Books & Authors : What Books Did You Just Buy?

I just picked up Extinction Journals and Angel Dust Apocalypse and a first edition American Psycho.

Three times apparently?

I think it's because we've got a server lag.  Any time I click post lately I've got to wait almost two full minutes for the thing to actually post.  When it does that it's easy to think you just didn't click it at all and click again.  And, apparently, again.

• The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Writings from Postcommunist Romania by various
• Point Omega: A Novel by Don DeLillo
• The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolaño
• The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard

--- all for about $25. With this addition to the stacks, I think I'm set for a while.

LIttle Stalker - Jennifer Belle

The Seven Year Bitch - Jennifer Belle

Hit and Run - Lawrence Block

The Divine Comedy - Dante (although I didn't buy it. It was given to me.)

Noir - Robert Coover

Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk

Nemesis - Jo Nesbo

Expiration Date - Duane Swierczynski

Severance Package - Duane Swierczynski

Fun & Games - Duane Swierczynski

Bad Chili - Joe R. Lansdale

Dermaphoria - Craig Clevenger

Sounds cool. I also don't know why.

I'm pretty sure this means we should get together and build one.

I hear violins.

I have this gigantic book called The Chronicles of Amber, but I can't decide whether or not I want to devote the next month to reading it, feeling it dig into my chest and potentially causing ribcage reduction when in bed, or forearm fatigue sitting in a chair, or just general shortness of breath carrying it around everywhere. 

I wouldn't have considered reading it, except that one of the essays here mentioned it as a sterling example of first person narrative.

I wouldn't have felt this way before e-readers. 

Everyone I've known to read it loves the CoA or hates them, so let me know.

i spent a cold hard seventy five dollhairs on comfort and critique by peter sotos, and i ordered no by boyd rice yesterday.

what have you read by sotos? the order of things ive read by him goes selfish little, index, pure number one, tool, and i am currently reading comfort. at this point in my reading, i wouldnt say im bored of the man, but, since his books are so non linear and change confusingly from non fiction to a more fictionalized narrative and often cover the same tired themes with the same predictable language, im just not nearly as fascinated with the dudes work as i was when i first read him.

 i do find his books far more interesting than his work in whitehouse, though, even though later sotos era whitehouse is my favorite.

I got Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman and The Law Of Nines by Terry Goodkind a couple weeks ago. They are now sitting on top of the other books I have yet to read. Anxious to read them though.

just picked up nabokovs the original of laura. every page includes a single index cards, and a transliteration below of the notes thereon. personally, i am greateful for that so that i can shamelessly ape nabokovs style, structuring, etc.

Fish Bites Cop - David James Keaton
Staring Into the Abyss - Richard Thomas
To Die Upon a Kiss - Craig Wallwork
Poachers - Tom Franklin
Bad Behavior - Mary Gaitskill
Among the Missing - Dan Chaon
Zombie Spaceship Wonderland - Patton Oswalt
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance - Adam Bertocci

Just reeled in my birthday book haul. Time to put the kettle on and settle in for a bit.

Howl’s Moving Castle
The Ice at the Bottom of the World
Nos4a2
Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror ‘12
Collected works of Algernon Blackwood
My own copy of Demon Theory so the library can have theirs back, haha
And 5 Chuck Wendig writing guides

Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs

This Dark Earth by John Hornor Jacobs

Among Prey by Alan Ryker

All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson

The Child Thief by Brom

The Yard by Alex Grecian

Shadows of Fear editted by David Hartwell

Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters editted by Michele Slung

Middle Age by Joyce Carol Oates

Prelude to Foundationby by Issac Asimov

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

That really isn't even half of what I bought this month. The bookstore I love is going out of business, so I spent some time there.

The Best American Noir of the Century edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler

I've still yet to read The Child Thief but have had it for at least a year I think now. I'm so backlogged.

Finally got a copy of Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, which so far is as wonderful as expected. Also snagged The Toynbee Convector. Then went on a spree at the flagship Half-Price Books in Dallas when my friends were here visiting for about a week from out of town, and ended up with Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick which sounds so so cool, Ellis's Lunar Park, Chris Kelso's Shadenfreude (actually I think I got that off Amazon.com), Eco's The Island of the Day Before, E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel, James Lee Burke's Feast Day of Fools, and Le Carre's The Constant Gardener. Oh, and Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. And for comics, Neil Gaiman's Eternals.

I love Shirley Jackson, and really liked The Haunting of Hill House. Speaking of The Illustrated Man, a co-worker of my girlfriend found a copy at Half-Price Books that was signed by Bradbury, on the regular shelf, for the regular price. I'm not sure how the store missed that, but she called me to come look at the signature. It appears to be real. If not, it is too good of a facsimile to say that it isn't.

Richard Thomas ~ Staring into the Abyss

Nik Korpen ~ Bar Scars

Chris Lewis Carter ~ An Overly Pleasent Apocalypse

Solarcide ~ Nova Parade

Yay for short stories :)

I just bought 'The Innovator's Dilemma with Award-Winning Harvard Business Review Article "How Will You Measure Your Life?"' on Kindle.

The intro article changed my life. You can actually read the entire article for free as part of the 'look inside' sample.

I just bought: (print books) Billion-Dollar Kiss: The Kiss That Saved Dawson's Creek and Other Adventures in TV Writing by Jeffrey Stepakoff (found it at Big Lots I was strangely excited by that), From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness, Mr X. by Peter Straub. For ebooks I picked up: Running Dry the Complete Series by M. Christian, Odds and Ends an Assortment of Sorts by Dustin LaValley and Black Futurists Speak An Anthology of New Black Writing. I'm pretty stoked.

Just bought Story Physics by Larry Brooks. Not usually a fan of craft books, but this one came highly recommended.

My last haul included:

The Secret Life of Bees, which I enjoyed as a beach-read but now only vaguely remember. 

100 Years of Solitude, which I gave up on as of today. I may restart it at some point, but part of it was spoiled for me and it punched a hole in my enthusiasm.

1491, which I'm about two pages into and fairly excited for. Most non-fiction books about the pre-Columbian Americas are unforgiveably dry, but apparently this one is both entertaining and informative.