Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[pwilson]

Crime And Punishment by Dostoevsky and The Jungle by Sinclair. Saw them while browsing the used bookstore and couldn't pass them up!

 

[Harry Gamblor]

Desert Solitaire

Today i finally got Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey.

 

[water faerie]

Dad bought me "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie because I have to read one of her books for school's summer reading. Looks pretty interesting, at least.

 

[StillILearn]

The Jungle by Sinclair.

Fill us in on all the gory details from this one, please? It may help us stay on our summer diets.

 

[pwilson]

Fill us in on all the gory details from this one, please? It may help us stay on our summer diets.

Probably no backyard BBQ's after reading this one, huh?

 

[StillILearn]

Do zucchinis "plump when you cook 'em"?

 

[direstraits]

Celtika, by Robert Holdstock. Looks damn interesting this one... Merlin and plenty of magic.

ds

 

[wilderness]

honeymoon - james patterson
detour - james siegel
the closers - michael connelly

lani

 

[Patchwork Girl]

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts

because I still haven't read it.

 

[sirmyk]

The extended Cemetery Dance edition of Salems' Lot, signed by Stephen King. It's a bigass book.

The Complete Far Side collection, by Gary Larson (also bigass books).

 

[Northern Light]

Genius, A Mosaic of One Hundred Exceplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom. I wound it on sale at a bookstore and immediately bought it. I've read How to Read and Why by him before and I enjoyed it, and I'm also otherwise interested in literary criticism. Has any one of y'all real his tuff? He's also written e.g. Shakespeare - Invention of the Human and The Western Canon.

Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I only read the first part and it was funny and stuff but I've never been bothered to read the rest of them for some reason. I think it annoyed me how similar the writing and the humor was to Terry Pratchett whom I'd read before and loved. I just felt like Adams was ripping off Patchett, even though I think Adams was around before Prachett. But oh well, we all have out moments of irrationality.

 

[Idril Silmaure]

- Possession & Bable Tower by A.S. Byatt
- The Dark Tower - The Gunslinger by Stephen King
- Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence
- Complete Works of Vladimir Nabokov
- Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre & Tenant of Wildfield Hall, Bronte sisters collection

I've just started The Gunslinger, which is a little cryptic but interesting..

 

[adity]

the book i have got recently

after reading dan browns da vinci code i was curious to read the other books written by him n got my hands on demons and angels!!!!!!!!! after tht my hunt will begin for another good book spclly a fiction one!

 

[Patchwork Girl]

The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts ~ Douglas Adams

because shockingly, I still haven't read it.

 

[jaycee]

I went to the used book store today and got 7-Up, Hard Eight, and To The Nines by Janet Evanovich...I have already read them but I just want to have them on my bookcase...I love Evanovich books And also got Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts.

Oh, and Hitchhiker's Guide is awesome. I have the Trilogy in FIVE parts lol.

 

[Patchwork Girl]

I was too skint to buy the five-parter, although the four-parter was £5.99 which I thought was quite bargainous.

 

[Usagi]

I just bought the Life of Pi by Yann Martel and I just wanted to know if anyone read it or had views on the book.

 

[Clementine13]

How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Wizard of Earthsea
Jitterbug Perfume

 

[StillILearn]

I just bought the Life of Pi by Yann Martel and I just wanted to know if anyone read it or had views on the book.

Yes!

I did, and I do.

"Fasten your life vest, it's going to be a bumpy ride."

(This is a book you won't be forgetting having read right away)

 

[jaycee]

Bought 2 more tonight. Black Rose by Nora Roberts and Nighttime is My Time by Mary Higgins Clark. But I got them for cheap at Costco. So it's all ok!!! lol