Friday, January 20, 2006

help!

i went to amazon because there was one book - one! - that i wanted. now i have $172.30 worth of shit in my cart, and i don't know what to take out. i'm not even a very literate person. most of this is angry feminist bitch lit and last year's new york times bestsellers cause i'm mainstream and cheesy. but i want it all. maybe you can help. here's what i have:

- curtis sittenfeld: prep
- mary gaitskill: veronica
- haruki murakami: kafka on the shore
- simone de beauvoir: the second sex
- betty friedan: the feminist mystique
- naomi wolf: the beauty myth
- zadie smith: on beauty (i hear it's set at "not harvard", which makes me want to read it)
- joan didion: the year of magical thinking
- maureen dowd: are men necessary? (don't even try to talk me out of this one)
- ana marie cox (a.k.a. wonkette): dog days

(oh, there's also some other random merch in there, hanging closet organizers and shit that i kinda need, which explains why the total is higher than maybe it would seem it should be)

so help me out here, kids! which of these have you read and hated? and which of these should i not bother with? and which of these do you own and want to lend me so i don't have to eat dust bunnies and back issues of Us magazine next month?

1 comment:

Ms. Mitford said...

babycakes, I own the following, which you can just borrow:

veronica
kafka on the shore
the beauty myth
on beauty
the year of magical thinking