what books did you just buy?
i think we might be talking about the same class.
i watched ILLUMINATED the movie last year. that was bad enough.
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-James Baldwin
That'd be funny if we had the same class, being in different countries and all. I forget what the course was called though. We also read Heart of Darkness for it.
michelle assures me we're not in the same class. im not sure what else is on the reading list though. i know it wasnt much i actually wanted to read.
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-James Baldwin
The Lovely Bones (First Edition Hardbound) by Alice Sebold, for $6.00.
I'm a big fan of the book; it was the first f***ed-up book I've ever read. My Mom, through out her life, just made me read Sparks' novels which I despise.
I'm glad you found a book that you could finally connect with... But I hated that book. lol. At least it's bringing someone some joy.
I just bought Charles Bukowski's Post Office and read that, so I decided to basically buy every other novel he has written.
I also bought The Rules of Attraction by BEE.
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.
Just bought Imperial Bedrooms, and The Contortionist's Handbook, which I'm loving so far.
I'm a big fan of the book; it was the first f***ed-up book I've ever read. My Mom, through out her life, just made me read Sparks' novels which I despise.
i have one of those on my bookcase that i got for my fiance for her birthday last year. neither of us have gotten to it yet, so i dont know how it stacks up with the movie.
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-James Baldwin
I also bought The Rules of Attraction by BEE.
This is funny. I just bought that too. And Hey, Atomos -I just bought The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alex based on a rating you gave it and then a review I read. Just came in the mail -that along with How They Were Found by Matt Bell and Person by Sam Pink. Those 4 came today.
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Stay God by Nik Korpon
Stranger Will by Caleb Ross
Klondike: A Game of Ears by Phil Jourdan
Major Inversions by Gordon Highland
Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Bradley Sands
6 Sick Hipsters by Rayo Casablanca
HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen
The Colony by Jillian Weise
High Life by Matthew Stokoe
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
we are doing a liquidation sale for the last local bookstore, so I got to have first pick. I got a ton of books at half off. I'll see what I can remember, the books are at my mom's house.
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Things Fall Apart by that one guy
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Thurston
The Alchemist by someone
Coraline and another I don't remember the name of by Neil Gaiman
20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
A Christmas Carol by Dickens
I know there were quite a few more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
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-LaJessica
Nobody reads Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald. But I really liked it. He's in my top 5 writers. I've loved everything I've read by him.
I liked it too. Very enjoyable read.
I like that book a lot.
Also I like YOU for buying Klondike! Thanks.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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Hey Phil no problem! I really should have bought it a long time ago. But somehow it kept getting buried farther and farther back on my wishlist until I just forgot about it. That's why I decided to try and buy as many cultie books in one go as I could.
One question for you - why is your book cheaper in hardcover than in paperback? Weird. lol
Stranger Will by Caleb Ross
Klondike: A Game of Ears by Phil Jourdan
Major Inversions by Gordon Highland
Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Bradley Sands
6 Sick Hipsters by Rayo Casablanca
HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen
The Colony by Jillian Weise
High Life by Matthew Stokoe
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Holy Shit you bought High Life!!!!! That is one seriously fucked up book. I got it as a gift from Ken Bruen, the writer who wrote the intro. His second book Cows is even mire disturbing. Let me know what you think of it Pete?
For sure dude! I'm going to let you know what I think of every one of those! 
High Life was great. Have you read Cows? It's a lot more fucked up. And it's his first book rather than his second, but the reprint came out way after High Life was published. I think I might prefer High Life because of its noir nature.
Also, Mykle Hansen of Help! A Bear is Eating Me! fame gave me some really helpful feedback on Rico Slade that I used for a rewrite of it.
I like that book a lot.
Also I like YOU for buying Klondike! Thanks.
Hmm, I'm having a hard time getting into it. Today was the first day since I've been out of the hospital that I didn't read all day. I started it the night before last and I'm still only 50 pages into it.
I guess it gets better? I hope so.
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-LaJessica
I've read half the list Pete and have most of the others on my Wishlist.
Of course you have... lol
Because of this fantastic deal and because I have no self control, I've placed a second order with Amazon.co.uk (those of you in New Zealand and Australia should really take advantage of this - I think the offer runs out mid May) and bought:
My Dark Places and The Hilliker Curse by James Ellroy
Crash and Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
Snow Angels and The Good Wife by Stuart O'Nan
The Sound and the Fury and Sanctuary by William Faulkner
For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Zero History by William Gibson
Off Season by Jack Ketchum
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Super Sad true Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
Point Omega by Don Delilo
Tell All by Chuck Palahniuk
Plus a few more.
