more accurate than the cd recommndations i guess (i own 6 of them, mind you that was the same with the cd recommendations but that was only because they went wu-tang crazy)
― gareth (gareth), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)
1. "Stupid White Men ... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!" 2. "The Onion": Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion"3. "No Logo" Naomi Klein4. "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami5. The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling 7. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami8. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami9. Dot.con: the Greatest Story Ever Sold by John Cassidy10. The Onion Ad Nauseam11. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami12.You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day by Scott Dikkers13.Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami14. Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britian by George Monbiot15. Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles (15th edition) by David Roberts
― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)
2. Feast: A History of Grand Eating by Roy Strong
3. Indulgence: Around the World in Search of Chocolate by Paul Richardson
4. The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe
5. Favourite Sweets and Toffee Recipes: Traditional Home-made Confectionary (Favourite Recipies Series) by Carol Wilson, Birkett Foster (Illustrator) 6. Food: A History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 7. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker 8. The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman) by Neil Gaiman, et al 9. A New Way to Cook by Sally Schneider, Maria Robledo (Photographer) 10. A Mind of Its Own: a Cultural History of the Penis by David M. Friedman 11. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt 12. The Sandman Library 4: Season of Mists (The Sandman) by Neil Gaiman, et al 13. Speaker for the Dead: Book 2 of the "Ender" Saga (The Ender Saga) by Orson Scott Card 14. Stupid White Men ... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore 15. Barcelona Plates by Alexei Sayle
I don't even like chocolate and penises that much.
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)
― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)
!!
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)
like my g/f, amazon thinks I don't read enough women authors
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)
― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)
It also recommends a Harry Potter book to me too, maybe because of Pratchett, i dunno.
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)
Did Amazon ever post a profit? They were due to sometime around now, I thought.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)
Guess what my favourite comic strip is...
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lara (Lara), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lara (Lara), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)
1. The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future by Jenny Uglow 2. Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold 3. Stupid White Men ... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore 4. Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser 5. Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britian by George Monbiot 6. Berlin: the Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor 7. Natasha's Dance: a Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes 8. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald, Michael Hulse (Translator) 9. Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd 10. White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India by William Dalrymple 11. Anticapitalism: A Guide to the Movement by George Monbiot (Introduction), et al 12. The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde 13. Spies by Michael Frayn 14. Pashazade: The First Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood 15. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Amazon.com:
1. Atonement by Ian McEwan 2. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (Author) 3. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (Author) 4. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Author) 5. Three Junes by Julia Glass 6. Paris 1919 by Margaret Olwen Macmillan, Richard Holbrooke 7. The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter 8. Unless by Carol Shields 9. The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor 10. The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart 11. The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer 12. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 13. Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold 14. Blood of Victory by Alan Furst 15. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Taking Sides: Amazon.co.uk's "Why was this recommended to me?" Vs Amazon.com's "Why was I recommended this?"
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)
The true definition of post-indie?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― alext (alext), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)
I'll get you for this Tom.
― Sarah (starry), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)
― alext (alext), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)
The Goth Bible: The Hex Files!!!!
― Sarah (starry), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)
What, is this the edition where it's nothing but hardcore Dumbledore/Harry slash?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)
The Dark Reign of Gothic Rock: In the Reptile House with the Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus and The Cure!!!
*bangs head against desk*
Yes, Ned.
― Sarah (starry), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)
1. Battle Angel Alitaby Yukito Kishiro
2. Ashen Victor by Yukito Kishiro
3. Satan Burger by Carlton Mellick III
4. Blade of The Immortal by Hiroaki Samura
5. Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Campby Might Magazine (Editor)
6. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
7. Cod by Mark Kurlansky
8. The Kafka Effekt by D. Harlan Wilson
9. Angel Reborn (Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Vol. 1) by Yukito Kishiro
10. Beginner's Kana Workbook by Fujihiko Kaneda, et al
11. I-O by Simon Logan
12. Signal to Noise by Eric S. Nylund
13. Count Zero by William Gibson
14. Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
15. Appleseed by Masamune Shirow
― Millar (Millar), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― stevo (stevo), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)
odd choices, really - though there were a lot of recommendations i deleted because i already had them (even though i have not read them). i don't know why amazon is so hellbent on me reading w.g. sebald - i've never had the slightest interest in his work. same with richard powers and vollmann - i like both novelists but i don't know why they rank so high.
