What was the last book you bought?

kincsem · 08-03-2011 12:43PM

Bobby Robson, My Autobiography, Farewell but not Goodbye.

I bought it 15 minutes ago for €4.

bonzodog2 · 08-03-2011 01:02PM

Well I didn't buy them, but I'd recommend anything by James Lee Burke. A couple have been made into films too.

kelle · 08-03-2011 01:02PM

Cool Knits for Kids!

Danbo! · 08-03-2011 01:07PM

5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides)

Bought last week and the ****er hasnt been dispatched yet.

Mr. Presentable · 08-03-2011 01:09PM

The Gallic Wars - Julius Caesar

pickarooney · 08-03-2011 01:24PM

At Swim Two Birds - Flann O'Brien, plus a load of Dr. Seuss (not for me, but actually pretty much for me).

ScumLord · 08-03-2011 01:27PM

Adobe After Effects CS5 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques.

All I buy these days are reference books, I don't see the point in going to the bother of reading unless I'm learning something.

Danbo! · 08-03-2011 01:35PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Adobe After Effects CS5 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques.

All I buy these days are reference books, I don't see the point in going to the bother of reading unless I'm learning something.

Any use? Been looking for a decent AE book

ScumLord · 08-03-2011 01:40PM

Danbo! wrote: »

Any use? Been looking for a decent AE book

Yeah it's not to bad, I haven't been able to go through it all to busy, stopped at keying but even that chapters an improvement on other books, goes into much more advanced keying processes (that take much longer but..) not a step by step book either so you'll need to know the basics. It's written by the guy that worked on avatar.

Opinicus · 08-03-2011 02:08PM

NothingMan wrote: »

Book 12 of The Wheel of Time series when it finally came out in paperback. Currently reading book 13 but I acquired it on my phone. The paperback version isn't out til October and I will add it to my collection then.

Read the wheel of time up to book 8. Myself and a friend used to buy every second one and share them back in secondary school. Jordan really pissed me off though, I remember saying

"This Jordan fecker is really milking it for all it's worth, FFS the first 3 chapters are about the wind passing over tamriel, mark my words it's going to be funny when he drops dead without finishing the series!"

I could be the next Joe Coleman (for literary purposes anyway).

Crimbouser · 08-03-2011 03:09PM

Got housekeeping by marilynne robinson in my favourite haunt for books-the charity shop. Has to be said that i, ahem, tend to disinfect them all as i've found pages with what looks like goo caked in. Not ocd or anything, honest! Awesome book though. And she's written home and gilead (two classics) as well.

Saila · 08-03-2011 03:16PM

bear gryll's autobiography, Ive only skimmed it though havent read it yet, before that probably its 'not about the bike' by LA

paul75 · 08-03-2011 03:27PM

On a John Steinbeck buzz at the moment. Just finished "The Grapes of Wrath" - absolute quality. Read "East of Eden" a while back and also brilliant. Thinking of getting "A Russian Journal" next.
Has anybody read pubes?

bonerm · 08-03-2011 03:34PM

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

(Nobody tells me what to do!)

Ghetto Cornetto · 08-03-2011 03:37PM

Burton on Burton - Mark Salisbury & Tim Burton.

3 bills in HMV, bought it mainly for the sections about Batman.

Sykk · 08-03-2011 03:38PM

Stephen Hawking - Universe in a Nutshell

blaze1 · 08-03-2011 03:40PM

Forest Griffin Got Fight...

Seriously good book

pragmatic1 · 08-03-2011 03:41PM

Christopher Hitchens-Hitch 22

filthymcnasty · 08-03-2011 03:45PM

Keith Richards 'Life'.
Got it for 14eu in HMV (28 in easons)
Anyway, its good

ishvalian · 08-03-2011 04:04PM

Schaums outlines: Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists. It's amazing how much you forget in 2 years.

Einhard · 08-03-2011 04:08PM

Battle Cry for Freedom by James M. McPherson. 'Tis about the American Civil War. Was flying through it until I got a tad inebriated on Sunday and haven't been able to see straight since!!

Burning Eclipse · 08-03-2011 04:21PM

Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry.

I'm really enjoying it. His 'way with words' is amazing and aside from that it's a great story of a child's insecurity and their ways of dealing with it, among other things.

positron · 08-03-2011 04:22PM

At Home: Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson. Brilliant read!

stovelid · 08-03-2011 04:25PM

England Dreaming revised edition) by Jon Savage

Warhol Biogrpahy (anniversary edition) by Victor Bokris

Had read both of the above before but wanted the new editions.

Metromarxism by Andy Merrifield

Tar.Aldarion · 08-03-2011 04:43PM

Dust of dreams.

I have four books I want to buy at the moment!

jester77 · 08-03-2011 04:52PM

Was given it, but anyway, David Anderson's Kanban

sensibleken · 08-03-2011 05:12PM

Just finished 'To hell or Barbados' by Sean O'Callaghan about Irish slaves and indentured servants in barbados. Seriously good

Sofaspud · 08-03-2011 05:18PM

Bought Catcher In The Rye last week, halfway through it and I haven't turned into a serial killer yet.

whiteboy · 08-03-2011 05:57PM

Sofaspud wrote: »

Bought Catcher In The Rye last week, halfway through it and I haven't turned into a serial killer yet.

I've read that book about three times, very good

Odysseus · 08-03-2011 06:02PM

Sofaspud wrote: »

Bought Catcher In The Rye last week, halfway through it and I haven't turned into a serial killer yet.

It's only when you finish the last page that you retroactively become a psychopath.

What was the last book you bought?

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