I just got 'Thunderball' by Ian Fleming!!

WOOOP!

I hate you. I hate you so much.

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...

urk. That reminds me, I've still not reviewed the one they sent me about six months ago. It was quite good too.

I got Aristotle's Ethics.

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I pity you. I had to read that for one of my seminary classes. *shudder*

Yet again, I curse the fact that I do not live in the UK. *sigh*

Nor does Kirk, does he?

He appears to have signed up successfully...

I got Live My Life. Have no idea who it's by.

Me either... Mat got Nabukov. Jammy git.

I got The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems byt Kalidasa.

LMAO - I got "Classical Comedy".

Ohhhh boy.

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!

Nabokov's Ada Or Ardor

Which is a SF book about fucking, apparently.

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.

*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.

One of the reasons I didn't sign up. Knowing my luck, it'll be some awful drivel.

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 :)

I gots Plays Extravagent.....Three plays by Shaw...

*bes smug*

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!

¡Hola!
I signed up for this project (& this community) on the recommendation of m'good friend 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!

Your book is: Selected Poems:Tennyson

Yes! One of the Romantic poets I don't already own stuff by. :)

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.)

I got.. "The Collected Letters". Yeah, whose? No idea. Will be fun to receive and find out!

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!