Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence.
Because I just finished The Rainbow.
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence.
Because I just finished The Rainbow.
The Country Girls (Edna O'Brien)
The Enormous Room (E. E. Cummings)
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Humbling (Philip Roth)
If This is a Man (Primo Levi)
The Truce (Primo Levi)
Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
She (H. Rider Haggard)
The Butcher Boy (Patrick McCabe)
The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
Krik? Krak! (Edwidge Danticat)
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
Les Braises (Sandor Marai)
Bliss and Other Stories (Katharine Mansfield)
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Trusting and the Maimed (stories by James Plunkett)
Farewell, My Lovely (Raymond Chandler)
Little Black Book of Stories (A. S. Byatt)
Divisadero (Michael Ondaatje)
Quartet (Jean Rhys)
The Third Man (Graham Greene)
The Fallen Idol (Graham Greene)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Her Privates We (Frederic Manning)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - because it was recommended on the forum
Veggie Burgers Every Which Way: Plus Toppings, Sides, Buns and More by Lukas Volger - because I have a cookbook addiction
I also downloaded the following for Kindle because they were free:
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
Wuthering Heights
Dracula
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Three Musketeers
Don Quixote
''World without end'', Ken Follett
Why
I picked it up after finishing ''the pillars of the earth, by the same author. It is a book i appreciated so much, because it made me enjoy English, as a language i still learn (non native)
Samsa, I hope you enjoy Women in Love. I just had a Modernism exam yesterday and used Women in Love as one of my text about about consciousness. The Women in Love thread on here (although quite old now) is really informative and was great for my revision!
I just bought Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley. Bit of a mistake right before exam period, I've had to abandon it halfway through!
I bought it because after seeing the second-hand book fair at uni I figured I needed something new to read to distract me from bogged down with a lot of Modernist reading for my exam revision.
Murder Must Advertise (Dorothy L. Sayers)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Victor Hugo)
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The Master of Petersburg (J. M. Coetzee)
The Complete Father Brown Stories (G. K. Chesterton)
Vanishing Point (David Markson)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Trois Femmes Puissantes (Marie Ndiaye)
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Currently reading: BLISS and Other Stories (Katherine Mansfield)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Giorgio Bassani)
Wittgenstein's Nephew (Thomas Bernhard)
Drop City (T. C. Boyle)
A Home at the End of the World (Michael Cunningham)
The Radiant Way (Margaret Drabble)
Justine (Lawrence Durrell)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Carlo Levi)
A Heart So White (Javier Marias)
Pereira Declares (Antonio Tabucchi)
The Master (Colm Toibin)
Tono-Bungay (H. G. Wells)
Kipps (H. G. Wells)
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Currently reading: Farewell, My Lovely (Raymond Chandler)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Originally Posted by bouquin
I read Christ stopped at Eboli but it was so long ago that I don't recall what it was about although I think it's about poverty in Southern Italy. Justine or any of the Alexandria Quartet are worth reading and both Kipps and Tono Bungay offer an amusing insight into life in Edwardian England.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, the Penguin version. I'm trying to read all of Dostoevsky's major works. Not sure if I'm getting the best possible translations though -- any advice?
A 1962 Penguin edition of Ulysses.
Because it smelled divine.
Dracula and Anna Karenina, I was at the airport and couldn't make up my mind so I bought both.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Huckleberry Finn - Because it's good.
Call Me Waiter by Joseph Torra, in order to send a copy to my uncle because I thought he would enjoy it.
I bought a volume of Charles Peguy's poetry because the guy who referenced him (thereby introducing me to him) said, "one cannot help but be moved by the gentleness of his soul". After a Wikipedia reading, it was confirmed! And I'm currently awaiting the book. Which was scheduled to be delivered Monday...
Nothing resting in its own completeness
Can have worth or beauty; but alone
Because it leads and tends to farther sweetness,
Fuller, higher, deeper than its own.
I bought David Albahari's Leeches because it was pretty cheap on amazon and looked like something I could potentially enjoy.
“Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
And it might be heard.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
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