Recent purchases?

[Pachycephelosaurus]

So, what books are you guys buying? I recently made a trip to McCays' (an amazing discount bookstore in Chattanooga, TN) and got the following for about $20:

-"Snow White" by Donald Barthelme
-"The Magus" by John Fowles
-"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" by Kurt Vonnegut
-"Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut
-"Rabbit Run" by John Updike
-"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-"A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn

I am, to understate the matter, excited.

[Oofie]

Never Let Me Go (http://books.google.ie/books?id=cj70AAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Kazuo+inauthor:Ishiguro&ei=ZvX5R4_NHJCSzQTl38n1Bg) by Kazuo Ishiguro. I loved The Remains of the Day so I decided to check this out too.

And a collection of Oscar Wilde's works all bound up in a pretty hardback :)

[Jiggz]

"Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams: The fifth book of the Hitchhikers Guide trilogy. Figured I may aswell give it a read.

"Language, Truth and Logic" by AJ Ayer: Seeing as I defend many metaphysical and ontological claims, it's only fitting that I learn about opponents to such beliefes.

[BlackHood]

And in a depressing down-turn in intellectualism from Jiggz;

Porno - Irvine Welsh (sequel to Trainspotting)

The Star's Tennis Balls - Steven Fry

The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie

And to Jiggz, Douglas' son did a great job finishing Mostly Harmless, well worth reading.

[Oofie]

And in a depressing down-turn in intellectualism from Jiggz

Yes Hitchhikers Guide is the pinnacle of intellectualism.

[BlackHood]

Yes Hitchhikers Guide is the pinnacle of intellectualism.

I did mean his second choice, but having said that, I have drawn most of my philosophies from The Guide!

[timbot]

Never Let Me Go (http://books.google.ie/books?id=cj70AAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Kazuo+inauthor:Ishiguro&ei=ZvX5R4_NHJCSzQTl38n1Bg) by Kazuo Ishiguro. I loved The Remains of the Day so I decided to check this out too.

And a collection of Oscar Wilde's works all bound up in a pretty hardback :)

You need to post a review of Never Let Me Go when you finish it. Remains of the Day is one of my favorite books. But I tried to read When We Were Orphans--I think that's the correct title...if not it's close--a couple years back and couldn't get into it, so I've been reluctant to pick up any of his other books.

I have purchased:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

Those aren't exactly all my most recent purchases, but those are what popped in my head first.

[Hellen_Lecter]

The most recent book I've bought is

First-Order Logic: An Introduction by Leigh S. Cauman

It's sort of a course book on deductive logic (in lack of a better description)

I'm actually going on a competition in deductive logic, so that's why I bought it.

[MSB]

My recent book purchases were:

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Dora and the Stuck Truck
Dora's Little Star
Dora Easter book.

I can't wait to read the first two, but first I have to finish reading I Am America. The last three I've already read about 300 times, to my daughter, that is.

[Pachycephelosaurus]

I've started "A People's History." It's amazing. I never knew there was so much I didn't know. x_x

[Jiggz]

I must admit, I'm having a hard time getting a hold of many of the authors mentioned here at my local bookstores.

Here, we get two types of bookstores: firstly, the franchised mega boookstore, where all the current big shot author's books are piled everywhere. Also, you can ask one of the sales people to do a search for your book. Secondly, the little corner bookstore, owned by some geriatric, and managed by some Fine Arts student with facial piercings.

In the former, though you can easily search for your preferred author, they usually only have the current stuff. I went to 3 such places and none had Orwell's 1984!

The latter, though quaint and packed to the brim with books, is unorganised, and when requesting a specific author, or even genre, the shop attendant usually makes a swishing gesture with her hands in the general direction of all the books, saying, "There... ish".

Authors such as the majority of the ones mentioned in my Recommend Me Some Books thread are unobtainable. I actually prepared a list and went to several bookstores, and came home with nothing.

Where do you guys buy your books? Online seems the only viable option at the moment.

[MSB]

Where do you guys buy your books? Online seems the only viable option at the moment.

I usually buy them from Borders, which is a huge bookstore over here. They have everything, and I could spend hours in there.

I've also bought books from Amazon.com, and they have really fast shipping, and pretty decent prices.

Library is the last resort for me. I haven't been there in a long time, and usually avoid going because Brianna hasn't learned how to be quiet in those sorts of places yet.


Were you able to find the Serial Killer book I was telling you about? If not, and providing you're interested in reading it, I could always mail it to you. It really is a great read.

[Pachycephelosaurus]

Where do you guys buy your books? Online seems the only viable option at the moment.

I get all of my books from either McCays (discount bookstore) or Amazon. Both are awesomely cheap. I don't really bother with the megastores anymore. Unless you want the newest Nicholas Sparks book you're usually shit out of luck.

[Oofie]

You need to post a review of Never Let Me Go when you finish it.

Sure, it'll be a while though, I've tonnes of other crap to read for college first :frown:

[Mirrorman]

The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie. Yes, the actor.
It's fucking awesome. I've only reached like 50 pages though. It's in english, so it takes a little longer for me.
I higly recommend it to everyone. It's really funny and well written.

[timbot]

Where do you guys buy your books? Online seems the only viable option at the moment.

I sometimes buy books at a locally owned bookstore, but the problem with the one here is that they have a totally strange collection of books. Seems the only real reason to go there is to browse, or find something local. Generally I go to Waldenbooks, which is owned by Borders, which is the other place I go. They usually have what I'm looking for.
Where do you live, Jiggz? Your bookstores suck.

[green rubber bands]

Today I just bought Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell and Papillon by Henri Charrière (translated, because I made the uncultured decision to learn Spanish rather than French :frown:)

[Jiggz]

I sometimes buy books at a locally owned bookstore, but the problem with the one here is that they have a totally strange collection of books. Seems the only real reason to go there is to browse, or find something local. Generally I go to Waldenbooks, which is owned by Borders, which is the other place I go. They usually have what I'm looking for.
Where do you live, Jiggz? Your bookstores suck.

If Earth had an orifice out of which it shat, I would be on the very tip of this shit-fest of a continent. South Africa.

[UncleDuck2]

just bought 'The Silmarillion' by J.R.R. Tolkien.
If you like Lord of the Rings, you are going to love this, it's just awesome how this whole middle-earth thing is described and how it all began. Just awesome.

[Veeduck]

I actually really enjoy shopping for books - it's a very relaxing activity really.

My latest purchases:

Metaphors we Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Michelangelo: Poems and Letters, trans. Anthony Mortimer
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari
The Art of Oratory by Charles Mosely
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
Boule de Suif and other stories by Guy de Maupassant
Cultural Anthropology: A Problem Based Approach
Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare
An Essay on the Principle of Population by T.R. Malthus
The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition, by Carl Zimmer

[Oodge]

just bought 'The Silmarillion' by J.R.R. Tolkien.
If you like Lord of the Rings, you are going to love this, it's just awesome how this whole middle-earth thing is described and how it all began. Just awesome.
I completely agree, as soon as I finished the Silmarillion I immediately felt the need to read the trilogy again and then... it was over! LOTR stopped haunting me!

The Koran strangely enough. I'm hardly religious, just very interested. Then again, I've barely started it, p'raps I'll be calling my child to-be Mohammed once I'm done.