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For future reference: This is the thread you are looking for.
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# ? Oct 6, 2010 06:41 |
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Awesome, thanks!
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# ? Oct 6, 2010 07:02 |
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deety posted:Horror suggestions: Thanks for the suggestions I got Dark Harvest tonight then finished it, fun but it felt more like a short story than a novel still enjoyed it though. I'll try some of your other suggestions if I can find them.
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# ? Oct 6, 2010 09:35 |
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Mollymauk posted:Can someone recommend some good horror novels for October? I read The Fall and The Passage last week and have read 23 Stephen King books so I've missed a bunch. The Horla by Guy de Mauppassant It's only a short story so after that you're on your own. Maybe read I Am Legend if you liked The Passage. If you liked Stephen King you can also check out his son, Joe Hill.
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# ? Oct 6, 2010 10:47 |
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Cool thing about books from the library: The smells. Usually you just get your typical book smells, but this copy of House of Leaves I got today has a distinct flowery scent to it, like it used to sit on a shelf in a girl's bedroom, or something. It's really weird, but at the same time, it's interesting how a book can pick up smells like that. Most of the time, library books have the usual "bindings and paper" aroma, with the occasional cigarette smoke odor. I know, I'm strange. Cheezymadman fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Oct 8, 2010 |
# ? Oct 8, 2010 01:20 |
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Brady posted:Don't know if there's a "lost and found" for this subforum, but I need help identifying two books I read in middle school. Is the first book The Thief of Always by Clive Barker?
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# ? Oct 8, 2010 05:28 |
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DirtyRobot posted:The Horla by Guy de Mauppassant I've reread I Am Legend somewhat recently but will definitely check out The Horla. Are any particular Joe Hill novels are considered his best? Also We Have Always Lived in the Castle was very good but not really horror, just very sad. I understood what happened quicker than when I read The Lottery when I was younger, so the reveal wasn't shocking.
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# ? Oct 8, 2010 11:56 |
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Cheezymadman posted:Cool thing about books from the library: The smells. I bought my copy of House of Leaves off the 'for sale' shelf in my local library for 30p. Alas it lacks a beautiful floral armoa, instead it reeks of funk and some of the pages look like somebody had a nosebleed on them. I guess, in a way, it's rather fitting?
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# ? Oct 8, 2010 15:52 |
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I was going through my old books today, helping my Mum rid our house of excess clutter before she buys a new house and we move. I got rid of about 40 old books into two boxes. It feels so great to look at my shelves at home now and see nothing but books I love, and no more crappy Clive Cusslers or similar. A question: what do you guys do with old books you don't want? A lot of mine are in good condition but I couldn't honestly be bothered putting them up on ebay. The second hand stores I know are always reluctant to take boxes of books from people, and libraries around here don't bother accepting donations anymore. I'm thinking of just donating them to a Rotary book sale.
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 14:32 |
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Hedrigall posted:I was going through my old books today, helping my Mum rid our house of excess clutter before she buys a new house and we move. I got rid of about 40 old books into two boxes. It feels so great to look at my shelves at home now and see nothing but books I love, and no more crappy Clive Cusslers or similar. Could you donate them to Goodwill? I'd just call ahead and say you were cleaning out some boxes and it's got some good books, it's just stuff you don't want.
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 16:29 |
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Hedrigall posted:I was going through my old books today, helping my Mum rid our house of excess clutter before she buys a new house and we move. I got rid of about 40 old books into two boxes. It feels so great to look at my shelves at home now and see nothing but books I love, and no more crappy Clive Cusslers or similar. Three words. Goon Yard Sale
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 17:28 |
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Some municipalities/counties/whatever do book donation distribution for their mental institutions, prisons, etc. At least they'll be appreciated.
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 17:32 |
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I usually give whatever the used bookstore doesn't want to Goodwill. Donating to a Rotery sale is a good idea too, though. As long as you don't throw them in the trash, you can't really go wrong.
