What Are The Current Top 15 Books On Your "Amazon Recommends"?

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1. Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
2. London's Disused Underground Stations by J.C. Connor
3. Platform by Michel Houellebecq
4. Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
5. Diary of a Madman, and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
6. Wide Open by Nicola Barker
7. White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair
8. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
9. Frames Trilogy: "The Book of Evidence"; "Ghosts"; "Athena" by John Banville
10. The London Underground: A diagrammatic history by Douglas Rose
11. No Need to Ask! Early Maps of London's Underground Railways by David Leboff, Tim Demuth
12. Liquid City (Topographics) by Iain Sinclair, Marc Atkins
13. Radon Daughters by Iain Sinclair
14. Behindlings by Nicola Barker
15. Russian Literature: a Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Catriona Kelly

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)

Oh, I'm not saying because it makes me sound like a corny masterpiece theatre watching motherfucker(and I read most of the books they recommended anyway).

Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Can anyone guess which 4 books I've ever bought off Amazon?

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 Klein
4. "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami
5. The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling
7. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
8. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
9. Dot.con: the Greatest Story Ever Sold by John Cassidy
10. The Onion Ad Nauseam
11. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
12.You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day by Scott Dikkers
13.Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
14. Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britian by George Monbiot
15. Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles (15th edition) by David Roberts

Graham (graham), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

ODC, TW-UBC, FFN and, er, I give up. The British Hit Singles 14th edition?

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love by Dan Rhodes

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)

TW-UBC, FFN, and 14th Edition are all correct. What's ODC?

Graham (graham), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Our Dumb Century

Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

We recommended... A Mind of Its Own: a Cultural History of the Penis
by David M. Friedman
Our Price: £14.00

Because you purchased or rated...
Sweets: The History of Temptation
by Tim Richardson

!!

N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (Author)
3. Summerland by Michael Chabon, William Joyce (Illustrator)
4. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
5. Can't Be Satisfied by Robert Gordon
6. The Best American Magazine Writing of 2002 by American Society of Magazine
7. Atonement by Ian McEwan
8. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10. The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 by Otto Penzler (Editor), Lawrence Block (Editor)
11. Great Balls of Fire by Myra Lewis, Murray Silver
12. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
13. American Scream by Cynthia True
14. The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century by Otto Penzler (Editor), Tony Hillerman (Editor)
15. The Best American Short Stories 2002 by Sue Miller (Editor)

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)

That's on my wishlist. No idea where the Harry Potter came from.

Graham (graham), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Amazon just keeps recommending the next 4 Pratchett books to me, a Sandman novel (which I have previously ordered from them before but they sent me the wrong book so I refuse to order it again) and a shit load of computer books.

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)

The Harry Potter is probably policy. If you've bought three books that they've sold a lot of (Wind-up, Fast Food Nation and what I'm assuming is an Onion book), then you like books that they sell a lot of (chartlit!), so they recommend Harry Potter. It's the science of bookselling.

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)

1. Dilbert: Still Pumped from Using the Mouse (A Dilbert Book) by Scott Adams
2. Dilbert: I'm Not Anti-business, I'm Anti-idiot (A Dilbert Book) by Scott Adams
3. Dilbert: Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons
by Scott Adams
4. Dilbert: Shave the Whales by Scott Adams
5. Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy (A Dilbert Book) by Scott Adams
6. Dilbert: Fugitive from the Cubicle Police (A Dilbert Book) by Scott Adams
7. Dilbert: Excuse Me While I Wag (Dilbert) by Scott Adams
8. Dilbert: Journey to Cubeville (A Dilbert Book) by Scott Adams
9. Dilbert: Seven Years of Highly Defective People by Scott Adams
10. Clues for the Clueless : Dogbert's Big Book of Manners
by Scott Adams
11. Dilbert: Another Day In Cubicle Paradise by Scott Adams
12. Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's Big Book of Business (Dogbert N' Dilbert's Humour at Work) by Scott Adams
13. Dilbert: Telling It Like It Isn't by Scott Adams
14. Dilbert: Alice in Blunderland by Scott Adams
15. Atonement by Ian McEwan


Guess what my favourite comic strip is...

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have a wish list. If I want it, I get it.

