what books did you just buy?

books I just bought:

Michel Houellebecq- The Possibility of an Island
John Irving - The World According to Garp
Tom Robbins - Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Tom Robbins - Still Life With a Woodpecker
Craig Clevenger - Dermaphoria
Will Christopher Baer - Phineas Poe:trilogy
Tom McCarthy - Remainder

Shouts, Johnny...

I un-pre-ordered Rant: An Oral... because the Chuck signing I'm going to comes with the book.

Which I used the pre-spent money to buy
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
and
Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter

Crap...I forgot to post this after my trip to Barnes & Noble, so I'm a couple of weeks late on this, but since it will be a little while before my next purchase, here is what I got in late March...

[I]Geek Love[/I] by Katherine Dunn ...accidentally thrown out by my friend two days later
[I]You Shall Know Our Velocity![/I] by Dave Eggers ...since completed
[I]Jennifer Government[/I] by Max Barry ...almost done with/absolutely loving it
[I]The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs[/I] by Irvine Welsh
[I]Clown Girl[/I] by Monica Drake
[I]Remainder[/I] by Tom McCarthy

irvine welsh has a new book?

i got this book called perception experiment it takes place in my town. [url]www.myspace.com/perceptionexperiment[/url]

Yeah...I just looked it up and apparently it came out in August 06, but I just heard about it a month ago or so. I plan on reading it after I'm done with [I]Jennifer Government[/I], which should be in a day or two.

[URL=http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0060958480/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-3634627-5287338#reader-link][B][SIZE=4]Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren[/SIZE][/B][/URL]

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Lullaby and Choke...

The Double Helix by James Watson

I wanted this book and accidentally stumbled across it at my schools library book sale.

Legacy of the Drow trilogy by R.A. Salvatore
finished that in less than a week

The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
Just a Couple of Days - Tony Vigorito

Notebooks of a Naked Youth and My Fault by Billy Childish.

Mostly because he lives in my town and because he gets compared to Bukowski a lot.

I hit the used bookstore a couple of weekends ago and got:
[I]The Power and the Glory[/I] Graham Greene
[I]Tumble Home[/I] Amy Hempel
[I]The Informers[/I] Bret Easton Ellis
[I]Penny Dreadful[/I] Will Christopher Baer
[I]Body[/I] Harry Crews

...and the guy GAVE me a copy of [I]Fay[/I] by Larry Brown. I hope that isn't a statement on the quality of the book, but I loved [I]Rabbit Factory[/I], so I'll give it a read. I never turn down free books!

Cat's Crade - Kurt Vonnegut
Voices From The Street - Philip K. Dick

They were children's books for work

George and the Dragon

and this book about these white mice who realise that if they hide on white paper the cat cant see them, and then they start playing in paint pots and making all sorts of colours.

I do have plans to buy some grown up books next week, maybe.

[QUOTE=Caligula7;970748]I hit the used bookstore a couple of weekends ago and got:
[I]The Power and the Glory[/I] Graham Greene
[I]Tumble Home[/I] Amy Hempel
[I]The Informers[/I] Bret Easton Ellis
[I]Penny Dreadful[/I] Will Christopher Baer
[I]Body[/I] Harry Crews

...and the guy GAVE me a copy of [I]Fay[/I] by Larry Brown. I hope that isn't a statement on the quality of the book, but I loved [I]Rabbit Factory[/I], so I'll give it a read. I never turn down free books![/QUOTE]

I read tumble and informers and penny and i loved penny most of all. even above hempel and ellis. at the time, i thought the world had gone strange, but really, the book was a little out there but fucking badass. fucking badass.
-kabol

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I recently picked up Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald), Lunar Park (Ellis), The Code of the Woosters (Wodehouse), A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), Fifth Business and The Manticore (both Davies), as well as The Gun Seller (Laurie).

Don't know why but really felt like making a thread on the books I just bought. Good thing I found this. So:

The Road (McCarthy)
The Zoo where you're Fed to God (Ventura)
Postman always rings Twice (M. Cain)
Collected Stories of Amy (Hempel)
Pop. 1280 (Thompson)

Actually I wanted to make a thread on: Where do you buy your books?

I got all those on Half.com for 50 dollars with expedited shipping. Without, they would have all been about 25. Okay, now I regret that.

I bought Choke last Wednesday, I read it in the weekend.

[QUOTE=Earthbound;970445]Notebooks of a Naked Youth and My Fault by Billy Childish.

Mostly because he lives in my town and because he gets compared to Bukowski a lot.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, the Bukowski comparisons are extremely ill-founded. I don't think I can even bring myself to finish these.

Well I just ordered The Contortionist's Handbook and Dermaphoria as there has been such hype on these boards, and I also sent for The Average American Male as many seem to have enjoyed it. I know I'm a few years late for this Clevenger train, but so it is.

I almost bought a book called The Pilo Family Circus while I was out today, it was the second most interesting looking thing in the new releases section other than The Raw Shark Texts. What swayed me was the insinuations of inserting a clown nose up someone's bottom.

Vox by Nicholas Baker
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman

Deadeye Dick - Vonnegut
1984 - Orwell

The Fountain (the graphic novel)
James Ellroy - The Cold Six Thousand
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

the Onion [I]Ad Nauseam Vol 14[/I]
[I]The Butcher Boy [/I]by Patrick McCabe (used, paperback)
[I]The Dying Animal [/I]by Phillip Roth
[I]Parliament of Whores[/I] by PJ O'Rourke
[I]I Am Legend[/I]by Richard Matheson (used, harcover)
a book of Salvador Dali's work.

I probrably paid less then $8 for all these.

