POO: Based purely on their contributions on this here forum, whose tome would you hand over your hard-earned readies to read and why?

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Go on, stoke someone's ego today, we all need it once in a while.

Kate - without a doubt.

I'm often struck by her honesty, forthrightness, depth of emotions/feelings and the energy and power behind her words.

AND, she gets on my tits occasionally - all in all, a good combination :)

― penelope_111, Friday, 30 April 2004 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i would buy a book by jess about his love live and various sexual exploits

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Jazz Odysseus. A whole book by him would be lots of fun.

― Prude (Prude), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s - result!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

as much as it pains me to take this question seriously i would be into a book by Dave Q

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. I'm flabbergasted. No one has ever picked me before! Thanks, I needed the ego boost today. :-)

I think we tried to do this, but it turned into a flameridden popularity contest before...

At the moment, I would like to read a novel by Tuomas. I would imagine it to be some kind of delightful Utopian romantic connundrum weirdness (with odd proverbs). :-)

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

conor. I AM A WEREWOLF. WOOO!! the rest? rubbish! pah.

― doomie x, Friday, 30 April 2004 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i would read a book by doomie about me

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I would definitely read a book by Doomie, but only if it wasn't about music. ;-)

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

You'd read a book by ANYBODY about you. admit.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

You can only pick one, Kate. None of this going back and picking your mates or someone who mentioned you!!!

― penelope_111, Friday, 30 April 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm.... i wouldn't read a book by a random googler about me

(xpost)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

stop it guys. i feel like dawn from welcome to the dollhouse!!

― doomie x, Friday, 30 April 2004 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

(I didn't realise that we could only pick one! I mean, ESoJ has picked three now! But if I only get one, I'll stick with Tuomas.)

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG ELECRTIC JIM IS SO HOTTTTTT!!!!!!!! CULD YOU PIMP MY RIDE AND DYE MY HAIR!!!!! LOL HIT ME BACK LATA!!!!!!!!!

― Prude (Prude), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmm-m-m-maybe I'd read a book *about* Doomie, but I ain't sure by whom exactly... O I kno! By Dan Perry!!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd pick the full penguin "6 months in the life of the Libertines" by doomiexx.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha. that could happen mark. that could happen. pete and i bonded on the tour. ha ha.

― doomie x, Friday, 30 April 2004 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

dan wouldnt be interested in writing about me because i lack an ass.

― doomie x, Friday, 30 April 2004 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(Then again, this thread did say "based on the contribs to ILX", so my one doesn't count as I'm basing it on the poptones site)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Number 3, Cilla

― penelope_111, Friday, 30 April 2004 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark S. But I would also very much like to read books by Nitsuh, Dave Q, Tom, Mr The Nipper, Hopkins, Starry, that fucker Jess Harvell, Tim F, Frank Kogan etc., etc.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

a book by starry would rock!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It would, wouldn't it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Nitsuh and Dan, or a collaboration by both - now THAT I'd pay good money for....

― smee (smee), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

No contest:

And That's Why I Don't Like Badgers by Dan Perry

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd find room on my bookshelves for books by Begs2Differ, Lynskey, Matt@Coastaltown, Tep, Ned, Suzy and Dan.

Or all of you, in fact.

― C J (C J), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I switch my vote to J0hn Darn1elle?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd buy a book of Archel's poetry.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't you think it says something about someone when they can't do what it says on the tin and POO?

― penelope_111, Friday, 30 April 2004 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Caitlin, I was going to post exactly that. Archel's poetry.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

But they're all so lovely! Why can't I have thread heads?

::cue mad Mozart laughter::

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't POO. As it were. Tep, Nitsuh, and two at least of the Matts.

Caitlin and Pink, aw thanks. And you CAN have a book next month, well a third of one, if you have a spare £3.95 ;)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Just let me know when you need the cheque arch, I definitely want one!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s - result!
-- Andrew Farrell

He's not quite there yet, or is he??

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

none of you, not even the writers.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

wait, no, based solely on their contributions to ilx? okay, dave q then.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to echo the Dave Q love.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

you strongo sulkington, you!

(x-pst!)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to read a Radiohead book by Melissa W.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Books by ILXers

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

based on my short time here, a book by Dan Perry would be reliably hilarious

― the krza (krza), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I could have sworn there was another thread just like that. Because I could have sworn that I posted on it, and I didn't post on that one. Ah well, my mind is going.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

So that's your book scrapped then?
:(

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone who wants one of my books can just email me and ask!

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

dave q based on his Yes review, linked last week here. Spot on!

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to read t\'\'t's own back-translation of his Estonian translation of mark s.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

(Kate! Super. I did mail you)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, I didn't think anyone would actually take me up on it! But cool... let me just warn you that they will be very large text files as no one has ever been stupid enough to publish me. (Read: I've never been stupid enough to actually submit a manuscript to an agent or a publisher.)

They are rubbish, I do have to warn you! OK, I'm going to check my email now...

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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thing i've hated ~ alex in nyc

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I would actually like a compilation of all the ride p1mpers pleas. good bathroom material.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd love to read a book by RJG or the Pinefox or maybe a book by M. Matos called "I can't turn my face into a heart"

― mandee, Friday, 30 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

a children's book by momus would be quite superb aswell.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

a nickalicious book would be guaranteed to get me grinning

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm actually thinking of writing a travel book for couch potatoes.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

not really couch potatoes, but, uh, cynics.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos should have already made a chapbook at least of his step-father's witticisms. Get to it, boy!

