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Loving Life Partner posted:Looking for some short, impactful reading. Would prefer good poetry books or short story collections. I like anything, but especially surreal/fiction. Seconding an Etgar Keret short story collection. I've only read Suddenly a Knock on the Door, but I'll definitely be going back for more when the mood strikes.
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Inzombiac posted:I need a recommendation. It's more about outright snake oil than traditional folk medicine, but I can't pass up an opportunity to recommend Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock. It's a good read and man, talk about harmful remedies.
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Picayune posted:It's more about outright snake oil than traditional folk medicine, but I can't pass up an opportunity to recommend Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock. It's a good read and man, talk about harmful remedies. I'm very fond of Fads and Fallacies: In the Name of Science. A 1957 book by Martin Gardner which gives an excellent overview on everything from Scientology to Orgone Therapy. Gardner had a great writing style and his history of humanity's gullibility is amazing.
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Leaving to live in a foreign country for a couple months, looking for some easy, comforting books to take with me on my Kindle. Not opposed to Literature or genre fiction, just something to keep my mind off things. Any suggestions?
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Nov 9, 2016 11:41
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Amelie Nothomb's books tend to be short and funny and a lot of them focus on "stranger in a strange land" aspect. Try Fear and Trembling (do not Kierkegaard's book by accident) or Loving Sabotage
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Burning Rain posted:(do not Kierkegaard's book by accident) Please do Kierkegaard's book by accident. Thomas LIgotti's Conspiracy The Against the Human Race and David Benatar's Better Never to Have Been will also help you keep your mind off things. Joking aside, I recommend any of the two Bolano doorstoppers, 2666 and Savage Detectives. Someone once wrote in a book review "haunts the waking and dreaming mind", and that's what Bolano's novels do for me.
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Yeah, I'm kinda looking for an anti-Ligotti here. Amelie Nothomb sounds great.
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anilEhilated posted:Yeah, I'm kinda looking for an anti-Ligotti here. Amelie Nothomb sounds great. She is. The Character of Rain is also good.
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Burning Rain posted:Try Fear and Trembling (do not Kierkegaard's book by accident) please do read Kierkegaard cause it's good
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Hello thread! A bit of an odd question – can anyone recommend either a great western or mystery novel in which a cave plays an important or recurring role? My dad is a big fan of both genres and I'd like to get him a book as a gift. The cave is a bit of an inside joke. Also, I've been reading a lot of Jack London lately because I feel trapped in a city and I find his descriptions of wild places soothing. I've read most of his popular works, can anyone suggest some other authors to look at? I'm open to books and authors of any age, though I tend to lean towards somewhat older fiction (60s or earlier ).
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kedo posted:Hello thread! A bit of an odd question – can anyone recommend either a great western or mystery novel in which a cave plays an important or recurring role? My dad is a big fan of both genres and I'd like to get him a book as a gift. The cave is a bit of an inside joke. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
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kedo posted:Hello thread! A bit of an odd question – can anyone recommend either a great western or mystery novel in which a cave plays an important or recurring role? My dad is a big fan of both genres and I'd like to get him a book as a gift. The cave is a bit of an inside joke. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, and A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson is also good.
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Awesome, thanks much!
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Can anyone recommend any fiction that has parallels with Trump's election? So far I have Stephen King's Dead Zone and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here. Any other recommendations? Remember: fiction only. Thanks. 
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Nov 12, 2016 11:47
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roth's the plot against america
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Can anyone recommend any fiction that has parallels with Trump's election? So far I have Stephen King's Dead Zone and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here. Any other recommendations? Remember: fiction only. Thanks. It's comics, but Transmetropolitan, particularly the "Year of the Bastard" arc.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:roth's the plot against america This X 1000. The parallels are creepy.
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you shouldn't read any of those books or talk about how creepy the parallels are actually
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A human heart posted:you shouldn't read any of those books or talk about how creepy the parallels are actually Reading The Plot Against America gave me anxiety and I read it years ago. Reading it now would be on a whole other level.
