Well, for ten dollars I’ve added to the books-to-be-read pile:
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier (for sentimental reasons)
Paradise Lost by John Milton
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Herzog by Saul Bellow.
Four of these were on my amazon.com list, and all of the others were either something I’d wanted to read or were by authors I wanted to read though the particular novel might not be my first choice (was looking for Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Joyce’s Ulysses). I was really hoping to find something by Virginia Woolf but no such luck. As far as McCarthy, I found none (besides I have about six of them already) and no Marquez or more Vonnegut. Did see some Steinbeck and Faulkner, but I’ve read two or three of each of their’s already. There is no doubt that if I had had my checkbook with me or more cash, I’d have brought home a much larger collection.
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