what books did you just buy?
just to clarify, my own shelves are just as pillagable by anyone interested.
ewww... there's nothing I hate more in this world than people that borrow my shit and don't return it. (no offense.)
What's that about? It's like if it's media related in any way, books, CDs, DVDs, there's this assumption that if you borrow it there's an indefinite time frame on how long you can keep it.
I don't even loan anything out anymore expecting it to come back. I just assume that you're the jerk that's gonna keep it.
Does anyone else have this problem or is it just my crummy friends?
i just get SO DAMNED EXCITED if anyone shows an interest in reading, i am willing to give my copies of whatever away. also, i like books previously owned, especially if they were owned by people i know, because it's such an interesting insight when you see what they've underlined, or pages they've dog-eared.
i only feel this way about books. other media doesn't apply, that stuff's not personal - taking it is plain old thievery.
also everyone that knows me also knows if i want to borrow a book i have no intentions of giving it back, and i will never be offended by a "hell no, don't touch it." same goes for borrowing from me. if i haven't finished reading it or it's my special favorite copy underlined in seven different colored pencils from the seven different times i've read it, then you can't leave with it. pick something different.
my bookshelf is awesome. it's like a scrapbook.
This all reminds me. I gotta check and see if I gave this Paganini book back to my friend after I borrowed it like 3 years ago.
I'm pretty almost sure I gave it back to him last year, But now i'm not so sure. I better check. It was a pretty rare book too. Eep!
I doubt anybody I know would ask me if they could borrow a book [Most people I know don't like to read books], but I don't think I'd want to either way. My books are too precious to be lent out for a long period of time, without being sure I'll get them back. The only person that I could lend a book to at the moment is my boyfriend.
the CHANCE of getting to have a heated conversation about an amazing book is worth the risk that i may never see that particular copy again.
everyone gets one shot. If you borrow and don't return then I'm never leading you anything again. I especially don't loan out anything of any importance or that I haven't read yet. That leaves a pretty small choice. If I can't replace it for less than $5, no one gets it.
I also like the idea of heated debate, but that never happens. I can't think of one instance when a friend borrowed something and actually read it.
I would like to note that this is the second thread I have successfully derailed... not on purpose but successfully nonetheless
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
it will get back on track. they usually fall back in line. as soon as somebody buys and awesome new book - voila! the damage is undone.
also, i got to have a heated debate about Infinite jest last night. well, not really about the book itself. a friend was over, who had given me his copy (couple years back) because he couldn't finish it, and i told him about this new website i read about especially for people who couldn't finish Infinite Jest.
maybe it was more bickering than debating. huh.
I sniped a bid on ebay and got Alongside Night for 1.04 + 3.50 shipping. That's a penny less than freedom!
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
just placed an amazon.com order for:
"The Contortionist's Handbook" - Craig Clevenger
"My Other Life" - Paul Theroux
"Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of The Locust" - Nathaniel West
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain, bought this on my last book buying trip, after a recommendation on here actually. 
I liked it enough to get the second part Sweetheart, just ordered it today. See the next one in this series is out soon.
Diary and Lullaby by...well I should hope you know
And Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's apparently a real challenge to read, and I cant wait to start it.
This play is an affirmation of life—not an attempt to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we are living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out the way and lets it act of its own accord. -John Cage
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
and some book about dog murderers and math equations for my girlfriend
"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
and some book about dog murderers and math equations for my girlfriend
Is that all in one book? Sounds bizarre. What's the title?
and some book about dog murderers and math equations for my girlfriend
Is that all in one book? Sounds bizarre. What's the title?
Yeah, it did sound interesting. The chapters are all prime numbers. I tried finding the title via google, but no luck.
I shall try again for you, Parker.
[googling]
eureka!
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
"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
Just bought The Atlas Shrugged on The Ebay. Also carted For the New Intellectual and The Fountainhead. Probably won't read AS or Fountainhead for another year, though.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
It cost €3. Just had to buy it.
I am quite jealous.
