Chronicles Vol. 1 is really good also.

Yes it is. I might start that one again

I've started reading Marie N'Diaye's latest book Mon coeur à l'étroit (My confined heart). I had never read any of her books before and I find her writing highly enjoyable.
She also writes for the stage and her dialogues are brilliant. The rhythm is excellent and the topic more than interesting :
A couple of teachers suddenly feel that everybody in their town hates them. They don't see the reason to it but fear asking and start feeling guilty. The husband gets stabbed. He doesn't complain. His daughters prevent him from going to the hospital, saying that it would be worse for him...
I suppose some of her other works have been translated to English, if some of you fancy reading foreign litterature. She's really good and still alive.

Rosa Luxemburg - Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently

Red Rosa now has vanished too. (...)She told the poor what life is about,And so the rich have rubbed her out.May she rest in peace.

i agree...i've read it & i liked it a lot but it is just random...
currently reading laurell k. hamiltons cerulean blue...i love her books...

it was sitting at the bottom of my staircase haunting me because i read it about a year ago and don't really think i took it all in. so again we go.

 

A great, almost forgotten British author (very Kafkaesque). None of his books are currently in print.

I'm reading "A Plato Reader" (with difficulty due to concentration). It's a '60s edition of what I think is all his dialogues, and commentary.

anyone know any good online book stores besides amazon, barnes & noble, etc. (perhaps cheaper)?

i want to buy either maldoror or fear and loathing in las vegas or some music book, band biography or whatever.

gandhi no?

btw amazon/b&n are cheaper than everybody else because of volume discounts


nice friend, awesome book (but shit movie)

abebooks.com if you want cheap used books.

there's a ton of cheap and/or used book stores here but i was looking for stuff in english, in the rare occasion they would stock a book i'd like to have and in english (book translations are beyond horrible), they would charge it for so much you wouldn't know.

en ingles:
http://www.gandhi.com.mx/Gandhi/Libr...?Idioma=Ingles

no hay demasiados pero hay algo.

btw the mexican translation of "loving pedro infante" is 10000000 times better than the original gringo language.
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amazon "marketplace" has used books too. but not always as reliable as the store itself.

hahaha, amazon marketplace, eh? i'm still waiting for my goo deluxe i ordered there back in sept '05.

just searched for fear and loathing... and maldoror and they don't have it, unsurprisingly.

and i can tell you why you liked that version more, a) you are talking about the most beloved figure in modern mexican culture and b) it was translated in mexico, chances are most books are translated, at best, in argentina or spain and even then, when they translate a book, they used their own take on spanish, with slang words and aproximate meanings, trying to avoid all english or foreign words, whether mexican spanish, mostly is used in a more coloquial and cuasual way. and i say "at best" because most of the time they are translated in florida by people who barely speak any language.

yeah, loving pedro infante was written by a new mexican chicana en ingles; the book sucks, but the slang in the spanish translation is so fucking dementedly funny it cracks me up every line.

about maldoror, man, it's in french, written by a uruguayan, fuck gringo translations, at least french and spanish share the framework of latin.

busca esto: Los cantos de Maldoror. Editorial Labor. Traducción de Julio Gómez de la Serna, completada por Manuel Serrat y Henriette Vigulé, prólogo de Ramón Gómez de la Serna. ISBN 84-335-0264-6

fear & loathing you'll have to order the original. "muerte y odio en las vegas"??? ja ja ja ja. bueno al menos "las vegas" se traduce perfecto.

ok. so. enjoy. just get amazon or b/n. if you become a member with b/n ($35, i think cheaper now) you get discounts plus promotions. works very well if you buy lots of stuff.

that's what i'm saying, low cultural speak (slang, curse words, albures, etc) are very much part of the high intellectual strata here (although they way they handle it is very pretentious and snobby), so yeah...

you wish it was miedo y odio en las vegas: http://www.gandhi.com.mx/Gandhi/Libr...?prodId=136343

i'd probably check out maldoror in spanish...chances are i can get the french version here, i live like a block away from the french cultural consulate and they show movies and shit, they probably have a bookstore...now, to learn french!!!

just checked out amazon, you are right, prices are fairly decent there.

if you can't find it in french in mexiquito you can order via amazon they order from france-- they got me some good baudelaire shit that way.

the other thing, since you mention los franchutes, back when i lived in sudakaland i would go to the library of the british cultural institute, it was fucking awesome, they had a copy of finnegan's wake and of course i couldn't understand for shit. but i did stare in awe, like a peasant (like the guy from trachimbrod in everything is illuminated, what was his name).

i might do that, i have a fairly good grasp of french, i'll get a dictionary while i'm at it, though...i still need to get my paycheck.

copy & paste to your favorite word processing software, print on nice paper...

http://www.maldoror.org/chants/chant1.txt

replace #1 for 2 to 5 and you got it
the links from the main site actually don't work (i had to sniff around a bit to find the lost files) and there you have it.

enyoy

Ulysses
Death In Venice
Paradise Lost
Mostly Harmless (a HHGTTG book, 3 pages left)
Candide
Divine Comedy (i've read the Inferno before)
Catcher in The Rye
The Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man

and yes, I am reading ALL of those.

awesome man; i'm in your debt sir!!!!

all i need is a new black toner and a pack of paper and i'm set!

hardly, señor, i'm merely paying back a tiny portion of the interest from your numerous musical contributions to this board. now go & have fun. im going to down a bottle of wine before dinner. hurray!

Check out the new www.deepdiscount.com

They have good prices on quite a few books....not to mention cds and DVDs.

Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski

A rather dissapointing trip to the library left me with Volume 1 of Aristotle's work. Part of an encyclopedia britannica series which begins with Plato and ends somewhere around Hume. A nice book at least and my library card was free, which is nice. Needless to say, however, after picking through this series I won't be browsing the public library again.

The local library is now only open three days a week here. A real bummer, to the point that I don't even own a library card now.

I've settled on just buying books.

Last book I bought, and currently reading:

Our library has just recently started opening 7 days a week.

We just use it for children's books.

oh i pity you guys. in spite of the fact that i live in a dump of a town, the little library is quite decent. they buy what i ask for. has a nice dvd collection too.

Its a bit of a local issue. Our city finds it more important to fund things like pedestrian bridges over rivers, to the middle of nowhere, or building new and improved sporting arenas (which does serve a role in the city, I realize) rather than paying library workers, or buying new books for inner city libraries. Its upsetting.

If you were looking for children's books from the libraries in Omaha, it had better be between the hours of 12-7 and on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

Shame.

im on the last 100 pages of the return of the king

shame indeed. isn't omaha supposed to be a kind of respectable city, i mean for a hick place like nebraska? :D

We are quite respectable, especially for a hick place like Nebraska.

Problem being it is run by people in the suburbs. I should have clarified, it is libraries of inner Omaha. The "public" libraries of West Omaha are fully stocked with books, and open on a more reasonable schedule.

The Downtown Houston Public Library is in the middle of a 3 year multi-million dollar renovation and upgrade. I am so excited, but it will not be open until 2008.

They ahve everything! we have a fantastic library
huge collection of art books, comic books and graphic novels, science, history, massive music collection. great classical music CD collection. tons of everything. I love it so.

I miss it. I need it bad.

Rob, I am jealous.

We've got a huge downtown library. When open...



Awesome used book stores however.

used bookstores rule.

this is the mockup for what the renovastion will look like when complete.



that is just part of the libraty, the old library buildings still stabnd right in front of the new one. they smell old and cool

the dc public library, which i loved, is housed in this building by mies van der rohe --



and i used to hang out at the library of congress A LOT

I would take a vacation just to go to the library of congress for two weeks and read.

Surely, the Library of Congress is a place to visit.

Not that I've been there. I'll get there some day.

Charles Mingus - Beneath the Underdog