― john fail (cenotaph), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)
Oy.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)
I've started making a wishlist, it's got the following things so far:The Last Joy - Knut HamsunUnderground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - MurakamiThe Life of Insects - Victor PelevinThe Case of the General's Thumb - Andrey Kurkov
I shall add some stuff I already own to it!!...
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)
1. Know Your Enemy by The Honeynet Project2. At Large by David H. Freedman3. All-American Ads of the 50s by Jim Heimann4. The Hacker Diaries by Dan Verton5. True Tales from Another Mexico by Sam Quinones6. All-American Ads of the 40s by Jim Heimann7. The Hacker Ethic by Pekka Himanen8. 50s Cars (Icons) by Jim Heimann9. Conspiracy Culture by Peter Knight10. British Modern by Steven Heller11. Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds12. Southern California in the '50s by Charles Phoenix13. Mutations by Rem Koolhaas14. The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks15. Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition by Robert Venturi, et al
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― john fail (cenotaph), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Wyndham Earl, Friday, 7 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)
This sounds like the most depressing book in history.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― Leee (Leee), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)
Dear God. A guy orders two Preacher volumes, and next thing you know...I mean, what about all that Wilde and Kerouac that I purchased also? I wanna seem more canonical and less comic book-ie, please.
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 7 March 2003 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 8 March 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)
― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 10 March 2003 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sommermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 8 June 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)
1. The Grapes of Math2. Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland3. Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi4. Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales5. Sir Cumference and the First Round Table6. The Greedy Triangle7. Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar8. How Big is a Foot?9. The Man who Counted9. Spaghetti and Meatballs for All10. Osho Transformation Tarot11. The Forest of Souls (ick)12. Howl's Moving Castle (which I've read eighty million times)13. Practical Theory (music)14. Tarot and the Tree of Life (ick)14. Math Trek
― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 8 June 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)
1. In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting by Philip Conisbee, et al 2. Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition by Wendell Berry 3. The Dictionary of Global Culture by Anthony Appiah (Editor), et al 4. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor 5. The Quality of Life (Studies in Development Economics) by Amartya Sen (Editor), Martha Craven Nussbaum (Editor)6. What Should Legal Analysis Become by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 7. Rap Attack 3 by David Toop8. Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, Carol Stewart (Translator)9. The Western Paradox: A Conservation Reader by Bernard Augustine De Voto, Douglas Brinkley 10. Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850 by Elizabeth Blackmar 11. Democracy and Disagreement by Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson (Contributor) 12. Liberalism's Crooked Circle by Ira Katznelson, Adam Michnik 13. The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl by Peter Calthorpe, et al 14. How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now by William H. Calvin 15. The Salon.Com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors by Laura Miller (Editor), et al
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 September 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)
Enough with the Thomas Perry already! I liked two stinkin' books by the guy!
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 September 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)
Yeah so I read filmmaking books, WTF? And a few punk books stuck on the end for variety. I get all my fiction in dusty book stores, not from the internet.
― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 25 September 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)
Life Without Bread by Christian B. Allan, Wolfgang Lutz
The No-Grain Diet by Joseph Mercola, Alison Rose Levy
The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil, Third Edition by Bruce Fife
Making Sex by Thomas Laqueur The Sacred Prostitute by Nancy Qualls-Corbett
Masturbation by Jean Stengers, et al
Saturated Fat May Save Your Life by Bruce Fife
New Material As New Media by Marion Boulton Stroud, et al
Black Sun by Julia Kristeva, Leon S. Roudiez (Translator)
Rereading Sex by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Imagine There's No Woman by Joan Copjec
Solitary Pleasures by Paula Bennett (Editor), Vernon Rosario (Editor)
― Al Andalous (Al Andalous), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)
are these books about masturbation?
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)
It was just a. . . culture studies book I bought,for petesake!
― Al Andalous, Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)
Label Launch by Veronika Kalmar
What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business by Peter M. Thall
Five Points by Tyler Anbinder
Five Points by Tyler Anbinder (wtf, again?)
