What Books Have You Bought Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

Yeah. Added some more history books to reading pile. I read so many comics that I really have to make time to read books on my other interests.
I have to grab anything to do with The Crusades and the Knights Templar in particular.

The Forgotten Voices range of books are recommended reading if anyone is interested in WWII. The last one I read was the D-Day book.
This one on The Holocaust is going to be horrific reading but I have been looking at it for a long while.

Now all I need is about a year off to read everything.

You should get yourself off on a Ledger Normandy Battlefields tour, Dave.

Completely brilliant, and oh so tiring.

[MuckyFunster]

Finally!!

I've never read the comic strip before but I'm a long time fan of the movies, and Barry Humphries in general. Looking forward to reading this one.

[J Harker]

Picked this up in HMV this afternoon.

Despite the school reading book cover its actually a rather decent collection of Washington Irvings work.

[MuckyFunster]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Picked this up in HMV this afternoon.

Despite the school reading book cover its actually a rather decent collection of Washington Irvings work.

I seen this is HMV the other day there. A great big behemoth of a book! I'm sure I read Sleepy Hollow at school and is quite a short story...? Have they just named that on the cover as it's the most well known? I don't really know much of Washington Irving.


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[J Harker]

Originally Posted by MuckyFunster

I seen this is HMV the other day there. A great big behemoth of a book! I'm sure I read Sleepy Hollow at school and is quite a short story...? Have they just named that on the cover as it's the most well known? I don't really know much of Washington Irving.


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I don't know a great deal about his work. I think Sleep Hollow is easily his most famous story and I'm guessing this is instore to tie in with halloween. But yes it is a decent size tome 872 pages, comprising three books with a total of 80-something short stories.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I don't know a great deal about his work. I think Sleep Hollow is easily his most famous story and I'm guessing this is instore to tie in with halloween. But yes it is a decent size tome 872 pages, comprising three books with a total of 80-something short stories.

I've never read anything by Irvine.

Is Sleepy Hollow his only supernatural tale or is the book full of them?

I have a £20 Waterstones card still so it might be something to spend it on.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I've never read anything by Irvine.

Is Sleepy Hollow his only supernatural tale or is the book full of them?

I have a £20 Waterstones card still so it might be something to spend it on.

I'm not sure but i think supernatural/weird fiction only made up a small portion of his work. I really don't know that much about him but for £9.99 i thought it worth a punt.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I'm not sure but i think supernatural/weird fiction only made up a small portion of his work. I really don't know that much about him but for £9.99 i thought it worth a punt.

Have you not looked at the contents or read the sleeve notes yet?

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Have you not looked at the contents or read the sleeve notes yet?

Yes. Neither really give much away. The sleeve notes focus on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which only actually takes up 25 pages out of 862. The table of contents obviously gives the names of the various tales included and while a few appear to allude to the supernatural or extraordinary, i have no real way of knowing until i read further. There is an introduction that suggests many of the stories are sketches and observations on life in general. But that supernatural horror is a theme to which Irving would return throughout his career. He is likened a few times to James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Yes. Neither really give much away. The sleeve notes focus on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which only actually takes up 25 pages out of 862.

Wow!!

At 25 pages I'm sure i can find it online to read.