what books did you just buy?

Here's the last book I purchased.

The Terror. Dan Simmons
The People's Act of Love. James Meek
The Contortionist's Handbook. Craig Clavengrer
On the Beach. Nevil Shute
The Road. Cormac McCarthy

4 months until I can buy a book without worrying about how much it's going to bog down my luggage.

I just bought げんき Volume 2 for my Japanese skillz.

Casanova's memoirs!

Encyclopedia of Mammals

Earlier I bought Invisible Monsters by Palahniuk (obviously) and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.

Oh I cashed in a bunch of Barnes and Noble gift cards finally. And here is what I got:

- Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
- Flood by Andrew Vachss
- Strega by Andrew Vachss
- White Jazz by James Ellroy
- Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
- Clown Girl by Monica Drake
- Death in Yellowstone by Lee H. Whittlesey
- Ill Nature by Joy Williams
- Times Arrow by Martin Amis

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. It was nice. Nothing like the film, lovely in a whole other way.

1984 by Orwell and A Clockwork Orange by Burgess.

I've read A Clockwork Orange before from the library and finally bought a copy so my friend's mom could borrow it and because it's brilliant.

David Lynch's book.

I just bought Hunter S. Thompson's [I]Rum Diary[/I], Chuck's [I]Invisible Monsters[/I], and Charles Bukowski's [I]Factotum[/I]. A few weeks ago I bought [I]Mystics and Zen Masters[/I] and [I]The Four Agreements[/I]. I also bought my teenager a few books... [I]Oh My Goth[/I], [I]Speak[/I], and [I]Twilight[/I].

i bought moby dick last week just because i think it's one of those books that everybody should read... but i haven't started yet, waiting for classes to start again so i can read on the subway...

Carl Sagan - Dragons of Eden
Parker - In the Blink of an Eye

I finally went shopping:

The Lost Continent Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
Straight Man by Richard Russo (the guy who wrote Empire Falls)

This should keep me busy for a little while

For the holidays my husband and father in law got together and purchased every signed Chuck title from St. Helen's for me. I have this lovely stack of autographed books I am reading and loving all over again.

[QUOTE=Synnove;925448]For the holidays my husband and father in law got together and purchased every signed Chuck title from St. Helen's for me. I have this lovely stack of autographed books I am reading and loving all over again.[/QUOTE]

Oh nice! And some of us have to save up and by only one or two a year...

I've pretty much given up on ever getting everything I've already got read before buying more books

today:
Knut Hamsun - Victoria
Knut Hamsun - Growth of the Soil
Anais Nin - Little Birds
Hubert Selby Jr - The Room

I finally got into the box delivered from the secret laBorAtory of DJ/MH.......
The candies were utterly destroyed, but these were all intact:

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Deadeye dick--Vonnegut
Naked lunch--burroughs
The diary of a madman
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Goodbye Columbus--philp roth
the serpent and the rainbow--wade davis

[COLOR=red]Trade paperback:[/COLOR]
Sula-toni morrison
The Darma Bums--Kerouac
The pilgrimage--Coelho
Fahrenheit 451--bradbury

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The American--Henry JAmes
Shampoo Planet--coupoland (first edition)
Amsterdam--ian mcewan
The Master-Tobin (2004 booker shortlist British edtion)

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

Extended Phenotype - Richard Dawkins

Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by LeDoux, Joseph

Next - Michael Chricton

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

wow, what a fucking surprise

What, I finally bought it

go out and get some Bukowski, or House of Leaves or Confederacy of Dunces or anything!
follow the universe's example and expand a little!

a shit ton of medieval art books and religious symbols in art for my medieval class

on the way to work- damien hirst and gordon burn
i want to spend the rest of my life everywhere. with everyone, one to one, always, forever. now- damien hirst
a few burn hogarth books
say goodnight, grace notes- jack mccarthy

I went down to San Diego for Super Bowl party last weekend. I stopped at the Japanese bookstore there and bought all Otsuichi's book they had.

