Book Haul

[ryanitenebrae]

Used Bookstore, which I visited Saturday:

Our Town by Thurston Wilder
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
I See By My Outfit  by Peter S. Beagle
Gone With The Wind by Magaret Mitchell
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Borders this afternoon:
We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono*
The Idiot by Fyodor

Comments

[ryanitenebrae]

:P I would expect you to keep a hit numbered list of people you despise.

I'm actually very new to Russian literature, having been introduced by my friend Flaed. See, in October I asked her for book recommendations, so she sent me this awesome and very detailed list and I've been working down it, albeit slowly. I have to say, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is a book that you would probably love to a ridiculous extent. It's amazing! Satan comes to Moscow(as a polite and dapper gentleman named Woland with an intense and slightly sinister countenance) to keep the bureaucracy on its toes and shake things up a bit. There are spontaneous unbelievable magic shows! There are witches, and the most beautiful description of flight I've ever seen! There is a talking cat that drinks vodka!

Other than that, my Russian Literature amounts only to two Chekov plays (The Seagull and Three Sisters, both very good!), and Crime and Punishment, which I'm reading, and which is pretty much amazing. I'm not sure I can describe its amazing-ness properly until I finish it, because I highly doubt it has yet even realized its full amazing potential. ^^;