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Posted: **Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:55 am**

After successful (and countless) new DVD threads by Jack and an interesting new CD thread by Disney Guru, I have decided to strike my "what did you just buy" mark on UD.com with The New Book or Magazine Thread. If you've bought a new book or magazine, tell us right here. In a world where everybody's too lazy to read, it may not be extremely popular, but whoop-dee-doo!

Okay, I shall tell you the latest book(s) that I bought. In English Literature, we're reading this gothic play named Dr Faustus, so for the sake of education, I bought that on Amazon.co.uk along with a revision notes book.

Posted: **Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:01 am**

You beat me to this. I hate my procrastinating ways.

Posted: **Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:02 am**

I thought of doing this too, but I wasn't sure if there were many frequent readers here at UD. We'll find out, I guess!

The last book I bought (besides textbooks for college classes) was The Chronicles of Narnia about 2 weeks ago. It's a single-volume edition, containing all the seperate stories in 1 book. I've been wanting to read it before the movie came out, and for $16.99 at Costco, I couldn't pass it up.

Posted: **Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:20 am**

Following on from Joe's (Wonderlicious) thread about new books, etc. I decided to tell everyone about my newest 'book' which was also bought "for the sake of education". But my problem is: would you call a dictionnary a book?! lol! I bought the Oxford/Paravia "Il dizionario" cos I'm at uni doin Italian. Am I disqualified cos I'm not actually gonna read the dictionnary.....just look up words with it? lol! (I couldn't add any other new books cos I'm a poor student and can't afford to buy any! Haha!)

Posted: **Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:05 pm**

CherryKerry wrote:Following on from Joe's (Wonderlicious) thread about new books, etc. I decided to tell everyone about my newest 'book' which was also bought "for the sake of education". But my problem is: would you call a dictionnary a book?! lol! I bought the Oxford/Paravia "Il dizionario" cos I'm at uni doin Italian. Am I disqualified cos I'm not actually gonna read the dictionnary.....just look up words with it? lol! (I couldn't add any other new books cos I'm a poor student and can't afford to buy any! Haha!)

Well as they are normally bound together in the same way as a normal book, that does class as a book. Oh by the way, just in case you were wondering, Kerry is my unofficial sister. I conned her into joining. Now she's been swirled into the Ultimate Disney vortex!

Posted: **Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:18 pm**

I just finished reading "The Search After Hapiness" by Charlotte Bronte (written when she was just 13), and finally got my "Phantom of Manhattan" book in the mail.

Posted: **Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:09 pm**

Shopaholic & Sister...it's chick-lit, so I'll doubt most of you on the forum will be interested.

and I also bought a lot of college textbooks too!

whoo hoooooo.

Posted: **Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:15 pm**

In the last week or so I've picked up a few classics

Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemmingway

The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald

Posted: **Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:14 am**

I just bought <i>Ulysses</i> by James Joyce, but I'm a bit intimidated by its size, so I've been putting off starting it.

I am in the middle of this other really great book, though, called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 8"><i>Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality</i></a> by Donald Miller. It's an honest book about the author's journey and struggles with his faith. Good stuff!

Posted: **Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:51 am**

My recent book purchases...

Lonely Planet's The Travel Book
The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint

My recent magazines...

Entertainment Weekly (with a Bewitched movie cover)
Rolling Stone (with Gwen Stefani on the cover)
Digit
Chart (with Simple Plan...... augh.... on the cover)

That is all.

Posted: **Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:43 am**

I ordered Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Comics ($10.00) a couple days ago. I should get it by the end of the week.

Posted: **Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:35 am**

I bought a great book just yesterday:

XIII, Là où va l'indien (Where the Indian goes)

I don't really know how to describe it, google translate tells me it's kind of a "comic book" but it's really not a comedy like Garfield and stuff. It's a thriller about an ex-gangster who's amnesiac and tries to find his identity (thus falling into many traps of ex-colleagues wanting to kill him and stuff!). It's usually not my style, but I love the scenarist, Jean Van Hamme. He also did series like Largo Winch and Thorgal. XIII is apparently going to be released in English like says this Amazon.com page and is also a video game.

Posted: **Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:29 pm**

The Search Nazi strikes again!

The New Book or Magazine Thread by Wonderlicious, circa January 27 2005

Escapay

Posted: **Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:44 pm**

Year bump because of the "Search Button Nazi"

Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean
It's quite good so far, though there are a lot of sad and depressing parts. I like it a lot because it reads alot like the original book and captures the same spirit and imagery. It's basically about trouble in Neverland in the 1930s. For one thing, time is passing! It's Autumn and no longer summer. Wendy, John, and the Lost Boys have grown up, but are having nightmares about Neverland, so they decide to go back (it's quite funny how they do it). A lot has changed there because of the Autumn. Also, we find out what's happened to some of the characters and explore new parts of Neverland.

