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A Strange Aeon posted:Is that Dead Kennedys book any good? I liked the NOFX one until they became middle-aged, plus it went pretty deep into Fat Mike's piss drinking kink. There's not much in it that I hadn't already seen in interviews, articles, and liner notes, but it's a decent overview. Unfortunately, it only really covers their first couple of years up through the release of Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, so that's sort of lame. The D.H. Peligro memoir doesn't spend a ton of time on his six years in DK, but it's got some good stories, and he's had an interesting (if heavily heroin-addled) life. I'd recommend it. I'm not much of a NOFX fan and haven't listened to them since the early 90's, but I liked that book a lot, especially the horrible stories from the early LA punk scene. I can't remember of I posted this book yet. It is funny, and none of the band members come out looking good. 
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This is a neat book. It's hardcover, 400 pages of photographs of soviet-era architecture.  And you can buy it shipped new with Prime for $5 https://www.amazon.com/Fr%E9d%E9ric-Chaubin-CCCP-Multilingual/dp/3836565056/
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Flyball posted:1936 So, still working through this thread, but I'm always fascinated by this weird rear end emulation of invented indigenous stereotypes, so wanted to say thanks for this.
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wa27 posted:This is a neat book. It's hardcover, 400 pages of photographs of soviet-era architecture. This looks great. I added it to my cart, thanks for sharing!
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No Exit is where the line "Hell is other people" comes from.  When it comes to French philosophers, I prefer Voltaire and Rabelais because they add a sense of humor to their endless moralizing.   Here is a turn-of-the-century proto-Soviet Russian novel that was apparently written as a response to the nihilist message of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. I found both novels to be dull, although they are/ were probably more meaningful in their original time, place, and language. Lenin found What is to Be Done? so influential that he used the same title for one of his more famous political pamphlets.  This is a non-fiction sequel to Brave New World written about 25 years after the original in which Aldous Huxley compares the world of the late 1950's to the dystopia he envisioned in the original novel.  This is a utopian novel from the late 1800's where the protagonist wakes up in the year 2000 and finds the United States to be a socialist wonderland!  Bart Ehrman is a world-renowned scholar of ancient Christianity. This is his excellent translation of nine early non-New Testament texts that are sort of obscure in modern Christianity, but were extremely influential in the early church.  I bought this book from Goodwill on a whim about twenty years ago, and was not disappointed. Written by an anthropologist, it explores the psychological reasons that may have caused early humans to create religion. It is long and dry, but packed with fascinating observations and deeply obscure sources. I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in the origins of spirituality and why human beings are so goddamned crazy.  Speaking of crazy people, this book is a great compilation of manifestos by literal lunatics.  What sort of lunatics you ask? Meet Gary Stollman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL9jGWqvkIE Here are a few more books about religion, none of which I have actually read yet:   
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Considering how absolutely random your collection is, it surprises me whenever I see a book pop up that I also own.
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I've been wondering - you may have already mentioned it - how you store and display your books Gutterphoenix. Do you have a dedicated 'library' room?
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I'm going to recommend you get Everything is Horrible and Wonderful ahead of time when you can still get the first edition cheap. The cover, title, and content would fit collection well.
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my dog died im sad posted:I've been wondering - you may have already mentioned it - how you store and display your books Gutterphoenix. Do you have a dedicated 'library' room? I wish! However, I live in the Bay Area and will probably never be rich enough to buy (or even rent) a house in my city, so I have to make do with the space available in our two-bedroom apartment. Happily, it's a decent size and I am a fairly organized person, so we manage to cram in all of our books and other crap into the place without it feeling too cluttered. We have 11 bookcases in the apartment: five in the spare room, five in the kitchen, and one in the living room. Most of the shelves on those are packed two rows deep, with larger hardcovers in the back and smaller paperbacks in front. Heavy oversize books fill the bottom shelves, and help keep the bookcases from tipping over during earthquakes (like the small one that rattled our place last night). The two end tables next to the couch have a row of books underneath. My nightstand has a row of books underneath and one on top. Miscellaneous books are scattered elsewhere. As I mentioned in the OP, my girlfriend is a professional editor and a voracious reader, so she easily has as many books as I do. Maybe more. I would guess we have between 3,000 and 4,000 combined. We'll probably sell or donate a few hundred in the near future to clear some space for new books. It's an endless cycle... RandomPauI posted:I'm going to recommend you get Everything is Horrible and Wonderful ahead of time when you can still get the first edition cheap. The cover, title, and content would fit collection well. I'll keep my eyes open for that.
