what books did you just buy?
[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.
Brentinlouis Wrote: What was that rule about being intentionally annoying?
[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
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. 
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.
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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?
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!
Non-Fiction, Lullaby, Interview With A Vampire, because I need to read something beyond basic fiction. I also ordered the full colour version of House of Leaves.
I just bought the BOOK OF LOST THINGS by JOHN CONNOLLY, fantastic, does anyone else read his books?
[QUOTE=corellion]Non-Fiction, Lullaby, Interview With A Vampire, because I need to read something beyond basic fiction. I also ordered the full colour version of House of Leaves. :)[/QUOTE]
Oh! I Cannot wait to order House of Leaves. I think it sounds great. as soon as i get some cash, i'm getting it!
Brentinlouis Wrote: What was that rule about being intentionally annoying?
[QUOTE=LeHaHi]Oh! I Cannot wait to order House of Leaves. I think it sounds great. as soon as i get some cash, i'm getting it![/QUOTE]
I just got it from the liberry, I'm excited!
[QUOTE=The Feds]
Irvine Welsh - Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs[/QUOTE]
I like to hear what you think of it when your through. I was eyeing this today at the bookstore and changed my mind at the last moment since I didn't want to dish out any more scratch on books.
[QUOTE=Adelheid]I just got it from the liberry, I'm excited![/QUOTE]
I'm excited too!
Venus plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
I've been recommended this book I have to say that I'm a little intrigued. I think I will be buying it soon.
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[b]The Littlest Hitler[/b] by Ryan Boudinot
Anybody ever hear of this book or this author?
P.S. - The pic is linked to the book on amazon.
Geesh that cover alone makes me want to check it out !
anyways, anyone picked up OR yet?
I'm going to get it after school today
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]Geesh that cover alone makes me want to check it out !
anyways, anyone picked up OR yet?[/QUOTE]
OR?
And on the cover of that one book - The cover alone made me almost not give it a chance. But then I read about the book and it was recommended because I rated Jesus' Son. Then - is when I started to consider it.
Only Revolutions
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]anyone picked up OR yet?[/QUOTE]
No, but I'm going out to Borders tonight- so excited! Though I'll probably get it from amazon in a few days... cheaper and all.
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]Only Revolutions[/QUOTE]
Oh Alright.
Yeah, that book is on my "need to buy soon" list. I plan on putting it in one of my next amazon orders - along with the full color version of House of Leaves (I'm going to give the one I have as a gift to someone I think 
).
I just bought 'Only Revolutions' by Danielewski. I have started it, its pretty fucking good!
Went to see Black Dahlia today, decent film. Afterwards I stepped into a bookstore and did some casual browsing looking about for things. Came across two books and decided to go ahead and buy them. Won't be touching them for a few weeks since I have a ton of reading to catch up on but this is what I purchased
Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers
Mark Z. Danielewski - Only Revolutions.
Loved the first novel I read by Cohen (The Favorite Game) and Danielewski I still haven't read House of Leaves which I have a copy of sitting on my counter along with a dozen other books i've bought and haven't finished reading. I figured I'd just go ahead and pick up his new novel and get around to before christmas.
As of right now i'm half way through Nick Cave's novel (And The Ass Saw The Angel) and i'm loving it. Like his music and loving his prose in his novel even more. Fucking writes some colorful insane shit.
[URL=http://www.amazon.com/Had-Careful-Recollections-Gunpowder-Flashbacks/dp/1862321264/ref=sr_11_1/002-7698641-5575246?ie=UTF8]"Oh! Ye had to be careful"[/URL] by Ian MacDougall
Tuckwell Press Scotland. Personal recollections by Roslin gunpowder and bomb factory workers, for 150 years until it's closure in 1954 the gunpowder mill and in the time of war, bomb factory, at Roslin near Edinburgh contributed to industrial developement of Scotland.
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[QUOTE=Chixulub]
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