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What book have you last acquired?
Bonus question: which was it?
I'll start. My very last was ordered online (actual book I received in my home) and it was Milo Manara's Fatal Rendevouz... Ooooh, sexy, I know!
| Used book | 14 | |
| Brand new | 40 | |
| e-book | 9 |
I did, I haven't read it yet though. I have hundreds of books I haven't read yet. Only just last month, I finished reading the Harry Potter series, haha.
Mm... I'm puzzled. Have you actually read all Harry potter books?
Like.... WHY???? Hahahaha
I've read fragments of your new book, it's awesome. I do think a few books are meant to be owned rather than actually read, since they say something important about you... identity and shits.
ghost story by Peter straub, boys life by Robert mcCammon one of if not my favorite book a nostalgic read that I lent out and never got back and a HP lovecraft collection, all with a waterstones card.
Boys life is one of the few books from my childhood that not only stood up but brought me back to the time as well as being able to appreciate the melancholic nostalgia of childhood I couldn't experience at the time, if anyone's out of something to read I'd recommend it, I don't think it'd just nostalgic bias it's an amazing book
Steinbeck East of Eden. My friend bought it for me on my birthday while we were drunk along the street. I was gonna buy it for me but friends are friends and they do that shit.
Jesus...I buy so many books...
The last real book I bought was a replacement copy of the night circus by Erin morgenstern...after I, for some reason, tore up my resident copy while I was sleepwalking.
And the last e-book I bought was Station Eleven by Emily St. John...according to my kindle, which was a pretty good book.
But both of those were in the last few days. I don't remember which was first.
I have that book. Didn't take. I just ended up using it to whack innocent strangers in the face while I walk by them on the street.
Hehe for every nine utterly useless comments you write, there's one that captures the essence of things.
Lol! I guess us readers can spot one another ;).
Do you have a favorite, OP? I'm always seeking my next amazing read.
My favorite is probably state of wonder by Anne Patchett...but I'm kind of a sucker for modern fiction and even more of a sucker for a really amazing story.
100 years of solitude is another favorite...and swamplandia was awesome...
And I love me some classics too...Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway.
Mine is new/used...We bought it last week but my sister read it before I did...It was Miss Peregrine's home for Peculiar Children :)
The last book I bought was The Tiger That Isn't, by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot (brand new, by the way). It's a non-fiction book about popular (mis)representations of numbers, which was recommended by one of my lecturers. I'm quite enjoying it; it's an entertaining book, not dry academic text (which I do enjoy too, but not in the same way).
The last book I borrowed was Lord of the Flies, which I took from my parent's house. I've never read it before and it's supposed to be very good, so I'll have to get down to it at some point.
The last book I bought was "Great expectations" by Charles Dickens and it was brand new. I haven't quite finished it yet...
The Rise of Endymion audiobook. It took about 40 hours to listen to it and I still think it was too short.
That's something I'm curious about, audiobooks. I've never been able to finish one properly, other things generally distract me from the listen. When do you listen to it? How does that work?
I listen to it while I'm at work, just sort of go into autopilot mode and listen away. The book is from a series called the Hyperion Cantos, I read them a few year ago and they are easily the best books I've ever read. I decided to give the audio books a try and was blown away by how much better they were with the narrator.
I just looked it up. I think I'd like it (although there's 3 I should go through before). I just really don't talking know if I can just listen to it. In my line of work it would impossible to do it. Unless of course I wanted to get fired.
Another question, had you read that one before listening?
My sister gave me Banat al Riyadh (Girls of Riyadh) two years ago, and I only read like 50 pages.