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Saturday, April 05, 2003

So I went and bought books at the book sale today that I may not read in the next decade. Less people there as compared to previous years, and there was a man there who wore a mask. Lots of bargain Lord of the Rings trilogy.
My purchases are (in no particular order):

1) Brett Easton Ellis' Rules of Attraction.
Now, the only Ellis book I probably haven't gotten is American Psycho.

2) David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
How can anyone not want to buy a book with this title?

3) David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
Bought cos of the previous book. This monster has over 1000 pages and revolves round the search for a movie so dangerously entertaining people expire from rapture. Didn't find any book on film so I guess this book will do.

4) James Gleick's Faster.
Dissection of how life is accelerating to squeeze as much as possible in the same amount of time.

5) Richard Feynman's The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.
The only scientific book of the lot. Incidentally, James Gleick also wrote Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.

Happy!

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