...is BORING. There. Thank you Lisa and Noam for staring evenly at that gold circle Pulitzer Prize, wrinkling your noses, and saying meh.
I stopped in to Adobe Books today because I was five minutes early for dinner, and as usual I couldn't get past the yet-to-be-shelved boxes right in the entryway.
Great Short Works of Jack London
St. Mawr and The Man Who Died by D.H. Lawrence
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Stepped up to the counter ready to pay $22 for the above, and got charged just $15. They'll be worth well over $50 to me. Calculate the consumer surplus kids! Still two minutes to kill before dinner.
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Currently Reading
- Riotous Assembly ... Tom Sharpe
Recent Good Reads
- The Mayor of Casterbridge ... Thomas Hardy
- The Road Taken ... Michael Buerk
- The Great Short Works of Jack London
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles ... Thomas Hardy
- Seperate Tables ... Terrance Rattigan
- Jurassic Park ... Michael Crichton
- A Burnt-Out Case ... Graham Greene
- A Farewell to Arms ... Ernest Hemingway
- On the Road ... Jack Kerouac
- The Power and the Glory ... Graham Greene
- Galapagos ... Kurt Vonnegut
- The Heart of the Matter ... Graham Greene
- The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
- Of Human Bondage ... W. Somerset Maugham
- All Quiet on the Western Front ... Erich Maria Remarque
- The Diaries of Adam and Eve ... Mark Twain
- California ... Kevin Starr
- Scoop ... Evelyn Waugh
- The Road ... Cormac McCarthy
- Trainspotting ... Irvine Welsh
- Lions and Shadows ... Christopher Isherwood
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families ... Philip Gourevitch
- The Deep Blue Sea ... Terence Rattigan
- Journey Without Maps ... Graham Greene
- The Gospel According to the Son ... Norman Mailer
- The Brothers Karamazov ... Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ... Dylan Thomas
- The Berlin Stories ... Christopher Isherwood
The Others
Return to Splash Mountain! (my favorite playlist, for nicki and ross courtesy of helen from nz)
- Foxes Mate for Life ... Born Ruffians
- Golden Age ... TV On the Radio
- Time to Pretend ... MGMT
- The Old Days ... Dr. Dog
- Frankie's Gun ... The Felice Brothers
- The First Day of My Life ... Bright Eyes
- Teenagers ... Department of Eagles
- Don't Know Why ... Fleet Foxes
- Skinny Love ... Ben Iuer
- No Children ... The Mountain Goats
- Inflammatory Writ ... Joanna Newsome
- I'd Rather Be Blind ... Man Man
- Trashcan ... Delta Spirit
- All My Dreams ... Samuel Flynn Scott and the B.O.P.
- In the New Year ... The Walkmen
- You Want That Picture ... Ronnie Prince Billy
- Can You Get to That ... Funkadelic
- Don't Watch Me Dancing ... Little Joy
- Litle Garcon ... Born Ruffians
- Farewell Transmission ... Songs Ohia
I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer and pizza are all good enough reasons for living.
6 comments:
graham greene! i need to read the end of the affair. have you read it?
i think i have a farewell to arms somewhere...book club?
I liked the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.....
la: Haven't read TEOTA, I've only read Journey Without Maps and now this one. Let's read it! I will book club any Graham Greene book and definitely Farewell to Arms as well. Graham Greene is like apples, there is an infinite supply and they are cheap as hell.
Juliette: REALLY. That's fair. Did you not feel like he was beating whimsy over the head with a frozen shank of lamb though?
$7 surplus?
Actually no, I didn't quite feel like whimsy was being beaten. I will say that it's been 4 years since I read it and maybe my opinion would be different now. I wouldn't push you to read it cause it wasn't like AMAZING! It was just good.
Joe: $35+ surplus! CS = difference between what you would have been willing to pay (or what the stuff is worth to you) and what you actually paid. The setup of this word problem is ambiguous I know I know.
Juliette: I think we're on nearly the same page re: K&C. It was just really hyped and couldn't live up to it...
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