Certificate for a Fix
Work has long been an enabler for my book addiction, but never quite so literally. On Tuesday, I received a gift certificate for Chapters Indigo worth 10 dollars as a goodbye present for my contributions to the team (generic contributions, we all got one).
What to buy? I want to spend it soon; it's burning a hole in my pocket as well as my soul.
Suggestions are absolutely welcome. Here's some candidates from my usual scope and loiter at the book shops:
Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
Candide by Voltaire (which I already own in cheapo version-- but look an edition with Chris Ware cover and French flaps!-- meaning I'd have a copy to give away afterwards)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (the current frontrunner)
What to buy? I want to spend it soon; it's burning a hole in my pocket as well as my soul.
Suggestions are absolutely welcome. Here's some candidates from my usual scope and loiter at the book shops:
Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
Candide by Voltaire (which I already own in cheapo version-- but look an edition with Chris Ware cover and French flaps!-- meaning I'd have a copy to give away afterwards)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (the current frontrunner)
Labels: addiction, candidate, chris ware, enable, french flaps, j.g. ballard, jane jacobs, penguin books, thomas pynchon, voltaire
posted by justin | 8:00 p.m.
8 Comments:
The following is to teach a certain someone to post his feedback in the comments himself. To teach him a lesson:
i've actually gone on a bit of a book buying spree myself.. chapters had a buy 2 get 1 free classics deal... i ended up buying a bunch of books, pride and prejudice, little women, robinson crusoe, sense and sensibility and some others.
but my suggestion is "The House of God" by Samuel Shem... i dunno if you'll like it as much as I am.. it's the "first" real look into being an intern in "The Great American Hospital" it's got a really trippy feel to it
looks like you bought a lot of chicklit
ya the jane austin and little women.. let me see what else i bought
robinson crusoe, three muskateers, wolf totem, uncle tom's cabin, audacity of hope, and there's a couple others i can't find right now
oh also some michael crichton stuff
i bought robinson cruesoe a while back... still havent read it
i'd also like to read uncle tom's cabin
where's the 6 classics though... little women, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility, robinson crusoe, three muskateers, and there's one more.. i can't find it
robinson crusoe is actually really good
ends a little weak... but 3/4 of it is amazing... it's a very powerful book in the sense of how he finds God and then repeatedly looses sight and keeps going in that cycle
oh the 6th book is alice in wonderland
but anyway.. take a look at the house of God... it has a really cool way of writing.. like he rarely uses names.. but nicknames for all the characters.. like the Fat Man, the Runt, the Yellow Man... and with some other literary devices like that.. it makes the book seem like a cartoon
Taught him good. Hopefully he'll be a little creeped out by this. It's a little postmodern identity theft.
And I was taught that to be postmodern you had to be educated, stoned, or paranoid. Or any combination thereof.
I vote the Jane Jacobs. You need some nonfiction in your blood, boy... you quoting fogel liberally!
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