The Literary Acquisition Thread (3 Viewers)

[veanz]

Pride + Prejudice (for my mum)

im not sure if this question will make any difference, but are you male?

PP (or any JA novel) is like blue cheese: it's an acquired taste

 

[mervvyn]

im not sure if this question will make any difference, but are you male?

PP (or any JA novel) is like blue cheese: it's an acquired taste

hehehe, i am, i am indeed male... no offence, but romantic novels aren't really my cup of tea (or any tasty heated beverage for that matter). I don't doubt it's acquired, i just haven't got the interest to do so... rather like blue cheese as you say . However, i was browsing in a second hand book shop for the others i posted and i remembered my mum mentioning she wanted one if i was looking, so yeah.

 

[jhakka]

My mum bough Ice Station by Matthew Reilly for me because I finished my HSC.

 

[parfait]

holiday reading

I've decided to kickstart my holiday reading so I went browsing today and came home with:

Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Nabokov:
Pale Fire
Despair
Ada
Laughter in the Dark
Hemingway:
Fiesta (The Sun also Rises)
Men Without Women

 

[stamos]

um i bought some hunter s thompson letters

and i smell pseudo intellectuals

i'm the real deal, except i've been eating too much gunpowder as of late

 

[bex]

i borrowed The Life of Pi by Yann Martel from one of my friends and i thought it was amazing! the first 90 pages require a bit of persistance but once i was into it, i couldnt put it down!

 

[Tenille]

Wild Lavender by Belinda Alexandra
We were the rats by Lawson Glassop
A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets by J K Rowling
the power of one by Bryce courtney.

I brought them at the sales and then had to carry them around i. dumbest idea ever i should have brought them last...

 

[Sarah168]

PP (or any JA novel) is like blue cheese: it's an acquired taste

Yeah, I must admit, I was only able to read PP after watching the miniseries...I like it so much more that way though I think...

 

[Xeno]

Umberto Eco

Has anyone read any of Umberto Eco's books? Either his novels or other works?

I've read (no claim to understand) The Name of the Rose, and Foucault's Pendulum.

I may read Faith in Fakes soon.

Is anyone interested in discussing Eco ?

 

[Xeno]

Actually, has anyone read any Nietzsche?

Edit: Ok I admit this was a very stupid question.....I apologise to everyone who felt offended by my lack of faith in the community's intelligence

 

[Igor]

i found dostoyevsky's "the idiot" in a second hand shop in Beaumont Street (Newie) for $1.50!! YAY!!

I've read Nietzsche, "thus spoke zarathustra" and "beyond good and evil".

 

[walrusbear]

i got The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon the other day
will probably start it tomorrow

anyone enjoy pynchon?

 

[Benny_]

Bought ..The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson. Will start on it after I try to finish War and Peace again.. TV + adsl has destroyed my ability to concentrate.

 

[walrusbear]

post how the rum diary is
i see it in the library all the time and think about it but always decide against for some reason...

i guess any hunter s thompson book should be read nowadays

 

[kaylz]

les miserables by victor hugo.

 

[Nashie]

sense and sensibilty - Jane Austen
The Cherry Orchard - Checkov (very different, and strangely appealing)
The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham (newish aussie novel, i really liked it, although it does have some weird bits!)

and my nost recent and proudest buy:
Jules Verne's 20,000 leagues under the sea
Very old edition with dust jacket (no publishing date, yet it says it was printed in great britan) An amazing find me tinks at $5.50 from Beaklouw Books near Berrima (NSW)

Thats about it, at present I'm still living off my parent's extensive collections!

 

[MasterP]

Actually, has anyone read any Nietzsche?

Edit: Ok I admit this was a very stupid question.....I apologise to everyone who felt offended by my lack of faith in the community's intelligence

You kidding? Everybody has read Nietzsche.

 

[MasterP]

i found dostoyevsky's "the idiot" in a second hand shop in Beaumont Street (Newie) for $1.50!! YAY!!

I like Crime and Punishment better. Haven't read The Brothers Karamazov yet.

 

[jhakka]

I bought The Bourne Legacy today. It's not by Ludlum, but it was started by him before he died. I might as well finish the set.

 

[fi_babezy]

Kim- Rudyard Kipling
William Blake The seer and his visions- Milton Klonsky (good colour pics from original books)
More puzzles paradoxes and brain teaser- Stan Gibilisco
Persuasion- Jane Austen