A list of all the books I own. It's like a month old, but I haven't bought anything since then anyway, so yeah.
-Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut -Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut -All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot -The Prince by Machiavelli -Notes from Underground/The Double by Dostoyevsky -On the Road by Jack Kerouac -Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard -Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen -Brave New World by Aldous Huxley -The Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey -Self-Reliance and other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson -On Writing by Stephen King
Thank you 😊. The link to the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer set is below book set
Catcher in the Rye alone is worth more than $8 in just the reading experience alone in my eyes.
Then you got Man's Search for Meaning and Night. That's one intense holocaust experience you're going to have with those two.
You also got Devil in the White City which i've heard good things about.
You even got some more on top of that. Nice Haul!
Today I bought:
I picked up Writing Places by William Zinsser because it looked interesting on a thrift store visit a few weeks ago and just got to it. It was a good read and I looked into finding his On Writing Well which seems to be very popular so I was going to order a Kindle edition for $8.50 but thought i would wait a bit for no particular reason. I went to my thrift store again even though I was there yesterday and lo and behold his book was on a shelf! It was NOT there the day before. SWEET! It's not an updated edition but still very readable.
Just got these books two weeks ago , Ive read 3 so far The War of Art , Mans Search for Meaning and Manage your day to day. Would definetly recommend The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Its about how to deal with resistance and getting shit done. If you are doing some creative work this is a must read but it really is a good read for any kind of goal.
I've read Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman before and it's absolutely fascinating and definitely a page turner. Richard Feynman is such an unexpected character with great world view and interesting anecdotes and stories from his life. I'd definitely recommend it!
I'm a huge fan of games - and books - so I'm looking forward to Ready Player One, it may be the next book I read, that or The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. I'm just coming of George R. R. Martin's A Clash of Kings so I don't necessarily want to jump into another ~1000 page book immediately. Haha.
I definitely have to hand it to my family though, they know me well (and may have had my Goodreads "To-Read" shelf as guidance!)
Two others on the history of philosophy that I have come across and are kinda cool and unique "A History of Philosophy" by various writers and "The Story of Philosophy" by Wil Durant http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9886331842&searchurl=sts%3Dt%26amp%3Btn%3Dphilosophy%26amp%3Bvci%3D58642336%26amp%3Bx%3D0%26amp%3By%3D0 http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9886331836&searchurl=sts%3Dt%26amp%3Btn%3Dphilosophy%26amp%3Bvci%3D58642336%26amp%3Bx%3D0%26amp%3By%3D0
All second-hand from library book stores and thrift stores.
Contact by Carl Sagan
Blackout by Connie Willis
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Game Change by John Heilemann & Mark Halperin
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseni
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard Feynman
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Spook Country by William Gibson
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Halo: Cryptum by Greg Bear
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau
After Tha' Eclipse: The Nine Elements of My Life (Kindle, Paperback, and Hardcover) Filled with poetry, life experiences, learnt lessons, and traumas we still keep deep in the closet. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCP7NZGW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_9YCMVF013YSAMQR03ZMW
No clue, looks like it's an India site.
Here's some reviews: https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/bookswagon.com#:~:text=Bookswagon%20has%20a%20consumer%20rating,7th%20among%20Books%20Other%20sites.
Critiques Welcomed :)
Skills:
Line Drawing
Botanical Tangles
Paper:
Drawing paper
Ref: The Book of Botanical Tangles for Inspiration.
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This is the copy I have, my children destroyed the outer part, which is pretty delicate. I got it from a store for like $20, not sure why it's so expensive on amazon.
The ISBN is 978-1-78828-557-5. I believe it's this book. The book is gorgeous, though a disappointing thing I found out after I bought the book is that it excludes the sex and violence that was present in the original myths ☹
The binding was just inspired by it, though they did did add a few cool things. The individual narrators were assigned their own font/typeface based on fonts that were in use at the time of the book's original publication. It is beautifully illustrated by James Pyman. The top edge is a beautiful red color. The amazon link for the book is here. Happy reading 📚
This challenge would be perfect for YOU! Review the genre specific Reading Journals on Amazon. There are a total of seven. Happy Reading! Horror Reading Journal Challenge
Looks like it’s in public domain as some print on demand publishers are selling it.
