Last Book You Bought and Why

[Takeahnase]

I walked to a couple of local charity shops during my college break and raided their books shelves again. I picked up a copy of The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins and also The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I'm a little gutted though, there was a lovely looking little second-hand bookshop very close to my college that I've always wanted to have a snoop around in but never got around to, and the very day I decide to pop in I find that it's closed down. 'Tis never to be known what little treasures might have been lying in wait within.

On a side note, has anyone ever visited the second hand book stalls underneath Waterloo bridge in London? I had a quick browse there this staurday and I must admit, I found the prices quite steep... most books I had a look at seemed to be around £4, just your average paperback in an ok-ish condition. Just seemed to me to be fairly expensive for books that aren't even new and would probably cost around a pound elsewhere depending on where you look.

[Joreads]

I just bought the whole Jane Austen collection. I am looking forward to reading them.

[Niamh]

the sword in the stone- T.H.White

[tractatus]

"The magus" by J Fowles

i have read the review here on litnet (i think it was by vheissu or scher) and today i saw the book on the shelf (of the bookstore which i wasn't supposed to enter anyway) and then something happened and everything went blank..next thing i remember was me carrying the book

I read this book years ago, many detail is not on my mind, but the theory of psychology was really boring. I dont like anything theoritical in literature, anyway.
but I would like to see the island, no matter how frightening.
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I did Bernieres "Birds Without Wings", and was a mistake.

[Erichtho]

Yesterday I bought L. Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.

[thelastmelon]

Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Eagle in the Sky - Wilbur Smith
The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith
Candide - François Voltaire
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
Tsotsi - Athol Fugard

It's a big booksale in Sweden!

I also bought a book called Nobeller (Nobels) and it's a book with novels by many authors that has won the Nobel Prize during the years. There are novels by: Selma Lagerlöf, Octavio Paz, Halldór Laxness, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gao Xingjian, John Steinbeck and many more.

[Aiculík]

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

[Remarkable]

A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens

Finally I'll be able to join the book club!

[V.Jayalakshmi]

Dear Members,

I am glad to answer the post.I bought Lee Child's 'Trip wire',also his 'Die trying','the Visitor'.Yet to start reading though.

[Takeahnase]

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo and The Golden Treasury by Palgrave.

[livelaughlove]

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou.. so far it's been great.

[thelastmelon]

The Narrows - Michael Connelly
Sleepwalking Land - Mia Couto
Desert Children - Waris Dirie
Half Of A Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Lover - Marguerite Duras

[grace86]

On my latest two occasions (sp?) I bought:

Night - Elie Weisel
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ - Anne Catherine Emmerich
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Evolution and Ethics - Thomas H. Huxley

Sounds like I'm a bit eclectic, but I promise, there is reason behind the madness.

[thelastmelon]

The Attack - Yasmina Khadra

[Ryduce]

Yesterday I purchased The Snows of Kilimanjaro and As I Lay Dying.

Also, in the mail I have three political books on the way.