Last Book You Bought and Why

[Dr. Hill]

I don't know why. It was three dollars at the book store. I own three copies of this book, as of now.

[Bakiryu]

Because I needed new books, they were cheap and I really wanted them:

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained~ Milton
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Death Note 1 and 2
Loveless 1
The Wallflower 1
Traitor to the Blood~ Barb and Jc.Hendee
A wizard of Earthsea
Inkdeath


and some others

[*Classic*Charm*]

Queen, Empress, Concubine, Fifty Women Rulers from the Queen of Sheba to Catherine the Great by Claudia Gold


Why: It was a steal for the price I got on it and it looked like a great reference.

I've been wanting that book for a while! Is that the one about all the evil women, are am I combining two books in my head?

[manolia]

Portnoy's complaint (i keep hearing about Roth and i thought it was time to have a look)

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovic

[kandaurov]

Portnoy's complaint, eh? You're in for an outrageous book. I loved it, but I have strange tastes.

haha, three copies of Crime and Punishment! The only book I have multiple copies of is The Little Prince - I started collecting it in different languages some years ago.

I got a shipping from amazon: Marxism and Modernism (I'm hoping what's written there will make sense to me some day), The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett (because it had to be done), and Die Schachnovelle (unfortunately it's in Turkish......)

[manolia]

Portnoy's complaint, eh? You're in for an outrageous book. I loved it, but I have strange tastes.

Hehe you just recommended the book by saying it's outrageous
I was standing before a shelf of Roth's books and i just picked that randomly. Any other that you'd recommend?

I've read Marx (a bit from Das Kapital) and some works related to marxism..my fav will always be Engel's the origin of family..really really interesting

[kandaurov]

Oh yes, I do intend to recommend it! I was reading it in boring lectures and sometimes found it hard to suppress fits of laughter. Takes full advantage of the 'shock value' factor

Sadly I haven't read any other Roth (though I do have three of his novels in the reading queue) so I'm not the one to give recommendations. Started reading his Everyman but had to abort it because of pressing course work. Did seem to have a completely different tone to it (in relation to Portnoy's, that is).

'Tis a pity the Marxist thinkers of the likes of Adorno and Benjamin aren't as easy to read as Marx. Engel on his own I've never read, will add to my list

[semi-fly]

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Light in August by William Faulkner

I bought Light in August to participate in the reading exercise that *Classic*Charm* & Joreads decided to start up. As for the other books they were on the top 100 book list and I had simply not read them yet.

[Aroungaschan]

Lets see..
I bought Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, author of the fight club,
for my eng 102 class and absolutely hated it. It has it's points
and views but just disgusting and disturbing. So I want to
scratch that out and say MacArthur Study Bible. Well it was a
gift but I was going to buy anyway. I usually do not buy books
but maybe I will

[*Classic*Charm*]

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams- Wayne Johnston
In the Skin of a Lion- Michael Ondaatje
Unless- Carol Shields

Whittier's Poetry
Milton's works (x2)...These three were old collectible-types

[stlukesguild]

I just purchased a big boxed set entitled, Japanese Woodblock Prints. It is comprised of three separate volumes, each devoted to one of the three major Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock masters: Utamaro, Hiroshige, and Hokusai. The volumes are lavishly illustrated with the most marvelous quality reproductions, and the text is an modern edit of the essays of Edmond de Goncourt. The set was fairly expensive... but after having seen it with envy yesterday, it seemed but fate that today I received a differential check in the mail for my position as department chairman in my school. Combined with a 20% off coupon I just had to have it. And how could I refuse it? My own work has been profoundly impacted by Japanese art as of recent, and I am currently preparing for a return to grad school and the completion of a Masters in Art History which will involve a unit on non-Western art (or so I say to myself to justify the expense)

[Janine]

I just purchased a big boxed set entitled, Japanese Woodblock Prints. It is comprised of three separate volumes, each devoted to one of the three major Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock masters: Utamaro, Hiroshige, and Hokusai. The volumes are lavishly illustrated with the most marvelous quality reproductions, and the text is an modern edit of the essays of Edmond de Goncourt. The set was fairly expensive... but after having seen it with envy yesterday, it seemed but fate that today I received a differential check in the mail for my position as department chairman in my school. Combined with a 20% off coupon I just had to have it. And how could I refuse it? My own work has been profoundly impacted by Japanese art as of recent, and I am currently preparing for a return to grad school and the completion of a Masters in Art History which will involve a unit on non-Western art (or so I say to myself to justify the expense)

stlukes, that set sounds marvelous. I think it was worth every penny. How much you will enjoy it and be enriched by your viewing. Fortunate that fate allowed you the pleasure of buying it today and this way you won't feel guilty for your expensive purchase. Coupons always help, too.

Also marvelous that you will be returning to school for completion of your Masters in Art History. That fits you perfectly. You seem to have such a storehouse of thought and knowledge of the arts and artists. I wish you all the luck in the world and great success!

[Cailin]

The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Biography of Thomas Hardy

Bought them because they were 3 for 2 in the shop. The 1st two had the movie tie-in covers, which I HATE, but I've wanted to read them for a while so bought them anyway!

Have since finished The Reader and will launch into one of the other two once this week of work is over.

[Niamh]

First edition of The Playboy of the Western world.
Why? Because its a First edition of The Payboy of the Western World!!!!!

[Cayenne]

The selected works of Virginia Woolf

Because I've wanted to get it for about a year so I finally decided to buy it.