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AssKissinger wrote:Why PM
Shit, I'm losing control of this thing already. You fucking FG's are anarchists, I swear.
AssKissinger wrote:I've hereby elected myself president of the FG Book Circle. A club dedicated to trading English books via the mail inside the country of Japan. Anyone interested in joining give me a pm.
Taro Toporific wrote:AssKissinger wrote:I've hereby elected myself president of the FG Book Circle. A club dedicated to trading English books via the mail inside the country of Japan. Anyone interested in joining give me a pm.
Grrrrreat idea! I've alway got 4 or 5 bags of used books in the trunk of my car (On average, I've read one book every other day since age 8 so I've got a lot of dead trees). Anytime I'm in neighborhood all FGs are welcome to trade with me. I can give VERBAL reviews of all old books maybe at the FGs-go-to-Yankees-Day-for-free at Tokyo Dome.
I'm not a big reader of Spiderman or X-Men.AssKissinger wrote:I've hereby elected myself president of the FG Book Circle. A club dedicated to trading English books via the mail inside the country of Japan. Anyone interested in joining give me a pm.
I'm not a big reader of Spiderman or X-Men. ]cstaylor wrote:AssKissinger wrote:I've hereby elected myself president of the FG Book Circle. A club dedicated to trading English books via the mail inside the country of Japan. Anyone interested in joining give me a pm.
Annie Proulx wrote:
thought about migrant working all day today.
been thinking of tokyo for several reasons.
feel blue.
want to go back to exotic, vibrant life in a gorgeous moloch. feel the need for 24hour convenience stores, late-night phonecalls to friends ten thousand km away, want feel that tingling in the spine while watching giant flocks of pitch-black ravens tearing up garbage-bags at dawn, want to pass out in a blurr of hot humid neon.
feel blue.
don't want to live there ever again. hate to see other foreigners in japan, feel childishly jealous. want to be the only expat in japan. hate not being able to communicate. fight back tears, think of mute everynight repetitions of shopping at family mart. remember friends i had, yes-no-like-hate-repertoire, odd conversations. "tea? no, hate tea. like orange-juice. hate beer. never beer. hate sake. like juice. like coke. please". hate getting stared at. hate getting mistaken for being an american. hate getting "sieg heiled" when revealing my nationality.
still, miss it.
want to go back. never mind being broke, never mind the heat. meet old friends again, play games, make new friends. play soccer at 1am on sunday nights in takadanobaba-koen. go see the bujinkan. get a good place, never live in a crappy guesthouse no more. will always stay 23, no worries, just karaoke and endless commuting.
just want to circle the lines, never get off anywhere. want to live in a bubble, be happy.
will go chase that dream.
need to sleep.
AssKissinger wrote:Mucho Gracias to Taro and Silly Girl who have already made donations to the FG Book Circle.
Now available from the library are
A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 by Anton Chekhov
(both badly water damaged)
Anyone interested pm me, the president and so far by far the greatest recipient of this club.
vvx wrote:I'm in the wrong country to participate obviously, but I find this a pretty nice resources for some classic lit.. Just read "Lost World" recently, was a good book. http://www.literature.org/authors/
GomiGirl wrote:Oh and a friend dropped off a big bag of books that I had lent her so I have a heap to contribute to the cause - but be warned - I read about a novel every week so you may find it hard to keep up with my appetite for literature.
I will check the titles when I get home and report back tomorrow on anything that may interest.
Big Booger in a PM wrote:I've got 3 of the potter books, from Azkaban on up. I have Torey Hayden "Somebody Else's Kids" and a copy of Stephen Kings Dark Tower Book 1.
AssKissinger wrote:Recently I've been getting a lot of books from the library so I don't have as many new ones coming in as I'd like.
None-the-less new this month are
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Charles said he would donate a Reader's Digest condensed book about the Aum cult
NeoNecroNomiCron wrote:AssKissinger wrote:Recently I've been getting a lot of books from the library so I don't have as many new ones coming in as I'd like.
None-the-less new this month are
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Charles said he would donate a Reader's Digest condensed book about the Aum cult
I thought you were dead?
If you do buy one could you let me at it after you finish?Big Booger wrote:Anyone have "The Davinci Code" by Dan Brown? If not I am going to buy the book on Amazon.
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