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Thread: Last Book You Bought and Why

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    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.

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    The Thinking Reed (Rebecca West)
    Harriet Hume (Rebecca West)




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    Currently reading: The Public Image (by Muriel Spark)
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    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.

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    The Fahrenheit Twins (Michel Faber)




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    Currently reading: Burger's Daughter (Nadine Gordimer)
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    To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolfe
    The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by illiterati View Post
    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?

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    Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

    because I am a 21st century wannabe beatnik hipster haha

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    Slaughterhouse Five. I bought it because I wanted to! And I got to flirt with the sales guy (bonus)

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    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.

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    The Lonely Londoners (Sam Selvon)




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    Quote Originally Posted by bouquin View Post
    The Lonely Londoners (Sam Selvon)
    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'

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    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

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    Currently reading: The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
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