Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[pontalba]

Stewart


In that case you may be interested in The Life of Ian Fleming by John Pearson.

 

[Stewart]

Stewart
In that case you may be interested in The Life of Ian Fleming by John Pearson.

No thanks. I just want girls and gadgets.

 

[pontalba]

No thanks. I just want girls and gadgets.

Shoulda Known

 

[Dogmatix]

This weekend at the beach I needed some good smut so per: lennynero's recommendation I picked up The Rooms by Michael Hemmingson. YIKES!

I also bought:

The Third Secret by Steve Berry started that this morning. Not bad.

 

[theoptimist]

Asylum - Patrick McGrath

 

[Stewart]

Asylum - Patrick McGrath

You little swine, you. It was you, wasn't it, that got the copy off eBay last night.

I was waiting until the last minute but got distracted by that nonce wanting us to do his coursework for him and missed on doing a bit of literary gazumping.

 

[theoptimist]

You little swine, you. It was you, wasn't it, that got the copy off eBay last night.

Guilty! £2.44 including p+p You can have it for a fiver

 

[pwilson]

Paradise Lost - Milton
Naked - David Sedaris
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

 

[-Carlos-]

The memo! What memo?

I like images. Say it isn't so.

 

[Stewart]

Not a memo, but a thread where most people moaned about people posting images in non-image threads...like this one.

http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11212


Let's not forget, also, that aside from it being annoying you are posting images that directly affect the bandwidth of other sites without their knowledge.

 

[Kenny Shovel]

No Longer At Ease & A Man of the People, both by Chinua Achebe.

Selected Short Stories, Rabindranath Tagore
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

I hope you'll both post your reviews when you're done!
(I'm working on one for Sunset Song)

I've read both Achebe novels now (No Longer at Ease 7/10, A Man of the People 8/10) and took notes whilst doing so. When I get time I'll review them.

Anyway, a trip to London included getting the following:

South of No North by Charles Bukowski
The File on H by Ismail Kadare
Envy by Yury Olesha

 

[Stewart]

Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian

 

[abecedarian]

Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian

Are you certain we aren't related? This one is on my wish list. I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of Soul Mountain.

 

[Shade]

Delighted to see Patrick McGrath is (almost) sparking bidding wars... Maybe next time, eh Stew?

 

[Stewart]

And bought. Cheers, Shade.

 

[Stewart]

As A Man Grows Older, Italo Svevo

 

[Kenny Shovel]

As A Man Grows Older, Italo Svevo

I'd be interested in what you think of that. I have "Confessions of Zeno" by Svevo on my TBR list...

 

[Stewart]

Well, if it's a thin book, I'll try to read it as soon as.

 

[kuroc]

Just bought:

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
City of The Night by Dean Koontz
and
Destiny's Road by Larry Niven

 

[Dogmatix]

All the Names - Jose Saramago
The Flanders Panel - Arturo Perez Reverte
Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan