Last Book You Bought and Why

[Janine]

Alexei, how do you like "The Rainbow" so far? I am planning on reading it early this coming year. We will be discussing it sometime next year, also. I read it before - but it has been years ago now and I hardly remember it.

[Alexei]

Alexei, how do you like "The Rainbow" so far? I am planning on reading it early this coming year. We will be discussing it sometime next year, also. I read it before - but it has been years ago now and I hardly remember it.

I have started it long ago, but I haven't even finished the first chapter so far For now I know only that I like it I think the greatest impression on me made the description of Tom's years in school. I am not exactly surprised, but once again I was stroked by the richness of the description when it comes to emotions. Everything seems so based on the senses and emotions and yet it is perfectly logical and rational. I think Lawrence is the only author I've read that can depict so rationally emotions and the irrational in human nature.

[thebooklass]

The last book I bought was Knit Together by Debbie Macomber. Very good book, Christian based and very motivating.........not just for Christians, but anyone trying to accomplish goals and dreams in their life. Lori

[Nossa]

I bought this book two years ago, but I never get around to finishing it, it was on French and it was a little hard for me, but I like it and I got to the middle of it. Yet I am not sure whether I should try rereading it, I will be glad if you tell me what you think when you finish it

I bought the book in Arabic, so it was an easy read. I liked it a lot actually, I liked the idea of two people from different religions, bonding together and having a great friendship. It's the kind of thing that we miss these days very much. So I'd really recommend it, not sure about the book being in French though..I was never that good in French..lol..but you already got to the middle of it, I think you should def. finish it

[Alexei]

I bought the book in Arabic, so it was an easy read. I liked it a lot actually, I liked the idea of two people from different religions, bonding together and having a great friendship. It's the kind of thing that we miss these days very much. So I'd really recommend it, not sure about the book being in French though..I was never that good in French..lol..but you already got to the middle of it, I think you should def. finish it

Thank you, I will definitely finished it. May be you should try reading it on French if you like, it wasn't so hard, it was only my second year of studying, so it was a hard reading for me, but if you have studied more than two years I suppose you will menage easily

[Dori]

After pouring over several sources (The Story of Philosophy, An Incomplete Education, and even this forum) for recommendations, I have narrowed down my searches and bought the following from BarnesandNoble.com.

The Bible (King James Version)
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Ethics by Benedict Spinoza
On the Improvement of Understanding by Benedict Spinoza
Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Seven more books to add to Mount TBR. All of this was purchased with the $50 B&N Gift Card I recieved as an early Christmas present today.

[papayahed]

For Christmas I recieved:

Von Braun; Dreamer of space, Engineer of War
The Portable Dorthy Parker

[LadyWentworth]

Well, today I bought:

Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
Talk to the Hand - Lynne Truss

Got them both at a drugstore for 2/$10. That is a very good deal considering Alexander Hamilton is hardcover and goes for $35.00 regularly. I only got it for $5!!

[LadyW]

The Secret Diary of Miss Miranda Cleever - Julia Quinn

[Bakiryu]

Children's books

the first two books in the Leven Thump series.

[Dori]

For Christmas, I recieved a handful of money and a B&N gift card. With this, I bought:

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary ~ Samuel Johnson
Virtues of War ~ Steven Pressfield
Caesar: A Biography ~ Christian Meier
The Divine Comedy ~ Dante; trans. by Henry W. Longfellow, illustrated by Gustave Dore

Then I bought five books from Barnes and Noble's Library of Essential Writers. I bought:

Jules Verne: Seven Novels (Five Weeks in a Balloon, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island)
Gustave Flaubert: Five Novels (Madame Bovary, Salammbo, Sentimental Education, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Bouvard and Pecuchet)
Bram Stoker: FIve Novels (Dracula, The Mystery of the Sea, The Jewel of Seven Stars, The Lady of the Shroud, The Lair of the White Worm)
Charles Dickens: Five Novels (Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, The Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations)
James Fenimore Cooper: Five Novels (The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer)

All of this costed me around $85. Not too bad, I think. The most expensive book was the illustrated version of the Divine Comedy.

[watuknocankillu]

I just bought heart of darkness and the secret agent by joseph conrad.
anyone ever read or heard of conrad?

[Remarkable]

I have recieved only one book until now(I usually get my presents after Christmas)and it is "The Fifth Child"by Doris Lessing.It is quite good unitl now...And I'm also hopeing for more books in the days to come...

[grace86]

I've read Heart of Darkness...not an incredibly easy one to get through but it is definitely worth the read.

I unfortunately did not get any new books for Christmas except one. My uncle gave me some cash for Christmas and since I was finished with the books I brought with me, I knew that I would need one for the plane trip back home on Friday, so I bought Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I've never read anything by him.

But for Christmas my boyfriend did get me a second bookcase to match the one I currently have!!! I get to put more of my books out.

[aeroport]

It was either The Riverside Shakespeare or Madame Bovary in the original; they were both a few weeks ago...