Including Murakami will automatically make the book sell so many more copies, I really can't begrudge that editorial decision. I have no strong feelings on him either way tho so that might help.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 21 September 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, Sianne Ngai
― faculty w1fe (silby), Sunday, 23 September 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link
I have heard that that was interesting!
― the pinefox, Monday, 24 September 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
Michael Chabon: THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION - £2 hardback from a library sale.
― the pinefox, Monday, 24 September 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
It's a good one.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
2nd hand:
Giuseppe di Lampedusa - Two Stories & A MemoryThomas Bernhard - The Lime WorksNatalia Ginzburg - All our Yesterdays
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 October 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
bought mahself a greg tate reader and that ian bostridge book on the winterreise
― j., Saturday, 6 October 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
At the bookshop:The Little Drummer Girl, John CarréThe Vegetarian, Han KangSolar Bones, Mike McCormackMy Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
Online:A Hypocritical Reader, Rosie Snadjr
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
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haven't read it in a while. but i remember loving this. apparently the coen bros had an option to film it? don't think it's gonna happen tho.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
2nd hand - Violette Leduc - La Batarde
Dag Solstad - T SingerIlse Aichinger - The Bound ManJuan Rulfo - The Plain in Flames
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
I read the Violteete leduc about 1990 thought it was pretty good, was there a 2nd volume of it or something.PIcked it up in a charity shop at the time.May still have it somewhere.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
From what I can see there is a 2nd volume that appeared 10 years later called Mad in Pursuit. What I do have is this first volume, published in '64. This is an edition on Panther books.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
Yeah Think it was taht Mad in pursuit I had too.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
The Books of Earthsea is out. 1008 pages collecting the 5 Earthsea novels, Tales from Earthsea, early and late uncollected stories, a couple other bits, and illustrations by Charles Vess. Buy one for every middle schooler in your life.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
I have an earlier omnibus of the novels that I picked up a couple of years ago. Only got though the first one. Must get back and read more.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
Picked up the DK books on Pollitics & Shakespeare yesterday from a charity shop.
Also a thing called Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters by Andrew Simmscos it interests me to some degree and I've come across the tesco monopoly both in other books and attempts on the local streets.
pickled up an encyclopaedia of JRR Tolkien or something to that effect in a charity shop last week too.
& a DK Chilli Lovers cook book last week or the one before.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
crossposted from the amazon thread:
this is weird: Booksellers Protest Amazon Site’s Move to Drop Stores From Certain Countries
On Saturday night, in response to a query from a reporter, AbeBooks issued a statement saying it was dropping the countries because “our third-party payment service provider is closing at the end of the year.” It added that, “We regret that we cannot continue to serve all sellers.”
Asked how many booksellers and countries were affected, Richard Davies, an AbeBooks spokesman, said, “I am not adding anything else to that statement.”
Mr. Brown, one of the dealers organizing the protests, said that for many of the booksellers, AbeBooks’ actions underlined both Amazon’s power and its refusal to be accountable for it.
“The biggest e-commerce giant in the world apparently finds it too complicated to do business in Prague,” he said. “You have to wonder who’s next. We’re all vulnerable to Amazon’s capricious actions.”
The complete lack of information makes it hard to understand what’s going on here. It’s not clear whether they are withdrawing from specific markets or cannot service specific sellers. I don’t really understand how a change in payment provider or system would affect specific countries. I guess it’s possible that some seller systems may not report in a way compatible with the new software or platform. But they also seem to be citing unspecified complexities and expenses associated with named markets.
The complete lack of notice and public comms from Abebooks are both very poor.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
Particularly shitty since, for the most part, Russia, Sth Korea, Hungary and the Czech Republic all have flourishing lit scenes/pasts and their own languages, so plenty of people outside those countries who want texts in those languages will now be stuffed, since ABE had swallowed most of the used/rare book market.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 09:07 (five years ago) link
Yes. I mean, Abebooks and Amazon's acquisition of Abebooks was obviously a real shot in the arm for the second hand bookseller. Also encouraged some interesting practices like acquiring and holding on to single copy stock because they know they can sell it to US universities/colleges for hugely inflated prices and the ability to tap into those insanely lucrative steam train and military markets.
