Last Book You Bought and Why

[novlist*star*]

I bought Emma novel by Jaen Austen
WAY?
Because I want to knwo more about this great novelist style..

[Lioness_Heart]

The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier. I've been slowly orking my way through her novels, and this one seemed perfect for me because it's also about time travel

[thelastmelon]

My boyfriend is buying Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood for me today. I've been close to buying it several times for a few months now, but never did it. And today I noticed it was on the list of suggested extra-books to read for my class starting in August, so I thought that it'd be good to combine school and fun.

[Sweets America]

I bought two books:
- Desolation Angels by Kerouac because I love his writings and I am going to work on it
- Labyrinths by Borges because Islandclimber recommanded it to me and when I read the beginning on the net, I was really tempted to read the rest.

[ampoule]

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore for book club, Prose and Cons. It's about Jesus and his childhood friend, Biff.

[Pyrrho]

Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther
Why? Have to read it for a seminar.

[aeroport]

Dune - Frank Herbert
The Black Swan - Mercedes Lackey

I started reading the Lackey book several years ago, and I cannot remember why I stopped, as I was really enjoying it. I thought of it the other day at work (at the library) and tried to find it, but could not; thus, the purchase.
Dune I've been meaning to read for a while now; another one that I didn't finish originally.

[aeroport]

I have that on my shelf, but have never real it. Was it good?

I just bought the Library of America edition of Walt Whitman's Poems and Prose.

I love the Library of America editions and Whitman is my favorite poet.

Honestly, the furthest I've gone with Trollope so far is The Warden, which is short and, if you haven't read it, one that I'd recommend. Perhaps I'll read this one before the summer's over... At the moment it occupies the 'Unread Huge Victorian Novels' section of my shelf.

[Idril]

I loved The Way We Live Now but then again, I'm an unabashed Trollope fan. His novels are long, except for The Warden but they really are quick reads, his prose flows so nicely, the plot is always moving, the characters, for the most part, keep developing. A great Victorian author!

[kasie]

It may not be your type of book, though. You should buy exactly what you want.

I've made a note of the title - thank you, Antiquarian, and yes, you were quite right, it was in amazon.uk, so why it came up with Title Not Found when I first searched for it, I don't know!

I have used my birthday gift to buy:

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - the Royal Shakespeare Company edition. My original Complete Works is falling to bits (well it is about forty-five years old and much thumbed!) and this edition is printed single column to the page and the annotations are on the page beneath the text so you don't have to turn to another page for the glossaries etc. I live close enough to Stratford to be able to make several visits a year, so I thought it would be useful to be able to do some pre-visit reading of the text/version that I will be seeing.

Shakespeare's Language - Frank Kermode

Shakespeare's Words - A Glossary & Language Companion - David Crystal & Ben Crystal.

What makes you think I might like the works of Shakespeare?

[Niamh]

The Woman In Black by Susan Hill

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Hidden Food Alergies; is what you are eating making you ill?

The Sea by John Banville

The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez

Ma He sold me for a few ciggarettes by Martina Long (for my mam but i'm going to read it also)

Charming man by Marian Keyes (for my mam and i will NOT be reading it.)

[slobone]

I bought a whole pile of old whodunnits for 50 cents each at a used book store -- Rex Stout, Ngaio Marsh, Michael Innes, Ian Fleming, Agatha Christie...

[NickAdams]

I use to work at a book shop and I still get a 50% discount, free if the books are from outside, so I get books daily and have the habit of kissing and not telling (to many lips to remember).

I purchased two books from the Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares collaboration: Chronicles of Bustos Domecq and Extraordinary Stories.

That was yesterday. Today I bought Mircea Eliade's Shamanism.

Flannery O'Conner, The Collected Works (Library of American Edition - these are her four novels)

Have you read the introduction to the edition? I have the Signet edition, I think, but I love LOA books. They are advocates of the author has the final word, so I was curious how much restoration was done.

[CarlyQ22]

hello everyone, this is my first post and i hope to talk w/ all of you in the future!! i just bought The Brothers Karamazov today and am very excited to read it!

[NickAdams]

No, Nick I haven't. I haven't received that book from Amazon yet. LOL I have Flannery O'Conner's short stories, but I've never read her novels.

I'll let you know what it says when I receive the book.

Thanks.