Lara (Lara), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

You don't have to have a wish list for it to make recommendations.

N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I know.

Lara (Lara), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Amazon.co.uk:

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)

Haha the second page of recommendations on UK had "The Manual", and when I said "I own it, it's brilliant", two of the top 15 are now Zodiac Mindwarp books.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm too lazy to cut and paste mine, but they're all either Nabakov novels or Tintin books.

Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine was almost all Bronte books because I bought a Branwell Bronte bio. It was just too sad, and kind of stupid too -- wouldn't it stand to reason that I had already read a bit of Bronte if I was buying a Branwell bio?

Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

"Woah check this out - his sisters wrote stuff too!"

N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

corny masterpiece theatre watching motherfucker

The true definition of post-indie?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I dread to think after the hjacking of my Amazon wishlist.

Sarah (starry), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Acts Of Religion by Jacques Derrida
2. The Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida
3. Is It Righteous to Be by Emmanuel Levinas
4. Means without Ends: Notes on Politics by Giorgio Agamben
5. Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy by Giorgia Agamben
6. Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida
7. Aporias by Jacques Derrida
8. Ecrits by Jacques Lacan
9. Perpetual Peace by Emmanuel Kant
10. Ecce Home by Friedrich Nietzsche
11. The Sickness unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
12. Ethics, Institutions and the Right to Philosophy by Jacques Derrida
13. Selected Writings 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin
14. George Bataille: An Intellectual Biography by Michael Surya
15. Essays on Music by Theodor Adorno.

alext (alext), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I hope you're not proud of that, alex.

N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Harry Potter 5
2. Harry Potter 5 (GROWN UP EDITION)
3. Zodiac - Neal Steph.
4. Unfinished Tales - JRRT
5. The Big U - Neal S.
6. Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture YOU BASTARD EWING
7. Interface - Neal S.
8. In the beginning was the command line - Neal S.
9. 21st Century Goth (!!!!!!!!)
10. Neuromancer - W. Gibson
11. Count Zero - W. Gibson
12. Mona Lisa Overdrive - W. Gibson (NB I have no idea who this bloke is)
13. The Water Margin - Shi Nai-an (what?)
14. Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K Hamilton
15. BITE ME! An unofficial guide to Buffy (oh sod off)

I'll get you for this Tom.

Sarah (starry), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

It's actually quite depressing to be faced with that lot whenever I look at amazon. I think I once got recommended some cookbooks.

alext (alext), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no!!! When I got rid of the Unofficial Buffy guide they recommend this:

The Goth Bible: The Hex Files!!!!

Sarah (starry), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Phew, once I get rid of that, it's HP Lovecraft, that's more like it heh heh *cackles*

Sarah (starry), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Harry Potter 5 (GROWN UP EDITION)

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)

This is just getting silly! I remove 21st Century Goth and get:

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)

Give in to the goth, Sarah. You know you want to.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Yippee, my list makes me look like a big otaku faggot. This is AFTER I told them I was 'not interested' in the "Neon Genesis Evangelion" comics about four or five times.


1. Battle Angel Alita
by 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 Camp
by 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)

how do you do this thing? I don't want to write a wish list.

jel -- (jel), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I have hardly bought any books from Amazon, so thisshould be hopeless:
1. Trouble On Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia by Samuel Delany
2. Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (got it thanks)
3. Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper by Leo Steinberg
4. The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg (who is this man? Presumably a writer on art by whom I've bought something)
5. The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike (got these too)
6. Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting by Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter (a plausible guess)
7. Thinks by David Lodge
8. Brazil by John Updike
9. Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux
10. Preston Falls: A Novel by David Gates
11. The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike (Editor), Katrina Kenison (Editor)
12. Hotel World by Ali Smith
13. The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
14. Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi
15. A Multitude of Sins: Stories by Richard Ford
A pretty good attempt, really. The music ones are even more accurate - I have 7 of them. I don't have a DVD player, and have never bought videos from Amazon nor put any on my wishlist, so they're just guessing here. Some sensible (Gosford Park, Alan Partridge), some Black Hawk Down or Attack Of The Clones or LOTR.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

