The Literary Acquisition Thread (5 Viewers)

[persephone]

i bought great expectations by charles dickens ages ago and i haven't even started to read it. I thought it's a book i have to own. I bought tess of d'ubervilles by thomas hardy and the illiad which i haven't read yet either. the most recent book i bought was jane eyre by charlotte bronte which has led me to neglect all the other books that i haven't read yet

 

[bazookajoe]

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.

Not as good as the earlier ones, but still an alright read.

 

[jhakka]

A very differnt style to Ludlim. I enjoyed it, though. It wasn't as heavy as the other ones. Gotta appreciate it for what it is. I loved the others for their intricacy, and I loved this one for its simplicity.

I ordered Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance Legends by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman from Dymocks on Thursday night. Should be here within the next week (already been shipped).

 

[jhakka]

My Dragonlance and five out of the seven Death Gate books arrived today. The remaining two will arrive in a couple of weeks.

Oh, and I bought the first two books in Sara Douglass' Troy Game.

 

[karen.koltrane]

A lot of Pinter plays: Betrayal, Celebration and The Room, The Homecoming, Moonlight and The Room/Dumb Waiter
and Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros

loving Elizabeth's bookstores

 

[Emily.]

i bought Pride and the Prejudice today

 

[walrusbear]

philip roth - portnoy's complaint
plato - the republic

 

[jhakka]

The Iron Tree - Cecilia Dart-Thornton
The Nameless Day - Sara Douglass

 

[glitter burns]

The giant book of erotic - various
Watch your Mouth by Daniel Handler
Homework by Suneeta Peres Da Costa

 

[jhakka]

Shaman's Crossing - Robin Hobb
Obernewtyn - Isobelle Carmody
The Wounded Hawk - Sara Douglass
The Crippled Angel - Sara Douglass

 

[Benny_]

I just bought Shaman's Crossing on some crazy impulse as well. I'm sorry to say that it's far from vintage Hobb. Definitely not $20 well spent.

 

[glitter burns]

I <3 op-shops!

I capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
Songs from afar - Cynthia Voigt
The L-shaped Room - Lynne Reid Banks
Del-del - Victor Kelleher
The journal of Antonio Montoya - Rick Collignon
The Silver Crown - Robert O'Brien
The Natural History of Nonsense - Bergen Evans

All up, $7!

 

[MedNez]

Oops, mid-hsc:

Nineteen Eighty Four
Battle Royale
Utopia

 

[PerfectByNature]

Cross my Heart by Maureen McCartney

 

[kami]

I just got:
Shining City by Kate Forsyth
Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

 

[05er]

Oops, mid-hsc:

Nineteen Eighty Four
Battle Royale
Utopia

You haven't read 1984 yet? Tre gauche.

Back from my local 2ndH booky I got Clive James' new book of essays (from Vulture) and Ionesco's Amedee'

 

[MedNez]

I have now !

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

Also picked up "The United States of Europe".

 

[M-turkey]

Hooray for peoples that like old books!

We were set Great Expectations in Year 11 English, which opened my eyes to Victorian Literature.

My Library consists of so far:

Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
Calvino, Italo Cosmiccomics
Cervantes The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Dickens, Charles A Tale of two Cities
Martlel, Yann Life of Pi
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allen Ten Great Mysteries
Singer, Peter Animal Liberation
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Hobbit
The Silmarillion
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Unknown Beowulf
Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest and other plays

I have some other Science books too

 

[jhakka]

In the Earth Abides the Flame by Russel Kirkpatrick
Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody
Ashling by Isobelle Carmody

Working towards finishing sets of books that I received for my birthday and Christmas last year.

 

[MedNez]

A briefer history of time by Stephan Hawking
The book of photography by John Hedgecoe
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson

(birthday presents)