What Books Have You Recently Purchased? - Page 5

jillio · 03-27-2008, 04:30 PM

Just purchased a pleasure read. (The first one in about a year...money all goes to text books and references!

) But I'm on break and treating myself. Bought The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt because I loved his first novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Now I won't get anything done until I finish the book!

AquaBlue · 03-28-2008, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by AquaBlue

I just finished that one. I am now reading the classic:

Early in my reading of this novel I must say that it appears to be one of the finest books I have read this year. Fantatic!

AquaBlue · 03-29-2008, 05:44 PM

Sadly I must give Oliver Sacks Seeing Voices a thunbs (way) down. I did not like this book at all. I did not gain any insights on Def culture. It was very poorly writen and the author was neither a deaf/hoh or student of Deaf culture which might of been the reason for this bad book. I do not recommend it.

moonflower · 03-29-2008, 06:02 PM

really interesting AB that is good what you have viewed of forms of sign language being used smile

for me i wanted to buy book called doh't let emotions run your life bye Scott E. Spradlin, MA

AquaBlue · 03-31-2008, 02:24 PM

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner

jillio · 03-31-2008, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by AquaBlue

Sadly I must give Oliver Sacks Seeing Voices a thunbs (way) down. I did not like this book at all. I did not gain any insights on Def culture. It was very poorly writen and the author was neither a deaf/hoh or student of Deaf culture which might of been the reason for this bad book. I do not recommend it.

Gotta disagree with you on this one. Sacks is one of the few medical practitioners who does not hold to the medical model of pathology as applied to deafness. I found him to be consistent in viewing the deaf individual from a contextual standpoint. Likewise, his notations on deaf history and his interpretations of such are right on target. Coming from a neurologist, he offers various insights as to the biological reasons that sign is a more natural language for the deaf.

Likewise, Sacks is one of the most respected and innovative medical practitioners of this century. His innovative treatments are celbrated worldwide. I not only found his book toi be insightful, it has served as a useful reference for me in research design.

Kangaroo · 03-31-2008, 10:52 PM

"My Steve" by Terri Irwin.

Was given this for Christmas. A fantastic read.

Kangaroo

AquaBlue · 04-05-2008, 03:50 PM

Pincher Martin by William Golding
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

steph9700 · 04-07-2008, 02:46 PM

"The Vampire Memoirs"
by: Mara McCuniff & Tracy Briery

"Vampire$"
by: John Steakley

"Bite", "Night In The Lonesome October", "To Wake The Dead"
by Richard Laymon

most of the books I read are written by women so I thought I would even it out a bit by getting a few guy authors at the local new and used bookstore.
yes most of my books are about vampires but what the hey, a girls got to have hobbies right?

AquaBlue · 04-07-2008, 07:10 PM

I just checked out two ASL books from the library. They are:

Conversational Sign Language II by Willard J. Madsen
Introduction to American Sign Language by Harry W. Hoemann

AquaBlue · 04-09-2008, 02:52 PM

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

I also purchased several non-fictions books- from home remedies to English text books.

AquaBlue · 04-17-2008, 08:40 PM

Celestial Railroad and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

jillio · 04-21-2008, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by steph9700

"The Vampire Memoirs"
by: Mara McCuniff & Tracy Briery

"Vampire$"
by: John Steakley

"Bite", "Night In The Lonesome October", "To Wake The Dead"
by Richard Laymon

most of the books I read are written by women so I thought I would even it out a bit by getting a few guy authors at the local new and used bookstore.
yes most of my books are about vampires but what the hey, a girls got to have hobbies right?

Have you read "The Fat White Vqampire Blues" and "Bride of the Fat White Vampire"?

AquaBlue · 04-21-2008, 10:07 PM

I understand that Patricia Briggs does some good vampire (werewolves mostly) fiction .

steph9700 · 04-21-2008, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by jillio

Have you read "The Fat White Vqampire Blues" and "Bride of the Fat White Vampire"?

haven't heard of them before, do you know the name of the author? I will ask Deb if she has a copy of them and if she doesn't I'll get her to post it on her computer that if she gets them in to call me. she has a really cool tracking software system on her computer. whatever new or used books come in that a person has requested that is logged in as being sold to her or traded to her, the computer alerts her to call the person on the top of the list that has requested that title. also when you buy books from her it logs what you've bought and keeps a record of it so just in case you forget you've bought it, it will tell her to remind you that you got it already. pretty cool! and she is an awesome person to deal with.

kazumi · 04-22-2008, 12:19 AM

i just purchased the new guide book for one game called Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 ^^

AquaBlue · 04-24-2008, 02:28 PM

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
Answered Prayers by Truman Capote

dWrite · 04-24-2008, 02:34 PM

Just recently I bought "A Witch's 10 Commandments" by Marian Singer.

