Hey its January 2011 where Sarah lives and I am reading..
I have one last story to go in Full Dark, No Stars and it's soooooo good I feel like crying.
What's everyone else reading?
I'll be finishing up The Ax by Donald Westlake either today or tomorrow. And then I start Invisible by Paul Auster too.
I'm reading Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoevsky. It's not the 2500 page 5 volume version but it's the abridged 1000 page single volume version. I'm not over two thousand pages ambitious. About 200 pages in.
Just finished Out of Touch and now I'm back to Hard Times by Charles Dickens.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan and it's excellent.
I LOVE that book so much. I've given away 14 copies!
I LOVE that book so much. I've given away 14 copies!
I know - you recommended it to me.
hahaa, I forgot! Took you long enough to get around to it! 
Only six months...
Did you read the books I recommended?
Did you read the books I recommended?
You recommended 'Twilight' by William Gay which I'd already read. And Brian Evenson's 'Last Days' which I forgot about, but I just found it buried on my Amazon wishlist and ordered it!
It was January where I'm from too, Derek! 
I picked up these two lovely anthologies the other day with Christmas cashola, for anyone that's not mates with me on Facey, so I'm just digging into them, and digging what I'm finding. The Big Book of Pulp is a great collection.
Holy crap! Dosteovsky is great and all, but does he really need a 2,500 page biography??
Might as well just go all the way and give a day by day account for his entire life.
Yeah, 1000 pages is fucking ridiculous, but 2500, Come ON!
Did you read the books I recommended?
You recommended 'Twilight' by William Gay which I'd already read. And Brian Evenson's 'Last Days' which I forgot about, but I just found it buried on my Amazon wishlist and ordered it!
Cool. What about The Delivery Man?
Slam by Nick Hornby.
Did you read the books I recommended?
You recommended 'Twilight' by William Gay which I'd already read. And Brian Evenson's 'Last Days' which I forgot about, but I just found it buried on my Amazon wishlist and ordered it!
Cool. What about The Delivery Man?
The Delivery Man fuckin' rocks.
Where's Mckay? I know he'll appreciate my two badass collections.
slaughterhouse five, first edition (fifth printing)
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
I wouldn't even be opening that up, Chuck. It'd be all glass cased and shit.
you're not the first person to say that, but im only reading it in my room and with clean hands
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
I'd still just read a crappy paperback. But that's me. I barely open my Palahniuk first editions let alone my Hempels. And that's Slaughterhouse Five. Likely way more collectible.
And you can forget about cracking the spine on my signed and limited first edition of Transubstantiate!
I've decided to, in honor of my new Kindle, read all six of the d'Artagnan novels, starting with the Three Musketeers. I'm excited for this.
This is why we can't have nice things.
realistically, though, this particular book is a former library copy, so i think it can handle one more cautious use
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
I was wondering that too. I haven't seen him post in a few days. Did he go away for Christmas or something?
Yeah, maybe. Not sure. He didn't mention anything, to my knowledge. Hope he's okay.
Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki.
Rereading Fight Club.
Days Between Stations by Steve Erickson
The Roads of Paradise Lost by Llorenc Riber, in Catalan.
Gah! You people and not opening books because they're "collectible!"
You might as well not even own them if you're not going to open them and read them. Sell 'em off to a museum or something and buy some books you'll read!
I about get an aneurysm when I see people get their comics CGC'd.
If you're trying to sell an old back issue or #1 issue, then getting it CGC'd is a good investment. You ultimately make more on the back-end.
If all you're going to do is keep it in a box, then I don't see the point.
I finally got around to starting Snow Crash and so far it is incredible. So much so that last night, I woke up at 3:30am after having a dream in it's narrative style. Something I don't think has ever happened to me.
Snow Crash is so good that after just 5 or 6 pages you don't groan at the horrible name for the lead character anymore!
Stay God by our very own Nik Korpon. I of course like to read and be supportive of all my friends in the author community, but ... his work is my favorite of that bunch. Yeah, that's right, I said it. At least for now (please accept this challenge, if that's how you interpret it).
I chuckled about it at first, but the more you get into the book the more it kind of 'fits' in the world he's created.
Man, this Pulp collection is badass. I'm really enjoying it. I think this would be right up Pete, Mckay and Ludwig's alleys.
I love that book. I gave a copy of it to a friend at Christmas. If you end up loving it all the way through, try Cryptonomicon, which is also excellent.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
Yeah, based on what I've read of this so far, I'll probably pick up Cryptonomicon after I finish the other stuff I loaded up my Kindle with.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.
It's ok--funny, simplistic, has a good voice.
Yes, I want to play. I really, really do.
What's the name of it?
Can you link me?
Of course, I can. You'll be glad to know there is a previously unpublished story from Dashiell Hammett in the collection, along with two of his other stories, originally published in Black Mask Magazine. Seriously, this collection is the shit. There's a couple of James M. Cain's stories in there, that are so badass. And just a bunch of stuff from people I have not heard of until now, but is equally as good.
Wow. It's cheap online. Bummer. I paid 50 bucks for it at Borders. But it was with Christmas money, so I didn't really mind.
I'm gonna get the Black Mask anthology, too. Black Lizard press is where it's at, as far as pulp is concerned. And Otto Penzler, is the editorial king of the genre. I have another collection edited by him called Dangerous Women, and it's so good. Amazing story in that one called "Improvisation" by Ed McBain.
So into crime fiction.
Added to wishlist. Thanks dude! That does sound like a badass collection.
Ha!
I have this, too! It's pretty good. Haven't read all of it just yet, but that's something I like about short story collections - reading a couple, putting it down and forgetting about it, then rediscovering it some time later.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Also. This Kindle is killing me. I can't yet sit down and read one book, but am loading-up on a ton of "Ooh, I wanna's". I've got 7 Dumas peres, a dozen or more Lord Dunsanys, two Homers, plus Milton, Dante, Machiavelli, Doyle, Swift, and more. And I keep jumping around! Gah!
This is why we can't have nice things.
Those books will always be there! No need to try and download them all and read them all at once. lol
I know, I know. But, see, I have these completist issues...
This is why we can't have nice things.
I'm doing that with all those comic series I've been downloading.
It's not so much as completionist issues as it is I want to go ahead and download them while I'm sitting there seeing that they exist before I end up forgetting about them completely and never getting them downloaded.
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Naked by David Sedaris.
Still plugging away on Invisible by Paul Auster.