Recent content by buddi

I love my second hand bookstore. They're right next to the alternative cinema and they stay open late on movie nights so I can get all my culture in one fix :D Somehow they know only to carry books that will interest me and even new books are 20% off the cover price. They guy behind the counter...

Wow... I read this book years ago and though I thought I had forgotten it, your review brings it vividly back to mind. I share your feelings about the manner in which the book seems to disintegrate towards the end. In fact I was so disgusted with her failure to fulfil its initial promise that I...

Welcome Aboard BOB Welcome Bob, I don't know the book you are speaking if, but I've had some luck lately with this site... http://forums.abebooks.com/abesleuthcom Litany posted the link on another thread and I've been going crazy with it with excellent results ever since :) Good...

Oh bother... :( Now you've got me interested, but if I read it I might bend the spine

Oh dear... how could I have forgotten... The Sot Weed Factor by John Barth is one of the funniest, cleverest books I have ever read. :D buddi

HEY! You called me crazy :(

See people... we CAN make a difference. Glad that funky little avatat isn't going anywhere soon Martin :D buddi

Hannibal, what store in Ottawa do you get that magazine at? ty, buddi

The New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement are others you might want to look into. buddi

I've had a subscription to the New Yorker my WHOLE life. I fact. my grandmother was one of the first subscribers back in the 20s (?) and eveyone in my family has been getting it ever since. I also have a subscription to the NYRB which I don't really read much anymore, but hey it's about books...

Call me crazy, but I love natty old paper backs with cramped text on yellow pages and coffee rings on the back. The very best thing is getting a book from a second hand store and finding someones old love letters or laundry lists tucked in between the covers. I once found a parting letter, on...

Sounds like a bad case of forum malaise... I've seen it many a time. You don't know me Martin, I'm a newcomer here, but I feel I know you a little from your sense of humour and your many contributions on these forums. I will be sorry to see you go. Hope to see you back some day. peace, buddi

Here we call them "Holy Shit handles" and their purpose is to hang on to and try to pull yourself up into heaven as you close your eyes and scream "Holy Shit!" In said situations, the driver has the steering wheel to hang onto while she closes her eyes and screams, rendering the "holy shit"...

I'm currently readng Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard. I just discovered this Austrian writer and I think he is brilliant ! The jacket compares him to Kafka, Mann and Camus, but this dark tale of a country doctor and his son making the rounds of the Austrian countryside reminds me the most of...

I laughed out loud so many times reading Moby Dick... I dunno, there must be something wrong with me :( buddi