I bought the Bollingen series of Dante's Divine Comedy, the one where each of the three cantos is published in two volumes with the original Italian and an English translation in the first volume and MASSIVE commentary in the second. I'll get around to reading that shortly.
I thought there were dozens of cantos between the three sections of the book, or am I confusing terms here? Is that collection available online for under a few hundred? I'd like a nice set like that sometime, once my Italian is a bit better than the poor, crude state it currently is in.
I also bought books that should be arriving ANY DAY now from the Folio Society:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Spanish Inquisition
The Authentic Gospel of Jesus
The Campaigns of Napoleon
The last one is one that I actually have, but the book is just too big for one volume and the Folio Society edition is three volumes with extra colour illustrations.
Additionally, I got a trashy Russian novel that is a fictionalised account of the Putin-Medvedev power struggle called The Virtuoso.
That's all, I think.
I thought there were dozens of cantos between the three sections of the book, or am I confusing terms here? Is that collection available online for under a few hundred? I'd like a nice set like that sometime, once my Italian is a bit better than the poor, crude state it currently is in.
I also bought books that should be arriving ANY DAY now from the Folio Society:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Spanish Inquisition
The Authentic Gospel of Jesus
The Campaigns of Napoleon
The last one is one that I actually have, but the book is just too big for one volume and the Folio Society edition is three volumes with extra colour illustrations.
Additionally, I got a trashy Russian novel that is a fictionalised account of the Putin-Medvedev power struggle called The Virtuoso.
That's all, I think.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
What books have you bought/received recently?
28/09/2009 12:18:11 AM
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I bought Anathem by Neal Stephenson a couple of weeks ago.
28/09/2009 12:21:43 AM
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I read almost all of it on Inaugural Day this year while waiting to see the doctor
28/09/2009 12:22:57 AM
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That's good news.
28/09/2009 02:53:25 AM
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Snow Crash or Quicksilver
28/09/2009 03:02:58 AM
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Re: What books have you bought/received recently? EDIT
28/09/2009 12:52:17 AM
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I read/enjoyed the Erikson books as separate limited-editions *NM*
28/09/2009 01:36:29 AM
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The combined set was on sale...
28/09/2009 02:05:26 AM
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Yeah, I probably would have bought that edition if I hadn't spent the money on the vols. years ago
28/09/2009 03:05:50 AM
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I finally found "The Little Prince". My mom had bought it at a garage sale and I remembered that you
28/09/2009 01:09:18 AM
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Tigana, by GGK *NM*
28/09/2009 02:39:19 AM
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Recently?
28/09/2009 02:55:17 AM
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Cantos? *NM*
28/09/2009 03:04:55 AM
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Okay. Be pendantic. Cantiche. You know what I meant. *NM*
28/09/2009 04:24:23 AM
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Actually, I was uncertain
28/09/2009 04:43:11 AM
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Each of the sections in a cantica are called a canto. However...
28/09/2009 05:28:10 AM
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Thanks for clearing that up with me
28/09/2009 07:18:01 AM
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It does not appear to be available in an online or Kindle version.
28/09/2009 03:59:33 PM
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Ordered the portrait of mrs. charbuque, though I've yet to receive it.
28/09/2009 03:02:02 AM
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I've not bought any recently and am waiting on a couple in the post.
28/09/2009 05:33:34 PM
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Want another in the "post?"
28/09/2009 06:57:31 PM
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Oooh. Yes please. ^__^
28/09/2009 08:43:58 PM
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Yes, yes she does need to borrow something
28/09/2009 11:10:05 PM
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You mean the present you bought me with my money?
29/09/2009 12:03:54 AM
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Ooh, I actually bought one a few days ago! (That rarely happens.)
29/09/2009 06:00:29 AM
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I got an ARC of Servant of a Dark God by John Brown, but that's the only thing this month. *NM*
29/09/2009 08:29:35 AM
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