So I've just about cleared out my wish list and there's going to be a huge pile of books sitting around that's going to take the better part of a year to read.
Went to get my first Bukowski book, but the BooksaMillion apparently didn't have room in their inventory as they HAD to carry two different Jimmy Buffet books with a total of five different print variations. I wish I was kidding. Instead I had to settle for Blindness by Jose Saramago. Also ordered a copy of Out of Touch.
Or will it all end in a big bankiss orgy?
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-James Baldwin
The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
Wait, you WANTED Bukowski but SETTLED for Saramago?
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
Wait, you WANTED Bukowski but SETTLED for Saramago?
I can just hear the incredulity in these words.
Oh no you didn't.
Stranger Will by Caleb Ross
Klondike: A Game of Ears by Phil Jourdan
Major Inversions by Gordon Highland
Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Bradley Sands
6 Sick Hipsters by Rayo Casablanca
HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen
The Colony by Jillian Weise
High Life by Matthew Stokoe
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
I'm after ordering:
The Chronology of Water.
Stranger Will
Rico Slade ....
That's almost the lot of your list now!
Nice!
I'm sure you will be telling me what you think of those three books before I get to them. haha
I'm sure you will be telling me what you think of those three books before I get to them. haha
It will be a while before I get hold of them.
Wait, you WANTED Bukowski but SETTLED for Saramago?
I can just hear the incredulity in these words.
Ha! That's what I get for sending that from my phone without using the sarcasm font.
Or will it all end in a big bankiss orgy?
Despair by Nabokov
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Ever and Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
Now which to read first after I finish up Rant? Hmmmm...
The New York Trilogy!
Awesome, will do! Thanks! I've had Leviathan on my bookshelf for months now and have been waiting to get my hands on a used copy of the trilogy so I can read that first.
Sometimes Paul Auster's stories just end. So plot wise they aren't amazing. (Though I loved Oracle Night's plot). But his writing is just great. It's so lyrical. It just begs to be read out loud.
I've loved all of Auster's books (especially The New York Trilogy) except for the ones that he wrote after The Brooklyn Follies. Those just didn't work for me, although I haven't read his most recent book yet. I think he's the only writer who can go on with pages and pages of exposition and actually make it work well.
I agree with the bit about exposition. It's just his prose is so good.
Brooklyn Follies was the first book I read by him that didn't do anything for me. And then his new book wasn't that great either in my opinion (compared to his other books). And I wanted to love both of those books.
Brooklyn Follies was the last book of his that I liked. I remember it having more mainstream appeal like The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Fortress of Solitude. I think my uncle, who isn't a big reader but likes books like that, was really into it. It's too bad to hear about his new one. I was hoping that it would be an improvement. I didn't care for the two books that came before it.
I also tried Travels in the Scriptorium. I thought that one was terrible.
Honestly Invisible wasn't that bad. It just wasn't up to his standards. You might like it.
I couldn't finish this damn thing for the life of me.
It happens. If I wasn't such a big Auster fan I might not have liked that book at all.
I've read Invisible. It wasn't bad, but I thought it was mediocre. While nearly all of his other books are great, so I was disappointed. I didn't like Travels in the Scriptorium. Didn't he use some characters from his other books in it? If so, I might have liked it more than I would have if I hadn't read all of his other books. His new one is Sunset Park, which I haven't read.
Oh, I didn't know about Sunset Park.
Travels in the Scriptorium is the one about the guy in the room or something? I didn't make it very far into that one before I just got annoyed with it.
Yeah.
Just been hitting up Amazon for a fix.
Got three books I've been after for a while now, including Stranger Will, for this month's book club.
Also got The Orange Eats Creeps and Slut Lullabies, both of which I have been wanting to read since Mirka's top ten of 2010 list, a fact that Richard's recent reviews reminded me of.
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I bought two Carlton Mellick III books last night (Crab Town and The Morbidly Obese Ninja). And Cameron Pierce's Abortion Arcade.
I'm planning on reading The Orange Eats the Creeps eventually.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis - got this on a total whim, hope it's good!
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis - got this on a total whim, hope it's good!
It's not bad. There's a book club thread for it floating around somewhere too.
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I just bought the whole PULP PRESS UK catalogue in Kindle form for $0.99 each. They're having a sale to celebrate a new book, which is also, surprisingly, only a buck.
Fun, quick-reading, dirty, violent pulpy novellas with great artwork. Get involved.