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;926175]go out and get some Bukowski, or House of Leaves or Confederacy of Dunces or anything!
follow the universe's example and expand a little![/QUOTE]

I actually did just buy Confederacy of Dunces for my fiance and I intend to read it when she's done. And for Christmas, my dad got me Only Revolutions. Does that make you happy now?

[QUOTE=Unhygenix;907813]Hermann Hesse-Siddhartha

i havent started it yet, but im really excited to read something buddhism inspired other than the damn near unreadable bible like stuff thats out there.[/QUOTE]

This book changed my life along with another buddhist-inspired book : The Feeling Buddha by David Brazier.

[QUOTE=McMuddle;925618]I finally got into the box delivered from the secret laBorAtory of DJ/MH.......
The candies were utterly destroyed, but these were all intact:

[COLOR=Red]paperback:[/COLOR]
Deadeye dick--Vonnegut
Naked lunch--burroughs
The diary of a madman
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Goodbye Columbus--philp roth
the serpent and the rainbow--wade davis

[COLOR=red]Trade paperback:[/COLOR]
Sula-toni morrison
The Darma Bums--Kerouac
The pilgrimage--Coelho
Fahrenheit 451--bradbury

[COLOR=red]HARDback[/COLOR]
The American--Henry JAmes
Shampoo Planet--coupoland (first edition)
Amsterdam--ian mcewan
The Master-Tobin (2004 booker shortlist British edtion)[/QUOTE]

enjoy the Burroughs book. Naked Lunch is semi-autobiographical so if you ever want to read a good bio on Bill, try Literary Outlaw by Ted Morgan. The reason why it is an infamous book because of the way Burroughs wrote it. When Kerouac and Ginsberg visited bill in Tangier they were shocked as to the way the pages of the book were intentionally collected out of order as way to simulate a "flashback" and "flash forward" effect for the reader. Later he incorporated cut-ups as a literary device.

The Elementary Particles- Michel Houellebecq
Syrup-Max Barry

[I]Stranger than Fiction[/I] (the only one I haven't read)
[I]You Suck[/I]! by Christopher Moore
[I]Crime and Punishment[/I] by Dostoyevsky
and
[I]Four Short Novels[/I] by Faulkner

[I]The Great Gatsby[/I] by F. Scott Fitzgerald
[I]The Catcher in The Rye[/I] and [I]Nine Stories[/I] by J.D. Salinger
[I]Brave New World[/I] by Aldous Huxley

vanity fair

I hardly ever buy books, since I hardly ever buy anything.
I recently bought Light in August (Faulkner) and The Good Earth (Buck).
Just because they were brand new and at a kick-ass price.

Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Eggers

[QUOTE=brightstraight;931678]I hardly ever buy books, since I hardly ever buy anything.
I recently bought Light in August (Faulkner) and The Good Earth (Buck).
Just because they were brand new and at a kick-ass price.[/QUOTE]

A Light in August is such a great book.

I didn't buy it, but I got my free copy of Remainder advertised on this site. I always like free shit.

I bought a bunch of investment books - but I won't bore you with those.

Also bought:

- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford (I loved the intro because it described exactly what I was doing to a tee. Anybody who has read it knows what I'm talking about)
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
- Fast Food Nation tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Does anybody know if that Fast Food Nation tie-in is the same as the other Fast Food Nation by that guy? If it isn't I want to read the first one first obviously... I didn't realize what it was when I bought it. I thought I was getting the first one.

Charles Bukowski - Tales of Ordinary Madness and Notes of a Dirty Old Man; Henry Rollins - Black Coffee Blues and Do I Come Here Often?

I just bought Geek Love and Clown Girl from amazon, Ive heard a lot about them from the Cult so I cant wait for them to arrive.

[I]Fight Club[/I]...I wanted to re-read it and my brother lost my copy a couple of years ago, so I had to buy a new one. He also managed to ruin my copy of [I]Invisible Monsters[/I]. I need to keep him away from my Chuck books.

[I]Marabou Stork Nightmares[/I] by Irvine Welsh. I'm on an Irvine Welsh binge...I've read [I]Trainspotting[/I], [I]Porno[/I], [I]Glue[/I] and [I]Filth[/I]. This was next on my list.

