what books did you just buy?
Oh, I dug the film. (Though, had I gone in blind, without plot knowledge gleaned from the book, I probably would have enjoyed it more.) But I can appreciate genre film more than I can genre fiction.
I also just bought The Delivery Man--it seemed far too BEE-esque for me to pass up!
Steve - Off the subject, but:
run car pen snow high in English
I don't get it?
What's the deal with your sig?
I have no idea. Victor said it in chat and I thought it sounded cool. I didn't think to google what it meant haha.
"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.
lmao! nice.
But who knows. Sometimes when you do google translate - it puts the words in the wrong order. So... Maybe it's something else. I can't think of any way that sentence makes sense though. lol
But who knows. Sometimes when you do google translate - it puts the words in the wrong order. So... Maybe it's something else. I can't think of any way that sentence makes sense though. lol
I think he said it means "jerking off my dick in English."
Now I remember why I put it up.
"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.
I'm from Sweden and it means exactly as quoted.
springa=run
bil=car
snö=snow
penna=pen or pencil
högt på engelska= simply means loud in English. Like saying something out loud in English...
Makes no sense whatsoever...
"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"
Lucky he teaches English, I guess.
He hates those kids. that's what he's teaching them. XD
WHATEVER
"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.
lmao
Steve you can't change it now just because. You HAVE to be stubborn and leave it. At least you know what it means now. Tell someone and then say, "Inside joke..."
I forgot what it means already, so, youknow, I don't care.
"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.
I'm sort of torn about the fact that I am no longer in his sig, but it's also good.
I saved that sig in a notepad document. I can have it back in jiff. Not really though cuz my computadora esta brokened. So I don't have it. And I'm not going to look for it.
"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.
uhhh, too many?
- The most beautiful woman in town
- notes of a dirty old man
- Pulp
- tales of ordinary madness all four by Bukowski
- Five complete novels by Dahiell Hammett
- whores for gloria by William Vollmann
- the sound of my voice by Ron Butlin
- Ablutions by Patrick DeWitt (the above two are both written in 2nd person, it's research)
- Major Inversions by Gordon Highland (finally. been meaning to pick this up for a whie now)
- The Quick and The Dead by Joy Williams
- Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
- The Delivery Man by Joe McGinniss Jr.
- Story: substance, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting by Robert McKee(yet another Clevenger recommendation. the last one i bought [only grammar book you'll ever need] was so good i just couldn't resist)
yeah... too many. got 'em all on the cheap from ABE, so it looks like more than it is.
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
I'm trying to keep my book buying to one a week until I catch up...
Hunger's a fantastic book. I read it one morning a few years ago. Just going absolutely mad!
Story
Nooooooooooooo!!! (Charlie Kaufman and I weep with you in commiseration.)
Yeah yeah, I know. I love adaptation and his screenwriting abiliities too, but Clevenger isn't the kind of guy to recommend a dud.
I tried reading it about ten years ago, and got halfway through, before chucking it aside with disdain. I felt vindicated a few years later when Adaptation came out.
(Of course, I've sold exactly zero screenplays since then, so, perhaps my book-chucking was a tad...hasty.)
Don't know when I'll read it, but I just bought Pygmy.
"There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine." -Patrick Bateman
I just bought The Gargoyle for a friend. 
It's her birthday next month and I'm sure she'll love it.
It's her birthday next month and I'm sure she'll love it.
I just started that. I'm 80 pages in, and it's just tremendous!
"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"
damnit! i still need to buy it. it's one of those been-meaning-to-buy books for me for a while now.
Invisible by Paul Auster
American Gods by Neil Gaiman- reading this
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
i recently picked up a first printing of IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK by james baldwin. if you havent read james baldwin, do it. do it now.
www.triplebeard.com
http://darkroomreview.blogspot.com
“...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
what's he like?
i dont know, kinda stuff we would like here i think. should be able to find some of his stories online sonny's blues (sp?) is a good example.
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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
i take that back. just a bunch of spark note shit. dont read that crap.
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY features GOING TO SEE THE MAN, which is an ok story, if you have the anthology. its graphic, though. as fair warning, if you're easily bothered dont read it. girls in my lit class actually refused to finish it. still probably the best story we read for that class.
