"Battlefield Earth" - L. Ron Hubbard
I'm a Sci-Fi junkie, mostly short stories, but I fell in love with "Battlefield Earth" many years ago. My poor paperback copy gave up the ghost after many readings and moves and was relegated to the heat stove about 2-months ago much to my sadness. A few weeks later while perusing a local thrift store I found a hardback copy in pristine condition that I happily paid either 50˘ or a dollar USD for.
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who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
I like D.H. Lawrence, and I got a great deal on the books ($5 each).
"No Man is an Island" Thomas Merton -- been feelin' a little spiritual lately.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
I bought two books recently: The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek (forgive me if I have spelled his named wrong) and The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.
I bought The Good Soldier Svejk after wanting it for a very long time, but never deciding to buy it. I first heard of it somewhere where it said that, if Joseph Heller hadn't read it, he never would've wrote Catch-22.
The Pilgrim's Progress, on the other hand, is simply something that I have wanted to read for awhile; I have read the first few pages on the internet, and it seems good.
Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
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Currently reading: LE DIVORCE (Diane Johnson)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Oh, The Good Soldier Švejk is great novel! I have only about 90 pages left of 760 and I'm going to write a review on my blog here.Originally Posted by cgrillo
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. Oscar Wilde
Seneca's Essays and Dialogues (Oxford World Classics) - I wanted to learn more about stoicism from 'the horse's mouth'. I thought this might be a tough, boring (if worthy!) read, instead it's an easy, exciting (as well as worthy!) read.
Oxford Romeo and Juliet. I wanted an individual copy of R&J to read outside of my home; the RSC is a bit too big to be carrying around.
"...You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?..." E. A. Poe
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Berničres
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Boy's Own Story - Edmund White
The House Gun - Nadine Gordimer
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Oranges are not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
House of Meetings - Martin Amis
How the Dead Live - Will Self
Liver - Will Self
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
A Death in the Sanchez Family - Oscar Lewis
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Wasp Factory -Iain Banks
God's Grace - Bernard Malamud
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Across the River and into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Love All the People - Bill Hicks
Big fan of his comedy and it was cheap.
The Stars' Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry
Big fan of Fry as usual and I love his novels.
The last book I bought was Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October. I read the first few chapters and got bored, but it's very well-written and anyone in the Navy would probably enjoy it. It's a widely liked book, and it is good, but it is just not my type of literature. I bought it because I thought I would enjoy it.
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Mars by Ben Bova
As strange as it might sound I got them for research for a short story I've had running around in my head for a while.
expectabam bona et venerunt mihi mala praestolabar lucem et eruperunt tenebrae - Job 30:26
Infinite Jest, thanks to this forum. Lit Nit should abscond some type of nudge fee to Barnes & Noble, eh?
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Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
'The Gathering Night' (Margaret Elphinstone)
She ran a one-day writing course I attended a fortnight ago so I did the courteous thing and bought a signed copy of her latest book - and I'll admit it is a very good read.
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