12 frogs – Books I did not buy this weekend

Posted
25 June 2006 @ 5pm

Books I did not buy this weekend

That’s right, the righteousness continues. I was yet again tempted, but did not succumb to:

Everything Bad is Good for You As soon as I extricate myself from the special hell for MLS degree holders with excessive library fines, I will check this out.

Cat and Girl is in dead tree form now. How can you not love a comic with lines like “If television’s a babysitter, the internet’s a drunk librarian who won’t shut up” and “If you lived here, you’d be urinating by now.” Other, more normal people can probably not love it, but they aren’t as much fun, are they?

No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart. Unless they do? The subtitle is “The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice”

The Nimrod Flipout is Etgar Keret’s latest short story collection. I really liked The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories, plus there is a sad, bunny-suited guy holding a rifle on the cover.

4 Comments

Posted by
tom s.
29 June 2006 @ 9am

There is something odd about the fact that Intuit, who employ you, use software built by iAnywhere, who employ me, who wrote a book (No One Makes You Shop At Wal-Mart) that you didn’t buy. But I’m not sure what. Just a six degrees thing I suppose.

(iAnywhere have as little to do with my views in the book, however, as Intuit have to do with your views on your weblog).

Posted by
tom s.
30 June 2006 @ 7am

Oh yes, and if you want to know what the book is actually about, chapter one is at http://www.tomslee.net/excerpt.html.

Best wishes.

Posted by
JS
30 June 2006 @ 8pm

Tom, I took a look at the chapter on your website (reading a free chapter in no way goes against my temporary ban on book purchasing). I think I’ll be reading the whole thing when I’m back to book buying this fall. I am interested in the idea of individual choice gone wrong, and the possibilities for collective action as a countering force.

Posted by
Meera
12 July 2006 @ 9pm

Hi. This is Meera, from the Lickety Split show at Feed Your Head last week. I moseyed on over to your blog from your Flickr profile, and I just wanted to tell you that as far as I’m concerned anyone who likes both Kelly Link and Etgar Keret (worth learning Hebrew for, by the way ;-)) has fantastic taste. So, um, in case you didn’t already know that, you have fantastic taste.