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ColonelCurmudgeon posted:Brodart, a library archival products company (I think based in Pennsylvania?) is your best bet. They have myriad sizes, use plastics that don't have any corrosive materials in them (thus won't damage the jackets that they are supposed to be protecting), and are adjustible. Thanks, I'll finally be able to get these books into shelves instead of cluttering up every horizontal surface in my room. Oh poo poo, I forgot to build more shelves.
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# ? Apr 27, 2010 02:08 |
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Is there a book series about a high fantasy world undergoing an industrial revolution? Seems like I heard of one, but looking for "high fantasy"+"industrial revolution" just turns up the old computer game Arcanum. Thanks!
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# ? Apr 28, 2010 01:22 |
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Oleum Animale 68C posted:Is there a book series about a high fantasy world undergoing an industrial revolution? Yeah, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
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# ? Apr 28, 2010 02:06 |
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How would you guys feel about a Drama megathread of sorts?
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# ? Apr 28, 2010 09:38 |
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I say go for it. We need more topics on this forum that aren't just about fantasy and sci-fi.
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# ? Apr 28, 2010 13:37 |
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Absolutely. There really isn't a drama thread anywhere in SA that I know of, and it's a huge and broad concept. Of course, it'll likely get to 3 pages then sink into oblivion while fantasy and YA threads will be around forever, but oh well.
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# ? Apr 28, 2010 15:26 |
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The Puppet Master posted:How would you guys feel about a Drama megathread of sorts? For a second there I thought you were looking for E/N.
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# ? Apr 28, 2010 15:28 |
Was going to make a thread asking this, but I think this thread would probably be a better place to do it. Was wondering if there is any good horror pulp magazines? I have a subscription to Weird Tales, but lately it seems like all they talk about is Steampunk with little to no horror. Seems like when horror is brought up these days, all you get is a bunch of goth kids pretending to be vampires by being "dark, brooding and mysterious" :\
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# ? Apr 28, 2010 19:42 |
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vegaji posted:Absolutely. There really isn't a drama thread anywhere in SA that I know of, and it's a huge and broad concept. Of course, it'll likely get to 3 pages then sink into oblivion while fantasy and YA threads will be around forever, but oh well. I was thinking the same thing. TBB could also use a "Classics"-type thread (I'm not really sure TBB has one already), but it seems sci-fi/fantasy are the main points of interest, it wouldn't do that well.
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# ? Apr 28, 2010 22:01 |
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There is a successful Russian literature thread, a successful military history thread, a decent Japanese literature thread, we've also had, in the past, decent threads on Pynchon, Shakespeare, Wallace, and other non-SF/F matters, so I wouldn't doom your classics thread to failure before you even write it.
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# ? Apr 28, 2010 22:40 |
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Anamnesis posted:I was thinking the same thing. TBB could also use a "Classics"-type thread (I'm not really sure TBB has one already), but it seems sci-fi/fantasy are the main points of interest, it wouldn't do that well. I'll mull it over for a bit and then attempt it once I am finished with finals.
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# ? Apr 29, 2010 03:09 |
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I assume someone around here has read DeLilo's Point Omega, was it any good? I haven't read all that much of his work, mostly just White Noise, but this new one sounds interesting and a decent size to be easily slipped into my current school load.
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# ? Apr 30, 2010 02:27 |
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Oleum Animale 68C posted:Is there a book series about a high fantasy world undergoing an industrial revolution? Seems like I heard of one, but looking for "high fantasy"+"industrial revolution" just turns up the old computer game Arcanum. Thanks! What comes to mind is Perdido Street Station, although it's more steampunky, I guess, and the fantasy setting is pretty far from your generic Not Middle Earth. Wonderful prose for a genre novel, but it sort of meanders and goes nowhere. The ending sucks. Highly recommended! China Mieville has also written some other novels set in the same world, but I haven't read them. I've heard that the quality is sort of inconsistent but The Scar is the best of the bunch. Edit: Also if you sort of loosely define your terms there's there's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell set around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Loosely, I say, because its basically set in an alternate earth where things used to be a generic high fantasy setting, magic went away, and now it's started to come back. Really though it's an attempt at marrying the form of novel that was popular in the 19th century with a form of fantasy that came much later. Good, again a tad meandering, and probably not exactly what you're looking for. Baby Babbeh fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Apr 30, 2010 |
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I am on ther market for an ebook reader right now and I remember there being a thread in this forum with comparisons and opinions on ebook readers. I also remember also a link to a wiki there with further reviews and whatnot... did that thread really exist or was that all in my head/somewhere else?
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# ? May 1, 2010 20:02 |
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betamax posted:I am on ther market for an ebook reader right now and I remember there being a thread in this forum with comparisons and opinions on ebook readers. I also remember also a link to a wiki there with further reviews and whatnot... did that thread really exist or was that all in my head/somewhere else?
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# ? May 1, 2010 20:12 |
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LooseChanj posted:For a second there I thought you were looking for E/N. An E/N on books... I wonder how an E/N thread would work here relating to books. Someone make a thread and let's see how it goes!
