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Hieronymous Alloy posted:What's Westing Game? Well well well look who never went to fifth grade
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Jul 30, 2018 16:05
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also I will pre-emptively spoil the westing game because its a childrens book if you choose it
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Jul 30, 2018 16:07
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Well well well look who never went to fifth grade I no joke had a serious problem in grade school where I was always reading waaaay over grade level but there were "write a report" requirements to get class credit for each book and it's a hell of a lot easier to write a book report about Clifford the Big Red Dog than to write about Watership Down Long story short everyone else got to go to an ice cream party for book readers, except me I also never won spelling bees because the teachers would give me crazy hard words to make it "fair" In short I was the Harrison Bergeron of children's books
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Jul 30, 2018 16:13
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I no joke had a serious problem in grade school where I was always reading waaaay over grade level but there were "write a report" requirements to get class credit for each book and it's a hell of a lot easier to write a book report about Clifford the Big Red Dog than to write about Watership Down I constantly underachieved because I was just too smart - a man in terrible denial
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Jul 30, 2018 16:18
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Look, the important thing here is how long my many enemies have been plotting against me
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Jul 30, 2018 16:19
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Also I just found out Beverly Cleary is somehow still alive
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Jul 30, 2018 16:22
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meanwhile, as a consummate man of letters, I was racking up that book it pizza with a flurry of animorphs
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Jul 30, 2018 16:23
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Westing Game is a legit good choice. If you don't want YA, then Wolf in White Van is the best book I read in 2017.
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Jul 30, 2018 16:36
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Bilirubin posted:Like actual dinosaurs? Steve Brusatte's book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs has been getting decent press. Have not read it myself though Hey, this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you. Actual dinosaurs are cool and hopefully this book will be just as neat.
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Jul 30, 2018 16:43
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regulargonzalez posted:Westing Game is a legit good choice. If you don't want YA, then Wolf in White Van is the best book I read in 2017. We've had kinda literary stuff for a few months now so I'm kinda thinking something lighter. Maybe I'll go with All Creatures Great and Small, it's a perfect happy book
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Jul 30, 2018 16:47
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The collected poems of Catullus for botm
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Jul 30, 2018 17:05
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CestMoi posted:The collected poems of Catullus for botm Why not Martial quote:"Rumor tells, Chiona, that you are a virgin, quote:With your giant nose and cock Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Jul 30, 2018 |
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Jul 30, 2018 17:12
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regulargonzalez posted:Wolf in White Van is the best book I read in 2017. Then I guess you should... *puts on sunglasses* ....have read a second book *cigarette smoke spells out Johnny*
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Jul 30, 2018 18:10
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Why not Martial Still pretty good for a young footballer tbh
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Jul 30, 2018 22:33
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One volume of Outlaws of the Marsh for the next four months
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Jul 31, 2018 05:04
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StrixNebulosa posted:Hey, this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you. Actual dinosaurs are cool and hopefully this book will be just as neat. Well LMK if it doesn't work via PMs, as I might have some other suggestions, but that one is the most recent.
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Jul 31, 2018 06:53
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Re: botm Night Film by Marisha Pessl is a book I would enjoy discussing with other people who read it
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Jul 31, 2018 08:17
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Rand Brittain posted:What are some good options for soothing books about nothing? I really enjoy the parts at the beginning of murder mysteries when they aren’t murdering yet and just spend ten pages on how they run a hotel. I could use some books that do that for the whole run. Crocodile on the sandbank by Elizabeth Peters. First one on the Peabody mysteries, very funny series gently follows a family of archeologists through the years. The murders are there to further the overarching plot (you have to read them in order) and the secondary story of Egypt both in the past and as it changes under colonialism through the wars.
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Jul 31, 2018 09:30
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:Re: botm I like Night Film a lot, but it's not a good fit for BotM. Too long, for one, the print version is upwards of 600 pages. Also I doubt it would pull in either the people who only do the casual or pulpy BotMs or the people who only do the literary ones.
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Jul 31, 2018 20:02
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:
Hahaha. Has The Lathe of Heaven ever been BOTM? I'm about due for a reread...
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Jul 31, 2018 23:55
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My brother's birthday is coming up and he's been fascinated with ancient mysteries and technology lately. He's been watching a lot of documentaries and youtube seminars and such. His interests include ancient middle eastern mythology, the pyramids, and people in modern day who figure out stuff like moving giant rocks by hand using tiny stones underneath them and other physics or magnetism tricks. Stuff like this on ancientexplorers.com I guess. He absolutely has no interest or patience in the ancient aliens stuff and gets in arguments with my nearly-ancient-himself grandfather over it. The only book he currently has that is remotely in that mold is Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan but he's had that since the 90s. For fiction he was obsessed with Malazan when books 7-10 were new. Lately he's only read Sanderson's Way of Kings series (dislikes Mistborn), and he's so mad at Martin and Rothfuss that I don't think he'll read anything they ever get around to publishing again. Can anyone recommend anything? There's a ton of well rated stuff on amazon but if possible I'd rather hear from someone than guess. If I can't find anything good I'll have to go the troll route and wrap up my complete Stargate SG1 dvd cube.
