Kara -- I was the one who wanted that book by Sivin. Just checked to see exactly how much those three cost... now there is just one and it is over $100. I'm going to ask my library to find it through interlibrary loan. I can wait, China has been around a while.
Glad you're back in!
I will do a library check, too. It is not to buy, from what you post.
A COMIC BOOK.
The Punisher #35 (in the Marvel Knights group)
I'm up to page 37 so far.
guess you're not going any farther huh? i'm on pg 6 of my comic book.
BTW I was only trying to insult Gustav, in a friendly sort of way, not anything else.....
For shame, posting Klansmen here. Sorry I mentioned it.
It is beyond the pale, in my humble opinion, but not your fault, McTag...
In a feeble attempt to appease the angry gods of this thread, I have once again edited the "demon post". I hope all involved parties will now sleep well.
I wash my hands of this whole unfortunate incident.
You're a gentleman and a scholar, gustav. Now I lay me down to sleep...
I just finished "The Color" by Rose Tremain. One of the best new things I've read this year.
Just starting Shake hands with the Devil, by Lt. Romeo Dallaire.
about to start reading PORTRAIT OF A KILLER - Jack the ripper, case CLOSED ! by patricia cornwell. if any of you've read anything of hers...let me know what to expect?
I tend to haunt the mystery sections of used books stores. Let's say I have read many, from cute ones with cats in the story (even though I love cats I can't do that any more), to Hammett's Red Harvest. I wish now I had saved two series (I did for a while, but gave them to the S. Army packaged as a series.)
One was a set of police procedurals by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjovall, set in Stockholm. (I seem to remember Walter didn't like these.., said there were better ones set in Europe.) Well, I liked them at the time.
The other was a batch of oldies put out in - I think I remember that they were yellow - paperbacks, with a raven at the bottom of the spine. I paid 50 cents for them, and I liked all of them. Those had different authors but might have been the same person...
Today I finished my third book of another series, this time not by the same author but by the same publisher.. Soho Press, Inc.
The one I finished today was High Crimes by John Westermann.
Another I have saved for the guest room selection - Sandman, by J. Robert Janes.
A third in their lists that I saved for a while is Inspector Imanishi Investigates, by Seicho Matsumoto.
Now I keep my eye out for their bookcover style, very good looking, and memorable once you see it.
I am contemplating a reread of Jean Genet's Our Lady Of the Flowers...if I can find the time.
I am reading Vernon God Little (I think) by DBC Pierre. I still don't know what I think of this book. I was put off a bit from the first page by the obscenities. I thought, This guy is juvenile and can't write. But he CAN write. And I have been struck by his facility with words and, more so, by his allusions and metaphors and his scene setting and how he has drawn me in when I wanted to fling the book down from the start. Why does he choose to write what he writes when his talent is obviously prodigious?
Maybe I will know the answer to that when I finish the book. I wish he would write something else. I think of other writers: Peter Carey, J.M. Coetzee, Jamie O'Neill, just to mention a few contemporary divines. I think this guy must be Irish, but I don't know that. Who but an Irishman (think Roddy Doyle...the Commitments, Paddy Clarke HaHaHa...) can charm the birds out of the trees.
Have you read it? Or of it?
I guess Aussies are as irreverant as the Irish. Luv em both.
I just finished I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier.
