So, tomorrow I get 40% off books at Barnes and Noble. Now, I usually buy from used book stores so what do you guys think is a must have that probably won't show up in the used bookstore?
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Anonymous2009-12-10 9:00
HOUSE OF LEAVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anonymous2009-12-10 14:59
Anything by Robert Anton Wilson.
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Anonymous2009-12-10 17:09
Whatever book you actually want to fucking read. We don't know what you want to read. Gosh
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Anonymous2009-12-11 0:00
Well if I was in that position I'd probably snag something hot off the press in hardcover by someone you like. There's new stuff from Lethem, Auster and Pynchon out there now. First print bitch.
What? Pynchon's new book doesn't suck. It's in the same vein as the Crying of Lot 49. Just because it's not some overly complex epic like Gravity's Rainbow or Against the Day doesn't mean it's crap. This book's just a pulp mystery.
Wheel of Time and Dark Tower? He said stuff that isn't in the used book stores, not stuff in every used book store.
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Anonymous2009-12-11 15:48
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IV and Vineland are tied for worst Pynchon (other than early short stories). That means they're still relatively OK books. But then again, why bother reading any of his books other than V., Mason & Dixon and Gravity's Rainbow (maybe Lot 49 too)? You've reached max Pynchon at that point, and surely there are lots of other books you want to read too
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Anonymous2009-12-11 15:49
Oh yes, friends say good things about Against the Day as well. Probably worth reading too
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Anonymous2009-12-11 15:50
Yeah, I already have all of Wot and the Dark Tower... they're actually piled on my dresser in an interpretation of book janga.
I ended up getting some Murakami, Wind-up Bird Chronicle and Hard-boiled Wonderland. I also picked up Look at the Birdie, Vonnegut's unpublished short fiction. Sue Grafton was there when I went shopping too!
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Anonymous2009-12-11 16:03
>>12
Your point? Who said anything about reading all of it? GR and Lot 49 are the essentials IMO.
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Anonymous2009-12-11 16:04
>>14
Yeah great OP. What you got is irrelevant. This is now a Pynchon argue thread with no point.
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Anonymous2009-12-11 16:41
>>15
So you just want to own them and not read them????
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Anonymous2009-12-11 16:42
>>16
Pynchon is for Pretentious Hipsters. Nobody has ever read a Pynchon novel. Ever
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Wouldn't it be funny if she died right before finishing Z. lol
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Anonymous2009-12-11 18:42
>>20
No. But it would be funny if you died! Lollol!1
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Anonymous2009-12-11 19:38
>>21
That's not very nice. Making fun of a famous person's dying is one thing, but to do that to someone else right to their face: wrong and symptomatic of a sociopathic personality. You should be institutionalized