Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 4, 2012 - 9:30am
some great books on here, especially your list Gordon. i have half of those.
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Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonAugust 4, 2012 - 12:15pm
Just picked up the Bradbury tribute anthology, Shadow Show (insert happy dance).
Prior to that it was A History of the People of Sweden by Moberg and Finding Atlantis by David King (both research for my next novel), and Ragnarok by AS Byers.
gotMEwrong
from Charleston, SC is reading "American Gods"August 7, 2012 - 6:44pm
My last purchase was Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters (Remix).
Mess_Jess
from Sydney, Australia, living in Toronto, Canada is reading Perfect by Rachael JoyceAugust 7, 2012 - 8:17pm
I finished The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman last night. Kind of disappointing, but pretty enough to read.
Tonight I bought Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan. She taught a week of a horror class I did through litreactor in June, so I'm looking forward to reading one of her novels.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.August 7, 2012 - 8:55pm
Justice League: New Frontier 1-6 on Comixology and Power Yoga, by Unrica Norberg.
Tom1960
from Athens, Georgia is reading Blindness by Jose SaramagoAugust 9, 2012 - 9:59am
Last Friday I ordered One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Less Than Zero, and Cathedrals. they should be in my mailbox any day now.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerAugust 9, 2012 - 1:42pm
I just got Duma Key and The Dead Zone for a dollar each, and picked up Revolutionary Road for five bucks.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerAugust 9, 2012 - 1:57pm
Also, Broken Piano for President.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 10, 2012 - 9:15am
Just ordered a few things from Amazon and other places. A back issue of Black Warrior Review to read the Roxane Gay story "Strange Gods." From Amazon: Best American Short Stories 2012 (out this October), Dare Me by Megan Abbott, and Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins (stories).
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsAugust 10, 2012 - 9:19am
Just dropped a wad of cash on college textbooks, but luckily several of the required texts for my Literary Criticism class and Eastern Religions class are on Kindle. You'd be shocked how hard it is to find large-print college textbook alternatives! If anyone here wants to start a business in an untapped niche, start a college textbook business for those with vision impairments.
Michael J. Riser
from CA, TX, Japan, back to CA is reading The Tyrant - Michael Cisco, The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino IglesiasAugust 10, 2012 - 9:51am
So that's why you're squinting in your picture.
I got my textbooks also. Things are fecking huge. Book for American history (gag) and one for astronomy. Still haven't heard back from my speech professor about whether I need a book.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerAugust 10, 2012 - 12:07pm
I got my books for this semester and found that I already owned 90 percent of the books in the short novel anthology that they made me buy.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersAugust 10, 2012 - 12:26pm
Return it!!
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntAugust 10, 2012 - 2:34pm
I'm sure they were "old editions" and were no longer relevant. That's what they tell me whenever I need to buy a new $300 book. Right after they hold me upside down by my ankles and take any cash I got floating around in my pockets.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerAugust 10, 2012 - 2:45pm
I don't know that Faulkner is making many changes to As I Lay Dying, but for some reason, they want you all to have the same book.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedAugust 10, 2012 - 8:30pm
I've been in the class that just said, "Everyone just have a copy of Fahrenheit 451."
Later you spend huge amounts of time going, "Well it's 5 pages in the third chapter in my book, not sure how far it is in yours..." and it's just ring a round the disaster. I'm not saying they DIDN'T steal a bunch of money making you buy a over priced copy for no good reason, but it's worth a few extra dollars for everyone to have the same copy of the book.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksAugust 10, 2012 - 9:42pm
@Dwayne That's why you buy the eBook version and just do a quick search for the first three words of the paragraph they're referencing.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedAugust 10, 2012 - 11:03pm
Yeah, because you can totally count on 30 strangers to have bought the ebook version and know how to use them. Good plan.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.August 10, 2012 - 11:14pm
Just got Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, by Keith Johnstone (based on Craig Clevenger's suggested reading list for his class). The introduction called "Notes On Myself" is fucking awesome.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksAugust 11, 2012 - 12:12am
@Dwayne I meant for yourself. While everyone else is flipping through the pages, you can scan the referenced passage and consider what was said.
Robert.B
from Northern Ireland is reading The Last of the Savages By Jay McInerneyAugust 12, 2012 - 1:54pm
Story of My Life by Jay McInerney
Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
American Studies by Mark Merlis
Mess_Jess
from Sydney, Australia, living in Toronto, Canada is reading Perfect by Rachael JoyceAugust 12, 2012 - 3:22pm
I bought On Writing Horror last night, and joined the Broken Piano for President club earlier today.
