'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

InaPickle

jintyb wrote: »

Just noticed this thread, and cant believe I've not stumbled over it before! Please can I join? Happy Reading all!

Don't ask, just join in!

And as for 'My Sister's Keeper', I liked it a lot (I was doing a big, fat translation on preimplantation genetic diagnosis at the time so it struck a chord), but I wasn't too keen on the ending: let me know what you think - I won't say any more in case I ruin it for you.

InaPickle

Darkphaery wrote: »

Hi everyone, i hope i'm not too late to join. I've been 'not' buying books since the new year, i set myself the challenge of going a whole year without buying books...although i do have a few exceptions, i am allowed to accept and give them as gifts, i am allowed to use birthday money to buy books and i live quite near one of Europe's largest 2nd hand book shops which operates a bartering system so when i have a bag ful i take them there and get 'credit' on my account...so technically it's not buying. These are my rules and so far (52 days in) all is going well

That bookshop sounds ace: where is it and what is it called?

InaPickle

terryw wrote: »

May I may be a PITA and intrude upon the thread with a little quiz that I have devised for my chums at the local Literary and Philosophical Debating Society (aka my local)?

:rotfl: My local pub just got renamed! :rotfl:

Infidel

I'm guilty of this :silenced:.

Though I do let other people read them, so it's not all bad.

niccatw

Darkphaery wrote: »

... i live quite near one of Europe's largest 2nd hand book shops which operates a bartering system so when i have a bag ful i take them there and get 'credit' on my account...so technically it's not buying.

InaPickle wrote: »

That bookshop sounds ace: where is it and what is it called?

http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/

Is it this one? If so, I'm sooooooooo jealous!!!! But then, I'd probably never manage this challenge (even with the bartering!) I imagine it's a real-life version of Blackbooks

solventsoon

Darkphaery wrote: »

1. Jonathan Harker BRAM STOKERS DRACULA

2. Philip Pirrip GREAT EXPECTATIONS

3. Ishmael

4. Endeavour ? MORSE

5. Leopold Bloom ULYSSES

6. Atticus Finch TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD

7. Holden Caulfield CATHER IN THE RYE

8. Piggy LORD OF THE FLIES

9. Winston Smith 1984

10. Jim Hawkins TREASURE ISLAND

11. Andy Dufresne SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

12. Laura Timmins Lark Rise to Candleford?

13. Richard Dadier

14. Steve Carella 87TH PRECINCT

15. Richard Hannay

16. Inspector Alan Grant

17. Guy Montag FARENHEIT 451

18. Bill Masen DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

19. Phileas Fogg AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

20. JACK REACHER LEE CHILD'S BOOKS

Well i got some, stuck on the others though

Hi all,
That seems to be the only one left - is that right terryw, have a vague memory from being forced to read the book at school - I hated it...

Hope you enjoy "The Subtle Knife" Tete en l'Air (love your name, btw). I preferred that to the first one and the third one was even better - happy reading!

We've also got a massive second hand bookshop near to us - I try to avoid it but I do sometimes get mysteriously drawn there by some unseen hand and end up staggering out clutching books that I have no memory of buying (strange that...)

Finished "The Private Patient" and now engrossed in Barack Obama's book that I started reading last year and then lost amongst all the other books. Just found it again and my lovely bookmark which I also lost as it was in the book! I have to declutter........

HyperAngelKaeverak

I've got tons of books piled up, Right now I've been on a bit of a dawkin's binge

carolbee

not really - but if we did, we could go to Hay on Wye!!!

there is a large second hand bookshop in Rochester, Kent tool

terryw

solventsoon wrote: »

Hi all,
That seems to be the only one left - is that right terryw, have a vague memory from being forced to read the book at school - I hated it...

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When I was at school (this was shortly after the Romans left Britain) we studied Lark Rise for GCSE. As a sixteen year old lad I felt a bit guilty that I loved it!

For the benefit of younger readers of this thread, GCSE was an examination where you had to know all the content and and do it without any help from parents or the internet. Quite an antiquated concept really.

We are just waiting for Inspector Alan Grant. It really is a smashing read. A small clue - Colin Dexter's "The Wench is Dead" is probably a homage to this novel.

lilian1977

Just finished The Solitude of Prime Numbers - it fell down a little in the middle but redeemed itself by the end. Wonderful. Can't wait to see what else Giordano does.

Probably going to start Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka today. I loved A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian so hope it's as good!