You guys ride for Christopher priest inverted world right? picked it up at the shop last week bc i thought it sounded familiar. hilarious 70s édition where cover is naked amazonesque ladies walking up a mountain to an enormous glowing orb
― flopson, Saturday, 16 March 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
This is one of my fave 70s SF paperback covers:
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1264395115i/2208886._UY475_SS475_.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 16 March 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
Never seen a copy of that book. Did manage to get his second novel out of the library though.
Yes, flopson, Inverted World has a number of fans on this borad.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
nice :)
― flopson, Saturday, 16 March 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
Today I mostly sold books, but in doing so I picked up a used (very good) hardcover copy of 2666, Roberto Bolano, for $16.95. I read it several years ago from a public library copy and I finally decided to add it to my not-exactly-permanent collection.
Aside from it I also bought a $1 copy of Alan Watts' autobiography, In My Own Way, another book I've read in the past. It forms an interesting contrast to the ever-so-earnest autobiography of Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, which I re-read in 2017.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 16 March 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
My Indoctrinaire has a wince-inducing close-up of someone being injected in the eyeball
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 17 March 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
^pvmic!
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link
also, still on the fence about reading his latest
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
Aside from it I also bought a $1 copy of Alan Watts' autobiography, /In My Own Way/, another book I've read in the past.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2019 23:40 (five years ago) link
Mordecai Richler - St. Urbain's HorsemanAlice Walker - The Color Purple
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 18 March 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
Have read his latest, couldn't recommend. The plot is straight up WTC conspiracy theory, the "near future" post-brexit world he paints is pretty clunky. I do think Priest has gone way off the boil in old age. Which is not to take anything away from his past glories - The Affirmation is the key work for me.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 18 March 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
Ordered The Tribe. 7 euros. Hurrah. Cldnt get it on kindle. So ordered sec hand.
― nathom, Monday, 18 March 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
50% off sale at a local 2nd hand bookshop, so:
elizabeth taylor - palladianelizabeth bowen - to the northsylvia townsend warner - selected storiesclaud cockburn - beat the devildashiell hammett - the continental opjp donleavy - the history of the ginger man
& from elsewhere:
knut hamsun - look back on happinessalfred kubin - dance of death & other drawings
― no lime tangier, Friday, 29 March 2019 03:20 (five years ago) link
her Body & Other Parties, Carmen Maria MachadoRebel Footprints, David RosenbergThe Year Of Reading Dangerously, Andy MillerThe Penguin Book Of Japanese Short StoriesThe Story Of A New Name, Elena FerranteEaling Studios, Charles Barr
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 27 April 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
Good haul
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Saturday, 27 April 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
The Machado book is great, and she's a lovely human
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 April 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
table!
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Saturday, 27 April 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
Hi. I'm trying to wean myself off Facebook and start posting here again.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
I work at a university now so have professor borrowing privileges at the library, but still buy a lot of books. Recent purchases:- Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot- Grenade in Mouth by Miyo Vestrini (trans. Anne Boyer and Cassandra Gillig)- a collection of Said essays- Pet Sounds by Stephanie Young
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
The TatumO'Neal bio. I want to know how much of qn asshole her dad was/is.
― nathom, Sunday, 28 April 2019 06:42 (four years ago) link
Today I bought:
Before the Storm, Rick Perlstein's Barry Goldwater book, used paper back, good condition, $2. This will probably be the next book I read.
Burr, Gore Vidal, used mass market paperback, fifty cents. Last read this two decades ago. I'll probably revisit it before 2020.
Salute to Adventurers, John Buchan, used hardcover, a 1949 reprint of a 1915 novel, $1. Buchan was an originator of the modern espionage novel. This might be good. Who knows?
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 12 May 2019 03:59 (four years ago) link
Simon Schama The Story of the JewsLooked interesting and goes from ancient history 10000 BC to renaissance 1492. Not read it yet so assuming must be some connection to significance of that date or is it when the Spanish king expelled everybody of the faith.
