what books did you just buy?

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]I fucking hate it how they chug Elmore Leonard in with Stephen King and John Grisham under genre and not under FICTION in the bookstores.[/QUOTE]
whats that got to do with a book you just bought ?

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]whats that got to do with a book you just bought ?[/QUOTE]

I spent half an hour trying to find a book I wanted to buy in the damned place, but I didn't feel like most of the stuff they had. They had a very slim english section. I also saw those little girly pocket hardcover books Vendetta mentioned a while ago. They were very cute and presentlike. Like for in a ladies handbag.

the castle - kafka
tender is the night - fitzgerald

Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Kafka

For one dollar at Barnes and Noble. I was like... "Wha?"

The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
The Plague by Albert Camus

I had to spend the last of my gift cards...

[QUOTE=Riddlegimp]That's a bizarro treat that one.[/QUOTE]

Yes it was.

And I Just bought

High Fidelty - Hornby
Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
Sea Change - Robert B. Parker

Well today at a used book sale in town I got:

Porno and Trainspotting - Welsh
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
The Virgin Suicides - Eugenides
Crash - Ballard

Got them all for a total of $3.25, I am quite pleased.

The other day I ordered these fine books:
- Cold Snap by Thom Jones
- Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
- Be Cool by Elmore Leonard

tHe EMABRRASMENT OF THE bOMB by snackacov

i think i made that up!

Girl with Curious Hair -- David Foster Wallce...

I just bought [u] Why Can't I Ever Be Good Enough?: Escaping Our Childhood Roles[/u]

I bought the Cyanide & Happiness book recently.

[QUOTE=mirka]The Secret History by Donna Tartt is fantastic! Read that first. :)[/QUOTE]
I haven't had a chance to read a lot of fiction lately because of school. So when I went into recovery I got the chance. I started with a couple shorter books first to get into it again. But I took you up on your advice last night and I have to admit - I'm loving it so far and I'm only a few pages into it. It's a nice change from what usually gets recommended around here.

in cold blood- truman capote

Tales of ordinary madness - Bukowski

[B]The Music Of Change[/B] -Paul Auster
[B]Year of The Dragon[/B] -Robert Daley
[B]Valdez is Coming [/B]-Elmore Leonard
[B]Gunsights[/B] -Elmore Leonard

I ordered them all from abebooks for a dollar each!

I just bought the UK editions of Fight Club, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Haunted, Fugitives and Refugees, Lullaby, Stranger Than Fiction (Non-Fiction) and Diary. I think that brings my Palahniuk book count up to something like 25. I also just bought Breakfast of Champions and Cat's Cradle. I've read them both but wanted to have them in my library in case the urge to read them again strikes.

Breakfast of Champions and Sirens of Titan are my favorite Vonnegut books.

I don't even know why I post in here. I'm always buying books.
I'll give you a clue, if I'm awake, I'm buying a book. Or three.

Last omes I got were:
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Les Liasons Dangereuses - Chunderbollocks de Laclos
-and-
Something else.

Breakfast of Champions is by far my favorite, but I read Sirens of Titan last week and was pretty impressed. Then again, there is nothing that Vonnegut has written that doesn't impress me.

-Andrea

[QUOTE=UbikRex]Breakfast of Champions and Sirens of Titan are my favorite Vonnegut books.[/QUOTE]

If you haven't check out other PKD books aside from androids dream of electric sheep, look into UBIK, FLOW MY TEARS THE POLICEMAN SAID, A SCANNER DARKLY, MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE

Shit, I haven't even heard of "Flow My Tears the Policeman Said." I've read the others, but I'll have to check that one out. I thought I had read all the Philip K. Dick books aside from "The Minority Report", because I have a feeling it might suck.

-Andrea

[QUOTE=UbikRex]If you haven't check out other PKD books aside from androids dream of electric sheep, look into UBIK, FLOW MY TEARS THE POLICEMAN SAID, A SCANNER DARKLY, MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE[/QUOTE]

He has like 30+novels and over 5 collected books of short stories

His last couple of books he wrote are all over this religious experience that took over him and he spent the later end of his career when this happened trying to express them. Check out VALIS, THE DIVINE INVASION, THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER. all strange reads, but that is to be expected by PKD.

