what books did you just buy?

why's everyone so goddamned scared to be a discussion leader? HUH??

[QUOTE=moe.ron]why's everyone so goddamned scared to be a discussion leader? HUH??[/QUOTE]
I can't speak for everyone, but 'leader' implies some kind of authority on the matter. I can't think of any book on which I could be an authority.

nah...it just means you keep conversation moving along by asking stimulating questions and offering your opinions.

"STIFF; The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach

beginners oragami

I just got Hokkaido Highway Blues delivered today. Amy (digits) recommended it to me [I]ages[/I] ago and I never go around to looking for it then I recently started chatting to this biology graduate who's teaching English to kids in Japan and her descriptions and pictures made me want to read the book.

Oooh, I bought a book on Amazon last night, Violet and Claire by Francesca Lia Block. It's a kid's book. Is this author very famous in the US because her books are really great, the kind of thing I can't imagine a young girl disliking?

Uh I Bougt Vanity Fair W/some Whore On It

Samurai Executioner, vol 5, 6, 7 (Koike, Kojima)

I have all of these gift cards for Barnes and Noble. I want to use them online because of the better selection. They never have any of the books I want at the store. Plus online is cheaper. Anyway, for some reason Barnes and Nobles site always fucks up my internet connection. I can be on for hours and go to B and N and my computer messes up. I can log on and go right to B and N and my computer messes up. It's fine with every other site. This shit is pissing me off because I want to buy some books...

i kind of almost wish it would mess up on me because after starting to order stuff from them in december i havent been able to really stop myself yet
got henry millers wisdom of the heart and on writing
and Postively Fifth Street - a book about the rock n roll lifestyle of the professional poker player
i must be stopped !

[U]In the Beauty of the Lillies[/U] by John Updike. It was the last book I bought, but I bought it almost a year ago so it wasn't recently. Maybe it will be the next book I read. maybe.

[QUOTE=McMuddle]"STIFF; The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach[/QUOTE]
good book, i keep meaning to get her new one "Spook" but every time im at the store i get overwhelmed with looking around at all the other books that i forget about it until im on the way home and go "wellllllll, shit!"

I finally got the B and N site to work on my computer, so I finally got to buy a few books. These have all been mentioned around here lately and they all sparked my interest.

- Angel Dust Apocalypse
- Dermaphoria
- The Killer Inside Me <-- I'm really looking forward to this one
- The Subject Steve

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - $7.99 hardcover at Borders

History books for school..nothing worth noting, which makes this statement contradictory..anYWAY, I believe Max Barry's [I]Donuts[/I] comes out this week, so I'm going to cop that

[U]A Prayer for Owen Meany[/U] - John Irving

[U]Forever Odd[/U] - Dean Koontz

[QUOTE=karbunkle]good book, i keep meaning to get her new one "Spook" but every time im at the store i get overwhelmed with looking around at all the other books that i forget about it until im on the way home and go "wellllllll, shit!"[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the tip. Picked it up yesterday. Started "Stiff" it's hillarious.

Welcome to the Monkey House/Palm Sunday by Vonnegut

I just picked up some Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene and some other book by him.

[QUOTE=Popcultjunkie]History books for school..nothing worth noting, which makes this statement contradictory..anYWAY, I believe Max Barry's [I]Donuts[/I] comes out this week, so I'm going to cop that[/QUOTE]
i thought "Company" was going to be his next one, or did they just retitle it ?

[QUOTE=karbunkle]i thought "Company" was going to be his next one, or did they just retitle it ?[/QUOTE]
never mind i just read the front page and saw the cover for the book, now i know where the "donuts" came from

the last books i bought were textbooks for school and they cost like 300 dollars all together. such a waste of money. =(

[QUOTE=ally]such a waste of money. =([/QUOTE]
El Wrongo

i think its a waste of money. i go to lecture. reading the books take so much time and i never have the motivation to do any of the reading. school started last week and already i think i'm a week behind on all my reading. reading about human physiology is just not that interesting. physics is okay i guess since it has math involved in it.

[B]A Widow of One Year[/B] -John Irving I'm on an Irving kick after his latest novel.

[B]White Noise [/B]-Don DeLillo I came to DeLillo late. I'm finishing [B]Underworld [/B]now and am just loving it.

[B]The Brooklyn Follies[/B] -Paul Auster I recently read his[B] Oracle Night [/B]and wanted more to read more of his stuff. I love his style. He has so many books that I haven't read that I probably should have gotten one of those. But I love hardcover books and made a pact with myself to get the rest of his books through the library.

162 top medical schools. i hope it helps me but i doubt it will.

[QUOTE=mirka][B]The Brooklyn Follies[/B] -Paul Auster I recently read his[B] Oracle Night [/B]and wanted more to read more of his stuff. I love his style. He has so many books that I haven't read that I probably should have gotten one of those. But I love hardcover books and made a pact with myself to get the rest of his books through the library.[/QUOTE]

Balthazar and me love THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES.

When I was in Paris, I saw the French version of THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES, it was quite strange, since it was a long thin book.

[IMG]http://www.aujourdhui.ma/alm_images/Paul-Auster.jpg[/IMG]

I have the British hardcover and LOVE how it looks.

[IMG]http://www.allenandunwin.com/images/CoverImages/0571229379.jpg[/IMG]

The American hardcover kinda makes it look like a kids' book if ya ask me.

