Latest Book Purchase

[HatsumiShinogu]

What is your most recent book purchase? Mine is:

It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider by Jim Henson

[Reidar]

Patton by some biographer who just composed a bunch of testimonials from other people, so it doesn't matter.

Musashi: His Life and Writings by Kenji Tokitsu

[Holy Knight]

Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer
The White Plague by Frank Herbert
Learning the World by Ken Macleod
British Factory-Japanese Factory by Ronald Dore
House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Quantum by Jim Al-Khalili

All except the last two were purchased used, so the whole was a bargain.

[Caine]

Jane Eyre
On beauty
Moby ****
To the Lighthouse
Great Gatsby

purchased for school.
I really don't buy many books. Barnes&Noble gives me chairs and the option to buy coffee, they know what to expect.

[Shawaazu]

When the Emperor Was Divine
Black Boy
Obasan

I purchased those about one week ago.

[DazzleKitty]

Mine was A Sister's Secret by Wanda Brunstetter.

I also bought The Ruins by Scott Smith not too long ago but I haven't started it yet.

[Raistlin-sama]

A song of Ice and Fire volume 1-4 by George R.R Martin
The Great Dune Trilogy (the first 3 books in one) by Frank Herbert
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Foundation by Isac Asimov

[boomsnapclap]

The Giver by Lois Lowry, (:

[jedisolo]

World Without End by Ken Follett. It's 1014 pages long.

[Evil_Koala]

HMMM LEMME SEE HAR.

Of Mice of Men
Mein Kampf

And then I got The Communist Manifesto from...Manifesto XD

[ecchi]

My last book purchase was The Da Vinci Code from 2005..

[Kyuu Dan]

The Giver by Lois Lowry, (:

Yay for Lowry ^^

Emperor Mage- Tamora Pierce

[Cheza]

ther perks of being a wallflower.

friedrich.

[iwakura]

The Princeton biology coloring workbook.

[333jeffery]

Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan....

[DominoCat]

Grey walker <3
Beknighted >.<
Wreck this journal (if that can be called a book. :p)

[Garma3]

1984, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex and other entries that were omitted from her diary.

[Undrave]

I boguht the first volume of 12 Kingdoms yesterday. I finished all 300-or so pages in about 4-5 hours oO!

I'll be going to buy more of it soon for sure. I want to know what happens to Yoko!!

[whatsherface]

It's been a couple weeks since I've been trying to catch up on all the magazines I subscribe too and catching up on manga. But it was:
The Sunrise Lands by S.M. Stirling. I liked the first three enough to buy this one but the man does drag on.

[Kueng]

My last book purchase was a screenplay, Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.

[Shawaazu]

Japanese From Zero Book 1

Um, yeah. -_-; Thought I'd give it a shot.

[goddessofanime]

Currently Reading:

I am America!(And so Can you)Stephen Colbert...which was a birthday present to myself from me.

Also got

The Almost Moon from Alice Sebold today.

[Yuri Na Catgirl]

I just bought The Wal-Mart Effect

Finished it, good buy :)

[gyakusetsu]

Naomi Klein : The Shock Doctrine (the rise of disaster capitalism)
Great read finished in one marathon sitting and read it again.

[Haro!]

I am America (and so can you!) by Stephen Colbert. I haven't read it since I bought it for my dad.

[Caifane]

Republic Commando: True Colors. Im enjoying this series based on Clone Troopers.

[Kyuu Dan]

Hawksong: Atwater-Rhodes

[Misaki]

The Dream Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Very good so far.

[Nano]

uuhhh let me see..
The Magicians Guild
Sabriel
Lirael
Abhorsen

All very good, after I finish The Magicians Guild I'm going to start on some better know books.

[Shawaazu]

The Lightning Thief - 2 copies (One is a gift)
The Royal Diaries - Elizabeth I (Gift)

[Alice Catherine]

I got my Christmas books finally. :)


Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Strategy Guide
2008 Time Almanac

And two other ones. I forget what...

[Justinian]

My 3 latest book purchases would be undeniably the three best books I've read.
"Through Painted Deserts" by:Donald Miller
"Velvet Elvis" by:Rob Bell
"Blue Like Jazz" by:Donald Miller

Currently Reading:
I am America!(And so Can you)Stephen Colbert...which was a birthday present to myself from me.

Funniest book I've ever read.

[Mazinkaiser]

I Am America (and so can you!) and I am Legend were my latest purchases.

[whatsherface]

Ripley's Believe It or Not newest book
Top 10 book of 2008
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis. I need to finish this series.

[Bernard_Monsha]

2. Copies of My Tank is Fight!

2. Copies of my favorite comedy book English as she is spoke. This is required reading for anyone who likes unintentional humor. Some of the wonderful phrases and idims in this book


These apricots and these peaches make me and to come water in the mouth.

Tell me whom thou frequent, I will tell you which you are.