[I]Wicked[/I]...I was supposed to go see it on Broadway with my girlfriend and it sounded interesting from her explanation so I figured I'd buy it...but she just dumped me and now I won't be seeing it...though I suppose I'll still read the book.

[QUOTE=tom9d;932646][I]Wicked[/I]...I was supposed to go see it on Broadway with my girlfriend and it sounded interesting from her explanation so I figured I'd buy it...but she just dumped me and now I won't be seeing it...though I suppose I'll still read the book.[/QUOTE]

I went to Chicago with my ex to see that. It was pretty good. And then we broke up. Maybe there's something going on with that musical...

Lame...maybe we should issue some kind of warning to men throughout the world: If you value your relationship, do [I]not[/I] see Wicked.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;932154]Does anybody know if that Fast Food Nation tie-in is the same as the other Fast Food Nation by that guy? If it isn't I want to read the first one first obviously... I didn't realize what it was when I bought it. I thought I was getting the first one.[/QUOTE]I'll answer my own question here - tie-in = movie tie-in cover... I'm an idiot.

[QUOTE=tom9d;932703]Lame...maybe we should issue some kind of warning to men throughout the world: If you value your relationship, do [I]not[/I] see Wicked.[/QUOTE]Add in there - With your girlfriend. Because I did enjoy the show. lol.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;932154]I bought a bunch of investment books - but I won't bore you with those.

Also bought:

- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
[/QUOTE]

Freakonomics is a great book, it's very interesting. I've lent my copy to three other people already. It's amazing what you can find data-mining.

[QUOTE=bassplr19;933479]Freakonomics is a great book, it's very interesting. I've lent my copy to three other people already. It's amazing what you can find data-mining.[/QUOTE]

I hear if you like Freakanomics you should check out The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford. I bought that too. But I haven't read it yet.

Fueling my addiction, I bought Franny and Zooey by Salinger, The Travels by Marco Polo, and The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. I though I was going to make it out of the bookstore with only two books, save myself a bit of cash, but those bastards stashed a pile of the fuckers close to the register. I couldn't help myself.

i just bought a travel guide to stockholm.

Oooo, that reminds me that I just bought "the Yellow Bible", Southeast Asia on a shoestring. I'm not a huge fan of Lonely Planet's guidebooks, but they're the one you can find everywhere so whaddaygunnado? Also picked up 1000 Things to See Before You Die, but I think this was more of an impulse buy, so I'm not sure I appreciate it all that much. A good chunk of these things to see are hotels that would cost me a month's wages for a single night. But I had a fatty giftcard so whatevs.

[QUOTE=Rents;944945]Fueling my addiction, I bought Franny and Zooey by Salinger..[/QUOTE]that's one of Mirka's favorites. one of Baer's favs too for that matter -- i had to read it for the intensive last year; Sal's is a badass ability when it comes to the page

unfortunately, i've read everything
fortunately, i can read his works over and over again

I think the last book I bought was Serpico (i never realized it was a novel until i plucked it outta the bargin bin, five dollars)
it sits next to my downstairs throne. Im midway with it. intend to hit the bookstore tomorrow -- it's been almost two weeks and i think there is another mccarthy out there i havent yet cracked open
kabol

We have a Becky in the house ? Nice. hi Becky -- one of my favorite names, i have a computer named Becki. Though, i think my becki may be a bit older than you

Gatsby's one of my favorite novels. One of my woman's favs too. and one of Chuck's favs, for that matter -- he sighted it constantly in a few of his on-writing essays a few years back

I remember when i picked it up, i thought it too old to be effectual at least to me. damn, was i wrong. nice grab, definitely
kabol

I preordered Rant by Chuky P and ordered the the 700 page paperback Phineas Poe: Kiss Me Judas, Penny Dreadful, Hell's Half Acre from WCB.

[QUOTE=Smartazboy;945574] I ordered the the 700 page paperback Phineas Poe: Kiss Me Judas, Penny Dreadful, Hell's Half Acre from WCB.[/QUOTE]Hey, i loaned my copy to a friend a few days ago ... which if history has proven anything means that i will maybe be ordering another copy someday soon