Max Tegmak Our Mathematical UniverseI enjoyed Alex Bellos Alex In Numberland enough to pick up its sequel.& I think this is similar from a different author so perspective also a little changed.
Fuzzy Thinking Bart Kozko Book on fuzzy logic which I have been wanting to read about since reading about Lotfi Zadeh in George Lakoff's book on categories years ago.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 12 May 2019 08:02 (four years ago) link
xpost: not sure i've even heard of that buchan before, looks to be an historical work rather than his more usual fare?
some 2nd hand finds:
ed sanders - peace eyebs johnson - travelling peopletom phillips - a humument: a treated victorian novel
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 12 May 2019 08:02 (four years ago) link
Glam the Performance of Style edited by Darren Pih collection of essays tied in to an exhibition in Liverpool.Interesting philosophical/sociological stuff. I like Glamn so have several books on aspects of it.
Black Power Revolt edited by Floyd B.Barbour1968 set of essays on Black Power. looks to be in pretty good state for something I picked up for €1 in a charity shop. So thought it might be a reprint but it only says 1968 in the front.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 12 May 2019 08:53 (four years ago) link
Was introduced to the fab secondhand Bookmongers in Brixton yesterday - I wish I could have carried more back up with me:
Diaries and Letters 1939-1945 - Harold Nicolson (hardcopy £6)Diaries and Letters 1945-1962 - Harold Nicolson (hardcopy £6)Edited diaries and the odd letter of diplomat and MP Harold Nicolson (husband of Vita Sackville-West).
I didn't realise that there was a 1930-1939 volume but I suppose it has been more exciting to jump straight into the War years. Nearly halfway through the first - it's mainly been interesting stuff on the day-to-day British understanding of the war as it developed - offering insight on the average person and of one slightly more in the know (but only slightly). The footnotes (by his son, Nigel) do a great job of explaining what in reality was happening at various points in time compared to what the public/backbenchers thought was happening.
The Fight - Norman Mailer (hardcopy £4)Covering "The Rumble in the Jungle" which I don't know much about. I don't care that much for watching boxing but I've found myself often stuck in boxing history wikiholes so I'm looking forward to this.
Italian Cinema - Mary P. Wood (paperback £6)Figured I would immerse myself a bit more after falling heavily in the last few months for Antonioni and Fellini.
Movies and Methods (vol. 1) - Edited by Bill Nichols (paperback £4)Appears to be a varied collection of essays on film theory and criticism worth a flick through.
Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry - Gordon Bowker (paperback £4)Seems pretty weighty for a two book author but I really loved the Kenneth Macmillan biog I read recently and this seems in a similar vein.
― fancy the Dirkishness of carrying Doré a round (fionnland), Sunday, 12 May 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
Was introduced to the fab secondhand Bookmongers in Brixton yesterday
ah my local!
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Sheridan Le Fanu In A Glass DarklyI read some of his stuff about 10 years ago. Enjoyed it but I think never finished all of it. This turned up in a charity shop today so thought I'd get some more.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
Reading In A Glass Darkly for me was like being in a Calvino novel. The first copy I bought was the OUP edition, and it was misbound, with 48p missing and 48 repeated. Desperate to keep reading, the only other copy i could quickly buy was a cheapo Wordsworth Classic edition, which was so full of OCR errors that it was unreadable. So I had to buy a THIRD copy, which was included in this vast and unwieldy omnibus of Irish ghost stories, but at least I could finish it.
It was good, though.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
ha, my oxford world's classic edition suddenly turns into walden... which was somewhat jarring!
