Last Book You Bought and Why

[Idril]

Just a correction in the spelling. His name is Knut Hamsun with a u instead of an o.
By the way, do you read a lot of Scandinavian literature?

Oh! Sorry about that.

And I haven't read all that much Scandinavian literature yet but I'm interested in delving into that pool. I've read a fair amount of Halldor Laxness, whom I love; Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlof (I think you recommended that one ), which I also loved and Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset. I'm currently reading Jenny, also by Undset. Oh, and O.E. Rolvaag but I'm not sure if he counts since he's now a US citizen...or was, I think he might be dead (oh yeah! I just checked and he's been dead for quite awhile )... but the book of his I've read, The Boat of Longing takes place, at least in part, in Norway. I have his Giants in the Earth in my to-read pile but that's a book about Norwegian immigrants in the Dakotas, which will be a world I'm familiar with, that being my paternal heritage.

Any recommendations you have will be very welcome. I ran into a book on Amazon that looked interesting, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, do you know anything about it? Is it any good?

[Sparrow]

I bought Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, at the urge of my friend, and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, at the behest of another friend.

[mmanuelap]

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

[Dark Muse]

Well I just bought a bunch of new books:

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Daughter of Troy by Sarah B. Franklin
She Who Remebers, and Voice of the Earth, by Linda Lay Shuler
To the Hilt by Dick Francis
The Haunter of the Dark and other stories by H.P. Lovecraft

[Sucundus]

I just bought a hard cover, I believe 1980 print of Vonneguts "Slaughter House Five" in good condition for 8$ on e-Bay. One of my favorites.

[LadyWentworth]

Everyman

Have you ever read this one before?

[Ultravox]

I bought several the other day, three for my university course:

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Poetics, Aristotle

and two others:

Middlemarch, George Eliot
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce.

I seem to buy books at a rate much quicker than the rate at which I can read them.

[Dark Muse]

Good choices, I have read and enjoyed Northanger Abbey, and Franekstein, and I am currently reading A Protrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[Takeahnase]

I picked up some cheap, second-hand copies of Jude the Obscure, Middlemarch and Tess of the d'Ubervilles the other day. They'll just be lying unread on my shelves for decades most probably because, like Ultravox, I'm buying/borrowing more books than I can get through... my room's absolutely bursting at the seams at the moment and yet I still keep on buying/borrowing more.

[aeroport]

Myths and Legends of the Celts - James MacKillop
Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey

[Erichtho]

Yesterday I bought
My Name be Gantenbein by Max Frisch
and
Kino by Hermann Kant.

[Alexei]

Today I bought "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens for the BookClub reading

[Scheherazade]

Art of Hugging People: A 10-Step Guide to Being More Hug Oriented (Especially Those Towards You Have Met On Cyberspace)

[manolia]

"A prayer for Owen Meany" J Irving

[Scheherazade]

"A prayer for Owen Meany" J Irving

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