what books did you just buy?
Mayhem in Mayberry by Brian Lee Knopp- This is the author that talked with Chuck Palahniuk at the reading I went to. He's a local author, and the copy I found at a used bookstore is a signed addition. I love used bookstores.
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"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
You all should do Victoria by Knut Hamsun. Short and sweet. Well, kind of.
Would you consider being the discussion leader for this?
I'll do eet!
he has excepted the challengeeeeeee!
Awesome Nate! I'm excited to hear that. Thank you! 
On other news, in the last few weeks I've bought a shitload of books. I'm going to try and remember them all.
The Mystic Art of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
The 25th Hour by David Benioff
Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti by Stephen Graham Jones
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Some Things that Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr
Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr by David Bret
Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets by Cadillac Man
Two Girls Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
On other news, in the last few weeks I've bought a shitload of books. I'm going to try and remember them all.
The Mystic Art of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
The 25th Hour by David Benioff
Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti by Stephen Graham Jones
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Some Things that Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr
Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr by David Bret
Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets by Cadillac Man
Two Girls Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
Candy, Some Things That Meant The World To Me and Pop 1280 are all great.
How did you find the movie version, Derek ?
Very Good Thank you Ludwig. Everytime I watch a French movie I wish the people in Barcelona spoke French. The language is awesome to listen to.
Candy, Some Things That Meant The World To Me and Pop 1280 are all great.
Mirka is the only person I know that read Some Things That Meant the World to Me. She recommended to me a while back. It almost didn't make the list because I haven't heard anybody else talk about it at all. I'm glad you liked it.
Those other two - everybody has said they're great.
The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It by Justin Cribb
I'm considering buying Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.
Candy by Luke Davies
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Invisible by Paul Auster
The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Invisible by Paul Auster
The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger
I didn't like Invisible the beginning was great though. Their are a couple books I love the beginning to and not the rest of the book.
That one,
How the Dead Live - Will Self,
Raw Shark Texts,
and The Rat King
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The People of Paper - Salvador Plascencia
my abandonment - peter rock
part time indian - sherman alexie
geek love (first edition) - katherine dunn
lean on pete - willy vlantin
ramona quimby age eight (haha) - beverly cleary
(note: these are for a class on northwest authors)
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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
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Count Zero - William Gibson
"...human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars."
was killing time at powells yesterday, because rush hour on the bus is more painful than rush hour in traffic, and found an ARC of THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FIST FIGHT IN HEAVEN by alexie
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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
Is this, like, a real arc for a book? It's not just a bunch of copier paper stapled down the middle or anything is it?
I say you should go ahead and get it because it'll be worth something when it gets sued out of existence.
The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep And Never Had To by DC Pierson (Loved it)
Transubstantiate by Richard Thomas (Loved this one, too -got it for the book club and it ended up being a favorite as far as books I've recently read)
Year of The Flood by Margaret Atwood (almost finished -slow, yet somehow engaging at the same time -I haven't lost interest)
Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackman (halfway finished -really enjoying this one)
Blood's A Rover by James Ellroy (Just got through the first chapter -not sure why I waited for this to come out on paperback -I really like this, though I just started)
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Haven't started yet)
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (Haven't started this yet either -got it b/c it's October's book club selection and don't know much about it)
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Is this, like, a real arc for a book? It's not just a bunch of copier paper stapled down the middle or anything is it?
I say you should go ahead and get it because it'll be worth something when it gets sued out of existence.
at first i wasnt going to get it, because it didnt say it was uncorrected on the cover. but on the back it has this little postcard thing that says 'this uncorrected proof copy presented to' i have quite a few ARC's and i dont think i have seen anything like that. its in pretty good condition, too.
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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
Any recommendations for books with dark themes and really unlikeable protagonists?
Example: Lolita
Yeah like every book written in the past 20 years.
Yeah, maybe... not the ones I've came across, though. I'd still like recommendations on the GOOD ones of these books, cause you guys tend to recommend books I like.
Rant by this gay dude.
Just found this awesome used book store right by my work. They have a great selection, and the books are all cheap.
Bought:
Venus on the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Filth by Irvine Welsh
once you get over this fixation I bet You'll find you enjoy reading so much more.
Which fixation? Reading books I enjoy?
Try The Never Enders, by Michael Sonbert. You can get it on amazon. It has no likeable characters, and it's dark, yet the book is actually pretty good. I think it may be what you're looking for. It's easy to read -I finished in a week -and it holds your interest throughout.
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What makes a protagonist unlikeable for you?
We don't have a bookstore. We have a bible shop, and the I guess Wally World sells books, but all of them are romance or twilight, and that is just eh. Oh and the fact that I don't have money stops me from buying books. But if I had money I would buy everything by Charles Bukowski. I would just buy a lot of them. I want a book bed, and a house made of books, but what about the fires.
Good arms vs bad arms will win hands down.
yeah, good Rec. It's a great book. I've got a review of it up at Outside Writers, but I'm on my phone and I couldn't be fucked to get the link, so you'll have to take my word for it.
His latest book, still unreleased, We Are Oblivion, is going to be fucking great. I've rea the first few chapters and it's dirtier a sleazier than TNE. Can't wait for the release from serial Cult-author publisher Otherworld Publications.
Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan, and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August & Sanctuary. All hardcover, and the Faulkner's match. Neat-o.
And another soft cover of Fight Club. I keep lending this book to people and not getting it back. Actually, I remember someone said, "You want to read Fight Club, Tony's always got an extra copy." It's true. So I kind of just go into it now expecting people to keep it. I just tell them to pass it on to someone new someday.
All for five and a half bucks at a library discard type sale. So my morning went well.
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what's the title and author on the vice president one? That could be good.
However, kudos to the NYTBR for reversing itself on Philip Roth, who is now, it would seem, once again politically acceptable.
What is it with you and Philip Roth's political status?
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
But does anyone, in their private life, really care what a bunch of angry feminists think about Philip Roth?
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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Example: Lolita
Glamorama - Ellis
I stopped midway through because I thought to myself, I hate these characters and really don't care what happens to them.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
Yes, I feel silly for letting their agenda interfere with my reading pleasure, but where does one go to find what one likes, if what one likes is not what's hip, or trendy, or chic, or cool? On a happier note, I'm very glad I rediscovered how much I like Roth.
Amazon.com has been around for a couple years now. it seems to do a good job.
S. King had similar problems, too, particularly after that scene he wrote into It, where the adolescent girl has sex with the five boys in the storm drain. Although he deleted the scene from subsequent editions, the damage was done, perhaps irreparably. That other one he did, the short one where the father has sex with the young daughter, and the woman is chained to a bed, and there is the flock of birds, blah, blah, did not help his reputation much either.
There is a lot of good writing in our world, but it would seem that if you want to mainstream you must give proper respect to those groups who shape the mores of our culture, which I sometimes call "political correctness."
that's the first time I've ever heard mention about that bit from King. The copy of It that I have has the storm drain sex scene in it. I oughta ebay it for hundreds of bucks!
Also, i've never had trouble going to a bookstore and finding anything from Henry Miller. Hell, the very first page of Opus Pistorum has him having sex with a kid on it!
Example: Lolita
Glamorama - Ellis
I stopped midway through because I thought to myself, I hate these characters and really don't care what happens to them.
I loved Glamorama!
Example: Lolita
Glamorama - Ellis
I stopped midway through because I thought to myself, I hate these characters and really don't care what happens to them.
I loved Glamorama!
i think glamorama is his best.
if you have to like the protagonist/characters in the book then BEE is not the author for you
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Example: Lolita
Glamorama - Ellis
I stopped midway through because I thought to myself, I hate these characters and really don't care what happens to them.
I loved Glamorama!
i think glamorama is his best.
if you have to like the protagonist/characters in the book then BEE is not the author for you
Yeah - it was a real tough start. Maybe the first 5-10 pages. But after that it was just awesome.
I don't know. I think you still need to be able to relate and empathise with characters, no matter how unlikeable they are. that's what makes them a compelling character. For me. And I can feel for BEE's characters. I can understand their actions.
Not to talk about it all the time, which is what i seem to be doing right now, but the same goes for Zuckerberg in The Social Network. I completely understood his actions. I didn't even think he was that big a prick. everyone else i watched it with thought be was a cunt. not even a prick. a cunt. But i got him. And i think that's important. But actions really do speak louder than words. sometimes you've got to look deeper than actions and words to reveal the true nature of a character though.
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Mario Vargas Llosa - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Failure I cannot fix, false hope for nothing
This is the life I lead and tomorrow will not change
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I ordered the following from Amazon this morning to tide me over on my DC trip next week:
Sourland: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Faithful Place by Tana French
RANT by Palahniuk! I haven't read it yet!
You haven't read Rant yet? Strange. It's probably the best from his last five or six efforts, in my opinion.
GEEK LOVE - dunn (a gift)
MY ABANDONMENT - rock (a gift)
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-James Baldwin
I just lost all control and ordered almost 30 books at once. Should keep me busy for a while. I can't be bothered listing them all.
then why bother posting about it at all? At least list some of the unique or ones you're most anticipating or something.
Fine.
James Ellroy's LA Quartet, the last five of Philip Roth's Zuckerman novels, a couple by Wliilaim Faulkner, a couple by Douglas Coupland, a couple by Steve Erickson, a couple by Jay MacInerney, and a bunch of others.
which Steve Erickson? I've had Zeroville on my list for about 3 years. Anyone read it?
make him. force him. do it.
today, i was walking past the indie bookstore while looking for a hairdressing salon, and i couldn't resist. so i bought:
Tell-all (finally. it's been a while since i've read chuck's voice and it was kind of kickass, and i'm looking forward to speeding through it)
Imperial Bedrooms
and this new aussie book that just came out called The Byron Journals.