what books did you just buy?

i recently bought Clown Girl, Pale Fire (Nabokov), Wittengenstein's Mistress (Markson), Click, and [URL=http://www.inpersuasionnation.com/index.html]In Persuasion Nation [/URL] - anyone heard of George Saunders? Very funny stuff so far.

Except for Click, all of them were paid for with a gift card. i love free books!

i just bought the ya ya sisterhood for 29 cents at the thrift store...

[URL=http://www.crimethinc.com/a/otm/]Off The Map[/URL] and [URL=http://www.crimethinc.com/a/evasion/]Evasion[/URL] from the CrimethInc. Collective. I need to finish The Antichrist so I can start on them.

Infinite Jest ~and~ A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, both by David Foster Wallace. I'm really starting to dig the guy, even though after Consider the Lobster, I'm never going to eat lobster again.

[QUOTE=Lazlosdead;1035537]Infinite Jest ~and~ A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, both by David Foster Wallace. I'm really starting to dig the guy, even though after Consider the Lobster, I'm never going to eat lobster again.[/QUOTE]

Is he good? I read some nice reviews and almost bought Consider the Lobster, but gave up on it, don't remember why.

I've just bought The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick. It's for my english classes, we have to discuss it in November. I'll start reading it in a few weeks, if I read it now, I'll forget all about it later and I don't like reading books twice
Has anyone read it? Opinions?

I bought The Contortionists Handbook by Craig Clevenger ( as a present ).

I didn't buy it, but the newest book to hit my bookshelf is my wife's first Harry Potter book.

YAY yesterday was the Word on the Street festival and I bought a bunch of books. Caps end here, I'm just too lazy.The day before I bought after dark by haruki murakami, I've been meaning to read his stuff for a really long time and finally got around to buying one now. at the festival, I bought on the road by jack kerouac, slouching toward nirvana by charles bukowski, meet me in the parking lot by alexandra leggat, emails from the edge by lynne everatt, and the tracey fragments by maureen medved. I also got at last there is nothing left to say by matthew good, which I already read once and seriously considered not taking it back to the library, it was so good.. and I don't like his music whatsoever so I'm not biased in his favour. I spent a total of $15 at the festival for 6 books... awesome.

I just got in a bunch of books that I ordered. I can't remember who wrote them all though.

They are:

Everything is Illuminated
Mothernight (Vonnegut)
Sandman (1) (Gaiman)
Sophie's World
Ulysses (Joyce)

I think there are a few more....

I'm very pleased with my purchase for today:

[I]Crime and Punishment[/I], Fyodor Dostoevsky.

And it only cost me $10.

crash by jg ballard
girlfriend in a coma by douglas coupland

they came via amazon on tuesday morning

Anarchy, State, and Utopia, by some guy, I think its from the 70s.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson

[QUOTE=elegantly_bitter;1049537]I'm very pleased with my purchase for today:

[I]Crime and Punishment[/I], Fyodor Dostoevsky.

And it only cost me $10.[/QUOTE]

I think I made it to about page 50 and forever put it down!!

[QUOTE=bassplr19;1049650]I think I made it to about page 50 and forever put it down!![/QUOTE]

That's sad. I have to [B]really[/B] hate a book to stop reading. And even when I do hate it I'll often keep reading in the vain hope that something will happen in the end to make it worth my time.

The Collected Stories - Amy Hempel
The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland

[QUOTE=elegantly_bitter;1050301]That's sad. I have to [B]really[/B] hate a book to stop reading. And even when I do hate it I'll often keep reading in the vain hope that something will happen in the end to make it worth my time.[/QUOTE]

Indeed...sometimes it just takes a while to get into a book. I wanted to stop reading [I]Trainspotting[/I] after the first couple of pages because I couldn't stand that it was written in dialect...and it took me about 30 miserable pages to get into it...and now it is one of my five or so favorite books.

Crime & Punishment is a good book if you give it a chance...it just gets confusing because of all the Russian names.

[QUOTE=tom9d;1050657]Indeed...sometimes it just takes a while to get into a book. I wanted to stop reading [I]Trainspotting[/I] after the first couple of pages because I couldn't stand that it was written in dialect...and it took me about 30 miserable pages to get into it...and now it is one of my five or so favorite books.

Crime & Punishment is a good book if you give it a chance...it just gets confusing because of all the Russian names.[/QUOTE]

I felt the same way towards [I]Trainspotting[/I], it frustrated me having to put in so much effort just to understand what they were trying to say. In all honesty, I still haven't gotten very far into it, but I'll get there eventually.

[QUOTE=elegantly_bitter;1050301]That's sad. I have to [B]really[/B] hate a book to stop reading. And even when I do hate it I'll often keep reading in the vain hope that something will happen in the end to make it worth my time.[/QUOTE]

I really [B]really[/B] hated Remainder by Tom McCarthy, but it was a shorter book so I drudged through it. Crime and Punishment is too long. It's kind of like a bike ride or a drive where all I can see is a long straight boring route, I can't do it.

Picked up the much heralded JPod by Coupland as well as Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, by Carroll. Tried to pick up A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius at suggestion but was unable to find it in the book store. They were supposed to have 17 copies but I just could not locate it no matter how hard I tried. This made me sad.

Sounds absolutely heartbreaking. i guess you aren't a genius.

Ha!

I must say - the wit on this board makes me want to cry out O-M-G. I'm still sad, though.

[QUOTE=alexander_thorul;1050822]Picked up the much heralded JPod by Coupland as well as Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, by Carroll. Tried to pick up A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius at suggestion but was unable to find it in the book store. They were supposed to have 17 copies but I just could not locate it no matter how hard I tried. This made me sad.[/QUOTE]

AHWOSG is a great book. I had to trudge through the beginning, because it was pretty depressing...but I actually laughed out loud pretty frequently throughout the rest of it. One of the funniest books I've read actually.

