I guess a smaller device would be handier, and maybe more personal, since you could take it around---?
― dow, Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
Kindle you can slip in a lot of jacket pockets
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
I've only used an older version of Kindle, but I don't think the screens have changed too much. It's a different experience and I find it less fatiguing to read an e-ink screen than a regular screen. It's that aspect I like more than the size.
― o. nate, Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
Yes. As well as less possibility of distraction from Intranetz/ILX/email checking etc. Also I have a lot of stuff on there after all these years so the ability to search everything on the device is useful.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
Highly recommend the old, smaller kindle oasis if you can find a cheap one on eBay or wherever. It’s very light, has a great screen and BUTTONS, plus it displays bootlegged epubs quite nicely. I use it to read bootlegs of the paper books I’m reading in bed, so I can read in the dark after my partner’s gone to sleep.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:40 (four years ago) link
today:
eric thacker/anthony earnshaw - musrum/wintersolalan burns - europe after the rain (old school calder pb edition for $3!)
re gerhardi(e) availability: i guess there must have been a vogue for his work in nz at some point since i've found his stuff in all three of the secondhand places i tend to patronise... granted it's always the same few works in each case (though one currently does have his history of the romanovs & the pop psych book he co-authored in the thirties)
― no lime tangier, Friday, 8 November 2019 04:16 (four years ago) link
Anyone read dopesick? Tempted.
― nathom, Friday, 8 November 2019 08:45 (four years ago) link
Yesterday I bought a copy of ULYSSES: THE CORRECTED TEXT which is no longer easy to obtain ... for £1.90!
Best book bargain I've found in years.
― the pinefox, Friday, 8 November 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
futurist manifestoscendrars - selected writingsjarry - the supermale/selected works
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 8 December 2019 06:50 (four years ago) link
Agatha Christie: THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD.
― the pinefox, Monday, 9 December 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
I haven't posted on this thread for months. These are some of my newcomers, all purchased used:
A Book of Common Prayer, Joan Didion, hardcover Book Club edition, $1.Amnesia Moon, Jonathan Lethem, trade paperback, $1.The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann, translator: Woods, hardcover ex libris in Everyman's edition, $1.A Coffin for Demetrios, Eric Ambler, trade paperback, $2.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
I've read the first two!
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
Amnesia Moon is my favorite Lethem novel, not counting the Omega the Unknown comic.
last few monthsAgatha Christie - An AutobiographyPlato - Five DialoguesThe Song of Roland
ebooksArthur C. Clarke - The Collected Stories ofFriedrich - City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
Last few months:
Anna Kavan - Sleep has his HousePierre Michon - Small LivesThe Ruba'iyta of Omar KhayyamElena Ferrante - Troubling LoveThomas Bernhard - On the Mountain
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
Trauma and MemoryThe body keeps the scoreWqnt to process 2019 aka shit year
― nathom, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Is there a 'best' english translation of the Rubaiyat? I've heard the FitzGerald version is very loose.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
Tristan Gooley wild signs and star paths.Though would probably have got another copy of the Walkers guide by him cos I think it would have been more immediate to the reader it was meant for. Might keep this and give her something else now that I started it. Will see if FOPP have any of his.
Finton O'toole heroic failure.Irish political writers book on Brexit and the mentality behind it. Thought I'd see if he could make any more sense of it.This was from last year so far from up to date. He's started off talking about bits being extremely arrogant when people were originally trying to set up the common market in ghe early 60s. Being totally dismissive of the project etc.Well might make some sense as background.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
machines in the head: selected short writing of anna kavanmedea's charms: selected shorter writing of ithell colquhoun
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 19 December 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
The FitzGerald is very loose, but having read Borges wonderful essay on it, I'm OK with it being the version I have.https://www.gwern.net/docs/borges/1951-borges-theenigmaofedwardfitzgerald.pdf
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 December 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
After publically stating on ILB my New Year resolution to read more books than I buy in 2020, today I bought copies of:
Maigret in Montmartre, Georges Simenon, used mass market paperback, $1.The Bachelors, Muriel Spark, used trade paperback, $2.An Unsuitable Attachment, Barbara Pym, used mass market paperback, $1.
Books I have finished so far in 2020: zero.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 3 January 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
Not a good or worthy resolution tbh.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 3 January 2020 04:53 (four years ago) link
Just buy the books that’s half the fun
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 3 January 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
The Beautiful Ones the Prince cowrite. It was 1/2 price in Waterstones.
Several other things that will come back to me later.
― Stevolende, Friday, 3 January 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
Kindle deals in the UK is currently a list a thousand books long what with Christmas. in the last week I've picked up
the owl servicethe penelopiadAmerican gods (some 4 story compilation thing)
and rescued "the haunting of hill house" from my teenage bedroom
― koogs, Friday, 3 January 2020 05:38 (four years ago) link
john cowper powys - maiden castlejocelyn brooke - the image of a drawn swordkenneth patchen - the journal of albion moonlightrainer maria rilke - the notebooks of malte laurids brigge
― no lime tangier, Friday, 3 January 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
a thing that will bring at least two of those books together (the Brooke and the JCP - I haven’t read the Patchen ) is John Ireland’s Mai Dun Symphonic Rhapsody.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 4 January 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Salvador Dali the Making of an Artist by Catherine Grenier. looks like a comprehensive book on the artist. Had it put away a few months ago.
