Book freak at Amman Book Fair
If you have not yet been to the Amman Book Fair, you are missing out on a lot of good books that are selling for cheap. I took myself today and went there, shopping for books, but I had no idea that I will bag a total of 22 books by the end of my rather shortish trip.
The fair was very organized and the crowd was not too thick as to annoy me. I was alone, which is the way I like to shop for books - alone so I can enjoy them, and touch them, and not be thought a freak. That’s a bit of wishful thinking because as I browsed through the fair with big bags full of books, unable to walk properly because they were so heavy and my hands turned red, people stared at me. I didn’t mind.
I am writing this post to encourage each and every one of you to visit the Amman Book Fair before all the good and cheap books are sold. In particular, I would recommend you visit the UBCC stand because the most expensive book there sells for JD 3. I bought 18 books from that place.
Pictures, pictures:
And here’s my new book collection :
A list of my new reading list:
- Modern British Literature – Kermode and Hollander
- The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici – Hibbert
- When in Rome – Townley
- The Sixteen Satires – Juvenal
- Crime and Punishment – Dostoyevsky
- The Jew of Malta – Marlowe
- Eugene Onegin – Pushkin
- Fontamara – Ignazio Silone
- The Illiad – Homer
- Nineteen Eighty-Four – Orwell
- Animal Farm - Orwell
- Plays – Chekhov
- Metamorphosis and other stories – Kafka
- A Doll’s House and other plays – Ibsen
- The Art of War – Sun-tzu
- The Aeneid – Virgil
- A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
- The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde – Wordsworth Editions
- Social Psychology – Aronson, Wilson, Akert
- Segni e percorsi, storia e antologia della letterature italiana (cinquecento, seicento e settecento) Vol.II – Vanalesti
- Segni e percorsi, storia e antologia della letterature italiana (ottocento) Vol III. Tomo I – Vanalesti
- Segni e percorsi, storia e antologia della letterature italiana (novecento) Vol III. Tomo II - Vanalesti
On top of all that, I got three books of my wish list as a gift from a friend ! I also bumped into Lina and spilled my heart out about the book fair “You have to go!” , and I got what I feel is a brilliant job offer.
What a day!
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September 7th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Seeeee I told ya it’s freakin’ awesome.. nice titles you’ve got there ;)
September 7th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Where!?! I must find cheap books!
September 7th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
plz wean mkano bel zbt m3rd el kotob?o lamta be5las?
September 7th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
hey wean m7aloo bel zebt?
September 8th, 2006 at 12:58 am
This book fair is located in 3abdali, just beside King Abdullah mosque and the Qasr el 3adel. Just get to 3abdali and you will find it, ask anyone or just pay attention to the signs - it’s a big hanger. It will run until September 16th I think.
September 8th, 2006 at 1:26 am
I am going tomorrow sparing 3 hours and 50 JDs for shopping. Your post has made me even more enthusiastic.
September 8th, 2006 at 8:26 am
<p>It was awesome bumbing into you too =)</p>
<p>I love the pics, love the book list… can’t wait to go there myself!</p>
<p>I bought a used version of the Illiad from a tiny bookshop in a dutch village, you just reminded me that I’ve wanted to share how beautiful that place was with all the used books and the old couple who turned their home into a bookshop! I’ll go dig for the pics :)</p>
September 8th, 2006 at 11:08 am
I want 1984 taba3et George Orwell<br /><br />hehehe<br />and I told Amino I want <span style="font-style: italic;">Goosebumps</span>! :D<br /><br />Tololy,<br />thanks for the bikshar!<br /><br />omar<br />
September 8th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
It always strikes me as very interesting when people who read Chekhov in English gravitate toward his plays. In Russian, his short stories are way better. Unfortunately, I don’t think they translate quite as well. On the other hand, Chekhov’s plays *work* for me in English in a way that they don’t in Russian.
September 8th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Mabrook 3alaiki, especially the social psychology book (which is a textbook, no?). Do you have a background in social psychology at all? If you’re looking for something more readable than a textbook, and not as lengthy (unless, of course, I’m mistaken about the textbook part), I would recommend <i> The Social Animal </i> by Elliot Aronson (same author as the book you mentioned). I don’t know if and where you can get it cheaply, but if you’re interested in the topic, it might be worth a try. Make sure you get the actual book, and not the companion, which is a
collection of social psychology experiments (also worth it, though, if
you are interested in that sort of thing). <br /><br />But of course, textbooks can also rock.<br />
September 10th, 2006 at 9:55 am
I am definatly going to check this book fair. Thanks for informing us.
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November 10th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
[...] That said, I went to the fair hoping that it will be somewhat like last year’s book fair which I enjoyed and considerably funded by purchasing a ton of books. I was sorely mistaken, though. I found out that there were only 50 titles on sale, which is something I can understand since the ministry has taken it upon itself to print these books and probably does not have enough funds to print more than 50 titles. But what I could not understand was the absence of 45 of these 50 titles when I went to the event! [...]
July 17th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
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