what reading material do you have in your knapsack.

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a anthology of calvin, a book on caanite sexual practices, my text books for women in classical antiquity and the latest issue of october, ew and american vogue

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

don quixote and the faber lynch on lynch.

yeah, actually in my knapsack.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

a collection of french idioms,back issue of the baffler, a spring class guide for the university of pittsburgh, and my french dictionary.

― mike (ro)bott, Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

A Canadian Bankers Association course manual re:Terrorism and Money Laundering.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm embarrassed by knapsacks so i carry mine inside a secret compartment in mark's noise piece

― jones (actual), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

my knapsack is full of bibs and rattles.
but soon it will include 'the idiot' by dostoyevsky as i am getting it from my library this week yay.

― donna (donna), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

tomorrow it will have "catch-22", "a tribe apart", and "czars".

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 20 October 2002 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

john cale's autobiography. highly readable and highly recommended.

― angelo (angelo), Monday, 21 October 2002 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Kant's _Critique of Judgement_, Derrida's "Economimesis," a bunch of poems by Marie Ponsot, and the new issues of _New X-Men_ and _Cerebus_.

― Douglas, Monday, 21 October 2002 00:23 (twenty-three years ago)

last night i had a village voice, a TONY and invisible man. the nyc periodicals have migrated from knapsack to recycle bin.

― ron (ron), Monday, 21 October 2002 02:32 (twenty-three years ago)

William Gaddis, "Agape Agape"... For those who don't know, that first 'agape' is the greek word for 'brotherly love'...Hey, I don't choose the titles...

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 21 October 2002 03:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Information about IKEA

Guide to the Victoria and Albert Museum (leaflet)

Cinema India: the Art of Bollywood (leaflet)

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 October 2002 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

World bank report on creating music industry in africa
british council report on role of culture in promoting human rights
south african handbook on arts & culture

― H (Heruy), Monday, 21 October 2002 08:13 (twenty-three years ago)

information abt HEMA (dutch warehouse)

― percipitate, Monday, 21 October 2002 08:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Robot Revolt by Nicholas Fisk, oops. I'm not 10 really.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 21 October 2002 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

bellwether by connie willis, the comic of samurai jack, the october/november irish film centre guide (yes andrew, i haven't bothered to empty my bag since i was round in your place on saturday), and motherless brooklyn by jonathan lethem.

― angela (angela), Monday, 21 October 2002 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

American Tabloid (James Ellroy) & a Groucho Marx biog.

― Android (Android Elvis), Monday, 21 October 2002 09:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a copy of Jack and copy of British Vogue and a copy of Edith Wharton's Age Of Innocence

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 21 October 2002 10:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve Erickson's astonishing Tours Of The Black Clock (just finished) and a collection of Ralph Ellison books: short stories, Juneteenth and Invisible Man, for the book club thingy next month. Since I work at a uni, I was tempted to get out one of the critical analyses of him or the book, so I could copy all my opinions from the experts and look dead clever, but I resisted.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 21 October 2002 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm...you've just given me an idea martin.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 21 October 2002 11:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Creating Web Pages For Dummies (cringe) and a couple of job ads I snipped out of Friday's Herald.

― Madchen, Monday, 21 October 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Robot Revolt by Nicholas Fisk

I really need to read a Nicholas Fisk book again. I still remember it as some of the best sci-fi ever. Specially Mindbenders. And Time Trap!

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Robbers by somebody with two names that start with C, maybe Christopher Cooper?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

At the moment: a copy of ACEWeekly (a free Lexington weekly), The Da Vinci Code, a Sony digital four-track instruction manual, a copy of Jitterbug Perfume that I'm going to lend someone, and about 2 1/2 notebooks full of song lyrics/poetry/bullshit.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm re-reading brother of the more famous jack by barbra trapido, it's very good.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa. I have no idea whether it'll be any good. There's a fair bit of death already though.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Llosa is quite good, I recently read The Notebooks of Don Rigoletto and thoroughly enjoyed it.

In my knapsack: a collection of short writings by Colette, the Economist, Scientific American, Wired, and The Face (which I don't think I will ever buy again as it has totally turned to crap)

― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Effective Library and Information Centre Management by Jo Bryson, a term paper by me, and a module outline for 'Managing Information Services'.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth, the Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, the Suicide Kit by David L. Hayles, Private Eye, the ES.