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# ? May 1, 2010 23:19 |
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wickles posted:Ebook readers are now a gadget so it's been moved http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3142969&pagenumber=1 Ha ha, I didn't even notice that it had moved. I have it bookmarked, and just thought they changed the title.
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# ? May 2, 2010 01:47 |
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It might have been sometime mid/late last year before I registerd, when someone posted a short story about Neptune or Poseidon in a thread about some author (I'm almost certain it was a male author). I can't for the life of me remember who it was by, what it was called or find the post (yeah, ). I think the general gist of the story was Neptune/Poseiden wanting to take a break from the sea/his job but he couldn't because that was what he had to do becuase he was good at it, or something? Ok that sounds pretty crappy but it's all I can remember about it, appart from it being a prety decent little story. Please help! Does anyone remember or know what I am talking aobut? I would like to read it again...
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# ? May 9, 2010 11:00 |
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Viconia posted:An E/N on books... I wonder how an E/N thread would work here relating to books. Someone make a thread and let's see how it goes! "I read the whole Twilight series and I keep dropping hints to my man that he should be more like Edward. He just doesn't understand! I need man who is possessive, threatening, dangerous, and literally not a human! Please help, I might kill myself!!!!" God please no...
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# ? May 9, 2010 20:33 |
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I do actually remember a thread in E/N for books which I think was intended to be a sort of self-help topic. Didn't take long for someone to recommend sci-fi.
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# ? May 9, 2010 22:59 |
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Aventine posted:I do actually remember a thread in E/N for books which I think was intended to be a sort of self-help topic. Didn't take long for someone to recommend sci-fi.
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# ? May 10, 2010 02:20 |
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When I clicked on the Let's Read Star Wars Books thread I felt a brief suicidal pang. But I think it was sort of like sympathetic labour pains; it was not my suicidal hopelessness I felt but an uncontrollable response to such a vast, depressing wall of text.
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# ? May 10, 2010 03:58 |
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Checkered Slacks posted:It might have been sometime mid/late last year before I registerd, when someone posted a short story about Neptune or Poseidon in a thread about some author (I'm almost certain it was a male author). That sounds like Franz Kafka's Poseidon, although your description is a little vague so I can't say for sure. Actually, Poseidon is more of a snippet than a full story, so I'm thinking it might not be what you're looking for. Regardless, I think it's probably Kafka's most unambiguously funny story. Here it is in its entirety, although I don't think this is the best translation: Franz Kafka posted:Poseidon sat at his desk, doing figures. The administration of all the waters gave him endless work. He could have had assistants, as many as he wanted — and he did have very many — but since he took his job very seriously, he would in the end go over all the figures and calculations himself, and thus his assistants were of little help to him. It cannot be said that he enjoyed his work; he did it only because it had been assigned to him; in fact, he had already filed many petitions for — as he put it — more cheerful work, but every time the offer of something different was made to him it would turn out that nothing suited him quite as well as his present position. And anyhow it was quite difficult to find something different for him. After all, it was impossible to assign him to a particular sea; aside from the fact that even then the work with figures would not become less but only pettier, the great Poseidon could in any case occupy only an executive position. And when a job away from the water was offered to him he would get sick at the very prospect, his divine breathing would become troubled and his brazen chest began to tremble. Besides, his complaints were not really taken seriously; when one of the mighty is vexatious the appearance of an effort must be made to placate him, even when the case is most hopeless. In actuality a shift of posts was unthinkable for Poseidon — he had been appointed God of the Sea in the beginning, and that he had to remain.
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# ? May 10, 2010 04:34 |
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Baby Babbeh posted:That sounds like Franz Kafka's Poseidon Yes! That's it thanks very much.
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# ? May 10, 2010 09:15 |
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Casimir Radon posted:Going through some rough changes in your life hmmmm? I recommend the Han Solo trilogy by A.C. Crispin. How long before some Objectivist recommends "Atlas Shrugged" or "The Fountainhead"?
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# ? May 10, 2010 18:40 |
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therattle posted:How long before some Objectivist recommends "Atlas Shrugged" or "The Fountainhead"? Speaking from experience you should not read that while depressed.
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# ? May 11, 2010 03:10 |
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Edit: Nevermind.
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Casimir Radon posted:Speaking from experience you should not read that while depressed. Or at all!
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# ? May 11, 2010 19:40 |
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One of my dad's friends gave me Atlas Shrugged to read when I was fourteen, right before I started high school. "You're a smart girl, you'll like this book". I finished it in about a week or so. I want that week of my life back. It wasn't entirely a waste but my god was that book awful.
