tagesmann Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 Iain M Banks - Matter. His latest "Cuklture" novel in hardback for £3.999 at The Works. I also got Colin Forbes - The Main Chance James Nelson - The Guardship Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang all three for £5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megustaleer Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 I really, really must stay away from towns where there are charity shops Today I came home with: The Name Of The Rose - Umberto Eco The Boarding-House - William Trevor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 Yesterday; After Dark, Haruki Murakami Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald Exit Ghost, Philip Roth Operation Shylock, Philip Roth The Human Stain, Philip Roth Everyman, Philip Roth The Facts, Philip Roth Patrimony, Philip Roth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megustaleer Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 D for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton, as a RiSi swap. I am gradually acquiring this alphabet of crime novels from charity shops, market stalls and swaps. I haven't read any of them yet, I think I'm saving them for when I get put in a home and can't manage anything more challenging Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophelia Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? by Marion Meade I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley Unrecounted by W.G. Sebald and Jan Peter Tripp Selected Letters by Virginia Woolf The Mortgaged Heart by Carson McCullers And I still had change from my £20 note, a very good day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophelia Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 [*]Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald I love this book, Sebald is my favourite writer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megustaleer Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 [*]Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald I absolutely loathed this book. Rambling, turgid, tedious - just a few of the negative adjectives I applied to it when I read it, four years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophelia Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 I absolutely loathed this book. Rambling, turgid, tedious - just a few of the negative adjectives I applied to it when I read it, four years ago. Haha, I have a feeing that you are in the majority, out of the 16 people in my literature class I was the only person who didn't loathe Sebald. I'm going to have to read it again and think more carefully about why I loved it so much. Another of his, Rings of Saturn is my fail safe answer to the "what's your favourite book?" question! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brightphoebus Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 The Journal Of Dora Damage Belinda Starling Le Morte Darthur Sir Thomas Malory The Horned Man James Lasdun Innocence Penelope Fitzgerald The Discovery Of France Graham Robb All bought new from Blackwell's yesterday in a moment of madness. Well, I did get three for two. I have come to recognise the frisson of excitement when my thoughts go from 'I could buy these books' to 'I'm going to buy these books and nothing is going to stop me'. Bad, bad BGO. I rarely strayed from libraries before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minxminnie Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 [I have come to recognise the frisson of excitement when my thoughts go from 'I could buy these books' to 'I'm going to buy these books and nothing is going to stop me'. For me, it's always best when I went in saying, I'm only in for a look, I'm not buying anything today ... We don't have Blackwells up here, but I was in one during the summer. I love their book-themed paraphenalia, like the bags, folders etc, with great books quotes on them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grammath Posted September 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 Strictly for this website's benefit, of course, I have just received the following from Amazon in exchange for some money: "Miracles of Life" by J. G. Ballard "Tokyo Year Zero" by David Peace "Exit Ghost" by Philip Roth "Hothouse" by Brian Aldiss (Penguin Modern Classics) "The Essential Groucho" edited by Stefan Kanter (Penguin Modern Classics) "The Book of Other People" edited by Zadie Smith "Batting on the Bosphorus" by Angus Bell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenmcd Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 On a small charity shop spree picked up the following: The Photograph - Penelope Lively Mr Phillips - John Lanchester Martha Quest - Doris Lessing A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch Authenticity - Deirdre Madden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megustaleer Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 Three more RiSi swaps:- A Morbid Taste For Bones - Ellis Peters (as the most suitable reading for my holiday at St Winifred's Well later this month. New Selected Poems 1957-1994 - Ted Hughes (for my U3A literature course, but not until the Easter term) The Affair Of The Bloodstained Egg Cosy - James Anderson (because of the BGO thread ) Those who heard Stephen Fry on Radio4 this morning will know what to call that little bit of punctuation at the end of the first line of this post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophelia Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 "The Book of Other People" edited by Zadie Smith I put this back at the last minute in an effort to bring some semblance of restraint to my book buying, which today ran to: Possession by A.S. Byatt The Sea by John Banville The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedromanc Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 I have just visited Amazon and bought: Marabou Stork Nightmares (Irvine Welsh) Adrian Mole And the weapons Of Mass Destruction (Sue Townsend) The Bedroom Secrets Of The Masterchefs (Irvine Welsh) The first real book i ever read was The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole and i have followed his life ever since, however this chapter in his life somehow escaped me and i cant wait to read it. I have already read Marabou Stork Nightmares but not Bedroom Secrets. Irvine Welsh and Sue Townsend are amongst my favourite authors so no doubt when they arrive i wont be leaving the house for a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Irvine Welsh and Sue Townsend are amongst my favourite authors Not the most natural of pairings, it has to be said! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedromanc Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Not the most natural of pairings, it has to be said! Haha no they are not, infact when asked what and who i generally read the range is so wide and diverse that people often throw me a confused look. I read evrything from Dickens to Oscar Wilde, from Peter Robinson to the Brontes. In-fact anybody or anything which happens to take my fancy, this in my oppinion is the best way to be as i dont have limitations or boundarys concerning what is acceptible. Of course like anybody else i have my favourites, its just that they are well........ Oddly matched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazel Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Just back from town, I went in to buy my eldest a karate outfit - quite an experience popping into the Savoy Centre (Glaswegians will understand), and I popped over to Waterstones to pick up the Quarterly for a wee browse, and came back out with that and Boy by James Hanley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megustaleer Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Coffee in the charity bookshop again This time I came away with One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson. Also Anna Of The Five Towns by Arnold Bennett - which was a bad, bad thing, as it wasn't on my list of books/authors to look out for. Why not? Because I've already got a copy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minxminnie Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 In Borders in Dundee today, I gave in to: The knife that killed me by Anthony McGowan (because the author is coming to my school soon and I will get to meet him, so I thought I should have read one of his books!) Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (because I really should read it) The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton West Coast by Kate Muir (about to start this one.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophelia Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Heartburn by Nora Ephron The Journal of Katherine Mansfield The Hours by Michael Cunningham Short Stories by W. Somerset Maugham Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a replacement for a much missed Penguin edition that was "borrowed" and never returned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brightphoebus Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 ... came back out with Boy by James Hanley.Hazel, I have just read Boy. Let us know what you think of this classic when you finally get around to reading it. For me, I'm glad I bothered but it is hard going and it helps to remember it was written in three weeks. Great on social commentary, less good on structure, consistency, chronology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krey20 Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Popped into my local library this weekend and had the good fortune to catch a book sale. Grabbed: Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman (collection of short stories), this will be the first prose of his that I have tried, hopefully it will inspire me to try his novels. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell, haven't read this since I was at school. Area 7 - Matthew Reilly, hopefully another sit back and zone out thriller. All for the princely sum of 80p! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megustaleer Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 There's a whole 'Smoke And Mirrors' forum down in the archive. Do not believe the zeroes in the 'replies' columns, each thread was rescued by Flingo after The Crash and was reinstated as a single post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazel Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Hazel, I have just read Boy. Let us know what you think of this classic when you finally get around to reading it. For me, I'm glad I bothered but it is hard going and it helps to remember it was written in three weeks. Great on social commentary, less good on structure, consistency, chronology.Will do BP - it does look interesting - it was the cover that sang to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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