Semi hip 40 year old takes his book collection to the charity shop...

[Leo]

i was going to say "the street of crocodiles" that he got as a companion to his brothers quay DVD set, but that might be a little too hip for a semi-hip guy.

perhaps some nicholson baker. and paul bowles "the sheltering sky".

 

[tttku]

books his ex left. anais nin. duras.

 

[griftert]

Isabella Allende, Jonathan Safran Foer....hmm

 

[Mr. Tea]

Time-traveller's Wife

 

[tttku]

A Confederacy of Dunces

 

[woops]

I think the difference between this thread and the CD collection one is that there is some good stuff in here whereas the CD are all shit

 

[Mr. Tea]

I think the difference between this thread and the CD collection one is that there is some good stuff in here whereas the CD are all shit

Exactly, I mean what kind of cunt listens to Kraftwerk anyway?

 

[hucks]

I think the difference between this thread and the CD collection one is that there is some good stuff in here whereas the CD are all shit

Ha, well I've got loads of both of them but I feel less attached to the books so... I've some idea what records an actually hip 40 year old would own, no idea on the books at all.

 

[woops]

Exactly

Exactly, I mean what kind of cunt listens to Kraftwerk anyway?

Kraftwerk on CD, the very idea

 

[Mr. Tea]

Kraftwerk on CD, the very idea

 

[Mr. Tea]

But back to books:

some Bill Bryson

The Idler Book of Crap Towns

books of cartoons - Steve Bell/David Shrigley/Matt Groening, including those ones featuring the weird one-eared rabbit creature and the two little guys in fezes

Schott's Miscellany/Almanac

Eats Shoots And Leaves

 

[woops]

Wall and Piece
Notes from Underground, The Castle

 

[benjybars]

I'm thinking probably a Slavoj Žižek that he's never read.

Possibly a copy of Edward Said's Orientalism too. Also unread.

 

[tttku]

A 95%-unread copy of Cyclonopedia.

how hip is he? He better sell it on amazone marketplace.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I'm thinking probably a Slavoj Žižek that he's never read.

Possibly a copy of Edward Said's Orientalism too. Also unread.

I was wondering if he might have something on Zero Books, maybe one of Owen Hatherly's ones on architecture and urban spaces.

I think he may have at least some of A Game Of Thrones, A Clash Of Bastards, A Rape Of Rapes, A Lot Of Murders or whatever they're all called.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Pos semi-hip interest?

http://the-toast.net/2015/05/12/books-that-literally-all-white-men-own/

 

[Woebot]

That japanese novelist people read

lol. vintage.

 

[Corpsey]

Reservoir dogs screenplay

I feel seen

 

[Corpsey]

It's funny how some books are/were 'hip'.

The books that they used to sell in HMV and Virgin Records and now sell in Fopp.

 

[Corpsey]

I might have an anxiety dream tonight about Luka getting hold of my book collection and screaming with laughter.