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If you're quick, you could get a free book from Penguin Classics, and all you have to do is promise to review it on your blog. Hurry on over to here, before they are all gone.

* crosses fingers for On Liberty *

Come on, give me Mill... Or The Trial of Lady Chatterley! That could be cool!

ETA: Oh fuck. The email arrived. Your book is: The Penguin Book Of Romantic Poetry

Not even HG Wells or Orwell? YOU BASTARDS, PENGUIN!!!!
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shishmish: Stock Images - Books[info]shishmish on May 1st, 2008 08:23 pm (UTC)
I just got 'Thunderball' by Ian Fleming!!

WOOOP!
SB: Moods - Miserable Brian :([info]miss_s_b on May 1st, 2008 08:24 pm (UTC)
I hate you. I hate you so much.
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gina allnatt[info]ginasketch on May 1st, 2008 08:26 pm (UTC)
I got "After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie" by Jean Rhys. I just read the description and it sounds like Sex and the City on Heroin.


I'm tempted to sign up for another one...
Dave[info]dakegra on May 1st, 2008 08:29 pm (UTC)
urk. That reminds me, I've still not reviewed the one they sent me about six months ago. It was quite good too.
One does not simply walk into Mordor.[info]yuxonomei on May 1st, 2008 08:30 pm (UTC)
I got Aristotle's Ethics.

Edited at 2008-05-01 08:32 pm (UTC)
Mrs. Sam Jones[info]bibliophile1887 on May 1st, 2008 08:38 pm (UTC)
I pity you. I had to read that for one of my seminary classes. *shudder*
Mrs. Sam Jones[info]bibliophile1887 on May 1st, 2008 08:42 pm (UTC)
Yet again, I curse the fact that I do not live in the UK. *sigh*
SB[info]miss_s_b on May 1st, 2008 08:50 pm (UTC)
Nor does Kirk, does he?

He appears to have signed up successfully...
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StaceyUK[info]staceyuk on May 1st, 2008 08:45 pm (UTC)
I got Live My Life. Have no idea who it's by.
SB[info]miss_s_b on May 1st, 2008 08:54 pm (UTC)
Me either... Mat got Nabukov. Jammy git.
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options3000: books[info]options3000 on May 1st, 2008 08:48 pm (UTC)
I got The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems byt Kalidasa.
meegat: Ben ohhh shit[info]meegat on May 1st, 2008 08:49 pm (UTC)
LMAO - I got "Classical Comedy".

Ohhhh boy.
bagfish[info]bagfish on May 1st, 2008 08:50 pm (UTC)
I got The Sleeper Awakens by H G Wells

"A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom."

I've never heard of this Wells book, but having enjoyed War of the Worlds (the book not the musical - although I like that too), I think I'm pretty chuffed. And I love sci-fi too.

I'm sorry, I couldn't help lol-ing at you getting Romantic Poetry, that's just really unfortunate!
SB[info]miss_s_b on May 1st, 2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
WAH! I /love/ that book!

* has a full set of Wells in hardback, inherited from her grandad *
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Mat Bowles: Laugh[info]matgb on May 1st, 2008 09:06 pm (UTC)
Nabokov's Ada Or Ardor

Which is a SF book about fucking, apparently.
bagfish[info]bagfish on May 1st, 2008 09:18 pm (UTC)
*is jealous*

I LOVE Nabakov and haven't read that one.
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Sam[info]lixa_turner on May 1st, 2008 09:33 pm (UTC)
Erm. I got: The Soul Of Man Under Socialism And Selected Critical Prose

MUCH WOE. I don't even know where to start with that one.
Sam[info]lixa_turner on May 1st, 2008 09:41 pm (UTC)
Although, looking at some of the others sent out, I suppose any Wilde book is none.
Diane: Cats someday will getz cheezburger[info]missdiane on May 1st, 2008 09:40 pm (UTC)
*points and laughs*

I was brave and gave it a go even though if I'd gotten ANY poetry book, I'd be beating my head against a wall.

I ended up with Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy.
Ozzy[info]karohemd on May 1st, 2008 09:42 pm (UTC)
One of the reasons I didn't sign up. Knowing my luck, it'll be some awful drivel.
SB: Who - Bok Tongue[info]miss_s_b on May 1st, 2008 09:56 pm (UTC)
Coward! It's supposed to be French people who are cowards, not Germans!

;P
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pinkshifter[info]pinkshifter on May 1st, 2008 09:55 pm (UTC)
I got The Upanishads Which i'd never heard of. Having just looked at it on amazon it appears to be about ancient indian texts and the foundations of hinduism. I'm looking forward to getting it :)

Dave got Little Women - which I love but hes never read :)
SB[info]miss_s_b on May 1st, 2008 09:56 pm (UTC)
YAY for free books!
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veritasema: Rocky - beautiful[info]veritasema on May 1st, 2008 10:14 pm (UTC)
I gots Plays Extravagent.....Three plays by Shaw...

*bes smug*

SB[info]miss_s_b on May 1st, 2008 10:15 pm (UTC)
I think poor old Ozzy got it worse than me...
(Anonymous) on May 1st, 2008 10:32 pm (UTC)
arghh now I have to read and review "Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors" now if that isn't a pile of polytechnic (now uni everyone avoids) wank then I'm a ladyboy who likes it rough.

I'll get you for sicking this up on me I promise!
SB: Innocent[info]miss_s_b on May 1st, 2008 10:34 pm (UTC)
You're a ladyboy who likes it rough? Can I introduce you to a friend of mine...?
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XIV_Gemina: Cuttlefish-2[info]xiv_gemina on May 1st, 2008 10:42 pm (UTC)
Bookage!
¡Hola!
I signed up for this project (& this community) on the recommendation of m'good friend [info]bagfish.

Penguin are sending me Rhinoceros; The Chairs; The Lesson.

This will be interesting, as I know sweet FA about plays, let alone ‘the theatre of the absurd’.
My familiarity with that extends only as far as having read Kafka's Metamorphosis.
Fully once.

Ha!
SB[info]miss_s_b on May 1st, 2008 10:44 pm (UTC)
Re: Bookage!
There's a few of us are going to be taken outside our comfort zones, by the looks.
Re: Bookage! - [info]xiv_gemina on May 1st, 2008 11:10 pm (UTC)
I could crush you with my voice: 5th element : diva plavalaguna[info]strangefrontier on May 1st, 2008 11:06 pm (UTC)
Your book is: Selected Poems:Tennyson

Yes! One of the Romantic poets I don't already own stuff by. :)
The Evil Atheist Your Mother Warned You About: Shiny[info]davegodfrey on May 2nd, 2008 12:24 am (UTC)
I got poetry too, in my case "Faust Pt 2."

I will probably end up regurgitating chunks of the "In Our Time" programme about it. I suggest you do the same for romantic poetry. (If there's enough of the Later Romantics in it.)
Miss Freddie: awesome[info]freddiefraggles on May 2nd, 2008 05:48 am (UTC)
I got.. "The Collected Letters". Yeah, whose? No idea. Will be fun to receive and find out!
The Lovely Samantha: literature is my boyfriend[info]norfolkian on May 2nd, 2008 07:35 am (UTC)
I've just signed up for the Penguin thing but haven't received an email. If it's a book I don't like, perhaps we could swap? I don't know if that's allowed, but I'd happily review a book of Romantic Poetry - I love that period!
The Lovely Samantha[info]norfolkian on May 2nd, 2008 07:49 am (UTC)
Ok, scrap that because I got Eugene Onegin by Pushkin! I love Pushkin!