Plato walking one's self a day to the field with some of their friends. They were to see him Diogenes who was in to water untill the chin. The superficies of the water was snowed, for the reserve of the hole that Diogenes was made. "Don't look it more," told them Plato, "and he shall get out soon."

[Sushikins]

The novelization of Aliens by Alan Dean Foster, for exactly 53 cents.

[Sora N]

In the Name of the Father by: Gerri Hill

[Hara!]

Death by Black Hole
Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Scott Pilgrim 2-4
Bryan Lee O'Malley

Avengers: The Initiative Vol.1
Dan Slott

[DazzleKitty]

Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah

[Haro!]

Death by Black Hole
Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You know I totally have to read that book. I met Neil at the Museum a month or two back. Awesome guy.

[sreeja]

The last book i purchased is Learning the World by Ken Macleod.

[Caine]

i haven't bought much, (besides gifts. The Chronicles of Amber for one brother, Empire by Orson Scott Card for the other, Dean Koontz's latest for my dad, and Atonement for my mom)

I received Sweet Jesus I Hate Bill O'Reilly as a present

I have done some reading, notably Lamb: the gospel according to Biff, jesus' childhood friend, which is awesome
I'm also reading The Republic for a school activity (it doesn't have an official name yet, though it might just be philosophy club) and should be reading The Book Thief and Underworld for other school clubs

[gdanimefan2008]

Mine are:

The Subtle Knife (Book 2 in the His Dark Materials trilogy)

and

The Amber Spyglass (Book 3 in the His Dark Materials trilogy)

[Caifane]

I bought Lirael and Abhorsen which are the 2nd and 3rd parts of the Old Kingdom Trilogy. I had bought the first book Sabriel about 3-4 yrs ago. I figure its about time i finish the trilogy.

[Smith]

Bought No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy a couple weeks ago, and finished it a day later. Good book.

For christmas in a gift exchange thing, I got Blacktop Cowboys by Ty Phillips.

[Phantom]

Desert Raiders - Its bugs vs soldiers!

[Kueng]

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

[boomsnapclap]

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.

[iwakura]

Welcome to the NHK.

Not the manga, but the translated novel which inspired the manga.

[yasly]

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.

I'm completely addicted to the series and infatuated with Edward Cullen. Best buy you could've made.
Let me know what you think of it.^_^

[xxxYaoiLovrxxx]

FreshFruits by PHAIDON.

[h0ckey2244]

My Ishmael by daniel quinn which is my new favorite auther, anyone read Ishmael by chance? greatest book I've read

and God is not great XD lolz by some british guy

[Hara!]

Robinson Crusoe.

Looks awesome.

[Meggles]

The poison apples

[Boomhauer]

Do You Think What You Think You Think?,
Being Good,
Breaking the Spell,
This Side of Paradise.

[Hara!]

Tales Of H.P. Lovecraft, selecred and edited by Joyce Carol Oates.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

Tales Of H.P. Lovecraft, selecred and edited by Joyce Carol Oates.

Joyce Carol Oates wrote a really good book called Zombie, you should read it sir. It's pretty short, but really brutal. I'm surprised Joyce Carol Oates is so old, she can really spin a yarn

[Caine]

Battle Royale
Also reading (though I haven't bought it) Looking for Alaska Apparently there was some controversy, and I had already heard of it, so i decided to start reading it.

[Samurai Drifter]

His Dark Materials

Rapidly becoming one of my favorite books. Read through The Golden Compass in a couple of days and am now 3/4ths through The Subtle Knife.

Tales Of H.P. Lovecraft, selecred and edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Lovecraft wrote some excellent stuff, The Whisperers in Darkness is one of his best stories.

[Haro!]

Latest purchase: Foucault's Pendulum. Am I going to read it... yeah, maybe? damn thing looks long...

[Tom Servo]

His Dark Materials

Rapidly becoming one of my favorite books. Read through The Golden Compass in a couple of days and am now 3/4ths through The Subtle Knife.
Read these when I was 15 or so, while I don't remember too well the exact details of what happened I remembered being... not so much disappointed, but I can't think of the word I need... by the third book in that trilogy.

The story went from a intricate tale of a young woman to a huge war, I think what it was, was that the characters were drowned out by the circumstances they were in towards the end.

Most of my books will probably seem pretty boring, my most recent purchase around a month ago was a book on learning hebrew as well as a quite nice book listing a geocentric ephemeris from the 1000s to the year 3000.

[Suiko Eiji]

My to read pile is pretty deep and I'm only slowly making my way through it.

For my birthday, a friend got me the first volume of the English translation of Crayon Shin-chan. I've also been borrowing The Notenki Memoirs from a friend for several months and just got around to starting it after cleaning on Saturday.

Though, while cleaning, I found a couple of gift cards for Borders (and, much to my surprise, were still good); took one of them down and bought Variable Star by Robert Heinlein/Spider Robinson, 1901 by Robert Conroy and Idoru by William Gibson. I should probably get around to buying a couple books for class, seeing as the semester is half over...

