Magarshack. Its on Penguin, just available as two vols., good and sane.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 April 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
is the 'garbage intro' by arendt? picked it up about a decade ago & still need to read it (along with the sleepwalkers). anyone rep for the spell?
found an old virago edition of leonora carrington's the hearing trumpet to replace previous copies given away as gifts.
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 7 April 2018 05:55 (six years ago) link
No its by Bernard Levin - just a whine on how there isn't a lot of German Literature about - except he is doing an intro for a translation of a fairly obscure text.
I think its a lot better than Sleepwalkers.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 April 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
oh right, mine has what could be construed as an obnoxious blurb from steiner (out-joycing joyce! closer to the realities of the age than kafka!) but with an arendt intro extracted from a circa 1945 essay from partisan review.
2 x gass: omensetter's luck + life sentences: literary judgments and accounts
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
Dizzy Gillespie To Be Or Not To BopAutobiography of teh great jazz trumpeter. I read a version of this back in the mid 80s. Only realised on looking at when thsi copy came from yesterday that it was only a few years after it was published. thought it was older.Has some interesting insight into some things including the Islamic renaming of various jazz players in the 40s to get around Jim crow laws.
Will Carruthers playing The Bass with 3 Left HandsTHe memoir of Spacemen 3/Spiritualised bassist's time in those bands. Quite good so far. Seems to be intent to get himself messed up on drugs though i think he does keep the audience sympathetic.I think I need to pick up physical copies of the Spacemen 3 studio lps.
Brix Smith Start The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise Mark E Smith's ex autobiography I heard the bits about somebody from californian privilege getting used to Manchester getting by hood are quite amusing. Saw it cheapish when i was in a rush to get through a cheap booksp so finally took the p0lunge. been meaning to read it for a while.
Conran cookbook Looks very interesting,So far I've been going through the ingredients sections which are pretty good. Seen some bad reviews of the recipes having been of their time which I think was mid 80s. But looks like a good find for a couple of €.
Tim Jeal Stanley biography of Victorian explorer.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 8 April 2018 12:45 (six years ago) link
the quote in the back of mine: "The Death of Virgil represents the only genuine technical advance that fiction has made since Ulysses." Which is really alienating (a lot of Steiner can read like obnoxious grandstanding; he can be lazy, seldom shows his workings and is never asked to because no one challenges him). Its a bit weird Steiner doesn't like Peter Weiss' Aesthetics of Resistance, which has a bit in common with this particular Broch, style-wise.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 April 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
Never got past initial impression of Steiner as off-putting snob. Trying to remember his beef with Anthony Burgess now.
― Rudy’s Mood For Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 April 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
tolstoy - war and peacethomas mann - the magic mountaindave fanning - the thing is...michael calvin - Living on the Volcano: The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Managerta-nehisi coates - between the world and me
― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 10:26 (six years ago) link
An Exorcist Explains The Demonic Fr Gabriele Amorthturned up in a local charity shop and i thought it might be interesting to see what the other half thinks as it were.
Sotheby's Wine Encyclopaediaanother charity shop find. Has some articles on sources of flavour and differentiation etc etc that I want to read. Also thorough listings of wines per region which I might get to a point of knowing a thing about if i start drinking now.
ring Koji Suzukithe horror novel that the films were based on . turned up for 25c in a local charity shop. Hadn't known it was a book first.
Illustrated Directory of Native Americans edited by ray Bondslooked interesting.
I Am Ozzy Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography.
The Who The Illustrated historyPartially to see the clothing they were wearing to see if anything was worth copying. & I do like the Who up to about Quadrophenia.
Hunter S Thompson The Rum Diarydon't think I've read this, charity shop again. Wasn't sure to what extent it was completed. Know it wasn't published when written so not sure how far into the editing process it went.