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# ? May 11, 2010 19:52 |
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therattle posted:Or at all! Maybe you should just read them for yourself? All the people saying they are "worthless politically driven trash in the guise of a lovely novel with cardboard characters" are just a bunch of socialists who probably haven't even read Ayn's masterful Works. What I'm saying is that you can't judge a book until you've read it, and there's a reason they're controversial. Give them a shot, make up your own mind, and don't give into the SA group think! Okay I'm heading off to read the collected works of Stephanie Meyer and Dan Brown in order to--oh ho ho! Not really, I know those books suck without having to read them.
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# ? May 11, 2010 19:56 |
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I generally dislike Ayn Rand's philosophy but I definitely think you should read her books before forming any kind of opinion on them.
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# ? May 11, 2010 19:59 |
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Wading through Rand is like a rite of literary passage.
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# ? May 11, 2010 20:02 |
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Though I like some of the political ideas presented in Rand's work, I think the books are terribly written. I liked reading Atlas Shrugged at first, because she was presenting these ideas in ways I hadn't thought about them, but after she started just repeating herself over and over again, it got pretty old pretty quick. Her characters are just terrible, too.
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# ? May 11, 2010 21:14 |
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jmaze posted:Though I like some of the political ideas presented in Rand's work, I think the books are terribly written. I liked reading Atlas Shrugged at first, because she was presenting these ideas in ways I hadn't thought about them, but after she started just repeating herself over and over again, it got pretty old pretty quick. Her characters are just terrible, too. Well, that worked better than intended. I did actually read both Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead (twice I think), and while I quite enjoyed the stories themselves, the writing is pretty awful for the most part. She can construct some nice images though, to give her some credit. I remember skipping through pages and pages of stultifying speechifying in AS. I was younger then; I think now I'd find the writing even worse and the Objectivism even more objectionable. Oh, I also read We The Living. I am afraid that I don't even remember what I thought of it, thus probably not very much.
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# ? May 12, 2010 11:06 |
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I made it almost all the way though The Fountainhead before I figured out that Ellsworth Toohey wasn't supposed to be the hero. Okay, I was young, but seriously--he's the one who's both self-aware and successful. I recommend this book over and over again, but if you know that Ayn is probably not your cup of tea and don't actually want to wade through her books (or you already have and know that you aren't a fan), Sewer, Gas, & Electric is a great read that's sort of fondly critical of her.
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# ? May 13, 2010 08:29 |
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I'm trying to remember a book series I read when I was a kid, so, late 80s to early 90s I think. The main character was in the military or something similar and had two right hands I think it was. Since he lost his left hand in bottle and all they had to give him to replace was a right hand. At one point in a book I think that got replaced with a chicken foot or something. Sorry this is vague but it's been 15-20 years. I know it's definitely sci-fi and the main character went from planet to planet. I remember the author made a point of mentioning that he could shake his own hand since he two right hands. I want to go back and reread some of these books, but I can't remember the name of the series or the author. Although I suspect I'm going to find that they haven't held up so well over time.
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# ? May 14, 2010 13:43 |
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Fox_Spy posted:I'm trying to remember a book series I read when I was a kid, so, late 80s to early 90s I think. The main character was in the military or something similar and had two right hands I think it was. Since he lost his left hand in bottle and all they had to give him to replace was a right hand. At one point in a book I think that got replaced with a chicken foot or something. Sorry this is vague but it's been 15-20 years. I know it's definitely sci-fi and the main character went from planet to planet. I remember the author made a point of mentioning that he could shake his own hand since he two right hands. I want to go back and reread some of these books, but I can't remember the name of the series or the author. Although I suspect I'm going to find that they haven't held up so well over time. Harry Harrison's Bill, The Galactic Hero series
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LGBT War Machine posted:Harry Harrison's Bill, The Galactic Hero series Holy crap I was close on this. For some reason whenever I thought about this series I kept having "Harry and the Hendersons" pop into my head. A valiant attempt by my brain to get the author's name. So close, and yet so very far away. Thanks for the info. Now to go see if they're as good as I recall.
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# ? May 14, 2010 18:19 |
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This forum has terrible taste but here goes nothing. I'm on a cross-country bicycle trip and would appreciate recommendations for actual good books relevant to the places I'm riding through. For example, so far I have read:
What literature do you recommend for going through those parts of America? Keep your lovely science fiction, fantasy, airport books, milporn lit and all similar recommendations to your goddamn self, you worthless loving teenagers. I swear to Christ I will ride to your house and stab you with my spare spokes if you even think about posting that poo poo at me. I will tear your limbs off and beat you with them. I will kick a hole in your torso with my ironwoon legs. I will use your entrails as handlebar streamers. Why is this forum so obsessed with bad literature. It's like you are actually retarded, unable to read anything without a spaceship or elf babe on the cover, unable to think about words and sentences and paragraphs and narratives beyond "That was a cool fight/sex scene." God drat every single one of you. (Also, I've read a ton of Mark Twain, which is what I'd recommend first to someone asking me this question, so don't bother recommending him. Thanks in advance!) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Van Dis posted:This forum has terrible taste but here goes nothing. This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but have you tried A Song of Fire and Ice by George R. R. Martin?
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# ? May 19, 2010 23:47 |