Most of my books will probably seem pretty boring[...]

I agree; I typically don't read fiction and when I do, it's usually nerdy stuff like Sci-Fi/Alternate History (see above). Typically, I read a lot of contemporary history or computing books. I'm probably the only one here having a serious debate as to whether I should buy the Fedora Toolkit or the SuSE Toolkit first and where I can start finding copies of 2600.

[Hara!]

All Quiet On The Western Front and Apathey and Other Small Victories.

[Phantom]

Rebel Winter (http://www.blacklibrary.com/product.asp?prod=60100181044&type=Book) which i plan to read after I've finished Dune.

[goddessofanime]

I feel so dumb now. *looks at copy of The Other Boleyn Girl

[Samurai Drifter]

1984, by George Orwell. Almost finished with it.

[Shawaazu]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Book Four: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

Yeah, I'm too old for this series but I still love it.

[ThePhillyFlash]

William Shatner's newest Star Trek novel: Starfleet Academy: Collision Course. This story chronicles the first ever meeting of Kirk and Spock when they were teenagers before they both join Starfleet. I'm about halfway through and it's pretty good.

:)

[Mikosage]

I'm pretty sure it was Memoirs of a Geisha, but that was a long time ago.

I need to buy more books...

[ThePhillyFlash]

I'm pretty sure it was Memoirs of a Geisha, but that was a long time ago.

I read Memoirs a few weeks after I watched the movie and enjoyed it. Liked the movie too!

:)

[goddessofanime]

Today at the library, I got a biography of Charles Schulz, a.k.a the man of Peanuts.

[Reidar]

A bunch of Nietzsche books.

[ParasiteFiend13]

The Host by Stephenie Meyer. Good book, but I wish she added some more to it.

[Holy Knight]

I went on a small spending spree since summer vacation started for me. So I bought :

3 Umberto Eco books :

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
The Name of the Rose
Baudolino

The last 2 Dune books from Frank Herbert :

Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse : Dune

And a currently popular book, on a recommendation :

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

That should be enough to keep me busy for the month of June.

[Raust]

Heavier Than Heaven

[Jia]

The Ootori Trilogy
-Across the nightingale floor
-Grass for his pillow
- Brillance of the moon

And the prequels
- In heaven's wide net
- Harsh cry of the heron.

[Shawaazu]

Picked up a copy of The Host by Stephenie Meyer.

[shinri]

I read mostly a lot of non-fiction these days:

Kitchen Con - Writing on the Restaurant Racket (Trevor White)
Smile When You're Lying - Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer (Chuck Thompson)
Nickel and Dimed - On (Not) Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert)

For some reason, I find social commentary a lot more interesting than fiction; maybe it's a phase, but I'm just soaking it all up like a sponge.

[Hara!]

Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia - By Ronald K. Siegel

[shinri]

Today I picked up

Behind Bars - The Straight-Up Tales of a Big-City Bartender (Ty Wenzel)

[boomsnapclap]

Lush (by Natasha Friend).
They Never Came Home, Summer of Fear, and Daughters of Eve (all by Lois Duncan). :]

[h0ckey2244]

The Time of the butterflies by Julia Alvarez

So far its really good historical fiction

[Illusions-chan]

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky - The true story of three Lost Boys from Sudan

[Meggles]

The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

She's my favorite author. I couldn't reccomend her mysteries enough. My two favorite books of hers is And Then There Were None(aka Ten Little Indians) and Murder on the Orient Express. I mean, usually I can guess the end by about halfway through the book, but some of her surprise endings just freak me out. I haven't started this one yet, but I bet it'll be intense.

[Sushikins]

King of Foxes by Raymond E. Feist
Exile's Return by Raymond E. Feist
Diablo Archive by Richard A. Knaak, Mel Odom & Robert B. Marks

[Hara!]

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman.

[shinri]

Maxed Out - Hard Times in the age of Easy Credit (James D. Scurlock)

Gives a good overall picture of the consumer-based, heavily credit-dependent society we live in, and also touches on the whole sub-prime mortgage crisis that's embroiled the U.S. real estate market and has affected the economy in general... some sobering lessons to be learned for sure.

[drgenestarwind]

got three yesterday
A brief history of nearly everything: Bill Bryson
The god delusion: Richard Dawkins
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations: Richard Feynman

[Holy Knight]

I went to two of the bigger bookstores in the city and wigged out at the variety of choice. Unashamedly, I splurged, though with restraint :

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Kublai Khan by John Man
Genghis Khan by John Man
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
The Know It All by A.J. Jacobs
Einstein. His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Back in 6 Years by Tony Robinson-Smith

[shinri]

Discover Your Inner Economist - Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist (Tyler Cowen)

[KittiePryde]

Grammar in French x.X

And "The Assault on Reason by Al Gore"

[Thousand Eyes]

The Best of The Spirit. It's a collection of some of the best stories of Will Eisner's renowned hero.

