The last book you bought was...............
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The Sun Also Rises is an excellent book. Hemingway's good right across the board, actually, and that one's a really good starting point.
The Homecoming is a one of Pinter's best, I think, the female lead in it (cannae remember her name) is brilliant. There was a production of it when I was at Uni with Pete Postlethwaite in it which I really wanted to see but I couldn't get tickets for sh*t
The Homecoming is a one of Pinter's best, I think, the female lead in it (cannae remember her name) is brilliant. There was a production of it when I was at Uni with Pete Postlethwaite in it which I really wanted to see but I couldn't get tickets for sh*t
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I just went to the shop to buy a hundred watt screw cap lightbulb and actually came back with a pack of chewing gum, some Flora and a bag of lemons, plus
The Righteous by Martin Gilbert
Roger's Version by John Updike
and
This 'n' That by Bette Davis.
No lightbulb, alas, but the books only cost me two fifty for the three, and I'll start reading one of them in due course this afternoon
The Righteous by Martin Gilbert
Roger's Version by John Updike
and
This 'n' That by Bette Davis.
No lightbulb, alas, but the books only cost me two fifty for the three, and I'll start reading one of them in due course this afternoon
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Coronation Street: The Epic Novel by Katherine Hardy and Coronation Street, 1960- 1985: 25 Years. i bought them as Christmas presents and will give one of them to my aunt and the other to the fiancé's mother.
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Natasha's Dance by Orlando Figes from Oxfam.
Also, we had a booksale at the library the other day and I filled a f*cking box. For less than a tenner I got
Blenheim by Charles Spencer
Elizabeth's London by Liza Picard
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Shooting Stars: drugs, Hollywood and the movies by Harry Shapiro
Immigrants and the Class Struggle by Joseph Buckman
Drake by Stephen Coote
Peasants and Landlords in Later Mediaeval England by F B Pryde
The Pre-Raphaelites by Terri Hardin
For Esme With Love and Squalor by JD Salinger
LittleDotCom by Ralph Steadman
and a facsimilie copy of the 1892 records of the Parish of Whitkirk, from a limited edition of 300.
Should keep me out of mischief for a while, and I know for a fact that three of those books alone are worth fifty quid between them, so not only will they provide further nourishment for me brain, they'll also give me a massive profit when I sell them on ebay
Also, we had a booksale at the library the other day and I filled a f*cking box. For less than a tenner I got
Blenheim by Charles Spencer
Elizabeth's London by Liza Picard
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Shooting Stars: drugs, Hollywood and the movies by Harry Shapiro
Immigrants and the Class Struggle by Joseph Buckman
Drake by Stephen Coote
Peasants and Landlords in Later Mediaeval England by F B Pryde
The Pre-Raphaelites by Terri Hardin
For Esme With Love and Squalor by JD Salinger
LittleDotCom by Ralph Steadman
and a facsimilie copy of the 1892 records of the Parish of Whitkirk, from a limited edition of 300.
Should keep me out of mischief for a while, and I know for a fact that three of those books alone are worth fifty quid between them, so not only will they provide further nourishment for me brain, they'll also give me a massive profit when I sell them on ebay
Hope is important.
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I pre-ordered "Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe" by Bryan Lee O'Malley.
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After reading Twilight, I couldn't not. I even went to see the film and bought the album.
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After reading Twilight, I couldn't not. I even went to see the film and bought the album.
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Not exactly bought, but rescued from being chucked out at work (the sh*t they want to get rid of would make any true book lover weep, hence why I keep bringing it home).......
A nice copy of M acbeth, my favourite of all the Shakespeare plays (and believe me, I've read them all)
Selected poems of Cecil Day-Lewis
An illustrated copy of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
Princes Among Men: journeys with Gypsy musicians by Garth Cartwright
Havana Best Friends by Jose Latour
Not bad for nowt, eh?
A nice copy of M acbeth, my favourite of all the Shakespeare plays (and believe me, I've read them all
)Selected poems of Cecil Day-Lewis
An illustrated copy of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
Princes Among Men: journeys with Gypsy musicians by Garth Cartwright
Havana Best Friends by Jose Latour
Not bad for nowt, eh?
Is that Beyond Good and Evil, by Nietzsche, Debs? Good stuff, but mad as sh*te, I read it when I was seventeen and it frazzled the f*ck out of me 
Scree
Quote: the_doc
aye
Lol the 'c' wouln't work for some reason XD
Im doing philosophy/psychology atm so i've taken a real interest in reading up on some of the classics
Is that Beyond Good and Evil, by Nietzsche, Debs? Good stuff, but mad as sh*te, I read it when I was seventeen and it frazzled the f*ck out of me
aye
Lol the 'c' wouln't work for some reason XD
Im doing philosophy/psychology atm so i've taken a real interest in reading up on some of the classics
Hope is important.
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Sshh! :-[
A nice copy of The scottish Play
Sshh! :-[
Oh my goodness - it quoted "the scottish play" instead of the actual scottish play. It is really lucky!
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Might I suggest The Plague, The Fall or The Outsider by Camus, in that case? And Nausea by Sartre too............
Quote: the_docIs that Beyond Good and Evil, by Nietzsche, Debs? Good stuff, but mad as sh*te, I read it when I was seventeen and it frazzled the f*ck out of me
aye
Lol the 'c' wouln't work for some reason XD
Im doing philosophy/psychology atm so i've taken a real interest in reading up on some of the classics
Might I suggest The Plague, The Fall or The Outsider by Camus, in that case? And Nausea by Sartre too............
Scree
Quote: the_doc
thankies for recommendations :3
shall see if uni library has em
Quote: One_Winged_AngelQuote: the_docIs that Beyond Good and Evil, by Nietzsche, Debs? Good stuff, but mad as sh*te, I read it when I was seventeen and it frazzled the f*ck out of me
aye
Lol the 'c' wouln't work for some reason XD
Im doing philosophy/psychology atm so i've taken a real interest in reading up on some of the classics
Might I suggest The Plague, The Fall or The Outsider by Camus, in that case? And Nausea by Sartre too............
thankies for recommendations :3
shall see if uni library has em
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James Mackay
Warwick the Kingmaker by Paul Murray Kendall
The Virgin Queen by Christopher Hibbert
England's Elizabeth by Michael Dobson and Nichola J Watson
Tudor Church Militant by Diarmid MacCulloch
Which People's War: national identity and citizenship in wartime Britain 1939-45 by Sonya A. Rose
and a biography of Alec Guiness for Ania.
Got them for f*cking peanuts, knowing that some of them are worth an absolute packet, I'm gonna make a mint when I start selling the f*ckers (after I've read them, of course). Charity shops and car boot sales are ace for sly b*ggers like me
Warwick the Kingmaker by Paul Murray Kendall
The Virgin Queen by Christopher Hibbert
England's Elizabeth by Michael Dobson and Nichola J Watson
Tudor Church Militant by Diarmid MacCulloch
Which People's War: national identity and citizenship in wartime Britain 1939-45 by Sonya A. Rose
and a biography of Alec Guiness for Ania.
Got them for f*cking peanuts, knowing that some of them are worth an absolute packet, I'm gonna make a mint when I start selling the f*ckers (after I've read them, of course
). Charity shops and car boot sales are ace for sly b*ggers like me 
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