I'm doing a personal study of the same, so I would be interested in your thoughts on the book.Originally Posted by Nostalgie
I'm doing a personal study of the same, so I would be interested in your thoughts on the book.
"Do you mind if I reel in this fish?" - Dale Harris
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - Ernest Hemingway
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My lovely and reliable post lady just delivered Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Russian Literature. Thanks Inderjit Sanghe for your recommendation.
"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
I bought the long-coveted Amos Oz memoir "A Tale of Love and Darkness" for USD 0.5 on Amazon!!! And, after I had raided the clearance sale at a local bookstore, I made a friend go back and get me Margaret Drabble's "Jerusalem the Golden" and John Galsworthy's "The Man of Property".
I'm not a big fan of García Márquez. He's vastly overhyped, in my opinion (there are threads on this issue). If you want to read good Latin American authors, I'd recommend Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian), José Donoso (Chilean), Jorge L. Borges and Julio Cortázar (Argentines), and Juan C. Onetti and Horacio Quiroga (Uruguayan).
That's my best Latin American list!!!
The book: Instant Word Power by Norman Lewis
The reason: I would like to be a writer, and since my vocabulary skills leave much to be desired, I thought that I might try to improve them.
~*Live your life so the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral*~
A gift for a little book worm who has just had an operation.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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My recent literary adventure is The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and the Charterhouse of Parma, which both add to my French literature reading list for the summer.
The reason for selecting these books was due to Borders having a sale. Notre-Dame was only two dollars in the Borders Classics format. Haha.
How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon immediate gratification.
-Swann's Way
Always Magic In the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era - Ken Emerson
King Cohn: The Life and Times of Hollywood Mogul Harry Cohn - Bob Thomas
Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America - Christine Wicker
A Great and Godly Adventure: The Pilgrims and the Myth of the First Thanksgiving - Godfrey Hodgson
700 Sundays - Billy Crystal
Books that total up to about $113.00, and I only paid $1.00 each for them. 4 out of the 5 are Hardcover, too. So $5.00 for all of these. Not bad, huh?You gotta love the Dollar Store!
I picked up Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada" today at a used book shop.
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." -- Jean Genet
Gate of the Sun by Lebanese writer Elias Khoury (an Arabic Edition)
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I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
Actually I bought three - I can never control myself
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
I recently compiled a 'Top' list using all the Top 100 lists and similar must read lists that I could find on the Internet in one sitting. I did it mainly out of interest and to find new titles to add to my wishlists. Ironically I went to the bookstore and bought 2 books that featured on said bookstore's 101 Books to Read Before You Die list (although looking at the list it seems like more of a I've-just-read-this-book-and-loved-it list)...and therefore they are not books people would consider classics or "books to read before you die". The third book's author (Verne) didn't even feature on any of the lists
The last book I bought was Gunnar by the Swedish poet/author Bob Hansson. I'd only read some of his poetry before, and it's quite original, and when I saw this novel in the store I just couldn't keep my eyes from it. I just had to buy it.
I've bought a few books recently:
"Hygiène de l’assassin" by Amélie Nothomb
That's the first Nothomb's book I've bought, but I have serious expactations. I've seen some good reviews on it and I hope I'll like it.
"Ask the Dust" by John Fante
It was recommended to me by a friend. I wasn't so sure if I am going to like it, but I decided to give it a try it was worth it definitely. I've finished reading it yesterday, just the day after I've bought it
"Foam of the Daze" by Boris Vian
It was an easy choice - to get the last copy on the shelf of the book by one of my favorite authors, especially after it supposed that the edition to be depleted.
"Tke Brooklyn Follies" by Paul Auster
"Timbuktu" by Paul Auster
"Moon Palace" by Paul Auster
"The Book of Illusions" by Paul Auster
What could I say? Paul Auster is definitely on of my favourite authors.
"Dreams of My Russian Summers" by Andreï Makine
This one caught my interest in the shelf with newly published books, so I decided to try something new
Currently reading:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
I ended up buying quite a couple books yesterday.
Two new books
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Stephen King - The Dark Tower vol 2 (The dawning of the three)
and a couple of 2nd books at a bookmarket.
Bernard Shaw - Play's Pleasant
Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper
Ernest Hemingway - A farewell to arms
The Short stories of H.G. Wells
I got two books printed in Barcelona in 1861 and like 1910 respectively, while I was in Barcelona a couple of weeks ago. Very exciting...
But as far as ones I'm planning to read...I got The Catcher in the Rye, The Martian Chronicles, Candide, and (on a different note) Guns Germs and Steel recently. I've read the first three and have yet to pick up the fourth because I got out a few C.S. Lewis books from the library...
Brit. Lit. = <3
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