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chernobyl kinsman posted:What are some books that are literally too dangerous to handle? I'm thinking of things along the lines of the U of Michigan's Shadows from the Walls of Death, which consists of 86 pages of arsenic-soaked wallpaper samples, or Marie Curie's still-radioactive journals. I wouldn't want to be seen in public reading _Babyfucker_ by Urs Alleman. Especially not, like, near a school.
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I had to read Faggots by Larry Kramer with a book cover on because the cover was the title in big bold red lettering
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I've always assumed that getting a copy of The Turner Diaries will get you put on a watchlist.
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Those are all dangerous only because of what people will infer about you based on the title or contents, though, which is a difference-in-kind from books that will literally kill you if read without protective gear.
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ToxicFrog posted:Those are all dangerous only because of what people will infer about you based on the title or contents, though, which is a difference-in-kind from books that will literally kill you if read without protective gear. yeah I can only think of two examples of literally deadly books irl. there have to be more
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Does Atlas Shrugged count? Also, any Paula Deen cookbook Edit: the 1953 limited edition of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was bound in asbestos. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Dec 25, 2017 |
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Dec 25, 2017 23:06
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Edit: the 1953 limited edition of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was bound in asbestos. That's not really dangerous unless you take a hammer to it or otherwise damage the asbestos.
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There's also the new edition of Fahrenheit 451 that can only be read by putting fire to the paper.
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While in college, I worked at the library, in the Fine Arts department. We shared the floor with the Health department. Our floor's bathroom shared books from both departments, that were recovered from the bathroom stalls. People liked jerking off to the fine arts (nude photography), and using the health books to ID whatever latest STD they had picked up. Those books were probably too dangerous to handle. Thankfully, students workers never had to deal with those books directly. Although who knows how many books I handled where a patron had taken it to the bathroom, and then left it outside of the bathroom for us to pick up.
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What does this forum think of Barbara Tuchman? I got Guns of August as a Christmas gift amongst other things and I want to hear what goons think of it.
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StrixNebulosa posted:What does this forum think of Barbara Tuchman? I got Guns of August as a Christmas gift amongst other things and I want to hear what goons think of it. We did that as a book of the month a few years ago, so check those threads.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:We did that as a book of the month a few years ago, so check those threads. Thanks!
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"This thread is marked for archival and cannot be modified." ... I have archives and I can't see it.... 
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There's a situationist joke where they bind a book in sand paper so it ruins the books next to it on the shelf, and if you dropped Jerusalem you could probably break a toe.
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And of course all ebooks are destroying the planet, as are regular books, in a different way.
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Dec 26, 2017 19:22
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StrixNebulosa posted:"This thread is marked for archival and cannot be modified." Are you using the phone app? Try a desktop browser.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Are you using the phone app? Try a desktop browser. I'm using chrome on a laptop, it should work. 
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StrixNebulosa posted:What does this forum think of Barbara Tuchman? I got Guns of August as a Christmas gift amongst other things and I want to hear what goons think of it. I once got yelled at by a mod for recommending Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror as an overview of medieval life since it was about a rich white dude. Me insisting that we don’t really have many sources about how poor women of color lived in the Middle Ages to write books from didn’t go down that well either. Thanks for reading my story about a Dutch Marxist moderator of the Something Awful forums.
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Update: using the archives to go back to the forum in 2014 worked and I'm reading the thread now.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:I once got yelled at by a mod for recommending Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror as an overview of medieval life since it was about a rich white dude. Me insisting that we don’t really have many sources about how poor women of color lived in the Middle Ages to write books from didn’t go down that well either. Thanks for reading my story about a Dutch Marxist moderator of the Something Awful forums. I'm not quite sure how to take this, because H. Alloy is the only mod in The Book Barn and they're a cool person.