[QUOTE=bassplr19;1050684]I really [B]really[/B] hated Remainder by Tom McCarthy, but it was a shorter book so I drudged through it. Crime and Punishment is too long. It's kind of like a bike ride or a drive where all I can see is a long straight boring route, I can't do it.[/QUOTE]

[I]Remainder[/I] is the only book I have read in 2007 that I didn't like, out of about 30 or so books. It took major effort to force myself through that one. The narrator just annoyed the shit out of me.

[QUOTE=bassplr19;1049650]I think I made it to about page 50 and forever put it down!![/QUOTE]
You suck. That's a great book.

[QUOTE=elegantly_bitter;1050660]I felt the same way towards [I]Trainspotting[/I], it frustrated me having to put in so much effort just to understand what they were trying to say. In all honesty, I still haven't gotten very far into it, but I'll get there eventually.[/QUOTE]

Stick with it, it's worth it. The great thing is, once you get used to the dialect, it's an amazing aspect of the book. It forces you to read with a Scottish voice in your head. Unlike books where you're supposed to be reading about some people in Germany or Zimbabwe, but you can still read it in your own voice because the language is straight-forward English, Welsh's writing forces you to read in the proper voice. It adds so much realism, it really lets you get lost in the book.

Plus, once you get used to it, you'll be able to use that for his other stuff. Porno was also written in dialect, as was much of Glue. Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares and Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs also have it to some degree, but not to the extent of Trainspotting.

[QUOTE=tom9d;1051040]Plus, once you get used to it, you'll be able to use that for his other stuff. Porno was also written in dialect, as was much of Glue. Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares and Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs also have it to some degree, but not to the extent of Trainspotting.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I only own Maribou Stork Nightmares by Welsh and cannot read that because of the dialect.

Austin Grossman- Soon I will be Invincible.
and
Neil Gaiman- Stardust.

[I]Trainspotting[/I] has a glossary in the back that contains a lot of words that Welsh uses frequently that you might not otherwise be able to figure out...plus it's the most difficult to understand...so if you can get through that, the rest of his books are easy in comparison.

[QUOTE=bassplr19;1051846]Yeah, I only own Maribou Stork Nightmares by Welsh and cannot read that because of the dialect.[/QUOTE]

it's not that hard to figure out, and Maribou Stork Nightmares is so fucking worth it... that book was mindblowingly good. one of my absolute favourites.

Yeah...the dialect is mild in Marabou compared to Welsh's other books.

[QUOTE=tom9d;1053327]Yeah...the dialect is mild in Marabou compared to Welsh's other books.[/QUOTE]

Wow.....I'm not even going to bother with any of his other books then.

Over the last couple weeks I bought:

- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (I got this one for bargain price)
- If You Liked School, You'll Love Work by Irvine Welsh
- The End Of Alice by A.M. Homes
- The Safety Of Objects by A.M. Homes
- The White Album by Joan Didion
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

I bought Dexter In The Dark by Jeff Lindsay and
Men In Space by Tom Mc Carthy.

I just got 8 books from Amazon, In brackets the people whoe recomended them...

Kem Nunn- Pomona Queen (Morey)
Paul Neilan- Apathy... (JT)
Sam Lypsyte- Homeland (Dan90210?)
Christopher Moore- Bloodsucking Fiends (Mc Muddle)
Elrend Loe- Naive Super
Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker- House
Bradley Sands- It Came From Below the Belt
JRJ- Extinction Journals

I just picked up Elmore Leonard's 'Toshimingo Blues' and James Ellroy's 'Destination: Morge'

at a thrift shop:

old copy of [I]steppenwolf[/I]
new copy of[I] writing down the bones[/I]
and a used copy of [I]the scarlet letter [/I]for school

[I]I am American (And So Can You!)[/I] by Stephen Colbert

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1062253]Paul Neilan- Apathy... (JT)[/QUOTE]

Me too, dunno if you noticed, but definately i recommended it too at some point.

I want some credit for how much you're going to love it hopefully!

woah woah woah - Apathy

I pretty much recommend this book to everybody. I loved it and thought it was hilarious. I really like to recommend it to people that say, "But I don't really like to read." Because - this book they will.

I liked that book.

Curently I am reading...

The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth

[QUOTE=tom9d;1063423][I]I am American (And So Can You!)[/I] by Stephen Colbert[/QUOTE]

hey! me too!!

[QUOTE=happy_hooker;1067252]hey! me too!![/QUOTE]

me too, I bought it earlier this week. Guess who's old chuck books are all getting awards of literary excellence.

[QUOTE=happy_hooker;1067252]hey! me too!![/QUOTE]

We're just awesome like that :jester:

[QUOTE=tom9d;1063423][I]I am American (And So Can You!)[/I] by Stephen Colbert[/QUOTE]

Isn't it [I]I Am America[/I]? I'm gonna try it too, although I am not America, or American, or anything nearby.

I got Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen which I plan to dig into soon, and also the first in King's The Dark Tower series, because you all seem to love them and you haven't steered me wrong so far.

Sorry PGoutis and Simon- yes you guys did recomend Apathy aswell. Kudos to you two. Im halfway through it and yes it is very good, a few laugh out loud moments and I should have it finished by tonight.

Got some James Joyce whilst I was in Missouri.
Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Chamber Music all in one volume.
I haven't read any of his stuff before and I think this will be a nice little sampling of whether I dig the guy or not.

Dubliners is great especially Araby, Eveline and The Dead.