This is "the first-ever authorized sequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan," which means that the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital gave permission for this to be made unlike Peter and the Starsearchers and the sequel to that. I'm glad MovieMusicals.Net isn't here anymore to rub that whole controversy in my face again.

The Dark of the Woods: Fairy Tale for Modern Times (a collection)
Haven't read this one yet, but the title seems pretty self explanatory. Gregory Maguire (author of Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister) contributed a story to this collection.

Some less exciting new books from last fall:
Organic Chemistry (Special Rutgers Edition) by Vollhardt and Schore
Environmental Politics: Domestic and Global Dimensions by Jacqueline Vaughn
Classical Myth by Barry Powell
Three books of Greek Plays which I can't remember

Posted: **Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:07 pm**

The Rising: Antichrist is Born - Before They Were Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

-Aaron

Posted: **Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:01 am**

I got my book that I ordered a while ago last night. It's pretty interesting so far.

Posted: **Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:23 am**

I got an Biology book for my "Abitur" (the final exam before graduation in Germany) yesterday, so nothin really exciting, except you like talking about genes and chromosomes.

Posted: **Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:55 am**

Recently finished "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory MaGuire

- I thought this book was great, the story, plot, outcome.. Almost makes you see the movie and not like Glenda!

Currently reading "The Autobiography of Santa Claus, As told by Jeff Guinn"

- Very interesting read. I'm only a few chapters in. But it's definately pretty neat.

Posted: **Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:20 pm**

Wahoo! Today I bought the 1st three Torchwood novels (for quite a reasonable price, Smiths had a discount plus a "Buy One, Get One Half Price" offer on).

Another Life
Thick black clouds are blotting out the skies over Cardiff. As twenty-four inches of rain fall in twenty-four hours, the city centre's drainage system collapses. The capital's homeless are being murdered, their mulilated bodies lying left in the blood soaked streets around the Blaidd Drwg* nuclear facility.

Tracked down by Torchwood, the killer calmly drops eight stories to his death. But the killings don't stop. Their investigations lead Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Toshiko Sato to a monster in a bathroom, a mystery at an army base and a hunt for stolen nuclear fuel rods. Meanwhile, Owen Harper goes missing from the Hub, when a game of Second Reality leads him to an old girlfriend...

Something is coming, forcing its way through the Rift, straight into Cardiff Bay.

Border Princes
The End of the world began on a Thursday night in October, just after eight in the evening...

The Amock is driving people out of their minds, turning them into zombies and causing riots in the streets. A solitary diner leaves a Cardiff restaurant, his mission to protect the Principle leading him to a secret base beneath a water tower. Everyone has a headache; there's something in Davey Morgan's shed; and the church of St Mary-in-the-Dust, demolished in 1840, has reappeared - though its not due until 2011. Torchwood seem to be out of their depth. What will all this mean for the romance between Torchwood's newest members?

Captain Jack Harkness has something more to worry about: an alarm, an early warning, given to mankind and held - inert - by Torchwood for 108 years. And now it's flashing. Something is coming. Or is already here.

Slow Decay
When Torchwood track an energy surge to a Cardiff nightclub, the team finds the police are already at the scene. Five teenagers have died in a fight, and lying amoung the bodies is an extraterrestrial device. Next morning, they discover the corpse of a Weevil, its face and neck eaten away, seemingly by human teeth. And on the streets of Cardiff, an ordinarty woman with an extraordinary hunger is attacking people and eating her victims.

The job of a lifetime it might be, but working for Torchwood is putting big strains on Gwen's relationship with Rhys. While she decides to spice up their love life with the help of alien technology, Rhys decides its time to sort himself out - better music, healthier food, loose some weight. Luckily, a friend has mentioned Doctor Scotus's weight-loss clinic...

They should do a novel and have it set before Gwen joins, so we can have Suzie Costello as one of the team (perhaps even then, she could be secretly evil and calculating).

* Notice the link to the Doctor Who episode "Boom Town"?

I also got this months Retro Gamer magazine, which has the definitive history of the Street Fighter games inside.

Posted: **Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:28 pm**

2099net, these Torchwood novels have very nice cover art. I like it when a serie of books has a consistency throughout the art and that's very apparent here. I hope the inside is as good as the outside! (I actually have no idea what these books are so don't take that as a negative comment since it really isn't!)

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