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Recently Purchased/Borrowed

Recently i bought:

Misery by Stephen King
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Harry Potter and the half blood prince by JK Rowling
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Trace by Patrcia Cornwell
Shadowmancer by GP Taylor
1984 by George Orwell
... and now I am reading The Stand by Stephen King :)
 
Vladimir Nabokov, Collected Stories.
With sixty-five short stories in one book it has to be a literary treasure chest.
 
Trade printing of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens & a Mass market printing of Stephen King's The Shining. Both used for about $4.

Catch 22 for $.50?! Great find MonkeyCatcher! :eek:
 
ions said:
Catch 22 for $.50?! Great find MonkeyCatcher! :eek:
It's an old copy, but I don't mind. Makes it looked more loved :D

I just went down to my local shop and purchased books 1-7 in John Marsden's Tomorrow series. 50% off :)
 
Personally I don't mind older copies as long as there's no translation to consider and the wear is low enough that I don't have to baby the book.
 
I went to the best used bookstore in Wichita to buy tickets for a Ren Faire this weekend. Then I shopped..I wish you all could have been there :cool:

Since I didn't have a lot of cash to work with and had three kids with me, I had to be really careful. I ended up buying:

Holes
some Spongebob book my dd insisted on :(
October Sky-Homer Hickam
The Lost Continent-Bryson
What's the Matter With Kansas? -Thomas Frank

I got those for $22

My 12 year old ds bought a Patricia Wrede book(I think it's Dealing with Dragons), and Which Witch? -Eva Ibbotson

It was one of those afternoons where I would have loved to have Donald Trump's credit card, just for awile.. :D
 
Today I bought Terry Pratchett's 'Thud' :)
Also got
(as it was half price) '44 SCOTLAND STREET' by Alexander McCall Smith
:D
 
i took out to more books out of my school library. ah, just what i need. two more books on the huge "to read" pile...

Carrie by Stephen King. i never read any Stephen King and i figured his first was a good place to start.

Pure Sunshine
by Brian James. mostly i'm just curious why there seems to be some hype around it.
 
The book i have ben waiting for arrived this morning!

The Take by Martina Cole!

Carnt put it down it great: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

I remember trying to read 'the plague' by albert campus a long time ago and I found it terribly boring. I hope I don't ruin the fun for you, but I found the book not interesting at all :(
 
I got a few from the library on thursday:

Jostein Gaarder - The Solitaire Mystery
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Alice Munro - Die Trauer meiner Mutter (four of the nine stories featured in 'The Love of a Good Woman')
a collection of modern drama featuring Beckett, Brecht, Frisch, Ionesco, Nelly Sachs & Dylan Thomas
James Cleugh - The Medici
 
WoundedThorns said:
Carrie by Stephen King. i never read any Stephen King and i figured his first was a good place to start.
Oh, I found Carrie quite enjoyable, so I hope that you do too. If you decide you like King then you should definately pick up The Gunslinger. I'm reading the second book in the series at the moment, and I think it is really one of his top works.
 
MonkeyCatcher said:
Oh, I found Carrie quite enjoyable, so I hope that you do too. If you decide you like King then you should definately pick up The Gunslinger. I'm reading the second book in the series at the moment, and I think it is really one of his top works.
I thought 'Salem's Lot was the best of Stephen King's early works, with The Shining a close second. Both are better than Carrie IMO.

I just bought Foop! by Chris Genoa. I love silly books with clever, creative wordplay and so far it's filling the bill :) The only bad thing about it is it's poorly edited, both grammatically and visually.
 
3 Wise Men, Political Fiction

I just finished i book that was recommended to me by a friend, its called 3 Wise Men by Stephen Buckler. Have to say i really enjoyed it. It's a very controversial story involving the church and the CIA, really well written by new author Stephen Buckler. Id recommend it to anyone interested in political fiction. Fun and short read. The only place i can find it for sale at the moment is here http://booksforsale.info/_wsn/page2.html. Though it is also on amazon and barnes and noble but they say it wont be for a sale for a few more days. Check it out!
 
KristoCat said:
I thought 'Salem's Lot was the best of Stephen King's early works, with The Shining a close second. Both are better than Carrie IMO.
I can't say that I have read either of them, although I do have The Shining out from the library at the moment, and I should be starting it soon.
 
Well, the check came in and the first things I spent money on, even before coffee at Borders, were two books.

I sought out Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda largely on the strength of having read Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. Memoirs is a fascinating novel set in a different era, in the world of elegant geishas catering to the entertainment of well-to-do and influential men of Tokyo. I found it to be a very pleasant read, with an ultimately heart-warming endng, and I would recommend it to ayone interested in reading about a totally different culture. Autobiography, on the other hand, is described as an unblemished look into the unhappy life of the 'other' kind of geisha who is placed in bondage at a young age, and who works at a hot springs resort for, I quote, the "realities of sex for sale." The second book is described as a corrective to the somewhat rosy glow surrounding the descriptions of the first. So now we shall see what a slice of gritty life is like.

Second, I bought Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors because I found Neverwhere to be such a thoroughly enjoyable read. That was my first fantasy book in a long long time and I am looking to an equally enjoyable experience with his short stories. In addition to which, I must say that Gaiman himself, speaking in his own voice in the Introduction, comes across as a very literate and engaging personality.

Now I think that is it for this month, but that also remains to be seen :rolleyes:
Peder
 
I got the following from the library:

Julián Ayesta - Helena oder das Meer des Sommers (Helena o el mar del verano)
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
 
i've just bought:

  • Clarke, Johnathan Strange & Mr.Norrel
  • McEwan, Saturday
  • Bank, The wonder stop
  • divakaruni, Queen of dreams
 
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