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Aug 1, 2018 03:09
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Any good ~20-30 hour audiobook recommendations? I'm driving halfway across the country this weekend and need something to keep me off the median. Last time I did a big drive like this I re-read/listened to the Baroque cycle which is great and I might do it again but I may want to go with something new instead. I'm almost done with the second Malazan book so I could continue those. I've liked them so far but haven't really loved them. I've read the first third of the black company series so I could continue those too but I started losing interest. I'm not ready for another read of Infinite Jest, especially with the audiobook nonsense with the endnotes. It's too soon for more Cormac McCarthy or Neal Stephenson. I've recently reread Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell so that's out too. I like Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora a lot but sadly Red Mars didn't do it for me for some reason, I could give it another try but I'm skeptical. I have yet to finish Mieville's Iron Council even though I loved the other two. Embassytown was pretty boss too. Maybe The City & the City? Any suggestions would be appreciated, I've been lurking this thread for many years and it's been wildly helpful at pointing me towards stuff I actually like (Blindsight was great) so thanks for that!
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Aug 1, 2018 04:01
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The moonstone by Wilkie Collins.  Genesis for detective and suspense novels but outstanding in it’s own right, you can play spot the influence on any novel written since, in part because of his use of multiple narrators - It’s not boring or turgid either which was the big reason it was so influential. His follow up novel the woman in white was the first sensational novel, but after that he kind of ran out of steam.
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Aug 1, 2018 08:19
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Burke posted:I'm almost done with the second Malazan book so I could continue those. I've liked them so far but haven't really loved them. The third Malazon book, Memories of Ice, is widely considered to be one of the best of them. If you've liked the first two, it's worth a shot.
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Aug 1, 2018 09:20
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Burke posted:Any good ~20-30 hour audiobook recommendations? I'm driving halfway across the country this weekend and need something to keep me off the median. Last time I did a big drive like this I re-read/listened to the Baroque cycle which is great and I might do it again but I may want to go with something new instead. Vandermeer’s Borne, Children of Time by Tchaikovsky, maybe Seveneves.
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Aug 1, 2018 10:49
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bagrada posted:For fiction he was obsessed with Malazan when books 7-10 were new. Lately he's only read Sanderson's Way of Kings series (dislikes Mistborn), and he's so mad at Martin and Rothfuss that I don't think he'll read anything they ever get around to publishing again. Maybe Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy? Good, grimdark fantasy (but not as grimdark as Malazan) and it's complete, so no waiting around for the next book. Burke posted:Any good ~20-30 hour audiobook recommendations? The follow up to Blindsight, Echopraxia, is a 12.5hr audio book. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like either his newest book, Freeze Frame Revolution, or his older Rifters trilogy have audiobook versions listed on Amazon but I don't have Audible to double check.
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Aug 1, 2018 14:16
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Burke posted:Any good ~20-30 hour audiobook recommendations? I'm driving halfway across the country this weekend and need something to keep me off the median. Last time I did a big drive like this I re-read/listened to the Baroque cycle which is great and I might do it again but I may want to go with something new instead. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, its one of the best blends of genre I've ever read. It goes from Melvillian travellogue to the post apocalypse. The book does incredible things with structure and the audiobook has a bunch of different narrators that all do an amazing job.
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Great suggestions, thanks folks! I've read a bunch of them (Children of Time was amazing) but Cloud Atlas is an interesting idea. Been on my list for a while. Hopefully the movie didn't ruin the book too much for me. I'm glad to hear that the Malazan series keeps being good. I keep listening to it on planes and dozing so I wind up having to go back fairly often. Maybe that's why I'm struggling with it a bit. It is very good so far and the voice actor for the audiobooks is superb.
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Lawen posted:Maybe Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy? Good, grimdark fantasy (but not as grimdark as Malazan) and it's complete, so no waiting around for the next book. Thanks I think he may have read either those or Best Served Cold, I'll have to ask. I checked to see if I've missed any books since reading those myself and it looks like Abercrombie moved into YA.
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Burke posted:Any good ~20-30 hour audiobook recommendations? I'm driving halfway across the country this weekend and need something to keep me off the median. Last time I did a big drive like this I re-read/listened to the Baroque cycle which is great and I might do it again but I may want to go with something new instead. Blackwater trilogy
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Junkie Disease posted:Blackwater trilogy I made it through the first third of the trip finishing up Deadhouse Gates. It got a lot more engrossing in the last half and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to starting book 3 on the drive tomorrow.
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Aug 5, 2018 03:32
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McDowell's Blackwater Its wonderful
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Yeah, Malcolm McDowell's Blackwater isn't a trilogy it's a sextet
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Aug 5, 2018 04:52
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Junkie Disease posted:McDowell's Blackwater That did seem the more likely one. I haven't done much southern gothic but I think I could dig it. Thanks!
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Aug 5, 2018 05:01
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, Malcolm McDowell's Blackwater isn't a trilogy it's a sextet Michael lol
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Aug 5, 2018 15:42
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Clearly they mean to be reading the epic southern gothic sextet by famed Doobie Brother Michael McDonald, duh
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Aug 5, 2018 16:09
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MockingQuantum posted:Clearly they mean to be reading the epic southern gothic sextet by famed Doobie Brother Michael McDonald, duh Any books read aloud by Joe Don Baker?
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I just finished John Fowles' The Magus and liked it a lot. I'd like to read something else in that vein of eerie trippiness, maybe with more of a supernatural edge to it and/or a slightly more comprehensible plot.
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Tom Yum posted:I just finished John Fowles' The Magus and liked it a lot. I'd like to read something else in that vein of eerie trippiness, maybe with more of a supernatural edge to it and/or a slightly more comprehensible plot. gustav meyrink's the golem e: giorgio de maria's twenty days of turin chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Aug 9, 2018 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:
This sounds like exactly what I'm looking for, thanks!
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