books bought today

[MurkPlectrum]

It's funny to read Snow Crash & then to read Richard Rorty on Snow Crash & then to read Walter Benn Michaels on Richard Rorty on Snow Crash.

Or maybe that's the kind of thing that only I would find funny.

I guess "funny" for Milly is, like, an inflatable cow doing a shadowplay about a piratical love triangle involving a pony.

[milly balgeary]

It's funny to read Snow Crash & then to read Richard Rorty on Snow Crash & then to read Walter Benn Michaels on Richard Rorty on Snow Crash.

Or maybe that's the kind of thing that only I would find funny.

I guess "funny" for Milly is, like, an inflatable cow doing a shadowplay about a piratical love triangle involving a pony.

Why you gotta' be like that? Haven't you heard about Peace, Love, and Understanding? Here is an e-copy of the Doors Waiting for the Sun.

[MurkPlectrum]

I am a fan of the way you're throwing around apostrophes on "gotta" & "wanna," which are perfectly decent apostrophefree zones. It reminds me of the consonant I left off yr mom in the shower.

[Andrew_TSKS]

It's funny to read Snow Crash & then to read Richard Rorty on Snow Crash & then to read Walter Benn Michaels on Richard Rorty on Snow Crash.

I'm VERY curious about this--where might I find it? On the internet, perhaps?

Oh, and I forgot to mention, I bought this yesterday:


sound of the beast, by ian christe

I forgot I'd ordered it last week, and then I opened up a box at work and it was inside. And I was like, "shit, I ordered this? SWEET!" And I bought that shit. By the way, Davy, this is because of you.

(since when did i start capitalizing shit? what the hell?)

[milly balgeary]

I am a fan of the way you're throwing around apostrophes on "gotta" & "wanna," which are perfectly decent apostrophefree zones. It reminds me of the consonant I left off yr mom in the shower.

Thass just how I roll, nigga', deep, in your semicolon.

[theartlessmonster]

And I had no idea that the duckbilled platypus was orginally thought to be a hoax by naturalists because it was so outrageous they could not believe it real until many other specimens showed up.

[elpollodiablo]

and it's poisonous besides the little motherfucker

[theartlessmonster]

[Andrew_TSKS]

today i finally paid for the following, which have been at my store for several days:


the piper at the gates of dawn, by john cavanagh


madcap: the half-life of syd barrett, by tim willis

hah, and now amazon is pointing me towards a book called "crazy diamond: syd barrett and the dawn of pink floyd", by mike watkinson and pete anderson. i'm tempted.

no no no, this will simply HAVE to wait til next month.

[martin_van_buren]

Due to a sale at the library:

Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Letters Home by Sylvia Plath
Njal's Saga by Anonymous Icelandic Dude

[Good Intentions]

Njal's Saga is a fantastic read. For me it runs closely to Snorri's as the best of the Icelandic sagas.

[hannah]

rebecca west, henry james
william james, Writings 1902-1910 : The Varieties of Religious Experience / Pragmatism / A Pluralistic Universe / The Meaning of Truth / Some Problem
samuel beckett, Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable

[largeheartedboy]

Picked up at PapeBackSwap today:

Generation Ecstasy : Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture by Simon Reynolds
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru

[heather marie]

not all today, but over the past few days--

for myself:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Literature and Gender by Robyn Wiegman & Elena Glasberg
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin

for Richard:

Libra by Don DeLillo
Baudolino by Umbero Eco
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
some Dali artbook

[moneyshot]

europe central - william t vollman
the everlasting story of nory - nicholson baker
world's end - t c boyle

three of my favorite fiction writers

[Wally]

It's going to be a gide week!

[heather marie]

One of my favorite bookstores is changing locations (but there isn't a new one in mind, so this means they probably won't re-open) so I picked up all of these for the low price of $9.66:

Thomas Pynchon's V. and Vineland (I don't think I'm a Pynchon kind of girl, but for .75 each, could I resist?)
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Richard Ford, Rock Springs
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Isabel Allende, The Infinite Plan
William Styron, Sophie's Choice

All in excellent condition, minus V.

[Wally]

Richard Ford, Rock Springs

Does this mean you read Women with Men?

[folder]

Is that quote on the Johnson cover really missing the closing '? I was confused for several agonizing seconds.

[cool banana]

Edgar Allan Poe - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

[folder]

[mountmccabe]

Niiice.

heather marie, V and Vineland are probably my two least favorite but they're still wonderful books.  I would probably like V a lot better were I to re-read it.  And I'm not sure how I would go about introducing anyone to Pynchon anyway so, in other words, yes, they're certainly worth a  buck fifty.

[elpollodiablo]

mccabe doesn't know what he's speakin on, V. is certainly the man's finest novel in terms of evenness and strength and coherence of vision. Gravity's Rainbow is amazing, but when he wrote V. he was much more in control, I think.

So, yeah, V. is as good an introduction as you're likely to find. Lot 49 is alright, but it's not my favorite.

[Andrew_TSKS]

things i have either on order or actually at my store that i will be buying tomorrow when i get paid:





i'm getting "the keep" entirely because of an interview i read with the author in the most recent issue of "the believer". it seems fascinating, as does her book "look at me", which i will probably get next (assuming i like "the keep").

[milly balgeary]

things i have either on order or actually at my store that i will be buying tomorrow when i get paid:





i'm getting "the keep" entirely because of an interview i read with the author in the most recent issue of "the believer". it seems fascinating, as does her book "look at me", which i will probably get next (assuming i like "the keep").

I'm reading the Keep. I'm not too fond of it, but that's only because it's one of those books with really unlikable characters.