[AnimeHunter]

I have purchased The Human Comedy by WilIiam Saroyan two weeks ago. I finished the book a couple days ago. I really recommend this book since it is a great story.

[ladyshiro]

Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox

[Kevin]

Joss Whedon's, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 " Time of your life " Part 1

[shinri]

Service Included - Four-star secrets of an eavesdropping waiter (Phoebe Damrosch)

[Knight of Seven]

Shadows Edge~Brent Weeks

[Holy Knight]

Recently bought and among others...

Absalom, absalom! by William Faulkner
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Kafka On The Shore and After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Out by Natsuo Kirino
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Underground and Ripley's game by Patricia Highsmith
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

I bought plenty more since my last post, but these are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

[Haro!]

More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman. And I got it (and my MacBook) signed!!! Konichiwa *****es!!

Kafka On The Shore and After Dark by Haruki Murakami

I really enjoyed After Dark. Kafka on the Shore, I'm waiting for someone to buy it for me.

[drgenestarwind]

The God Particle. even though the LHC is out of comission it's still an interesting read.

[Spadesy]

Wolves, Jackals, and Foxes - The Assassins Who Changed History. Basically a nonfiction account of post-Cold War assassinations.

[drgenestarwind]

Harry a History, by Melissa Anelli, a comprehensive book of the Harry Potter fandom.

[goddessofanime]

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)
Autobiography of a Geisha(Sayo Matsuda) which I read in one day.


and now I'm reading A Wolf At My Table (Augusten Burroughs)

[Dr. Ezra]

and now I'm reading A Wolf At My Table (Augusten Burroughs)

Augusten Burroughs is quite possibly my favorite author ever. In a week I finished:

Sellevision
Running With Scissors
Dry
Magical Thinking
Possible Side Effects

I plan to read A Wolf At My Table next.

I love this guy.

[Lady Kotone]

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Wind-up Bird Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Never Shower Under a Thunderstorm by Anahad O'Connor
The Power of Babel by John McWhorter

[Suiko Eiji]

Picked up a used copy of Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner this past weekend (first printing hardcover for six bucks). It's been moved to the middle of the 'to-read' pile, which I'll start after I either finish Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove or Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars.

[mugwump]

"Delivered from Evil." I forget the author's name at the moment. ^_^

[loplop]

The Tailor of Panama by John LeCarre

[Phantom]

Would war Z as recommended by members of this site. Have it on my to read list after i finish my current book.

[Jia]

I bought MATEKI :D

[Hara!]

Would war Z as recommended by members of this site. Have it on my to read list after i finish my current book.

Good for you.

I'm currently readinf The White Tiger. Awesome book.

[max payne]

IT - Stephen King

800 pages of angst and sexuality and now we're finally getting to the ****ing horror. You fail, Mr. King.

[Phantom]

IT - Stephen King

800 pages of angst and sexuality and now we're finally getting to the ****ing horror. You fail, Mr. King.

Isn't that horror enough for you?

[kenshinbebop]

Fight Club and No Country For Old Men

I wish I had a used bookstore around here.

[goddessofanime]

I decided to give Charlaine Harris' books a try. She's the one whose series was made into "True Blood' on HBO.

[xia]

Three cups of Tea: by Greg Mortensen

This was about two weeks ago, and almost finished with it. Pretty good.


EDIT:
And just a few seconds ago purchased
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

[shinri]

Table Talk - A.A. Gill

Regardless of the fact that Gordon Ramsay threw him out of his restaurant for whatever real/imagined slights, the guy can seriously write well.

[tofuman]

Picked up Brisinger yesterday.

[kenshinbebop]

Am just finishing up Camus' The Stranger, and I picked up today Haruki Muramaki's Sputnik Sweetheart.

[xia]

Teacher Man: Frank McCourt

[Holy Knight]

My Life by Fidel Castro
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter Thompson by Jann. S. Wenner & Corey Seymour
World War Z by Max Brooks
You Suck by Christopher Moore

I don't buy as much as I used to because my shelves are just about full, and I have plenty of titles to pick and choose from by now with a wide range of choices. I'm quite proud of my little library, if I may say so.

[kenshinbebop]

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami. Very good book, very well written. Need to look into more by him.

Am starting Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut now.

[loplop]

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami. Very good book, very well written. Need to look into more by him.

Read Norwegian Wood or Kafka on the Shore if you haven't read them yet . . .

I just picked up Contrails over the Mojave by George Marrett. It's about flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base from the mid 1940's to late 1960's.

[ladyshiro]

Dragon Rider by Funke (not the book I was really looking for)

Next book I plan on buying is Dragonriders or Pern by McCaffery

[Tom Servo]

My Life by Fidel Castro
You bought someone's autobiography.

An autobiography.

Disgusting.

[animegurl]

'Dragon's Bait', Vivian Vande Velde

[goddessofanime]

The Duchess: A biography...it was the basis of the recent movie.

