Just Out: Can't Wait?
What are you planning to read that was just/will soon be released? I mean your pre-orders, your eagerly anticipated new books out this year!
Me:
-William Gibson: Zero History
-Anthony Bourdain: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Which is being held fucking hostage by the post office right now for some reason.)
empty mile by matthew stokoe, which amazon kindly shipped me weeks before the release date.
zero history, william gibson.
The Amory Wars Vol.3: In Keeping Secrets Of The Silent Earth, the next installment of a graphic novel (gasp!) that's got my attention. never saw that coming.
IMPERIAL. BEDROOMS.
(I'm getting it shipped in halves, and in all-caps.)
this is me too.
Nemesis by Philip Roth
The Return by Roberto Bolano
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
The third Y: The Last Man deluxe edition graphic novel. I figured I could either be patient enough to wait out the series in hardback, or spend $10 on the paperback, smaller versions until I finish. I tend to put it out of my mind until the next edition comes out, so it seems to work out for me (aside from forgetting parts of the storyline because it's been so long since I read the last one).
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
Me:
-William Gibson: Zero History
-Anthony Bourdain: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Which is being held fucking hostage by the post office right now for some reason.)
Have you read Anthony Bourdain's other stuff? I own two of his books. I've only read one - I don't remember which though. He's a pretty good writer. In fact - I think he talks about how writing was his first love before cooking.
These two.
I'm also patiently waiting for the new edition of Out of Touch by some guy.
I've only read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Bourdain. I haven't read any of his fiction.
Oh, I've never read his fiction either.
I believe the one I read was Kitchen Confidential too.
I have The Nasty Bits, but have not yet read it.
He's got a great writing style though, don't you agree?
-Anthony Bourdain: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Which is being held fucking hostage by the post office right now for some reason.)
how odd, I was just reading an excerpt from this on the Guardian website. I'm pretty interested to read the book, too - I didn't know he had a new one coming out.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/12/anthony-bourdain-war-...
Imperial Bedrooms, like, uh, what seems to be everyone else here.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
Bret Easton Ellis is probably my favorite author; needless to say my expectations for Imperial Bedrooms were pretty astronomical. I finished it a few hours ago and here's a short thing I wrote about it elsewhere:
on the surface there's not much to say about Imperial Bedrooms that hasn't already been said about Bret Easton Ellis' other books. the novel's thesis, if it has one, seemingly can be summed up pretty simply as: "vacuous soul-sucked kids grow up to be vacuous, soul-sucking, dangerous adults." there's something pointedly, distinctly disturbing about Imperial Bedrooms, and the novel is, in many ways, like Lunar Park: Redux--it is self-referential in the extreme and showcases Bret Easton Ellis' talent for narrative storytelling. but the novel fails to break new formalistic ground the way American Psycho, Glamorama, and Lunar Park all breathlessly, daringly did. it's shadowy, frightening, speedy, and compulsively entertaining, but a huge part of what has made Ellis' writing so unique and thrilling for the past couple decades has been the way he stretches and contorts postmodern literary conventions, going places with postmodernism that literally no one else has gone. that tendency to forge new literary terrain, which pronounced Ellis' previous three novels as unparalleled works of genius, is disappointingly absent in Imperial Bedrooms. once more Ellis gives us an unflinching look at the abyss, but it's hard to shake the feeling that we've already been here.
If there's a proper discussion about the book that someone can direct me to that would be cool.
Open one up if you'd like.
I know a lot of people are going to be reading this in the next month. So they'll hopefully be ready to discuss in a couple days or so.
I've got Transubstantiate and Imperial Bedrooms on preorder.