what books did you just buy?
Philip K. Dick - [I]Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?[/I]
Nick Hornby - [I]A Long Way Down
How to speak Portuguese in 10 minutes a Day[/I]
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Nick Hornby - A Long Way Down[/QUOTE]
i finished reading that one last week. i laughed out loud at least three times.
George Orwell - Animal Farm
"Hero" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
Are there any good mangas for a noob?
I bought Donna Tartt - The Secret History on Harriet's advice. I can't wait to throw myself into it after exams are done.
If anyone gets that new Coupland book, let me know if it's any good.
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[QUOTE=188416]I bought Donna Tartt - The Secret History on Harriet's advice. I can't wait to throw myself into it after exams are done.[/QUOTE]
Tell me what you think of [I]secret history[/I]. Personally I loved it but I'm bias cause I know the area she writes about well. I was the narrator when she starts describing the COLD! Anyway she's quite the wordsmith...writes a sentence a day, expect her new one in eight years.
Ordered....
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A couple days past. Looking forward to reading his stuff. From what I hear he writes wonderful surreal prose, plus he's native American, doesn't get much better than that!
AM Homes 'This Book Will Save Your Life' (very good, just finished it)
Paul Neilman 'Apathy and Other Small Victories' (just starting)
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
tom spanbauer's new one "now is the hour" ive had it for a couple weeks, even though its just released nationwide today
THANKS TOM!
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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 finally bought a fiction book. School and other things have kept me from buying anything but nonfiction.
Today I bought Company and Syrup by Max Barry.
I've been meaning to pick these up because I really like Jennifer Government.
freakonomics - steven d. levitt, stephen j. dubner
Douglas Coupland - JPod
Henry's List of Wrongs by John Scott Shepherd.
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
[b]Dermaphoria[/b]- Craig Clevenger
[b]nimrod flip out[/b]- Etgar Keret
[FONT="Arial Black"][B]A natural zesty enterprise[/B][/FONT]
Went up to Portland and bought way too much at Powell's: Amy Hempel's Collected Stories, AEIOU by Jeffrey Brown, Banana Sunday by Colleen Coover, Yeti 3 and bunch of other lit mags and a handful of zines.
[QUOTE=Atomos]tom spanbauer's new one "now is the hour" ive had it for a couple weeks, even though its just released nationwide today
THANKS TOM![/QUOTE]
Are you taking classes with Tom? How is his new book?
clan of the cave bear
[QUOTE=mary]Are you taking classes with Tom? How is his new book?[/QUOTE]
yes and no. i havent been in a whole because in my situation i need a ride and all my friends work thursday nights. i have a friend who is a former student who has offered to shre what hes learned from tom. but currently i havent been able to go to more than one meeting of DW. although it was a phenominal experience. and if i only ever go to that one, it was worth it.
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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
Modern Control Systems (10th Edition)
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Highly Recommend, great book, interesting useless information (kinda sounds like a Chuck book), easy fun read.
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Oh fuck aload of books in one go: Vurt and Automated Alice by Jeff Noon, Vellum by Hal Duncan, Glitorama (old but heard alot of hype about it) by Bret Easton Ellis and aload of other stuff.
I will be waiting, between the pages, at the end of lunar park
i'm cracking down and not buying anything new until i thin out my "to read" pile
[B]Philip K. Dick[/B] - [I]The Cosmic Puppets[/I]
[B]Leonard Cohen[/B] - [I]The Favorite Game[/I]
Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
and
Virginia Woolf - the Waves
Suvivor. Third time for that one.
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
Joyce's "Ulysses"... I've heard it's very 'ambitious' -- if this is good or bad, I don't know... 
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[B]Leonard Cohen[/B] - [I]The Favorite Game[/I][/QUOTE]
have you seen the documentary about him coming out ?
I'm Your Man i think its called
[QUOTE=karbunkle]have you seen the documentary about him coming out ?
I'm Your Man i think its called[/QUOTE]
No, but i'll look into it.