Old New York in Early Photographs by Mary Black (Author)
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis
How I Make $100,000/year in the Music Business (Without a Record Label, Manager, or Booking Agent) by David Hooper, Lee Kennedy
Tim Sweeney's Guide to Releasing Independent Records by Tim Sweeney, Mark Geller
The Last Mogul by Dennis McDougal
Secrets of Negotiating a Record Contract by Moses Avalon
Lion of the Valley by James Neal Primm
A&R by Bill Flanagan
Everything You'd Better Know About the Record Industry by Kashif, Gary Greenberg
The Way We Really Are by Stephanie Coontz
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 25 September 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)
I have no idea what this says about us.
Sorry.
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 26 September 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 26 September 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 26 September 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)
1. The Information Bomb by Paul Virilio2. A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari by Brian Massumi 3.Nomadology: The War Machine (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) by Gilles Deleuze 4. Routledge Critical Thinkers : Gilles Deleuze by Claire Colebrook 5. What Is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze, et al 6. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze by Jean Khalfa (Editor) 7.A Shock to Thought: Expressions After Deleuze and Guattari (Philosophy and Cultural Studies) by Brian Massumi 8. The Order of Things (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault 9. Routledge Critical Thinkers : Jean Baudrillard by Richard J. Lane 10. Writing and Difference (Routledge Classics) by Jacques Derrida 11. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature) by Jean-Francois Lyotard 12. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel DeLanda 13. Cinema 1: the Movement Image by Gilles Deleuze 14. Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty by Gilles Deleuze, Jean McNeil (Translator)5. Ethics (Wo Es War) by Alain Badiou
i watched roxanen w/ steve martin and daryl hannah last night while plastered and my list rather reminds me of andy, the funny-looking firefighter who gets other people to go into shops to buy his "clever" books for him coz he's a bit embarrassed. i am that man sitting on the tube with heidegger tucked inside his copy of razzle!
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 26 September 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)
haha mine is all chesterton, kabbalism and synthesiser design
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 26 September 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 26 September 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)
1. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Usby Robert D., Ph.D. Hare 2. Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorderby Donald W. Black, C. Lindon Larson 3. The Antisocial Personalitiesby David T. Lykken 4. Rogue Stateby William Blum 5. The Psychopathic Mind: Origins, Dynamics, and Treatmentby J. Reid Meloy 6. Unmasking the Psychopath: Antisocial Personality and Related Syndromesby William H. Reid (Editor) 7. Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the Macdonald Murdersby Jerry Allen Potter, Fred Bost (Contributor) 8. Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Orderby Robert Kagan
9. An Hour to Kill: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Justice in a Small Southern Townby Dale Hudson, Billy Hills 10. The Anatomy of Motive : The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminalsby John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker 11. Born Evil (St. Martin's True Crime Library)by Adrian Havill 12. Twisted: The Secret Desires and Bizarre Double Life of Dr. Richard Sharpe (St. Martin's True Crime Library)by John Glatt 13. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
14. A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republicby John E. Ferling 15. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroadby Fareed Zakaria
― freedom dupont, Friday, 26 September 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)
From the Teeth of Angels, Jonathan Carroll [and they don't have that either]
The Golden Age, John C Wright
Holy Feast and Holy Fast, Caroline Walker Bynum
The Resurrection of the Son of God, N.T. Wright
A Calculus of Angels, J Gregory Keyes
What Is Gnosticism, Karen L King [that one's about masturbation, Horace]
Fragmentation and Redemption, Bynum
Beyond Belief, Elaine "Tep's nemesis" Pagels
Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
Empire of Unreason, Keyes
Shadows of God, Keyes
Metamorphosis and Identity, Bynum
Missing Angel Juan, Francesca Lia Block
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Francesca Lia Block
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)
Name Bosko Balaban Team Aston Villa Total Appearances 0 Starts 0 Substituted 0 Total Minutes Played 0 Avg Minutes Played Per Start 0 Goals 0 Avg Goal Mins When Starting 0.0 Avg Mins Played/Goal Scored 0 Goals Scored As Sub 0 Number of Bookings 0 Total Booking Minutes 0 Avg Bookings Per Start 0 Number of Red Cards 0 Total Red Card Minutes 0 Avg Red Cards Per Start 0 Avg Booking Minutes When Starting 0.0
― bosko, Monday, 14 June 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)
― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 9 October 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)
