Books that shouldn't be out of print

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Using Amazon wish lists as porn = classic! Can't say that I've done that, however.

I did stop dating a guy as soon as I realized that he didn't have any books in his apartment. That was freaky.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Haven't done that, either, but I dig the idea. "What're your favorite books and why and what do you read and what are you reading now and have you read X and Y and Z" are pretty standard courtship questions for me. I have no idea what I'd do with someone who didn't have answers for em.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, it has an effect on me: I was very pleased on my first visit to my last girlfriend's home (the Italian one, for those who pay that much attention) to find Proust, Wodehouse, Calvino, Pullman and Marquez on the shelves. The Buffy videos and the Kandinsky and Rothko prints did no harm either. But I note that we broke up after just a couple of months together nonetheless...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

This thread was made for the Nipper.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tep and Martin - the same for me. Basically, if I can't talk books with someone then they never make it to my "I might consider sleeping with you" list. I can be okay with someone who reads different things than me (er, but still *good* books, you understand - not schlock paperbacks) but we have to be able to talk about books and share books and learn new authors from each other and so forth. (This has backfired as of late, as both of my boys have been buying me books, and, well, I now have 11 standard-size bookshelves, double-stacked with "to be read" books - not that I am complaining, mind you - just that I have trouble deciding what to read next!)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Um, I have had sex with several people whose taste in books is unknown to me, or of no interest to me. One, I'd be surprised if he'd ever read one (but he was really, really hot). It's only if we're talking about a relationship that I care.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, same here: But, while I'm not going to say I've never had sex outside of a relationship, I generally don't like to. So really the same rules apply.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

This wholething abt sleeping with ppl becuz they read books or not or whether their taste on it is the same or diff is really bad criteria. As bad as taste in music.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Denton Welch's collected short stories (very good) and journals (which I haven't read entirely). Mentioned elsehwere.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Julio: Having literary and music knowledge/taste be the only criteria is bad, but I'm not sure why it's bad as one of many criteria. People who read are sexy; people who don't read are freaks (in a bad way).

In other news: It would be nice if Raw, the commix magazine, were in print.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

''People who read are sexy; people who don't read are freaks (in a bad way).''

What abt ppl that read comic books or tabloid newspapers or thrashy paperbacks? I think most of us read something. Its just the way that some ppl here seem to be narrowing the range of things a person can read (I hope Laura was kidding abt 'scholock paperbacks').

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's not that people who don't read are bad people who should go to jail. But it's a behavior (or lack of a behavior) that I can't really relate to and which freaks me out and so, no, I can't imagine having a meaningful relationship with such a person.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

well, are you going to extend that to what people read/listen to as well?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd be more likely to date someone who read nothing-but-horror-novels than someone who read nothing-but-the-classics, so if anything, my biases would skew more towards trashy on that scale :) I could never date anyone I didn't have sufficient taste in common with, but it's the "in common" part that's important, not making sure they only like what I think they should. That's true for whatever media you'd want to mention, but it's especially true for books: I write. If I can't hand someone a story and say, "I think I like what I'm doing here, but I'm worried I'm ripping off Philip K Dick," and have them know who I mean and why, the relationship would never go anywhere.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 February 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Julio: To a certain extent, probably, because ideally there would be a certain amount (but not too much) overlap in tastes. But really, as long as they could answer the question posed by this thread, I would probably be happy.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 February 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

three months pass...

revive! this one ended way too soon.

Dave Rimmer, Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop (classic of Britpop sociology/theory, best record ever of early '80s pop)
Tom Wolfe et al, The New Journalism (classic collection of pieces by Didion, Thompson, Christgau etc.)
Scott Woods and Phil Dellio, I Wanna Be Sedated: Pop Music in the '70s (hilarious, tone-perfect look back at the then-most reviled musical decade, from 1994)

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

No one mentioned Blissed Out?

― chester (synkro), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

I was wanting an english translation of Galileo's discorsi but I can't find one.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

Everything by ELLEN RASKIN (except "The Westing Game) is out of print, and that is a shame! "Figgs and Phantoms" was one of the most mind-blowing things I ever read as a child.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:15 (twenty years ago) link

Dave Rimmer, Like Punk Never Happened

Hey M, I finally found my copy...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

Lucinde, Friedrich Shlegel

― Prude (Prude), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 14:42 (twenty years ago) link

Voice Of The Fire by alang moore.

― rener (rener), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

I forget who wrote/drew this, but the children's book Who Needs Donuts is awesome and long out of print, I believe.

― sgs, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

found one for $6 in Seattle, Ned! but thanks

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

Ask by Paul Morley, because it would be wonderful if I could find a copy to read without having to shell out hundred$ of dollar$.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

Rah for M! :-) We should restart that thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

The Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Seraphini

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

most of joseph mcelroy's novels....

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

"Ask" by Paul Morley seconded, thirded, and squared.

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.radiosonic.com/images/esc_ematheson.gif

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 19:06 (twenty years ago) link

"Tom Wolfe et al, The New Journalism"

I second this one.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

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