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you could read a ronald reagan biography and follow it up with one on thatcher when it comes to pence and your set instead of being dumb as hell.
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btw i know you said fiction so read one with a pro slant. there you go
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Nov 13, 2016 02:47
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Y'all check out the secret Santa thread that's my recommendation
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or anything about a species that's decided it's not cut out for this civilization thing and decides to end it all. apropos of nothing.
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WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:Reading The Plot Against America gave me anxiety and I read it years ago. Reading it now would be on a whole other level. Literal friend of Hitler Charles Lindbergh and DOnald Trump are surely exactly the same.
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It's creepy how this book is about the election of a man I don't like, and recently a man I don't like was elected. Phillip Roth is a genius/
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Read the bit of America by Baudrillard where he talks about how Reagan got elected due to being on TV
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nice meltdown
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Just started The Plot Against America. Pretty good so far. Unrelated, I want to read some alternate history stuff. Any suggestions of famous books in that genre?
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spiderbyte posted:Just started The Plot Against America. Pretty good so far. Off the top of my head: The Man in the High Castle (Nazis and Japanese win WWII) Pavane (Spanish Armada conquers England) The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Israel collapses, Jews are relocated to Alaska) The Years of Rice and Salt (Black Death almost completely depopulates Europe)
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Selachian posted:Off the top of my head: Awesome thanks. I started The Man in the High Castle, but just couldn't get into it unfortunately. Might try it again. Years of rice and salt looks interesting. Thanks!
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Fatherland is a great detective story set in alternate history post WW2 nazi Germany.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Fatherland is a great detective story set in alternate history post WW2 nazi Germany. Len Deighton's fantastic SS-GB is one of those set in Great Britain.
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spiderbyte posted:Just started The Plot Against America. Pretty good so far. I'm seconding The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Such a vivid construction of a fictional culture. I also have a request. Can anyone recommend me a book with a setting that combines modern (or even near-future) technology with fantasy elements, but the fantasy elements are not hidden from the public like in your typical urban fantasy.
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Sailor Viy posted:I'm seconding The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Such a vivid construction of a fictional culture. China Mieville's The City & The City is close to this, good book as well. Selachian posted:Off the top of my head: How good is Pavane compared to the others you listed? They're all excellent so if it compares well, it'll be my next read.
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Dirty Frank posted:How good is Pavane compared to the others you listed? They're all excellent so if it compares well, it'll be my next read. I liked it quite a bit, but at times Pavane is more like a combination operator's manual and history book for this fictitious culture than a proper story.
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Yeah, Pavane can be dry and obtuse compared to some of the other books I cited, but it's still worth a read. Sailor Viy posted:I also have a request. Can anyone recommend me a book with a setting that combines modern (or even near-future) technology with fantasy elements, but the fantasy elements are not hidden from the public like in your typical urban fantasy. John M. Ford's The Last Hot Time perhaps.
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Sailor Viy posted:I also have a request. Can anyone recommend me a book with a setting that combines modern (or even near-future) technology with fantasy elements, but the fantasy elements are not hidden from the public like in your typical urban fantasy.
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Curious if anyone could recommend a book about Korean History, hopefully in English.
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Could anyone recommend a good biography on Howard Hughes? I'm more interested in the eccentricities/mental health aspects than the aviation aspects of his life, especially his early and later years.
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Pop-o-Matic Trouble posted:Could anyone recommend a good biography on Howard Hughes? I'm more interested in the eccentricities/mental health aspects than the aviation aspects of his life, especially his early and later years. https://www.amazon.com/Howard-Hughes-His-Life-Madness/dp/0393326020/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479521754&sr=8-1&keywords=howard+hughes That is the one that I have read and I could not recommend it enough. I went on a Howard Hughes kick a few years ago and this was the best one out of the bunch.
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