swag from an hour spent at the annual "24 hour book sale" after a two year hiatus... $1 a book:
allain/souvestre - fantomasrobbe-grillet - the erasersgombrowicz - pornografiapynchon - inherent vicejim thompson - omnibushenry miller - tropic of cancerkafka - the trial "definitive edition"george gissing - the nether worldthomas hardy - far from the madding crowdcharles brockden brown - wieland/carwinann radcliffe - mysteries of udolphoef benson - as we were: a victorian peep-showanthony trollope - an autobiographyivy compton-burnett - more women than menstevie smith - over the frontierlorca - five plays/three tragediesibsen - 3 volumes of penguin playsstrindberg - three playslawrence - penguin selected poemsyeats - collected poemsoxford classic irish short storiesbowker (ed.) - malcolm lowry rememberedwilliam sansom - proust
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 7 April 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link
Quite a few. Probably too many. But as long as I have a place to store them I'm sure I'll be working my way through tehm.& may be my main source of exercise waking around the various charity shops in town.also still getting the books from interlibrary loans
― Stevolende, Thursday, 7 April 2022 12:32 (one year ago) link
This week I got my preordered download of the audiobook for The Candy House, the new novel from ILB fav Jennifer Egan. I will probably end up getting it in paper at some point, too.
― Attached by piercing jewelry (bernard snowy), Thursday, 7 April 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
She published (and read) an excerpt from that in the New Yorker. I quite enjoyed the concept. Her last book was very good, if fairly conventional.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 April 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
I just bought Isaac Asimov: FOUNDATION (1951).
― the pinefox, Thursday, 7 April 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Isaac Asimov: FOUNDATION & EMPIRE (1952); SECOND FOUNDATION (1953).
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
Pohl and Kornbluth, THE SPACE MERCHANTS.
George Moore, ESTHER WATERS.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
the pohl half of space merchants is great
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
Is it split in half?
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
Maybe it actually splits into thirds?
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
The Wisden Book of Cricketers' Lives (I know (nearly) nothing of cricket, but love reference books. I need help)
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
I am always looking for small, lightweight, used paperback books I can take on backpacks. I found two:
The Abbess of Crewe, Muriel Spark, used paperback in very good condition, $2.The Singing Sands, Josephine Tey, used paperback, $2.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
ooh, I love The Singing Sands!
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 28 April 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
Still haven't tried Tey--what's this one about?
― dow, Thursday, 28 April 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Detective suffering from claustrophobia and panic attacks takes medical leave and goes to Scotland to rest and recover; on his way there he encounters a death that doesn't initially seem like a murder at all, and starts investigating it as a way to take his mind off his anxiety.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
I’ve been curious about Tey as well.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 April 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
Pohl wrote the first half of Space Merchants (and maybe some of the ending). Kornbluth wrote the section where the protagonist becomes lower class.
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 29 April 2022 03:21 (one year ago) link
Where do singing sands enter into it?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 April 2022 03:34 (one year ago) link
It's cool enough for me to know that the phenomenon of 'singing sands' is a real one that exists is the world. How this fact fits into the book is, for me who hasn't read it yet, just that it makes for a damn interesting title.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 April 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link
Bought my childhood favourite Help! I Am Prisoner In A Toothpaste Factory on eBay for my daughter
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― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 29 April 2022 08:57 (one year ago) link
Xavier De Maistre - Voyage Around my RoomCesare Pavese - The Beautiful SummerWole Soyinka - A Shuttle in the CryptVladimir Sharov - Before & DuringHalldor Laxness - Independent PeopleChristina Stead - The Man who Loved Children
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 April 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IdIxi8kLzE
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
John Darnielle, Devil HousePamela Robertson Wojcik, Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 May 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
Hermann Burger - BrennerHeinrich Heine - Travel PicturesJoy Williams - HarrowSergio Pitol - The Love ParadeMarie Darrieussecq - Pig TalesGregor Von Rezzori - The Death of my Brother Abel
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 6 August 2022 11:34 (one year ago) link
This summer:
J R R Tolkien – The Silmarillion, Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (ed. Humphrey Carpenter)Eric S. Rabkin (ed.) – Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and StoriesClark Ashton Smith – The Dark Eidolon, and Other StoriesClive Barker – Books of Blood, vol. 1-3Stanley Cavell – Cities of Words, Themes Out of SchoolRay Russell – Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic StoriesEllen Datlow (ed.) – Darkness: Two Decades of Modern HorrorMichael Moorcock – Stormbringer: The Elric Saga, Part 2
― jmm, Saturday, 6 August 2022 12:35 (one year ago) link
Still stacksLauren Bacall By Myself and Then some Allan Jones Can't Stand Up For Falling DownNikki Sixx The Heroin Diaries Chapman Frank Sinatra The ChairmanUrsula K Le guin The DispossessedNicky Hayes Understand PsychologyRuth Dudley Edwards Patrick pearse The Triumph Of The FailureRosemary Ellen Guiley Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal ExperienceRevolutionary Japanese Educator And Founder Of Soka GakkaiBethel, Dayle M. Makiguchi The Value Creator: Revolutionary Japanese Educator And Founder Of Soka Gakkai
are some of the ones I've bought this weekSo no wonder I can't get into my work table.