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I saw this amazing exhibit at the San Jose Tech Museum in 2010 or 2011, although I bought this book for a buck at Half Price Books just last year.  This book is notable because the publisher and author were sued for libel by former FBI Associate Deputy Director Oliver "Buck" Revell. Rather than fight a court case they couldn't afford, Feral House agreed to cease publication of the book. FBI agents seized all unsold copies from the Feral House warehouse and incinerated them. That being said, inexpensive used copies are readily available, and a Kindle version is offered by Amazon (probably with the offending passages about Revell removed).  This is a book about Michael Eisner's time as the head of Disney, and how once people reach the top of the corporate hierarchy they are virtually untouchable no matter how many terrible decisions they make. It's a long book, but once I got in to it I could not put it down. My one complaint is that it just sort of ends suddenly with Eisner on the verge of being fired by enraged shareholders. If the author had waited a couple of months before publishing the book, we would be able to learn that Eisner soon parted with the company and received a massive payout even though he cost Disney hundreds of millions of dollars due to his numerous dumb decisions. If you don't already loathe corporate culture, you will after reading this.  I bought this for a buck at a Christian thrift store in North Carolina's Outer Banks last September. It has pictures and descriptions of every single American TV show from the dawn of television through the late 1970's. I particularly enjoyed reading about failed sitcoms with awful premises that were cancelled after only a few episodes had aired. There are a lot of them.  Bar Rescue is a guilty pleasure of mine.  I bought this for a dollar a couple of years ago, but I've never really had the urge to read it since then. It'll probably go in the donation box.  This is a fun biography of John Belushi by famed journalist Bob Woodward. Upon its publication, Belushi's widow and family denounced it because it made him look like a selfish, sexist, junkie prick. However, Belushi was all of those things, so the book is probably pretty accurate. If nothing else, the guy helped give us the Blues Brothers movie, and was responsible for getting the band Fear on Saturday Night Live. Details of both are included in the text.  I loved watching reruns of this show when I was a kid, and still do as a world-weary forty year old! The two-part episode with Liberace playing a villain is incredible.  I've always thought that most DC comic book characters were super lame, but there are a few exceptions (mostly due to TV shows). The aforementioned 1960's TV Batman gets a pass, as does Linda Carter's 1970's take on Wonder Woman. I also really like the current Black Lighting show. I collected comics as a young teenager, but I gave most of them away about ten years ago (regrets...). The only ones I kept were silly things like The Adventures of Kool-Aid Man, Ralph Snart, and all eleven issues of 1970's Black Lighting, mainly because it was weird, and actually pretty racist by modern standards. I watched the new show out of curiosity, and it is legitimately good. I was pleasantly surprised. Anyway, here are a couple of books about Wonder Woman.   On the topic of comic books: 
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That's the first of Evan Hunter/Ed McBain/Salvatore Lombino's 87th precinct books. He wrote dozens of them over a period of about 40 years. The first few years, he wrote about three per year, but later on they got thicker and were published with less frequency.
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For context, here's a pic of the book cover It's a book about Harris Wittle's problems with drug addiction, written by his sister Stephanie.
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gleebster posted:That's the first of Evan Hunter/Ed McBain/Salvatore Lombino's 87th precinct books. He wrote dozens of them over a period of about 40 years. The first few years, he wrote about three per year, but later on they got thicker and were published with less frequency. Huh, I didn't realize that that was one of the 87th Precinct books, let alone the first one. Good to know! I bought five or six of the later 87th Precinct hardcovers at an antique store in Oregon City, OR for fifty cents each about ten years ago. It's a decent crime series, but I didn't think I'd ever re-read those particular volumes, so I sold them during a routine book purge. These are the only two Ed McBain books I currently own. I haven't got around to reading either of them yet.  Evan Hunter also wrote the influential 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle. I don't have a copy, but I've read it, and it's a good book.  It's probably better known for the 1955 film adaption starring a young Sidney Poitier.  The plot was totally ripped off (without credit) for the 1982 movie Class of 1984. (If the poster art looks familiar, it might be because it was used for the cover of the book Destroy All Movies, which I recently posted here.)  Gutter Phoenix fucked around with this message at 14:56 on May 16, 2018 |
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I finally got around to comparing the text of the two versions of Campus Tramp, and they are indeed different books. The Lawrence Block/ Andrew Shaw version was first published in 1959, and the J. Harmon version I picked up recently was published in 1967. Gutter Phoenix posted:I know that Lawrence Block has been republishing a bunch of his sleazy novels (written under various pseudonyms) from the 50's and 60's, and there are some available as audio books. You can listen to this classic while at work: Gutter Phoenix posted:I posted a picture of a sleazy paperback titled Campus Tramp (written by by Lawrence Block under a pseudonym) earlier in the thread, but I'm pretty sure this is a different book entirely. Hey, it's a good title. Anyway, here are pictures of a 2010 re-issue of the original:   On the topic of tramps, here is an old promotional postcard for the books of A-No. 1, America's Most Celebrated Tramp, whom I mentioned much earlier in the thread.   Gutter Phoenix posted:
