I just bought 'Dubliners' by Joyce because I have been planning to read it for a while and it was cheap.
I also bought 'Doctor Who and Philosophy, bigger on the inside' with a bunch of essays about the good Doctor. I bought it because I finished the series and I want to have something to pass the time 'till he appears on the screen again. Also my excuse is that I plan to write my B.A thesis about something sci-fi related so I NEED a lot of books like this...
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
The Complete Short Stories by Saki
The Berlin Novels by Christopher Isherwood
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Currently reading: Where Angels Fear to Tread (E. M. Forster)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rusdie. E-book for a Nook. Purchsaed in order to take part in the Man Booker Award February reading. Unfortuantely I was not able to finish by the end of last month. I'm on page 225 of 500+ pages.
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Plays - Anton Chekhov (Penguin Classics ebook). I've never read him before and I want to read more plays (and it was a good price so I just couldn't say no!).
"...You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?..." E. A. Poe
Land of Wooden Gods ~ Jan Fridegard: Because Amazon thought I would like him since I bought some Vilhelm Moberg and it sounded quite interesting.
Conquered City ~ Victor Serge: Because I love Victor Serge
Evelina ~ Frances Burney
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories ~ Bruno Schulz : Both were more Amazon recommendations.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
The Sheltering Sky to read with Qimi's reading group. It looks like an awesome book.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll)
Junky (William S. Burroughs)
The Stories (John Cheever)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger)
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (Victor Serge)
Zadig/L'Ingénu (Voltaire)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut)
Complete Works (Nathanael West)
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Currently reading: The Leopard (Giuseppe di Lampedusa)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
todays little haul to feed my addiction!!
"The Tiger In The Smoke" by Margaret Allingham
"Black Powder, White Smoke" by Loren D. Estleman
"There's Something About A Convent Girl" a collection of short stories.
"the catcher in the rye"
schooltask, but..I like it
I picked up a slew of books at Half-Price Books... the used book store here.
I picked up two giant art books... one on the Louvre and the other on the Musee d'Orsay. I already had the latter, but its a $75 book and was on sale for $8 so I got it for my studio mate for next Christmas. The Louvre book was an equal deal... but this I got for myself.
I also go a great book on Degas that included a lot of color reproductions of paintings I don't already have in reproduction in the other books on have on the artist. Degas has long been one of my favorite artists and one of the artist most influential upon my own work.
The final art book I purchased was a decent book with some good photographs of the "buried army" of Qin Shi Huang, in China.
In the realm of literature, I picked up one book of selected plays by Jean Giraudoux. I also got a volume of selected plays by Tennessee Williams, and another volume of three plays by Lope de Vega. In another great buy, I picked up the complete plays of George Bernard Shaw in 6 hardback volumes for $15!! Obviously, I've been doing some reading of plays or theater lately: Aeschylus, Euripides, Tennessee Williams, Cornielle, etc...
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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Sounds like some great finds there St. Lukes. I have a rather large book titled "The Modern Poster" that I had purchased at HPB a few years ago for a steal at $10.00. It is a MOMA publication printed in conjunction with an exhibition. Great images throughout.Originally Posted by stlukesguild
My most recent purchase was Guy Mannering by Walter Scott a decision that was driven by a posting on the 101 dogs thread. I had associated Scott with a breed of dog in something he wrote which turned out to be Guy Mannering, but I hadn't actually read it.
I had to satisfy my curiosity.
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The Trial, Kafka
I can vouched for those two, they were both excellent books. Group Portrait with Lady is another great one from Böll, if you haven't already read it and I have yet to read a book by Serge that didn't leave a strong impression.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
Saramango - Blindness. Didn't buy it, actually, borrowed from library as an experiment. What a revelation! A deserved Nobel prize.
Last book I actually bought was "A New History of Western Philosophy" by Kenney. I wanted to take a synoptic view of philosophy after a lot of jumping around, to try and pull it all together! It's actually four large volumes in one massive hardback - actually not too massive, a bit like Dr Who's Tardis, I don't know how they packed so much information in so small space. So far it's going well, really well written and making some good points. Only another 750 pages to go
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Giles Goat Boy by John Barth...Been stocking up on brick-sized absurdities.
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