& I'm still getting a stack from the library too.
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― Stevolende, Saturday, 6 August 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
Summer purchases. I'm buying less, but still more than I can read.
audiobooks:Isaac Butler - The Method, which I'm currently reading and it's greatMel Brooks - All About Me!Darnielle - Devil House
ebooks:Karin Tidbeck - The Memory TheaterMicaiah Johnson - The Space Between Worlds
bookbooks:Richard Noll - The Jung CultKen Jennings - BrainiacTamsyn Muir - Harrow the NinthClive Barker - Books of BloodThe Best of R.A. Lafferty
― formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 6 August 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
Was curious about the Butler book, good to know it’s worth it.
I bought a big handful of cheap secondhand Viragos: the tortoise and the hare, angel, our spoons came from Woolworths, the clergyman’s daughter, a wreath for the enemy - and also brookner’s “look at me”.
Also just got Oliver Harris’s new one A Season in Exile on audiobook - really looking forward to that
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 6 August 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
Oops I mean the vet’s daughter
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 6 August 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
last week i bought a small book lot and ended up with a 1st uk edition of henry green's blindness, (another) copy of denton welch's journals, betjeman's first and last loves, the nonesuch william morris & uh the pilgrim's guide to franciscan italy
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 6 August 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
Library used book sale haul (for the tidy sum of $5):
Machado de Assis - The Alienist and Other Stories of 19th Century BrazilPatricia Highsmith - The BlundererPhilip Levine - The Simple TruthJohn Fogerty - Fortunate Son (harcover)
― o. nate, Monday, 17 October 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
Bei Dao - City Gate, Open UpShakespeare - King LearGustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (tr. Lydia Davis)Henry Green - Pack my Bagal-Hariri - Impostures
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 12 November 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
I'm tempted to start a thread for little free library finds. Most of my acquisitions recently are from those (also pretty sure that they're increasingly conditioning the path of my daily walks).
Joseph Conrad - Nostromo (black spine Penguin edition)William Peter Blatty - The ExorcistGeorge V. Higgins - The Friends of Eddie CoylePatricia Highsmith - Edith's DiaryP. G. Wodehouse - Vintage Wodehouse
Also a couple of buys:
Michael Moorcock - The Eternal ChampionJames Tiptree - Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
― jmm, Saturday, 12 November 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
The Death Ship, B. Traven, used trade paperback, very good condition. Got it for my birthday.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 12 November 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
^excellent. Feel like B. Traven is some kind of classic ILB writer who is still read. Think I may have had a screenname or two if not a thread title in his honor.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 November 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
Although maybe he is fondly remembered but you are the only one actually reading him, reading The Death Ship over and over. Where To Start With B. Traven?
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 November 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
I went a bit wild lately stockpiling books at sale prices. Lots of NYRB Classic in the mix:
Nightmare Alley, Wm Lindsay GrahamLife and Fate, Vasily GrossmanThe Expendable Man, Dorothy HughesThe Gate, Natsume SosekiBotchan, Natsume SosekiLucky Jim, Kingsley AmisNiki: The Story of a Dog, Tibor DeryThe Long Goodbye, Raymond ChandlerCause for Alarm, Eric AmblerAs She Climbed Across the Table, Jon. LethemAngle of Repose, Wallace StegnerCollected Tales, Nikolai Gogol (P&V translations)The Leopard, Giuseppe di LampedusaPersuasion, Jane AustenMinistry of Fear, Graham GreeneJourney to the East, Herman HesseMemoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite YouncenarFranny and Zoey, JD SalingerThe Long Ships, Frans BengsstonThe Third Horseman, William Rosen
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 18 December 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper - Donald HendersonStone Blind - Natalie HaynesSea of Tranquility - Emily St. John MandelComplete Works of Anthony Trollope
(that last being a Delphi ebook, slightly above your shovelware public domain ebooks, but obviously sourced from Project Gutenberg and other places and slightly tidied up, but only slightly. interestingly though they have a Proust version which has more than the two PG have. the trollope is 36,000 pages, £1.49)
― koogs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
Gifted:
Antonio Vieira - Six SermonsYoko Tawada - 3 Streetsah-Hariri - ImposturesClarice LIspector - Too Much of Life (Complete Chronicles)
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 31 December 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
Christmas gifts:
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe, by David Maraniss
The Philosophy of Modern Song, by Bob Dylan
Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles, by Jonathan Gold
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 31 December 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
Clarice LIspector - Too Much of Life (Complete Chronicles)
I love Lispector, even in translation. I read Near to the Wild Heart a couple of years ago, it was quite an experience.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 31 December 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
No idea whether the translation is accurate as I don't read anything other than English, but in English she has lots of awkwardness to offer.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 2 January 2023 11:49 (one year ago) link
Asked for and received Alec Nevala-Lee's Buckminster Fuller biography for Christmas. His Astounding was my favorite non-fiction book in recent memory.
― formerly abanana (dat), Monday, 2 January 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
Two Pushkin Vertigo ebooks on sale on amazon today: Death on Gokumon Island and The Decagon House Murders. I love this series of translated mysteries.
Sarah Weinman - Scoundrel, hardcover, about the murderer who William F. Buckley helped free, or maybe buckley is the scoundrelMarc Cushman and Susan Osborn - These are the Voyages: TOS Season 2, paperback -- first one had tons of information, perhaps too much. I see that in 2021 Cushman published a 700 page book on the "Phase II" pilot, which is just scary.Ellen Raskin - The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues, pb, which j.w. friedman of I Don't Even Own a Television recommended on a podcast episode about the westing gameDavid Lynch - Time to Dream, hardcover, from a charity shop. Tons of pictures.
― formerly abanana (dat), Monday, 16 January 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
https://archive.org/details/artnouveau0000fahrlarge sized coffee table book on Art Nouveau by Gabriele Fahr-Becker which I got as 3 for a Euro yesterday and i think was way more expensive last time i saw it elsewhere. Th0ough still about 15Eur or something. Bit of a windfall then. Pretty nice, hadn't known taht archive.org had it on their site until I was looking it up for a better image of the cover. So can be browsed at least.
Also got a great thing on Art Deco which seem sto be a great deal lesser thna teh above but has turned me onto new artists already, thjough maybe should have been aware of them Demetre Chiparushttps://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/PAR/2006_PAR_05446_0134_000().jpg for one. Though it only has 2 or 3 images by artist it still has some great stuff in for a book I payed like 33c for. Think it will prompt opening up several rabbit holes to get lost in.Had come across some Tamara de Lempicka https://i.etsystatic.com/20564088/r/il/1d0063/3244562736/il_1140xN.3244562736_ptu7.jpg before though not sure L knew the name
― Stevo, Saturday, 25 February 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
> Death on Gokumon Island
just read the second of these, Inugami Curse, and that mentions other cases he'd worked on, including things that are obviously the 3rd (eight graves) and the 4th (gokumon). i think those numbers are right, they are the order i bought them in, which i think follows the Japanese releases. 77 of these in total, take that ed McBain...
― koogs, Saturday, 25 February 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
japanese release order is wildly differenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Kindaichi
also, there's another out, the Devil's Flute Murders
― koogs, Saturday, 25 February 2023 19:54 (one year ago) link
filling some gaps at a dollar a pop:
gerard de nerval - oeuvresalfred doblin - berlin alexanderplatzboccaccio - the decamerontwo spanish picaresque novels (penguin classic)robert tressell - the ragged trousered philanthropistsherman melville - complete short worksemile zola - germinalanthony trollope - phineas finngeorge eliot - silas marnergeorge eliot - daniel derondahenry james - the europeanshenry james - the awkward agehenry james - in the cage & other storiesford madox ford - the good soldiercompton mackenzie - vestal fireef benson - as we areef benson - the freaks of mayfairdornford yates - jonah & colen deighton - the ipcress filenew worlds 3 (moorcock ed.)william morris - the well at the world's endthe sherlock holmes treasury (illustrated strand magazine facsimile)
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 5 March 2023 02:10 (one year ago) link
Sold a bunch for:
Stendhal - LoveAnne Serre - The Fool & Other Tales
One more gift:
Antonio Lobo Antibes - Fado Alexandrinho
Then:
Keith Ridgway - A ShockHermann Burger - Tractaus Logico-SuicidalisCamilo Jose Cela - The Hive
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 March 2023 10:21 (one year ago) link
*Antunes