The Girl from Hell's Kitchen: A New Arco Sophisticate https://www.amazon.com/dp/125864939X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_L7xvDbN87GXAG
I don’t see a listing on amazon for that particular edition. Given there are no reviews. I imagine it’s fairly obscure. What’s the content of the book?
It should be out! That one came out Sept. 9, 2014! I perosnally love it.
Here is the amazon link for Shroom: Mind-bendingly Good Recipes for Cultivated and Wild Mushrooms: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449448267/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_7C06AbAMJBXPR
Consists of the following:
The book on the bottom of the right stack matches my Meditations by Marcus Aurelius book.
I may or may not figure out where you live so I can steal that book. (I'm joking, I swear. No stalking here.)
Cropped the top too tight and the zoom is further out than it looked on my phone, sorry about that. From top to bottom, right to left it's C.S. Lewis' "Till We Have Faces", David Sedaris' "Dress Your Children In Corduroy and Denim", Christopher Hitchens'/Edward Said's "Blaming the Victims", Michael Keller/Nikole Rager Fuller's graphic adaptation of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", George Saunders' "Tenth of December, A Taschen collection of M.C. Escher's works, Carl Hempel's "Philosophy of Natural Science", Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash", John Kennedy Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces", Sun Tzu's "The Art of War".
Books being Givenaway
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Dracula by Bram Stoker
PapaHemingway | A Memoir of Hemingway's Life by A.E. Hotchner
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Probably Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I've read a wide variety of reviews on both sides of the spectrum for it so I'm excited to read it on my own and see which half I agree more with. I'm currently reading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse though so I'm also looking forward to getting into The Journey to the East.
The books-
Hardcover of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th Edition
Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, shorter fifth edtion
Boxed version of Don Quixote. Here are some cool illustrations and a front page note from 1968 from that.
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
X-Wing: Rogue Squadron by Michael A. Stackpole
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
I got these at a booksale put on by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Every Spring and Fall they put on a "Big Book Sale" and they aren't kidding about Big. It takes place in an old hangar on Fort Mason about a mile or two from the Golden Gate. They have 60 foot long tables with 6 feet wide of books. SO MANY BOOKS. I'm going back Sunday when every book is $1.
This haul cost me all of $30 or so.
From top to bottom (please pardon my poor quality image):
Welcome to the Thunderdome that is my brain.
Finals are indeed done. I'm reading the Marx book, which I love so far. I'll probably pick up Terry Eagleton's Why Marx was Right down the road to follow up. Unless you have another suggestion.
I'm also reading Zeitoun, Contact, King Leopold's Ghost, The Things They Carried, and The Restauraunt at the End of the Universe. Not sure what I will start next, probably The Story of Philosophy or To Kill a Mockingbird.
All I have to say is that Strand Book Store is amazing. We don't have many good new/used bookstores in my town so this trip to NYC was particularly pleasant. It reminds me of Dutton's Books back in my hometown in California... The following are the prices and titles:
Thanks both of you for your comments. I have only read Ayn Rand's book, Anthem which I thought was pretty interesting. I have a couple of books I am reading: * The Autobiography of Malcolm X * Foundation's Edge (Asimov) * Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse) but which one is better to start, The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged?
It is the 20th Anniversary ed. and I originally found it on the UK Harry potter website. But I just bought it from amazon, they have one for each house and the have colored paperback ones as well.
yes! Not like the screenplay but the actual "Hogwarts Library" book. here it is, there is a UK version too I think with a different cover.
They're the Scribner 2005 editions. They're all on Amazon right now listed as the default "paperback". The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743251628/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_GC6BybK86R81R