What Books have you recently bought/borrowed?

[Nomansvally]

Oh, but it's a good book to look a the pictures while taking a shit in the toilet.

[kiddo]

Okey, I may agree with that. But don`t say the cover looks good - because it doesn`t

[mixed]

I was delighted to get a copy of the bachman books, which I'm very excited to read. Which I will read after I finish this

and this

[kiddo]

I recently borrowd Knut Hamsuns Pan. The chapters are very short, like three pages each, and the writer has said: "Every chapter is like a poem". How cool is that?



I really recommend Hamsuns Sult. It`s a genuis book. I would characterize this writer as a Bergman of litterature. I`ll come back with thoughts on Pan after I`ve read it.

[mixed]

that sounds interesting

[captainofbeef]

Bought these:

[PTAhole]

[captainofbeef]

Bought this:

[criterionmaster]

I bought this. Sorry there is no picture, my mom found it for super cheap at some place so she bought it. Looks pretty cool, especially since it covers his best decades. I may take a picture of it later on and post it.

[eatawiiner]

My little sister got me Cassavetes on Cassavetes and my mom got me a Dali B&N book and a book on the filmography of Robert DeNiro for xmas.

[criterionmaster]

You will have to tell me how that Cassavetes on Cassavetes book is. I may just have to pick it up.

[PTAhole]

This guy's first book, The Zombie Survival Guide, was amazing.

[mixed]

One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Marquez

[eatawiiner]

criterionmaster said:

You will have to tell me how that Cassavetes on Cassavetes book is. I may just have to pick it up.

I haven't started yet, just waiting for a day where I got time to read straight through it and the holiday season hasn't given me any time like that. Plus my friend got stabbed when these black guys tried robbing him so we've been looking for them like every night these past two days.

[mixed]

Wow gotta hate those fucking wiggers, is your friend alright?

[eatawiiner]

Actually, they were black guys, so they couldn't have been wiggers. And my friend is doing good enough, he's back making sandwiche's at his place of employment.

[mixed]

Kudos on the dry shtick. Never heard the expression wigger before. Rather than nigger? Ya know, to soften the racial slur?

[agentknight]

Short for white nigger. Basically white losers who desperately want to be black, a la Eminem.

[mixed]

Haha I didn't even realise that. Fine. Reatracted. We'll keep the word as nigger

[ie]

It shall be said that "nigger" is a loaded term that is very offensive, especially in the context that mixed used it in, and should not be used freely. Need proof that the word is very offensive? A friend of mine, who is black and who is also from Africa, so he actually is African American, wrote a paper in one of his classes expressing how offensive the word was to him and others he knew, in response to this event. I proofread it, and the examples he used were quite clear.

It should not be censored, but it is socially unacceptable to use the word casually. mixed does not need to apologize, and it's a good thing no one was offended, but he does need to realize the weight of this word.

And this was said.


(I didn't say anything at first because "wigger" does not carry the same negative connotations.)

[eatawiiner]

Nigger is a bad word. Wigger is almost a joke word rarely used these days. Calling a black person a nigger is IMO a racist thing to do. I've been called Cracker countless times when I lived in South Florida and I felt they were laughing at me based on the color of my skin. Its being put down and makes you feel very unwelcome. It's neither funny or appropriate imo.

[criterionmaster]

This could be its own thread because I have many thoughts on the subject. I think people overreact to the word, if black people don't want people saying the word so much then why do they openly use the word like it doesn't mean anything, despite what context they use it in, they openly use the word SO much. What message does that give people, that the word is bad? No. It gives them the message to the word is alright. Then they overreact when they hear a white person saying it, yet I never hear anything about people being called cracker. I don't find it worse than "bitch" or "fucker" or anything, and those words are used so often. I just think it is blown out of proportion, stop using the word if it is so bad!

It is probably my most used word anyways, I just say it so much with my friends it is crazy, I don't use it to make fun of black people. I have nothing against black people, my experience with them is they act like retards and think they are tough, but so do most white people I know, so it has nothing to do with their skin color. Although I do hate the way a lot of them talk, but I hate everything.

[ie]

Actually, my friend who wrote that paper isn't one of your typical gangsta hommie types. So that gives him slightly more credibility.

[sacrilegend]

I recently borrowed a Ben Okri book, entitled The Famished Road. So far it's my favourite book and I could only read to page 311 out of five hundred. I can't even begin to describe the richness of this book. I had to give it back, reluctantly, but I've put in an order to buy it.

"There are some riddles even the dead can't answer."

www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/nigeria/okri/bennett1c.html (I don't know how to insert links into words yet, forgive me.)

[ie]

Oh yeah, you can transfer that topic over to a thread if you want to, criterionmaster, but I don't really need/want to.

I answered that question, and a few more common-to-uncommon coding things, over in this thread. (It might get buried here, and that will be a nice thread for general forum questions and such.)


I haven't really read or bought many books lately, although I will shortly be paying way too much for useless textbooks. College is better than high school in many ways, but one thing I hate is when you have to buy $80+ used text books that mostly contain long-winded ideas you might even be able to find on Wikipedia or elsewhere, summarized better, and for $80. I'm going to try to share this textbook with a friend of mine, though, so I may not need to buy it.

Also, if you don't mind looking around random books and don't mind used books, try your local library. All of the ones I've been to either have a shelf or a small store devoted to the sale of used books, and most are reasonably priced (under a dollar for paperbacks, usually, although one library I don't like but visit for the book purchases has paperbacks for a dime).

[mixed]

Bought:
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Catcher in the rye - JD Salinger
Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

[sacrilegend]

Oh... And I bought a book entitled The Bible and Art. It's pretty amazing. It's more art than actual book, but anyway.

[ie]

There was a bookstore that was going out of business today; $2 hardbacks and $1 paperbacks on the entire store. Here's what I got:

Hardbacks:


Paperbacks:

[ie]

Bought a small book on Kierkegaard for a dime, which is at a library that has the cheapest paperbacks I've ever seen. As long as it vaguely looks like a paperback book - even a Tom Clancy paperback - it's a dime.

edit: Hardbacks range from fifty cents to a dollar, depending on whether the topic is fiction or nonfiction, respectively. nonfiction is more expensive, I guess.

[sacrilegend]

Lucky you! I wish I had such a cool bookstore near here. I encountered something similiar only once, and there the book prices ranged from R10-R30 (about between one and four dollars). And the books sucked.

edit: So I didn't buy any.