Could have sworn I posted this already, but:
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Tolkein
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
Could have sworn I posted this already, but:
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Tolkein
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
"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
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan
I just got Millicent Bell's Meaning in Henry James in the mail today and have pre-ordered the forthcoming new Penguin editions of The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors...
It's only a trick to mislead you about my username...Originally Posted by Antiquarian
Strange you would choose James.
Seriously...all of it? *very impressed*I love his writing, too, but I have to confess I've not read The Ambassadors or The Bostonians. I think I've read everything else, though. The Golden Bowl is my favorite, though it all began with Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw.
I bought The Collected Short Stories of William Faulkner. After reading "A Rose For Emily" here on lit net, I decideed I needed to have a book of Faulkner's short stories in the house.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
You will enjoy the Tom Robbins book, one of my favorite contemporary humorous writers. Can't say the same about James. I think I have Fierce Invalid somewhere. Isn't it the one with the old lady's pet bird, some sort of a parrot? I once started reading it and then never finished. Naught wrong with the book, I was distracted by other things at that time. His Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas is hilarious and so is Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Good writer, that Robbins fellow is, he is mad!
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Received the delivery of Fifty Poems by Boris Pasternak chosen and translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater.
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
I got a big stockpile to read...so I think I won't be taking a trip to a bookshop anytime soon, though I am looking forward to reading Hannibal Lector's first outing after I've read the big pile.
Currently Reading:
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Volume 1 - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Song for Night - Chris Abani
Hehehe. Is the Uncollected much different than the Collected?Yes! You do need to have a volume of Faulkner's short stories around the house!
Now, I just have to get you to buy The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner next.
You know I would love to go through a Henry James work here on lit net. I don't know which one, and I would hate to do a real long one, but it's been ages since i read a James novel or novela. The Ambassadors is very good by the way.All but those two. I've not read those. After I read The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller, I read Portrait of a Lady and I was hooked.
Your username is always confusing me.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Likewise.
My whole summer is going to be spent reading as much as I can of his major works (nearly done with The Wings of the Dove finally!), so I would very much be up for this. Something in the vein, perhaps, of Maisie or Poynton?
*sorry for double posting*
There is definitely a parrot involved somewhere. My cousin was passing through town and told me a bit about Robbins's books and read a little to me. He sounds very interesting. Looking forward to it...
Italian Journey by J.W. von Goethe.
Čłowjek je dwójny, tež sam sebi. Tysacy słowow sym kaž paćerki stykał na swoje lĕta a na kóncu spóznał, zo ani jednoho słowa njeje, kotrež by jeho w ćĕle a duši we wšej wĕrnosći wĕrnje pomjenowało.
One of my favorite stories ever.
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
Talk Talk - T.C. Boyle
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
A Burnt-Out Case - Graham Greene
Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations - Alexander McCall Smith
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
I accidentally bought more books today
HG Wells - The country of the blind and other stories
Jules Verne - Around the world in 80 days
Patrick Suskind - Perfume
Hemingway - The sun also rises
and a bunch of Shakespeare (Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo & Juliet - read this about 15 years ago at school so looking forward to returning to it)
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
Oh, yes? Who do you think you are kidding, HS?
I've tried that one and none of my friends believe me. I've also tried 'It just jumped off the shelf into my hands', and 'It called out to me'. The only one they even begin to let me get away with is 'I bought it because I'll never see it again' and that only works with some really out of the way title.
I've got £25 worth of credit waiting for me on Amazon (belated birthday present). What to buy? Oh, decisions, decisions.....
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