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# ? Oct 10, 2010 20:07 |
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Cheezymadman posted:Three words. Have goons ever done a book trading thing? I use paperbackswap but I would much rather swap books with goons.
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# ? Oct 11, 2010 00:55 |
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I have a near-mint paperback of A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin, willing to swap for The Republic Of Thieves by Scott Lynch.
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# ? Oct 11, 2010 01:28 |
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Flaggy posted:Have goons ever done a book trading thing? I use paperbackswap but I would much rather swap books with goons. Hedrigall posted:I have a near-mint paperback of A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin, willing to swap for The Republic Of Thieves by Scott Lynch. We should start a thread. anyone but me
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# ? Oct 11, 2010 01:37 |
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Ridonkulous posted:We should start a thread. Someone really should. Couldn't hurt to get a mods take on things though first?
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# ? Oct 11, 2010 03:27 |
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I still cannot believe the "The Beatles, but ZOMBIES! " book was published.
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# ? Oct 12, 2010 14:22 |
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The Machine posted:I still cannot believe the "The Beatles, but ZOMBIES! " book was published. The Zombies are in it too, but they're not zombies.
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# ? Oct 12, 2010 14:27 |
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The irony... it kills me!
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# ? Oct 12, 2010 15:08 |
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The Machine posted:I still cannot believe the "The Beatles, but ZOMBIES! " book was published. A friend recommended that book to me and so I stopped talking to him. It also didn't help that he said modern fiction was not as good as what the comics industry was producing
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# ? Oct 12, 2010 21:02 |
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El Axo Grande posted:A friend recommended that book to me and so I stopped talking to him. What an idiot, obviously he should have said the video game industry.
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# ? Oct 13, 2010 05:14 |
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appropriatemetaphor posted:What an idiot, obviously he should have said the video game industry.
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# ? Oct 13, 2010 05:46 |
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Can anyone reccomend a decently written but amateur book review blog? Not something professional, I can find those myself, just something on blogspot or wordpress. Ideally one with a linked archive. The only one I've found that I like is this one, rather imaginatively titled Russ' Book Reviews.
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# ? Oct 13, 2010 14:35 |
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Soulcleaver posted:Clearly this cretin is unaware of the powerful humanistic themes and gameplay-to-plot parallels in Game of the Decade Braid by Jonathan Blow. Speaking of Game of the Decade has anyone read anything by Andrzej Sapkowski? Other than this and it's sequel most of his works haven't been translated to English, or am i looking in the wrong places?
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# ? Oct 15, 2010 10:38 |
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Amazon really needs to introduce the ability to screen out all the OCR'd public domain publishers. I go looking for a used book and have to wade through so much goddamn CreateSpace, Bibliolife, and Lulu poo poo.
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# ? Oct 16, 2010 01:34 |
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Loose Chanj, what's the theme for next month's book club?
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# ? Oct 16, 2010 09:20 |
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I liked that black authors idea. Off the top of my head, I want to put The Color Purple and The Invisible Man by Ellison on the poll, as well as something by Richard Wright. So that leaves two nominations open, suggest away.
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# ? Oct 16, 2010 18:27 |
LooseChanj posted:I liked that black authors idea. Off the top of my head, I want to put The Color Purple and The Invisible Man by Ellison on the poll, as well as something by Richard Wright. So that leaves two nominations open, suggest away. Beloved and Go Tell It on the Mountain.
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# ? Oct 16, 2010 18:39 |
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Nothing from Africa then? Kourouma, Tutuola and Achebe are all black people. Is Machado de Assis black enough?
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I'm pretty sure LooseChanj means "African-American authors," and I believe the original suggestion (which I can't find right now, but remember the post) was referring to African-American authors.inktvis posted:Is Machado de Assis black enough? No. Wikipedia posted:Machado de Assis was included on American literary critic Harold Bloom's list of the greatest 100 geniuses of literature, alongside writers such as Dante, Shakespeare and Cervantes. Bloom even considers him the greatest black writer in Western literature (although his characterization as a black man is derived from perceptions of race, such as hypodescent, predominant in the United States but almost nonexistent in Brazil).