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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
We went into a book buying frenzy with the Man himself, Barça Boy :
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Ah, you bought CE? I would've sent you a copy with some character.
"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.
Ah man, the fact that Roos is swedish... just... ah this hurts my swedish pride.
Springa = run
Bil = car
snö = Snow
Penna = pen
Now saying this out loud... the english words become "Runcar Snowpen." It sounds as if you're saying "Runkar Snoppen."
and well that means... Jerkin ya dickz offah... just sayin.
Victor be geniuz.
Steve, I appreciate that! Oh well, you can send me something else later. Or not. Or whatever.
I just picked up Painkillers by Jerry Stall Looks good
I've yet to read Stahl, but i thought I, Fatty looked intriguing.
For some reason I keep looking for Stahl at the bookstore when I go lately. His stuff is never there. I'm in search of something new I guess. I'll probably be order I, Fatty soon.
MOTHER NIGHT -- Vonnegut
used paperback stores do apparently contain other things than skeezy romance mass markets. not much else, but yeah
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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
childhood's end is a greaattt book.
It's not.
I have a clean copy up at both PaperbackSwap and SwapTree, if you're so inclined.
Here's Jerry Stahl on The Moth, recounting how he tried to beat his heroin addiction via crack (much more intriguing than anything in I, Fatty): Kicking the Horse.
I have that, I haven't read it yet though.
I just preordered 'Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook' by Anthony Bourdain. I'm super excited, I love his book 'Kitchen Confidential'.
Jerry Stahl sounds just like Chuck Palahniuk.
Which Chuck? The old one or the experimental one?
I think he means that Stahl has a similar style vis-á-vis oral storytelling; and I agree, especially when it comes to drawing laughs from the bleak.
i'm actually looking for a new book to buy, considering my book budget is very small and i hate when i spend it on a book that i don't end up finishing.
the sort of things i like to read are very actiony, i like good westerns (i dislike when it's mostly 300 pages of history with a few rodeo scenes intertwined) and any shoot em up filled with salaciousness and sin. i also like horror, mostly supernatural type things, but have read most of stephen king and all the 'classics.' i just like a book that's very exciting with as minimal deep social commentary as possible, which seems to be opposite most suggestions here, haha.
does anyone have any suggestions?
Which Chuck? The old one or the experimental one?
Is Chuck experimental?
the sort of things i like to read are very actiony, i like good westerns (i dislike when it's mostly 300 pages of history with a few rodeo scenes intertwined) and any shoot em up filled with salaciousness and sin. i also like horror, mostly supernatural type things, but have read most of stephen king and all the 'classics.' i just like a book that's very exciting with as minimal deep social commentary as possible, which seems to be opposite most suggestions here, haha.
does anyone have any suggestions?
What are some titles of books that you like to get an idea?
i'm afraid i'll get made fun of, haha. some of it is really cheesy, but i also like a lot of old noir type things, like stuff by Max Phillips, John Westermann.some of the horror i like is like Anne Rice, David Wellington's Monster series, some Dean Koontz, some cheesy things (The Sookie Stackhouse books.) I also read all of the Baer novels recently, and i enjoyed them (i see them mentioned around this website.)i also really enjoyed James Clavell's books.
i realize that's kind of a broad spectrum, haha. but my dad makes fun of me because i read/am more interested in more 'guy type' books and movies but it's pretty accurate.
i realize that's kind of a broad spectrum, haha. but my dad makes fun of me because i read/am more interested in more 'guy type' books and movies but it's pretty accurate.
I've only read 'Shogun' by Clavell, and I really liked it.
You should check out Elmore Leonard. He started off writing Westerns, then switched to crime, but all his books are more than their genre.
You might like Jim Thompson, pulp crime from the 50's.
Oh, and check out 'The Black Dahlia' by James Ellroy.
This may be a stretch but I think you'd really like 'I, Claudius' and 'Claudius the God' by Robert Graves if you like Anne Rice (I love 'Interview', but none of the sequels). They're super involved, action packed historical novels about the Roman emperor, but way more.
I watched I, Claudius a few years ago with my mother. It was awesome. I think it was a BBC series in the eighties.
Ha, I rented that BBC series from Netflix and hated it! The books were SO good.
Steve - Off the subject, but:
run car pen snow high in English
I don't get it?
What's the deal with your sig?