The Literary Acquisition Thread (1 Viewer)

[Sarah168]

to continue my little jane austen collection, just bought a copy of Emma today.

Love it how J.A books are always under about 8 bucks

 

[Emma-Jayde]

Baha, oh and I forgot about The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask and The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas.

 

[Sarah168]

Just bought a copy of "The Devil Wears Prada" for 15 bucks

 

[sarevok]

China Mieville - Iron Council
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

 

[Seryn]

Went on a bit of a spree today courtesy of a sale at Angus and Robertson:

Robin Hobb
Royal Assassin
Raymond E. Feist
Rise of a Merchant Prince
Raymond E. Feist with Janny Wurts
Daughter of the Empire
Servant of the Empire
Mistress of the Empire
George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings

All brand new and just $4.99 each!!!!
Thankyou VERY much A&R, i've had a smile stuck on my face all afternoon now

 

[Emma-Jayde]

Mm. Sales. Book sprees.

And wow. That's weird. I picked up the same 4 Raymond E Feist books today.
And Stephen Donaldson's The Runes of the Earth, the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
Nice hardcover... $6 in the 2nd hand bookshop. Brand new, not even been read.
I was very impressed.

 

[Seryn]

Mm. Sales. Book sprees.
I picked up the same 4 Raymond E Feist books today.

Oooh, creepy indeed!
I guess it goes to show how similarly minded and predicatable we fantasy fans are
I just hope it's worth it. I've only read one other Raymond Feist book before (Magician), but at least it wasnt an expensive spontaneous buy hehe

 

[walrusbear]

fitzgerald - the last tycoon
pynchon - gravity's rainbow

 

[glitter burns]

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk

 

[Emma-Jayde]

'Torments of the Traitor', the first book in Song of the Tears (Ian Irvine) came out today, so I got that.

Excuse me while I bugger off to start it.

 

[Trillium]

China Mieville - Iron Council

^ good read. Not a great fan of his style, but his ideas are cool.

I just got Ravens Gate, by Anthiny Horowitz. heh.

 

[walrusbear]

murakami - norwegian wood

 

[jhakka]

Beyond the Hanging Wall by Sara Douglass
The Doom Brigade by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin
The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller
Innocence Lost by Karen Miller
Hover Car Racer by Matthew Reilly
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Darkfall by Isobelle Carmody
Darksong by Isobelle Carmody

I love birthdays.

 

[Loz#1]

Beyond the Hanging Wall by Sara Douglass
The Doom Brigade by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin
The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller
Innocence Lost by Karen Miller
Hover Car Racer by Matthew Reilly
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Darkfall by Isobelle Carmody
Darksong by Isobelle Carmody

I love birthdays.

geez, lucky you. i haven't had the $$$ to stock up on reading materials in ages, nor the time to actually read. i'm still stuck on anna karenina, which i have been for months!

 

[ElendilPeredhil]

One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 

[Emma-Jayde]

Have you read that yet? I've heard it's good, but I haven't gotten around to reading it.

Le sigh...

David and Leigh Eddings- The Elder Gods
Janny Wurts - That Way Lies Camelot
Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant
Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow
Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde Stories
Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson - The World of Robert Jordan's 'The Wheel of Time' (I already had a copy of this, but the 'new' one is a gorgeous illustrated hardcover that I couldn't leave in the shop )

 

[ElendilPeredhil]

Who, me?
Yeah I've read it. It's very good, very interesting.

Got another one for my bday

No One Takes My Children, by Donya al-Nahi.

It's okay. It's interesting, but Donya is so...such a hypocrite and a user that it loses some of its poignancy.

 

[JaredR]

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

I'm currently onto the third book.

Haha joking.

 

[Sandraxx]

Ew get out of here you biblio philistine! Be away with your fiendish pop culture ways... haven't i already dealt with you in the buy/sell thread? Go back to the jewish business making where you belong!

 

[phatic]

Ew get out of here you biblio philistine! Be away with your fiendish pop culture ways... haven't i already dealt with you in the buy/sell thread? Go back to the jewish business making where you belong!

lol, pwnage.

Anyway, I have some random things.

Kierkegaard - Fear & Trembling, Repetition
Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground, The Double, The Devils
Herman Hesse - Steppenwolfe
Solzhenitsyn - The Last Circle
Nietzsche - Birth of Tragedy
T.S. Eliot - Complete Poems & Plays
Plus an excellent book on Zen Buddhism by Christmas Humphreys, and 'The Voice of the Silence' by Blavatsky on the computer, which I am yet to read. That's about the entirety of my literary collection.