Now got a Keith Morris memoir put aside and will collect it next week.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 4 January 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
Been gifted by various ppl:
Edward Gibbon - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (the Abridged version)Natalia Ginzburg - Happiness, as SuchSadeq Hedayat - The Blind OwlVictor Serge - Memoirs of a RevolutionarySappho - if not, Winter (tr. Anne Carson)Joy Williams - Escapes
2nd hand find (some of these go months back)
Franz Kafka - Letter to FatherLinda Bostrom Knausgaard - The Helios DisasterVladimir Nabokov - Nikolai GogolColette - Cheri
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 January 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
My last few. All second-hand except the Borges, which was a vacation souvenir. I'm going to learn to read Spanish I've decided.
Jorge Luis Borges - Inquisiciones/Otras inquisicionesJean-Jacques Rousseau – Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaireSaint Augustin (tr. Arnauld d’Andilly) – ConfessionsStephen Hawking - A Brief History of TimeCarl Sagan and Ann Druyan – CometsWilliam Carter – Marcel Proust: A Life
― jmm, Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
re: ireland connections, interesting thanks. coincidentally it was mention in electric eden of his great literary inspiration machen that pointed me in his direction a number of years ago (though have not pursued his work to any great length thus far)
― no lime tangier, Monday, 6 January 2020 07:21 (four years ago) link
from a thing I wrote a long while ago:
The composer John Ireland loved Machen’s works. His Legend for Piano and Orchestra, with its beckoning, pastoral motif and discordant, sinister piano was dedicated to Machen and inspired by the vision on the Sussex Downs of children in white silently dancing near the site of an old leper colony, who vanished when he glanced momentarily away.
"Oh, so you’ve seen them too?"
was the slightly terse reply from Machen when Ireland wrote to him of the event.
Wandered into Oxfam books during my lunch break yesterday, had a look at an MP Shiel, but I can get that out of the library, did end up getting:
Gross's Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour textbook, which was standard for my A-level courseFourth edition of the Norton Anthology of Poetry - canon setting classroom standard anthology, usefully diverse.Poesia Inglesa - vol 1 of the 'Obras de Fernando Pessoa', with facing page translations into the Portuguese.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 11 January 2020 08:33 (four years ago) link
Vernon Joynson A Potpourri of Of Melodies And Mayhemthe Latin America and canada volume of his extended work on psychedelia and prog etc. It grew out of being part of his Dreams, Fantasies and Nightmares from Far Away Lands which also covered the antipodes and Asia. IT's in 2 sections one being all of South America grouped together instead of by individual countries and missing things like Gato Barbieri which I thought he might have included. That section is shorter than the Canadian one which I also found a bit surprising. But I guess there was less money or record company set up down there .Anyway interesting find and i got it at a cut price.Does look like the book has been read and seems a little floppier than i would have expected from such a heavy book. Glad I got it though, somehow missed hearing about it despite getting the previous book by him which was the other one split off from “Dreams, Fantasies and Nightmares from Far Away Lands " and came out several months before this one.
I'd really like to know if his Short Sharp Shock to the System book on punk/postpunk etc etc was worth getting since I think it's a limited edition and every copy of it I've seen physically has been sealed in cellophane so i couldn't really look at it. Hope taht the standard of recent editions is what he is trying to keep up to, I heard the old punk book by him "Up Yours" wasn't as good as it could have been and regurgitated info from cd sleeves and stuff. Did used to find that his books from the early 00ies seemed to be a couple of years out of date by the time they were printed. In terms of what was and wasn't available on cd etc at least. But info technology is a lot better than it was then.Anybody got it?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 11 January 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
Yesterday I bought a used hardcover copy of Thomas Mann's tetralogy, Joseph and His Brothers for $2. It's one Alfred has enthused about more than once on ILB, so naturally I had to nab it at that price. However, I see I am beginning to pile up a backlog of 1000+ page works waiting to be read (JaHB is 1200 pp, give or take). I need to think about tackling some of them.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 11 January 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
Poesia Inglesa - vol 1 of the 'Obras de Fernando Pessoa', with facing page translations into the Portuguese.
You know, whenever I read Pessoa's english language stuff it reads like embarrassing attempts by someone who's not too good with the language, but as Pessoa was clearly more clever than I am I'm sure I'm wrong. Would love to hear what a native speaker has to say on the matter!
IT's in 2 sections one being all of South America grouped together instead of by individual countries and missing things like Gato Barbieri which I thought he might have included. That section is shorter than the Canadian one which I also found a bit surprising. But I guess there was less money or record company set up down there .
With all due respect to the Canadian psych scene, I find it hard to believe South America as a whole has less to offer. I have two books on Brazilian psych alone!
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 13 January 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
My wife got me the NYRB 2020 Book Club subscription for a present, so I guess I won't need to buy many books this year.
