Tell Me What To Buy (February)

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Payday on Wednesday SO time for the second instalment in this.

A paperback book and a single CD, please. First to five votes gets bought. Stuff I already have/have read ignored. Both normal price.

The January instalment of this needs its report back, which will come when I actually finish Confederacy of Dunces. The Big Rig CD though was a Big Hit.

― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I see sharp-eyed posters have resurrected the other thread. That's 2 votes for Spufford then but no more on that thread will be counted! The rest of you, have at it!

― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sharp eyed posters ahoy

― mark s, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Buy the Reign In Blood CD by Slayer. *Eet fekkin'roolzzzzz mang!* Book? Helter Skelter (about the Manson family). Dirt cheap.
Did you like Confederacy of Dunces? I never got past page 10. Didn't like it at all.

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have to read it whether I like it or not. No critical comment til the job's done from me.

― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Book: Rings Of Saturn by WG Sebald
CD: Go Forth by Les Savy Fav (yes I am turning into DMP obv)

― RickyT, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I second Reign in Blood!...I also think you should buy the Temple of the Dog album...Book...Mr.Tickle by R.Hargreaves.

― j>e>l, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Book: "So I Am Glad" by AL Kennedy CD: "Had A Burning" by Noahjohn

― powertonevolume, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

book: Shame the Devil, the latest George P Pelecanos. or Dead Men's Wages by Lillian Pizzichini - jesus it's good. CD: Source Tags and Codes by AYWKTBT trail of motherfuggin dead. WOOHOO! Rawk.

― misterjones, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, get reign in blood, and as for books why not get 'the savage girl' by alex shakar so we can read it together ;)

― maura, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Reign in blood gets my vote.

Book, worst Journey in the world by Apsley Cherry-Garrard.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How To Cook Book 1 - Delia Smith = Urgent & Key.

― Pete, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DISC: I was gonna recommend the Nigeria 70 compilation (but you probably already have it, and I haven't listened to it yet, but it comes with a CD-ROM MOVIE, so, y'know, if you feed your hamster enough speed, you might be able to run it on your PC), but I will put my semi-ample (sample?) weight behind REIGN OF BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. (Hell, at this rate, I might buy it myself.)

BOOK: William T. Vollmann's _The Atlas_. Good stuff.

Nice to see Ricky T embrace his inner me. DMP in the place to be, werd.

― David Raposa, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, that's Slayer's Reign In Blood for the CD. We need a book consensus.

Isabel has the Delia book so I'm not getting that one.

― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I'm gonna buy Reign In Blood now as well so (by some curious twist of logic) I hereby declare that it is logical that you should buy "So I Am Glad" by AL Kennedy. See, that's two votes now.

― powertonevolume, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

book = nigel slater - Real food

― chris, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

spufford spufford spufford you know you want to

― mark s, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom should buy "The Ballad and the Source" by Rosamund Lehmann as she is GRATE! and um, dunno about the CD but i shall by buying the new Boards of Canada one tonight, that's bound to be good.

― katie, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Along with the Slayer LP, for full life-changing effect you should read Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Didrik Søderlind.

― fritz, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

John Updike: A Rabbit Omnibus

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I will get Reign in Blood too, seeing as how I don't actually have it. I think it is 12.99 in local shop...South of Heaven is at rip off price of 16.99 in HMV!

― j>e>l, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DAMN, I was going to start a campaign for the new Boards of Canada CD. SIGH.

At least I can start the _Ender's Game_ campaign back up...

― Dan Perry, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Last time I tried to read Lords of Chaos I got beaten up.

― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hope you're joking, Tom.

― fritz, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No alas. I was on a train on a Friday night reading LOC and got attacked by a gang of 'youths' - this was about 3 1/2 years ago so all damage long since healed. My copy of LOC was then covered in REAL BLOOD = hardcore. Unfortunately it was my real blood.

― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I would have seconded the Boards of Canada CD. "Kissing in Manhattan" is a very good book.

Is everyone serious about Slayer or are you just making Tom piss his cash away?

― Simeon, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeez, talk about rainin' blood! Sorry I brought it up then, Tom. I'll withdraw LOC from the nomination process. Maybe we should nominate a very large, heavy, metalbound book for Tom to use to cuff hoodlums about the head and shoulders?

― fritz, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Read A Thousand Plateaus, which you have still not replied to my email about! It will be kind of like reading Gravity's Rainbow, except not.

― Josh, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a big backlog of e-mails I need to reply to. My dial-up account was fucked most of the weekend so I've probably not even got half of them. Fingers crossed it'll be OK tonight cos I want to upload some new FT pieces.

― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A book entitled "Focus Groups and how to publish their results before IL* beat you up" :-) (Joke = getting thin)

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

very very very soon now Alan!

― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and yeah, ewing some of us look forward to those sunday night ft updates (even if they rarely happen on time)! some of us HAVE NO LIVES!

