Tinkers by Paul Harding (it won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

Just finished "Swing your sword" by Mike Leach. Smart man and a good book.

Classice backwoods-Texas-crude-back-porch-story-telling by the master of the craft.

I've never read Lansdale's crime stuff, just his horror short stories.

If you like easy books that provide tons of shits and giggles, you should check out his other shit. It's hard to get a hold of outside of special orders, libraries, and lucky used-finds, though.

I've collected most of his stuff, but am still missing a few gems that I'll never be able to afford.

The Arcanum (Janet Gleeson)

The Bedwetter (Sarah Silverman)

Lansdale is one of my favorite authors, love his stuff especially his Hap and Leonard series. Highly recommended to all except racists and fag haters

I saw Devil Red in the local bookstore, I'll pick it up next time.

Reading the reissue of Kim Newman's Anno Dracula right now.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now? by P. L. Berra
Before The Machine: The Story of the 1961 Pennant-Winning Cincinnati Reds

How to Ruin Your Financial Life (Ben Stein)

"American Sniper" the autobiography of Chris Kyle.

Just finished reading this one yesterday:

this again. i am getting way more out of it this time.



http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Mood-Change-Changing/dp/0898621283

That was a good one. I still have the magazine where the column that served as the basis for those books originally appeared. I read it eleven years ago and still re-read it every other year or so...

I prefer to test the advice in real life. So far, Stein is right!

Just finished A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable (Gordon)

So while you were getting your BA in English Lit, what was your favorite class or book that you studied? Was there anything that they made you read in class that you've read again?

My life changed during a 17th Century Literature class when the professor said that John Donne was a pornographer. He went on to explain how dirty The Flea is and I flipped out. Perversion became my highest ambition after that.

Just finished Joe McGuiness' book on Sarah Palin this morning at the tire store. Not really a fan of SP, but this guy is so over the top, so campy. Kitty Kelly does better research and reporting than this hack. So many people wanted to talk to him, but they were too "afraid" to talk on the record. Third and fourth and fifth removed gossip by unnamed sources. The last chapter was spent on how absurd it is to say the Downs kid isn't hers. But "so many" people in Wasilla think that the kid isn't hers, well, there almost has to be something to it. But it's so absurd. But "so many" people are talking.

Oh, and everyone he came into contact with offered to loan him a gun, cuz that Todd Palin is so dangerous.

Restarted Stephen King's 11/22/63. It's a bit more believable.

I heard an interview with McGuiness. He rented the house next to the Palins, correct?

Yes. Totally coincidental, tho.

I think it would've been cheaper to buy them as a set, and not individually, no?

Also, if you liked those Stein titles, you'll probably like "Bunkhouse Logic" and "Diary of a Mad Screenwriter" as well...

Just started this gem out, and it is a fucking doozy, so far. It's being billed as a young adult novel (his first), so it will be lacking his typical flare for violence and profanity, but nobody writes stories about depression-era, deep-Texas like Joe R.

I am a frugal man. I bought them used only through amazon. I'm becoming more and more of a shut-in and appreciate that books are delivered to my door.

Get a reader. Then you don't even have to wait for them.

I want to but I like shopping in thrift stores. Finding bargains for $1 is too good to pass up. It's sometimes the highlight of my day.

The reader option can be a good deal - titles are frequently cheaper than a new or used paperback.

Love my reader in the RV.

On amazon.ca I find used titles for $0.01....plus $6.49 shipping. This allows me the freedom to be a shut-in and not leave my place, avoiding the cold and snow.

Love my reader, but I hate Nooks and Kindles. Clunky as fuck.

Give it a year, BI. You'll be able to pick them up for a dime at Salvation. Actually, my best thrift store shopping was at a Salvation Army in Nelson, BC. Bought a ton of white cotton dresses for like $3.

You'll have to pry my kindle from my cold dead hands. What do you use? iPad, Kobo, Sony ? The Kobo has gotten rave reviews on "Wired".

I get the idea. Burt I would rather worry about losing a .50$ used novel on my subway rides than a piece of electronics.

I've set up a couple for family and they just seem hard to use. Altho, the family I set them up for love them. Mine is an off brand of some variety. But it's super easy to use. Uses an SD card that I can just drag and drop and organize however I want.

Somehow I don't think the following will ever become part of popular culture.

Nook 'em Dano
Who uploaded the Nook of Love?
I could Twitter a Kindle about it
Throw the Kindle at him


Is Elvis Costello ever going to sing Everyday I Upload the Nook?

I thought that bit from PJ O'Rourke's latest book was funny - I'm reading it on my kindle:)

Received this message on Twitter today from A.J. Jacobs:

AJ Jacobs @ajjacobs mentioned you:


ajjacobs AJ Jacobs
Got a fan note from @BrandonIron, who Wikipedia tells me is star of Photographic Mammaries. He suggested I write :Yr of Living Unbiblically
Feb 15, 4:22 PM via TweetDeck

AJ Jacobs isn't your only literary admirer. Have you read this:

http://www.amazon.com/American-Gangbang-...4471&sr=8-1

http://www.jayloss.com/the-unknown-amino-acid-deficiency/

The Edge Effect -Dr. Eric Braverman

The autobiography of a burnt-out Canadian rocker with copious spelling errors intact? Might have to pick this up. Is it truly as awesome as it sounds, Tatty?

Ha it aint bad. My buddy was living in Winnipeg working on a job site . Some middle aged skid hesher at work tried to get him to go see Helix (he was a hip hop kid and had no idea who they were) but passed 'because it was on a week night'. Said hesher came up to him all excited six months later to tell him Helix was coming back and it was on a saturday!
So he begrudgingly went and said he thought of me when he was there. Got me the book after the show, autographed to me by Mr Volmann himself!

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.


My favourite:
Affection. Erection. No protection. Injection. Infection.
- Colleen Zachary

I put this one down to work on some other projects for a couple weeks but finished it the other day. The guy got @ 150 confirmed kills in the middle east. It's a decently ghost-written book and an easy read.

Before this I read a pre-pub Tom Dorsey Serge Storms novel sent me by my sister. As usual Serge does not disappoint. If you haven't read his stuff I recommend you start at the beginning but you don't necessarily have to. If you have any connections to Florida and esp. "Old Florida" when it was a land of cheap t-shirts and monkey jungles and glass-bottom boats and Weeki-Wachi mermaids then you simply have to read his novels.

I enjoyed Derek Wilson's A Brief History of the Circumnavigators.
Best part is the description of Samuel Wallis, captain of HMS Dolphin in 1767, discovering that beautiful Tahitian women would gladly trade sexual favours for metal tools, pots, and implements.

King James Bible, the online version

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/

cool features include a message board at the bottom of each chapter and a multiple choice quiz

As much as it would be great to troll a bible board, Bornyo's drunks gave me the boot after two 3AM posts. I'm sticking to sites that revolve around hate for a while.

Those drunks don't play.