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Is there a general rule for how a typed page of text in A4 correlates, on average, to a page of a B-format (129 mm x 198 mm) paperback or a mass market paperback with the same text?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is there a general rule for how a typed page of text in A4 correlates, on average, to a page of a B-format (129 mm x 198 mm) paperback or a mass market paperback with the same text? Mass market paperbacks tend to run somewhere between 250-500 words per page (yes, I know, that's a wide range). If you are doublespacing A4, usually 250 words per page with a 12 point font. Singlespacing, around 500. So a typed page of A4 is roughly correlated with a page of a mass market paperback, but there's a massive room for variance.
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Sep 10, 2018 18:50
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Can anybody recommend a good translation of the Iliad and the odyssey that keeps the Greek names of the gods? I started on the Pope version and it was really well written but the Roman names just threw me right out
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Sep 16, 2018 04:51
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RandomFerret posted:Can anybody recommend a good translation of the Iliad and the odyssey that keeps the Greek names of the gods? I started on the Pope version and it was really well written but the Roman names just threw me right out all of the modern ones should use the greek names. afaik this forum is pretty evenly split on preferring the translation by Lattimore vs the one by Fagles, but neither one will do you wrong. here's a good New Yorker article on the differences between some of the major translations if you want to get into the weeds about it chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Sep 16, 2018 |
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Sep 16, 2018 05:12
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I just started Wild Cards and its my first fiction book i've read since sophomore year of highschool. Are enough people aware of this book in this subforum to make a thread for it? I just wanna hear the goons' hottest takes on this apparently super-long series. also the sex bits are really weird and I wish they'd stop.
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Sep 17, 2018 23:01
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buglord posted:I just started Wild Cards and its my first fiction book i've read since sophomore year of highschool. Are enough people aware of this book in this subforum to make a thread for it? I just wanna hear the goons' hottest takes on this apparently super-long series. There has already been a long and weird thread for that series. I'd be surprised if it's gone.
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Sep 17, 2018 23:16
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Franchescanado posted:There has already been a long and weird thread for that series. I'd be surprised if it's gone. thanks! i used Search the Forums and couldn't find anything.
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Sep 18, 2018 00:23
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buglord posted:thanks! i used Search the Forums and couldn't find anything. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3501532
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Sep 18, 2018 01:29
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"James Frey's 'Katerina' May Be the Worst Novel of the Year" here's a quote from another review quote:In one of my favourite passages he tells a woman: “Your pussy is the sweetest most delicious most magnificent most delirious most peaceful calming inviting exciting incredible absolutely awesome and amazing pussy that has ever been on this earth in the entire history of existence.” To which she bafflingly responds: “You are definitely going to be a famous writer someday.” chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Sep 19, 2018 |
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Sep 19, 2018 22:54
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Are there any goon-lead Goodreads groups? I'm surprised how....rough...the community is on this website.
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Sep 25, 2018 18:47
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Book Barn Goons. It’s pretty much dead.
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Sep 25, 2018 19:16
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Book Barn Goons. It’s pretty much dead. =( Unfortunately due to fears of doxxing it's hard to get a SA + Goodreads thing rolling.
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Sep 25, 2018 19:29
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:=( If it helps, it's very easy to change your name, pic and info so as to keep it doxx-free. Though I posted in it with my real name for over a year without issue.
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Sep 25, 2018 19:37
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Franchescanado posted:If it helps, it's very easy to change your name, pic and info so as to keep it doxx-free. Yeah, the issue is more that most people seem to use real names on Goodreads so there's a natural barrier to connecting up with an anonymous and controversial platform like SA. We don't see much of the doxxing problem in book barn because, lol, who reads books, but it's still a concern.
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Sep 25, 2018 19:44
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 Made me snicker on the book barn goon page.
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Sep 25, 2018 20:19
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Non-fic scares me more than fiction. The Best and The Brightest - the book about the Kennedy and Johnson people that bungled Vietnam, Private Empire - about Exxon Mobil, pretty much everything I’ve ever read about colonialism... e: wrong thread ee: returned post here because there are replies Take the plunge! Okay! fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Sep 25, 2018 |
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Sep 25, 2018 20:22
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I actually came to this subforum looking for fiction because I've read too much nonfiction lately. After a while, the plausible modern day horror and politics burnt me out hard. Like I'd rather have the implausible fear of some goat-bat swamp-monster killing random folks in a sleepy village instead of seeing war history repeat itself with jingo-nationalists at the helm.
