what books did you just buy?

yeah, of all his stuff I think Dubliners is the one I really wanted to get to check him out. finding them all in one book was the cincher on buying.

On the last virtual trip to Amazon... I picked up these:
- The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo
- Killer Clown: John Wayne: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan
- It's Only Temporary by Eric Shapiro
- The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
- Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner by Michael M. Baden
- The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
- The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
- Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco

Actually I bought all of those over like 4 trips in all. I guess now looking back that I had at the time some sick need to read about death...

To add to PGoutis True Crime spree I bought:

[SIZE=1]if[/SIZE][SIZE=7]I DID IT[/SIZE] by OJ Simpson.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;1071089]On the last virtual trip to Amazon... I picked up these:
- The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo
- Killer Clown: John Wayne: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan
- It's Only Temporary by Eric Shapiro
- The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
- Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner by Michael M. Baden
- The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
- The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
- Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco

Actually I bought all of those over like 4 trips in all. I guess now looking back that I had at the time some sick need to read about death...[/QUOTE]

Ive read the Night Stalker, Killer Clown and The Stranger Beside Me.
All 3 are good. Night Stalker and Killer Clown are twisted as Hell but the Stranger Beside Me is the most interesting. Let me know what you thought of them.

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1074229]Ive read the Night Stalker, Killer Clown and The Stranger Beside Me.
All 3 are good. Night Stalker and Killer Clown are twisted as Hell but the Stranger Beside Me is the most interesting. Let me know what you thought of them.[/QUOTE]

It's going to be a while until I can get to them. I don't ever have any free time to pleasure read anymore it seems. It's taking me forever just to finish the Book Club book which I'm loving.

But I'm stoked to read Stranger Beside Me. I read the intro and it sounds awesome.

Two others that I want to get are:
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo
My Dark Places by James Ellroy

I got... THE NEW ALASDAIR GRAY BOOK!

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;1074523]

Two others that I want to get are:
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo
My Dark Places by James Ellroy[/QUOTE]

the ice man interviews that PBS (or whoever) did were chilling....I think you can get them on Netflix. It was weird listening to someone talk about killing like it was just any other job.

[QUOTE=projcon;1075458]the ice man interviews that PBS (or whoever) did were chilling....I think you can get them on Netflix. It was weird listening to someone talk about killing like it was just any other job.[/QUOTE]

Yeah - I think they were originally on HBO. I watched them there. And then maybe 6 months ago they were on A&E and I watched them again. It was chilling when somebody tells you how he strangled somebody and then went home and took his kids to get ice cream.

I bought lots of books today

Tim Sandlin- Skipped Parts
Paul Burston- Lovers and Losers
Jerry A Rodriguez- the Devils Mambo
Warren Ellis- Crooked Little Vein
Christopher Moore- Lamb
Richard Matheson- I Am Legend
Craig Davidson- Rust and Bone
Sebastian Horsley- Danny in the Underworld (does anyone know this one, out of all the books I bought this seems the most facinating).

I plan on buying The Hole and/or (depending if I get the urge to buy candy from here to then) Sophie, both of them by Guy Burt.

I just picked up a signed first edition of the new Douglas Coupland novel, The Gum Thief.

It's cool as fuck! Aside from being signed, it comes in a limited edition box, and in the box is the hardback of the novel, and a smaller hardback - which is the novel the lead protagonist speaks of writing in the main novel.

Coolest limited edition ever? You get the novel the book is about writing! Awesomes!

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1077429]I bought lots of books today

Tim Sandlin- Skipped Parts
Paul Burston- Lovers and Losers
Jerry A Rodriguez- the Devils Mambo
Warren Ellis- Crooked Little Vein
Christopher Moore- Lamb
Richard Matheson- I Am Legend
Craig Davidson- Rust and Bone
Sebastian Horsley- Danny in the Underworld (does anyone know this one, out of all the books I bought this seems the most facinating).[/QUOTE]

Are you opening a Library?

I bought "A Streetcar Named Desire".

Play more than book. Someone shoot me!

[QUOTE=santa.exists;1078073]I bought "A Streetcar Named Desire".

Play more than book. Someone shoot me![/QUOTE]
I'll shoot something... in your mouth!

i bought 36 hour day about being an alz patient caretaker, 90% of it doesn't apply to my mother yet, but what could happen is pretty frightful, i'm gonna have to be something i've never been, an adult.

My family could not afford books.

So I had to learn to make them myself.

I just picked up the Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland.

Coupland actually did a reading last year with Chuck here in Vancouver and mentions Chuck and Fight Club in this book.

A pretty fun read, pick it up if you have a chance.

Waiting to receive from amazon

Monica Drake - Clowngirl
Max Barry - Syrup
Craig Clavenger - The Contorsionist's Handbook
Jeff Lindsay - Darkly Dreaming Dexter

I used a giftcard to get:
The Shining by Stephen King
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova ($5 bargain hardcover)

Did you like every family is psychotic?
have you read any of his other books?

[QUOTE=ChrisRo;1080369]Waiting to receive from amazon

Monica Drake - Clowngirl
Max Barry - Syrup
Craig Clavenger - The Contorsionist's Handbook
Jeff Lindsay - Darkly Dreaming Dexter[/QUOTE]

Excellent purchases. Haven't read Dexter, but the first three you listed are all awesome, awesome books.