As long as re-visiting old posts, here is another book in the NABAT series, which I've previously mentioned a couple of times:  Gutter Phoenix posted:You Can't Win by Jack Black Gutter Phoenix posted:Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha By Ben L. Reitman There are at least four more in the series, but I don't have them (yet...).  Lastly, I recently mentioned the Studs Lonigan trilogy published between 1932 and 1935 by James T. Farrell. Gutter Phoenix posted:I sort of regret not buying this one. I enjoyed James Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy. Here is my copy of the first volume, as well as my beat-up copy of the entire trilogy:  
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i used to have all of the scientology books, they sent them for free to all libraries in my city. every library threw them away and i took our haul to myself, hah. i ditched them a few apartments ago, which i kinda feel bad about i've read that jack black book, it's pretty drat good! kind of a proto-edward bunker. i'll take some pics when i get home, i've got a p. good collection of weirdo books and some funny sleaze.
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Pulchritudinous posted:I have a copy of the Robocop novelization, though I have not gotten around to reading it. My copy of the Robocop novelization arrived! It was bent and battered in transit, but I guess that's what I get for paying $4 including shipping.   I haven't read it yet, but thought I'd share this passage:  Okay, sluts. Take a hike. 
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Here are a few more books about religion, none of which I have actually read yet: A tip for this one. Don't. It's your typical "lovely rear end take on indigenous religion by a random rear end in a top hat." Also, so, spent the last four days moving a community history organization's office from one city to another, including it's very modest archive and library. Organization was formed in the late 60s, so some of the books in it's library are pretty great. We have a bunch of small community history books, and every second one is some variation on "From X to Y." Like, "From Wagon Trails to Blacktops," or "From Prairies to Plowshares." Also got some goofy rear end books about the disappearing and dying indian, or eskimo, and so on. However, my favourite so far is:  Just make the cover a cowboy smashing an indigenous guy's face in. Why not? Also. Was there with one other person, and reading out bits that amused me as I sorted through them. One of the old guys who used to work for them wandered through, and I made fun of the book about "eskimos," and he got upset that I was insulting the books. Tiberius Thyben fucked around with this message at 05:29 on May 19, 2018 |
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Tiberius Thyben posted:A tip for this one. Don't. It's your typical "lovely rear end take on indigenous religion by a random rear end in a top hat." Yeah, I figured that Hopi book was dumb nonsense. I picked it up for free when a nearby junk store was going out of business. It'll probably be a casualty in my next book purge. Those local history books are great. I have a handful from around the country, although none of them have covers as great as the one you posted!
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I just got back from a six-day trip to the big island of Hawaii. I'm going to post a few highlights here because I don't want to make a whole thread about it. Also, like most things in my life, it eventually involves books. We snorkeled in the cove where Captain Cook was hilariously killed by angry Hawaiians. I bought coffee-encrusted macadamia nuts from a smelly old hippy. I ate the best calamari I've ever had. It was a fantastic and totally unnecessary vacation. The real highlight was taking a helicopter trip over the volcano that's currently wreaking havoc on the southeast side of the island. I witnessed lava spewing up into the air. Rivers of lava emptying into the ocean, changing its color from the heat. I watched lava burn someone's house down. It was loving crazy and my pictures don't do it justice, but here are a few of them anyway:    My girlfriend took some better pictures, so maybe I'll post those later. Hell, even the pilot was snapping pictures. He said he'd never seen so much lava in the five years he'd been doing the volcano tours, and I think he might have actually been telling the truth. Other highlights included the mongooses that are ravaging the island. Here's one stealing food from a beach-goers pile:   Some sleepy sea turtles resting on a black sand beach:    Miscellaneous signage:      I couldn't resist this metal octopus toilet-paper-holder:  I bought a pipe-smoking coconut monkey for $3.99:   And some classy postcards:  There were lots of Christians at the beach, running the gamut from sweaty Mormons and Watchtower-wielding Jehovah's Witnesses to run-of-the-mill eschatological doomsday evangelists and local Bible enthusiasts. Sadly, no one was giving out Chick tracts, but I did get these:   OK, on to the books!  The resort we stayed at had a tiny library of books, and while I didn't read any of them, I took some pictures:          Bonus Thomas Kinkaide puzzle: 
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The helicopter trip reminded me of this book: It's a great read, and the author wrote a follow-up years later. I recommend them both.