Plus, you get to read Moby Dick for the first time.
This is why we can't have nice things.
<3
Did you buy For the New Intellectual? Because that book kind of sucks. Its a lot of talking in circles using excerpts from AS/Fountainhead. You should pick up Virtue of Selfishness, you would dig the fuck out of that book.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
<3
Did you buy For the New Intellectual? Because that book kind of sucks. Its a lot of talking in circles using excerpts from AS/Fountainhead. You should pick up Virtue of Selfishness, you would dig the fuck out of that book.
Already read VofS. Loved it. I considered it my definitive book on ethics, until I read Stefan Molyneux's Universally Preferable Behavior. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal will probably be the next Rand that I read (sometime in the next few books).
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
It cost €3. Just had to buy it.
I am quite jealous.
Plus, you get to read Moby Dick for the first time.
and read Chinese for the first time!
Introduction to Physics for Scientists and Engineers (1975) - Frederick J. Bueche.
The Procedure Handbook of Arc Welding, Twelfth Edition (1933-73) - The Lincoln Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Elements of Mathematics for Radio, Television and Electronics (1954) - Bernhard Fischer and Herbert Jacobs.
The A.R.R.L. Antenna Book (1974) - The American Radio Relay League, Inc.
This is why we can't have nice things.
A Void by Georges Perec.
It'll be interesting to see how I cope with the missing vowel.
And Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's apparently a real challenge to read, and I cant wait to start it.
there's actually a website for people who can't finish Infinite Jest, it's infinitesummer.com. i fwded the link to a friend (it's his copy that he read a 3rd of, gave to me, i read and still have) and he was NOT HAPPY at the jab.
And Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's apparently a real challenge to read, and I cant wait to start it.
there's actually a website for people who can't finish Infinite Jest, it's infinitesummer.com.
infinitesummer.ORG...
the .com takes you to an un-Wallacey place that no one wants to go to.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
And Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's apparently a real challenge to read, and I cant wait to start it.
there's actually a website for people who can't finish Infinite Jest, it's infinitesummer.com.
infinitesummer.ORG...
the .com takes you to an un-Wallacey place that no one wants to go to.
oh my god, i'm so sorry......
I just bought My Landlady the Lobotomist by Eckhard Gerdes (on the finalist ballot for the Wonderland Award), Motorman by Dave Ohle, and Don of the Dead by Nick Cato (a zombie/mobster novel).
the first 3 books of the vampire chronicles by Anne Rice
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Old School: A Novel - Tobias Wolff
The Things They Carried - Tim O-Brian
I also snagged a few off my mom's shelf when I visited last weekend
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolff
Tis - Frank McCourt
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Old School: A Novel - Tobias Wolff
The Things They Carried - Tim O-Brian
I also snagged a few off my mom's shelf when I visited last weekend
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolff
Tis - Frank McCourt
Freaky timing, Frank Mc Court is on his deathbed at the moment with Menigitis.
I just purchased Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I've been wanting to read that for a long time now.
"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"
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Old School: A Novel - Tobias Wolff
The Things They Carried - Tim O-Brian
I also snagged a few off my mom's shelf when I visited last weekend
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolff
Tis - Frank McCourt
Freaky timing, Frank Mc Court is on his deathbed at the moment with Menigitis.
and has now succumbed to said meningitis and is actually dead. Well, he was nearly 80 so he lived a good, long life esp. coming out of such poverty in Ireland. I'll def have to read Tis now...
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
Possessed: The secret of Mysloth by Witold Gombrowicz.
Seems like a gothic novel so far, but I suppose there´s more.
Just bought The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams, and Handling The Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Adored his book Let the Right One In, so must read his next one.
The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson
Yes, I want to play. I really, really do.
the lovely bones
veronika decides to die & by the river piedra i sat down and wept
to feel stuff
once dead, twice shy
a girl becomes a comma like that
-your face will not be back again
Choke and The Time Traveler's Wife.
