what books did you just buy?
I'm planning on reading The Orange Eats the Creeps eventually.
Rico Slade finally arrived yesterday. Looks fun. Flipped it open randomly to read, "karate chopped her in the pussy."
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis - got this on a total whim, hope it's good!
I love Malcolm Gladwell's books. Outliers was pretty good. A lot of interesting theories in there.
Here's the discussion for Imperial Bedrooms:
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/forum/1000029/imperial-bedrooms-book-club-marc...
Scott Pilgrim, vol. 1-3
Hero by Perry Moore
Slut Lullabies by Gina Frangello
A Million Little Pieces by Jame Frey
A Million Little Pieces by Jame Frey
I hope you didn't pay more than a quarter.
A Million Little Pieces by Jame Frey
I hope you didn't pay more than a quarter.
$4.
I'll trade you it for the Yuknavitch 
A Million Little Pieces by Jame Frey
I hope you didn't pay more than a quarter.
$4.
I'll trade you it for the Yuknavitch
You were robbed.
Ha, I found it! I gotta send it to you because I have to know if I'm the only one thinking what..I'm thinking about it. (But seriously, I did find it, and I only have 8 more boxes to unpack.)
I liked A Million Little Pieces! I don't care if it's a sham or not...
A Million Little Pieces by Jame Frey
I hope you didn't pay more than a quarter.
$4.
I'll trade you it for the Yuknavitch
You were robbed.
Ha, I found it! I gotta send it to you because I have to know if I'm the only one thinking what..I'm thinking about it. (But seriously, I did find it, and I only have 8 more boxes to unpack.)
Fuck yeah. Very cool.
Excited to read that one.
Less than zero by BEE. Surprise as to how much of an easier casual read it was compared to American Psycho. Was expecting this whole mind fuck thing but so far it's just good.
You look like the type of guy / gal, who would like:
Is American Psycho the only other Ellis you've read?
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
"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.
Yeah, I loved it. However I was kinda over whelmed by the style and expected the rest of his work to be so grandiloquent.
You look like the type of guy / gal, who would like:
Yeah AP is definitely his most complex, his other work is more "minimalistic.".
a couple handing out copies of THE MOTEL LIFE by willy vlautin.
its great when i can support a local bookseller and a local author, and not spend a bunch of money.
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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
Yeah, I loved it. However I was kinda over whelmed by the style and expected the rest of his work to be so grandiloquent.
Glamorama is probably the closest to American Psycho style wise. It's also my favorite of Ellis' books. But you might want to read The Rules of Attraction first. There's a few of the same characters in it.
I thought that I was the only person that really like Glamorama...
See, while I didn't read the book, I never got all the people demanding their money back. Either you liked the book or you didn't. Did it have to be "real" for you to enjoy it or get something out of it?
Like all those people who returned their Milli Vanilli CDs. Did you like the songs? Did you bop along driving in your car? Dance like a maniac in the clubs? Who cares if the two prettyboys were the voices or not? Those were decent songs.
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haha good comparison!
I enjoyed the writing style. And the book moved me. Therefore - good book.
This...
Seriously loving the retro cover.
It's actually for the book group I set up in my building. I didn't choose the book but am chairing the discussion. Apparently it's a good book...
i really like that book.
Excellent!
Really? I assumed everyone liked it.
I enjoyed the writing style. And the book moved me. Therefore - good book.
Will agree with you on this. I don't think I like him -I think he's a sham artist, and I definitely did not like his follow-up "Bright Shiny Morning," but I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed A Million Little Pieces as a book -true or not. I think it's a good book with some great messages.
I also happen to think that Milli Vanilli's "Blame It On The Rain" is the fuckin' SHIT! I LOVE IT! ahaha
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Just ordered We Are Oblivion and Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat yesterday. Hopefully I'll read it in time for Book Club discussion.
Also, I didn't technically buy these, but my brother lent me a box (at least twenty) of Stephen King novels. I've read Duma Key (I loved until the end) and Under the Dome (I thought was OK). Supposedly his earlier stuff is even better so I'm excited to read these this summer.
