Recently Purchased.

**Benny Profane** · 11-18-2007, 12:58 AM

Unlike many other people, the books I buy are always the next ones I read. I don't buy books and keep them stashed away on my shelf for too long. Just have to finish Gravity's Rainbow and then these will be tackled quickly, especially cause I got a honeymoon coming up and plenty o' time to veg and read.

**Kurosawa Fan** · 11-18-2007, 01:02 AM

I'm not seeing anything in your post.

**Benny Profane** · 11-18-2007, 01:03 AM

Fuckin A.

All I see are Red X's and I can't delete it or figure out what's wrong.

Anyway, I bought:

No Country for Old Men -- Cormac McCarthy
Vineland -- Thomas Pynchon
The Devil in the White City -- Erik Larson

Sorry for the screw-up.

**Kurosawa Fan** · 11-18-2007, 01:05 AM

Quoting Benny Profane (view post)

Fuckin A.

All I see are Red X's and I can't delete it or figure out what's wrong.

Anyway, I bought:

No Country for Old Men -- Cormac McCarthy
Vineland -- Thomas Pynchon
The Devil in the White City -- Erik Larson

Sorry for the screw-up.

Nice. I've read No Country, which I loved, and own The Devil in the White City, but alas, I'm not like you. I buy books and they sit for awhile, mainly because I get caught up in a whim when someone around here is raving about something. I've had Devil for a year at least.

**Duncan** · 11-18-2007, 05:32 AM

**lovejuice** · 11-18-2007, 05:47 AM

Quoting Duncan (view post)

nice...i remember you like steppenwolf which is my second favorite of hesse's. this book you just purchased in the first.

**Duncan** · 11-18-2007, 07:48 AM

Quoting lovejuice (view post)

nice...i remember you like steppenwolf which is my second favorite of hesse's. this book you just purchased in the first.

Yeah, I really dig Hesse. My preferences would go something like:

The Glass Bead Game
Steppenwolf
Siddhartha
Demian

I've got a few more books in the queue before I tackle this one, but it'll be interesting to see where it falls.

**Duncan** · 11-22-2007, 02:22 AM

I seriously did not need another book, but the 4:00 showing of I'm not There was sold out and I needed to kill time until 6:30. Therefore I wandered to the nearest bookstore and fumbled around until I saw this one, which is written by a guy who has been heavily recommended around these parts.

**Melville** · 11-22-2007, 02:31 AM

Something about having my own library of books to browse through is very appealing to me. Hence, I buy books compulsively and own literally hundreds that I haven't read. Gravity's Rainbow and Narcissus and Goldmund are two such books; let me know if they are worth prioritizing.

**Duncan** · 11-22-2007, 04:10 AM

Quoting Melville (view post)

Something about having my own library of books to browse through is very appealing to me. Hence, I buy books compulsively and own literally hundreds that I haven't read. Gravity's Rainbow and Narcissus and Goldmund are two such books; let me know if they are worth prioritizing.

I bet I'll get to this point some time. I always go into book stores telling myself I won't buy anything. Then, once I find something I want, I just tell myself that I eventually would have bought it anyway so I might as well just buy it now. I have found no counter argument.

**lovejuice** · 11-26-2007, 04:54 AM

just purchase this for my friend's birthday.

i read some of it. even though i'm familiar with most, it's still hilarious.

**lovejuice** · 12-01-2007, 07:07 PM

the sale at my local library is such a let down. most of them are hardcover of authers i have never heard of or pop writers which i have a lot of respect for, but i don't feel like reading their work. the only thing noteworthy that i get from it is to the lighthouse, and christie's curtain.

**Morris Schæffer** · 01-26-2008, 10:26 AM

**Duncan** · 01-27-2008, 07:35 AM

Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)

That's written by my best friend's brother. Not that that really matters.

**Morris Schæffer** · 01-27-2008, 07:58 PM

Quoting Duncan (view post)

That's written by my best friend's brother. Not that that really matters.

It doesn't. I won't rep you.

Anyway, I've read great things about this, leading me to believe it truly is definitive.

**D_Davis** · 02-02-2008, 02:49 PM

This is going to rock. From Amazon:

In this smoothly written memoir, 98-pound weakling Polly makes the age-old decision to turn his nerdy self into a fighting machine. Polly's quest for manhood leads this guy from Topeka, Kans., to the Shaolin Temple, ancient home of the fighting monks and setting for 10,000 chop-socky movies. As much a student of Chinese culture as he is a martial artist, Polly derives a great deal of humor from the misunderstandings that follow a six-foot-three laowai (white foreigner) in a China taking its first awkward steps into capitalism after Tiananmen Square. Polly has a good eye for characters and introduces the reader to a Finnish messiah, a practitioner of "iron crotch" kung fu, and his nagging girlfriend. We get the inside dope on Chinese dating, Chinese drinking games and a medical system apparently modeled on the Spanish Inquisition. The last hundred pages of the book lose focus, and Polly doesn't convincingly demonstrate how he transforms himself from a stumbling geek to a kickboxing stud who can stand toe-to-toe with the highest-ranked fighter in the world. Although Polly may fall short in sharing Shaolin's secrets, as a chronicler of human absurdity he makes all the right moves.

I've heard it is really good.

**Saya** · 02-02-2008, 05:10 PM

My local bookstore had a sale today so I picked up a couple of books.

A Game of Thrones (George RR Martin)
A Clash of Kings (George RR Martin)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Crime & Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Caroll)
1984 (George Orwell)

**D_Davis** · 02-05-2008, 09:19 PM

Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock
The Iron Dragon's Daughter - Michael Swanwick
Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick

**megladon8** · 02-07-2008, 03:52 AM

I got these free after being overcharged by the Science Fiction Book Club a few months ago...

**Skitch** · 01-27-2008, 11:39 PM

Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)

....must...buy....

**Qrazy** · 02-01-2008, 12:17 PM

Pascal - The Provincial Letters
The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville
Beckett - Eh Joe

**Dukefrukem** · 11-09-2015, 11:56 AM

Holy shit.

Has anyone ever slept on a hybrid mattress before?

**Skitch** · 11-14-2015, 03:01 PM

I have not.

Been spending some of my winnings from my fantasy movie league winnings (facebook group). I really only buy movies November-January anymore. Thats when all the deals make it worth it.

Blu-rays:
Cloud Atlas
Edge of Tomorrow
Elysium
Enders Game
Everly
Punisher: War Zone
Red Lights
Sin City 2
The Drop
Dallas Buyers Club
Godzilla
Kite (2014)
The November Man
The Signal
Transformers 4

Grand total spent: $30. Some of these are blind buys obviously, so they may be headed to another exchange store, but its tough to pass up on $2 blu-rays!

**baby doll** · 11-15-2015, 02:24 AM

Two dollars in a second-hand shop, a bit beat-up. As soon as I picked it up, the guy standing next to me started raving about it.

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