Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I 'll keep you posted.
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Currently reading: Mercier et Camier (Samuel Beckett)
I 'll keep you posted.
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Currently reading: Mercier et Camier (Samuel Beckett)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Just bought The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Even though I know Coelho is very acclaimed, I've never read anything from him.
Keep it that way, I'd say!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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This makes me want to know whyKeep it that way, I'd say!
It was a great read from start to finishKeep it that way, I'd say!
what?
my father's tears john updike
freedom jonathan franzen
rum diary hunter thompson
why?
grand total: $15 (what a bargain)
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, because Infinite Jest has made me want more, and it was used.
What Maisie Knew (Henry James)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Saturday (Ian McEwan)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carré)
Life & Times of Michael K (J. M. Coetzee)
Waiting for the Barbarians (J. M. Coetzee)
Decline and Fall (Evelyn Waugh)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
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Currently reading: Murder Must Advertise (Dorothy L. Sayers)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Skippy Dies, by Paul Murray
Was in Dublin this weekend and I wanted something local but I wasn't up for Ulysses.
So far, so good.
Uhhhh...
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
...Because I haven't read enough Pynchon.
Parallel Stories by Peter Nadas...Because I'm addicted to gigantic books.
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges...Because Borges.
how's the pale king?
Parallel Stories was incredible... And if you end up liking it as much as I did, Nadás' earlier work Book of Memories is equally good.
Love the choices there. Pynchon is my favourite English language writer by far. Against the Day might be my favourite work of his in terms of pure enjoyment, though I prefer GR to it for several other reasons.
Might I recommend László Krasznahorkai's novels to you if you haven't read them yet. Not so long, but so perfectly labyrinthine and desolate. As a character says in War and War, "reality examined to the point of madness..." Brilliant. I think I reviewed that one in the book review section here and The Melancholy of Resistance is even better.
The last book I bought was this summer.
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. I wanted to read more of her books.
Totally Obsessed Phantom Phan!
I am also a fan of: Lion King, High School Musical, Harry Potter, Disney in general, Days of Our Lives, Musicals in general, Dr. Seuss and Grinch!
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. Because I was feeling sorrowful and I've been meaning to read the book for years.
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Because I just fancied it. It'll be my first Defoe too.
'Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.'
Volumnia in Coriolanus
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