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# ? Oct 16, 2010 20:08 |
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LooseChanj posted:I liked that black authors idea. Off the top of my head, I want to put The Color Purple and The Invisible Man by Ellison on the poll, as well as something by Richard Wright. So that leaves two nominations open, suggest away. I really really want to recommend either The Intutionist by Colson Whitehead or A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan Both are great black novels of this era, are less well known, and deal with more modern themes and issues that might appeal to the TBB reader more easily. EDIT: For background... The Intutionist is a Modern Noir story based around a female elevator inspector investigating the crash of a brand new super-elevator and the conspiracy that unravels behind it. Wrapped around this entire narrative is the theme of race and modernity. It invokes a lot of the thematic elements of the noir genre while utilizing them in a pretty radical way. It manages to be a novel about race through the incredible craftsmanship of metaphor and evocation. A Visitation of Spirits is modern American magical realism. The story revolves around a gay teenage comic book and DnD nerd, the pride of his family and community, who becomes possessed by Demons after trying to escape his oppressive homelife. The story rebounds between the night of his possession and the aftermath. The most provocative idea in the novel is the concept of the evolution of the needs of black society. What were once seen as foundations of great strength in the past start to become new methods of oppression and restriction as society moves forever onward. El Axo Grande fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Oct 16, 2010 |
# ? Oct 16, 2010 20:23 |
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LooseChanj posted:I liked that black authors idea. Off the top of my head, I want to put The Color Purple and The Invisible Man by Ellison on the poll, as well as something by Richard Wright. So that leaves two nominations open, suggest away. I'd be down for Native Son. I've got a copy I've been putting off reading for a few months now.
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# ? Oct 16, 2010 22:53 |
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El Axo Grande posted:
This sounds absolutely excellent.
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# ? Oct 17, 2010 04:32 |
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Oh yeah, stoked for next month's book. Great idea.
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# ? Oct 17, 2010 11:16 |
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I really like Their Eyes Were Watching God, for what that's worth. I find it profitable to discuss it, or anything by Hurston for that mater, in a historicist context by tossing it against anything by Wright. (He and Hurston famously despised each other, but I think their concerns were more similar than they realized.) Of course I am really goddamn busy with senior stuff and grad school application crap, so if that conversation happened on the forums I'd only be able to maybe drop by and spout a few buzzwords if even that. On the subject of African-American authors, though, I recently read The Known World by Edward P. Jones and it really threw me for a loop. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for the book club, but I find the novel to be a grand failed experiment: what would happen if William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, and Toni Morrison all got together and wrote a history book? Probably something like this, though it sounds cooler than it turns out. The novel's really overlong and in a lot of places overdone, but in retrospect I find a few elements of it to be extremely powerful, and it made me anxious about my own mortality in a way that nothing else has done recently. So despite its power, I'm pretty ambivalent about it, since it's sloppy and I'm kind of unhappy with the finished product. Has anyone else read this thing? I'm interested in getting some responses other than those of the "this book won a Pulitzer let me smash my big old literature boner in between its pages over and over" variety.
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# ? Oct 20, 2010 01:41 |
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Can anyone recommend some good R-rated (if you will) fantasy? I'm sick of all the fantasy books being written for 12 year olds. I dont want erotica but some themes that are abit darker would be cool. The GRRM books are about right I think.
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# ? Oct 23, 2010 03:15 |
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Valkyn posted:Can anyone recommend some good R-rated (if you will) fantasy? I'm sick of all the fantasy books being written for 12 year olds. I dont want erotica but some themes that are abit darker would be cool. Have you read Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy?
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# ? Oct 23, 2010 20:30 |
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Parker Lewis posted:Have you read Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy? I concur. This series was really, really good.
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# ? Oct 23, 2010 22:30 |
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Valkyn posted:Can anyone recommend some good R-rated (if you will) fantasy? I'm sick of all the fantasy books being written for 12 year olds. I dont want erotica but some themes that are abit darker would be cool. The thread you want is literally right below you dude
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