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Old 10-15-2008, 09:12 AM   #1
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What Did YOU buy during Fictionwise's $700 Billion Dollar Bailout Sale?

Give us your list of what you bought during the "Bailout Sale" from Fictionwise.

I'm back to my first love: Literature.

I've been reading some wonderful, happy trash lately (and loving it!), but thought I'd use the Fictionwise 50% off sale to pick up some titles from my favorite writers.

Here's my list:

1. The Falls – Joyce Carol Oates
2. The Last Detective [an Elvs Cole novel] – Robert Crais
3. My Sister, My Love – Joyce Carol Oates
4. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
5. Sexus – Henry Miller
6. Plexus – Henry Miller
7. Nexus – Henry Miller
8. The Royal Family – William T. Vollmann


Vollmann's novel, as a hardback, is a huge tome. I’m a big fan of his writing. He’s a difficult and challenging writer. [I’m hoping he’ll win the Nobel Prize in Literature.]

I read Miller’sRosy Crucifixion Trilogy” [Sexus, Plexus, Nexus] when I was in my 20s. I’m a huge fan of Miller.

I collect First Editions of Joyce Carol Oates. [I’m hoping she, too, will eventually win the Nobel Prize in Literature.]

I had heard a lot about Robert Crais, all very good things. Because I enjoy noir fiction, I bought one of his books to cure my ignorance.

I read Franzen'sThe Corrections” when it first came out, but want to read it again. Unfortunately, my First Edition is in storage in the U.S.A.

I may buy one or two more titles before the end of the sale.

Post your list so that we can comment upon your good taste in reading.

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