There is also afaict no alternative middle platform provider in the market, which may account for Abebooks' complacency.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link
nyrb classics on sale for 7$ at campus bookstore
ge fei - invisibility cloakwilliam sloane - the rim of morningqiu miaojin - notes of a crocodilejohn wyndham - chrysalidsdorothy b hughes - in a lonely place
― flopson, Friday, 9 November 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
Cool
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 November 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
A used hardcover omnibus of all Dashiell Hammet's novels, no dust jacket and kinda cheap binding, for $1. I've read them all, but may want to re-read them sometime.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 9 November 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
For $1 how could you not
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 9 November 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
I purchased a used copy of The God Particle yesterday solely because I opened it up to find it was previously owned by David Van Koevering
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2018/01/31/david-van-koevering-has-died/
― crüt, Friday, 9 November 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
BKS Iyengar - Light on the Yoga Sutras of PatanjaliUwe Johnson - AnniversariesChrista Wolf - Cassandra
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 17 November 2018 12:30 (five years ago) link
gombrowicz - bacacaylispector - the foreign legionmina loy - the last lunar baedeker
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
& to round out the year:
knut hamsun - panrobert walser - selected stories
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 29 December 2018 02:18 (five years ago) link
the walser is a nice carcanet hb from the eighties which i think is the same as the nyrb reprint?
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 29 December 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
1st hand:Josep Pla - The Gray NotebookVarious - A Hidden Landscape (ed. Mark s)
1st hand (xmas gifts - giving):Four Books - Yan LiankeNatalia Ginzburg - Family Lexicon
xmas gifts - receiving:Wyndham Lewis - Tarr (The 1918 Version)
Jonathan Swift - The Major WorksMarina Tsvetaeva - A Captive Spirit (this is an awesome score, love her writings, read this years and its A+)Various - Petrarch in EnglishPaul Bowles - The Sheltering SkyAntonio Munoz Molina - Like a Fading Shadow
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
Jesse locke some Heavy Metalloid MusicSimply Saucer biography finally found this available from Book Depositry so cheaper tahn going staright to the publisher. Think it was reprinted last August or something.
Couple of books on Aubrey Beardsley.Amazon could do with getting its categorisation and differentiation of product better sorted. I bought what I thought was the hardcover of a V&A related book on his work only to find out it was a different thing, a biography. Both had the same title since it's his name. & both were going pretty cheap <£1 for one and slightly over £2 for the other plus p+p so hopefully got some good stuff to look at shortly.
The Naked Man Dennis Morris' book on the male body I already have his the Naked Woman companion volume on the femnale body which I picked up in a charity shop a couple of years ago.
The Hustler Walter Tevis.Had been thinking about him being the writer of both the Man Who fell To Earth and the Color of Money the day before since there wasa Bowie biography or repeat of a programme on people who died in 2016. Can't remember exactly which since both have been on over the last few days. & this is the book that Color of Money was the sequel to.
latest edition of Ugly Things, not quite a book but almost full enough of info to be. Hopefully be here over the next couple of days.
― Stevolende, Monday, 14 January 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
The Look Inside thing is often useful, if available. Sometimes you get a good chunk of the book, but sometimes you get only the copyright pages.
(Was useful to me yesterday for seeing which translation of Les Miserables they were using for the TV tie-in edition. Turns out it's the new version which is available for £3 less in another edition, you're paying £3 for a worse cover and a single page of introduction by the TV writer)
― koogs, Monday, 14 January 2019 02:45 (five years ago) link
This had both options under the same entry but it was a different book of the same title if you chose hardback or paperback.
― Stevolende, Monday, 14 January 2019 09:12 (five years ago) link
Actually, said that wrong. The page that the book was advertised on seemed to apply to the V&A exhibition tie in by Stephen Calloway. But if you chose hardback in marketplace and then pressed Return to Product information an option in the top left hand corner of the marketplace page it showed the biography by David Colvin.I've just had another look at this and they've sorted it out so that both are Stephen calloway. Will see what arrives when it arrives now. Maybe I'll have 2 different books and maybe I'll have a spare copy of the other format of the same thing. BUt seemed to be a glitch tied in with previous experience of looking through the site. THough that may be more trying to work out details of specific details of specific issues of music or printruns of the same book at different times and finding that all the reviews etc show for every release under the same title. Particularly annoying when publishers/record company have stuck out anthologies under the names of existing lps/books.
