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Either I confused the Goodreads mobile interface or the goodreads mobile interface confused me. I meant to say that I'll bring you Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom. :)

Any chance you'd be willing to trade My Name Is Red for this and Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking? I know, I drive a hard bargain.

Now that's crafty.

oh get out. you serious? I'll be reading lots of books on craftsmanship over the next few weeks. I'm curious to hear your perspective on this one - especially on its treatment of women as craftsmen.

Sad that it costs more money these days to ship a book from Brazil to Vienna than it does for me to buy the book here ... or, worse, on the iPhone Kindle app. :( But thank you much for the sweet offer.

I've read so many excerpts of this book that I feel I can almost put the whole thing together. Still, I'd like to read it in its entirety at some point. Hoping it falls into my hands (via a great second hand bookstore in some random alleyway) sooner or later.

Strange. I would never ever think of LA weather as apocalyptic. There was an exhibit at some LA art museum a few years ago about all the apocalyptic stories that have taken place in LA over the past hundred years - literally thousands of them. Then again, given that LA contains Hollywood and probably over half the country's screenwriters, that shouldn't be too surprising.

I've got a Didion book in my bag with me. I'm hoping I like it more than the last one I read by her.

You've definitely got a theme going on with all these books.

:)

I have a feeling that most of these essays are probably freely available on the web. $40 sure seems like a lot of money. Related and recommended: http://www.amazon.com/Difference-Diversi...

Wow, that title is the ultimate in food-geekiness.

Book stalker! JK. Interested to hear what you think of this one. I find myself looking something up on wikipedia every other page ...

I agree. I always want more time when I'm in Delhi in order to explore some of the places that Dalrymple does in this book.

I just added to my to-read shelf. Did you read Rhonda D.'s comment? Fascinating.

I told you you'd like it. :)

Wow. Five of my friends have apparently read this book and I've never even heard of it.

In Montevideo I spent a couple hours in this tiny tucked-away bookshop in the forgotten part of town. (They had a public mate and a thermos of hot water for anyone with the craving.) My whole time in there I was reading Bolaño books and short stories. His style of writing impressed me even more in Spanish (though I gotta give props to the translator of Savage Detectives for keeping it so close to the real thing). I haven't read a book in Spanish in a long time, but I think I'm gonna pick up a collection of his short stories and pull out that old spanish dictionary of mine.

But no review?

Read a book? But that's what book reviews and the internet are for ...

Just kidding. OK, I'm done here. And I will read the bok.

I assume he didn't take one to the top of the nearest mountain with an ax in hand?