The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg)
Les Enfants Terribles (Jean Cocteau)
Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
Choke (Chuck Palaniuk)
Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
Les Désarrois de l'Eleve Törless (Robert Musil)
The Return of the Soldier (Rebecca West)
The Blessing (Nancy Mitford)
Wigs on the Green (Nancy Mitford)
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Currently reading: Le Pont sur la Drina (Ivo Andric)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett)
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
Uncle Silas (J.S. Le Fanu)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
Good Morning, Midnight (Jean Rhys)
Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
Intimacy (Hanif Kureishi)
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Amok (Stefan Zweig)
Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)
Canada (Richard Ford)
La Conscience de Zeno (Italo Svevo)
Collected Stories (Tennessee Williams)
King Solomon's Mines (H. Rider Haggard)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
A Pale View of the Hills (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Awakening and Other Stories (Kate Chopin)
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Currently reading: Les Braises (Sandor Marai)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Gods of the Greeks and The Heroes of the Greeks by Karl Kerényi: I'm delving into latin and greek mythology almost from five months among essays, epic (-and not) poetry and ancient philosopy.
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
An American Dream - Norman Mailer
Back to Blood - Tom Wolfe
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr.
Reheated Cabbage - Irvine Welsh
All at 20% off. Not too bad.
African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou.
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis.
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
I've been wanting to read the first for a while, and decided to when I was buying the other two. The second one is for my fiancee who has read many books by Bret Easton Ellis and enjoyed them all. And Cormac McCarthy is the next read in my book club.
Nowhere Man (Aleksandar Hemon)
The Honorary Consul (Graham Greene)
The Shroud (John Banville)
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
Mass (F. Sionil Jose)
The Human Stain (Philip Roth)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
El Filibusterismo (Jose Rizal)
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
Voss (Patrick White)
Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
The Plumed Serpent (D.H. Lawrence)
Jazz (Toni Morrison)
Smiley's People (John Le Carré)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Le Thé à Paris (Christine Barbaste)
Less than 2€ each... not bad.
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Currently reading: The Castle (Franz Kafka)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
On my reading list :
Erewhon (Samuel Butler)
Jealousy (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Giles Goat-Boy (John Barth)
Possession (A. S. Byatt)
Hallucinating Foucault (Patricia Dunker)
Complicity (Iain Banks)
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Currently reading: Le Stechlin (Theodor Fontane)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Complete H.P. Lovecraft
As I've gotten older my interests have broadened. When I was younger I read only science fiction and fantasy, but now I like to read across the whole range of written word available. That said, as I've been building my personal library I've come to realize that my sci-fi/fantasy selection is disproportionately small and aim to bring it up to par.
Because they're on my reading list plus they were on sale 2nd hand:
Timbuktu (Paul Auster)
Love in a Cold Climate (Nancy Mitford)
Vineland (Thomas Pynchon)
The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole)
Morvern Callar (Alan Warner)
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"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler. I have his The Iliad and The Odyssey translations and wanted one of his works. When I saw that Bernard Shaw was a fan I knew the buy was a no-brainer for me.
There was a 50% off sale on your first purchase at Half-price Books today, so I had to check it out. Ended up snagging some good stuff.
1. The World As Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer-circa 1958, 2 hardcover volumes in good condition.
2. The Collected Stories of Raymond Carver-Library of America hardcover
3. 2nd volume of the collected short stories of Leo Tolstoy-Everyman's Library hardcover
I bought these because they were on my list and because they were half-price or less, and in very good condition.
Stopped by Half Price Books this past Friday and purchased two books; one is a compilation of four novels by George Eliot (Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner and Romola), the second book is a compilation of poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
Reason? - I have a very old, disintegrating copy of Adam Bede unable to read due to the condition.
As for Tennyson, I was initially drawn to the book cover which has leatherette pattern embossed with Oak leaves and acorns. No copyright date, but it looks to be from 1920's - '40's.
I'm anxious to dig in.
Life of J.S Bach by Albert Schweitzer. Wanted to read a bio of my favourite composer but now that I have the volumes in hand it is full of music notation and may not be what I wanted (have not started in on it yet).
Duke Masters
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Outlaws of the Marsh
Two classics of Chinese literature. My book collection is heavily "Western Canon" biased, so I've been trying to fill in here and there with great works from other countries and cultures.
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