what books did you just buy?
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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Any suggestions for a first J.G. Ballard book?
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[U]Crash[/U] was the first that I had read, it is one of his most talked about so it was what I gravitated to. [U]Empire of the Sun[/U] is probably my favorite but wouldn't be the first "Ballard" to take off the shelf, it is autobiographical for one but most importantly it doesn't prepare you for some of the content that he often pursues in much of his books, such as dystopia. This is why I would recommend [U]Crash[/U] as the first book to read of his, highly controversial but also vintage Ballard.
it's only after you have lost everything that your free to do anything
[QUOTE=Chixulub]
Any suggestions for a first J.G. Ballard book?
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I personally hated Concrete Island, that's all I got.
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese. I've decided that I'm done with the classics for a little while, moving to something a little more modern.
I have posted this several times....has anyone read I, Lucifer???
Is it worth the read?
never heard of it
I finished Son of a Witch last night, and it was very good. It was good in a Lord of the Rings epic way, not like chuck. it ended without ever resolving the major and central conflict, but oh well. maybe gregory maguire will write another one in ten more years.
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]never heard of it[/QUOTE]
Written by Glen Duncan...I never heard of him either. It was given to me in a box of books by a friend. I never heard of him or the book and I thought someone could tell me to read it or not waste my time...guess I will find out on my own.
Thanks though for responding nat 
[QUOTE=inkpen78]Written by Glen Duncan...I never heard of him either. It was given to me in a box of books by a friend. I never heard of him or the book and I thought someone could tell me to read it or not waste my time...guess I will find out on my own.
Thanks though for responding nat :)[/QUOTE]
i'd say give it at least a good 50 pages
The Worthy. by Will Clarke. It was just fanTAStic. A must read. Anyone familiar?
Sorry - guess I should give a symopsis. Conrad, a frat boy, is killed by one of his "brothers" in the frat house. His soul lingers to seek revenge.
At times very funny, at other times poignant...a look at death from "the other side", a look at life from someone hugely insightful. I loved it.
I meant SYNopsis. LOL, guess I need an editor!!
Movie rights apparently have been arranged. I thought, when I read it, it would be perfect for a film. I can see Zach Braff as the main character, Conrad. The villain, Ryan - perhaps Ryan Phillipe...no relation to the name, just needs a "pretty boy". Maggie could be Kate Bosworth. Perfect. And Sarah Jane? Oh - definitely Linsay Lohan. Hate her, but she'd be perfect. And Tucker? Hmmm...any ideas?
Oh, and I would love Miss Etta to NOT be Whoopi Goldberg, but I can't see how the studio could resist. Why not Hally Berry in old person makeup?
Memoirs Of My Nervous Illness - Daniel Paul Schreber
Read the first fifty or so pages at work today. Very interesting look at this Daniel's mind.
I just bought a big ole huge North American Road Atlas. Maps kick ass.
All day yesterday, I looked up any place anyone mentioned on tv.
"Ahaa! They are just west of Madison!"
The Other Hollywood-the uncensored oral history of the porn industry
Best read ever
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]i'd say give it at least a good 50 pages[/QUOTE]
I gave over 50 and regreted every moment of it...don't read it.
Recently, up until even more so recently, I'd been buying books every single monday. I'm no three or four novels behind. I bought "Haunted" a few weeks ago (my first Chuck novel), and I've actually been reading and re-reading that quite a bit. Also, I've been reading some instructional texts for this little class I've been taking to polish my prose. And the other day, I bought a pack of Camels, and the nice-girl at the con. store gave me a matchbook....for free.
The Long Hard Road out of Hell... the Marilyn Manson autobiography... really freaking interesting, I'd recommend it... but after reading all of Chuck's books, I have no idea what to read next...
What do you like?
Anxiously waiting for Lydia Millet's [U]Oh Pure and Radiant Heart[/U] to come in the mail from Amazon.
Oppenheimer in 2003 as a sign of the second coming. 
kurt vonnegut's [I]player piano[/I]
Haruki Murakami's [I]The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle[/I] I was totally amazed by his [I]Norwegian Wood [/I] and when I saw this book I just bought it without any hesitating. It's a big brick (600 pages) so I will have what to do for next month.
Based on some suggestions here:
The Contortionist's Handbook
House of Leaves
Glamorama
J.D. Salinger's [I]Nine Stories[/I]
Last exit to Brooklyn
The Black Dahlia
A Choir of Ill Children (based on JRJ's rec.)
[QUOTE=neh_to_you]J.D. Salinger's [I]Nine Stories[/I][/QUOTE]
Me too. And this book on lucid dreaming by Laberge.
Cormac McCarthy's "Border Trilogy"
"brazzaville beach" by william boyd.... so far so good
antes ser rico e saudavel do que pobre e doente
metamorphosis by kafka...this guy is simply a fucking great writer, unbelievable.
[U]Paradise Lost[/U] by John Milton. If I ever finish it... I .. I'll do a crazy thing. And I'll be proud of myself. I love self-satisfaction.
I just bought it but I'm finishing [U]The Sicilian[/U] by Mario Puzo before.
Playing piano like a precussion instrument until your fingers bleed by chuck bukowski
Show me a dollar, i'll show you no heart
Show me a heart, i'll show you my eyes
[QUOTE=Raskolnikov]metamorphosis by kafka...this guy is simply a fucking great writer, unbelievable.[/QUOTE]
I was pretty unimpressed with The Metamorphosis
all his other stuff gave me the literary heeby jeebies though
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Heard about these books for years, finally remembered them when combing stacks.
[I]V.[/I] --Pynchon
[I]American Pastoral[/I] --Roth
Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
Fast Food Nation- Eric Schlosser
American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
...they're all being read in a class...required purchase is [I]still[/I] purchase.
[QUOTE=LifeCafe]
American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
...they're all being read in a class...required purchase is [I]still[/I] purchase.[/QUOTE]
What class are you reading American Psycho for?
Ok well, I just happened to find myself in a bookstore yesterday and I bought three books..
1.) Stranger than Fiction by: CP
2.) Cat's Cradle by: Kurt Vonnegut
((Both I have been meaning to read for awhile))
then I purchased
3.) Magical Thinking by: Augusten Burroughs
I had really liked Running with Scissors so I thought I would give this book a try. They all seemed promising.
And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
Whom The Bells Toll - Ernest Hemingway
Slackjaw - Jim Knipfel
House of Leaves - Danielewski
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Irvine Welsh - [I]Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs[/I]
[QUOTE=Federov]Irvine Welsh - [I]Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs[/I][/QUOTE]
You should read Filth by Welsh...it is great!
"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.