Gluttony
September 27th, 2004Oops, I did it again. I bought too many books this past weekend.
On Friday, killing time between work and a movie, I stopped off at Book Nook and bought Jonathan Lethem’s As She Climbed Across the Table; Angela Carter’s Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories; Dream All Day: the Best of the Posies (to replace a cassette tape copy I have); and the new Elric comic, The Making of a Sorcerer, because Moorcock himself wrote it.
Saturday, Lady Crumpet and I visited the Defoor Centre Book Market and, despite being surrounded by thousands of books, I managed to purchase only a cheap copy of Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading in good shape. (I passed over a signed first edition of Michael Bishop’s classic baseball/Southern gothic horror/Frankenstein sequel Brittle Innings for $35.)
Then on Sunday, between brunch and another movie (”Shaun of the Dead” — I thought it was hilarious), the Scooby Gang and I stopped off at Borders, and I made the one purchase I had actually been intending to make all weekend: Murakami’s Norwegian Wood and David Mitchell’s number9dream (I read thematically). It was a great purchase; I’m very happy with myself. I read 200 pages of the Murakami book on Sunday night and had a dream about it.
There is only one mandatory purchase this week: Brian Wilson’s Smile.
September 27th, 2004 at 1:54 pm
I really liked “As She Climbed Across the Table”– though I realize a lot of people are kind of eh about it.
September 27th, 2004 at 2:22 pm
I got hold of what is supposedly a pre-release version of Smile (no telling, given all the bootlegs floating around). I’ve listened to it all the way through three times now and still have no idea what to make of it. I do know it’s probably the strangest album I’ve ever heard.
September 27th, 2004 at 2:28 pm
Parts of the album are streaming on smilethealbum.com. I realize it has been trumped up and been made into a legend, but I like it.
September 27th, 2004 at 2:45 pm
I listened to the streams on the site, and it appears the copy I have is legit. And by “strange” I didn’t mean bad, just different. As a contrarian, different and/or strange usually scores points with me.
September 27th, 2004 at 2:53 pm
Exactly, me too!
September 27th, 2004 at 3:43 pm
Now that’s my kind of shopping! If only my disposable income were higher…:)
September 27th, 2004 at 4:42 pm
If only mine was, too! Oh well — if you put it on a credit card, it’s like you’re getting it for free, right? :)
September 28th, 2004 at 8:44 am
I’ve said that so so so many times…gotten better over the years but will still do it. Ah well, it’s only money, right?
September 28th, 2004 at 3:08 pm
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