― jess, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, that's Slayer's Reign In Blood for the CD.
Hurray! it's a classick. In fact I strongly urge EVERYONE to buy it if you don't have it.. It's only about half an hour long, so if you don't like it that much... fear not it'll soon be over. ;-)

How about "From the velvets to the voidoids" for a book? I think it's fantastickah.

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Book = "One People" by Guy Kennaway, which you can read more about here.

Music? Dunno, you seem to hold a special type of scorn for indie choons; however, I will recommend "You think it's like this but really it's like this" by Mirah, which I bought last week. You'd hate it.

― Mark C, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Next month I am recommending Xentrix, the UK's answer to Metallica.

― j>e>l, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I think you should get _Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Repair_, because people keep mentioning it to me as if I should have read it already.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ender's Game? I'll second that. Hardly the best book in the world, but it's lite, entertaining reading.

― Dare, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, I think you should read "Modern American Usage."

Just.. because.

― Mandee, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wouldn't a British usage book be more useful?

― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How about Have Never Been The Same. You can read up about obscure Canadian bands, some of whom made the horrible mistake of not aping American or British bands at the time.

― Mr Noodles, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pelecanos is good; his music references aren't cringeworthy like the ones in, say, Loaded.

― rosemary, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde is out in more affordable paperback and is, dare i say it, an Urgent and Key read.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you should get _Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Repair_
Most overrated book evah. Dull dull dull and dull.

― helenfordsdale, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Boards of Canada ='Geogaddi'

(I have to say that because of where I work, but its very good, order from http://www.warprecords.com/ and I'll try and make sure you get extra goodies, standard goodies are stickers and postcards)

MC Paul Barman = forget the name of the album but its my favorite record at the moment.

These two cds have been in and out of my md player and on the stereo at work a lot over the last couple of weeks.

Do not buy Tim Lott 'Rumours of a hurricane', it is awful. I got 100 pages in and couldn't go on because of its sheer awfulness. I just thought I'd warn you just in case you did think of buying it.

The new Emma Forest book is very good but I'm not sure if its out yet.

― Ed, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BUY LAZY BY X PRESS 2 FEATURING DAVID BYRNE OF TALKING HEADS FAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's just a single and therefore cheap. I'm not sure if it's out this week or next, but go buy it.

Sigh. I'm ploughing a lone furrow with my borderline cheesey house music.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I already have a CD to buy it is by SLAYER!

So book recommendations only please.

― Tom, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK then i shall third "Ender's Game" even though i feel i should be nominating more Virago Classicks. and next month i'll join the Geogaddi CD bandwagon, i'm listening to it and it's rather nice.

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If This is a Man-Primo Levi.

I don't read much I guess but it's probably the best book I've ever read, and it's sort of obliquely relevent to Journalism or writing I think.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

get "word freak" by stefan fatsis. the story of heartbreak, triumph, genius, and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players. i'm reading it now and it's brilliant.

then again, i am also addicted to scrabble.

― geeta, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd go for Speaker for the Dead, actually, but Ender's sets everything up, true.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think that Speaker for the Dead probably made me cry. and that one about the Singing geezer. i am a sentimental goon.

― katie, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about AL Kennedy's "So I Am Glad"? It is changing my life word by word.

Oh my God (Buddha), I just googled (*urgh*) "So I Am Glad" and they're making a fucking movie out of it. AGGGGGHHHHH. WHY? Ed "F'in" Harris: Why? Oh why? Oh why?

Read the book before your conception of it be forever perverted.

― notpowertonevolume, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I need a book decision before I go out this lunchtime and buy the Slayer CD, please - or else I'll have to choose myself from among the nominees.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ender's Game looks horrible. Harvey Weinstein was right to pass on the movie. I'll second the Primo Levi.

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well, Ender's Game has a mighty 4 at the moment - and i'm sure my ex- RE teachers would vote for that one as well...

― katie, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ender's Game I thought was on 3 but if Ned's counts then it's 4. Spufford is on 2. Levi is on 2. I'm going in about 20 minutes.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what is a spufford?

― katie, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Right I'm off now. Ender's Game escaped again phew! But in the interests of fairness if I can't find Spufford I will buy it.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

katie: a sp ufford

― mark s, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh!! thanks markS!

― katie, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Report back - Spufford, I CHOOSE YOU! Thanks Mark S and Ellie it looks ace.

Slayer however - only copy I could find was £19.99 import!! i.e. well outside the realm of normal price so it will have to wait. I'm sure it will be worth that wait. I bought Geogaddi and the new Lambchop.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If anyone I know sees the Slayer album at a reasonable price could their either let me know or snap it up and I'll refund them. Cheers!

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, I don't know why I am helping you buy a Slayer album, but Action Records have it for £12.99. I've used them before and found them very reliable (don't be put off by their poor webpage design skillz.

― N., Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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