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For more Wanda E. Brunstetter and other Amish novels written by evangelical Christians, please see any public library in the rural Midwest I've always been partial to this cover:  quote:A New York Times Bestseller! Join the club of unlikely quilters who show up for Amish widow Emma Yoder’s quilting classes. A troubled young woman, a struggling couple, a widower, a rough and tough biker, and a preacher’s wife make up the mismatched lot. But as their problems begin to bind them together like the scraps of fabric stitched together in a quilt, they learn to open up and lend a helping hand. Is this what God had in mind to heal hurting hearts and create beauty from fragments? It inspired two sequels and a musical production put on by Shipshewana, Indiana's own Blue Gate Theatre https://www.riegsecker.com/shipshewana/blue-gate-theatre/half-stitched-musical/store-book.php
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This is a great book and I don't know why I haven't posted it yet:  Here's another one on the same subject, but it pales in comparison to the one above.  I am fascinated by Maya stuff, especially their written language:   I have a particular fondness for this rabbit scribe depicted on a vase. I saw it in person at a traveling exhibit in a San Francisco museum years ago and stared at it for about fifteen minutes.   A few books about other Native Americans:   
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Posting about evangelical Christian books got me thinking about one of the most ill-conceived books I have ever encountered: quote:In 1944, blond and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin feels abandoned by God when she is saved from a firing squad only to be handed over to a new enemy. Pressed into service by SS-Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, she is able to hide behind the false identity of Stella Muller. However, in order to survive and maintain her cover as Aric's secretary, she is forced to stand by as her own people are sent to Auschwitz. Let me spell this out for you: this is an evangelical Christian retelling of the Biblical Book of Esther as a romance between a Jew and a Nazi officer set in the middle of the Holocaust. Where the heroine draws strength not from her own Jewish faith, but from a Christian Bible that "miraculously" opens to passages relevant to her current situation.  As you might imagine, the larger romance novel-reading community was not happy when For Such A Time got peer-nominated for two industry awards back in 2015. Go here for a romance reader's detailed autopsy of the book, and please, for the love of God, don't get this book new. e: formatting changes Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 01:43 on May 26, 2018 |
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I'd like to think that the jacket designer deliberately chose a font with a K that looks a lot like an H.
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Pththya-lyi posted:Posting about evangelical Christian books got me thinking about one of the most ill-conceived books I have ever encountered: Wow. I'm speechless.
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My girlfriend and I stopped by the Salvation Army the other day and picked up a few books. I used to have this exact same edition of The Jungle, but sold it years ago because I figured I'd never read it again. However, I've been wanting to read it again, so here we are. This is one of the problems with needing to purge books to free up space. Oh well.  I started reading this one. The stories of backroom abortions back when it was illegal are pretty gruesome.  I figured I would get at least a dollar's worth of entertainment from reading this:  And this:  Bart Ehrman books are always an interesting read:  I was tempted by both of these, but figured pictures of the covers would suffice:   My girlfriend got these, but I figured I'd post them because I'll probably end of reading them too:    She also brought this one home last week: 
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Richard Zacks writes interesting books about odd history:   I've mentioned Daniel P. Mannix several times in this thread. Here are a few of his books I don't think I've posted yet:    I think Bob Odenkirk is hilarious, but this book was a disappointment:  I loved this series when I was a kid. (Pretend I also posted some Encyclopedia Brown, Boxcar Children, and Gordon Korman books.)   I was drunkenly wandering through a San Francisco park one Sunday afternoon about five years ago and bought this book from an elderly communist woman. I've never actually got around to reading it.  Miscellaneous books:         
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Wait... so this is a novelization... of a movie... that's based on a book. Why the hell not just read the original book?
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Wait... so this is a novelization... of a movie... that's based on a book. Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Wait... so this is a novelization... of a movie... that's based on a book. Yeah, the cover is confusing as hell. The interior text is the actual novel.
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Captain Quack posted:Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game That game introduced EX moves to Street Fighter and fighting games as a whole while Precious the novel uh
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