01. English for Journalists by Wynford Hicks
02. In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee
03. Interviewing for Journalists (Media Skills) by Wynford Hicks, Sally Adams
04. Stranger Shores: Essays 1986-1999 by J.M. Coetzee
05. De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow by Tim Pat Coogan
06. Northern Ireland: The Politics of War and Peace by Paul Dixon
07. The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan
08. The Journalist's Handbook (Writing Handbook) by Christopher Browne
09. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot
10. Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History by Bruce Cumings
11. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
12. Essential English: For Journalists, Editors and Writers by Harold Evans
13. The Longest War: Northern Ireland's Troubled History by Marc Mulholland
14. Journalism for Beginners: How to Get into Print and Get Paid for It by Joan Clayton
15. Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee

stevo (stevo), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Argall by William T. Vollmann
2. The Rainbow Stories (Contemporary American Fiction) by William T. Vollmann
3. Further Cuttings by Flann O'Brien, Kevin O'Nolan (Editor)
4. The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers (Author)
5. After Nature by W.G. Sebald
6. The Blue Flowers by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright (Translator)
7. The Adventures of Lucky Pierre by Robert Coover
8. Hello Cruel World by The Mekons
9. Prisoner's Dilemma by Richard Powers
10. Baudolino by Umberto Eco (Author), William Weaver (Translator)
11. Georges Perec by David Bellos
12. The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, William Weaver (Translator)
13. On the Natural History of Destruction by Winfried Georg Sebald
14. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, Anthea Bell (Translator)
15. Up, Simba! [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] by David Foster Wallace

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)

1. The Last Opium Den
by Nick Tosches
2. The Nick Tosches Reader
by Nick Tosches
3. The Devil and Sonny Liston
by Nick Tosches
4. Dino
by Nick Tosches
5. Model Behavior
6. Jakob Von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics)
by Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Introduction)
7. The Last of the Savages
by Jay McInerney
8. The Rules of Attraction
by Bret Easton Ellis
9. Ransom
by Jay McInerney
10. The Informers
by Bret Easton Ellis, Edward Kastenmeier (Editor)
11. Good Rockin' Tonight
by Colin Escott, et al
12. In the Hand of Dante
by Nick Tosches
13. Rave Culture, an insider's overview
by Jimi Fritz
14. Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
by Robert Walser, et al
15. Lost Highway
by Peter Guralnick (Author)


Oy.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Jel, if you have ever bouth things from Amazon, then just log in you'll see the 'Amazon recommends' section.

N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Alternatively, jel, you can search for things you already own on Amazon, and give them an "out of 5" star rating.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks, good ideas!

I've started making a wishlist, it's got the following things so far:
The Last Joy - Knut Hamsun
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - Murakami
The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
The 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)

I note from John Fail's post above that Sebald shares a translator with Asterix. Perhaps Anthea Bell changes all the names in Sebald's books to anglophone comical puns too.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Pretty much sums my current reading tastes and obsessions up: Computer hacking, commercial art and architecture, and para-political paranoia. (though I already have the original edition of the Venturi book)

1. Know Your Enemy by The Honeynet Project
2. At Large by David H. Freedman
3. All-American Ads of the 50s by Jim Heimann
4. The Hacker Diaries by Dan Verton
5. True Tales from Another Mexico by Sam Quinones
6. All-American Ads of the 40s by Jim Heimann
7. The Hacker Ethic by Pekka Himanen
8. 50s Cars (Icons) by Jim Heimann
9. Conspiracy Culture by Peter Knight
10. British Modern by Steven Heller
11. Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds
12. Southern California in the '50s by Charles Phoenix
13. Mutations by Rem Koolhaas
14. The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks
15. Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition by Robert Venturi, et al

Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

jel, i'll send you my copy of 'the life of insects' if you want. maybe we could trade for something?

john fail (cenotaph), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, after investigating, Leo Steinberg got in mine because of a book he wrote on Robert Rauschenberg.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murukami
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murukami
3. Martian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick
4. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and The Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murukami
5. Haruki Murukami and The Music of Words by Jay Rubin
6. The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
7. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murkami
8. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murukami
9. David Boring by Daniel Clowes
10. The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography edited by Maxim Jakubowski
11. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
12. Sleepwalk, And Other Stories by Adrian Tomine
13. David Boring by Daniel Clowes (again)
14. Valis by Philip K. Dick
15. Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine
14.

