― vahid (vahid), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 9 January 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
SIMON RECOMMENDS:"The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
A testament to the axiom "always judge a book by its cover", It's during the recording of So Red The Rose, I'm browsing through the English section in a left bank bookstore when I happen across this little minx, drawn to it by a pretty painting of a magic black cat on the jacket. So I slip it under me coat sharpish-like, when no-one's looking and make for the exit- the evening rush of Boulevard St Germain. (Can you tell I've been reading Pynchon? - No, neither can I) Months later I opened the book and I was captivated and surprised by what turned out to be a surreal literary classic. Bulgakov's hilarious black comedy takes place in early 20th Century Moscow, beginning late one afternoon when the devil decides to come in for a couple of wild nights on the town. He is accompanied by a retinue which includes "Behemoth" a talking 6' black cat and various other assorted benign but mischievous demons in earthly form. Bulgakov uses the havoc that ensues as a vehicle to satirise his contemporary poetry and art scene. It's as entertaining now as it must 've been when it was written. Of all the books looked at here this one is a real gem; please read it...
― Catty (Catty), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link
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― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:15 (twenty years ago) link
Martin Amis is not hipsterish in the U.S. I think he's considered just a good, solid, literary man here, and read by as many middle-aged women as young males.
― Janet Gurn-Soosy, Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link
(sorry that was terrible)
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link
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― R t V (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
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― R t V (Jake Proudlock), Saturday, 17 January 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link
― B. Michael Payne (This Isnt That), Saturday, 17 January 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Sunday, 18 January 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
― B. Michael Payne (This Isnt That), Sunday, 18 January 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Monday, 19 January 2004 06:34 (twenty years ago) link
Hipster books!
― the pinefox, Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
i go to ilx for interesting opinions on many things but 'defining hipster books' is probably not one of them
― thomp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
considering the # of posters that never post abt novels except on dfw threads i think ilx probably has a good grasp of what 'the hipster novel' represents
― Lamp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
that would be 'the hipster novel' in the singular, then
― thomp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
it's a weird thing about him how popular he is amongst people who don't read, really
― thomp, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:27 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark
― just sayin, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, August 27, 2011 3:03 PM (4 minutes ago)
― sarahel, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/IMG_0040.jpg
― Lamp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
is that the forsyte saga?
― thomp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
haha it is
― Lamp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
theres an even better pile of uncool books on the other side but i decided not to post that one
― Lamp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
nice collection of Everyman's Library, Lamp!
― corey, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
abhorrence of bookcases is probably a h_____ trait
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
carver - cathedral, so good, prob a good hipster one too
u have a lot of penguin modern classics huh. i know i read norman mailer's the fight in that particular design
― zvookster, Saturday, 27 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
lol were painting the office
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
i mostly stop reading after world war 2 except for patches here and there, and by the 1980s i've halted completely (except for dfw, yes). i dunno how H that is. most people i know (who read) seem to start around catch-22.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
i mostly stop reading after world war 2 except for patches here and there
how old are you man?
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
haha i mean "i don't read much postwar".
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
i'm 24 tho
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
having worked in bookstores for years, i can say w/o equivocation that hipster all-star books are:
master and margheritaconfederacy of duncesperks of being a wallfloweratlas shruggedchokecatch-22house of leavesunderworld
the atlanticthe new yorkerthe believermonoclenew republic
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
rly? that list is like the stuff my nerdy friends were reading in my suburban high school.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
atlas shrugged
lol rly? oh, america
'catch-22' just seems like one of those 'everyone likes this' books; im sure hipsters are part of the venn diagram tho
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
i had no idea the bulgakov was such a thing.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
rly? that list is like the stuff my nerdy friends were reading in my suburban high school.― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:58 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:58 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark
haha or this is the other answer. 'this is a hipster book now? i remember reading it in '93.'
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:58 AM
yeah, exactly. it's not exactly a deep list, but it's got an appropriate affectation of darkness. kind of like tim burton.
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
fair point.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://blog.fourfront1602.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tumblr_l34zh0UsiU1qzzhzdo1_500.jpg
^^^ likes bulgokov, irvine welsh, chuck p, one novel by bret easton ellis (but the others are crap!), that book by jared diamond that everybody read, and maybe murakami
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
one novel by bret easton ellis (but the others are crap!)
it would be cool if this were lunar park
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
maybe most hipsters are actually entry-level.
any stats on hipster dvd purchases?
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link