what books did you just buy?
I just bought Slumdog Millionaire, which is so far nothing like the movie, and The Ninja Handbook.
LiFe:
Its not about the things you buy or the money you earn.
Its the experiences you have and the knowledge you learn.
I ordered Watch Out by Joseph Sulgia and It has not come it yet and I am going to be pissed if they fucked up my order because it has been awhile.
"The Warmth of Blood" 30 min Short Film
clockwork orange
fear and loathing in las vegas
persepolis
1984
faraway places (the paperback one)
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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
Ordered Yesterday:
Necrophilia Variations - Supervert
Bought in the last week:
120 Days of Sodom - Marquis De Sade
Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook - Deborah Haddock
"I don't want to forget so I'm writing it down"
fear and loathing in las vegas
1984
loved both of those books
Just bought Infinte Jest and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (impulse buy at Books a Million... probably next on the list)
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
If it's a book I can't check out of the library, or I can't finish inside of three months, then, I'll buy it. Or, if it's a book I know I'll read over and over again, then, again, I'll buy it. What you've got to understand is that I live in mortal fear of that day when I'll find myself trapped in my lovely nest, where the things I used to own, now they own me.
That said, I've recently nabbed a first edition hardcover of Lorrie Moore's Self-Help. Also, I bought a paperback edition of The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, but I hated the paper it was printed on, so I nabbed a hardcover of that, too; then sold the paperback. The irony is, several years ago, when Mr. Palahniuk turned me on to Ms. Hempel's stuff, I spent time and money tracking down Hempel's out-of-print works, only to donate them all to my local public library after reading them.
Edie: Girl On Fire - David Weisman & Melissa Painter
"I don't want to forget so I'm writing it down"
My mom and I went book shopping last Saturday. I bought Diary for a friend and Post Office by Bukowski for myself.
My mom bought The wisdom of Menopause and Arthritis for Dummies... Awesome.
2666 - Roberto Bolano. Started it last night, only got about 2 hours sleep but it was worth it.
Also Popco - Scarlett Thomas. The End of Mr Y was entertaining so I thought I'd try it.
The Thirteenth Apostle - Michel Benoit. For research.
"What cha readin' fer??"
TS Elliot's 'The Wasteland' was in the four dolla bin at Borderos.
Ordered 'My Disillusionment in Russia' by Emma Goldman for a paper I'm writing on the Russian anarchist exile.
Downloaded 'God and the State' by Bakunin to give me more background for the paper.
I've also found downloading books or finding the raw text and making pdf's in openoffice is really convenient. In the 21st century, we have not progressed unless goods like toilet paper and books are free.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and White Noise by Don DeLillo.
Toussaint Louverture, A Biography by Madison Smartt Bell. I'm supposed to be reading the black dahlia but I can't do it. (don't tell ritt) So i'm reading this, it's awesome.
The Cather in the Rye...already have read it just didn't have my own copy
Maybe if I just drink half, I'll be half buzzed for half of the time
Who's the mastermind behind that little line?
With that kind of rationale man I got half a mind
To have another half a glass of wine
I picked up a bunch of classics that I have yet to read the other week.
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Plague - Albert Camus
Selected Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
As well as:
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
This should last a while:)
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"
Also Popco - Scarlett Thomas. The End of Mr Y was entertaining so I thought I'd try it.
The Thirteenth Apostle - Michel Benoit. For research.
I love your taste in books. I bought 2666 the other day and I got all excited when I spotted Popco in my local bookshop. I really liked the End of Mr Y and this one looks just as good.
The Prince is...bleh. Eff Machiavelli.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
My copy of Watch Out by Joseph Sulgia has still not come in. I picked up Less then Zero by Bret Easton Ellis after reading the informers but kinda wanna take a break from him.
"The Warmth of Blood" 30 min Short Film
Picked up Watchmen yesterday, gonna try and get it finished before I see the film (like so many others).
Ryu Murakami - In The Miso Soup
Gene Wilder - My French Whore
Denis Johnson - Tree Of Smoke
Charles Bukowski - Women
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Will Christopher Baer - The Phineas Poe Omnibus
Good idea.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Penny Dreadful by Will Christopher Baer and Clown Girl by Monica Drake
“Those who argue that art and philosophy are proof of human worth neglect to mention that, in the scheme we have devised, artists and philosophers are powerless and largely without prestige. Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.” - George Carlin
The Nag Hammadi Gnostic Scriptures. This one is going to be a heavy read.
"What cha readin' fer??"
Also Popco - Scarlett Thomas. The End of Mr Y was entertaining so I thought I'd try it.
The Thirteenth Apostle - Michel Benoit. For research.
I love your taste in books. I bought 2666 the other day and I got all excited when I spotted Popco in my local bookshop. I really liked the End of Mr Y and this one looks just as good.
Thanks 
Did you read PopCo yet? Just finished it last night. She really rips into New Media (which I work in) and building virtual worlds & items (which is what my work does!) but it was entertaining. Lots of nice head stuff about ciphers etc.
"What cha readin' fer??"
dude's I just borrowed Stephen King's new book of short stories and im pretty psyched --- one of em's titled "The Gingerbread Girl" -- cant wait to check it out, sounds pretty raw.