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August 12, 2012 - 4:01pm
Flashover by Gordon Highland
Broken Piano For President by Patrick Wensink
Malice In Blunderland by Jonny Gibbings(print copy)
The Rules Of Attraction by BEE(I don't want to ruin my first edition copy)
The Maltese Falcon by Dashielle Hammet.
Michael Filippone
from Los Angeles, CA is reading Zeroville by Steve EricksonAugust 13, 2012 - 1:17am
I just got:
Zeroville by Steve Erickson
The Hour of The Star by Clarice Lispector
The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck
Assumption by Percival Everett
I'm excited about all of them. I just started Zeroville today and I like it a lot so far.
Tom1960
from Athens, Georgia is reading Blindness by Jose SaramagoAugust 25, 2012 - 2:08pm
I just ordered Brief Conversations With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace and Welcome To The Fun House by John Barth.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksAugust 26, 2012 - 5:29pm
I had to buy Small Gods by Terry Pratchet, Night by Elie Wiesel, Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach, Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, and Where Am I Wearing? by Kelsey Timmerman for school -- luckily, I got all of them in eBook format so I don't have to lug them around every day and ruin my back even more. I finally broke down and bought an actual Nook rather than reading them on my tiny smartphone.
I'm also working on Broken Piano for President and hope to finish it by September, but as evidenced above, I have a shit ton of reading for school getting in the way.
Jason C
from Quad Cities, Iowa is reading Growing Up Dead In Texas by Stephen Graham JonesAugust 26, 2012 - 10:44pm
I'm jealous that Michael gets to read Zeroville for the first time. I had such a blast reading that.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.August 27, 2012 - 12:33pm
drea
from Rural Alberta, Canada is reading between the linesAugust 28, 2012 - 9:58pm
@bryanhowie - isn't it ever? I got my copy of Dora in a shipment with How Georgia Became O'Keeffe by Karen Karbo, The Balloonists by Eula Bliss, and Cowboys are My Weakness by Pam Houston. Christmas in August! And then I found an early edition of As I Lay Dying in a secondhand bookstore/used record shop cum cafe in Nelson, BC last week. My nightstand spilleth over.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerAugust 29, 2012 - 8:36am
I bought Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock, Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac, The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka, and The Mamoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 20, all of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books on Kindle, Everyday Writing by Midge Raymond, and 1500 Writing Prompts by Bryan Cohen
I also picked up a whole series of books for my son. 100 Facts About... various topics. 20 books in total.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.August 29, 2012 - 12:17pm
I think I've said this a few hundred times, but I love Knockemstiff.
Brandon
from KCMO is reading Made to BreakAugust 29, 2012 - 12:20pm
More than The Devil All the Time?
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.August 29, 2012 - 12:45pm
I can't decide.
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August 29, 2012 - 3:41pm
Can't wait to read Dora. And Devil All The Time.
But since I'm broke, I picked up No Country For Old Men and The Song Of Susannah from the library.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerAugust 29, 2012 - 4:41pm
Half Price Books is having a 20 percent off sale this weekend. I am bound to come home with some stuff from that.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesAugust 29, 2012 - 8:55pm
yes, more than Devil All the Time. love Knockemstiff.
just ordered a TON of books, things my agent suggested i read, things i've been meaning to pick up, this is all over the last month or two:
Signed/Limited re-release of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno
Serena by Ron Rash
Chemisty and Other Stories by Ron Rash
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (ed Jeff/Ann VanderMeer)
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones
The Croning by Laird Barron
Best American Short Stories 2012
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins (stories)
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
thoughts?
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonAugust 30, 2012 - 5:16am
What's this about the limited edition American Psycho?
underpurplemoon
from PDX
August 30, 2012 - 6:13am
Got a free book just looked abandoned. It was Children of the River but there were three pages missing! Normally I wouldn't mind pages missing if it was a boring book, but the story was quite interesting. I may switch over to writing for young adults.
I have a place where book exchanges happen, it's pretty cool. Sometimes I don't even remember the titles I'm reading because there's a lot. You only remember the good ones though.
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August 30, 2012 - 7:53am
Signed/Limited re-release of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Brandon
from KCMO is reading Made to BreakAugust 30, 2012 - 8:06am
I can't believe Bryce prefers van Patten's card to mine.
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August 30, 2012 - 8:35am
There is actually a Tim Price in my class.
Robert.B
from Northern Ireland is reading The Last of the Savages By Jay McInerneySeptember 1, 2012 - 8:35am
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
There but for the by Ali Smith
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Robert.B
from Northern Ireland is reading The Last of the Savages By Jay McInerneySeptember 1, 2012 - 8:38am
@Richard, enjoy reading 'Dare Me', love that book.
