Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Within less than 2 months of working at Borders I have managed to purchase the following:
1) Paul Auster’s The Invention of Solitude
2) In the Country of Last Things, also by Auster. Creepily dystopian, and surprisingly real.
3) Nabokov’s Lolita, which I have been wanting read since 3000 years ago
4) Alfian Saat’s A history of Amnesia, at long last. After all the hunting I’ve done at Kino it really is kind of ironic that I managed to dig out the last dog eared copy in the corner of the poetry section
5) 100 Years of Solitude
6) John Armstrong’s The Secret Power of Beauty. Haven’t cracked it yet, so
7) Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness. Because I identify.
8) Great Ideas by Penguin. Which is this series of radical, civilization shaking ideas coming from all fields imaginable, from Darwin to Michiavelli t St Augustine. Can’t wait to get started. Got it at an unbelievable price too. The last I remember each individual book sold for $11.95. I got all 20 at 55 bucks, and that’s before I put in my staff discount.
Delightful. Other than the fact that I’m easily throwing all that i earn from borders right back into the company.
I have a few problems with this blog, one being that the site that did my blogskin managed to crash and now I’m stuck with a big blank space where a pretty picture should be.
Another being that my computer’s superbly affected with some disgusting god-knows-what that bombards me with porn everytime I go online. Yes, I know for some of you this may be a good thing, but that aint for me. No siree.
All these excuses. But valid nonetheless. Im also too lazy/bust to attempt to do anything to fix it. Ah well.
-----This is a surface-y post because I want to start it off easy. Sorry guys, if this bores you. -------
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