2. Saturday by Ian McEwan 3. The Journey of Man : A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells 4. 1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
5. When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433
6. Rose SC by Jeff Smith, Charles Vess 7. The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel by Robert Alter 8. Empires of the Word : A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler 9. Mapping the World by Heart Lite 7th Edition by David Smith 10. After the Ice Age : The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E. C. Pielou 11. The Jewish Study Bible: Tanakh Translation, Torah, Nevi'Im, Kethuvim by Adele Berlin (Editor), et al. 12. Earth : An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
13. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by the writers of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart 14. The Complete Far Side 1980-1994 (2 vol set) by Gary Larson, Steve Martin 15. Blankets by Craig Thompson
― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 9 October 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)
2. Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by Noam Chomsky
3. Diaries: Into Politics: Into Politics Vol 2 by Alan Clark
4. The Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World by Mark Curtis
5. The Umbrella of US Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of US Policy by Noam Chomsky
6. Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World by Richard Heinberg
7. The No Nonsense Guide to World Poverty (No-nonsense Guides) by Jeremy Seabrook
8. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
9. The Last Diaries: In and Out of the Wilderness by Alan Clark
10. The No-nonsense Guide to Fair Trade (No-nonsense Guides) by David Ransom
11. Keywords by Raymond Williams
12. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
13. The No Nonsense Guide to World History by Chris Brazier
14. Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
15. Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan
There´s a theme here.
― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 9 October 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)
Very sensible recommendations, a few I have already - I don't think there's one that I wouldn't grab if I found it for a few quid in a 2nd hand shop.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 9 October 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)
1. Book Finds: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books2. Perfect Trust: A Rowan Gant Investigation3. 1876 : A Novel (Vintage International) 4. How We Believe : Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God (second edition)5. The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker6. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America7. America's Forgotten Pandemic : The Influenza of 19188. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark9. How the Rural Poor Got Power: Narrative of a Grass-Roots Organizer10. American Assassination: The Strange Death Of Senator Paul Wellstone11. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead12. Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives13. Bone: One Volume Edition14. Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3)15. Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency
― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 9 October 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)
Pretty good, if a bit one-note and unexciting. The DVD recommendations start in spectacularly awful style for me, however, given that I hate the first two, but after that only 10 and 12 are very wrong:
1. Seinfeld: Seasons 1 - 3 [1993] 2. Star Wars Trilogy (Episodes IV-VI) 3. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind [2004] 4. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan [2005] 5. Hero [2002] 6. Crumb [1995] 7. Shaun Of The Dead [2004]8. Princess Mononoke [2001] 9. The Incredibles (2 Discs) [2004] 10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended Edition) [2004] 11. Do Not Adjust Your Set 12. Festival Express [2003] 13. The Life Aquatic 14. Spider-Man 2 [2004] 15. Monty Python: The Movies (Box Set)
(To be fair, I have only just started buying DVDs.)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)
1. Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? : The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case by Hugo Adam Bedau (Editor), et al.2. In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases by Michael L. Radelet, et al.3. The Death Penalty on Trial: Crisis in American Justice by Bill Kurtis4. The Death of Innocents : An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Helen Prejean5. Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right by Jim Dwyer, et al.6. Wrongly Convicted: Perspectives on Failed Justice by Saundra D. Westervelt, et al.7. Bloodsworth : The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA (Shannon Ravenel Books (Hardcover)) by Tim Junkin8. Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted by Martin Yant9. Actual Innocence : Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted by Barry Scheck, et al.10. The Death Penalty: An American History by Stuart Banner11. The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia12. What to Listen For in Jazz by Barry Kernfeld13. Ultimate Punishment : A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty by Scott Turow14. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD : Seventh Edition (Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD) by Richard Cook, Brian Morton15. Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases by Scott Christianson