(I've been looking for BEE books at the used book store--not surprising that they're hard to find. I've read AP and looking forward to the rest).
Read The Shining before anything else by Stephen King. Then read Carrie. Those are the only two books by him that I absolutely loved.
I did really like Under the Dome as well as The Stand though. I thought they were both really similar, just on different scales. The ending to Under the Dome was a let down.
Was it me, or did Duma Key have a lot of the same themes as Diary? I don't know if it was just the painting in a remote place, or if there was something else. I can't put my finger on exactly what it was. I just remember thinking that the whole time I was reading it.
Duma Key and Diary are very similar--almost the same story-line (but I won't get into spoilers). What's really funny for me was that I started to get bored with Diary but the ending saved it. I couldn't put down Duma Key but was very disappointed by the end.
King is awesome at creating characters (and then seems to kill the most liked/loved ones) but, from my limited experiences, his stories seem to fall off at the end. But I was assured that this isn't the case with all of his books--hence borrowing a box full--so I am excited for the summer.
I think, you're right. For the most part, King creates awesome characters that you really get to know. He creates suspenseful situations that keep you on the end of your seat. And in 90% of his books (that I've read) he blows the ending.
I just got finished reading a recently released porn memoir called Girlvert. I devoured it. I came to the Cult just to recommend it. Funny people should be talking about Frey, he gave the book a blurb: "Oriana Small has pushed herself to the outermost extremes of what the body and mind are capable of — all before turning thirty years old — and now she’s made it an authentic read for the rest of us to marvel at, elevating the depravity and denial inherent in the pornographic arts to a singular literary experience."
Here's a review of it,
http://www.fangirltastic.com/content/girlvert-oriana-small-memoir
and another,
http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2011_03_017445.php
I enjoyed the writing style. And the book moved me. Therefore - good book.
Pete, do you think I'd like it? I've been meaning to read it for so long. I've got it on my Kindle. I like that he doesn't use quotations marks to attribute dialogue. Into that.
I don't care that it was sold as a memoir and ended up being more of a fiction. Who gives a fuck? I like fiction. If it's a good, well-written book, it shouldn't really matter whether it's real or not. Everyone knows fiction has the power to have way more impact than reality anyway. I'd prefer reading fiction. I've got reality in my life. Don't need to be reading that shit. Give me something that's better than reality, that manipulates reality and magnifies reality.
Here's a review of it,
http://www.fangirltastic.com/content/girlvert-oriana-small-memoir
and another,
http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2011_03_017445.php
heya Bug! I'm always so happy when you drop by! I'm probably not too curious about the book you mentioned, though. 
Ordered from Amazon yesterday:
'Embassytown' -China Mieville
'A Feast for Crows' -George R.R. Martin
'A Dance with Dragons' -George R.R. Martin (Pre-order)
'Raising Stony Mayhall' -Daryl Gregory (Zombie YA!)
'The Unnamed' by Joshua Ferris
'Burial of the Dead' -Michael Hogan (I already have it but it was on sale for $5!)
I recently bought Thomas Ligotti's My Work is Not Yet Done. I've read it before. Wanted to reread it for inspiration for my next project. Short one. A series of prose poems for an ebook. I also tried to get it through an interlibrary loan, but I was in a rush. Should have waited. It showed up a few days ago.
Also bought Nicole Cushing's How to Eat Fried Furries. She's donating all the book's royalties from last month to the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis. Authors of bizarro fiction have started doing the donation thing recently. It gives me a reason to buy the books even though I can't really afford to spend money on books (but my credit card makes purchasing possible)
So I'll probably be buying Kirk Jones' Uncle Sam's Carnival of Copulating Inanimals next month for the same reason. His royalties will be going to an organization called Helping Hands, who "train small primates to help the disabled with daily tasks." More info here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/559565-donating-my-june-royalties-to...
As for myself, I'm planning something special (and similar) next month for Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You.
i just got the whole set of the chronicles of narnia. i realized i never read them as a child, and i might be missing something. besides. i got the whole thing for ten bucks, along with some other books i could sell for that much (like certain wizards with scars on their foreheads) at the auction last week.