Wyndham Earl, Friday, 7 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds"

This sounds like the most depressing book in history.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I wouldn't recommend rating the books you like as if the author has written a few books then your recommendations will just be instantly filled with their entire back catalogue. In fact, even if they haven't: I said I liked Jon Ronson's 'Them' and I was inundated with conspiracy theory books.

N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Hellboy: Conqueror Worm by Mike Mignola
2. Hellboy: Wake The Devil by Mike Mignola
3. Hellboy: Bones of Giants by Mike Mignola
4. Hellboy: Seed Of Destruction by Mike Mignola
5. Hellboy: Odd jobs by Mike Mignola
6. Atonement by Ian McEwan
7. Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
8. Empire falls by richard russo
9. League of Extraordinary Gentlmen Vol. 1, by Alan Moore.
10. V for Vendetta by ALan Moore
11. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
12. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
13. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
14. Hellboy: The Lost Army by Mike Mignola
15. Ghost/Hellboy by Mike Mignola

Leee (Leee), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

1-"Preacher: All Hell's A Coming"
2-"Pracher:Salvation"
3-"Preacher:Gone To Texas"
4-"Preacher:Alamo"
5-"Preacher:Dixie Fried"
6-"Preacher:Until The End Of The World"
7-"Preacher:War In The Sun"
8-"Hitman"
9-"Spirits Of The Dead " (an Edgar Allan Poe poetry collection)
10-"Preacher:Dead Or Alive"
11-"Hitman:10.000 Bullets"
12-"Transmetroplitan:Back On The Street"
13-"Elvis Day-By-Day" (Peter Guralnick)
14-"Elvis Presley:A Day In The Life" (Ernst Jorgensen)
15-"Transmetropolitan: Lust For Life"

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)

The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
Film Form - Sergei Eisenstein
Reflections - Walter Benjamin
Film As Art - Rudolf Arnheim
Camera Lucida - Roland Barthes
Image, Music, Text - Roland Barthes
Confessions - Saint Augustine
PHP and MySQL Development - Luke Welling
The Major Film Theories - Dudley Andrew
The Film Sense - Sergei Eisenstein
Platonic Theology - Marsilio Ficino
Meditations on the Soul - Marsilio Ficino
The Arcades Project - Walter Benjamin
Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL - Hugh E. Williams

Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 8 March 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

That review (of Mieville) says too much and too little. There's probably a more respectable point of reference, but I've been selling it to friends by describing it like Ankh-Morpork from the Pratchett novels played straight.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Eva Peron: A Biography by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz
2. Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Eva Peron
by John Barnes
3. Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman by J.M. Taylor
4. Evita: an Intimate Portrait of Eva Peron by Tom as de Elia, et al
5. Best Lesbian Erotica 2001 by Pat Califia, Pat Califia & Tristan Taormino (Editor)
6. A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers by Lawrence Weschler
7. Electric: the Best Lesbian Erotic Fiction by Nicole Foster (Editor)
8. The Well of Loneliness (Virago Modern Classics) by Radclyffe Hall, Alison Hennegan (Introduction)
9. The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us by Felice Newman
10. Lesbian Sex by Joann Gardner Loulan
11. Early Embraces: True Stories of Women Describing Their First Lesbian Experience by Lindsey Elder (Editor)
12. Best Bisexual Women's Erotica by Cara Bruce (Editor)
13. Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown
14. Awakening the Virgin: True Tales of Seduction by Nicole Foster (Editor)
15. Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica (Mammoth)

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

What happens if you have something you don't want on your list (Goff nonsense in Starry's case), and you select it and say "yeah, I got it, it was terrible"? Does that stem the tide?

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

No, they will just assume you are a contrary goth and recommend self-help books. (And Ian McEwan's 'Atonement', obv.)