Meredith_103
September 1, 2012 - 8:47am
In addition to my required reading, I also ordered Knockemstiff, Dare Me, and Dora: A Headcase. Based on the comments on this thread, all three are going to be even better than I expect.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesSeptember 1, 2012 - 10:14am
sweet, thanks, @robert.b i've been meaning to read her work for a long time.
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September 1, 2012 - 2:47pm
Considering pre-ordering Skag Boys.
sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresSeptember 1, 2012 - 2:51pm
newest additions to my bookshelf:
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
Satan Burger by Carlton Mellick III
The Kafka Effect by D. Harlan Wilson
Office Girl by Joe Meno
Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger
bettegh
from Tortola is reading Witches, Wife Beaters & Whores, common law and common folk in early America by Elaine Forman CraneSeptember 5, 2012 - 11:59am
I just bought The Jules Verne Steam Balloon by Guy Davenport used from an Amazon seller. I have no idea who Guy Davenport is but discovered Octavia Butler that way last month and Harry Crews the month before.
OOoooh yeah....yesterday, someone gave my daughter a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey as a gift and said "I just love the name Sebastian, don't you?" I made it through six pages.
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigSeptember 5, 2012 - 12:31pm
I just bought a huge stack of Occult literature and the like from the used book store. For research on a project I'm hoping to take on. I also bought Love Wins by Rob Bell, which is a non-fiction book that got him driven out of his congregation (where he was the pastor!). I've heard a lot of great things about it, so I'm looking forward to it. When I have time.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnSeptember 5, 2012 - 3:52pm
In the middle of Devil All the Time, so no spoilers please! My early review is that it goes deeper than Knockemstiff, but it is a novel vs. a short story collection--that I loved, btw.
some great books on here, especially your list Gordon. i have half of those.
Just picked up the Bradbury tribute anthology, Shadow Show (insert happy dance).
Prior to that it was A History of the People of Sweden by Moberg and Finding Atlantis by David King (both research for my next novel), and Ragnarok by AS Byers.
My last purchase was Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters (Remix).
I finished The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman last night. Kind of disappointing, but pretty enough to read.
Tonight I bought Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan. She taught a week of a horror class I did through litreactor in June, so I'm looking forward to reading one of her novels.
Justice League: New Frontier 1-6 on Comixology and Power Yoga, by Unrica Norberg.
Last Friday I ordered One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Less Than Zero, and Cathedrals. they should be in my mailbox any day now.
I just got Duma Key and The Dead Zone for a dollar each, and picked up Revolutionary Road for five bucks.
Also, Broken Piano for President.
Just ordered a few things from Amazon and other places. A back issue of Black Warrior Review to read the Roxane Gay story "Strange Gods." From Amazon: Best American Short Stories 2012 (out this October), Dare Me by Megan Abbott, and Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins (stories).
Just dropped a wad of cash on college textbooks, but luckily several of the required texts for my Literary Criticism class and Eastern Religions class are on Kindle. You'd be shocked how hard it is to find large-print college textbook alternatives! If anyone here wants to start a business in an untapped niche, start a college textbook business for those with vision impairments.
So that's why you're squinting in your picture.
I got my textbooks also. Things are fecking huge. Book for American history (gag) and one for astronomy. Still haven't heard back from my speech professor about whether I need a book.
I got my books for this semester and found that I already owned 90 percent of the books in the short novel anthology that they made me buy.
Return it!!
I'm sure they were "old editions" and were no longer relevant. That's what they tell me whenever I need to buy a new $300 book. Right after they hold me upside down by my ankles and take any cash I got floating around in my pockets.
I don't know that Faulkner is making many changes to As I Lay Dying, but for some reason, they want you all to have the same book.
I've been in the class that just said, "Everyone just have a copy of Fahrenheit 451."
Later you spend huge amounts of time going, "Well it's 5 pages in the third chapter in my book, not sure how far it is in yours..." and it's just ring a round the disaster. I'm not saying they DIDN'T steal a bunch of money making you buy a over priced copy for no good reason, but it's worth a few extra dollars for everyone to have the same copy of the book.
@Dwayne That's why you buy the eBook version and just do a quick search for the first three words of the paragraph they're referencing.
Yeah, because you can totally count on 30 strangers to have bought the ebook version and know how to use them. Good plan.
Just got Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, by Keith Johnstone (based on Craig Clevenger's suggested reading list for his class). The introduction called "Notes On Myself" is fucking awesome.
@Dwayne I meant for yourself. While everyone else is flipping through the pages, you can scan the referenced passage and consider what was said.
