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Deities and Demons of the Far East (Myths of the World) by Brian P Katz
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First Love by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
The New Penguin Factfinder by David Crystal
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Library873 books — see library
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TagsFiction (545), Translated (284), 1001 (257), 2007 (203), Classic (187), Western Canon (167), British (162), French (147), Philosophy (110), American (96) — see all tags
Groups1001 Books to read before you die, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Brits, Ethical Theory, Existentialism, French Connection, French literature, 19th & 20th century, Geeks who love the Classics, Graduate Students, Happy Heathens — show all groups
Favorite authorsPaul Auster, Honoré de Balzac, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Umberto Eco, John Fowles, Andre Gide, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, Hermann Hesse, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Franz Kafka, Immanuel Kant, Choderlos De Laclos, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, David Mitchell, Moliere, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Victor Pelevin, Georges Perec, Marcel Proust, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shakespeare, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Suskind, Jonathan Swift, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Voltaire, Emile Zola (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresBorders Birmingham, Oxfam Bookshop, Waterstone's, Waterstone's Birmingham High Street, Waterstone's Birmingham New Street
Favorite librariesAcocks Green Library, Birmingham Central Library, Knowle Library, Olton Library, Selly Oak Library, Solihull Central Library
About me International Studies/ Global Ethics Grad Student.
Interested in Ethics, Philosophy and Political Theory.
'It must be supposed that reading was one of his morbid habits, as he fell upon everything that came into his hands with equal avidity...' (Chekhov, Ward No. 6, 1892)
About my library Enjoy 'Classic' fiction, particularly French and German.
Current favourites are Hesse (Siddhartha), Zola (L'Assommoir), Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo), Balzac (Cousin Bette, The Black Sheep, Old Goriot).
Modern favourites are The Unconsoled by Ishiguro, Perfume by Suskind, Lolita by Nabokov.
Also working my way through the 1001 Books List (nowhere near completed).
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Member sinceDec 11, 2006
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posted by VictoriaPL at 11:21 am (EST) on Feb 28, 2008
I love Balzac too (the real one)
I see we have a lot of books in common, most of them are amongst my favorite ones (sorry for my english)
I hope you'll manage to read your 12 books / month, I wish I could do so...
Cheers, and Vive Balzac !
posted by R2F at 3:18 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2007
Thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries list. I love your collection of Penguin Black paperbacks! I also noticed that you have almost twice as many 1001 books as I do, which reminds me; the Christmas wish list is due any day now.
Anna
posted by desideo at 4:05 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2007
posted by CandySchultz at 5:29 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2007
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