one of my favorite novels, bouquin. Enjoy!
Chinese in a Flash, vol. 1
Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters, vol. 1
Paradise Lost / Paradise Regained. Both in one volume and for a good price. i couldn't turn that down.....
The Recognitions by William Gaddis, I can't remember why I decided to buy it, but now - when today the mailman delivered it - I am incredulous at the size of the book, it's not a matter of 956 pages only, the size is huge :eek6: so now I have placed it on the bookshelf alongside Rolland's Jean-Cristophe - another mammoth volume I will deal with the day my struggle/love affair with Proust's "recherche" will be over.
"The Hungry Tide" by Amitav Gosh and a book by Bill Bryson.
I bought the first because I liked the title and am interested in learning more about India. I also read a few passages at the bookstore and found the style to be to my liking.
The second one was a must-have. I have no idea if it's any good, but I can't walk by a book by Bill Bryson and not buy it. While I didn't enjoy all of the books by him that I've read so far, there's always the possibility that I'm going to enjoy myself immensely. So it was worth a try.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
Girl with Green Eyes - Edna O'Brien
The Busconductor Hines - James Kelman
The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
World's End - T. C. Boyle
The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
The Bell - Iris Murdoch
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Currently reading: Half a Life (V. S. Naipaul)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
I was feeling overwhelmed with Proust, and realized that it would be impossible to read his entire opus straight through, so I decided to get a few short novels by writers that I either hadn't read or hadn't given a fair chance. I noticed a bias against American writers in particular, so I thought that it would be appropriate to give Hemingway, Fitzgerald (whose Gatsby left me cold), and Faulkner another chance. I also didn't have any female writers in my collection, hence Woolf. So far, I've been very happy with the results.
For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the best things that I've ever read, Lolita was ok, and so far I find The Sound and the Fury incomprehensible in the best possible way.
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes. Because is a classic book I wanted to read and have.
The two last volumes of a three-volume collection of Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond :party:
The Last Man by Mary Shelley.
I wasn't aware that she'd written another novel, and when I saw this for £1.99 in The Works - a bargain books and stationary chain - I couldn't resist. It's a sci fi about humanity being wiped out by a plague. It must be one of the first. Can't wait.
Oh interesting, I wasn't aware of this as well. Please let me know what you think of it when you get around to reading it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
The last book I ordered was Cold Comfort Farm. It should be here tomorrow or the day after. It sounded interesting.
White Noise by Don Delillo. Already read it and it was brilliant, so I wanted to own it.
I ordered it once to the wrong address so it got returned to sender and I was refunded the price of the book but not the price of postage and packaging.
I have ordered it a second time but this is about a week now and it hasn't arrived so I need to get in touch with somebody. Maybe it is a sign. I need to pay less money to the big corporate giants and give something back to the little friendly bookshops down pleasant backalleys. The amount of times I have to buy a book before it comes I might as well pay full price to have it in my hand.
Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy
The Emigrants -- W. G. Sebald
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Currently reading: Mrs Dalloway (by Virginia Woolf)
15/09 :
84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, Jean Rhys
Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
The Book of Evidence, John Banville
The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
18/09 :
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
Everything You Need, A. L. Kennedy
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
The Green House, Mario Vargas Llosa
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Currently reading: Girl with Green Eyes (Edna O'Brien)
Nausea by Sartre for school but have been planning on reading it for years