So now got to wait until presumably later this week to see what arrives. ho hum.I think other websites use specific product numbering so you know what pressing you get.
― Stevolende, Monday, 14 January 2019 09:36 (five years ago) link
Also got the Max hastings history of Vietnam since it was in a half price sale locally.Had seen it in Waterstones over Xmas and thought about getting it. So grabbed it when i got the chance once i got home..
― Stevolende, Monday, 14 January 2019 10:39 (five years ago) link
Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer and GrimscribeBunch - Moderancoincidentally, these both have forewords by jeff vandermeer.
Heinlein - Starship Trooperschecked out a new used bookstore -- this was all i found. $2.
Big Book of Ghost Storiesgot this for christmas. it's one of those phonebooks edited by otto penzler. looks good.
Donald Barthelme - 60 Stories and 40 Storiesmicrofiction seems to be the only stuff i can finish as of late.
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 14 January 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link
Bunch - Moderan
just read this last month, curious what you make of it
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 January 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
Mike McCormack - Solar BonesPeter Biskind - The Sky is Falling
― . (Michael B), Sunday, 20 January 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
alan burns - dreamerika!ann quin - the unmapped country
― no lime tangier, Monday, 21 January 2019 01:58 (five years ago) link
Today at Open Books, a poetry bookstore in Seattle
Frank O’Hara, Selected PoemsAnne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of SapphoChristopher Logue, War MusicDonika Kelly, Bestiary
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 21 January 2019 05:19 (five years ago) link
I am buying (and reading) all the Devil Advocates books. Now it'll be ab The Shining. Yay
― nathom, Monday, 21 January 2019 07:25 (five years ago) link
Adam, Starship Troopers is awesome! Very different from the movie.
― nathom, Monday, 21 January 2019 07:26 (five years ago) link
The book on which The Thing was based. Yay
― nathom, Thursday, 24 January 2019 10:22 (five years ago) link
I somehow (not by design) managed to read/see “who goes there”, the thing from another world and the thing in the order they were produced, with many years in between each. So I dimly remember enjoying the story but I didn’t then have the carpenter film to compare it to (only saw the film for the first time a couple of years ago, it’s great obv)
― gray say nah to me (wins), Thursday, 24 January 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
dreamerika is killer
― dogs, Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
Xpost woha! I'm sort of going through books made into movies by Hitchcock (and also the devils advocates series). Need some pat Highsmith(?) too!
― nathom, Friday, 25 January 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
Colette - Gigi and The CatPushkin - The Tales of Belkin (good score except the student prick underlined the intro for his assignment)Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (ashamed of my struggles but this should be good)Coetzee - The Life and Times of Michael K.Jose Saramago - CainJose Saramago - All the NamesJuan Goytisolo - The Blind RiderJuan Goytisolo - Count JulianJane Austen - Mansfield Park
1st Hand:Bruno Schulz - Collected Stories
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 February 2019 08:32 (five years ago) link
Is that the new collected Schulz with the previously uncollected stuff?
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 24 February 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
Yeah the new one. Want to get to it soon, have high expectations.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 February 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
No idea what I'm doing anymore:
Rachel Cusk - OutlineTolstoy - Anna Karenina (bought it because of the BBC adaptation cover) *Henry James - Wings of the Dove (has the Merchant/Ivory crowd on the cover, and there are a number of stills from the film in the middle of the book lol) *Gottfried Benn - Selected Poems and ProseErich Auerbach - Dante: Poet of the Secular World
* these are insane buys, lord help to read them.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 March 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
two orders from a remaindered books e-store
Rhys - Wide Sargasso SeaRoth - Portnoy's ComplaintLipsyte - Home LandTales of the Marvellous and News of the StrangeBibliomysteries: Stories of crime in the world of books and bookstoresStream System - The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald MurnaneLe Guin - The Word for World is ForestJansson - Comet in Moominlandsome crosswords and batman comics
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 16 March 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link