[QUOTE=UbikRex]No, but i'll look into it.[/QUOTE]
half the things ive seen looks like its coming out on DVD
the other half looks like its coming to theaters
so i got no idea
house of leaves, and something by don delillo
I just scored the whole Hot Blood series of 'erotic horror' short stories for $15 (including shipping) on ebay.
Horror,sex and gore just go so well together.
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I went shopping yesterday because I am going on vacation in September. Needed books to occupy my free time:
Purchased:
Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking
Jonathan Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Carl Hiassen's Basket Case (I lent this book out and it was never returned)
Melvin Burgess' Smack
Ian McEwan Saturday
I might have to go back later for more...I don'tthink 5 is going to do the trick. Any recommendations for vacation reading. I have 2 weeks.
Stephen Graham Jones - Demon Theory
Stephen Graham Jones - Bleed Into Me
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
claudiu d.moga
Stephen Ambrose : [B]Band of Brothers[/B]
[QUOTE=franc tireur]Stephen Ambrose : [B]Band of Brothers[/B][/QUOTE]
Stephen Ambrose is one of my favorite historians of all time. The HBO mini-series was remarkably true to Ambrose's account, (I think he was actually involved in the script-writing an all that) so be sure to check that out, too. Also, his books about Lewis & Clark were great...not sure if you're just into WWII though. Are you reading this in English, btw?
In fact I bought the book (in french) after buying the miniseries in DVD. To my knowledge Ambrose was consulted during the scriptwriting process, but did not write directly. On the other hand, before passing away, he did not revise the (minor) mistakes he had made in BoB and that had been signalled from different sources, for example the fact that the french troops were first to reach the Eagle's Nest.
Are you just into WWII, then?
from time to time.
This isn't a 'buy,' but I just got Peter Hedges' "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" from the library, via interlibrary loan from gawd knows where.
It was such a good movie, it's got to me a monster book, being a debut novel and all, right?
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
"Prisoner of X" by Allen MacDonell. About his twenty year career working for [I]Hustler [/I]magazine. It has been recommended by Chucky P, and being the tool that I am, I went out and bought it and am currently reading it.
where did you see chuck recommend that book at?
On Mr. MacDonell's Myspace.
[url]www.myspace.com/prisonerofx[/url]
First blurb.
The Dante Club-Mathew Pearl
The Zombie Survival Guide-Max Brooks
Don of the Dead-Casey Daniels
A Long Way Down-Nick Hornby
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When I was purchasing my Mel Brooks Collection, I came upon a book The Enclyclopedia of Heavy Metal...I had to buy it. It was only 19.99. Great Buy!
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Just looked really quite bizarre and intriguing. The best way to describe it is a private detective story crossed with a nursery rhyme.
[QUOTE=McMuddle]The Dante Club-Mathew Pearl
The Zombie Survival Guide-Max Brooks
Don of the Dead-Casey Daniels
A Long Way Down-Nick Hornby[/QUOTE]
That Dante Club was alright, made me interested to get his new one about Poe at least
[URL=http://www.biblio.com/isbn/0073660078.html]Everyone will be jealous of me[/URL]
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
I preordered [URL=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159420120X/ref=ord_cart_shr/102-2540123-0434513?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance&n=283155]Against The Day,[/URL] will be getting that on my next Amazon order.
I'm in a rare position of kind of needing to go book shopping. I've got a few books on my to-read list here, but none tickle me enough to start, so I'm re-reading Magic Christian and exploring a few short story books I never got all the way through.
Any suggestions for a first J.G. Ballard book?
Might also pick up Demon Theory, had it from the library but had to return it before I got to it.
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
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[B]Alex Garland[/B] - [I]The Coma[/I]
Always look at this book but never consider buying until today when I saw the hardcover for 5 bucks, so I said what the hell.[/QUOTE]
I liked The Coma. It got ripped in reviews a bit (mainly about the ending) but I thought, well do better yourselves then! (If I haven't written it, I couldn't think of another way to end it.)
I just bought The Little Friend by Donna Tartt and the Amy Hempel Collected Stories (of course!).