What was the last book you bought?

Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut

 

South West Africa by Ruth First.

 

Academy Zappa: Proceedings of the First International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology, edited by Esther Leslie and Ben Watson.

 

One Hundred Years of Solitude....

 

Automated Alice - Jeff Noon

 

The Essence of Tao - Pamela Ball

 

last book i bought was a graphic novel called preacher. it's amazing. I usually borrow books though. last book i borrowed was tortilla flats by steinbeck.

 

ooh i've heard the Preacher series is really good. i may have read one or two of them myself, but honestly don't remember. i do vaguely recall that this was supposed to be turned into a film though, like they did Sin City and 300.

 

it is amazing. It's like one of the most amazing things i've ever read. Garth Ennis is amazing. There making it into a series (which will work out much better than a movie) on HBO here in the states. i don't know where they'll air it in england though. Ennis said he has written some new material for it. I'm almost done with the series and I'm very impressed. I didn't think comics could be so deep, yet entertaining.

 

i just bought myself the penguin popular classics editions of wuthering heights, frankenstein, dracula and the picture of dorian gray. i think i already have them but the editions are only two quid, a funky green colour and i can scribble all over them when i'm doing gothic genre analysis in english.

did i mention the funky green colour?

 

a 1941 hardback copy of Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass

 

ooo sounds pretty! :biggrin: how much did that cost you?

ordered hero with a thousand faces by joseph campbell, the myth of sisyphus (which i always misspell and never know how to pronounce) by albert camus, and this is your brain on music...by someone.. as a spontaneous present.

 

the monk who sold his ferrari

 

A first edition of Yukio Mishima's Madame de Sade. It's worth about $100 and I got it off eBay for £5.

 

think it was about £7 with postage ... can't remember and has been too long to look back in ebay history


at the boot sale Sunday i bought "The Naming of the Dead" by Ian Rankin as I needed a detective/dark fix ... and "The Tristan Betrayal" by Robert Ludlum

 

On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac

 

Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band and the Basement Tapes

Sid Griffin.

Seems there never was a "basement", they should have been called the Garage Tapes

 

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus by Gilbert Shelton, signed by the author.

So am I the only one still buying books???

 

come on kids, it's the start of term, some of you must be buying books. or do you plan to crib it all off the internet?

 

My textbooks
Thrilling huh?