Martha Stewart: Just Desserts: I like reading biographies of strong women. Especially full throttle *****es like MS.

And yes....thanks to the movie, I have actually ordered the Watchmen.

[Holy Knight]

You bought someone's autobiography.

An autobiography.

Disgusting.

I didn't notice your comment until now, and I'm intrigued by "disgusting". Do you mean to imply that authors are intentionally biased, fabricate events, and make themselves look good simply because they can say "this is the way I lived it"? Preposterous! :O

[kittynboi]

Drawing Human Anatomy by Giovanni Civardi
Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil by J.D. Hillberry

[Tom Servo]

I didn't notice your comment until now, and I'm intrigued by "disgusting". Do you mean to imply that authors are intentionally biased, fabricate events, and make themselves look good simply because they can say "this is the way I lived it"? Preposterous! :O
It's that autobiographies are ego trips. Don't understand why anybody would want to write about their life or why they think anybody would be interested in reading about it.

It's fine if you're learning about someone in the context of something else, but even then the sort of information you get from autobiographies is going to be superfluous towards your end unless you're writing... another biography!

[kittynboi]

It's that autobiographies are ego trips. Don't understand why anybody would want to write about their life or why they think anybody would be interested in reading about it.

It's fine if you're learning about someone in the context of something else, but even then the sort of information you get from autobiographies is going to be superfluous towards your end unless you're writing... another biography!

I'm pretty much with you on this. The popularity of autobio, bio, and memoirs that the U.S. seems to have seen in the past decade or so is kind of confusing to me. Same thing goes for how the american "Alt comics" scene is so big on these badly drawn "autobio" comics, usually about people who are depressed nobodies that feel sorry for themselves.

I mean, I can see reading it about some famous figure of note, like a president or something, you know, someone who actually MATTERED, or if it's something generally interesting or amusing.

I can't find it, but I once read an article about a kind of funny incident; there was this memoirs writing class at a college. It was generally attended by upper middle class white kids who wrote about suburban malaise, teen rebellion, teenage and preteen romantic angst, etc. You know, the usual self indulgent Livejournal stuff. But ONE semester, they had someone unique in their class; an African immigrant who was a former child solider. Needless to say, this story made everyone who was writing sob stories about their dreary suburban childhood of social isolation amongst their peers feel kind of stupid and fake.

The only autobio material I would ever put to paper in any form would be restricted to stuff I thought was funny, since comedy I think can be given a pass.

But the usual autobio stuff, memoirs, etc. just leaves me cold. That's not to say there aren't any out there that are fascinating, but there is an overall impression among a lot of people, at least in my experience, that a large chunk of that stuff is of the college-course or writing workshop variety of self indulgent bawwwww.

[Holy Knight]

I mean, I can see reading it about some famous figure of note, like a president or something, you know, someone who actually MATTERED, or if it's something generally interesting or amusing.

That's how I see it. I picked up Fidel's bio because because he's a historical figure and I was interested in knowing more about him. I don't touch [auto-]biographies unless there's some historical or interesting things I could learn from it. I know I found Marylin Manson's bio quite interesting, but I'd never touch anyone else's (on his level of the social ladder) without good reason.

[ladyshiro]

Dragonflight, Dragonquest, the White Dragon from the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery

Gift of Dragons also from the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery

she is a really good auther. Her stories keep me going back for more.

[goddessofanime]

So my order of The Watchmen came the other day.

And it is really good...

[Anamin]

Plain Truth by Jodi Piccult, and some other random Japanese book, I don't remember the name of.

[loplop]

Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft by David Shayler

[superplough]

Dragonflight, Dragonquest, the White Dragon from the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery

Gift of Dragons also from the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery

she is a really good auther. Her stories keep me going back for more.

I love Anne McCaffery's books. I haven't read any in ages though.

[old hat]

I couldn't find my old copy of Susan Copper's Dark is Rising series so I got another one. I also got Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade which is what I am reading now.

[soulreaper]

The Diamond Age (Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer) by Neal Stephenson

I've heard nothing but rave reviews about this one, but I don't want to start it until I finish the Mistborn trilogy (I'm in the middle of book 2).

[loplop]

Being someone who reads more non-fiction than fiction most of the time, I just picked up the revised version of Timothy Collings' The Piranha Club: Power and Influence in Formula One. A must read for any fan of F1.

[Meganly-chan]

Artemis Fowl: Lost Colony

[lav2k4]

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

[Meggles]

If they count as books: Auto Repair for Dummies and Teach Yourself Russian


I have diverse interests.

[Tom Servo]

Copenhaver in his translation of the hermetic corpus is being a bit liberal when he sticks to the ptolemaic scheme of the universe for the lesser luminaries yet when it comes to the sun he tries to wrangle the text into adopting a heliocentric view which makes no sense in the context of what Hermes is saying at the time - it really isn't necessary to make these alterations as it doesn't affect the credibility of the work.

If he wants this to replace Scott there needs to be another edition with the allusions to evolution and advances in astronomy dropped. The notes he provides are great though.

[JoeStrummer]

Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac

And for my comics this week:
Savage She-Hulk #1
War of Kings, Ascension #1
Green Lantern #39
Black Panther #1-3
Daredevil Noir #1
Batman: Battle for the Cowl #2
Solomon Grundy #2
Ignition City #1
Hawkeye #1
Wolverine Weapon X #1

[Jia]

Another Amano artbook :(
And David La Chapelle's Heaven to Hell (I don't think it's the exact title).

[Nasjo01]

The last book the i bought was Twilight :D its cool try to read it to those who haven't.

[Melion]

Aldrig F**ka Upp (Translation: Never F**k Up) by a swedish author Jens Lapidus.

I enjoyed his previous book called Snabba Cash (Trans: Fast Cash) and im looking forward to read this one aswell.

[loplop]

Picked up Dyna-Soar: Hypersonic Strategic Weapons System by Robert Godwin last week at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum while on vacation.

It's about a abandoned US Air Force program to have a reusable aerospace plane that could deliver a bomb anywhere in the world in less than a hour & to be a transport to a then proposed US military space station. Much of the research was later used on what would become the Space Shuttle.

[old hat]

But wait...There's More by Remy Stern. It's about the infomercial industry.

[SapperSix]

I bought this a few days back

http://www.teamtangoalpha.com/genkill/images/accents/genrationkillbook.jpg

I need to re-buy The Last Stand of Fox Company. A book about the Marines of Fox Company 2/7 during the battle of Chosin Reservoir.

[Meggles]

Russian-English Dictionary

[Holy Knight]

I bought this one on a whim, since it looked interesting:

Survive! by Les Strould.

I only read 20 pages, but I'm already hooked. This is going to be an interesting read.

[old hat]

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton.

aptly named

[kittynboi]

PRogramming Php

[Meggles]

A Clockwork Orange

[Reidar]

http://i43.tinypic.com/8xuaom.jpg

I read math for fun.

[Tom Servo]

Ouuu, will have to pick up General Chemistry myself at some point. Thanks. ^_^

[Sora N]

I thought I would try to read the Twilight Saga so today I bought:

Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn

[loplop]

Tokyo-jima by Natsuo Kirino. She's one of my favorite Japanese writers.

[So'/ sauce|) coo|<ie]

Skinny *****
The Last Lecture
Eat This Not That
...er, and some book based on Queer as Folk.

And these books cost me a total of $2.05. I love the thrift store.

[Meggles]

World War Z

[neiru_3]

Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler by Robert Gellately.
I'm thinking about buying a beginner's Korean book.

[Haro!]

Just bought 69 by Ryu Murakami. Never saw the movie, so I'll read the book.

[Caster13]

I thought I would try to read the Twilight Saga so today I bought:

Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn

You lady are a moron.

As for me, haven't bought a book in a while.

[Anamin]

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

[ThePhillyFlash]

The Star Trek movie novelization by Alan Dean Foster.

I tried reading Twilight but could get past 100 pages before giving up because it was so incredibly STUPID.

[JoeStrummer]

Astonishing X-Men 19 and 20 variant covers
Punisher Max, all of the Six Hours to Kill books out so far

[Carhill22]

Stop Worrying and Start Living- Carnagie.. for my communications class.

[kenshinbebop]

Naked Lunch-William S. Burroughs
The Trial-Franz Kafka

[Meggles]

Mostly Harmless, and So Long and Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams

I should've picked these up years ago after I finished Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. <3

[OpenMindX]

Physics of he Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku. The professor enunciates and elaborates well the scientific theories that have plagued human mind with contemplation and wonder. Lo! This is an outstanding book that is worthy for the eyes of beginners or laymen in science.

[Meggles]

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and Life, the Universe, and Everything, both by Douglas Adams.

I bought the other two books not knowing which order the series goes in.

[goddessofanime]

The Star Trek movie novelization by Alan Dean Foster.

I tried reading Twilight but could get past 100 pages before giving up because it was so incredibly STUPID.

You actually tried to read it? :lol:

I got thru the first book but I couldn't even get thru New Moon.

[Meggles]

You actually tried to read it? :lol:

I got thru the first book but I couldn't even get thru New Moon.

I read the first three books with gusto, but I was young and foolish. When Breaking Dawn or whatever came out, I was like, "meh" I bought it for midterms so I'd have something to do, and when I got to the vampire pregnancy part I gave up.

Also, my English class (well, the girls in my English class) have been trying to convince the teacher to read the books. I will be LOLing forever if that happens. :P

[Anamin]

Book of Latin insults and insinuations (wherein one curses in Latin)

[pepin]

Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums <3

[kenshinbebop]

Ahh, another fan of the Beats?

Dharma Bums was a good read for the most part. I really liked On the Road though. I've been meaning to pick up another Kerouac for a long time, but I kind of got sidetracked on a Burroughs run.

My latest buy was Ulysses by James Joyce. It's gonna be a great one to tackle.

[LadyWhiteWolf]

Llewellyn's 2009 [Witches]' Spell-A-Day Almanac. [Lately, most of the books I've been buying are nonfiction ones on Paganism, Shamanism and Wicca].

[Tom Servo]

Would avoid stuff published by Llewellyn, the only decent things they've got are the G.D. and O.P. black bricks. In a field filled with flaky nonsense it's best to stick to scholarly works.

[pepin]

Ahh, another fan of the Beats?

Dharma Bums was a good read for the most part. I really liked On the Road though. I've been meaning to pick up another Kerouac for a long time, but I kind of got sidetracked on a Burroughs run.

My latest buy was Ulysses by James Joyce. It's gonna be a great one to tackle.

He is a lot more into Buddhism by the time he wrote The Dharma Bums so it's pretty interesting in that respect, also I just love the idea of being a fire lookout, alone in a cabin on a mountain for a summer.

I've since started reading The Yage Letters which is excellent so far, i'm more of a fan of Ginnsberg than Burroughs but the subject matter is fascinating.

[loplop]

U.S. Naval Air Superiority: Delevelopment of Shipborne Jet Fighters - 1943-1962 by Tommy H. Thomason & Debrief: A Complete History of U.s. Aerial Engagements - 1981 to the Present by Craig Brown

What can I say, I'm a Air Force brat & I work for a aerospace company that built & builds of lot of the aircraft mentioned in the 2 books . . . .

[Anamin]

Book from 1978 on the Japanese people.

[NightsEloquence]

Brisingr.

I havent finished it yet.
>.<

[mooseegg1982]

Desiring God by John Piper.

[Holy Knight]

The Well of Ascension

and

Warbreaker

Both by Brandon Sanderson.

I bought the first because it's the second in his Mistborn series, and I really liked the first. The second because I was instantly sold on the astonishingly marvelous cover (http://www.dandossantos.com/gallery/illustrations/full_warbreaker.jpg), and I'm warming up to him as a writer, so I wanted to check this title out.

[Scandiadream]

I borrow books from the library since after all I work there.

But the last book I finished reading was A Tale of Two Cities.

Currently reading The Tale of Despereaux.

Next will be The Bronze Bow.

[goddessofanime]

I am waiting for Kitchen Confidental and The Artists Way to come in the mail (swap)..

and I just ordered a set of Charlaine Harris's books...the basis for True Blood.

[ThePhillyFlash]

MEG: Hell's Aquarium by Steve Alten

[loplop]

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami.

It's a collection of short stories that he wrote from 1981 to 2005.

[Rurouni Saiyan]

Just bought Hagakure. Gonna read some more today.

[goddessofanime]

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (novel version)

[Tom Servo]

Just bought Hagakure. Gonna read some more today.
Haven't read that in ages. I always remember the story about when Yamamoto went to get on a ferry and because someone wouldn't get out of his way or they stepped onto the ferry before him that he "cut them down," he cuts down people a lot.

About halfway through Anatomy of Melancholy (the cheap NYRB edition) at the moment.

[dothacker5]

O Reilly's Linux Handbook and The Plot to Get Bill Gates.

[l0k1]

Stephen King - Wolves of the Calla

[Haro!]

Graphic Design Referenced by Armin Vit and Byrony Gomez-Palacio

[doom&jellybeans]

Just picked up Pop Wonderland - Thumbelina. I'm a big fan Pop's work and seeing this classic story illustrated by him and available in english was quite awesome.

[Old Ape Face]

To Live Is To Die, biography of Cliff Burton.

possibly the most badass biography ever.

[Sora N]

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
Secrets in the Stone by Radclyffe
The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

[Shawaazu]

Velocity by Dean Koontz

[YourDaddy]

Last book I got was called Lateral Thinking, and the last comicbook was the first volume of the Conan compilation (Savage Sword of Conan?).

[Atticus]

Common Sense, Glenn Beck
1984, George Orwell
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

[Bernard_Monsha]

My to do list (http://www.abaa.org/books/163653105.html).

[goddessofanime]

Picked up:

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo

[animegurl]

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.

[Gaming_Bum]

Odyssey - actually I just finished it. It was my first time reading it. I liked it

The Child Thief - it's a twisted dark retelling of peter pan, so far I'm liking it a lot.

