Oh, aren't we just a horde of materialist horders?
What I got over the weekend:
Pride & Prejudice
A Canticle for Leibowitz
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Arrived in the mail today:
What the Maid Saw by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Film Art An Introduction by Bordwell & Thompson
Please write about "Fragile Things" whenever you get around to reading it, Sycophant!
It's gotten totally mixed reviews - I'd be curious to hear what someone on here thinks of it.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Don't buy books anymore. Not enough space. I interlibrary loan everything I need.
"Modern weapons can defend freedom, civilization, and life only by annihilating them. Security in military language means the ability to do away with the Earth."
-Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
Two total random purchases I found cheap.
"Listen man, it might be hard to understand, but
Don't mourn the dead,
Celebrate the life they gave"
- Kashmir "Seraphina"
Got in the mail today:
Novels:
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Graphic works:
32 Stories by Adrian Tomine
Telepathic Wanderers by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Two amazing books. Three Stigmata is especially awesome, and quite profound.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)
Yep, you and KF have become my official literature advisors
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."