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buglord posted:Speaking of horror, are there any legitimately horrifying books out there? Like the type that have you keep all the lights on when you're home alone? I've been chasing a horror high that I haven't gotten since the videogame Stalker Call of Pripyat. m.r. james
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Any good books about normal life set in the mid to late 90s? I am nostalgic for reading about life before cell phones etc. don’t really care about genre. Hope this makes sense.
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Empress Brosephine posted:Any good books about normal life set in the mid to late 90s? I am nostalgic for reading about life before cell phones etc. don’t really care about genre. Don Dellillo's White Noise is somehow the ninetiest of books (although written in 1985) Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Sep 30, 2018 |
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Empress Brosephine posted:Any good books about normal life set in the mid to late 90s? I am nostalgic for reading about life before cell phones etc. don’t really care about genre. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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I killed the history book thread by asking this, but are there any good histories of the East India trading companies out there?
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Solitair posted:Is The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich an accurate and well-written history book? I've heard it is, but someone I got in an argument with said it backed up her assertion that the Nazis were socialist at one point, a claim I've seen debunked multiple times. