what books did you just buy?
Zeroville! Yeah, I read it. Fuckin' weird, but highly enjoyable -I recommend it. For me it wasn't work to read at all and I wanted to keep reading on through to the very end. Finished quickly. Likeable characters. Cool story.
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Cool - I'll pick up a copy one of these days.
See? It got a little discussion going!
I loved Days Between Stations and Rubicon Beach. There's something weird about Erikson. While I'm reading him I'm not sure if I like it. But when I finish and then reflect back on the book, I decide I really liked it.
I think I'm getting the same way with DeLillo. I about hated White Noise and Americana while I was reading them, but over the last couple months, just thinking about some of the stuff in there, I think I like what was going on. I'm gonna probably give both of them a re-read this upcoming year and check them out again.
I have not. I haven't read one of his since Haunted. I got burned out on his style, but I'm refreshed now and ready to read him again. I have phases like that with John Irving, too. Their styles are so particular that I can't read one book after the other, or even one a year some years.
Yeah, well, Chucky certainly has a particular style. It's easy to get burnt out on, I think. Which is why I haven't read Tell-all yet, even though I have it here. After Snuff and Pygmy I was really starting to not like him that much.
I read about 50 pages of PYGMY and really liked it, but the rape scene turned my stomach and I couldn't continue reading.
I read Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Choke. And that's it. If anyone gives a shit. Sorry, bored at work -thought I'd chime in.
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I haven't actually read a Chuck book since Lullaby. That's a long time ago.
It's been about 10 years for me, yeah. I hear you. Fight Club the movie got me interested enough in the book, and then the book along with my class at the time at school with a guy named Professor Palmer changed my life. I started reading more of Chuck, but then I read Will Christopher Baer and didn't look back.
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Have to say, though, between Chuck's essays and all he's done for writers, and the fact that he's pretty much the reason The Cult came to exist, I have nothing but respect for him.
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I don't have a problem with Chuck at all, but with an ever-expanding to read list his books got pushed to the bottom for some reason.
That's exaclty it. You nailed it. There's just soo much shit to read, right? Always.
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Full Dark, No Stars(50% off) and Lisey's Story(brand new on clearance for $1.98) both by King.
"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.
crap! I just realized I haven't even gotten tell-all yet.
it'll probably be a while before I do get to read it, but I gotta make sure to get the hardback so that it sits in nicely with all my others of his in hardback.
Isn't this where someone is supposed to complain about there never being a hardcover of Invisible Monsters?
I scored a Rubicon Beach Hardcover 1st edition 1st printing on amazon. Paid very few dollars for it, too. The jacket's a little worn, but not dramatically and the book itself is in perfect condition. This was an accident, by the way -I wasn't hunting for it. Just ordered Rubicon used hardcover from a 3rd market seller.
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meh. who's got the energy anymore.
meh. who's got the energy anymore.
I WANT A HARDCOVER OF INVISIBLE MONSTERS!!!
there... i said it.
(and with feeling)
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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
Actually - so do I! haha
Is that for real, there was no hardcover release of Invisible Monsters, in any country?
HOTEL LIFE vlautin (signed)
NORTHLINE vlautin (signed)
SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH OF KINGS gifford (signed)
MEMORIES FROM A SINKING SHIP (1st edition) gifford (signed)
THE PHANTOM FATHER (1st edition) gifford (signed)
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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
as far as I know there wasn't.
It just seems like such a no-brainer too! Every book he comes out with now hits the best seller list. Why not release a book that's already been written/edited, already has a fan base, is guaranteed to be a best seller? Just have someone slap a new Introduction on it and Whammo!
I'm in a non-fiction reading mood and just ordered the following from Amazon:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
as far as I know there wasn't.
It just seems like such a no-brainer too! Every book he comes out with now hits the best seller list. Why not release a book that's already been written/edited, already has a fan base, is guaranteed to be a best seller? Just have someone slap a new Introduction on it and Whammo!
A book dealer once told me that it was smart that Chuck didn't release Invisible Monsters as a hardcover after it had been initially rejected. I didn't want to sound stupid so I agreed with him--but I have no idea what he was talking about. Does anyone else know?
as far as I know there wasn't.
It just seems like such a no-brainer too! Every book he comes out with now hits the best seller list. Why not release a book that's already been written/edited, already has a fan base, is guaranteed to be a best seller? Just have someone slap a new Introduction on it and Whammo!
A book dealer once told me that it was smart that Chuck didn't release Invisible Monsters as a hardcover after it had been initially rejected. I didn't want to sound stupid so I agreed with him--but I have no idea what he was talking about. Does anyone else know?
This: http://ns1.chuckpalahniuk.net/forum/1000012/lets-get-invisible-monsters-...
Amazon.co.uk has free shipping to New Zealand (and some other places) right now which makes buying books from them ridiculously cheap with the exchange rate being pretty good too. So I bought a couple of books by Paul Auster, a couple by Arthur Nersesian, some Ryu Murakami, Jonathan Franzen, Jay McInerney, Haruki Murakami and a few others. And given that my to-read pile has about 30 books already, I should be sorted for reading material for just about the rest of the year.
meh. who's got the energy anymore.
You see - it's finally happening! It was posted on the front page of the cult, so it must be true.
pride and prejudice by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Beat the reaper by Josh Bazell
After my daughter was born, I'd considered buying a shotgun too ward off potential suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as i listened to these girls babble and imagined Gabby one day talking with the same banality and ignorance of the English language, i thought of buying the same shotgun to blow my own fucking head off.
A Cult favorite. You'll dig this one.
A Cult favorite. You'll dig this one.
I'm already hooked, i'm hoping work will go slow tonight so i can get into it.
After my daughter was born, I'd considered buying a shotgun too ward off potential suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as i listened to these girls babble and imagined Gabby one day talking with the same banality and ignorance of the English language, i thought of buying the same shotgun to blow my own fucking head off.
American Psycho and House of Leaves
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
Malcolm X
Women by Bukowski. After buying it I realized it may not be the best place to start with Bukowski. Somebody tell me what to read first by him.
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"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
You should read that one book he wrote while drunk, about being drunk, in not very interesting ways.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
You should read that one book he wrote while drunk, about being drunk, in not very interesting ways.
But hey, isn't that every--oh...
...I see what you did there.
I started with Women and then read Post Office and then Factotum and then Ham on Rye (actually I don't remember if I read Ham on Rye).
If you wanted to read them as a time-line - you would read them in the opposite order that I did switching Factotum and Post Office... I think.
You don't have to read them in any order though.
oh man so much
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A LIGHT IN AUGUST - faulkner
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES
BELOVED - morrison (for a class, shut up)
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WINNIE THE POOH (im not sure why)
THE DOGMA AND BYLAWS OF THE FREEMASONS
and shitloads of leatherbound classics
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-James Baldwin
BELOVED - morrison (for a class, shut up)
I laughed out reading that ahahaha -Interesting books you're reading, though. Good list.
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just picked up a first edition of A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC for five bucks.
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-James Baldwin
Aye -now there's a Classic. There was another one I used to have by him -Where The Sidewalk Ends? I'm not an expert on Silverstein -but those two books were staples of my childhood. Tragedy I don't own them today. Unless my Ma's still got them.
That's a nice score -a first edition for five bucks!
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a first edition of WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS is worth up to 75 bucks. I got one at an auction a couple weeks ago in a box full of leather bound gold leaf classics.
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-James Baldwin
that's pretty cool. so what, you're a serious collector then, or just with these particular books? again, though -2 great books -so those are very nice scores.
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I LIKE WHAT I KNOW - vincent price (signed)
A LIGHT IN AUGUST - faulkner
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES
BELOVED - morrison (for a class, shut up)
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WINNIE THE POOH (im not sure why)
THE DOGMA AND BYLAWS OF THE FREEMASONS
and shitloads of leatherbound classics
Have you read Pride and Prejudice? apparently you'll enjoy PAPWZ alot more if you have read the origonal, to see how easy the zombies slot in.
After my daughter was born, I'd considered buying a shotgun too ward off potential suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as i listened to these girls babble and imagined Gabby one day talking with the same banality and ignorance of the English language, i thought of buying the same shotgun to blow my own fucking head off.
i collect, and i know what things retail for, but a lot of the super valuable stuff i have im sentimentally attached to, or they belonged to my great great (sometimes great) grandparents. so, i dont usually sell.
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-James Baldwin
Lotta great authors there.
Same here as far as sentimental value -Like I collected Batman comics in the 80's after reading Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, and now, in my mid-30's, I don't read comics as much but I collect any new/recent ones linked to those artists or stories from that era. Like All Star Batman and Robin, for example -Questionable as the quality may be, it's still in that whole "Frank Miller" universe, so I collect it. Weird, but... It is what it is.
But yeah like you I don't sell much, either. I Did sell off a whole bunch of comics on ebay 2 years ago, but I had no attachment to those. For books, I try to score hardcovers of the ones I really like vs. value. But I I think I get too anal about it, because I'll reach a point where I won't want to crack open a book just because it's a 1st printing Hardcover, vs. just letting myself enjoy it.
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Imperial Bedrooms, Ellis. The Four Fingers of Death, Moody. C, Tom McCarthy. Borders had a clearance sale and I got fifty percent off. I am addicted to cheapness. And good books.
BELOVED - morrison (for a class, shut up)
I laughed out reading that ahahaha -Interesting books you're reading, though. Good list.
I read that for a class last year, too. Wasn't that into it. I also had to read Everything is Illuminated, which, frankly, I hated.
The first two - Days Between Stations and Rubicon Beach. I had ordered Days Between Stations a while ago but Amazon kept postponing the order again and again and eventually said they couldn't ship it at all.