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StrixNebulosa posted:What does this forum think of Barbara Tuchman? I got Guns of August as a Christmas gift amongst other things and I want to hear what goons think of it. Fun Guns of August fact: Guns of August was a guideline for Kennedy on how to handle the Cuban Missile Crisis
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'm not quite sure how to take this, because H. Alloy is the only mod in The Book Barn and they're a cool person. It was a long time ago, the mod was a dude who used to mod GBS I think. He later got doxed and his nudes were posted in Helldump. I can’t remember his name. And yes, H Alloy is a chill person.
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That's Mccaine. Posted a ton back when LF was still around.
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cloudchamber posted:That's Mccaine. Posted a ton back when LF was still around. Yes, thank you!
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StrixNebulosa posted:What does this forum think of Barbara Tuchman? I got Guns of August as a Christmas gift amongst other things and I want to hear what goons think of it. Ask the military history thread in A/T.
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re: Tuchman: A Distant Mirror isn't very good. i mean it's a good read, but the scholarship isn't very good. i don't know anything about the state of first world war historiography, but a quick glance at wikipedia indicates that at least a few scholars have criticized Guns (which isn't terribly surprising, as it's over fifty years old by now). still, it's a good book and an important one in terms of 20th century culture and historiography and unless you really want to get into the scholarly weeds i dont think it's going to lead you astray on much. read The Guns of August is what i'm saying. dont read A Distant Mirror
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I wouldn't rate Guns of August either. She basically ignores the Balkans when talking about the origins of the conflict even though recent historians, like Christopher Clarke, have put it at the centre of books on the outbreak of war.
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  now thats what I call immersion, thanks thriftbooks
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 hey, I'd like to do an Let's Read of the book "The Legend Of The 10 Elemental Masters". i'm wondering though if audio-only readthroughs are welcome here, or if i'd need to also transcribe everything for such a reading. thanks! crime weed fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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I have an IPAD but it is old and whenever I am on it I end up getting distracted by skype or go on the internet. I loved reading real books but my room is literally full of books and I don't have any more space left. Eh guys what is a good kindle reader for a beginner of electronic readers? I see there are many different versions and they cost wildly different.
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Ulio posted:I have an IPAD but it is old and whenever I am on it I end up getting distracted by skype or go on the internet. The Paperwhite is the best bang for your buck. The Voyage has some neat additional features, but you'll have to decide if they're worth the premium. The Oasis looks loving stupid and costs too much, but maybe that's your thing, I dunno. Buy a Paperwhite is what I'm saying.
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Ornamented Death posted:The Paperwhite is the best bang for your buck. Ya thanks I saw the comparision chart on Amazon and seems like your right. Kindle Paperweight seems the most standard version. Is the regular Kindle just bad? It shows it has worse resolution and no built in light/led. Also is Amazon Prime worth it? It says you have a thousand free books monthly if you get it are those good books generally speaking? I might get Prime anyway because the video service has some shows I want so this would kill two birds with 1 stone.
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Ulio posted:Ya thanks I saw the comparision chart on Amazon and seems like your right. Kindle Paperweight seems the most standard version. Is the regular Kindle just bad? It shows it has worse resolution and no built in light/led. The inbuilt light is worth the price difference
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Regular Kindle is perfectly fine if you really want an e-reader but are on a tight budget. However, I lost my vanilla Kinle a couple years ago and replaced it with a Paperwhite and it is a noticeable improvement for not that much more money. Highly recommend the Paperwhite.
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Alright I will get the paperweight. Is prime worth taking if you are only taking it for kindle and not videos?
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No not really, unless you have a free trial to get the device quicker, they have a seperate kindle unlimited that in theory gives you free access to a huge chunk of their books, however in reality those books are the ones that cost £1 each and unless you read 8 of them a month it’s not worth it. .
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It's cheap romance/thriller/paranormal bargain bin type stuff for the most part. Don't forget to check your library's ebook catalogue when you get it as you can easily check out a lot of books online
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Does the paperwhite have buttons?
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No, sadly not. I have the voyage and it has buttons, but kind of odd touch screen ones you lightly press and then it vibrates. The oasis is the one with proper physical buttons.
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