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-James Baldwin
Here's a review of it,
http://www.fangirltastic.com/content/girlvert-oriana-small-memoir
and another,
http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2011_03_017445.php
heya Bug! I'm always so happy when you drop by! I'm probably not too curious about the book you mentioned, though.
Ordered from Amazon yesterday:
'Embassytown' -China Mieville
'A Feast for Crows' -George R.R. Martin
'A Dance with Dragons' -George R.R. Martin (Pre-order)
'Raising Stony Mayhall' -Daryl Gregory (Zombie YA!)
'The Unnamed' by Joshua Ferris
'Burial of the Dead' -Michael Hogan (I already have it but it was on sale for $5!)
Yeah, I could see how it could not be your cup of tea. It has a lot of descriptions of very hardcore pornography, she wasn't doing the "nice" Jenna Jameson/Tera Patrick type stuff, she was doing nasty, nasty stuff.
That's a whole lotta books you bought. You're like the book Terminator.
I enjoyed the writing style. And the book moved me. Therefore - good book.
Pete, do you think I'd like it? I've been meaning to read it for so long. I've got it on my Kindle. I like that he doesn't use quotations marks to attribute dialogue. Into that.
I think you would. It's very raw. He has a choppy style you might dig.
Just recently finished John Dies at the End - Dr. David Wong; it's one of the only books that when I try to tell people about it, I am at a total loss for words. It's so utterly weird and fucked up that I have no way to describe it. all you can really use are single words strung together with no context: Dave, the sauce, X’al’naa”thuthuthu, Robert Marley, exploded bodies, Las Vegas. Also it is being made into a movie by Don Coscarelli.
The next one has been featured here, Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell (the guy that does Sorry You Asked). So far it's humor has been unlike any that I've encountered before. IMO you don't see that much these days
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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
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
KMJ - WCB (To give as a gift)
Penny Dreadful - WCB
Just loving cheap ebay books.
You look like the type of guy / gal, who would like:
I just bought a few things for my nook.
Though I've read them all - I bought Kiss Me Judas, Penny Dreadful, and Hell's Half Acre in electronic format.
Also bought - Victimized by Richard. Started reading that last night.
JG Ballard's Crash. This is third copy i've owned, cause every time i loan it out it never seems to come back. Plus Hunter S Thompson's Fear & Loathing on the Campagain Trail,which i was grateful to find a copy of.
I loved The Green Mile, including the ending.
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Well there are exceptions.
I loved everything about The Stand.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
I thought you've read that book like 9 times.
No, just once. Then I loaned it out and never got it back.
I think I've gotten a book back maybe once after loaning it out... I just assume now that when I loan a book out, I pretty much gifted it to that person.
I've bought 6 copies of Jesus' Son, 4 copies of Fight Club, 3 copies of Choke, 2 copies of Middlesex, 2 copies of Beat the Reaper, 2 copies of Stiff. Those are just the FICTION books that I can think of real quick.
Just bought The Samaritan by Venturini, because it's on the book club list here for august I believe.
Also got The Never Enders by Sonbert, because WAO was easily good enough to make me want to check out his other work.
And I pre-ordered Snuff by Pratchett, just because it caught my eye when I was shopping on Amazon. Doesn't come out for a while yet though.
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Scott Pilgrim vol. 4-6
Kochroach by Tyler Knox
Andre Gide - The Counterfeiters
Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
Frederic Beigbeder - Un roman francais
The Contortionist's Handbook
Just ordered Rico Slade and The Never Enders (along with Bats at the Library and Bats at the Beach) from Amazon. I ordered them over the weekend and have still not received a confirmation that I have actually bought them.
Is it just me or is Amazon getting extremely slow? It took a while to receive my last order.
*As a disclaimer: The orders have made it to me within the estimated delivery time of three weeks--I've just gotten accustomed to receiving orders in about a week.
I don't know why I bought it really, I didn't really like Less Than Zero that much and wasn't bothered about reading his last few either.