[Anamin]

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

[Gaming_Bum]

I ordered

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Magician's Elephant (to read with my nephew, plus I love childrends books)
The Lightning Thief (another book to read with my nephew)

I forgot to order world war z and batman the long halloween. I'll have to pick those up next time I'm at barnesandnoble

[Sora N]

Vampire Academy by: Richelle Mead

[Anamin]

Couple-a DS9 books and one TNG book for ya know after I finsh Mistborn :P

[Holy Knight]

There was a used book sale at the university library today, and I went wild. Purchased:

Cloud Physics and Cloud Seeding by Louis J. Battan
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Parnassus On Wheels by Christopher Morley
Cromwell by Ivan Roots
Truck Safety: Perception and Reality by Frank Saccomanno and John Shortreed (pretty much the Science of Trucking)
The Law of Aerospace Finance in Canada by Donald H. Bunker
Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation by John Hertz, Anders Krogh and Richard G. Palmer
Parameters of Power: Canada's Political Institutions by Heather MacIvor

All for 15$! Bargain! On the other hand, my shelves are running out of space... again. I'm pretty sure my personal library is getting close to the 400 book mark.

[Anamin]

I picked up a paper copy of The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud for $.50 yesterday from the library booksale.

[Sora N]

September Canvas by Gun Brooke
The Walls of Westerfort by Jane Fletcher
Frostbite (Vampire Academy) by Richelle Mead

[Gaming_Bum]

The Good, The Bad, And The Undead
The Outlaw Demon Wails
For a Few Demons More
Peter & Max Fables

Everything in hardcover of course. I hate paperback for the most part

[raito20]

A new edition of Human, All Too Human.
The Schopenhauer Cure.

[Nano]

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapiits, a comic strip story not unlike Maus.

[Anamin]

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapiits, a comic strip story not unlike Maus.

I liked the movie; it was pretty boss.

[Tzui]

Bought Catch-22 and Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man [both by Joseph Heller] for my author study in English.

[lister]

i have the book catch 22

the last book bought is abou technology and the evolution of it

pretty interesting

[Stafal-chan]

Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Caros Ruiz Zafon is one of my favorites authors. The setting is the same as his last novel, The Shadow of the Wind so I can't wait to see how they may tie together. ^_^

[mooseegg1982]

The Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy collection. It was on clearance for $1 for all the books. Can't beat that.

[Lonelytylenol]

Year of the Flood-Margaret Atwood.
Pretty good.

[neiru_3]

Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
Boogiepop at Dawn by Kouhei Kadono

[goddessofanime]

Up in the Air
Spice and Wolf

[Woooh]

New Wheel of Time. It is awesome.

[Scandiadream]

Going Rogue by Sarah Palin :D

[Tzui]

Got these for Christmas:
The 39 Clues: In Too Deep
The TIme Travelers
The Time Theif

[Sora N]

I got these for Christmas from TalaRain:

“Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss” by Rachelle Mead
And a replacement Hardback “Twilight” book by Stephenie Meyer (my first copy got damaged.)

[DazzleKitty]

Written in Bone by Simon Beckett
Hard Truth by Nevada Barr
High Country by Nevada Barr

[Mizumi]

I got MJ's autobiography "Moonwalk" a few weeks ago, great read so far.

[Clayton]

Steven Brust just released a new Taltos novel!

[DeathlyMoonGoddess]

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
The Book of Grimm Fairy tales

I love Peter Pan so far~

[TalaRain]

Battle Scars by Meghan O’Brien
Thief of Always by Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou

[Anamin]

Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson.

[Gaming_Bum]

The Final empire by Brandon Sanderson

[Tom Servo]

Recently picked up a really nice hardcover of The Story of Art by Gombrich for cheap.

[Illusions-chan]

A leather-bound collection of Jane Austen novels. Oh the romantic in me is in such ecstasy! :heart:

[kenshinbebop]

My last trip to Borders consisted of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Soft Machine, and a bargain bin collection of M.C. Escher paintings.

[CheechMonger]

From my last trip to Borders: The Van Rijn Method by Poul Anderson and A Sense of Infinity by Howard L. Myers.

[kenshinbebop]

Just got back from the bookstore. Picked up Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction by J.D. Salinger, and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

[goddessofanime]

Ordered Dead and Gone today from A-.com

*latest Sookie Stackhouse book

[Gaming_Bum]

I got a bunch of books on my Nook, about 36 books. lol most of them were free

Red Seas Under Red Skies
Sookie Stackhouse (the first 8 volumes)
A bunch of classic books (count of monte cristo, sherlock holmes, alice in wonderland, hunchback of notre dame, etc etc)

[EtoMiyako]

Selbuvotter, it's a knitting book. It has mostly mittens with pictures on them. I love it. I haven't made anything from it yet but I love it!

[Gaming_Bum]

a game of thrones by George R.R. Martin, I got it for a $1.90 on ebook at barnes&noble.com

[Clayton]

I have the new Kitty Norville book coming. Later I'm getting the new Dresden Novel and the new Emily the Strange book Stranger and Stranger

[DazzleKitty]

Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman

[old hat]

The first House of Night book

Someone I know said it was good and it was only $2.99 for the Nook.

[Kizoku Keenan]

Under the dome - Stephen King

[Meggles]

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Junot Díaz
A Philip K **** compilation that includes Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Ubik.

[Tzui]

Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eleventh Grade Burns
The 39 Clues: The Viper's Nest