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... have outgrown to Half Price Books thinking to make a little cash. Instead I came home with The Garden of Last Days and Crooked Little Vein. Oh well. I'll be entertained anyway. 16. Idoru by William Gibson
It made perfect sense, to my thinking - Crooked Little Vein, for example, isn't that much longer than some children's books, so it doesn't seem to work to try and go by page count. 13. Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
14. Nodame Cantabile Vol. 1 by Tomoko Ninomiya
15. Gunsmith Cats Burst Vol. 3 by Kenichi Sonoda ... to the big (or small) screen but I've never found any of it really appeals to me more than on a curio level. I read Ellis' CROOKED LITTLE VEIN (believe that's what it was called) and was completely unimpressed.
My wife likes the Marjane Satrapi PERSEPOLIS books and I've glanced at them--see ... Miriam, at first I was a bit skeptical about Warren Ellis's Crooked Little Vein, but I laughed all the way through it, and have recommended it several times since. #64 & 65 - Measure for Measure is an odd play, but it's one of my favorites.
Yesterday I came home to a gift
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
and two books I had ordered from Amazon.
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet, and Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Pa ... ... on by extremely bad writing.
The Overnight by Ramsey Campbell. Boring. Tedious. Badly set up. Poorly executed.
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. Author suffers from delusions of grandeur.
Codexby Lev Grossman. Bad characters, bad plot, boring story that ends in a whimper. ... I did some more poking around. From what I've seen, Crooked Little Vein seems to be the only work having issues. Perhaps it's just behind, or perhaps this is a problem:
When searching the UnSuggester for Crooked Little Vein I get the page that says, "Sorry. A book must be owned by at least 75 members to have unrecommendations." However, as of now, the book is owned by 205 member (which it indicates at ... ... 2)
44. Ulysses by James Joyce
45.The Bloomsday book : a guide through Ulysses by Harry Blamires
46. Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
47. Bitchfest : ten years of cultural criticism from the pages of Bitch magazine
... into Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman, but am too full of sauvignon blanc to heft that tome, so have begin Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis which is a teeny-tiny little book that should be easy to manage in my somewhat soaked state.
#45 Huzzah for Crooked Little Vein! I know, it's dinky. But it's filled with love! And rat pee.
American Gods
The Long Goodbye arrived from amazon -
Crooked Little Vein which is surely the tiniest hardcover I have seen in a long time. Aggravating.
and
Ex Libris: Confessions of a common reader
touchstones uncooperative.
41. Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
Michael McGill, a private detective in New York, has no work and no money. He is approached by the president's chief of staff for a job. Michael is to find the original Constitution. This real Constitution will change what the government feels is ... ... Baer, Penny Dreadful
"I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug."
- Warren Ellis, Crooked Little Vein ... (wonky touchstone) - it's by John O'Brien
The Joke's Over (67)
Monsters in My Tummy (50)
Phineas Poe (43)
Crooked Little Vein (26)
Alibi School (21)
The Red Right Hand (18)
The Forgiveness Parade (9)
I would seriously BUY these for people, so convinced am I that ... ... essays about his father, are so beautiful and devastating that they simply MUST be read.
In other news, I just finished Crooked Little Vein. That's all I can say without devolving into obscenities. Crooked Little Vein. I've mentioned this like ten times in the past ten minutes. I guess I like this book. Crooked Little Vein. First day it was released. The Strand didn't have it, and I lost faith in the universe. But Barnes & Noble did. In conclusion, the universe likes to screw with my head. Next up is Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, which I should already be reading, but then I purchased Crooked Little Vein, and that plan pretty much imploded. ... yesterday, loved some of the stories and was left cold by others, although overall it was fantastic.
And now I'm reading Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. It's brilliant and sick in the best way possible, and I wrote an exceedingly weird review in my blog last night. I only have a few ... #125 - I'm currently reading Smoke and Mirrors! Neil Gaiman-fest!
Today, I intend to be the proud owner of Crooked Little Vein (if I can find it after work - the stress!) ... recently read through the whole Transmetropolitan comic book series. It was phenomenal, and it really has me primed for Crooked Little Vein, the writer Warren Ellis's first prose novel. The street date is Tuesday, but I've been stopping by various bookstores everyday to check if anyone's ...
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