It's a really great book...

jillio · 04-24-2008, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by steph9700

haven't heard of them before, do you know the name of the author? I will ask Deb if she has a copy of them and if she doesn't I'll get her to post it on her computer that if she gets them in to call me. she has a really cool tracking software system on her computer. whatever new or used books come in that a person has requested that is logged in as being sold to her or traded to her, the computer alerts her to call the person on the top of the list that has requested that title. also when you buy books from her it logs what you've bought and keeps a record of it so just in case you forget you've bought it, it will tell her to remind you that you got it already. pretty cool! and she is an awesome person to deal with.

I can't remember the author, but I found them through interlibrary loan using the title. A friend reccommended them to me.

What a cool software program. I haven't seen it!

dr benway · 04-28-2008, 12:10 PM

'the portable poe'...a collection of edgar allan poe's tales and poems...1968 edition

bought it a couple of days ago...

AjSaylor · 04-30-2008, 10:42 PM

I bought "Greatest American Essays of the 20th Century", and "Greatest Short Stories of 20th Cent". Some therapy books.... I'm going to read Obama's book and I want some kind of clinical case studies in Abnormal Psychology. Naybe I'll have time to finish Stephen King's "Duma Key" ( I bought it on the day it was released but didn't have any time to read it) and Im finishing King's Short Story collection "Everything's Eventual"

Bottesini · 04-30-2008, 11:34 PM

Mr. Monk in Outer Space by Lee Goldberg

AquaBlue · 05-02-2008, 03:34 AM

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

jillio · 05-02-2008, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by AjSaylor

I bought "Greatest American Essays of the 20th Century", and "Greatest Short Stories of 20th Cent". Some therapy books.... I'm going to read Obama's book and I want some kind of clinical case studies in Abnormal Psychology. Naybe I'll have time to finish Stephen King's "Duma Key" ( I bought it on the day it was released but didn't have any time to read it) and Im finishing King's Short Story collection "Everything's Eventual"

For clinical case studies, I would suggest Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irving Yalom. He is a practitioner that uses the exitential theory, and is a collection of actual cases he has treated.

AlleyCat · 05-02-2008, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by AquaBlue

Sadly I must give Oliver Sacks Seeing Voices a thunbs (way) down. I did not like this book at all. I did not gain any insights on Def culture. It was very poorly writen and the author was neither a deaf/hoh or student of Deaf culture which might of been the reason for this bad book. I do not recommend it.

I have to agree with Jillio on this one -- of what she said in a post one or two after yours, AB. Not only because of what Jillio said, but because I myself am deaf and am immersed in deaf culture so those of us who are immersed in deaf culture might understand this book more than someone who is not. Just my 2 cents.

dr benway · 05-03-2008, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by AquaBlue

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

you just reminded me...i need to get started on that book asap...

btw...have you read 'notes from the underground'? read it a while ago...good stuff...

katie2d · 05-03-2008, 09:37 AM

I love books. Like many of you I have all of Stephen Kings books, but no originals. It's funny, I have tons of books in my shed too. I have one book that is from 1878 and is a history book. The print is soooo small it is hard to read. Sadly, the cover is falling apart. I bought about 40 years ago at a flea market for a quarter.

AquaBlue · 05-03-2008, 09:41 PM

I have not read Notes from the Underground just yet.

Great Tales and Poems of Edger Allen Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos

NorCal20 · 05-06-2008, 07:07 AM

West of Jesus (surf book).

brought @ Barnes n Noble, under sports section: surfing.

denareiter · 05-06-2008, 12:10 PM

The Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Study Guide 2007 (been waiting for this book to come out since Office 2007 came out!)

03-27-2008, 04:30 PM	#121 (permalink)
jillio Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 32,396	Just purchased a pleasure read. (The first one in about a year...money all goes to text books and references!) But I'm on break and treating myself. Bought The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt because I loved his first novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Now I won't get anything done until I finish the book!

03-29-2008, 05:44 PM	#123 (permalink)
AquaBlue Go Away I'm Sleeping. Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,683	Sadly I must give Oliver Sacks Seeing Voices a thunbs (way) down. I did not like this book at all. I did not gain any insights on Def culture. It was very poorly writen and the author was neither a deaf/hoh or student of Deaf culture which might of been the reason for this bad book. I do not recommend it. __________________ My Facebook Reading List Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

03-31-2008, 02:24 PM	#125 (permalink)
AquaBlue Go Away I'm Sleeping. Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,683	As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Light in August by William Faulkner __________________ My Facebook Reading List Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

04-05-2008, 03:50 PM	#128 (permalink)
AquaBlue Go Away I'm Sleeping. Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,683	Pincher Martin by William Golding The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde __________________ My Facebook Reading List Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

