WRAPPED UP IN BOOKS (2012 EDITION)

The Hong Kong Book Fair is currently in progress.





We just got back a couple of hours ago.

Regular readers here know a few things about the HKBF:

1. It’s essentially a huge discount bookstore that opens for one week a year and charges you money to shop there.

2. English-language books account for maybe 15% of all the books on display.

3. Of all of the English-language books available, 75% of them will be either business/finance/self-help books, every young adult series currently in print and every Sexy Vampire series currently in print. The other 25% will be written by Stieg Larsson, Sophie Kinsella, Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, Sidney Sheldon, James Patterson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Mitch Albom, Malcolm Gladwell and George RR Martin.

Which means you now know everything you need to know about this year’s HKBF.

As usual, I’m exaggerating, though not by much. Seriously, the only real change this year is that – predictably – The Hunger Games is this year’s Harry Potter.

Well, there’s one other significant change – the discounts are higher this year. Last year the standard discount was around 20%. This year it’s 30%.

Anyway, you don’t care about that. You want to see the booty.

Behold.



I’m particularly pleased with the Richard Stark haul. I bought a few Parker novels from the same booth last year, and made a point to revisit them. I confess I was a little miffed when the booth assistant said they could get me the whole series for a serious discount – I’d have taken them up on it if I didn’t already own some books from the series.

Anyway, that’s another 13 books to stack on the “to read” pile. Because God knows what you’d have to read on LJ if I didn’t post book reviews once a month.

Well read,

This is dF

YOU. A KITTEN. A WHIP.

Watch yr ass.



[Via Viva La Ann-Margret]

Hold still,

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SUPER CYCLE NITE!

Whatever happened to biker movies?



[Via RetroSpace]

Vroom vroom vroom,

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BETTIE PAGE AND HER PETS COME TO HONG KONG

Via Suicide Watch:



Well, not really. It's actually the Hong Kong Café, a short-lived but legendary punk-rock venue in LA’s Chinatown, where bands like X, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, the Go-Gos and even Guns’n’Roses played in their early days.

And, of course, Suburban Lawns.

They sounded like this.

And you thought this was just an excuse to post a gratuitous Bettie Page pic.

Well ... okay, it was. But we do try to keep it educational here.

Hello kitties,

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I GOT A BEAVER! AND THE ONLY CURE IS MORE COWBELL!

Disco: better than you remember.

Possibly.



[Via Coitus and Carnage]

Dancing machine,

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