The Interrogation JMG Le Cloziolooked interesting for 25c,
― Stevolende, Thursday, 12 April 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
The author of that exorcism book is the subject of the new William Friedkin film
― scotti pruitti (wins), Thursday, 12 April 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
OK, wonder if that was a pure coincidence that that turned up at this time, or somebody working there being tuned into what's being released. Anyway looked pretty interesting for €1 so glad i grabbed it. Now to get around to reading it.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
Just never know how much of a surplus of books one is likely to get if you're a donations based charity shop and how good a job certain staff members have to do to put things that sell on the shelves. Presumably not everything that is of sellable quality will ever make it out.PIcking up some very interesting stuff for 25c from another charity shop on the same backstreet. Included most of Margaret Atwood i think.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
The Interrogation JMG Le Clozio
Hope you enjoy extended scenes of animal torture
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 13 April 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
Becky Albertalli - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (because I'm writing on it)Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (because I keep stubbornly insisting that I'll get into him)
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Friday, 13 April 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
"Soul Mountain," Gao Xingjian"Winter Mythologies and Abbots," Pierre Michon"Alchemy & Mysticism," Alexander Roob"In Bluebeard's Castle," George Steiner"A Legacy," Sybille Bedford"Care Crosses the River," Hans Blumenberg"Other Men's Daughters," Richard Stern"Daido Tokyo," Daido Moriyama
― cakelou, Sunday, 15 April 2018 07:03 (six years ago) link
I bought a used copy of Charles Portis' Masters of Atlantis for $1. I would have preferred Dog of the South, since ILBers have said good things about it, but I'll take what I can find.
At the same time (and for the same price) I bought a used copy of John Keegan's The Price of Admiralty. I would have preferred his The Face of War, for the same reason, but again will settle for what I can get.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 28 April 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
anna kavan - my soul in chinapessoa - the (complete) book of disquietdavid markson - wittgenstein's mistress
― no lime tangier, Monday, 30 April 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
Anadolu Psych by Daniel Spicer.An expansion of a Wire Primer by an author who apparently just got into the music because he had won himself an assignment that happened to be on the subject.So reads a bit like one of the Julian Cope music books but with less of Cope's idiosy7ncratic style. Quite enjoying it so far. JUst got through the section on Mogollar whiuch is the first band covered in the book.
There was a Cafe Oto reading tied in with it which may have been last week.
Next thing i consciously want to buy right now is the Rob Young Can book and teh latest edition of Ugly Things which came out at the beginning of this month.& the copy of Seasons May Change that I have put aside to replace the copy I got soaked at Xmastime . & the BUrn Jones book that's with it.
― Stevolende, Monday, 30 April 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
2nd hand:
Cervantes - Don Quixote (this is the famous translation by Tobias Smolett, so look forward to re-reading it in that)
Finally broken down and ordered a few items on Amazon:
Ingeborg Bachmann - Malina (such a classic, re-reading it just now)Hilda Hilst - Letters from a SeducerJuan Benet - Return to Region (although I haven't got it yet)
1st hand (from an actual shop and everything):
François-René de Chateaubriand - Memoirs from Beyond the Grave 1768–1800
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 May 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link
Emily Mackay, HomogenicThomas Tryon, Night of the Moonbow
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Saturday, 5 May 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link
Raul Ruiz : Diario. Notas, recuerdos y secuencias de cosas vistas (Diaries 1993-2011)
Brassai: Images of Culture And The Surrealist Observer
Brassai: The Monograph
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 5 May 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
christine brooke-rose - xorandorwilliam gerhardie - of mortal love
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 07:21 (six years ago) link
Rob Young All Gates Open arrived a couple of days ago and i've had a quick look in it. Read his description of Ege Bam yasi and been busy with other stuff.Also got latest Ugly Things in same delivery which is also great.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 07:33 (six years ago) link
Years ago I read a borrowed copy of “Havoc” by Tom Kristensen, and loved it (as documented on the Scandinavian lit thread). I’ve been looking for a copy since then - the only available edition was a university of Wisconsin edition. It’s been varying between £120 and £1000 on Amazon this whole time Yesterday I was in a bookshop in Madison, WI and there was a copy for $7.50! I was so excited. I looked it up on Amazon to show my wife what a score I’d made and how rare it was and noticed that it’s about to be issued by NYRB this month. Oh, and another paperback edition had been available since 2016. Oh well, it’s still GREAT. I also bought a copy of “Encires for a Dilettante” by Ursule Molinaro, I remember loving her “Positions With White Roses” twenty-odd years ago.