N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It helps to stem the tide a bit, much morseo than picking volume one through five of a fifteen volume series and saying 'not interested', which is computo-logick at its finest really

Millar (Millar), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Contesting Tears by Stanley Cavell
2. The World Viewed by Stanley Cavell
3. The Runaway Bride by Elizabeth Kendall
4. Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges by James Harvey
5. Disowning Knowledge by Stanley Cavell (Author)
6. Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome by Stanley Cavell
7. The Senses of Walden by Stanley Cavell
8. Once More Around the Park by Roger Angell
9. The Pitching Edge by Tom House, Rod Dedeaux
10. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
11. A Pitcher's Story by Roger Angell
12. The Era 1947-1957 by Roger Kahn (Afterword)
13. Baseball by Nicholas Dawidoff (Editor)
14. The Immediate Experience by Robert Warshow, et al
15. Fit to Pitch by Tom House, Randy Johnson

felicity (felicity), Monday, 10 March 2003 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...
1. Nichts als Gespenster. von Judith Hermann
2. Antipop. Essays und Reportagen zur Popkultur in den Neunzigern. von Martin Büsser
3. Verschwende Deine Jugend von Jürgen Teipel
4. Testcard, Nr.11, Humor
5. Sommerhaus, später. Erzählungen. von Judith Hermann
6. Warte, bis es dunkel ist. Eine Liebeserklärung ans Kino. von Michael Althen
7. Allein im Licht. von Robert Kolker
8. Die Illusionen der anderen. Über das Lustprinzip in der Kultur. von Robert Pfaller
9. Shamo 03. von Akio. Tanaka
10. Scorsese über Scorsese. von Martin Scorsese, u. a.
11. Testcard, Nr.4, Retrophänomene in den 90ern von Roger Behrens (Herausgeber), u. a.
12. Das schwarze Herz Afrikas. Meine erste Reise in den Kongo. von Lieve Joris
13. Theorie des Bildes. von Gernot Böhme
14. Der Gesang des Dodo. Eine Reise durch die Evolution der Inselwelten. von David Quammen
15. Lord Gamma. von Michael Marrak

Sommermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 8 June 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I was shopping for elementary school math enrichment, so it's a little skewed:

1. The Grapes of Math
2. Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
3. Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi
4. Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales
5. Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
6. The Greedy Triangle
7. Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar
8. How Big is a Foot?
9. The Man who Counted
9. Spaghetti and Meatballs for All
10. Osho Transformation Tarot
11. 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)

three months pass...
The Voice at 3 by Charles Simic
The EMOTIONAL BRAIN by Joseph Ledoux
Duncan Delaney and the Cadillac of Doom by A. L. Haskett
Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio
Something I Expected to Be Different by Joshua Beckman
Local Visitations by Stephen Dunn
Poems 1968-1998 by Paul Muldoon
Horace the Odes by J. D. McClatchy
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio R. Damasio
Things Are Happening by Joshua Beckman
Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter
Descartes' Error by Antonio R. Damasio
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis

bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the list apparently includes The Phish Book and Harry Potter (wtf). so instead I'll do 15 from my very old Amazon wishlist:

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 Toop
8. 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)

1. The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry, Michael Connelly
2. Sleeping Dogs by Thomas Perry
3. Death Benefits
by Thomas Perry
4. Stiff
by Mary Roach
5. Dead Aim
by Thomas Perry
6. Acme Novelty Datebook
by Chris Ware, Drawn & Quarterly
7. Blood Money
by Thomas Perry
8. Blankets
by Craig Thompson (Illustrator)
9. I Never Liked You
by Chester Brown
10. The Frank Book
by Jim Woodring
11. Quimby the Mouse (ACME Novelty Library)
by Chris Ware
12. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
by Michael Chabon (Author)
13. Lost Light
by Michael Connelly
14. Vanishing Act
by Thomas Perry
15. The Face-Changers
by Thomas Perry

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)

