what books did you just buy?

"Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions" by Neil Gaiman

I just bought Rules of Attraction. In it, Bret Easton Ellis writes very similiar to Brock Landers, whithout hitting the Return key.

I just bought Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, though I haven't started it yet. I've read a bunch of the Sandman graphic novels, but never read any novel by him. Was Neverwhere a good choice to start with?

[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;1022420]I just bought Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, though I haven't started it yet. I've read a bunch of the Sandman graphic novels, but never read any novel by him. Was Neverwhere a good choice to start with?[/QUOTE]

Im not sure but Ive heard it talked about a lot here. I have American Gods to read by him and Ive heard mixe reports about it.

I guess I could just check out some reviews online...

[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;1022420]I just bought Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, though I haven't started it yet. I've read a bunch of the Sandman graphic novels, but never read any novel by him. Was Neverwhere a good choice to start with?[/QUOTE]

I couldn't tell you about "Neverwhere".

Personally, I think anyone that's just getting into Mr. Gaiman's novels should start with "American Gods". That one blew me the fuck away.

Well, I already have this one, so I guess I'm starting with that! Hah, I only bought it because the title sounded cool (I mean, I was gonna buy a Gaiman novel anyway, but the reason I got THAT one was... yeah, the title...)

I guess if I like this, and it looks like I will, I'll get American Gods next...

I just bought the contortionist's handbook and the selected works of jean genet on ebay, and they should arrive sometime next week. I can't wait.
I also just read rules of attraction, and I have to say that I didn't like it nearly as much as less than zero. it had its moments, but overall...
notes from the underground.. it's been on my bookshelf for a month or two now and I can't wait to read it but I haven't gotten to it yet. I just started porno by irvine welsh, and I was supposed to reread trainspottting before it, but I just ended up watching the movie again instead.
and to the person above me, a softer world is awesome.

I really wanna get Stardust by Gaiman. The movie was so awesome, I GOTTA read the book...

[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;1022443]I really wanna get Stardust by Gaiman. The movie was so awesome, I GOTTA read the book...[/QUOTE]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

. . . Was it a bad book?

Are you upset that I liked the movie?

Were my combination of words the secret verbal self-destruction trigger to the bomb implanted into your father's brain?

What could it be?

[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;1022454]. . . Was it a bad book?

Are you upset that I liked the movie?

Were my combination of words the secret verbal self-destruction trigger to the bomb implanted into your father's brain?

What could it be?[/QUOTE]

Well, first of all... what you said was fucking hilarious.

And second, "Stardust" just seems lame. I like Gaiman's stuff that's geared towards adults. But then again, I haven't seen or read it, so.... my point is pretty much invalid.

Good day to you!

*tips hat and flies away*:privateey

Awwe, but everyone loves a pure, good ol' down to earth fairytale.

I for one, do. Those are the only "love" stories I can bear to read.

I thought the movie was cute and sweet, and I think the book will be even better. But if it's not your bowl of soup, oh wells. To each his own.

[QUOTE=fuzzylogic;1022437]I just bought the contortionist's handbook and the selected works of jean genet on ebay, and they should arrive sometime next week. I can't wait.
I also just read rules of attraction, and I have to say that I didn't like it nearly as much as less than zero. it had its moments, but overall...
notes from the underground.. it's been on my bookshelf for a month or two now and I can't wait to read it but I haven't gotten to it yet. I just started porno by irvine welsh, and I was supposed to reread trainspottting before it, but I just ended up watching the movie again instead.
and to the person above me, a softer world is awesome.[/QUOTE]
You are, like, apparently the only other person on the Cult who's heard of Jean Genet. Are you a mutant?