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I want AKM to finally let me read some of his experimental fiction.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

He will now hunt and kill me for posting that.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

like "Things to Do in Canada When You're On Holiday and You Hate Everything"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i>Weh-hoo! Sign me up, and I'll email you Sam's saucy rock novel in the package!
-- Super-Kate

Kate you *are* already signed up! (...inna manner of, y'kno, sign-speaking).
So swish ya that hot Sam-co**er-o'Texarcana-thrashorama-schwinger this way, east-by-north-east, prontoplease!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

t, if you'd like some samples of my writing I have much better things than the 6 year old stuff Kate's flogging.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

He will now hunt and kill me for posting that.

Death of a Limey by AKM

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

It's very illuminating stuff. It's amazing the different ways that different people find to live out their fan fiction fantasies. Heh.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

and amazing how some people never grow out of that stuff, too.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I am sure I would love to read lots of: mandee (from past experience and not just as a reciprocal naming) and PF and cookie (as long as he told me what it was about, first) and nick and kirsten and pete.

it seems I am mostly interested in people I know. what an incredible surprise.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

(PS) Sam! i wav You 2!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, Sam, it's amazing how many people manage to find one personality and stick with it, instead of changing their lifestyles like most people change their shoes!

Anyway, it's going home time, T, I'll mail you my saucy rock novel and a Lollies album when I get home.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

*coughs* Mods to thread please...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, I forgot the purely based bit. even then, it'd probably end up being those and, like, nabisco and matos.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, I nearly typed purely biased or maybe I did.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

how do you handle when someone gives you their writing and it sucks. after reading my article a fellow teacher pointed me to a short-story of his online and it was horrid. i really like him and am trying to think of ways to be polite and generically complimentary without sounding phony. Perhaps reading work of your friends is not a good idea.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, if its like her Second Coming Of The Christ Aborted story on the abortion thread.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I have to say that was pretty damned spectacular!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I just say that my book has a nude centerfold of myself in the middle?

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

no, you can't.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd read NA's book.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The rest of the book is in Braille, so I hope you read Braille. Oh, and it's Esperanto Braille. So I hope you read Esperanto and Braille.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

And it's poems I wrote in high school. In Esperanto Braille. Kisses!

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

is your photo embossed so the blind readers can, uh... feel your curves¿

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Even though he hasn't posted here in ages (and even though popularity threads are a bit evil): A picture book by Erik would fantastic.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Hanle y's Little Book of Wisdom sounds like a good one, too.

― Prude (Prude), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Helltime Producto or Otis Wheeler.

― Allyzay, Friday, 30 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

There are loads. I guess since I think Sinkah is the cleverest man I've ever met, probably the most knowledgeable and interesting and funniest too, and he writes magnificently in a style like no one else's, it would be him. It's a slight shame for me that the first book by him to come out is about a film in which I have very modest interest, but there you go.

I'm tempted to list lots of others I'd like to read, but a) I'd forget some people and feel bad, and b) these threads have rules.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

chicken soup for the pants by mike hanle y
umbrellas: a visual history by erik digibeet
the art of partying forte by le coq
really rad things from the world by slocki
alltime best jerkoff material: mtv edition by ramosi
troma, ramen and a wank - the lonely years by crw

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Upper Deck by Martin M

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd buy anything by Melissa W though I can't even guess what it might be like (if it wasn't about Radiohead).

Really? Why?

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 1 May 2004 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Why, clearly cause you is a good writer. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll probably embarrass her by saying this but i'd LOVE to read a book by lady di on feminism and/or the new zealand music scene.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 1 May 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I rarely write posts more than ten words long.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 1 May 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

kate the saint
hanle y
cinniblount
ned
jel
alex in nyc

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the pinefox. RJG. Ally C. Though not strictly just on contributions here. I once had a dream whereby the three of them had a late night discussion show on TV, based in Cook and RJG's living room (in my dream, they had Lloyd Cole as a special guest). I feel I should offer this idea to a TV company somewhere. It would be like a good version of Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned. I'm sure a book would be good too.

However the real answer, within the parameters of the question, would be Allyzay I think.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 2 May 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I think certain threads here should be available in book form. An example of that would be the Kill Bill thread, with an intro by Momus.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Certain threads *were* made into book form. Or at least, they were, until they had to be pulped due to a certain ILXor not being a good sport about it. :-(

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Do it yourself.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

At the moment, I would like to read a novel by Tuomas. I would imagine it to be some kind of delightful Utopian romantic connundrum weirdness (with odd proverbs). :-)

Gee, thanks. I used to write poetry, but lately I've been too busy with my studies to write anything else than some (pseudo)academic texts. For example, this spring I've written an essay about feminist movements and feminist thinkers in the Middle East and India, as well as an article about gender depictions in Walt Disney comics.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

!!!!!

See, I would actually read either of those were they a book! Especially the latter. (Dead mothers, anyone?)

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, yes, it's all about nephews and uncles and nieces and aunts. But my article actually focused on the stereotypical femininity of Daisy Duck and Minnie Mouse, as well as the erotization of women in the recent animated features by Disney.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 2 May 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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