I last bought about 6 books at Barnes & Noble while my sisters and mom were shopping. The last one of them that I found, and bought on kind of a whim, was The Sword of Shannara.
It looked like the epic masterpiece sort of book that I enjoy, but only time (and my progression through a lengthy reading list) will tell.
"...thought is the arrow of time, memory never fades."
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. The story was worth 4 or 5 times what I paid for the book. Excellent.
Lucky you!!!!!!! It's WAY too expensive here, and I'm dying to read it. Maybe you can tell me what you think of it when you're done with it. And if it's as good as Hosseini's The Kite RunnerOriginally Posted by Rogers_68
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
I bought and received as presents some very nice books.
"Breakfast to Tiffany's" Truman capote
"Herzog" S. Bellow
"Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" M. Twain
"Anna Karenina" L Tolstoy
"The Divine comedy" Dante (a leather bound edition, translation by N. Kazantzakis)
"Zorba" N. Kazantzakis (a leatherbound edition)
"The 120 days of Sodom" Marquis de Sade
"The Metamorphoses" F Kafka
"The turn of the screw and the Aspern papers" H. James
and last but not least
a fancy book with 1000 buildings from all over the world..that was the best gift
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
"The Edge of Evolution" (The search for the Limits of Darwinism) by Michael J. Behe
'Proust' by Edmund White:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Proust-Edmun...9435504&sr=8-9
Kafka on the Shore (Audio book):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kafka-Shore-...9435789&sr=8-1
the Road by Cormac Mccarthy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James joyce
Resistance by Owen Sheers
She by H.Rider Haggard
The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
The African Queen by C.S.Forester
The Magician by W.Somerset Maugham
The Robe by Lloyd C.Douglas
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
The Atom Station ~ Halldor Laxness
The Foundation Pit ~ Andrey Platonov
Jenny ~ Sigrid Undset
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin ~ Vladimir Voinovich
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
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
From the First Americans serirs by William Sarabande:
Forbidden Land
Corridor of Storms
Beyond the Sea of Ice
and I got
Reindeer Moon, by Elizabeth Marshal Thomas
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
"The Inferno"
"Purgatorio" - all three by Dante
"Paradiso"
And "Far From the Madding Crowd" by Hardy
"Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future." -William Wordsworth
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George Eliot
Currently Reading: "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy
Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent - Brian Fagan
Man the Hunter - (Can't remember author)
Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany - Michael Balick
Botany for Gardeners - Brian Capon
College Algebra - (Barf...remedial class) Beecher
These are all my textbooks for winter quarter. The first four are pretty interesting, but as for math - I could do without it. A little spiteful considering I aced Statistics.
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
My last three bought:
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
The City and the Mountains - Eça de Queiroz
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
''The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.'' - Aristotle
1984 - George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
We the Living - Ayn Rand
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
Airframe - Michael Crichton
For One More Day - Mitch Albom
Black House - Stephen King and Peter Straub
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