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Recently Purchased/Borrowed

Today
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Don Quichot by Miguel De Cervantes (dutch translation by Barber Van De Pol)

A few weeks ago
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
 
ALI said:
On my last visit to Waterstone’s I purchased:

(Fiction)
Oryx & Crake…………….. Margaret Atwood
Vernon God Little………… DBC Pierre
The Alchemist……………. Paulo Coehlo
Life of Pi…………………. Yann Martel
Mr Candid………………… Jules Hardy

(Biography/Memior)
Dispatches………………… Micheal Herr

Life of Pi? man, that book seems to be really popular lately.
 
Tieno said:
I don't know, I only have this one. It's in paperback and includes the 5 books and the bonus story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe".
Ah, I thought that you were meaning that you purchased just the first book. The 'Ultimate' obviously refers to the collection of all 5. I can be so stupid.. :eek:
 
Tieno said:
Today
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Don Quichot by Miguel De Cervantes (dutch translation by Barber Van De Pol)

A few weeks ago
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

hm i never heard of two of those books.. but i definatly wanna read the rest of them. theres so many references to catch 22
 
MonkeyCatcher said:
I went out and purchased Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanne Clarke today. 25% off sale :)

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell
Anyone in the UK...Go to Tesco's The paperback is around £3.75 :D
 
hmm well i was in the library yesterday and i took out

lovely bones [i wanna reread it]
on the road by jack keroauc
the bell jar by sylvia plath [i never finished it when i was 14. i wanna give it another shot now]
nothing feels good : punk rock, teenagers and emo [its about music. it caught my eye even though i dont like emo music]
queer by william s. burroughs
the plague by albert campus
 
A pile of books were given to me from my father. The two notables sitting beside me right now are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler and Watership Down by Richard Adams. Inside the Richler being used as a bookmark was a very crisp Canadian $1 bill from the 70s.

Also given were:

The Island by Peter Benchley.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I now have 4 copies of this yet I've never read it.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry.
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat.
 
Lovely New Copy :D

'How I live Now' by Meg Rosoff



2nd hand copy
'Faery Magic' by Jo Putney

2nd Hand copy ...
'Blindness' by Jose Saramago

I enjoyed it, but gave mine away, :eek: and now fancy reading it again
 
Erica said:

'Blindness' by Jose Saramago

I enjoyed it, but gave mine away, :eek: and now fancy reading it again

Oh, Martin just did a reread of that book and posted some of his thoughts here. You might be interested to have a look at it.
 
I bought these while visiting America recently. Most are used books bought from "12th Street Books" and "The Strand" in NYC, though I also bought a few unused books at a B&N in Washington DC. All of these are, naturally, in English.
Mostly hardcovers = Heeeavy suitcase!

Gunter Grass - The Danzig Trilogy omnibus (The Tin Drum, Cat And Mouse & Dog Years)
Gunter Grass - Local Anasthaesia (I'm quite aware that new Grass translations are coming soon, but what the hell. Only novel of his I've ever read was a Norwegian translation of The Tin Drum, so I'm excited about digging more into his work)
Italo Calvino - Numbers in the Dark (short story collection - time to hit the English translations, as I've exhausted the fairly small volume that's been translated to Norwegian)
Vladimir Nabokov - 3-volume collections of novels & memoirs from 1941 through 1974, ie "The real life of Sebastian Knight" through "Look at the Harlequins!") minus the volum
Umberto Eco - The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Gore Vidal - United States: Essays 1952-1992
Isaac Babel - Collected Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Complete Novels and Selectes Tales of...
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything (had 20 Euro to spend at the Amsterdam airport)
Rabelais - Omnibus of all five Pantagruel etc books
Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale Of Genji
Saki - The Complete Novels and Plays of (alas, I haven't read any of his short stories, which are what I suppose he's best known for)
Jonathan Lethem - Gun, With Occasional Music
Franz Kafka - The Complete Stories (never been able to find a full collection in Norwegian, so I was really glad to find this)
Ralph Waldo Emerson - "The essential writings of...", edited by Brooks Atkinson. Huge volume from the Modern Library
Ambrose Bierce - The Collected Writings of

Mmmmmm, materialism :cool:
 
In paperback:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Bad Place by Dean Koontz
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave

In HB
God's Debris by Scott Adams
The Religion War by Scott Adams
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
 
Rigana said:
Oh, Martin just did a reread of that book and posted some of his thoughts here. You might be interested to have a look at it.

'Blindness' Reread
Thanks for that Rigana,
Interesting, :) May think again about rereading it
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I just purchased The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory online. I really like Gregory's writing, and so I'm looking forward to this read.
 
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