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Want to read a memoir from a mafia boss, who in writing the memoir broke omerta and gave away a ton of secrets that the feds used against organized crime? Here is one such book. Further urban nomad studies.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:
I want to read both of those.
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# ? Dec 10, 2019 23:53 |
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Never met a book I didn't want to read. I've read plenty of books I wish I hadn't read.
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# ? Dec 15, 2019 22:49 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:Never met a book I didn't want to read. Yeah, that pretty much sums it up for me too! Actually, I never really regret having read something. The closest to regret is Atlas Shrugged because it is so long and lovely and stupid, but I'm even glad I read that so I can freely talk poo poo to Randroids. My mom's cousin is married to one, who is also a philosophy professor at some barely accredited college in Frisco. I like making fun of him during Thanksgiving and Easter gatherings. Gutter Phoenix fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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I posted more than six months ago about ordering the biography GLOW superstar Matilda the Hun (aka Dee Booher; aka Queen Kong), and later posted that I had to get a refund from Paypal because I never got a response. Here is an update: I don't use facebook, but I going to try to contact them and get the book again. I encourage others to do the same. I hope that Queen Kong can make a full recovery and stay with us into 2020 and beyond!
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 17:52 |
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Actually, I never really regret having read something. The closest to regret is Atlas Shrugged because it is so long and lovely and stupid, but I'm even glad I read that so I can freely talk poo poo to Randroids. Same; I read that when I was an eager and impressionable teenager. And it taught me a valuable lesson, too. The lesson was that I shouldn't feel obliged to finish reading a book simply because I have begun reading it. I did finish Atlas Shrugged but this lesson has saved me a great deal of time in the years since then, so thanks for that, I guess, Ayn Rad.
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 11:11 |
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I'm glad I read that so I can freely talk poo poo to Randroids. This is like my reasoning for drinking IPAs and sour ales.
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 17:33 |
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LOL! I want to read that, but I've hit the brakes on my spur of the moment book-buying a bit until I make some headway in my "to-read" pile. My favorite quick & simple summation of Ayn Rand was done by Gore Vidal, writing for Esquire in July, 1961: quote:Now, before I'm investigated for having taken the un-American stand that sex is a minor department of morality, let me try to show what I think is morally important. Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. She has just published a book, For the New Intellectual, subtitled The Philosophy of Ayn Rand; it is a collection of pensées and arias from her novels and it must be read to be believed. Herewith, a few excerpts from the Rand collection. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4595/comment-0761/
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 17:44 |
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Groke posted:Same; I read that when I was an eager and impressionable teenager. And it taught me a valuable lesson, too. The lesson was that I shouldn't feel obliged to finish reading a book simply because I have begun reading it. I did finish Atlas Shrugged but this lesson has saved me a great deal of time in the years since then, so thanks for that, I guess, Ayn Rad. Yes, it also took me a long time to learn that some books aren't worth finishing. Looking at you, Finnegan's Wake!!
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 17:46 |
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Yes, it also took me a long time to learn that some books aren't worth finishing. Looking at you, Finnegan's Wake!! Oh my god, you poor bastard.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Oh my god, you poor bastard. Well, I learned my lesson about not bothering to finish tedious exercises in literary masturbation, so it did its job I guess. Gutter Phoenix fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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I just finished The Metamorphoses the other night and it was nowhere near as I also finished Wind, Sand and Stars/Terre des Hommes (in english, I already said I was dumb, keep up), which was fantastic, but I couldn't really hang with it through the final chapter, which I found so tonally inconsistent and difficult to follow, but I also don't know much more about the spanish civil war than 'generalissimo francisco franco is bravely holding on in his fight to remain dead', so... anyway, now that I've done some quality reading, I need to get back to that hawkwind novel
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# ? Dec 19, 2019 12:47 |
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I have not forgotten about this. The story must be told, but it'll take me some time to write it up. The author is hilariously unbalanced and attacks anyone who even slightly disagrees with him. It is both weird and wonderful!! Which forum does he post in?
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hexwren posted:I just finished The Metamorphoses the other night and it was nowhere near as The one by Ovid? Yeah, that isn't one of the weirdest of ancient works, and you need to know a poo poo ton of mythology and history to get half the references. I haven't read it in a long time, but recall enjoying it. Unless you mean the one by Apuleius (The Golden rear end). I remember that one being weird as hell. Oh poo poo, I just saw my copy of that Hawkwind novel 2 days ago and was thinking about how I need to read it too, since I stupidly forgot to take it with me on my summer vacation!
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# ? Dec 19, 2019 15:47 |
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When old man Grandpa Googlemeyer falls down and bangs his head, he discovers a new-found memory. He calls up his son Jim's reckless childhood and all of the crazy stunts Jim and his brothers pulled off in the neighborhood. The story is very funny and lighthearted until his favorite grandson Barney is involved in a tragic paintball adventure, which makes the old man turn serious. Grandpa Googlemeyer is a classic storyteller and keeps you laughing and crying in his details. Eddie Patowski, the town bully, pounds Barney on the football turf daily, but he is no match for a Googlemeyer in the forest. His foolish ways lead him down a trail of chaos and destruction. Can Barney, Kurt and Jim Googlemeyer save Eddie? Read inside and find out, but the old man will keep you laughing, crying and guessing until the very end.
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Pastry of the Year posted:
Wow.
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# ? Dec 19, 2019 21:38 |
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I picked up another one from A-no. 1: These are getting really scarce since century-old paperbacks are very fragile. I am kicking myself for not getting more of this series sooner.
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# ? Dec 19, 2019 21:41 |
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Not a book, but I've been intrigued by old Mental Hygiene stuff as of late: Also, I picked up a bunch of weird old industrial/ promotional/ government comics recently, which I'll be posting in the magazine thread, so keep an eye on that if you're interested.
