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Shoutbox - 18 comments
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jenn.n says:
does anyone know of a good bookswap site (like bookmooch.com) that doesn't have a stupid points system? it's very frustrating, since it seems clear that even though someone may have a book you want, and you could earn points by sending it to them, they don't have points to request it. blargh.
alternately, if anyone wants to set up a bookswap on here, i'm game.
posted Jul 13
SierraNightTide says:
Favorite bookstore: The Lliad Book Shop
North Hollywood, CAhttp://www.iliadbooks.com/
I have bought and have seen some of the best, strangest, coolest books at The Lliad Bookshop The Lliad is one of those cool funky book shops with a couple of cats, book enthusiasts with thick glasses and a sea of books that that contain hidden treasures you will never find at the big chains. They had a Alfred Hitchcock pop up book! I recently picked up The Circus of the Earth and Air by Brooke Stevens. I didnt have any cash on me (only my cc) and the book was only $2. The owner recognized me from my numerous previous trips and told me to pay him the next time I came in. That will never happen at Barnes & Nobel.
posted Jun 21
Tasbeeh says:
i hit up this little thrift shop called 'the purple ribbon' today, which is for a local battered women's shelter, and not only found a w. somerset maugham first edition, but also a copy of maupassant's stories that is over a century old! and the place had a buy one book, get one free sale on, if that doesnt just kick all ass, i dont know what does.
posted May 24
Butterfly Mind says:
Has anyone read Pinkerton's Sister by Peter Rushforth? It took him 25 years to write. Some people seem to really love it, others don't. I'll need to order it sometime from Amazon. Wondered though if anyone here had stumbled across it yet?
posted Apr 27
houston wanier says:
I'm currently rediscovering Crime and Punishment; wonderful; simply wonderful.
posted Apr 27
Scott McKane says:
Currently re-reading Slaughterhouse Five. Makes me sad now that Vonnegut is gone, but what a great story.
posted Apr 26
The Major says:
After much (quite understandable) nagging from my better half, I am currently undertaking the enforced redecoration of my humble abode. She was of course quite right but this has entailed much shifting, restacking and boxing of books, vast clouds of dust and subsequent swallowing of antihistamines. I am uncovering books I'd long forgotten buying and am making the terrible mistake of opening the tomes to 'have a quick look'. It's amazing what I'm digging up though. I'd be interested to know the age of the oldest book people have in their collections...
posted Apr 19
Mental Eunuch says:
Last good book you read.
Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell. It's a boy-teen coming of age story told from the point of view of a boy with a stutter. The blurbs on the back bill it as "Britains 'Catcher in the Rye'", which is both overstating it and completely missing the point of why "Catcher in the Rye" is such a great book, but it's still a good read. And if you've never read his other books, try "Ghostwritten". It's almost just a bunch of short stories slapped together into a novel, but he ties the characters' stories together so well (one of whom is a non-human entity that can travel between bodies) that it just works.
posted Mar 12
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Mental Eunuch says:
If you even remotely identify with "Generation X" or are even curious, you owe it to yourself to read some Douglas Coupland. It's like he's in your head.
I just finished "Life After God", and it was a much stronger book than the average short story collection.
posted Mar 24
Courtney says:
Last book I read?
"Death on the Installment Plan," Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Brilliant.
posted Apr 26
Butterfly Mind says:
Last book I read I've actually kind of abandoned. I'll try and get back to it, but it wasn't as good as all the reviews and cover quotes made it out to be. It's called The American Boy, by Andrew Taylor. It's a nineteenth century crime book which has Edgar Allan Poe as one of the characters. Before that, I reread The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. I still love that book. I've only read one Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma.
posted Apr 27
Scott McKane says:
Recently finished reading "Killer Angels" and "Gods and Generals." I have "The Last Full Measure" on standby, but am currently re-reading Dune. I've decided it's time to re-read the Dune series in preperation for reading the latest Dune sequal by Brian Herbert/Kevin Anderson, whichis supposedly based on the notes of Frank Herbert. I better not be disapointed, but even if the new book does fail me, it's always great reading the originals.
posted Sep 13