The Literary Acquisition Thread (3 Viewers)

[vanush]

Orwells works just state the obvious. I wish he brought something new to the table.

Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code

I abhorred this book. He sets himself for such a far out ending that overall I found the book "meh.". A Book is not a movie. No matter how much Matthew Reilly may think so

A Passage to India - EM Forster

Well written, but a bit dated. Damn dense. I watched the david lean movie to

Snow Falling On Cedars - I forget

Great book. Theres a lot of effort in every sentence here

 

[jhakka]

A book is not a movie, but if it's well written it can be pretty close.

 

[goldendawn]

"Eragon" and "Eldest" by Chris Paolini, "Mapping Human History" by Steve Olson and "Maya" by Jostein Gaarder.

 

[Sam.]

Kind of splurged this afternoon . . .

The Times Book Of English Verse (been waiting ages)
A Short History of Time - Stephen Hawking
When Will Jesus Pass The Pork Chops - George Carlin
The Odd Brain - Stephen Juan
The Long Way Round - Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman

 

[jhakka]

The Keeping Place by Isobelle Carmody
Incurable by John Marsden

 

[walrusbear]

DBC Pierre - Ludmilla's Broken English

hope it's as funny as Vernon God Little

 

[glitter burns]

I found a great second hand bookstore in the mountains over the weekend!
I got Labyrinths by Jorge Louis Borges
A collection of essays, short stories and poems by Adgar Allen Poe
A book of essays by James Joyce
...and also just a funny every-day kind of book by whoever it was. I've forgotten.

 

[jhakka]

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
The Song of Susannah by Stephen King
The Dark Tower by Stephen King

 

[Mr Lovepony]

Acquired the "Great Ideas" book set today (volumes 1-20). The set contains works from Orwell, Marx, Swift, Freud etc.


Same here, but some time ago. Have got through 2 books so far. Anyway, they've released another set and it's blue this time and covers more interesting topics. I'm angry.

 

[sarevok]

dostoyevsky - 'crime and punishment', 'the idiot' and 'the gambler'

 

[jhakka]

Darkwitch Rising by Sara Douglass

Big W redeemed itself by finally putting it on the shelves. I found it hard to believe that they didn't have one Douglass title.

 

[walrusbear]

in recent times

complete short stories of kafka
complete poems/plays of t.s. eliot
anthony burgess - a clockwork orange (wanted a personal copy)
f. scott fitzgerald - the great gatsby (wanted a personal copy)
john updike - rabbit redux
truman capote - in cold blood
noam chomsky - failed states

 

[ujuphleg]

I don't think any of these are "literary" per say but in the last fortnight I've acquired the following books:

Robin Cook: The Point of Departure
Robert Heilbroner: The Worldly Philosophers
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man and Citizen /Common Sense
Karl Marx: Capital: An Abridgement
Karl Marx & Freidrich Engels: The Manifesto of the Communist Party
Adam Smith: the Wealth of Nations

Barring the first book as it is an autobiography of one of Britains best politicians ever, the rest are all "essential" Government/Economics student fare.

 

[bassguy]

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
The Song of Susannah by Stephen King
The Dark Tower by Stephen King

excellent choices
i think wolves of the calla and the wastelands are probably the best
though i like nearly all king's stuff
also im reading catch-22 at the moment
great but greatly confusing

 

[jhakka]

I wasn't too big on Wolves of the Calla. Wizard and Glass was my favourite (though I have just started the final book). <3 Susan Delgado.

 

[ameh]

fear and loathing in las vegas - hunter s. thompson

 

[walrusbear]

haruki murakami - blind willow, sleeping woman

 

[jhakka]

Alpha C. Chiang and and Kevin Wainwright - Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics

Watch out for the twist at the end.

 

[jhakka]

The Well of Tears by Cecilia Dart-Thornton.

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw it in paperback in Big W. Late last year I asked when it was going to be released in paperback, and the girl at Angus and Robertson said November or December this year.

 

[Emma-Jayde]

Heh, I kinda went on a spree yesterday in a 2nd and bookshop in Newcastle.
Came out with a lot.
Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series (which I'd borrowed from a friend), the first book in the Otherland series and The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams, the Death Gate Cycle (minus the first book which I already had), the Rose of the Prophet Trilogy and the Darksword Trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, and the 5 or 6 David Eddings books I was missing between the Belgariad and The Malloreon, plus the Rivan Codex, Polgara the Sorceress and Belgarath the Sorcerer, the first 3 books in Stephen R Donaldson's The Gap Cycle and the two books in Mordant's Need....


*Stays away for a while*
Well, probably until at least next week.