1. Film Directing Cinematic Motion: Cinematic Motion by Steven D. Katz
2. 500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood by Jennifer M. Lerch
3. Creating Unforgettable Characters by Linda Seger
4. Secrets of Screenplay Structure by Cowgill
5. Making a Good Writer Great: A Creativity Workbook for Screenwriters
by Linda Seger
6. Film Production: The Complete Uncensored Guide to Independent Filmmaking by Greg Merritt
7. Painting with Light by John Alton, Todd McCarthy (Introduction)
8. How NOT to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make by Denny Martin Flinn
9. Making a Winning Short: How to Write, Direct, Edit, and Produce a Short Film by Edmond Levy
10. The Director's Journey: The Creative Collaboration Between Directors, Writers and Actors by Mark W. Travis
11. Screenwriting Updated: New (and Conventional) Ways of Writing for the Screen by Linda Aronson
12. How to Write a Movie in 21 Days: The Inner Movie Method by Viki King
13. Grammar of the Film Language by Daniel Arijon
14. We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk by Marc Spitz, Brenden Mullen
15. Fuck You Heroes New Edition by Glen Friedman

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)

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
by Weston A. Price

The Metabolic Typing Diet
by William Linz Wolcott, Trish Fahey

Regarding the Pain of Others
by Susan Sontag (Author)

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)

Rereading Sex
by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Imagine There's No Woman
by Joan Copjec

Solitary Pleasures
by Paula Bennett (Editor), Vernon Rosario (Editor)

are these books about masturbation?

Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Erm, the last one is.

It was just a. . . culture studies book I bought,for petesake!

Al Andalous, Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Legal Aspects of the Music Industry
by Richard Schulenberg

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)

1. Country by Nick Tosches
2. Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)
3. The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)
4. Hellfire by Nick Tosches
5. The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)
6. Good Rockin' Tonight by Colin Escott, et al
7. One Step Behind (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Henning Mankell
8. The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin, Greg Suriano (Editor)
9. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
10.The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson (Editor)
11.The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, et al
12.Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy (Author)
13.Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (Author)
14.Feel Like Going Home by Peter Guralnick
15.Almost Blue (City Lights Italian Voices) by Carlo Lucarelli, Oonagh Stransky (Translator)

cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)


13.Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (Author)
14.Feel Like Going Home by Peter Guralnick
15.Almost Blue (City Lights Italian Voices) by Carlo Lucarelli, Oonagh Stransky (Translator)
Are those about masturbation too?

Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

no

cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i know

Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Every book is about masturbation, every song is about love, every film is about death...Every television show is about religion. Especially Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.

adaml (adaml), Thursday, 25 September 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Cinniblount: Numbers two through eight on your list are either on my *Wish List* or my bookshelves, and the same is true for numbers ten and eleven as well. And number twelve? I'm looking for another book by J Leavy (Squeeze Play is the title, I think).

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)

1. The Shape of Water - A. Camilleri
2. The Laughing Policeman - M. Sjowall
3. Blood Rain - M. Dibdin
4. The Anubis Gates - T. Powers (already own)
5. The Man Who Ate Everything - J. Steingarten (already own)
6. Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson (already own)
7. Pattern Recognition - W. Gibson (Glenn owns)
8. King Rat - C. Meiville
9. Dry - A. Burroughs
10. The Digging Leviathan - J. Blaylock
11. The Winter Queen - B. Akunin
12. A Red Death - W. Mosley (already own)
13. The Golden Age - J. Wright
14. The Book of Salt - M. Truong
15. The Piano Tuner - D. Mason (already own)

I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 26 September 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

amazon uk is down :(

mark s (mark s), Friday, 26 September 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

no it's not! here's mine...

1. The Information Bomb by Paul Virilio
2. 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)

jesus stelfox buy some cookery books or something!!

haha mine is all chesterton, kabbalism and synthesiser design

mark s (mark s), Friday, 26 September 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Richard Rorty: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers: Objectivity, Relativism and Truth
Martin Amis: Yellow Dog
Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography
Joseph Muller-Brockman: Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design
Arcade Fever: The Fan's Guide to the Golden Age of Video Games
1000 Record Covers
Kraftwerk: I Was a Robot
Los Logos
The Elements of Typographic Style
Dark Stuff, The: Selected Writings on Rock Music
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Paul Feyerabend: Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
Douglas Coupland: Pierre Huyghe

Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 26 September 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shit, it's just books about psychopaths.

1. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
by Robert D., Ph.D. Hare

2. Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder
by Donald W. Black, C. Lindon Larson

3. The Antisocial Personalities
by David T. Lykken

4. Rogue State
by William Blum

5. The Psychopathic Mind: Origins, Dynamics, and Treatment
by J. Reid Meloy

6. Unmasking the Psychopath: Antisocial Personality and Related Syndromes
by William H. Reid (Editor)

7. Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the Macdonald Murders
by Jerry Allen Potter, Fred Bost (Contributor)

8. Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
by Robert Kagan

9. An Hour to Kill: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Justice in a Small Southern Town
by Dale Hudson, Billy Hills

10. The Anatomy of Motive : The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals
by 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 Republic
by John E. Ferling

15. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
by Fareed Zakaria

freedom dupont, Friday, 26 September 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Kissing the Beehive, Jonathan Carroll [which they don't have]

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)

As mentioned upthread, Perdido Street Station = k-classic.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...
1. The Anatomy of Motive by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
2. Mindhunter by John E. Douglas (Author)
3. Augustus Carp Esq. by Henry Howarth, Sir Bashford, Sir Henry Howarth Bashford
4. The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, BA by H. F. Ellis
5. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
6.Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler
7. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
8. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
9.Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
10.The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...
Bosko Balaban Stats For Season

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)

one year passes...
1- Lone Wolf & Cub: Echo Of The Assasin
2- Lone Wolf & Cub: Chains Of Death
3- Lone Wolf & Cub: Lanterns Of Death
4- The Art Of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Helen Vendler)
5- Lone Wolf & Cub: Cloud Dragon, Wind Tiger
6- Lone Wolf & Cub: Hostage Child
7- Elric: The Stealer Of Souls & Stormbringer (M. Moorcock)
8- Lone Wolf & Cub: Talisman Of Hades
9- Lone Wolf & Cub: Day Of The Demons
10- The Scar (China Mieville)
11- Moominsummer Madness
12- Tales From Moominvalley
13- Lone Wolf & Cub: Brothers Of The Grass
14- Conan comic by Kurt Busiek
15- Moominland Midwinter

Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

1. Next 10 Actual, Official LSAT Preptests
2. Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian, Book 1 (3rd Edition)
3. Vision Creation Newsun ~ Boredoms
4. History and Class Consciousness by Georg Lukács
5. Merzbeat ~ Merzbow
6. Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm 
7. Discipline & Punish : The Birth of the Prison (Vintage) by Michel Foucault
8. Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual: An Illustrated Guide to Personal Practice by David Swenson
10. Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey
11. Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
12. Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Walter Kaufmann (Introduction)
13. Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd Edition) by David J. Griffiths
14. The Official LSAT PrepTest 42  
15. Capital : Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics)

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

1. Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design by Eric A. Meyer
2. Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
3. Wallace and Gromit: Catch of the Day (Wallace and Gromit) by Ian Rimmer
4. Lost At Sea by Patrick Dillon
5. The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 by N. A. M. Rodger
6. Schaum's Outline of German Grammar by Elke Gschossmann-Hendersho
7. Lonely Planet Australia (Lonely Planet Australia) by Paul Smitz, et al.
8. God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
9. StyleCity Sydney by Simon Richmond
10. Maritime Power and Struggle For Freedom : Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1788-1851 by Peter Padfield

lyra (lyra), Sunday, 9 October 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

1. The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956
by Charles M. Schulz, et al.


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)

1. The Age of Capital, 1848-75 by E.J. Hobsbawm

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)

1. Comix: The Underground Revolution by Dez Skinn
2. Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan
3. The Complete Crumb Comics: v. 17 by Robert Crumb
4. The Complete Crumb Comics: Volume 4. Mr.Sixties by Robert Crumb
5. My Troubles with Women by Robert Crumb
6. Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories by Gilbert Hernandez
7. Complete Crumb Comics: Hot 'n' Heavy by Robert Crumb
8. Manga! Manga!: World of Japanese Comics by Frederick L. Schodt
9. The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures (Contemporary Japanese Society S.) by Dolores Martinez (Editor)
10. Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga - Japanese Comics for "Otaku" by Frederik L. Schodt
11. The Complete Crumb Comics: v. 16 by Robert Crumb
12. Watching Anime, Reading Manga by Fred Patten
13. Hokusai: Prints and Drawings (African, Asian & Oceanic Art S.) by Matthi Forrer
14. The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 by Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy
15. R. Crumb Draws the Blues by R. Crumb