Just bought/got the following:
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown - borrowed it
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
The Prince by Machiavelli - recommended on here
The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama - recommended on here
The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin
The Luminious Life of Lily Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - want to read before seeing the film that's out
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Mirror Mirror by Linda Papadopoulos
Goodfellas by Nicholas Pileggi - free with a film magazine I get
I had a massive list to look up and their computers were buggered/extremely slowwww in the shop, and I had a headache by then and therefore couldn't be arsed to look for them all, had about 40 on the list. Think I did well.
Just bought From Hell by Alan Moore.
Borrowed Pygmy.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames-David Sedaris
Out of Touch-Brandon Tietz
I, Elizabeth- Rosalind Miles
Survivor-Chuck
On Writing- Stephen King
Just preordered Stephen King's Under the Dome from Amazon & was shocked to see it costs only 9 bucks and it has ~1200 pages.
I just combined two coupons sent to me by Borders; 30% off one item, and $5 in free Borders Bucks. I was able to get Thomas Pynchon's "V." for $6.
I bought a Mythology book but I think, it's not a good one.
My boyfriend got me 3 books and I'm so DAMN EXCITED.
L'écume des Jours - Boris Vian
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
Flowers From Hell, a Satanic Reader - Tons of writers, edited by Nikolas Schreck
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Whathaveyous, The Delmore Schwartz. This was highly recommended by one of my old film professors.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
Surviver - Chuck Palahniuk
I just went on a buying spree on amazon. I can't wait for all of these to come in.
The King of Methlehem by Mark Lindquist
Off Season by Jack Ketchum
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
Kockroach by Tyler Knox
On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association
The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer by Sandra Scofield
Also a few weeks ago I was in the mood for some Jay McInerney and ordered a bunch of his stuff.
Ransom
Story of My Life
The Last of the Savages
Brightness Falls
I have a lot of new reading ahead of me!!
I haven't read any McInerney yet... is he a lot like BEE?
Anyway, I'm always buying books, and I like to have a little stack of unreads in my night stand. Only after I've read them do they then relocate to the bookshelf. After finishing a book, choosing the next from my stack is one of my most favorite things in the whole world. Currently my unreads include:
Bloodsucking Fiends- Christopher Moore
Naked- David Sedaris
Naked Lunch- William S. Burroughs
Factotum- Charles Bukowski
Syrup- Max(x) Barry
"There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine." -Patrick Bateman
I just finished Syrup a couple weeks ago. Way better than I thought it was going to be. It might be my favorite of his now.
Jay McInerney has his own style. Some of the earlier stuff is similar to BEE. He has a lot of the same themes throughout. But writing style has changed over time. In my opinion that is.
Cool man thanks. Sometimes I try to read an authors works in order, even when the novels are unrelated. Maybe I'll try to do that with Jay.
"There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine." -Patrick Bateman
Bright Lights, Big City was written in the 2nd person. Which was a little weird to get used to. But that was the first one I read and I really liked it.
eat, pray, love Elizabeth Gilbert. I liked her GQ journalistic stuff. This is pretty cutesy. Probably have to try again in the summer.
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (combined edition)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (combined)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman/ Kafka on the Shore/ After the Quake Haruki Murakami (not combined)
There was a sale at the bookstore. I've been reading bits and pieces from some of these books. I've also been jonesing some "Naked Lunch" and H. P. Lovecraft. I could have sworn I brought my copy of "Lunch" with me from the states but I can't find it. What that man does with language is amazing. It's so dense. It's so layered. Every sentence is like a present within a present.
Get Up by Bucky Sinister
just to clarify, my own shelves are just as pillagable by anyone interested.
ewww... there's nothing I hate more in this world than people that borrow my shit and don't return it. (no offense.)
What's that about? It's like if it's media related in any way, books, CDs, DVDs, there's this assumption that if you borrow it there's an indefinite time frame on how long you can keep it.
I don't even loan anything out anymore expecting it to come back. I just assume that you're the jerk that's gonna keep it.
Does anyone else have this problem or is it just my crummy friends?
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell