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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...
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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...
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...
Do they serve a purpose? I think they do. New ideas often require complicated language. When we read something simple, we often assume we understand it right away. By making something seem deliberately obscure an author can encourage us to reject the facile interpretation, forcing the reader to...
I found Ian Banks, the Wasp Factory plenty disturbing... lots of addled people running around unsupervised and torturing animals. You want to sympathize with the character, but there's just SO many dead bunnies.
Also, it's probably not quite what you are looking for, but there's a gruesome...
I read non-fiction about as much as fiction. I love Biography, history, philosophy, science writing, travel, all kinds of stuff. I think it was Tom Wolfe who said that reality can be so strange that if you put it in a novel, no one would ever believe it. I also like that vague area of...
J.G. ballard must top my list, I love his apocalyptic optimism. Other authors on the top shelf of my bookshelf are Paul Theroux, Angela Carter, Thomas Hardy, H.P. Lovecraft, Albert Camus, Andrey Bely, George Eliot, Phillip Pullman, John Barth, and William Gibson. Palahaniuk almost makes the list...