04-07-2008, 02:46 PM	#129 (permalink)
steph9700 Rabid L.K.Hamilton Fan Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Fultondale Alabama Posts: 443	"The Vampire Memoirs" by: Mara McCuniff & Tracy Briery "Vampire$" by: John Steakley "Bite", "Night In The Lonesome October", "To Wake The Dead" by Richard Laymon most of the books I read are written by women so I thought I would even it out a bit by getting a few guy authors at the local new and used bookstore. yes most of my books are about vampires but what the hey, a girls got to have hobbies right? __________________ Stephanie... "I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No, there isn't," said Pooh humbly, “But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way." -From Winnie the Pooh

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03-29-2008, 06:02 PM	#124 (permalink)
moonflower winter is on the way jeez Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Washtenaw County, Michigan Posts: 5,742	really interesting AB that is good what you have viewed of forms of sign language being used smile for me i wanted to buy book called doh't let emotions run your life bye Scott E. Spradlin, MA

03-31-2008, 10:52 PM	#127 (permalink)
Kangaroo Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 112	"My Steve" by Terri Irwin. Was given this for Christmas. A fantastic read. Kangaroo

04-07-2008, 07:10 PM	#130 (permalink)
AquaBlue Go Away I'm Sleeping. Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,683	I just checked out two ASL books from the library. They are: Conversational Sign Language II by Willard J. Madsen Introduction to American Sign Language by Harry W. Hoemann __________________ My Facebook Reading List Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

04-09-2008, 02:52 PM	#131 (permalink)
AquaBlue Go Away I'm Sleeping. Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,683	For One More Day by Mitch Albom I also purchased several non-fictions books- from home remedies to English text books. __________________ My Facebook Reading List Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

04-17-2008, 08:40 PM	#132 (permalink)
AquaBlue Go Away I'm Sleeping. Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,683	Celestial Railroad and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne __________________ My Facebook Reading List Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

04-21-2008, 10:07 PM	#134 (permalink)
AquaBlue Go Away I'm Sleeping. Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,683	I understand that Patricia Briggs does some good vampire (werewolves mostly) fiction . __________________ My Facebook Reading List Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

04-22-2008, 12:19 AM	#136 (permalink)
kazumi Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: no where Posts: 693	i just purchased the new guide book for one game called Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 ^^ __________________

04-24-2008, 02:28 PM	#137 (permalink)
AquaBlue Go Away I'm Sleeping. Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,683	Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence Answered Prayers by Truman Capote __________________ My Facebook Reading List Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

04-24-2008, 02:34 PM	#138 (permalink)
dWrite ... The English Major ... Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 23 Blog Entries: 1	Just recently I bought "A Witch's 10 Commandments" by Marian Singer. It's a really great book... __________________ dWrite ... the deaf english major ...

04-28-2008, 12:10 PM	#140 (permalink)
dr benway Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: okiehoma... Posts: 123	'the portable poe'...a collection of edgar allan poe's tales and poems...1968 edition bought it a couple of days ago... __________________ DR. BENWAY: "Well, it’s all in the day’s work.".....He walks across the room to a medicine cabinet…. "Some fucking drug addict has cut my cocaine with Saniflush! Nurse! Send the boy out to fill this RX on the double!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6w9YHfabUU website below explains my avatar... http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Pedobear

04-30-2008, 11:34 PM	#142 (permalink)
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04-30-2008, 10:42 PM	#141 (permalink)
AjSaylor Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Briarcliff Manor, NY Posts: 11	Books I bought recently I bought "Greatest American Essays of the 20th Century", and "Greatest Short Stories of 20th Cent". Some therapy books.... I'm going to read Obama's book and I want some kind of clinical case studies in Abnormal Psychology. Naybe I'll have time to finish Stephen King's "Duma Key" ( I bought it on the day it was released but didn't have any time to read it) and Im finishing King's Short Story collection "Everything's Eventual"

05-02-2008, 03:34 AM	#143 (permalink)
AquaBlue Go Away I'm Sleeping. Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,683	No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky __________________ My Facebook Reading List Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

05-03-2008, 09:37 AM	#147 (permalink)
katie2d Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.California Posts: 193	I am so glad I found this thread. I love books. Like many of you I have all of Stephen Kings books, but no originals. It's funny, I have tons of books in my shed too. I have one book that is from 1878 and is a history book. The print is soooo small it is hard to read. Sadly, the cover is falling apart. I bought about 40 years ago at a flea market for a quarter.

05-03-2008, 09:41 PM	#148 (permalink)
AquaBlue Go Away I'm Sleeping. Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,683	I have not read Notes from the Underground just yet. Great Tales and Poems of Edger Allen Poe by Edgar Allan Poe Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos __________________ My Facebook Reading List Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

05-06-2008, 07:07 AM	#149 (permalink)
NorCal20 $up3rD0rkY :] Join Date: May 2008 Location: Golden State Posts: 3,749	West of Jesus (surf book). brought @ Barnes n Noble, under sports section: surfing.

05-06-2008, 12:10 PM	#150 (permalink)
denareiter Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Champaign, IL Posts: 2	The Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Study Guide 2007 (been waiting for this book to come out since Office 2007 came out!)

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