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    All Men Are Mortal-Simone de Beauvoir
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erichtho View Post
    Yesterday I bought L. Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.


    I have read some of Pirandello's short stories; they're excellent.

    I recently purchased the following:
    The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
    Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
    A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee.

    I bought them at a second-hand book shop in Avignon, on the Rue Trois Faucons. I paid 8 euros for the 3 volumes.
    "He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
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    Kim by Rudyard Kipling i'v never heard of it but i found sth pushed me to by it may be the short title...... ..........

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    Stardust by Gaiman
    Candide By Voltaire
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


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    2nd hand copy of A Clockwork Orange for about $1

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    I'm taking advantage of the holyweek to read all the books I have purchased from booksale last month! Yay now I have the time to read them.

    The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce
    Selected Stories - Butch Dalisay
    101 Things You Didn't Know About Shakespeare
    The Elements of Style - E.B White
    Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert
    Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!
    the whole boatload of sensitive !

    — Allen Ginsberg, Howl II.

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    Conversations with Ingmar Bergman
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    I was given Special Topics in Calamity Physics. I think the last book I actually purchased was a book on running techniques. The last novel I actually purchased was Fahrenheit 451.
    "Memory believes before knowing remembers."
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    The last books i bought would be
    Ten Things I Hate About Me - Randa Abdel-Fattah
    A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
    m or f? - Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts
    Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    Will - Maria Boyd

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    well i didnt buy but was given as a present a book of short stories by F.Scott Fitzgerald "The diamon as big as the Ritz"

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    'The rules of attraction' - Bret Easton Ellis
    'American Psycho' - Bret Easton Ellis
    'Neither here nor there' - Bill Bryson
    and some german book by Charlotte Link
    “I never looked good in red. It’s not my color.”

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    Deception Point by Dan Brown
    The source of any bad writing is the desire to be something more than a person of sense--the straining to be thought a genius. If people would say what they have to say in plain terms, how much eloquent they would be.
    -S.T COLERIDGE

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    all the King's men by Robert Penn Worren

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    Quote Originally Posted by summersun View Post
    'The rules of attraction' - Bret Easton Ellis
    'American Psycho' - Bret Easton Ellis
    He's an interesting one; I just read Less Than Zero last summer. Creepy...

    Today, in the mail, I received:
    The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman - F.O. Matthiessen
    Roderick Hudson - Henry James

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    The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand
    Doctor Faustus-Thomas Mann
    The Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning
    "Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie

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