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    Watcher by Night mtpspur's Avatar
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    Talbot Mundy's Jimgrim and Allah's Peace which I've waited over 40 years to be reprinted to read the debut of Mundy's character James Schulyer Grim which was one of his longer series characters.

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    The creepiest thing just happened to me: I wanted this book i saw on the Oprah Book Club: Middlesex for weeks. But i didn't know where to find it. I didn't tell anybody about it but today my mother with ESP-like knowledge bought it at her work (walmarts!) for me! and she didn't even know i would like it since it's written in english and she doesn't understand it
    Shall these bones live?

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    Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
    Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
    "Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and universe...there is a reason."

    - Douglas Adams

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    Selected Poetry, Wordsworth
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    The Odyssey, Homer

    lovely old hardback books in perfict condition at a yard sale for only 1 dollar each!

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    "On the road" by Kerouac
    Through the darkness of future past
    the magician longs to see
    one chance out between two worlds
    'Fire walk with me.'


    Twin Peaks

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    The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov

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    Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
    "Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and universe...there is a reason."

    - Douglas Adams

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    Quote Originally Posted by malwethien View Post
    Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
    malwethien, how was your trip? I had to pop in to say hi and also to see what book you were listing currently. Sounds like something you would like. I like your quote and in white - nice formating. I miss hearing from you. Hope you had fun on that tiny Pacific island! J
    "It's so mysterious, the land of tears."

    Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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    - Ghost Fox by James Houston
    - A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
    - The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

    I got those three books yesterday and only paid 3,20 euros for them
    Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
    Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera

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    The Immaculate Conception, by Gaetan Soucy
    Arthur & George, by Julian Barnes
    The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Leguin
    The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
    Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene

    All bought used through amazon.co.uk.
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    "Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon

    CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
    JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.

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    No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
    The Spider's House - Paul Bowles
    Quiet Days in Clichy - Henry Miller
    "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. / Words without thoughts never to heaven go." Claudius (Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3).

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    Faithful are the Wounds -- Mae Sarton

    Ничего нет лучше для исправления, как прежнее с раскаянием вспомнить.

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    'The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Ken Greenwald....
    based on the radio plays of Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

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    Nine Horses by Billy Collins.

    The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

    "If you're going to write you better have somewhere to come from." Flannery O'Connor

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    Collected Short Stories of Pushkin (Everyman's Library Edition)
    Demons by Dostoevsky (Everyman's Library Edition)
    Collected Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Everyman's Library Edition)
    Troubled Sleep by Sartre (Vintage edition -- been looking forever for the third and final book in his Roads to Freedom series in this particular edition to have the full set)
    After Dark by Haruki Murakami
    Falling Man by Don DeLillo
    Auggie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster (this is a small hardbound/illustrated edition of the story that Harvey Keitel tells William Hurt at the end of the film Smoke -- it is little more than a short story, but this book edition is a small object of beauty, so I could not resist)

    Finally, I found that my edition of Oscar Wilde's collected works contains everything he wrote, except for the short stories, so I ordered a nice hardbound edition of the short stories (and other writings) from Amazon. When the book arrived, it turned out to be big as a millstone. Literally, it weighs 3 or 4 pounds, and the format is enormous. It also contains reproductions of the original illustrations and the pages have gilded edges -- another beautiful book, but one that I am actually not sure how I will physically go about reading.
    We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.
    ~ Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

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