― o. nate, Monday, 13 January 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
sold a bunch at skoob for:
Marcel Proust - Sodom & Gomorrah (I was re-reading this volume on a flight a few years ago and left it there so pleased to have the full set again)Pierre Michon - Masters and ServantsGerald Manley Hopkins - Poems and ProseHart Crane - Complete PoemsColette - The Last of Cheri
Picked up:
Antonio Tabucchi - The Woman of Porto PimP.G. Wodehhouse - The Code of the WoostersWilliam Shakeapeare - The Sonnets
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 January 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
Pure reason Girls will be girls - O’TooleOn aggression LorenzDe Montaigne’s Essays
― nathom, Sunday, 19 January 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
Found Stephen Morris' memoir Record play pause in a charity shop for 1eur today which was nioce.Do love JOy Division so have read all the other memoirs so far i think.
A book on Greek mythology from the same charity shop
The Enduring Vision A History of the American peoples from another charity shop.
A book on Ubuntu cos I still haven't really got the grip of this installation of teh OS. Hope it gets me there
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
Went to a Deanery bookshop, which always has amazing stock and is ridiculously good value. They always seem to have a slew of Virago books so got two Elizabeth Taylor's I've not read (Palfrey and Lippincote's) and a Molly Keane (The Rising Tide).
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
I read a short story of Taylor’s this week - The Flypaper. Not exactly good but *very* unsettling
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 27 January 2020 00:00 (four years ago) link
A copy of WCW's WHITE MULE that used to belong to another quite celebrated poet.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 2 February 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, used hardcover in an old (1962) Modern Library edition, very good condition, no dust jacket, $1. I bought this in order to re-read the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which is included complete. The other selections are just a bonus.
The Highland Clearances, John Prebble, used Penguin trade paperback, very good condition, $1. Because it's good to recall that the poor always get handed the dirty end of the stick.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 2 February 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
georges perec - three/53 daysmorton feldman - give my regards to eighth street
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 27 February 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link
WH Auden - Around the HouseSeamus Heaney - Death of a NaturalistWallace Stevens - The Palm at the End of the MindSusan Cain - QuietSylvie Simmons - I'm Your Man
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Friday, 28 February 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
Ciaran Carson - In the Light of (after Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud)Marina Tsvetaeva - Select (tr. McDuff)Juan Benet - A Meditation
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 March 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
thrift store purchases that should see me through the end of the world:
Gontran de Poncins - Kabloonamemoir by a French nobleman who traveled to the Arctic to live with an Inuit community in the late 1930s. nice looking Time Reading Program reprint, though the first edition has a more generous selection of photos
RW Spryszak - Edjusigned by the author: "thank you for letting Edju into your house"
Sacheverell Sitwell - Journey to the Ends of TimeI've dipped into this a bit and I'm still not sure what to make of it: part Sunday morning sermon, part art criticism, part morbid philosophical musings of a leisure class nonbeliever, part guided tour through setpieces/dreams/prose-paintings representing death and the afterlife? it looks like he wrote s(ach)everal other books in the same vein. can't help but type out this gem of a quote from the introduction:
It is my belief that I have informed myself of nearly all works of art in the known world. I cannot think that anything considerable is missing. Where I have not been in person, I have read and studied. I have heard most of the music of the world, and seen nearly all the paintings.
alright big man
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Monday, 16 March 2020 03:48 (four years ago) link
Esther Perel-mating in captivity.
― nathom, Monday, 16 March 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link
my first post-quarantine book purchase arrived today...
wrong movements: a robert wyatt history (michael king) - being a combined chronological oral biography/discography/session history with masses of archival photos, art & articles up to the early nineties + an unexpected bonus book!
― no lime tangier, Friday, 8 May 2020 06:04 (three years ago) link
The 13th Floor Elevators A Visual History Paul Drummond's 2nd book on the subject. has some really great images in. Might get some of tehm printed up and stick them on a wall once the shops reopen.Not read any of the text yet.
The sewing Machine Master Guide Clifford Blodget.Great book on the workings of a sewing machine. Shows how it works and how to do simple fixes and things like timing and needle correction.I thought my sewing machine had totally messedup at a time that I couldn't take it to a repair person. So thought I needed to teach myself.I got it working a coupleo fdays later but now have this which is really useful. This plus loads of hours of hands on exeprience ought to lend to me knowing how to fix things.
Active Hope Joanna Macy.I saw Demain a couple of months ago which talks about soime of her work.Wanted to read some of it too. So hoping this is going to get here soon.
Mike Barnes A New Day YesterdayNice overview on prog in the UK.MIght go out and pick up a few titles i don't have. Still not got any Egg unless you count Arzachel which you can't really . Also not got solo Steve Hillage.Interesting read anyway.
Tony Allen AutobiographyJapanoise2 books grabbed from the duke University press sale. Might go back for some more.
― Stevolende, Friday, 8 May 2020 09:07 (three years ago) link
that elevators visual history looks nice. i did have a copy of drummond's eye mind but ended up giving it away mostly unread cos i'm not really sure i need to know all the voluminous 13fe related detail it went into... then again maybe i'll borrow it back sometime.
― no lime tangier, Friday, 8 May 2020 09:23 (three years ago) link