I've read...
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
"The Man in the High Castle"
"Radio Free Albemuth"
"Lies, Inc"
"The Simulacra"
"The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick"
"A Maze of Death"
"A Scanner Darkly"
"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"
"Time Out of Joint"
"Confessions of a Crap Artist"
"Valis"
"The Crack in Space"
"Solar Lottery"
"Ubik"
"In Milton Lumky Territory"
"Now Wait for Last Year"
"Deus Irae"
"The Man Who Japed"
"The Cosmic Puppets"

Shit, I have my work cut out for me don't I? I'm missing about 15 novels there. Methinks it may be time to make a run to Borders.

[QUOTE=UbikRex]He has like 30+novels and over 5 collected books of short stories[/QUOTE]

National Lampoon's Truly Sick, Tasteless, and Twisted Cartoons
for $0.49 + $3 shipping from amazon. It's worth it.

probably was a graphic novel or a martial arts/zen book...can't remember

A Dirty Job- Christopher Moore
The Fan Man & The Bear Went Over The Mountain- William Kotzwinkle
Perfume- Patrick Suskind
Lunatics-Bradley Denton

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice.

[QUOTE=Vendetta]Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice.[/QUOTE]

Really?

[QUOTE=mikandrewz]Really?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I bought it for my mum for mother's day. It's kind of a gag gift but I've bought her all of the other hardbacks for various birthdays and such so this'll keep her collection going and I'm sure she's curious about the book. I'm curious about it myself. I like Jesus, I like Anne Rice, I don't see how a book written by her from his perspective can be a bad thing. :D:D:D

But you know it's just going to be three hundred pages of pure angst, it's going to be some guy finds out that he's the son of god and he considers it a great torture and burden so he winges about it, A LOT.

[I]The Wall Jumper[/I] by Peter Schneider.

I actually bought it for a friend's birthday present (she's an absolute bitch to buy for as she has read everything) but I really want to read it! The book is set in Berlin before the wall came down. Here's the back blurb:

"Berlin before the fall of the Wall is a city divided, yet its ordinary residents find ways to live and survive on both sides. There is Robert, teller of bar-room anecdotes over beer and vodka, adjusting to a new life in the west; Pommerer, trying to outwit the system in the East; the unnamed narrator, who 'escapes' back and forth to collect stories; his beguiling, exiled lover, Lena; the three boys who defect to watch Hollywood films; and the man who leaps across the Wall again and again - simply because he cannot help himself.

All are, in their different ways, wall jumpers, trying to lose themselves but still trapped wherever they go. Ultimately, the walls inside their heads prove to be more powerful than any man-made barrier..."

Ian McEwan writes the introduction.

heart of darkness and the picture of dorian gray

A couple of sports books.

"Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot : The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad" by Mike Greenberg

and

"Game of Shadows : Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports" by Mark Fainaru-Wada

I figured why not. They were cheap and I got a free 3 month trial of Amazon Prime so I get free 2 day shipping and $3.99 next day shipping.

I just picked up Filth (Irvine Welsh) and Fear and Loathign in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson).
I'm deciding on another on to buy. I want sometign edgy, but I can't decide.

I wouldn't say 'just,' but my most recent purchases, which I'm most of the way through now:
'Wildbrews' by Jeff Sparrow
'Blood Meridian' by Cormac McCarthy
'Company' by Max Barry
'Time Traveler's Wife' by Audrey Niffennegger
'Safety of Objects,' by A.M. Homes

'Nothing Burns In Hell' by Philip Jose Farmer

I've just bought "the room" and " last exit to brooklyn" both by Selby Jr.

[I]Byron: Life and Legend[/I] by Fiona MacCarthy

Slaughter House 5 by kurt vonnegut. Can anyone give me an idea of how good or bad this book is?

It's different. I thought it was really cool. I read it in one day. Somebody started a thread a while back about anti-chronological order in books. This book is a really good example because the main character believes that he visited his death, birth and anything in between.

