FG Book Circle

by **AssKissinger** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:11 pm

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.

by **nullpointer** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:14 pm

Why PM. Let's post here to see how many of us are there.

Oh, BTW, I'm in. I have 100's of books I want to trade/get rid of.

by **AssKissinger** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:17 pm

Why PM

All trades have to be approved by the president. Shit, I'm losing control of this thing already. You fucking FG's are anarchists, I swear.

by **nullpointer** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:25 pm

AssKissinger wrote:
Why PM

Shit, I'm losing control of this thing already. You fucking FG's are anarchists, I swear.

You SON OF A BITCH. I spilled coffee on the keyboard.

:rofl:

by **GomiGirl** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:37 pm

AK is frisky today.. you on the turps again mate?? Or is it moonshine for you southern lads??? :lol:

Reminded me of an old thread..

(we are tripping down memory lane alot lately.)

Announcement

It is buried right the way down in Site News so a few people may have missed it...

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:34 pm

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.

by **AssKissinger** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:28 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.

This ain't some Tokyo only BULLSHIT. Are u willin' to use the mail or ain't ya?

by **cstaylor** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:12 pm

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.

by **AssKissinger** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:21 pm

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.

I'm not a big reader of Spiderman or X-Men. ]

I only read the heavies so I don't know what that comic shit is about. My books are by people like James Joyce and Ted Nugent. Holy shit the word T-E-D is banned from FG!!!!! It's the ultimate honor. Nigger. Ha ha ha T-E-D is worse a word than nigger!!!!

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:22 pm

by **AssKissinger** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:32 pm

OK Send me Life of Pi and and two other books (Speed Tribes if you got it) and I'll send you Mr. Phillips by John Lanchester, Pink by Gus Van Sant and Human Punk by John King. Deal?

by **AssKissinger** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:57 am

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.

by **Taro Toporific** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:27 pm

Here's an FG related section of the book "Postcards" by Annie Proulx about "the last migrant workers."

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.

by **AssKissinger** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:50 pm

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.

Those books are still available. (and others mentioned above) New this month:

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (loaned out)

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck (loaned out)

The first Harry Potter book Philosopher's Stone (different title in America)

by **GomiGirl** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:10 pm

I have just finished Life of Pi.

Anybody around that has also read it? I wanna hear what you thought about it.. It has had me thinking about it all day.

Damn it was good!!!

Plus it makes you crave good Indian food!! I had curry three times last week for lunch.. fortunately in Meguro there is a plethora of good indian/nepalese restaurants.

by **GomiGirl** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:15 pm

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.

by **vvx** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:49 am

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/

by **AssKissinger** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:04 pm

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/

Nice link.

I'll tell you what, you can't give books away these days.

All the above still available plus new

White Teeth-Zadie Smith
Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden(loaned out)
Willows-Algernon Blackwood

by **Big Booger** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:33 pm

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. I'd like that one.

And I have Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

by **sillygirl** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:57 pm

Wicked idea!As soon as I'm connected again, will get a list of wot I've got-have loads of hellacool books...bah, bloody computer....grr..

by **AssKissinger** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:38 pm

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.

Thank-you. When you get the time I can't wait to see what titles you have to make available. Memoirs of a Geisha, Sweet Thursday, and The Man in the High Castle have all been loaned to BIG BOOGER.

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.

And BTW, hey! hey! hey!, we've gone STICKY! Thanks Ultra, or whoever stickied this thread.

by **Big Booger** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:00 pm

Thanks Senor! I received them today..

by **AssKissinger** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:48 am

New this month: Minna No Nihongo Volume One (with my notes scribbled all over it)

by **AssKissinger** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:36 pm

The Ghost of AssKissinger wrote:New this month Dogs and Demons

by **AssKissinger** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:37 am

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 :?:

by **NeoNecroNomiCron** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:41 pm

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?

by **AssKissinger** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:47 pm

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?

Caustic didn't think it was funny.

by **Big Booger** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:18 am

Anyone have "The Davinci Code" by Dan Brown? If not I am going to buy the book on Amazon.

by **AssKissinger** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:38 am

Big Booger wrote:Anyone have "The Davinci Code" by Dan Brown? If not I am going to buy the book on Amazon.

If you do buy one could you let me at it after you finish?

by **canman** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:16 am

I read it in three days, great book. I lent it to another friend but he should finish it soon, I will try to get it to whomever wants it.
By the wya for those of you who have read it, you know they are now making it into a movie with Tom Hanks as the lead. Here are my picks for the other characters.
Detective Fuache- Jean Reno
Sophie Neveu- Julie Delpy
Teabing- Anthony Hopkins
Just to name a few. Any other ideas?

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