Wow is this a dead thread or what? Bookworms are a minority in our society eh?

Coelho is a fantastic author and xavier.emir, Eleven Minutes has been on my list of books to buy for a while now. In fact, I was just at Borders and they don't have it in stock. So I bought Fifth Mountain instead. I've read most of Coelho's work and my favourites would have to be Veronika Decides To Die and The Pilgrimage. I rather like works with a slightly philosophical slant.

My recent purchases are Milan Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (read 100 Years of Solitude and thought it was brilliant).

Ah, I'd love to have a rant on the availability of good books in our local bookstores (placing special orders double or triple the price of the book!), the prices of books and the inadequacy of the websites of our local bookstores but I suppose this isn't the right place to do that

Another thing, I do a "spring cleaning" of my bookshelf every now and then and sometimes, I find that I have books that I (sadly) have to dispose of. I normally send it to thrift shops and I was thinking that if there are people here who would like those I don't mind sending them to you guy for a nominal amount just to cover the postage. It's not a sale of the book since I'd really like books to remain in the hands of book lovers. Or we could have a book swap. Anyone up for it? I'm due to do a cleaning out and once I get around to doing that, I'll post the titles here if anyone indicates interest.

This post has been edited by Blue07: Mar 29 2008, 06:01 PM