[QUOTE=fuzzylogic;1022437]I just bought the contortionist's handbook and the selected works of jean genet on ebay, and they should arrive sometime next week. I can't wait.
I also just read rules of attraction, and I have to say that I didn't like it nearly as much as less than zero. it had its moments, but overall...
notes from the underground.. it's been on my bookshelf for a month or two now and I can't wait to read it but I haven't gotten to it yet. I just started porno by irvine welsh, and I was supposed to reread trainspottting before it, but I just ended up watching the movie again instead.
and to the person above me, a softer world is awesome.[/QUOTE]

this post made me laugh. because i just read the contortionists handbook last week...and im reading notes from the underground right now...and i just bought the informers...and trainspotting&porno are two of my favorite books ever...

so high five, because that post was littered with awesomeness

[QUOTE=xec8;1022486]You are, like, apparently the only other person on the Cult who's heard of Jean Genet. Are you a mutant?[/QUOTE]

hmm.. I prefer zombie. yes, zombie who prefers to feast on french homosexual prostitute criminal playwright existentialist brains. mmm... brains.

[QUOTE=tom9d;1022493]this post made me laugh. because i just read the contortionists handbook last week...and im reading notes from the underground right now...and i just bought the informers...and trainspotting&porno are two of my favorite books ever...

so high five, because that post was littered with awesomeness[/QUOTE]

haha thanks. and it goes even deeper than that.. due to lack of a life, I spend too much time here so I know that you've read the coma by alex garland, and you're like the only other person I've ever encountered who's even heard of that book, let alone owns it. so high five to you too.

I could dig hanging out with a zombie.

[QUOTE=xec8;1022780]I could dig hanging out with a zombie.[/QUOTE]

aww, is that your roundabout way of saying you want to be my friend?
dude, totally. I could eat-ahem- pick your brains about literature, since you obviously have good taste in reading material.

and back on topic, I totally forgot to mention that I just bought the new york trilogy by paul auster. I got it mainly because I heard it mentioned around here a lot, and so far I haven't gone wrong with anything I've read because of you guys, and also because they briefly mention the author in the raw shark texts, and I can't remember exactly what they said but it was obviously enough to intruige me. oh, and because the only don delillo book I've read so far, which I was incredibly impressed with, was dedicated to paul auster.
and I also bought 2 random thrift store books, my year of meats by ruth ozeki and beachcombing at miramar by richard bode. basically, I'm constantly buying books.

Fight Club I just found there was a book...its on route from Amazon
Neil and Me by Scott Young (Neil Young bio)
Saucer of Secrets (a Pink Floyd bio)

The Big O by Declan Hughes

[QUOTE=Locke;1023854]Fight Club I just found there was a book...its on route from Amazon[/QUOTE]

What brought you here then?

How did you find this place?

Just curious - not being sarcastic.

the contorionist's handbook & the genet book arrived today. I didn't even realize as I was buying it but CH is hardcover.. sweet.

[QUOTE=Locke;1023854]Fight Club I just found there was a book...its on route from Amazon[/QUOTE]

is this a joke? seriously.. I'm not kidding nor am I trying to be rude, but is this a joke or is this for real?

The Raw shark Texts or whatever it's called, and Bad Monkeys, and The Girl in the Glass.

Jews don't buy books

[SIZE=1][COLOR=DarkSlateGray]Unless they are on sale.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

:spam:

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;1024157]What brought you here then?

How did you find this place?

Just curious - not being sarcastic.[/QUOTE]
Wikipedia of all things.

[QUOTE=fuzzylogic;1024221]the contorionist's handbook & the genet book arrived today. I didn't even realize as I was buying it but CH is hardcover.. sweet.

is this a joke? seriously.. I'm not kidding nor am I trying to be rude, but is this a joke or is this for real?[/QUOTE]
quite serious

[QUOTE=Locke;1023854]Fight Club I just found there was a book...[/QUOTE]

this shocked me at first...then i thought about all the times ive described chuck as "the guy who wrote fight club" to people who had never heard of him before and how the typical response is "theres a book of that?"

so i guess it shouldnt really be too surprising to come across someone whos just discovered fight club is a book.

Just bought The wasp factory-Iain Banks/Butchershop In the sky-James Havoc.