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1077429]
Warren Ellis- Crooked Little Vein
[/QUOTE]

I think I'm going to pick that up as well. I'm going to B&N either today or tomorrow. I usually spend about $120 every time I go to B&N, but the last time I made the mistake of only buying two books, and they were both quick reads ([I]Dermaphoria[/I] by Clevenger and [I]The Tesseract[/I] by Alex Garland), so now I have nothing

[QUOTE=drebbin;1081118]Did you like every family is psychotic?
have you read any of his other books?[/QUOTE]

I've read:
Hey! Nostradamus
All Families Are Psychotic
Generation X

I own Shampoo Planet but haven't read it yet.

I really enjoyed every one of them. I highly recommend anything that Coupland puts out.

I bought Fight Club today.

most recently Farewell, My Lovely and Trouble Is My Business
next up is the Hunter S. Thompson oral biography.

[QUOTE=tom9d;1081813]I think I'm going to pick that up as well. I'm going to B&N either today or tomorrow. I usually spend about $120 every time I go to B&N, but the last time I made the mistake of only buying two books, and they were both quick reads ([I]Dermaphoria[/I] by Clevenger and [I]The Tesseract[/I] by Alex Garland), so now I have nothing :([/QUOTE]

Dude, BARGAIN BOOK SECTION!!!!

i just got House of Leaves for a buck.

I just got the special edition of Christopher Moore's Lamb. It was the tenth anniversary at Borderlands books, so they gave me a gift bag with like ten books in it. One of them was this rad book of Aldiss' short stories,

Also bought:

Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
Jokerman 8 by Richard Melo

As soon as Thanksgiving break kicks in, I'm holding up in bed, with non school books, till all the Turkey is gone.

Umm i bought a book on making soup ha really not that amazing i know

Yesterday I bought...

[I]Crooked Little Vein[/I] by Warren Ellis
[I]The Gum Thief[/I] by Douglas Coupland
[I]If You Liked School, You'll Love Work[/I] by Irvine Welsh
...and a collection of Amy Hempel stories

I just bought Dennis Lehane's [I]A Drink before the War[/I], and I certainly cannot wait to crack it open and give 'er a whirl! {swings fist}

[QUOTE=tom9d;1084079]Yesterday I bought...

[I]Crooked Little Vein[/I] by Warren Ellis
[I]The Gum Thief[/I] by Douglas Coupland
[I]If You Liked School, You'll Love Work[/I] by Irvine Welsh
...and a collection of Amy Hempel stories[/QUOTE]

You'll love the Hempel. I had all the books except At The Gates - and then this came out. The book is worth it for that reason alone.

Everybody is talking about Crooked Little Vein. I'm going to have to check it out or something.

And that is the next Welsh book I plan on buying.

Great choices!

[QUOTE=Ritt;1084084]I just bought Dennis Lehane's [I]A Drink before the War[/I], and I certainly cannot wait to crack it open and give 'er a whirl! {swings fist}[/QUOTE]

Ive read it and liked it. I havent read any of his in a longtime. I think the last was Shutter Island which I loved.

Recently I read almost everything by Frédéric Beigbeder.
I would recomment it warmly but I don't know what the translation worths.

Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Letham

I bought Blind Faith by Ben Elton.

my moms friend just gave me the portable [B]faulkner.[/B]

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Good choice, I read this last week and it was great. Enjoy.

i'm still reading Flicker.

I've just finished reading The Gunslinger. I've decided to be more straight with my time. I just bought The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry. Also I'm cutting down on smoking and in order to do this I'm spending my EMA as soon as I get it on books and comics and stuff.

[QUOTE=corellion;1096211]I've just finished reading The Gunslinger. I've decided to be more straight with my time. I just bought The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry. Also I'm cutting down on smoking and in order to do this I'm spending my EMA as soon as I get it on books and comics and stuff.[/QUOTE]

Ive never read a Stephen Fry book, is he anygood, and if so which one do I start with?

[B]The Stand[/B] by Stephen King
[B]The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God[/B] by Carl Sagan

I just Purchased:

I am Legend
The Road
Into the wild

For Xmas i think my gf is buying me a new Bukowski novel (i loved the book "women")
and The new Dave Eagers novel

I bought The Company; A Novel of the CIA by Robert Littell.

Just bought High Life by Matt Stokoe,Cannibal Within by Mark L.Mirabello.And some more stuff by De Sade.

Just purchased:

[I]Jpod[/I] by Douglas Coupland
[I]I am Legend[/I] by Richard Matheson
[I]Me Talk Pretty One Day[/I] by David Sedaris
[I]Naked[/I] by David Sedaris
[I]The Rules of Attraction[/I] by Bret Easton Ellis

...that should keep me busy for a while.

I bought

Frederic Beigbeder: Windows on the world, Holiday in a coma and Love lasts 3 years.
Paulo Ceolho: the Valkyries
Miranda July: No One Belongs Here More Than You.

" Luxury " Victor Erofeev

I'm looking for books to buy my sister for her birthday. She reads adult books but [I]really [/I]enjoys YA novels (like me!), preferably about people in boarding schools. Something that's like an amalgam of [I]Prep[/I] by Curtis Sittenfeld and [I]The Secret History[/I] by Donna Tartt and the [I]Gossip Girl[/I] and [I]It Girl[/I] books by Cecily Von Ziegesar.

Nothing focusing on "older people" and their "issues, like divorce"

Any recommendations because so far I've bought her a cookbook.