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    I just bought Unruly Americans and the Origins of The Constitution byWoody Holton and A People's History of the Supreme Court byPeter Irons. I picked both up because I'm planning on going to law school (mainly focusing on U.S. constitutional law) once I finish my Bacherlor's.

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    I just had a little trip to the book market and bought:

    The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol
    Ibsen: Four Major Plays
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
    Men Without Woman - Ernest Hemingway
    Selected Essays - D.H. Lawrence
    The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
    Bend Sinister - Vladimir Nabokov
    Middlemarch - George Eliot
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
    A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
    Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay - Robert DiYanni
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    1) Crusade by Robyn Young

    2) The Interpretation Of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
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    I went to the city a short while back, to go book shopping . Ended up with some art books, and a few random novels. Mostly $2 used books from the library.

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    My boyfriend and I just ordered two books each. He got Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson, as well as The Difference Engine by William Gibson. And I got PS, I Love You by Cecilia Ahern, and also Enduring Love by Ian McEwan. I chose my books because I've heard a lot of things about Ahern, both good and not so good comments, and I want to get an opinion on the book myself. And as to McEwan, I just finished Atonement, which I loved, and now I want to keep on reading his books, to see how I like them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelastmelon View Post
    Enduring Love by Ian McEwan.
    I wanted to buy this book (and On Chesil Beach too), after reading Atonement, hopefully you'll share your opinion about the book
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    thus spoke zarathustra.. why did i buy it? cos i was dying. I spent my last money. thougt iam starving now, i feel like a superman

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    Quote Originally Posted by sprinks View Post
    I went to the city a short while back, to go book shopping . Ended up with some art books, and a few random novels. Mostly $2 used books from the library.


    and you entered to the Black books where a drunk irish wanted to kill you
    for having obliged him to sell something...
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    I bought Lady Susan, The Watons and Sandition by Jane Austen. Why? because i saw it in Newcastle airport, and havent seen it over here.
    "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."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    I bought Lady Susan, The Watons and Sandition by Jane Austen. Why? because i saw it in Newcastle airport, and havent seen it over here.
    I really enjoy lady susan Niamh, though she wrote it when she was 17 and it actually shows.
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    good. I'll let you know what i thought when i read it.
    "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)"
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    When I was on vaccation I went into this little used book store and picked up The Manticore becasue it was the last book I needed for the Deptford Trilogy

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Flight by Alexander Alexie

    This is my novel. I can't tell you of a book that I love more. If you ever read this book (its really quick, like 2 hours) I'd love you forever.

    http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Novel-S...6790444&sr=8-1
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    I just ordered "Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard" by Richard Brody after reading a glowing review in today's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/bo...=1&oref=slogin
    "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." -- Jean Genet

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    The Godfather by Mario Puzo, just today.
    why? i dunno, why not? i wouldve read it some time or the other.

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    The favorite from Yasushi INOUE

    Story of the tragical love between the chinese Emperor Siuan-Tsong and his favorite in the 8th century...
    Chose this book because relates a love story which is as famous in China as the occidental "Tristan and Yseult".
    Historical book written like a romance with a sensitive way of describing the human mind...the search of innerself, the desire of conquest, the meaning of "identity"...

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