Books : Selected works of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde) and The Complete Robot (Isaac Asimov)
Why : I have always enjoyed reading the works of Wilde and I wanted to have this book for my collection. Same goes for Asimov. It was reading his stories on Robots that first inspired me to choose my field of interest.
The Thinking Reed (Rebecca West)
Harriet Hume (Rebecca West)
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Currently reading: The Public Image (by Muriel Spark)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Folio Shakespeare-The Folio Society, this is their 1988 6 volume in 2 slip cases set. Kind of an interesting story how I came about buying it. I have a pretty clean 3 volume Heritage Press Shakespeare set, but inside one of the slipcases was the original promo pamphlet for this Folio set. I've had that pamphlet for over a year, and just this weekend I came across the set in fine condition at a local Half-Price books. Stoked.
The Fahrenheit Twins (Michel Faber)
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Currently reading: Burger's Daughter (Nadine Gordimer)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolfe
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
arrived today:
bukowski, love is a dog from hell (nostalgia)
ronald johnson, ARK (curiosity)
anne carson, albertine workout (curiosity)
the anne carson, by the way, is pretty terrible. i like carson, but i see her more as an author of brilliant curios than a poet per se.
What's the difference?Originally Posted by illiterati
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
because I am a 21st century wannabe beatnik hipster haha
Slaughterhouse Five. I bought it because I wanted to! And I got to flirt with the sales guy (bonus)
1. Alice Walker - The Color Purple.
This one got the Pulitzer lately and I heard tell it's a good story to read. Still sitting on my bookshelf.
2. Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading
I was intrigued, and I wanted to find out about that elusive and indescribable crime of "gnostical turpitude" for which the protagonist was sentenced to death by head-chopping. The narrative doesn't try to explain it and the protagonist is never beheaded. In that, disappointing.
3. E.L. James - Fifty Shades of Gray
I wanted to know how a third-rate, cliched-ridden nonsense can make so much money and who are the idiots who think it's good writing. Got plenty of answers.
The Lonely Londoners (Sam Selvon)
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Currently reading: The Ghost Road (Pat Barker)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
That's a good book. Enjoy it.
'So - this is where we stand. Win all, lose all,
we have come to this: the crisis of our lives'
Paperback editions on The winter's tale and A Midsummer night's dream. The Wadsworth editions, hope they're decent, but were the only ones I could afford right now. I think they'll arrive end of this week.
“Fairy tales don't tell children that dragons exist; children already know that dragons exist.
Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.”
G.K. Chesterton
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
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Currently reading: Them (Joyce Carol Oates)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
All About H. Hatterr
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Currently reading: The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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