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)
2. Songbookby Nick Hornby
3.The Piano Handbook: A Complete Guide for Mastering Pianoby Carl Humphries
4.Tom Waits: Mule Variations
5.Tom Waits: Alice
6. School of Velocity, Op. 299 (Complete)by Max Vogrich, Carl Czerny (Composer)
7.Tom Waits: Blood Money 8.The Wu-Tang Manual: Enter the 36 Chambers, Volume Oneby The RZA, Chris Norris
9.Randy Newman Anthologyby Newman Randy 10.The End of Artby Donald Kuspit 11., said the shotgun to the head.by Saul Williams
12.The Transfiguration of the Commonplace : A Philosophy of Artby Arthur C. Danto
13.Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Backby Jim Hightower 14.The Conquest of Cool : Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerismby Thomas Frank 15.The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Arnold Rampersad (Editor)
I got some Tom Waits fakebooks last year so it makes sense, they all make more sense than my music recommendations
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)
3. Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder
4. The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, McA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood by Dennis McDougal
5. Florence & Tuscany (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Anna Streiffert (Editor)
6. Winning Political Campaigns : A Comprehensive Guide to Electoral Success (Second Edition) by William S. Bike
7. Wilco : Learning How to Die by Greg Kot
8. Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science by Bob Katz
9. A&R : A Novel by by Bill Flanagan
10. Streetwise Rome (National & International Titles) by Michael Brown
11. Political Polling: Strategic Information in Campaigns : Strategic Information in Campaigns (Campaigning American Style Series) by Jeffrey M. Stonecash
12. The Manship School Guide to Political Communication by David D. Perlmutter (Editor)
13. Walking St. Louis by Judith Galas
14. Still Shining Discovering! Lost Treasures from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair by Diane Rademacher
15. A Short and Remarkable History of New York City by Jane Mushabac, et al.
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)
2. Gatewayby Frederick Pohl
3. The Fifth Head of Cerberusby Gene Wolfe
4. Haunted Weather: Resonant Spaces, Silence and Memoryby David Toop
5. Jemby Frederick Pohl
6. Lord of Lightby Roger Zelazny
7. Cities in Flightby James Blish
8. Emphyrioby Jack Vance
9. Tony Harrison (Writers and Their Work Series)by Joe Kelleher
10. The Centauri Deviceby M. John Harrison
11. The Faber Berryman: Poems Selected by Michael Hofmannby John Berryman, Michael Hofmann
12. Non-stopby Brian Aldiss
13. Sugar and Slateby Charlotte Williams
14. Elementals: Stories of Fire and Iceby A.S. Byatt
15. Robert Lowell: Poems Selected by Michael Hofmannby Robert Lowell, Michael Hofmann
I don't own any of them, but I don't read much SF so I don't know where this list came from.
― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)
― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)
― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)
3. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner 4. Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics (Illinois Studies in Communication) by William Boddy
5. The Turk : The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine by Tom Standage
6. Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer by Victor Cherkashin, Gregory Feifer 7. The Last Lone Inventor : A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television by Evan I. Schwartz
8. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century by Carolyn Marvin
9. Not Teflon: MTV Design by Jeffrey Keyton (Editor), Moby
10. Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things (Comedia) by Dick Hebdige 11. Moscow 2042 by Vladimir Voinovich, Richard Lourie (Translator) 12. Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture by Andrew Goodwin
13. This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music by Lloyd Bradley 14. Portraits of 'the Whiteman' : Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache by Keith H. Basso
15. Movie-Made America : A Cultural History of American Movies (Vintage) by Robert Sklar
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)
1. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) by J. Tarin Towers 2. Macromedia Flash MX Advanced for Windows and Macintosh Visual QuickPro Guide by Russell Chun 3. Macromedia Flash MX 2004 for Windows and Macintosh : Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides)by Katherine Ulrich
4. How I Fell in Love with a Librarian and Lived to Tell about itby Rhett Ellis 5. Macromedia Fireworks MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by Sandee Cohen 6. In the Stacks by Various, Michael Cart (Editor) 7. The Librarian by Larry Beinhart 8. The Dewey Decimal System of Love by Josephine Carr
9. The Librarian's Career Guidebook by Priscilla K. Shontz 10. STANTON MAGNETICS Record Cleaner Kit
11. Stanton 505 SK II Phono Cartridge 12. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide by J. Tarin Towers, et al.
13. Unshelved, Vol. 1 (Unshelved) by Gene Ambaum, Bill Barnes 14. DISCWASHER D4+ Record Cleaning System 15. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Windows and Macintosh : Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides)
― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)