What's your most recent literary purchase?

[yandee]

I thought that if we've gotr a "What's your most recent music purchase?" - thread, we should alos have this one...or maybe we shouldn't, I do`n't care

...I'll start out with my buying spree yesterday in the afternoon:

Gustave Flaubert - Salambo
Ernest Hemmingway - Fiesta
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Arthur Schoppenhauer - Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
Some collection of essays concerning literature of the fin de siecle

...so go on

[Truman Capote]

I think it was Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary like a month ago.

*Good thread, Yandee.

[madmancmonkey]

borrowed Malamud- The Tenants, A streetcar named desire and Notes from the underground Doestoevsky from the library. Must get ariund to reading them.

[elko]

Ends And Means - Aldous Huxley

I like his writing, it's nice and understandable.

[Chorlton_Ruffian]

The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels

And B3ta.com's Sick Joke Book.

What do Michael Jackson and Primark have in common?
They both have boys' trousers half off.

:huh:

[Lazy Dyke]

Down and out in Paris and London by Goerge Orwell

on saturday morning. Fopp <3

[yandee]

Borrowed Auster "The Brooklyn Follies", Franzen "Strong Motion", Yalom "When Nietzsche Wept" (strongly recommended by some girlfriend) and a book about Marry Wollenstonecraft from the library on Friday

[Pashernate_Lover]

Borrowed Auster "The Brooklyn Follies", Franzen "Strong Motion", Yalom "When Nietzsche Wept" (strongly recommended by some girlfriend) and a book about Marry Wollenstonecraft from the library on Friday

Do you mean Mary Wollstonecraft? I read some of her stuff quite recently, very liberal for her time period.

[yandee]

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Borrowed Auster "The Brooklyn Follies", Franzen "Strong Motion", Yalom "When Nietzsche Wept" (strongly recommended by some girlfriend) and a book about Marry Wollenstonecraft from the library on Friday

Do you mean Mary Wollstonecraft? I read some of her stuff quite recently, very liberal for her time period.
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should I be ashamed? well...no...that's what happens when you hurry up, because you're on the internet in your office and yxou're not supposed to and all hell breaks loose when they find out
Of course I mean Mary Wollstonecraft...I'm so sorry, darling

[this_charming_girl]

And B3ta.com's Sick Joke Book.

What do Michael Jackson and Primark have in common?
They both have boys' trousers half off.

:huh:

ha, oh dear thats one of those things i feel bad about laughing at!

i recently bought a Stenbeck book - Sweet Thursday for 70p in a charity shop and Peter Singer's the President of good and evil for my philosophy coursework, quite a good read actually, i was suprised.

[lilybett]

By Grand Central Station, I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart

Guess who inspired me to read that one? Not as good as 'A Taste Of Honey' so far, but...

[Mozzerella]

Nobody asked me, I had to buy these 'cause they're compulsory reading.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Gloria Naylor - The Women of Brewster Place
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5.

The Scarlet Letter seems boring and I'd rather read something a bit more recent. Haven't even touched the other ones yet.

[Bobby]

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. Easily the best modern novel out there, and I'm not going over the top there. Genius!

[chicken]

i belong to a book club.
soon i will receive three tonnages:
-a book on the gospel of judas
-another of the same
-a book on 2012


can't wait.

[yandee]

Went to the library yesterday and got Moby Dick, some Balzac and a book on Roman Satire featuring Petronius' Satyricon and a lot of other things I won't read, because they're shit like Horaz