I didn't buy it but dr. joseph suglia sent me a copy of his book Watch Out.

[QUOTE=morey;978910]I didn't buy it but dr. joseph suglia sent me a copy of his book Watch Out.[/QUOTE]
Is that the guy from Myspace that is talking about he knows he's written the best book ever?

If so - that guy's cocky attitude made me delete him. I got tired of his ego induced self worship.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;979037]Is that the guy from Myspace that is talking about he knows he's written the best book ever?

If so - that guy's cocky attitude made me delete him. I got tired of his ego induced self worship.[/QUOTE]did it ever occur to you that his boastfulness is maybe tounge in cheek? the book so far is really good, and it's about a guy who thinks he's the only non-deficient human on the planet, gee and duh.

I just bought Special topics in calamity physics by M Pessl. Does anyone know of this book? Ive heard mix reviews so far and its a whopper especially if its crap.

[QUOTE=morey;979048]did it ever occur to you that his boastfulness is maybe tounge in cheek? the book so far is really good, and it's about a guy who thinks he's the only non-deficient human on the planet, gee and duh.[/QUOTE]

At first - then he just became annoying.

Do you know him personally?

i just wanted to say that i finally got Rant today. after ages of waiting for it to come out here in Australia, it wasnt soldin the town i live in, and i absolutely cracked it and today i finally got it, YAY! and i cant believe i'm going to say this, but i'm too tired to give it the attention it deserves, so i'm putting off reading it until tomorrow...it's killing me though

"Baby Jesus Butt Plug" --Carlton Mellick III
"War Slut" --Mellick guy
"House of Leaves" --(forget)
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" --David Sedaris

There's more, just within the past too weeks.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story by Douglas Adams

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer

At the Water's Edge : Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea by Carl Zimmer

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
and
Michel Foucault - Madness and Civilization

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[QUOTE=Wilhelmina Wilde;982121]Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
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How is this?

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;983343]How is this?[/QUOTE]
For philosophical content, it's unrigorous but compelling.
For enlightenment, it depends on whether you can accept that his argument is not necessarily completely pessimistic.
For help getting on with your life, it's useful if you don't kill yourself because of the sheer absurdity of existence after reading it.

I think I'll just get a Bloom County book instead then.

I need to buy The Catcher in the Rye and Boy's Life for school.

I've read the Catcher but I have no idea what the other's like or about. If you've read can you tell me what you thought?

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;983355]I think I'll just get a Bloom County book instead then.[/QUOTE]
Have I expressed my dismay at and excitement for Alasdair Gray's new book? Dismay because I thought he'd never write a word of fiction again, excitement because he's awesome.

[QUOTE=xec8;983366]Have I expressed my dismay at and excitement for Alasdair Gray's new book? Dismay because I thought he'd never write a word of fiction again, excitement because he's awesome.[/QUOTE]

What's his new one? I think I'm going to finally fall into the pressure and pick up Lanark next

Watership Down, I havn't read theis but after reading the best animal character thread I thought I ought to.

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;983373]What's his new one? I think I'm going to finally fall into the pressure and pick up Lanark next[/QUOTE]
Of all the Culties who haven't read it, I'm pretty sure you're the one who'll appreciate it the most.
His new book is called Old Men in Love, but I don't know anything about it. It comes out in October I think.

i have recently (about 20 minutes ago) purchased:

--Make Love* The Bruce Campbell Way, by Bruce Campbell

--Stranger Than Fiction, by Chuck

--Still Life with Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins

[QUOTE=morey;979048]did it ever occur to you that his boastfulness is maybe tounge in cheek? [/QUOTE]I recognize that what he's doing is tongue in cheek, but Geesh! it's running a joke into the ground! Give me something else to go with here. Say you invented the internet or velcro or [i]something.[/i] He's like a popular summer song where the first time you hear it, you go, yeah, ok, this is alright. But then by the end of the summer you just want to strangle the radio every five minutes from hearing it.

[QUOTE=xec8;983479]Of all the Culties who haven't read it, I'm pretty sure you're the one who'll appreciate it the most.[/QUOTE]
Who else has read it, that you know of?

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;983547]I recognize that what he's doing is tongue in cheek, but Geesh! it's running a joke into the ground! Give me something else to go with here. Say you invented the internet or velcro or [i]something.[/i] He's like a popular summer song where the first time you hear it, you go, yeah, ok, this is alright. But then by the end of the summer you just want to strangle the radio every five minutes from hearing it.

Who else has read it, that you know of?[/QUOTE]
Riddlegimp is the only regular. Then there's the new Scottish guy who started a thread about which book to read next (sigh...), and another who doesn't post anymore who ages ago said Lanark was a "pretty good book" or something.

[QUOTE=iamthebuffalo;983520]i have recently (about 20 minutes ago) purchased:

--Make Love* The Bruce Campbell Way, by Bruce Campbell

--Stranger Than Fiction, by Chuck

--Still Life with Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins[/QUOTE]

Ive yet to read a book by Tom Robbins, I will pick one up this weekend.

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;983560]Ive yet to read a book by Tom Robbins, I will pick one up this weekend.[/QUOTE]
Tom Robbins is the chick in my avatar's favourite author. Just throwing that out there.

this morning, i purchased the spring 2007 edition of the southern review. I almost never forget to get them. I let yaw know how well this edition fares in the next two days..
-kabol

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;979056]I just bought Special topics in calamity physics by M Pessl. Does anyone know of this book? Ive heard mix reviews so far and its a whopper especially if its crap.[/QUOTE]
The author is gorgeous. I've got the book at home and haven't read it yet, but each time I pick it up I have to put it down again or I know I'll just stare at the author photo.