[QUOTE=LECKIE;1024902]Just bought The wasp factory-Iain Banks/Butchershop In the sky-James Havoc.[/QUOTE]

You will love The Wasp Factory, its my favourite Iain Banks book.

I just bought the brothers karamazov by dostoevsky, the body artist by don delillo and l.a. confidential by ellroy (finally!). I'm excited.

[QUOTE=fuzzylogic;1026269]I just bought the brothers karamazov by dostoevsky, the body artist by don delillo and l.a. confidential by ellroy (finally!). I'm excited.[/QUOTE]
Please enjoy the Brothers Karamazov.

I just bought "Everything's Eventual" by S.King at the Minneapolis airport at which I got stuck for 11 hours on Sunday.
Last year at the same airport, I saw a porn magazine in the plastic bag saying" Nasty Bitches Getting Fxxked in Every Hole!!"

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haurki Murakami

^Good book. Took me a while to read, but it was excellent.

the words of every song by liz moore and....less than zero by, of course, bret easton ellis.............

I ALMOST bought a book on film theory today and I ALMOST bought Murakami's WIND UP BIRD CHRONICLES for myself that I had bought for someone as a birthday present.

High Fidelity

My brother just introduced me to Palahniuk. So i just finished Choke (borrowed from library) and i just bought Fight Club (found a hard cover first ed. at the book store) and Rant (also first ed. hard cover). I am half way through Rant and loving it. I also really enjoyed Choke. Palahniuk is becoming my new favorite author.

Didn't buy, but just downloaded god [SIZE=3]is[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]not[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]Great[/SIZE]: How Religion Poisons Everything!!!! by Christoper Hitchens. I started reading it and already I recommend that EVERYONE should read this.

'Days of War, Nights of Love' and 'Recipes For Disaster' by the CrimethInc. Collective.

Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis and Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski.

American psycho by Bret Easton Ellis from barens and nobles last night

I also read the afterward in fight club which I had never seen before. My copy of fight club is mad old and beat up. I should probably get a new copy.

Innocuous first post ahoy! I buy in bulk then just work my way through in an order that takes my fancy at the time, this week was a new record.

Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions & Slaughterhouse 5. Kurt's a bit good and I'm embarrassed I only read him at 26 when his books were £3 each in FOPP. Amazing stuff. And to think all I previously knew of him was we shared a birthday.

Chuck - Lullaby. Read this week and enjoyed it more than I thought I would if I'm honest. The only book that ever caused me to sign up for an interweb forum.

James Kelman - How Late It Was, How Late. Just finished. Bizarre and wonderful and amazing.

David Peace - The Damned United

George Orwell - Orwell in Spain. Homage to Catalonia and assorted essays from the time as far as I can tell. Força Catalunya!

Murakami - After Dark. I'm a sucker for a limited edition slipcase thing of a book I'll probably never read in case I break the spine or get toast crumbs in it or something. Haruki's a good read once in a while, even if I do worry how much is him and how much is Jay Rubin or whoever.

[URL=http://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Fever-Black-Goddess-Coevolution/dp/0201328186/ref=sr_1_4/105-2821354-9614801?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189594610&sr=1-4]Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues[/URL]

and

[URL=http://www.amazon.com/Bring-Your-Dead-J-H-Powell/dp/B000E7DSGC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/105-2821354-9614801?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189595304&sr=1-2]Bring Out Your Dead, The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philidelphia in 1793 [/URL]

A German copy of Fight Club for a certain Wickercat.

I bought Raw Shark Texts, and the book shop guy thought I was so cool, he was telling me how he ordered some special edition hard back copy of it from the UK, but when I mentioned I heard about it on the Chuck Palahniuk site he went all cross and said he couldnt at all see how they related.

[I]If You Liked School, You'll Love Work
Ace on the River
In the Money[/I]

[QUOTE=Federov;1034421][I]If You Liked School, You'll Love Work[/I][/QUOTE]
I had that book in my hands. It looks so good. I almost bought it. But I decided that I couldn't spend any more money. Damn self control!

bought [I]blood meridian [/I]yesterday.