― Alex K (Alex K), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Sin and Syntax
Stranger in a Strange Land (unedited version)
small manual for my pocket multimeter
Mouser Electronics catalog

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll second archel's the life of pi

is that the only one with two entries? happily, and unlike archel, i'm not reading anything on library management, though.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Cyra McFadden's The Serial

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I said it was in my bag, I didn't say I was actually READING it... :)

So far I prefer Self to Life of Pi.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Hm. Interesting that the term paper in my bag is on a website development project and the clever html syntax checker has popped up twice for me today...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i am loving life of pi so far. haven't read (or heard of) self, but then i haven't read a PROPER book in at least six months.

i'm sure your syntax is lovely, dear.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Odd to read about pre-war Romania on the bus from Leytonstone.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

13 Sorry Stories by Alasdair Gray and TV Nation by Micahel Moore.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Good old At Swim-Two-Birds, picked up this morning in error.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

A copy of The Onion and Borges' Labyrinths.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I have also just shoved an Errors & Omissions insurance booklet in there. Lemme tell you how much I'm looking forward to reading that later.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got no reading matter at all in my bag at the moment. I'm currently reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, which is far too large to fit.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Great Mathematicians by H.W Turnbull. It is of course Marvellous. I am just up to PLATO and EUDOXUS although I must admit I was pleased to read about ZENO.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

today:

crisis in catholicsm
robber bride--atwood
celibacy is cool
80th annivesary brochure for the haddasah(sp) bazaar
harpers, us, new yorker
new art 60s-70s (no colour illustrations)
adam xxx gay video guide
gotham central,we3

― anthony, Thursday, 28 October 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Two different editions of 'Organising Knowledge' by Jennifer Rowley, 'The Concise AACR2' by Michael Gorman, 'Classification and Indexing in the Humanities' by D.W. Langridge, and a Japanese hiragana chart.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

A print-out of the Susan Sontag essay "Notes on Camp".

― Hanna (Hanna), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bleak House" by Charles Dickens
"The Football Factory" by John King

It's an intriguing juxtaposition.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Today:

Nabokov Strong Opinions
Bitch magazine

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Howard Zinn, Declarations of Independence
Chuck Eddy, The Accidental Evolution of Rock 'N Roll
Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater: Stories

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

War & Peace 2, which is not the sequel to War & Peace, but is the second volume of the two-volume paperback version of War & Peace.
A pamphlet about alcohol and sex that roxymuzak faxed me yesterday.
A bunch of exercises from the proofreading course I took on Sunday.
The Chicago Not For Tourists guide, since I am Not A Tourist.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd swap anyone right now :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Susan Sontag, Regarding The Pain Of Others

I've had this since last X-mas and still haven't found time to finish it. Too many distractions.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

A pamphlet about alcohol and sex that roxymuzak faxed me yesterday.

Keep that handy!!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Neumann - The Great Mother (haven't really started
HG Bissinger - Friday Night Lights

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Archel I'll swap my Antonio Gramsci 'Selections from the Prison Notebooks'...

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Any takers? I don't want to lug this thing around all night!

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Thomas Frank 'What's the Matter with Kansas"
Sweet Valley High "Bitter Rivals"
The Brady Bunch in the New York Mystery
issues of Bust and Bitch

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Thomas Frank has another book out?

Let me guess: it's another treatise on the marketplace...

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

A printout of the script to The Sweet Hereafter
Beneath Mulholland - David Thomson
One Upon A Time In The East - Dave Rimmer

and...Film Comment!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

and Bust and Bitch and Bastard.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sinclair Lewis-It Cant Happen Here
The New York Times Crossword Puzzles' Friday Book

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be a mag called Bastard.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yes :(

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft
Chronicles Vol I - Bob Dylan

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fortress of Solitude-Jonathan Letham
Someone to Run With-David Grossman
The New York Times
(I think my knapsack is Jewish)
The Exponent (godawful student newspaper)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder what the bits from his prison notebook that Gramsci discarded are like? Maybe they'll appear on a separate folio in his greatest hits publication.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Thomas Frank has another book out?

Raymond, this is easily Frank's best-selling book so far! He was just on Morning Edition this morning doing a point-counterpoint thing with some Republican dude.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

And it's only a treatise on the marketplace in the most indirect way. The central question Frank poses is, Why do certain types of Republicans, namely middle-class voters in the heartland, routinely vote against their economic interests?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Rent Girl by Michelle Tea
Photoshop user manual
packet of instant oatmeal.

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

is this oatmeal readable?

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, yes. Lessee... "Empty packet into bowl. Add up to a 1/2 cup boiling water. Stir."

I really liked the Frank book. I also tried reading One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy, but... um... failed.

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the new seymour hersh book. I finished it.. it was kinda boring too, but I learned some new stuff...

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I have just added a US screenplay called "Vantage Point" to my knapsack.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Is one disqualified for not having a knapsack today? (Or for not knowing how it was spelled? And then wondering what a knap is? Ah, it's German. Of course.) It doesn't matter b/c today it's only my own notes on books I'm reading along with a story I'm editing (but it's a good story. And the writer is sure to be well-known some time, I think.)

Haha, Bastard magazine... Sadly, I think it wouldn't differ much from most men's and 'news' mags. xpost.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenan, I haven't read One Market Under God, but The Conquest of Cool is good, if you're interested in advertising.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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