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" - Mohsin Hamid"Dino" - Nick Tosches"The Chapo Guide to Revolution"
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 08:00 (four years ago) link
Le Fanu is the Wordsworth edition, not looked at it much yet. So not seen the errors.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
purchased over the last two months (have to boot into windows specially to download these)
Adrian_Tchaikovsky_Ironclads.epubJohn_Wyndham_The_Kraken_Wakes.epubR_A_Lafferty_Nine_Hundred_Grandmothers.epubChris_Packham_Fingers_in_the_Sparkle_Jar.epubNeal_Stephenson_Reamde.epubMargaret_Atwood_Hag_Seed.epubJennifer_Clement_Widow_Basquiat.epubPatrick_deWitt_The_Sisters_Brothers.epubIan_Rankin_In_a_House_of_Lies.epub
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
1st hand: Pasternak, Rilke, Tsvetaeva - Letters: Summer 1926
2nd hand: Machado De Assis - Quincas BorbaOsip Mandesltam - Selected (tr. David McDuff)Ngugi Wa Thiong'o - Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Landscape in African LiteratureAbdellaf Laabi - The Bottom of the JarJose Saramago - BlindnessKingsley Amis - Ending UpYuko Tsushima - Territory of Light
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 May 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
A history of Immediate Records from a charity shop.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 3 June 2019 10:35 (four years ago) link
The Jorma Kaukonen memoir Been So Long which I'm waiting to arrive.
A DK book on nutrition
― Stevolende, Monday, 3 June 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 June 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
I'm reorganising my books, which is causing stuff to pop up i forgot i had and never looked at*: for example the 200 best novels in english since 1950, carmen callil and colm tóibín (1999)
*maybe this shd be a different thread tho
― mark s, Monday, 3 June 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
copped a first edition of Tough Trip Through Paradise
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 June 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
Test
― 57mg/20floz, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 05:26 (four years ago) link
What books have you purchased lately? What books HAVEN'T I purchased lately? Help me.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 07:02 (four years ago) link
I only read 2 books last month, but I bought all of these:
tree booksMatsumoto, Masahiko - Cigarette GirlMossfegh - EileenHarper Lee - Go Set a Watchman
ebooksBroken Stars anthologyLucia Berlin - A Manual for Cleaning WomenArthur C. Clarke - The City and the StarsTomas Transtromer - The Great Enigmaa humble bundle that had a particle physics textbook in it that looked interesting
audiobooksThe Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Alec Nevala-Lee - Astounding
i have an ikea bookcase filled with unread books.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 07:15 (four years ago) link
Short intro to zee Fwench Revolution
― nathom, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 07:25 (four years ago) link
spent an hour or so at the annual 24 hr booksale here & walked away with the following for a grand total of $15:
e.r. eddison - the worm ouroboroscharles maturin - melmoth the wandererdiderot - jacques the fatalistdiderot - rameau's nephew/d'alembert's dreamchristina stead - seven poor men of sydneymarina warner - monuments and maidensalex callinicos - against postmodernism: a marxist critiquejack murray - landscapes of alienation: ideological subversion in kafka, celine, & onettijulian symons - makers of the new: the revolution in literature 1912-1939wyndham lewis - the essential wyndham lewisd.h. lawrence - studies in classic american literatureroger shattuck - the banquet years: origins of the avant-garde in francephilippe jullian - dreamers of decadence: symbolist painters of the 1890sjohn ashbery - reported sightings: art chronicles 1957-1987mario bussagli - bosch: life & works
― no lime tangier, Friday, 7 June 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
all book covers really are the same now
https://aux.avclub.com/under-the-radar-underrated-or-simply-missed-7-books-1835282240
― omar little, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
Ha
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
Roadside Picnic. It’s fantastic.
― nathom, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens ($5, hardcover)
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
the other day I picked up a copy of The Westing Game because I somehow don't have one right now and then I saw Sheila Heti's Motherhood is out in paperback now so I got that too.
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
I've got a copy of Peter Higgins' Wolfhound Empire coming in the mail today, psyched to revisit it.
Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad is en route, though I'm annoyed at how reviews keep referring to it (written before Life and Fate) as a "prequel".
― omar little, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
A couple of cheap used bookstore purchases:
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, Taylor Branch, a paperback in like new condition, $4. Some 900+ pages of stirring, inspiring, infuriating history. It's ground that needs to be visited and revisited until we get it right.
The Ten Thousand Things, Maria Dermout, a NYRB Classic paperback in like new condition, $3. I generally trust NYRB to print things I want to read. The title reference to the Tao-Teh-Ch'ing helps to coax my interest, too.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link