The Literary Acquisition Thread (4 Viewers)

[Gregor Samsa]

Had a very successful shopping 'spree' on Thursday;

Thomas Mann-The Magic Mountain (Finally found it after eighteen months.)
Ed. Ted Honderich-Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Acquired for $8.)
Amar Singh et al.-Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, a Colonial Subject's narrative of Imperial India.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Arundhati Roy-The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
Various-Three Centuries of Italian Art.

 

[Loz#1]

The Marilyn Encyclopedia - Adam Victor
1984 - George Orwell

 

[Benny_]

Picture of Dorian Gray and War and Peace, man classics are ridiculously cheap, shame the text is so damn small

 

[Loz#1]

Jane Austen's "Emma" for 5 bucks

 

[Serpentia]

cities of the red knight - burroughs

yayayayayay. I'm going to buy one book per week now that I have found a good bookshop.

 

[lengstar]

i'm reading a book thats going to help me with handling money. financial literacy rules!

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Hmmm.. Haven't posted in here for some time. Of course, that doesn't mean my literary acquisition has slowed down.. Some 'highlights' of the last six weeks;

Charles Baudelaire-The Flowers of Evil (Bi-lingual edition)
Ed.Jessica Wordsworth-The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
Ed.Helen Gardiner-The Metaphysical Poets
George Eliot-The Mill On The Floss
Gustave Flaubert-Madame Bovary
Stendhal-The Red and the Black
Virginia Woolf-Mrs Dalloway
Gabriel Garcia Marquez-Love In The Time of Cholera (Finally.)
Francis Klingender-Art and the Industrial Revolution.

 

[fi_babezy]

Deception Point- Dan Brown
Illustrated History Of Art- David Piper

 

[Daemontreu]

Yesterday:

The Physicists - Friedrich Durrenmatt
Three Cheers for the Paraclete - Thomas Keneally
The Devils of Loudon - Alduous Huxley
The Decameron - Boccaccio

Kind of random buys, except for the first one.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Have obtained over the last week;

Franz Fanon-The Wretched Of The Earth (Had been searching for this text for quite some time.)
Sigmund Freud-Beyond The Pleasure Principle And Other Writings.
Nick Mansfield-Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway
E.A.J Honigmann-Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies Revisited: The Dramatist's Manipulation of Response.
Daniel R. Schwarz-Imagining The Holocaust
Geoffrey of Monmouth-History of the Kings of Britain.
Shaun Micallef-Smithereens. (Eases the post-election pain..Slightly.)

 

[parfait]

I bought a few books from work today..
Dostoevsky, Crime & Punishment.
Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Lawrence, The Rainbow
Huxley, Point Counter Point

 

[fi_babezy]

Anna Karenina- leo tolstroy
War and peace- leo tolstroy
while i live- john marsdon

 

[chepas]

My old French teacher gave me a Woolies green recyclable back full of 19th century French novels and poetry and lot's of Marcel Pagnol (Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, My Father's Glory/La gloire de mon père), in the original text. Very nice .

I wish to acquire:

The French - Thomas Somethingorother
Unreliable Memoirs (3 in 1 edition) - Clive James
Anything on Canadian history...
The Chaser Annual 2004
How to Behave - Caroline Tiger
...And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street! - Dr. Seuss

 

[Gregor Samsa]

I bought a few books from work today..
Dostoevsky, Crime & Punishment.
Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Lawrence, The Rainbow
Huxley, Point Counter Point

Nice. Crime & Punishment and Mrs Dalloway are truly excellent. (Although The Brothers Karamazov is even better than C & P)

My latest acquisitions;
Terry Eagleton-Literary Theory: An Introduction
Ed. Mary Eagleton-Feminist Literary Theory.

Saved $65 in the process too.

 

[walrusbear]

Nice. Crime & Punishment and Mrs Dalloway are truly excellent. (Although The Brothers Karamazov is even better than C & P)

My latest acquisitions;
Terry Eagleton-Literary Theory: An Introduction
Ed. Mary Eagleton-Feminist Literary Theory.

Saved $65 in the process too.

if that's true then i better start cracking on it. crime and punishment is nothing short of magnificent.

worthless trivia: arthur miller was inspired to become a writer after reading brothers karamazov

 

[veanz]

if that's true then i better start cracking on it. crime and punishment is nothing short of magnificent.

worthless trivia: arthur miller was inspired to become a writer after reading brothers karamazov

My mind was transformed into a chaotic, intense fuzz while reading CP. The meticulously described paranoia in this existential, bleak world hits you with such an unconcious force you eventually morph into the pages and become the character. i probably took it too far by somewhat instinctively wearing black and reading it in a dark corner..

any book that can do that is shit awesome

 

[walrusbear]

My mind was transformed into a chaotic, intense fuzz while reading CP. The meticulously described paranoia in this existential, bleak world hits you with such an unconcious force you eventually morph into the pages and become the character. i probably took it too far by somewhat instinctively wearing black and reading it in a dark corner..

any book that can do that is shit awesome

nicely put

 

[mervvyn]

Wheel of Time books 3,4 & 8
Pride + Prejudice (for my mum)

plus more when i have time to hunt post exams.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Ed. Gamini Salgado-Three Jacobean Tragedies.

Good ol' revenge tragedy.