[QUOTE=Unhygenix]Slaughter House 5 by kurt vonnegut. Can anyone give me an idea of how good or bad this book is?[/QUOTE]

Everyone loves it, I loved it. He does an incredibly impressive job jumping through time. In fact, I think he comes about as close as you can get to his own description of seeing things in the 4th dimension, meaning, rather than time being sequential...eh, just read it, you already know you'll love it.

Just ordered: V: by Thomas Pynchon and Thucydides' "History" Jesus, someone buy me a tweed jacket.

[U]Women[/U]- Charles Bukowski
[U]The Alchemist[/U]- Paulo Coelho

I am a big fan of Bukowski so I am looking forward to reading anything by him.

A few years back I had read [U]La Quinta Montana [/U] by Paulo Coelho in a Spanish Class in college and really liked the way he wrote. I had heard great things about [U]The Alchemist[/U] from different people so I read it the day I bought it and loved it. It's such a simple book about following your dreams, something that has been done countless times yet I was never bored and I felt as if I was reading something unique and something with perspective. A very good read.

Anyway, those were the last two I bought...this was on Monday.

I just read Hempel for the first time. The Dog Of The Marriage is a collection of short stories and the only Hempel book I've found in the library or bookstore. I can see how Chuck's work is influenced from her. There were some parts as I was reading this that I felt she was the female Chuck. I thought there was amazing description and I don't think that was her most popular book either. In other words, I'd like to read her other works to have an even better understanding.

As for Ballard, I have just started to read Super-Cannes. It's a bit slower then what I like but it has some interesting thoughts so far. I can tell that J.G. Ballard is a highly educated man, so it seems I need to drink some Scotch while I read Ballard.

Anyways, I'll let you know more about Ballard as time goes by and I actually finish the story. Anyone with more input on Ballard especially this story?

Neanderthal - Darton

Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus

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The full title is "CHICKEN FOOT SOUP AND OTHER RECIPES FROM THE PINE BARRENS" edited by Arlene Martin Ridgway, illustrated by Jim Bernard, pub by Rutgers University Press, NJ.

From the Pine Barrens, rich in seafood, berries, vegetables and game, comes this collection of unusual recipes. There is duck soup and huckleberry dumplings. Use cranberries in hot cranberry tea or cranberry wine. Put clams into a scouse or on a shingle. Serve fiddleheads or squash flowers with fried snapping turtle or muskrat.

[QUOTE=tyler branson][U]Women[/U]- Charles Bukowski.[/QUOTE]

This book is pretty cool, I haven't read so much of his stuff yet but I preferred Ham On Rye and Post Office to this. I've got Factotum sitting around here, I should really get round to reading it, the film is awesome.

Yeah she has several other collections of short stories out, one including a novella but no actual novels yet. If I was you I would hold off trying to track any of them down until May, because then there's a 'Collected Works' coming out. I love her stuff and the only book of hers I haven't been able to read is At The Gates Of The Animal Kingdom because it's so rare, cheapest copies I've seen on Amazon were about seventy quid. I'm pretty sure it's going to be included in the collected works so I'm definately getting it.

I haven't read this one, I've read a couple of his books. Cocaine Nights and Millenium People. I thought he seemed like a more mature version of Palahniuk. He seems to have good ideas for stories and concepts but I don't think he's as good a story teller as Palahniuk so they don't seem quite as convincing.

I've read The Outsider, The Fall and The Plague and I thought they were all great, I've never read these two though so you'll have to tell us how they compare.

[B]Kurt Vonnegut[/B] - [I]Man Without A Country[/I]
Been wanting to get my hands on this book. Loved his interview on the Daily Show last year and i'm a fan of his fiction, I'm curious how he goes about things in this book.

[B]Alfred Bester[/B] - [I]The Stars My Destination[/I]
A personal favorite author of mine, friend of mine got me into him after he noticed my fascination with Philip K. Dick novels. This one reads out like a sci-fi version of Edmond Dantes.

[B]Alex Garland[/B] - [I]The Coma[/I]
Always look at this book but never consider buying until today when I saw the hardcover for 5 bucks, so I said what the hell.