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# ? Dec 19, 2019 21:43 |
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And this:
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Not a book, but I've been intrigued by old Mental Hygiene stuff as of late: I feel like this should say Alpha Complex on it, not New York.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:And this: Monstrous hands reach out for butthole UFO
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# ? Dec 19, 2019 22:10 |
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Also not a book, but I want to show off these badass Nero and Elagabalus coins I bought from Xenopus in the SA Mart: My work scanner doesn't do them justice, but it is amazing to hold something that was made by human beings almost 2,000 years ago. Check out Xenopus' thread here, but be forewarned that people snatch up everything he lists almost immediately. I was lucky as hell to get these. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3884740
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Arivia posted:I feel like this should say Alpha Complex on it, not New York. Are you suggesting Friend Computer made a mistake?
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Good news!
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# ? Dec 20, 2019 15:05 |
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This thread has done it to me again. I'm skimming through this book on archive.org: and it's so peculiar and charmingly written that I know I need a physical copy to settle in with and actually digest. Anyway, here's a passage I had to share: the recipe for TITTY SAUCE YAMS. This recipe from BEFORE THE TIME OF CHRIST sounds good, too: A good peanut butter sandwich is "absolutely impossible to get" unless you follow this recipe: I am completely smitten with the way he rhapsodizes over hamburgers and hot dogs: edited to add: One of these is NOT like the others: Pastry of the Year fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:
FINALLY, a cook book that keeps civil defense in mind!!
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# ? Dec 20, 2019 16:49 |
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I have a physical copy of that book! Want to know how to protect yourself from nuclear attack? Red pepper. It makes you immune to radiation. I'll loan it out if you can't find a copy, apparently it was only sold through the Herter's catalog https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/Collins-t.html
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skrapp mettle posted:I have a physical copy of that book! Want to know how to protect yourself from nuclear attack? Red pepper. It makes you immune to radiation. Rad! Speaking of which, sometime in 2002 after the 9/11 fear was dying down a bit, I purchased anti-radiation pills at a Portland area Fred Meyer store on mega-closeout. They were mostly just a heavy dose of potassium if I remember correctly. They are proudly sitting on my Jar Jar Binks Wake-Up System™ on top of one of my kitchen bookshelves: Here is a better picture I found online:
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Pastry of the Year posted:This thread has done it to me again. Oh poo poo, it's from Herter's! For those unaware, Herter's was a huge retailer of sporting goods and outdoorsy supplies in the mid-20th century, both for brick and mortar stores and especially mail order. Their catalogs from the 1960s are very thick, and they were all written by George Herter. His descriptions are always charmingly over the top, and he had a willingness to more or less copy things like fishing lures and name them something incredibly similar to the patented or copyrighted original. Fuckin' Titty Sauce Yams, christ.
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# ? Dec 20, 2019 18:09 |
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I've been meaning to contribute to this thread for a while, so here goes. For my birthday a couple years ago, my wife bought me a book from a used book store. Note the handwriting real quick, it's relevant. I'm not big on egyptology, but I had just acquired a new, bigger bookcase and she thought this would be a good addition, and it is. It's an early edition of "An Ancient Egyptian The Book of Hours", which is R.O Faulkner's translation of an ancient Egyptian scroll of invocations and prayers. R.O. Faulkner was a fairly prominent egyptologist in England back in the day, but that's not the cool part. Apparently, at the register, right after my wife paid for it and they were bagging it up for her, this fell out from between the pages. The person at the register, who happened to be the owner, said they could've charged her three times the price if they knew that was in there. See that handwriting? It's an original letter by Faulkner himself to a colleague, explaining that the colleague's submission to his book was cool and good, but he didn't get it in time for publishing. The date on the letter is from January 1958, and I think the book came out in December of that year. It's addressed to what looks like "Miss Van Voss". I don't know who that is, but on the inside cover is this: It's a sticker that says "Ex Libris (from the library of) MSHG HeermaVanVoss". A little googling brings up a Dutch professor of Egyptology at the University of Amsterdam, whose full name is * deep inhale* Matthieu Sybrand Huibert Gerard Heerma Van Voss. I'm not sure how his copy of the book ended up in a used book store in suburban Minnesota. He passed away only a couple years before I ended up with it. I've wondered if someone over at the University would be interested in this letter for their archives, but for now, I guess I have Matt's book.
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oh dope posted:I've been meaning to contribute to this thread for a while, so here goes. That is a fantastic score. Thanks for posting it. I love finding stuff in used books.
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I was reminded of "Found" magazine when this fell out of a book on the Indonesian confrontation. According to the online Cenotaph, 81018 was one Ernest Anderson of 229 Dominion Rd., Mt. Eden, Auckland, about 1km from where I picked up the book, who enlisted in 1942 and became a driver in the Army tank brigade.
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I haven't read this book, don't know if it's any good, have never even heard of it before, but I think we can all agree on the fact that "The Dead Cleans Their Trousers" is the best title for a crime novel ever:
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Jaguars! posted:I was reminded of "Found" magazine when this fell out of a book on the Indonesian confrontation. This is awesome! I've never found anything this cool in a book. Jerry Cotton posted:I haven't read this book, don't know if it's any good, have never even heard of it before, but I think we can all agree on the fact that "The Dead Cleans Their Trousers" is the best title for a crime novel ever: I don't know about "ever," but it is pretty great. I love that cover art.
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Preface by Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle and afterword by Standing Elk. That's quite a book.
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SavageMessiah posted:Preface by Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle and afterword by Standing Elk. That's quite a book. For those who haven't seen this video yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6iduWmgKFo
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Some Christmas Legends I really like the color palate for Herod.
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