Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[-Carlos-]

This Means This, This Means That: A User's Guide to Semiotics by Sean Hall
Mythologies by Roland Barthes (library loan)

 

[-Carlos-]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

 

[Disenthral]

The Monkey wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
Books of Blood .Vol 1-3 - Clive Barker
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
The man In the High Castle/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick

 

[-Carlos-]

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

 

[Leeny]

The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Maskerade - Terry Pratchett

 

[-Carlos-]

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Maskerade - Terry Pratchett

In Cold Blood has to be one of my all-time favorite novels. It's just a fantastic read. Good choice!

 

[shadforth]

End Of An Era by Robert J Sawyer

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

The Road -- Cormac McCarthy
The Dangerous Book for Boys (NZ Edition) by Conn & Hal Iggulden

 

[Robert]

Doctor Faustus, The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told By a Friend by Thomas Mann

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Book of Evidence by John Banville

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

Everyman by Philip Roth

Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan

 

[Fantasy Moon]

In Cold Blood has to be one of my all-time favorite novels. It's just a fantastic read. Good choice!

I had to read this book for high school, and I liked it.

 

[-Carlos-]

The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud

 

[-Carlos-]

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sophocles: The Complete Plays by Sophocles

 

[Serena]

Some rediscovered classics:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
Oliver Twist-Charles Dickens
David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol-Charles Dickens
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Age of Reason-Thomas Paine
Common Sense-Thomas Paine
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter-Nathanial Hawthorne
Relativity-Albert Einstein
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain

 

[Libra]

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

 

[SFG75]

The Scarlet Letter-Nathanial Hawthorne

Another favorite of mine is Maypole of the Marymount. It features a pagan celebration that is ruined by Christian leaders who begin to smote people left and right and oppress. Definitely not one to miss.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain

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I can't say enough about that book, the humor is just something else.

 

[-Carlos-]

1000 Most Important Words by Norman Schur

 

[PipPirrip]

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

I just received "Jack Maggs" by Carey - I think someone on here recommended it.

Sophocles: The Complete Plays by Sophocles

I read a few of these a couple of years back and then went to see a production of the Thebes' plays back-to-back. At the end of one of them, they were buring incense and as a result I passed out just as Oedipus was about to have his eyes put out. Aparently, the large crash from the auditorium was quite dramatic. I avoid these now

 

[Robert]

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

 

[-Carlos-]

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

I put this one down after reading half of it. It did nothing for me.