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my mudder and sistah have requested holiday gift ideas and as they (rightly) won't encourage the cd habit, i've decided that i need to become better read anyway. so tell me some books i should ask for.

― jess, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i would prefer books of a non-music/music crit nature, as i am swimming up to my ears in em already.

― jess, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicholson Baker!

― Kim, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

::...amazons...::

kim, this man writes pornography. i can't ask my sainted mother for this!

― jess, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh come on, your mom must have had sex at least once - unless you were found on the doorstep in which case I'm assuming too much.

It's not all pronographic, I don't think Mezzanine goes there.

― Kim, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pronographic? (another good one)

― Kim, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh come on, your mom must have had sex at least once

my mother is a virgin, thank you.

― jes(u)s, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, in that case I guess I'd better get all humbly apologetic and stuff like, pronto.

P.S. Your dad sure gets around tho don't he?

― Kim, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

who's your daddy?

― jess, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is he rich like me?

― Ally C, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's the time.....of the seaeeeson....

― rickster, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God I love thread mutations!

Oop, is that a faux pas? Maybe should I refer to him as Jess' Dad?

― Kim, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Feeling Good Handbook , Dr. Burns

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's all rather caustic really.

― Caustic Person, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is all most silly, but more people should indeed sing the Zombies.

Books, books, books -- any of Cecil Adams' _Straight Dope_ collections. Hilarious, informative, readable.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you can be bothered with translations of classic Italian literature, I have a few suggestions. But I won't bore you with them unless requested.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you should ask for any of: Wise Children by Angela Carter, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, the Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula Le Guin, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Vanity Fair by Will Thackeray, Orlando by Virginia Woolf.

― katie, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mark, post away...i r trying to educate myself, and all.

― jess, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

donald antrim - verificationist/hundred brothers (they've got one of these in that 2nd hand store on South Street)
victor pelevin - babylon/clay machine gun
nicola barker - wide open
michel houllebecq - atomised
edward platt - leadville
iain sinclair - lights out for the territory

― gareth, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Molesworth, obviously!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my problem is figuring out what cds i can ask for, as many of them are the sort my mother wouldn't buy, lovely as they are--i'm left with boy with the arab strap, and that's it.

ask for c.s. lewis's entire works :P

― Maria, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ask for Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood and Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Jess.

― Josh, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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