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Sep 25, 2018 20:26
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buglord posted:I actually came to this subforum looking for fiction because I've read too much nonfiction lately. After a while, the plausible modern day horror and politics burnt me out hard. Like I'd rather have the implausible fear of some goat-bat swamp-monster killing random folks in a sleepy village instead of seeing war history repeat itself with jingo-nationalists at the helm. Well, you should read Blackwater then. Except maybe the monster is families?
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Sep 25, 2018 20:31
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Well, you should read Blackwater then. Except maybe the monster is families? I mean everyone should read Blackwater because it loving owns
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Well, you should read Blackwater then. Except maybe the monster is families? For a second I thought you meant the Jeremy Scahill book and I was like “how in God’s name would that help”
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Sep 25, 2018 20:49
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speaking of I need October suggestions and no we can't do Blackwater again
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Sep 25, 2018 20:54
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:speaking of I need October suggestions The Elementals obvs
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Sep 25, 2018 20:55
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The Elementals obvs This is an excellent suggestion. It's more spooky than Blackwater and quite a bit shorter but still excellent. I'd be very down for re-reading this because I went through it too fast last time and would like to digest it a little more. I wish there was an ebook version of A Night in the Lonesome October, I think that would be a decent BotM.
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Sep 25, 2018 21:03
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MockingQuantum posted:
Oh, we did that back in like 2014: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3669218&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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Sep 25, 2018 21:07
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh, we did that back in like 2014: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3669218&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 I can't exactly spam a thread in the archive with posts about how great Snuff is.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:speaking of I need October suggestions the elementals ray bradbury's something wicked this way comes e: night in the lonesome october chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Sep 26, 2018 |
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Sep 25, 2018 22:32
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 Found a picture of this subforum 
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:speaking of I need October suggestions Right now I'm leaning towards I'll be Gone in the Dark
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Right now I'm leaning towards I'll be Gone in the Dark do it
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Sep 29, 2018 21:38
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StrixNebulosa posted:
im reading poetry downloaded off of a russian botnet using a rooted kindle bought using bitcoin but the sentiment is the same
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jagstag posted:im reading poetry downloaded off of a russian botnet using a rooted kindle bought using bitcoin but the sentiment is the same ugh dad nobody cares
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Right now I'm leaning towards I'll be Gone in the Dark Do it, I would love to read it and discuss with TBB
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Who are the Shakespeares of other languages? That is, a writer who had a profound effect on the very language itself and whose works are still read, discussed, and performed (in the case of playwrites) today?
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regulargonzalez posted:Who are the Shakespeares of other languages? That is, a writer who had a profound effect on the very language itself and whose works are still read, discussed, and performed (in the case of playwrites) today? Dante Cervantes
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Rabindranath Tagore?
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Oct 1, 2018 22:33
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For Denmark it's Ludvig Holberg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Holberg
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I have a multi-part question/thoughts about characters in general. What elements make a strong protagonist? And when we typically refer to "strong" are we simply referring to the character's ability to be believable (which I would take to mean that they are well realized as human)? Or does the character's ability to entertain/engage the audience also have a role in this qualification? That would be kind of meta wouldn't it? Since it doesn't have to do with the actual creation but rather the perception of the creation. Furthermore, is there any value in adding an additional qualifier such as "What makes a strong female protagonist?" Are there appreciable differences in gender that the previous qualities would impose on a character? Does that depend on whether or not it's relevant to the character's story or development?
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Razzled posted:And when we typically refer to "strong" are we simply referring to the character's ability to be believable (which I would take to mean that they are well realized as human)? yes quote:Or does the character's ability to entertain/engage the audience also have a role in this qualification? no quote:Furthermore, is there any value in adding an additional qualifier such as "What makes a strong female protagonist?" Are there appreciable differences in gender that the previous qualities would impose on a character? yes quote:Does that depend on whether or not it's relevant to the character's story or development? no
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Razzled posted:I have a multi-part question/thoughts about characters in general. a 'strong protagonist' is a made up concept from the people who brought you sci fi books and tvtropes.com
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A human heart posted:a 'strong protagonist' is a made up concept from the people who brought you sci fi books and tvtropes.com no that's the people who co-opted "strong female protagonist" to mean "woman who acts like man"
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