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Wow you guys sure buy a lot of books!

Here's what I got:

1. Lord of The Rings Box Set - J.R.R.Tolkien(I own the paperback edition too ^.^ but this one is a hardback edition with illustrations from Alan Lee, so I kinda 'pestered' my boyfriend and he got it for me!)
2. The War of The World - Niall Ferguson
3. ShadowMarch - Tad Williams
4. Middlemarch - George Elliot
5. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (You got it, I bought another copy of this!)
6. The Pillars of The Earth - Ken Follett
7. Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
8. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (Currently reading)
 
Wow you guys sure buy a lot of books!

Here's what I got:

1. Lord of The Rings Box Set - J.R.R.Tolkien(I own the paperback edition too ^.^ but this one is a hardback edition with illustrations from Alan Lee, so I kinda 'pestered' my boyfriend and he got it for me!)

Oh how nice! How are the illustrations? I've read that the Alan Lee edition is the best of the three currently out. I almost bought it for my husband this year. I think I might have to get it for his birthday.
 
Sunflower – Gyula Krudy
Incidences – Daniil Kharms (As recommended by a slightly deranged Russian art student)
The Year of the Hare – Arto Paasilinna
How Bluegrass music destroyed my life – John Fahey (Fav musician of mine. Can he write?)
Journey by Moonlight – Antal Szerb
The Black Obelisk – Erich Maria Remarque
Imanginary Magnitude - Stanislaw Lem

Mostly from Foyles in London
 
Sunflower – Gyula Krudy
Incidences – Daniil Kharms (As recommended by a slightly deranged Russian art student)
The Year of the Hare – Arto Paasilinna
How Bluegrass music destroyed my life – John Fahey (Fav musician of mine. Can he write?)
Journey by Moonlight – Antal Szerb
The Black Obelisk – Erich Maria Remarque
Imanginary Magnitude - Stanislaw Lem

Mostly from Foyles in London


While I haven't had a chance to look into the others on your list..I KNOW I'll have to search for the Fahey book..I'm a bluegrass/roots music fan and MUST know...:p
 
Xmas shopping:

Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut
I married a communist - Philip Roth
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarty
Gran Serton: Veredas - João Guimarães Rosa

Dharma
 
While I haven't had a chance to look into the others on your list..I KNOW I'll have to search for the Fahey book..I'm a bluegrass/roots music fan and MUST know...:p

I don't know much about bluegrass, except a friend of mine likes it and plays us bits when we have a meal round his house.

John Fahey's music gets called bluegrass. But then it gets called blues, country, jazz, all sorts. To me it's just a soundtrack to relax too.

This is my favourite album of his:

Of Rivers and Religion

The amazon site has music smaples on it. You'll be able to tell if it's bluegrass far better than I can.

Anyway, the book is a collection of short stories. I've no idea if it's any good.

Regards,

K_S
 
I don't know much about bluegrass, except a friend of mine likes it and plays us bits when we have a meal round his house.

John Fahey's music gets called bluegrass. But then it gets called blues, country, jazz, all sorts. To me it's just a soundtrack to relax too.

This is my favourite album of his:

Of Rivers and Religion

The amazon site has music smaples on it. You'll be able to tell if it's bluegrass far better than I can.

Anyway, the book is a collection of short stories. I've no idea if it's any good.

Regards,

K_S

Hmmm...in listening to the samples on your link and some of the other Fahey cds. I would have to say he's not exactly bluegrass too. He takes elements from all sorts of Root sources and plays with them..I'm getting really mixed reactions from my kids at the moment:) He's not boring, I'll give him that!
 
Oh how nice! How are the illustrations? I've read that the Alan Lee edition is the best of the three currently out. I almost bought it for my husband this year. I think I might have to get it for his birthday.


It's really good which is why I bought it. I love his illustrations tremendously which is why I pestered my boyfriend for that boxset. It's really worth the money if you're a fan!
 
Henry & June - Anais Nin
I've been trying to find a nice edition at a 2nd hand bookstore. Finally found one in almost perfect condition. It also had a bookmark in it:
The Henry Miller Memorial Library
Highway One * Big Sur, California 93920
(408) 667-2574​
I want to go!
 
It's really good which is why I bought it. I love his illustrations tremendously which is why I pestered my boyfriend for that boxset. It's really worth the money if you're a fan!

I'm sold! I'll have to pick it up next time I'm in town.

Thanks for the recommendation :D
 
I just got the collection of Narnia books from my wife.... I am through the first of them and I am loving it...

narnia.jpg
 
The Dreamers, Gilbert Adair
Under The Skin, Michel Faber
A Kestrel For A Knave, Barry Hines
Summer In Termuren, Louis Paul Boon
Dark Paradise, Rosa Liksom
 
In-House Weddings - Bohumil Hrabal

Hmmm, all I ever see, when browsing book stores at least, is I Served The King Of England, which I keep meaning to read, preferably in one sitting due to the nature of the long rambling chapters.

Is much of his work translated, barring the supposed difficulty in doing so? All I can recall is IStKoE, Too Loud A Solitude and the one about dance lessions for the aged, or something like that.
 
Very little is translated into English.

The ones you've mentioned, plus a few others including 'Closey Observed Trains' which was made into a film, as have a number of others:

IMDB entry for Hrabal

In-house Weddings is the first part of Hrabal's autobiography, which he wrote from the point-of-view of his wife; hopefully the other two parts will also be translated. Although it's worth noting that Hrabal claimed everything he wrote was taken from his real life experiences, rather than being completly fictious. You can make your own mind up as to how serious you should take take claim...

One last thing. I'll repeat the advise I gave on John Self's bookblog. When reading anything by him, imagine you're in a pub having a few beers, lisening to him ramble on.

K_S
 
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