And...Originally Posted by EricP
And...
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
--Shakespeare
The Decameron ~ Giovanni Boccaccio
The Last September ~ Elizabeth Bowen
Life Before Man ~ Margaret Atwood
Lady Oracle ~ Margaret Atwood
All the Kings Men ~ Robert Penn Warren
Stories Selected from the Unexepcted
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Don Quixote by Cervantes, because it was only fifty pence and I couldn't possibly not buy it at that price. I'm a bit scared of starting it, though. Could anyone who has read it here tell me what they thought of it?.
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"I don't see any culture; I just see everyone pissed or stoned tryin' to find their way from one empty day to the next. There's more culture in a pot of yoghurt".
(Rita, "Educating Rita").
Hi Loike!
I started it a while back (and was scared of it at first as well), but couldn't finish it because I took to long with it and it had to go back to the library.
I suppose it all depends on the translator - I read the Edith Grossman translation and it was really good, so I decided to buy it (next payday
I got all of these books from the thrift store.
Saffron Skies by Lesley Lokko
Legion by William Peter Blatty
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Omen by David Seltzer
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Why? Because I love reading, that's why!
Kiss and cry/you are my/natural high
The last book I bought was Homeros' Ilias.
You choose your books due to the author's gender?
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.
I read it in Spanish, but then I suppose you must have bought a good translation. It's wonderful, and still very funny after four hundred years... but you must have a little context, because Cervantes intended to satirize the "errant knight" stories in fashion at that time, and that's what Don Quixote is... a magnificent parody.Don Quixote by Cervantes, because it was only fifty pence and I couldn't possibly not buy it at that price. I'm a bit scared of starting it, though. Could anyone who has read it here tell me what they thought of it?
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...was "Armageddon in Retrospect."
Because I like Vonnegut and wanted to see something I hadn't seen before.
I borrow far more often than I buy, and the last book I borrowed was "Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard.
Because my favorite cartoonist mentioned Patrick O'Brian in an e-mail and I had never read any of his work. I chose this particular one because it was published when he was fifteen and I thought it might inspire me to actually write something.
My last shopping spree resulted in:
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Greer
White Fang by Jack London
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Edit: No reason why, just one of those pick what looks interesting.
"Get thee to a nunnery."
I forked out 10 squid(!!) for The Count of Monte Cristo last night at the airport, while waiting for my plane to actually arrive before it could depart again!
Was a crazy moment which will probably not be repeated soon....
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
Thank you Pecksie and TurquoiseSunset for your replies about Don Quixote. I'm now reading The Portrait of a Lady because I've heard so many good and often very enthusiastic comments about James that I thought reading him might be a good plan. But after I've finished it, I shall definitely read Don Quixote, because from what you said it seems rather exciting..
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"I don't see any culture; I just see everyone pissed or stoned tryin' to find their way from one empty day to the next. There's more culture in a pot of yoghurt".
(Rita, "Educating Rita").
Today I bought Sophie's World and Ulysses. I have my own copy of Ulysses for the first time.
Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.
Miroslav Krleža
Wistawa Szymborska, Poems, New and Collected.....Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, translated by John J. L. Mood.....The Book of Images, Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow.....Rilke's Book of Hours, Love poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.....{reason for buying them, tremendous admiration and appreciation of both poets}
The Portrait of a Lady- Henry James
The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevsky
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux (an English version)
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
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