― Tim, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
I bought that 2016 edition and still haven't read it. Need to rectify this.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
Broke down (again) and purchased a few items off Amazon:
Sergio Pitol - The Magician of ViennaJosef Wrinkler - The Garden of Bitter OrangesWolfgang Hilbig - I
(I love all three writers dearly - sadly published by obscure-ish ppl, however these are some of the most successful writers to be rendered into English these last few years)
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
John Keats - So Bright and Delicate. Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Browne. Anne Carson - Red Doc >Joao Gilberto Noll - Quiet Creature in the CornerDurs Grunbein - Ashes for Breakfast
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
a dollar a piece:
the penguin complete sakiew hornung - raffles: the amateur cracksmanelizabeth bowen - eva troutelizabeth taylor - hester lilyelizabeth taylor - the soul of kindnessdorothy carrington - granite islandmalcolm lowry - hear us o lord/lunar causticdh lawrence - letters to thomas & adele seltzerlouise desalvo - conceived with malice: literature as revengethe concise oxford dictionary of french literaturefrancis james child - the english & scottish popular ballads vol. iv
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
Wow
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
The Philosophical Dictionary, Voltaire, unabridged, translated by Peter Gay, in two used hardcover volumes, slip-cased, for $10. In the bookshop I randomly opened to several different passages and read them, and decided it looked like some pretty awesome stuff in there.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link
oh, and wow, no lime tangier! that's some ace used book nabbing.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
not bad for thirty minutes attendance at a book sale. sort of regretting not picking up some of the countless henry james titles that were lying around.
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
That's a great haul. Raffles is fun and very, very gay. The Bowen and the Taylors are excellent.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 9 June 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
I was at a wedding recently and the place where they held the reception had a giant library, clearly used for decoration. At my girlfriend's instigation I stole Joy In The Morning, following the logic that books are to be read, not displayed.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 11 June 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
All IN THe Downs Shirley Collins memoir. America Over The Water was a fantastic read so hope this is as good
Hippie Hippie Shake Richard NevilleOz editor's memoir of the 60s
― Stevolende, Monday, 11 June 2018 11:39 (five years ago) link
This is wise. Once stayed in a hotel that had a library where the books had obviously been bought by the metre based on spine colours. But managed to make off with a couple of St Expurys and a Molly Keane.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 06:36 (five years ago) link
Tom Stoppard - Arcadia (loved it and already ordered The Coast of Utopia trilogy to follow up)Arthur C Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama (basically new and £1!)Antonio di Benedetto - Zama (had to pick it up after seeing the film)Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier and Humphrey Bogart biographies (I've forgotten the authors but they were £2 each and I presume they were all donated by the same enthusiast to Oxfam)
And in advance of September jaunt: Paul B. Henze - Layers of Time: History of EthiopiaRyszard Kapuściński - The Emperor (this was absolutely fascinating)
― I'm Finn thanks, don't mention it (fionnland), Monday, 18 June 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
Amazon:Paul Celan - Complete Prose Holderlin - Hymns and Fragments
2nd hand:Gyula Krudy - Knight of the Cordon BleuKenzaburo Oe - A Personal Matter
1st hand: Georg Buchner - Lenz (This is a birthday present for a friend)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Bloody hell, that Oe. It's very good but, oh god.
― Tim, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:15 (five years ago) link
Its in a really pretty tuttle edition too. Looking fwd to it :-)
Really happy about the Krudy as well, that's as good a find as I'll have all year (quite a few Krudy books on Corvina, but I don't think the publisher exists anymore)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
(I've probably banged on a bit about The Fifth Seal by Ferenc Santa, also on Corvina? Amazing book. Corvina was a Hungarian state publisher, I always assumed, but now I realise I have no particular basis for that assumption.)
― Tim, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that was my impression too - maybe Soros need to get on top of that
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
I bought a couple of Zsigmond Móricz titles on Corvina last year, and found the first boring enough that I haven't troubled the second yet.
― Tim, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
needed to pick up some Henry James:
What Maisie KnewThe Wings of the DoveThe Aspern Papers & The Spoils of Poynton
a couple Roald Dahl books for our kid:
BoyThe Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
― omar little, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
john cowper powys - a glastonbury romance
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
Bof. ^That's extraordinary. Read it in Fiji of all places.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
have to admit the size of it is somewhat intimidating, though once i got stuck into wolf solent i sped through that so here's hoping (will also be reading it in the south pacific, if not in quite so warm climes)
need to read! just got hold of a copy of the documentary.
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
Gyula Krudy - Knight of the Cordon Bleu How much did you pay? That goes for crazy money, sometimes
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
lol, really. I paid 3 quid for it.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
"The End of the Novel of Love," Vivian Gornick
― cakelou, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link