Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[Eva]

King Lear.

Talked about it briefly yesterday at work, so it was on my mind. On the walk to the subway, I had an urge to read certain passages right then. I stopped and picked up a paperback copy (though I have several fancy editions of Shakespeare at home), then I was reading it on the subway and almost crying.

Ok, I think I'm developing a bad habit. Yesterday on my walk to the subway, I had the same urge, but this time it was for The Importance of Being Earnest. So I stopped off and bought a cheap copy (Dover) and laughed on the subway all the way home.

 

[darklotus]

World War Z~ Max Brooks

 

[steelclaw32]

Just about finishing off C.Dexter book and about to start, shortly, on Elisabeth George's novel ...
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[-Carlos-]

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

[dollymixture]

Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters

 

[Stewart]

Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum

Wonderful choice.


Yesterday I bought Storm Of Steel by Ernst Jünger, his account of being a German soldier during the First World War.

 

[angerball]

I just bought Blindness by Jose Saramago, on Ebay. I've been looking for this book for a while now, so I'm quite glad I managed to snag a copy.

 

[Wells83]

I went to an antique store and bought, at a dollar each,

The Goddess Abides, Pearl S. Buck

Evangeline, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

 

[SFG75]

Aqua-You sir, have the perfect book combination.

Went to goodwill again today and was doubly blessed.

The Quickening-Art Bell; Hey, I have to have some weird UFO-conspiracy thing too you know.

Portnoy's Complaint-Philip Roth; Can't believe this one was on the bookshelf, I've been wanting to read this for the longest time.

Jimmy(Big Boy Valente-Garrison Keillor; I love Keillor's work, this one should be no exception.

Othello-William Shakespeare; Never read it, always heard it about it.

The Purgatorio-Dante; Yeah, sounded interesting

Old Griot-Honore De Balzac; The plot got me into this

Faust, Part One; Goethe

 

[-Carlos-]

Great Tales and Poems of Edger Allen Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos

 

[saliotthomas]

Pelevin, Victor - The Helmet of Horror- thanks to Beer Good

Thomas Cahill - Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea-thanks to Silverseason

Bernard Cornwell Saxon Chronicles 04 Sword Song

Ghosts of Everest

Harlan Ellison - Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead-Thanks to Pontalba

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith-Thanks to Lenny Nero

 

[Writer44]

Child 44 via the kindle system. Can't wait. Almost finished with Lush Life on same platform.

 

[dollymixture]

The Pornography of Meat - Carol Adams

 

[Robert]

I just ordered A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.

 

[pontalba]

Depths by Henning Mankell
Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius [Catharine Edwards translation]
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Casanova in Bolzano by Sandor Marai
The Gathering by Anne Enright

 

[-Carlos-]

Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
A Hero of a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (library loan)
Jazz by Toni Morrison
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

 

[Isabell]

Foucault's Pendulum--$4 at Half Price books
I'll be DL'ing Child 44 onto the Kindle in a few minutes

 

[sparkchaser]

I'll be DL'ing Child 44 onto the Kindle in a few minutes

Oh no you won't!

 

[-Carlos-]

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[saliotthomas]

Nice and unusual mornig fishing,with the first circle i found Requiem for the east by Andrei Makine(god bless sarah of the bookshop!)
Also got Aristocrats by Stella Tillyard for my wife(she love those) and Civilisation of classic Islam for my Father.(look very interesting)