New Arrivals @ Ricecookershop: Food for Thought!

Charles Bukowski & R. Crumb
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship SOLD!
RM29.00

“Any collaboration between Charles Bukowski and R. Crumb is a notable event. Each man is a consummate example of the anti-establishment artist who calls society to task for its foibles and failures. With humor and scathing satire Bukowski and Crumb have exemplified this important tradition. These unpublished last journals by Bukowski candidly detail the events of his daily life, which R. Crumb has brilliantly illustrated with five full color hand printed serigraphs and six full page black-and-white illustrations.”

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Grant Morrison & Jon J Muth
Mystery Play (Graphic Novel)
RM28.00

“From a thrilling, fast paced mystery story this mutates halfway through to become something far darker & deeper, full of psychological meaning & hallucinatory imagery. If you‚Äôre hoping for an easy read, with a simple resolution, forget it. Morrison writes a brilliantly open ended story with layers upon layers of meaning. By the final pages, you‚Äôll be almost breathless.

Evocative, cinematic, and dreamlike, The Mystery Play is a multi-layered, tightly written & beautifully painted in photo-realistic style by Jon J. Muth.”

more info: here

MORE BOOKS BELOW

Sigmund Freud
Art and Literature (Paperback)
RM15.00

including essays on Dostoievsky, Goethe, Ibsen, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare

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Italo Calvino
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (Paperback)
RM19.00

“For those with an amorous affair with books, this may, perhaps, be the ultimate love letter to the reader. Calvino’s novel, or more precisely, his book of ten interrelated stories, is both masterfully created and startlingly unique. Told alternately in second and third persons, the book is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between the author and the reader. Flawlessly composed, the novel weaves together seemingly unrelated tales, all of which relate directly to you, the reader. At its core is an ingenious concept the likes of which could have only come from the unparalleled imagination of Calvino. By the time you reach its dazzling conclusion, you’ll be wishing you could somehow read it again for the very first time.”

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Edited by Adam Parfrey
Apocalypse Culture
RM28.00

Apocalypse Culture is is a collection of texts showcasing a variety of examples of, and reactions to, eschatological madness, extreme perversion, “conspiracy theories”, and aesthetic nihilism.

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Douglas Coupland
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
RM28.00

The novel, consisting of mostly brief anecdotes, portrays the economically bleak and emotionally taut lives of three friends who try to escape the overly commercialized world by living simply in California’s Mojave Desert. The often biting, ironic tone of the novel and its pop culture allusions helped bring about a new era of transgressional fiction, including the work of authors Irvine Welsh and Chuck Palahniuk.

more info: here

Serena Valentino
Gloom Cookie #1 & #2 (Comics)
RM 15.00 (for both)

“GLOOMCOOKIE is the cartoon series that Beetlejuice watches late at night when he can’t sleep. Like Wednesday Addams’ wet dream, or that one drink too many that puts you over the edge. Funny and real in a surreal world. Mostly because I know the creators, I know that it smacks of experience and heartfelt feelings…”

more info: here

Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean
Violent Cases (Graphic Novel) BOOKED BY AN OLD RC SHITWORKER!
RM30.00

Violent Cases is a short graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean. For both creators it was their first published work in comics. First published in black and white by Titan Books in 1987, it was originally drawn in shades of blue, brown and grey, and later editions have been printed in colour.

A narrator, who is drawn to look like Gaiman, tells of how, as a small child in Portsmouth, he was taken by his father to be treated by an osteopath who was once employed by Al Capone. The nature of the narrator’s relationship with his father, the tales the osteopath told, and the disturbing events that followed, are partially obscured by the narrator’s imperfect recall of things he was not old enough to understand at the time.

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Neil Gaiman & Michael Zulli
Creatures of the Night (hardcover)
RM25.00

Newly rewritten by Gaiman for this graphic novel, these two ominous stories from the author’s award-winning prose, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions, feature animals and people not being quite what they seem. In “The Price,” a black cat like a small panther arrives at a country home and is soon beset by mysterious and vicious wounds. What is he fighting every night that could do this, and why does he persist? “The Daughter of Owls” recounts an eerie old tale of a foundling girl who was left – with an owl pellet – as a newborn on the steps of the Dymton Church. She was soon cloistered away in a local convent, but by her fourteenth year word of her beauty had spread – and those who would prey upon her faced unforeseen consequences.

more info: here

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