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Halo said:
I can't tell you, because I've never read any of his work, but I just bought When The Wind Blows too! It cost 1p (new) :eek: from Amazon marketplace, definitely the cheapest book I've ever bought! (Well, okay, the postage was £2.75, but it doesn't look like such a bargain if I mention that bit).
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Well I've read 'Kiss the Girls' and it was good.I just wanted to know how his When the wind blow is ?coz the author has written in autors note that this is his best book.I bought a 2in1 book of his.It also contains the second part of the story.The Lake House.Though im reading 'A matter of honor',i'll start this next.
 
Worm, I started reading When the Wind Blows this morning, and I'm now nearly at the end already, so you can see from this that I found it a page-turner! The writing style is simple (perhaps too simple) and the chapters are extremely short (around 3 - 4 pages), but it's an interesting plot and I'm enjoying it.
 
The last books i bought are:

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

and

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
 
Worm said:
Halo,so will u buy the sequel?
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Very probably. :) I finished the first one last night, and although the writing style bothered me, I did enjoy the story (though it's very much suspend your disbelief when reading it).
 
I've just bought 'The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol' and 'Complete Works, Vol.I', by Eça de Queiroz
 
Discovered a huge, wonderful used bookstore where I picked up:
The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
 
To Kill A Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
The Eyre Affair ~ Jasper Fforde
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time ~ Mark Haddon
Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki

I love charity shops :)
 
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach

The best part is I got these for free with some magazine subscription ;)

Ooooooo... nothing like free books!
 
:) Bought today The Double - Jose Saramago
for 95p Mint 2nd hand copy :D skipped out of shop
 
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Original Radio Scripts. What fun! (And the first book we could afford after our big splurge on the Oxford English Dictionary at an estate sale in May.)
 
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Beast by Peter Benchley
Alaska by James A. Michener
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

All used. The Michener is neat cause it's actually a First Edition hardcover. Initially I wasn't gonna pick it up cause it was $10 and I was looking for cheap paperbacks only. It wasn't until after I relented to temptation and bought the book that I even realized it was a first edition. Not worth much monetarily but it's always nice to find a first edition of an author you like. Too bad it wasn't signed. :eek:
 
Today I ordered from Amazon:

No Present Like Time - Steph Swainston - because I'm reading her first book and it's great.

We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver - not sure about this but am going to give it a try. (Why does she have a man's name?)

Enders Game - O.S. Card
Blindness - Jose Saramago - both of which have been talked about here and which sound like ones I would like to read.

This site is deadly - I've only been here a few days and already have a TBR list a mile long, and I thought I'd read most things!
 
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