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)

I use Amazon more for buying gifts for my family than for myself, so most of these recommendations would be more for my wife:

1. Book Finds: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books
2. Perfect Trust: A Rowan Gant Investigation
3. 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 Yorker
6. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
7. America's Forgotten Pandemic : The Influenza of 1918
8. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
9. How the Rural Poor Got Power: Narrative of a Grass-Roots Organizer
10. American Assassination: The Strange Death Of Senator Paul Wellstone
11. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
12. Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives
13. Bone: One Volume Edition
14. 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)

and music:
1. Finally Got Over - Don Varner
2. The Best of the Velvelettes
3. The Goldwax Recordings - The Ovations Featuring Louis Williams
4. Southern Soul Showcase
5. Greatest Hits and Rare Classics - Brenda Holloway
6. The Best of the Marvellettes
7. Super Dude Vol.1 - Don Covay
8. Willie Hightower - Willie Hightower
9. Hot Blood - Don Covay
10. Greatest Hits and Rare Classics - Kim Weston
11. The Essential Collection [Import] - The Originals
12. Temptation - The Knight Brothers
13. The Very Best of Dave Berry - Dave Berry
14. Station to Station [Enhanced] - David Bowie
15. I've Got a Feeling - Baby Washington

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)

I recently bought one (1) book about the death penalty.

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 Kurtis
4. The Death of Innocents : An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by Helen Prejean
5. 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 Junkin
8. Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted
by Martin Yant
9. 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 Banner
11. The History of Jazz
by Ted Gioia
12. What to Listen For in Jazz
by Barry Kernfeld
13. Ultimate Punishment : A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
by Scott Turow
14. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD : Seventh Edition (Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD)
by Richard Cook, Brian Morton
15. Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases
by Scott Christianson

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

1.Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader
by Mac Montandon (Editor), Frank Black (Foreword)

2. Songbook
by Nick Hornby

3.The Piano Handbook: A Complete Guide for Mastering Piano
by 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 One
by The RZA, Chris Norris

9.Randy Newman Anthology
by Newman Randy

10.The End of Art
by Donald Kuspit

11., said the shotgun to the head.
by Saul Williams

12.The Transfiguration of the Commonplace : A Philosophy of Art
by Arthur C. Danto

13.Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back
by Jim Hightower

14.The Conquest of Cool : Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
by 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)

1. All You Need to Know About the Music Business
by Donald S. Passman

2. Campaigning to Win
by Gary O. Bosley

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)

oh I just noticed I did this in 2003. I do not seem to have developed any new interests.

teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

1. The Rediscovery of Man
by Cordwainer Smith

2. Gateway
by Frederick Pohl

3. The Fifth Head of Cerberus
by Gene Wolfe

4. Haunted Weather: Resonant Spaces, Silence and Memory
by David Toop

5. Jem
by Frederick Pohl

6. Lord of Light
by Roger Zelazny

7. Cities in Flight
by James Blish

8. Emphyrio
by Jack Vance

9. Tony Harrison (Writers and Their Work Series)
by Joe Kelleher

10. The Centauri Device
by M. John Harrison

11. The Faber Berryman: Poems Selected by Michael Hofmann
by John Berryman, Michael Hofmann

12. Non-stop
by Brian Aldiss

13. Sugar and Slate
by Charlotte Williams

14. Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
by A.S. Byatt

15. Robert Lowell: Poems Selected by Michael Hofmann
by 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)

Those two Pohl novels are great.

William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I fancy a lot of those books, it's just finding time isn't it?

Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

most of my reading material comes (free)from the library, so this list is generated by a)research purchases for writing projects and b)gifts(that coldwar spy book I bought my father-in-law last year)

1. Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents)
by Dick Hebdige

2. The American Agent: My Life in the CIA
by Richard L. Holm

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)

Amazon is focusing on three of the purchases I've made: A Flash book for my son, Revolting Librarians Redux (no I'm not a librarian, but an acquaintance of mine edited this and it's interesting), and a Stanton turntable for my husband. Why do they ignore the other books I bought for myself? Granted though, I buy books mostly from ABE.

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 it
by 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)


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