Still waiting for the third book of dean koonts frankenstein.
oh and On The Road is a must.
From Portland, OR
And why am I a Marine?
"Fuck it, ya only live once"
Afghanistan woohoo
Still waiting for the third book of dean koonts frankenstein.
oh and On The Road is a must.
I think that "The Gingerbread Girl" was published in Playboy. Somebody maybe I'm wrong? I don't remember. I know it was maybe a year ago he had a story in Playboy and that title sounds really familiar.
Lullabies for Little Criminals by O'Hare (it's her debut novel)
“Those who argue that art and philosophy are proof of human worth neglect to mention that, in the scheme we have devised, artists and philosophers are powerless and largely without prestige. Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.” - George Carlin
Amnesia Moon - Jonathan Lethem
As She Climbed Across the Table - Jonathan Lethem
Girl in Landscape - Jonathan Lethem
Miles From Nowhere - Nami Mun
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man - Denis Johnson
Naked Lunch
Not quite sure what I think of it, yet.
"My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams"
- Daniel Johnston
I haven't actually bought any books recently - unless you coinsider January recent, in which case I bought a pocket version of He's Just Not That Into You for my friend's birthday.
And I've been looking for the book Candy by Luke Davies, but the local bookstore doesn't carry it >.>
You Do Your Thing, And I Do My Thing.
You Are You, And I Am I.
And If, In The End, We End Up Together...
It's Beautiful.
Crash by JD Ballard
it sounds awesome can't wait to read it.
"The Warmth of Blood" 30 min Short Film
I had a little spree.
Kiss me, Judas by Baer
Waiting Period by Selby
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Selby
Song of the Silent Snow by Selby
Everything is Illuminated
The Book of Frank
The Male Crossdresser Support Group
Geek Love by Dunn
The Wasp Factory
etc..
Ended up spending about $80
“Those who argue that art and philosophy are proof of human worth neglect to mention that, in the scheme we have devised, artists and philosophers are powerless and largely without prestige. Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.” - George Carlin
Sirens of Titan- Vonnegut
Kafka On The Shore-Murakami
Einsteins Dreams- Lightman
The Drinker- Fallada
How We Are Hungry- Eggers
The Phineas Poe Omnibus- WC Baer
Im about to get a Biography of Diego Maradona by Jimmy Burns, the same guy who wrote a book about Barca.
Also No One Gets Out Of Here Alive b Danny Sugarman. I read his other book Wonderland Avenue a long time a go and spotted this, its a biography of Jim Morrison.
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter,
Relativity: A Very Short Introduction by Russell Stannard,
Quantum Physics for Dummies by Steven Holzner
I bought The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murikami.
Libra by Delillo. Recommended to me by a fellow cultie.
"My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams"
- Daniel Johnston
I love those bargain books, 3 for 2 at Borders. All about the Presidents, Emperors, and Military speeches.
I am waiting for a package containing Douglas Adams' omnibus of all the Hitchiker's Guide series and Scott Siegler's Infected.
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HA! I read Infected last year. Its cheap and thrashy like the cover but I still loved it. If you read Stephen King you may enjoy it aswell, some of the themes are he same, ordinary characters put in extraordinary situations. Let meknow what you think of it.
I have to get to the city and pick up The Devil and Daniel Silverman by Theodore Ruszak an Our Estatic Days by Steve Erickson. I read a book by each of these authors last year after hearing about them on The Cult and I really liked them.
Garrick went to a Scott Siegler signing in Houston right before he left for South Carolina. He actually loved Infected so much, he pushed the start date of his job back so he could meet him. I haven't read it because what Garrick and I read usually aren't in the same category. Tell me what you think.
Good coffee is like drinking Rock and Roll.
Just went on a bender at Barnes and Noble
Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs - Irvine Welsh
Pimps Ho Playa Hatas and all the Rest of my Hollywood Fiends - John Leguizamo
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
GRE Exam Math Workbook - Kaplan - actually the only book I went to buy - the others were bargain priced and I just couldn't resist
All hardback which sucks but they were so cheap!
I know someone here's read Bedroom Secrets... any good for a first time Welsh reader?
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
Looked for stuff at the local bookstore (ya know... boostin the economy and whatnot) but I couldn't find any of the stuff I wanted, so I just lost my mind on amazon instead:
Heartsick - Chelsea Cain
Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
The Contortionist's Handbook - Clevenger
Crooked Little Vein: A Novel - Warren Ellis
Less than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
The Collected Stories - Amy Hempel
The Lie - Chad Kultgen
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Genghis Khan - Jack Weatherford
As you can see, I've been taking a lot of recommendations from you all here at the cult, and so far I have not been disappointed in the least. Thank you all!
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I also preordered Pygmy, a little late considering it's released in a week.
"The sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in the world."
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster.
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even more reason why there is no reason for it to be considered such an important book
i got this and henry millers under the roofs of paris at the same time, both i guess you could call 'shock value' books but millers got an actually interesting little story to connect all the shock and make it a good read
he wasn't a pedophile and he killed her by accident - two heroin addicts playing William Tell with a shotgun is a recipe for disaster.
both What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio and Haunted are in transit - i check the mailbox daily.
Leviathan-paul auster
regeneration-pat barker
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