Books & Prices

[Santino]

Exactly

 

[Santino]

Also, the LRB is obsessed with psychoanalysis, and itself.

 

[Dillinger4]

Also, the LRB is obsessed with psychoanalysis, and itself.

I agree.

 

[Dillinger4]

Exactly

It is quite apt, really.

 

[DotCommunist]

is this philo-beef?

does it end with betogad bumsex?

 

[Santino]

is this philo-beef?

does it end with betogad bumsex?

Hush now, the grown-ups are talking.

 

[Dillinger4]

Adam Phillip's must write in every other issue.

I bought a book by him, and it is fucking rubbish.

The cake was nice in the shop, though.

 

[DotCommunist]

Hush now, the grown-ups are talking.

about grecian love

 

[Santino]

about grecian love

I'll have you know I'm a natural auburn

 

[breasticles]

Take this thread as a sign to avoid all London Review of Books-related things for the rest of the jumbled collection of mental experiences that we jokingly refer to as your life.

all things lrb- related except for the personals, obviously, theres an entire book of them, 'they call me naughty lola'. i read it when i am tired of life.

i tried to do a link to the personals page but it went wrong (read: i am shit at ubb). here is one: Everyone. My life is a mind-numbing cesspit of despair and self-loathing. Just fuck off. Or else write back and we’ll make love. Gentleman, 37.

here is another:I make my own sexual lubricant. The secret ingredient is Bovril. Man, 56. Congleton.
box no. 31/07

theyre not even especially good examples. you should read naughty lola.

 

[Dillinger4]

Yeh, I got that book when I first subscribed. It is pretty funny.

There is another one coming out, apparently.

 

[N_igma]

Depends if it's hardback or not, usually £7 or so if I'm buying in a proper shop, £1 in a charity shop which is where I go usually.

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[Santino]

Nah, the personal ads can fuck off as well. Like a particularly self-regarding message board thread, but spread out over 10 years, and full of the most cloying smugness that mankind has ever borne.

 

[Dillinger4]

Worse than urban75?

 

[purplex]

www.biblio.com
cheapest place ive found online.

 

[Santino]

Worse than urban75?

Yes, because they think they are better than people who don't read Books. Books with a capital B, that is. Books about psychoanalysis and the Holocaust and novels that have a disturbing lack of pirates, sword fights, spaceships or epic battles against dark lords.

 

[Dillinger4]

True enough.

 

[breasticles]

Nah, the personal ads can fuck off as well. Like a particularly self-regarding message board thread, but spread out over 10 years, and full of the most cloying smugness that mankind has ever borne.

mmm. i can see your point. i disagree. i also find self- regarding message board threads powerfully erotic. but that's just me.

 

[DotCommunist]

aint assumption a wonderful mechanism for wrongfooting oneself eh?

 

[Santino]

aint assumption a wonderful mechanism for wrongfooting oneself eh?

What are you wittering about now, son?

 

[DotCommunist]

What are you wittering about now, son?

Your mum, dad