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[sh1v]

Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years by Richard Pells
and
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories by Charles Chesnutt

[inspectorjason]

[madloop]

"Walking with the Wind; A Memoir of the Movement" by John Lewis (w/ Michael D'orso).

I even got the congressman to sign it for me :)

[jedthehumanoid]

La musique de film, Pierre Berthoumieu

[Dream Brother]

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Originally posted by inspectorjason

Let me know how this is once you've read it.  I was going to buy a copy of this a few weeks ago actually, but when I opened up the book half the pages were blank, so I obviously didn't buy it.

[Katy]

I just picked up a copy of "Incest" by the Marquis de Sade.

Y'know, for some light summer fun... :rolleyes:

[Katy]

O how I occasionally love my local charity shop!

I just found a practically mint hardback copy of "The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams" by Donald Spoto (author of my favourite Hitchcock bio). I've been meaning to get my hands on a copy of this book for about two years...

And the old lady behind the counter let me have it for 50p... :eek: :D

[Bolan Boogie]

I just picked up Life Of Pi last week. It's supposed to be really awesome but I doubt I'll have time to start it before my summer holiday.

I also really want to get the Wind Up Bird Chronicle and Catch 22.

[Elax]

I've been pretty self-disciplined about my decision to stop music purchases for a while for a few weeks now, but the price seems to be that i just spend the money i don't have on books instead. maybe i should switch back to CDs, at least i have some space in the shelves left for them, which can't be said about books right now :rolleyes:

anyway:
Karl Kraus - Die Sprache (collection of Kraus' essays and polemics on language)
Paul Feyerabend - Die Torheit der Philosophen. Dialoge über die Erkenntnis (German translation of the dialogues "Platonic Phantasies" and "Concluding Unphilosophical Walk in the Woods")
Doron Rabinovici - Ohnehin (his new novel)

[Elax]

and yet another one:

Vladimir Vertlib - Zwischenstationen

[fr_browne]

You can kill all the blue jays you want but remember, its a sin   TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

[jedthehumanoid]

raymond carver - will you please be quiet, please?
vladimir nabokov - bend sinister
vladimir nabokov - laughter in the dark
santo cilauro, tom gleisner & rob sitch - molvania, a land untouched by modern dentistry

[inspectorjason]

[Katy]

I picked up a 2nd-hand copy of '120 Days of Sodom' by the Marquis de Sade this morning. :D (Introduction by Simone de Beauvoir, no less..)

[Stewrat]

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Having worked in an office environment for the past year, I've appreciated Scott Adams' writing and musings even more.

"Weasels Are From Venus" has to be the funniest chapter.

[Bastian]

http://www.powells.c...isbn=0802117228

Tristan Egolf ~ Skirt & and the Fiddle

[jedthehumanoid]

the results of a few hours spent in the bookshops of galway:

milan kundera - the book of laughter & forgetting
jonathan franzen - the corrections
stav sherez - the devil's playground
kenneth mackinnon - hollywood's small towns, an introduction to the american small-town movie (second-hand)

[inspectorjason]

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Originally posted by Dream Brother
Let me know how this is once you've read it.  I was going to buy a copy of this a few weeks ago actually, but when I opened up the book half the pages were blank, so I obviously didn't buy it.

I finally got a chance to read Akira Kurosawa's Something Like An Autobiography this week.    It's an excellent read and a fast one as well.

Akira Kurosawa is honest, almost to a fault, in his self-evaluations as he recounts the years from his childhood through the making of Rashomon.    The autobiography doesn't cover Kurosawa's life beyond Rashomon; Kurosawa basically explains this by way of, "If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all."    

The chapters covering Kurosawa's childhood are fascinating and more in-depth than the childhood memories of most autobiographies that I've read.    Japanese society has always interested me and this autobiography holds that interest all the more.    Several chapters in the autobiography are heartbreaking, particularly Kurosawa's recounting of his brother's suicide.    

I can't recommend this autobiography enough.    It's a great read even if you've never seen a Kurosawa film.

[Katy]

Last two books I found (yesterday):

"Is The Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism" by Lynne Segal

and

"Freud, Women, and Morality: The Psychology of Good & Evil" by Eli Sagan