I bought the "Complete Works of Oscar Wilde" ^^ I got it at a second hand bookshop/cafe that's around the corner from my house, quite nice.
I love him, so it's great to have everything he ever wrote (I'm re-reading him now to find quotes for some essays I'm writing as well...).
I can't usually buy that many books so I make more use of the library :P
collected stories by lord berners
What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?
The Genius of America
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. ~Khalil Gibran
last book i bought: girl with a pearl earring. not halfway through it yet. bought it with a bunch of books we had to buy for my cousin.
Last book I bought was Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame by Bukowski. There was God, and God sits at the right hand of Bukowski.
"He was nauseous with regret when he saw her face again, and when, as of yore, he pleaded and begged at her knees for the joy of her being. She understood Neal; she stroked his hair; she knew he was mad."
---Jack Kerouac, On The Road: The Original Scroll
Have you ever heard Modest Mouse's Bukowski? It's a good song, you should check it out.Originally Posted by jon1jt
Last book I bought was Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame by Bukowski. There was God, and God sits at the right hand of Bukowski.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
Hey Idril, long time no see! I'll check them out, thanks!
"He was nauseous with regret when he saw her face again, and when, as of yore, he pleaded and begged at her knees for the joy of her being. She understood Neal; she stroked his hair; she knew he was mad."
---Jack Kerouac, On The Road: The Original Scroll
And for Christmas I got:
JPod by Douglas Coupland
1984 by George Orwell
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
The last book I bought was Think for Yourself! by Steve Hindes. The book has some great points, but I find the author's anti-God rhetoric tiresome.
I remember reading the secret agent at school. I think it is his best book and the furthest away from what he normally wrote... it's one of the books that make him an early modernist. It has big, commedia del arte type characters and a cruel, nonsensical plot.
What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?
The last book I bought for myself (for) Christmas was - Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!
the whole boatload of sensitive!
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl II.
Oh I'm DYING to read that one. I hear it's a great read
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin. Nice read, but it didn't live up to the hype I'd heard about it.
For my birthday, I bought (okay, used my parent's credit card) the Feynman Lectures on Physics!!! The whole set...it's so useful (and fun to read). I got so happy I didn't touch the books for a week so that they won't get 'ruined'.
I don't get books for presents anymore. Leo complains that I have too many now.
I bought one for myself though, Irish Dreams by Nora Roberts. Never really heard of it before, but the books I have in mind to write have a lot to do with Ireland, so I couldn't really resist.
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