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[Elax]

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Originally posted by Genevieve
A Conspiracy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.  Brilliant and hilarious.

Yeah, indeed it is, I just finished it quite recently.

Today i bought Kaddisj voor een niet geboren kind (Kaddish for a child not born) by Imre Kertész.

Didn't think that I, as a native German speaker, would ever buy a Dutch translation of a Hungarian book, but alas...

[RedWheelbarrow]

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Originally posted by Genevieve
A Conspiracy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole.  Brilliant and hilarious.

For anyone who looks for it, it's called A Confederacy of Dunces, and Genevieve, I completely agree with you!  I laughed out loud a hundred times! Oh Fortuna, it made my valve swell and expanded my worldview!

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The latest book I bought (with my own money) was a gift for my Mom - "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash."  It's by Jean Shepherd, and it's got parts of "A Christmas Story" in it.  She really likes it.

[inspectorjason]

[Dream Brother]

A bunch for a class (which looks really good) and then one for myself:

The Gold-Bug and Other Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
King Lear - William Shakespeare
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - August Wilson
Cash: The Autobiography - Johnny Cash

[jedthehumanoid]

lately (a number of them are presents) :


nick hornby - high fidelity
rennie sparks - evil
dbc pierre - vernon god little
heinrich böll - irisches tagebuch
hervé jaouen - chroniques irlandaises
tom sharpe - the throwback
samuel beckett - the complete dramatic works
john irving - un enfant de la balle (originally a son of the circus)
roddy doyle - paddy clarke ha ha ha :)
edgar allan poe- selected tales


library picks :
henry james - the turn of the screw
saul bellow - the adventures of augie march
laurence sterne - tristram shandy
david a. cook - a history of narrative film

[OneArpeggioPete]

böll's irisches tagebuch turns out to be terribly clichéd once you actually know the country, so now you'll probably slightly disappointed with it, whereas you wouldn't have been a year ago. paddy clarke ha ha ha is a gem! :) next roddy doyle you should get is a star called henry, it'll tell you more about the history of this state than a lot of history books could. and it's his absolute best, great in every way! :)

:-)

oneArpeggiopete:cool:

[jedthehumanoid]

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Originally posted by OneArpeggioPete
böll's irisches tagebuch turns out to be terribly clichéd once you actually know the country, so now you'll probably slightly disappointed with it, whereas you wouldn't have been a year ago. paddy clarke ha ha ha is a gem! :) next roddy doyle you should get is a star called henry, it'll tell you more about the history of this state than a lot of history books could. and it's his absolute best, great in every way! :)

:-)

oneArpeggiopete:cool:

see, that is where the fact that maria has a better taste in presents than my aunt is confirmed :D (to be fair with my aunt, i don't think she's read böll's book). i loved paddy clarke, and buying a star called henry is certainly something i won't hesitate to do after i read at least some of the books that people have offered me. thanks for the recommendation :) any other irish author recommendations will be welcome, of course ;)

[ilrem]

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda  

by Romeo Dallaire

http://www.amazon.co...4697004-8711620

[jedthehumanoid]

the results of an hour of idle time in waterstones :

paul auster - oracle night
roald dahl - selected short stories

[OneArpeggioPete]

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Originally posted by jedthehumanoid
see, that is where the fact that maria has a better taste in presents than my aunt is confirmed :D (to be fair with my aunt, i don't think she's read böll's book). i loved paddy clarke, and buying a star called henry is certainly something i won't hesitate to do after i read at least some of the books that people have offered me. thanks for the recommendation :) any other irish author recommendations will be welcome, of course ;)

have you looked into irish poetry yet? try paul durcan! and for drama, should you be interested, try philadelphia here i come, dancing at lughnasa and translations by brian friel, and factory girls by frank mcguinness.

:-)

oneArpeggiopete:cool:

[jedthehumanoid]

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Originally posted by OneArpeggioPete
have you looked into irish poetry yet? try paul durcan! and for drama, should you be interested, try philadelphia here i come, dancing at lughnasa and translations by brian friel, and factory girls by frank mcguinness.

:-)

oneArpeggiopete:cool:

i've heard of brian friel actually, a neighbour is doing her research on his plays, and i was going to accompany her to the stage performance of his new one in dublin, but it was sold out. i've still never read anything by him, but i will at some point. the other recommendations sound interesting, thanks ! :)

[OneArpeggioPete]

here's for some more friel in dublin:

http://www.gate-thea...orthcoming.html

i'll definitely go, dancing at lughnasa is one of my fsvourite plays ever and the gate is a magic place.

:-)

oneArpeggiopete:cool:

[Elax]

most recent purchases:

A. Den Doolaard - Het verjaagde water (=Roll back the sea; first print from 1947 :))
Imre Kertész - Der Spurensucher
Imre Kertész - Roman eines Schicksallosen (=Fateless)
Albert Camus - La Peste (=The Plague)
Albert Camus - De Pest (yes, same book, different language)
Albert Camus - Der Fall (=The Fall; I will actually only pick this up tomorrow or Saturday, but it's ordered)

[Why Not Smile?]

Well, when I buy books I useually buy more then one.

Cry The Beloved Country
The Men With The Pink Triangle
and I got two magazines

[inspectorjason]

Dennis Lehane - Mystic River

Saw the movie.    
Loved the movie.
Bought the book.  

I've heard from several sources that the book is superior to the already-excellent movie, so I'm looking forward to making this judgement myself.

[T Conor]

Hollywood, Charles Bukowski and Jane Erye, Charlotte Bronte.  What can I say, it's all kind of instinctual.  I feel like I'm eating a chilled desert out of my own head.  Bukowski, if you can take the violence, is very clear and very human - not bad for a writer.  Charlotte is adorable.  Bukowski along with John Keats are in my estimation the very pinnacle.  I hear that M Stipe took some words of Half a World Away from Ode to a Nightingale by Keats.  What  a song, what a poem!  If you haven't already please read Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, the original edition.

[slb3]

"A Right to be Hostile" by Aaron McGruder.

[Why Not Smile?]

Oh man I've been bad and bought books like crazy the latest one I bought was Witnessess To The Holocost. All about Jewish kids in the Holocost from concentration camps, to hide-outs, to running away. Man I'm so bad...I'm so obsessessed w/book buying! That and make-up buying!

[GreenSpirulina]

Inkheart, and a new copy of the Neverending Story as my old one was finally falling to pieces. I know. I am a big kid. And I love it.;)

[Tessa]

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Originally posted by inspectorjason
Dennis Lehane - Mystic River

Saw the movie.    
Loved the movie.
Bought the book.  

I've heard from several sources that the book is superior to the already-excellent movie, so I'm looking forward to making this judgement myself.

How funny, just 5 minutes ago I ordered that book, since I heard only good things about it.  :)