Story of My Life by Jay McInerney
Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
American Studies by Mark Merlis
I bought On Writing Horror last night, and joined the Broken Piano for President club earlier today.
Flashover by Gordon Highland
Broken Piano For President by Patrick Wensink
Malice In Blunderland by Jonny Gibbings(print copy)
The Rules Of Attraction by BEE(I don't want to ruin my first edition copy)
The Maltese Falcon by Dashielle Hammet.
I just got:
Zeroville by Steve Erickson
The Hour of The Star by Clarice Lispector
The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck
Assumption by Percival Everett
I'm excited about all of them. I just started Zeroville today and I like it a lot so far.
I just ordered Brief Conversations With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace and Welcome To The Fun House by John Barth.
I had to buy Small Gods by Terry Pratchet, Night by Elie Wiesel, Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach, Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, and Where Am I Wearing? by Kelsey Timmerman for school -- luckily, I got all of them in eBook format so I don't have to lug them around every day and ruin my back even more. I finally broke down and bought an actual Nook rather than reading them on my tiny smartphone.
I'm also working on Broken Piano for President and hope to finish it by September, but as evidenced above, I have a shit ton of reading for school getting in the way.
I'm jealous that Michael gets to read Zeroville for the first time. I had such a blast reading that.
Got Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Y. So good.
@bryanhowie - isn't it ever? I got my copy of Dora in a shipment with How Georgia Became O'Keeffe by Karen Karbo, The Balloonists by Eula Bliss, and Cowboys are My Weakness by Pam Houston. Christmas in August! And then I found an early edition of As I Lay Dying in a secondhand bookstore/used record shop cum cafe in Nelson, BC last week. My nightstand spilleth over.
I bought Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock, Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac, The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka, and The Mamoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 20, all of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books on Kindle, Everyday Writing by Midge Raymond, and 1500 Writing Prompts by Bryan Cohen
I also picked up a whole series of books for my son. 100 Facts About... various topics. 20 books in total.
I think I've said this a few hundred times, but I love Knockemstiff.
More than The Devil All the Time?
I can't decide.
Can't wait to read Dora. And Devil All The Time.
But since I'm broke, I picked up No Country For Old Men and The Song Of Susannah from the library.
Half Price Books is having a 20 percent off sale this weekend. I am bound to come home with some stuff from that.
yes, more than Devil All the Time. love Knockemstiff.
just ordered a TON of books, things my agent suggested i read, things i've been meaning to pick up, this is all over the last month or two:
Signed/Limited re-release of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno
Serena by Ron Rash
Chemisty and Other Stories by Ron Rash
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (ed Jeff/Ann VanderMeer)
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones
The Croning by Laird Barron
Best American Short Stories 2012
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins (stories)
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
thoughts?
What's this about the limited edition American Psycho?
Got a free book just looked abandoned. It was Children of the River but there were three pages missing! Normally I wouldn't mind pages missing if it was a boring book, but the story was quite interesting. I may switch over to writing for young adults.
I have a place where book exchanges happen, it's pretty cool. Sometimes I don't even remember the titles I'm reading because there's a lot. You only remember the good ones though.
I can't believe Bryce prefers van Patten's card to mine.
There is actually a Tim Price in my class.
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
There but for the by Ali Smith
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
@Richard, enjoy reading 'Dare Me', love that book.
In addition to my required reading, I also ordered Knockemstiff, Dare Me, and Dora: A Headcase. Based on the comments on this thread, all three are going to be even better than I expect.
sweet, thanks, @robert.b i've been meaning to read her work for a long time.
Considering pre-ordering Skag Boys.
newest additions to my bookshelf:
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
Satan Burger by Carlton Mellick III
The Kafka Effect by D. Harlan Wilson
Office Girl by Joe Meno
Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger
I just bought The Jules Verne Steam Balloon by Guy Davenport used from an Amazon seller. I have no idea who Guy Davenport is but discovered Octavia Butler that way last month and Harry Crews the month before.
OOoooh yeah....yesterday, someone gave my daughter a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey as a gift and said "I just love the name Sebastian, don't you?" I made it through six pages.
I just bought a huge stack of Occult literature and the like from the used book store. For research on a project I'm hoping to take on. I also bought Love Wins by Rob Bell, which is a non-fiction book that got him driven out of his congregation (where he was the pastor!). I've heard a lot of great things about it, so I'm looking forward to it. When I have time.
In the middle of Devil All the Time, so no spoilers please! My early review is that it goes deeper than Knockemstiff, but it is a novel vs. a short story collection--that I loved, btw.
Recently bought:
Mortality, Christopher Hitchens
Madame Bovary, Flaubert
Summertime Lies, Bernard Schlink