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Jordan7hm posted:I really like the hard case imprint. Classic crime books presented really well. Yeah, they're great. They've published some long-lost classics and fantastic new crime novels as well. It's a passion project by Charles Ardai (who funds the whole thing), and he has pretty good taste in books/ authors. I like when rich people actually use their money for good things. It's pretty fuckin' rare!!
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This books actually pretty sick and all the ads are wonderfully of-their-time. Taschen puts out some quality poo poo.
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Please give us a report when you've read it!
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I just realised that she photoshopped herself into that picture and it wasn't some heirloom snapshot that she had taken while she was working for them.
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~Coxy posted:I just realised that she photoshopped herself into that picture and it wasn't some heirloom snapshot that she had taken while she was working for them. The background is also a drawing. And she presumably would have been much younger when she was with them.
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So lately I've developed a minor obsession with old Penguin Classics "black spine" paperbacks from the '60s and '70s. I don't know if this line has an official name, but I go thrifting pretty often and I pick these up every time I find them if they're in readable shape. They're usually quite cheap (often under $2.) Something about them just tickles my brain, and they're pretty well-built, so in spite of their age they tend to hold up fairly well getting knocked around in my backpack while I read them. They use a lot of classical art for their covers, so I also end up seeing a lot of cool pieces I didn't know. There are a few orange spine ones as well -- these seem to be reserved for either specifically English classics and non-fiction. The mint green ones are "modern" classics, although they're rather less modern now than they were. The one that kicked off this obsession is this insanely hosed up copy of Don Quixote:  This one did an extended tour of duty in my backpack because this book is long as hell. It's basically crumbling to pieces now and the covers have, but for two pieces of packing tape I applied, made a desperate attempt to separate themselves from the book. The corners have entirely rounded, the pages are a lovely shade of toast, and it smells like a musty library, and everything about it made for a wonderfully cozy reading experience for someone who generally prefers books in better physical condition and has historically avoided trade paperback prints. I think most of all I love the art on the cover, "Don Quixote" by Daumier, a perfect representation of the character of the Don, not least of which because he gets his face hosed up every six pages or so. I loved it so much that I bought a second copy for an eventual re-read because I don't think this one will survive a second. This copy has even deteriorated a bit in the three years since I've read it simply from being on the shelf. I am very much looking forward to reading Gargantua and Pantagruel, and that's probably the most prized one I've yet found, since it's in near perfect condition, almost untouched, aside from a loose title and publisher page, which I will have to figure out how to reinforce without mucking it up too much (I suspect the front cover binding will start to deteriorate too, so I'm being careful with it.) Yesterday I picked up an orange spine copy of Charles Reich's "The Greening of America" (as far as I can tell, a British printing, interestingly enough)  A book from the late '60s/early '70s describing the cultural revolution and its malcontents, presenting a very optimistic picture of the potential of the Baby Boomers to affect positive, utopian change both at home and abroad, and, to my Millennial eyes, a crushingly depressing survey of a movement's catastrophic failure to thrive. In my skimming of the book, much of it looks like it could have been written today, describing in lucid detail many of the same problems that the current left-youth rail against, in terms often just as dire, a sort of "look where we're headed" klaxon with the added benefit of still believing sincerely that there is something to be done about it, and that there will be.  Incidentally, reading things like this is a big part of why I get so irked by the "Boomers ruined everything" memes that rage on the internet nowadays, not so much because I believe their failures don't deserve credit, but moreso because there's the implication in all of it that we are fundamentally different, and that given all of their opportunities, we would not have done the same, because reading these things out of context I think one could be forgiven for assuming that they're describing the 2010s as much as the 1960s, which is to say that for all of the failures of our parents, we are not faring much better, and I fear that history is going to look back on subsequent generations as poorly as we do on them. I think I'm going to try to give this one a thorough reading if I can stomach it. I used to absorb 60s counterculture writing readily when I was a teen and in my 20s, but as time goes on it gives the same feeling that I get driving through a Midwestern countryside town and seeing all the dilapidated barns and rotting farmhouses poised on lush farmland that is now owned and maintained by a giant agribusiness. Decay is hard to look at for too long.
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Penguin classics are so fuckin' good. I have a ton of them. They always have decent translations and plenty of notes, which are often helpful, and lead me to discover other bizarre obscurities. Edit: Also, Gargantua and Pantagruel is one of my all time favorites!!! I learned a lot from Rabelais. Also Voltaire. And Cervantes. Classical literature is fun and wonderful. I also like reading those old "where the world is heading if we don't fix poo poo" books. I have a bunch of them. Utopian and Dystopian fiction and non-fiction are both a lot of fun. People are people, and labels like "Boomer" or "Millennial" are silly. Don't just blame other people for the world's problems. Start working to fix them. Otherwise you have no business complaining. Gutter Phoenix fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Apr 14, 2022 |
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Come for the great prices on socks, stay for the blessings of sweet liberty!
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Making out with Hitler, feeling Hitler's luscious rear end & tits
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Wow!!!!! Well, I guess I'll just have to track down a copy of that then. It sounds relatable.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:There was a copy of this on ebay recently, but it sold for $80, which is too rich for my blood these days. I need a better paying job. Or cheaper van books to buy. LOL!!!
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Neon Noodle posted:(Beach Party) (Fast, Loose, and Lovely)
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Lol this is a crazy book. Hitler has his brain transplanted into a hot countess in the bunker right before "he" kills himself and then the protagonist gets involved in 70s Franco Spain, there's a compound where all the Nazis are hiding hot Hitler and the protagonist has sex with him before realizing the sexy Countess is actually Hitler!
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:Lol this is a crazy book. Hitler has his brain transplanted into a hot countess in the bunker right before "he" kills himself and then the protagonist gets involved in 70s Franco Spain, there's a compound where all the Nazis are hiding hot Hitler and the protagonist has sex with him before realizing the sexy Countess is actually Hitler! Dear Penthouse,
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Heath posted:Dear Penthouse, The narrator gets the story sitting on a park bench from the protagonist, and then some orderlies come up and take him back to the mental hospital!
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:Lol this is a crazy book. Hitler has his brain transplanted into a hot countess in the bunker right before "he" kills himself and then the protagonist gets involved in 70s Franco Spain, there's a compound where all the Nazis are hiding hot Hitler and the protagonist has sex with him before realizing the sexy Countess is actually Hitler! Well thanks a lot for spoiling it. I guess I'll cancel my order.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Well thanks a lot for spoiling it. I guess I'll cancel my order. Now I only want to read it more!!
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Now I only want to read it more!! It's a great gonzo novel!
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Make money wrestling the police in your spare time!
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In a different America this would be anti-antivaxxer propaganda
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:In a different America this would be anti-antivaxxer propaganda Good thing anti-vaxxers don't read!
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