Here's what I got:
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
"The Prince" by Machiavelli
"The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri
"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
"The House of the Dead" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Nibelungenlied" by Unknown
"Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Self-Reliance and Other Essays" by Ralph Waldo Emmerson
"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin
"Civil Disobedience and Other Essays" by Henry David Thoreau
"Walden, or, Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau
All for only $44.
I bought textbooks the other day. They make me hate bookstores.
You got the entire Divine Comedy?
That's a great haul, except for Ayn Rand. Feh on her.
I think I am going to be reading two or three of these this year in ingles, Heart of Darkness fer shure. But nice haul of classics, classics are well, classic. It's nice to read something enduring in between Michael Crighton, Grisham or wheoever I'm reading
Quote:You got the entire Divine Comedy?
Yeah, it's the whole trilogy.
Quote:That's a great haul, except for Ayn Rand. Feh on her.
I decided to find out for myself what all the fuss is about.
It's basically a book saying sympathy and being kind is for the weak. The "heroes" are utter geniuses with ridiculous over the top "super powers" of determination and logic and are supposed to "prove" her idiotic philosophy, despite the fact that such soap opera type people just don't even exist.
I also got Beyond Good and Evil enen though I can't stand Nietzsche's views on morality and religion. It's all about broadening my horizons a bit here.
I took a class on Nietzsche last semester... incredibly complex thinker, I still can't say that I really understand his ideas...
Phhht!! Benjamin Franklin is where it's at! *13 Virtues for the win!!*
Thats quite a list... lemme know how they are.
I'm ALMOST done with David Copperfield; I hope to wrap it up either tonight or tomorrow... and then I'm going to concentrate all of my power on 1001 Nights; which is excellent and all I'd hope it'd be.
Quote:I'm ALMOST done with David Copperfield; I hope to wrap it up either tonight or tomorrow... and then I'm going to concentrate all of my power on 1001 Nights; which is excellent and all I'd hope it'd be.
The full 1001 Nights is a very long book, like 12 full volumes at least...
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski comes out in a few days. I'm stoked.
Darunia Wrote:Thats quite a list... lemme know how they are.
I'm ALMOST done with David Copperfield; I hope to wrap it up either tonight or tomorrow... and then I'm going to concentrate all of my power on 1001 Nights; which is excellent and all I'd hope it'd be.
Dude I started reading David copperfield a year and a half ago and just kind of quit with about 100 pages to go. It was really compelling at first and I actually felt sad when his mother died, then it just keeps going and going and the writing gets worse and worse. I will finish it one day though!
Ryan Wrote:Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski comes out in a few days. I'm stoked.
This is new to me! What's the book about?
ABF, you are quite correct; I'm reading a 500-some-odd page adaptation. Nevertheless, from what I've read, it's quite delightful... what with women being subordinate, and monsters and all...
Ah... I've read bits of the full thing (my dad has the full set), or at least did several years ago, but we also have some one-volume story conglomeration version around somewhere...
Quote:Phhht!! Benjamin Franklin is where it's at! *13 Virtues for the win!!*
It's annoying that the book stops before the it gets to most of the interesting stuff, though. :)
That's wasn't his fault though! He died!!
Write faster? :) ... not if it would have made the book worse though... seriously, yes, it is a good book.