[IMG]http://www.realgroovy.co.nz/bookimages/714/0805077146.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=ally]162 top medical schools. i hope it helps me but i doubt it will.[/QUOTE]

When I worked as a mover, I was at this university and looking to get batteries for my discman and then I was in line at the uni's bookstore and there was a guy gettin his medical books, like books so big you could kill a bear with them and he had to pay like 500 euros for four book or something. That was ouch man.

The British cover [I]is [/I]gorgeous. The American one is kinda goofy and garish. Oh well.

I really like that French cover. It has the look of an old travel poster/pamphlet, I think.

I bought a Paul Auster book the other day, my supermarket now has a 'contemporary' fiction display next to the 'tearjerkers' and you can buy modern classics like Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird and such for almost half price, there was The Book of Illusions in among the others so I picked it up and placed it into my trolley on top of the Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.

[QUOTE=Vendetta]...there was The Book of Illusions in among the others so I picked it up and placed it into my trolley on top of the Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.[/QUOTE]

That actually sounds like something out of a Paul Auster novel.

He would probably eat Crunchy Nut Cornflakes. They're quite high-end as cereals go.

The Know-It-All - A.J. Jacobs
Jennifer Government - Max Barry
Killing Yourself to Live - Klosterman
Wisconsin Death Trip - Lesy

High Fedelity

Crash

and a book called Kung Fu High School (anyone read it?)

picked u-p stephen king's Cell and knut hamsun's hunger today
they didnt have max barrys company which sucked so ill probably have to order it online later this week

[QUOTE=karbunkle]picked u-p stephen king's Cell and knut hamsun's hunger today
they didnt have max barrys company which sucked so ill probably have to order it online later this week[/QUOTE]
Karb, let us know how Cell is when you've finished it. This is the first Stephen King book in a while that has gotten me interested in buying it. I think I've held the book maybe ten times in my hands and haven't bought it yet.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01]Karb, let us know how Cell is when you've finished it. This is the first Stephen King book in a while that has gotten me interested in buying it. I think I've held the book maybe ten times in my hands and haven't bought it yet.[/QUOTE]
i was thinking the same thing about it actually
its like the guy is due for another pretty good one, im latching my wagon to this one in hopes it is it

Underworld and Americana by Don Delillo, also The town that forgot how to breathe by Kenneth J Harvey

Intro to Electrodynamics, Intro to Materials Science, and Optics

what a friggin score !!
got martin amis' times arrow, amy hemphel's tumble home, marilyn manson autobio, and bloom county 86-89
musicwise, i also got tools' new DVD and the decemberists The Tain
all for 40 bucks !!
wooooooooooooo

Turgenev's Father and Sons and Flaubert's Madame Bovary & Sentimental Education. I'm about to be nothing but reading and only reading.

This last month I used a gift card to buy -
- Joe by Larry Brown
- The Rabbit Factory by Larry Brown
- The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

The little book store right by my house is going out of business. So everything is 40 - 50 % off. I scooped up a few books there too -
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian

The little book store really didn't have much left in it. I wanted to buy King's Cell but they didn't have that anymore. And I had Mary Roach's Spook in my hands but wasn't sure if I should just wait until it comes to paperback.

I also bought a few non-fiction books this month that are worth mentioning -
- What Color is Your Parachute?
- The Working Poor
- What's the Matter with Kansas?
- Against All Enemies

The last three are for extra credit in my Political Science class. Since I suck at remembering dates and my teachers test are all fill in the blanks, I gotta do all the extra credit I can.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt is fantastic! Read that first.

[QUOTE=mirka]The Secret History by Donna Tartt is fantastic! Read that first. :)[/QUOTE]
I'd seriously take your advice if I didn't want to pass Political Science with a B or better. I'll plan on getting to it as quick as I can though - I can promise you that.

i dont know if i mentioned whjst i got the other day or not but god damn its worth mentiuojning agina thst i got one helluva deal !!!!

I went on a Borders binge this week.

Finally BOUGHT Fight Club and Choke (the copies at the library might as well be mine from how often i've taken them out)

[U]Moon for the Misbegotten[/U] -Eugene O'Neill's last play, just saw it on stage and it just spoke to me so much I needed a copy

and I bought another copy of [U]Art to Choke Hearts[/U] by Henry Rollins, I kinda spilled coffee all over my old copy of it.

I spent like 50$ in Borders today...part of me feels really good about it and part of me feels really bad.

Oh man, what did I buy?

Play it as it Lays - Joan Didion
New Sarah Waters book Night Watch or some such.
Killing Orders by Sarah Paretsky
One for the Money - Someone Somethingovich
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker, which I don't really want to read in case Whoopi Goldberg jumps out from between the pages and pinches me.

[QUOTE=Vendetta]Oh man, what did I buy?

Play it as it Lays - Joan Didion[/QUOTE]
I loved that book.

I rented THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS by Paul Auster, PAEGAN BABIES by Elmore Leonard and DESPERATION by Stephen King from this place called the library from my mom's card and I borrowed OBLOMOV by Ivan Goncharov from a friend.

When am I gonna read all that?

Books from Christmas: Slaughter House Five, Confessions of St Augustine, Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, The Wind up Bird Chronicle, and just bought The Body Artist by DeLillo. Haven't read any DeLillo yet, but heard he was great and the book caught my attention in the store.

As if i didn't have enough to read, but I like to have a nice pile to choose from when i finish a book.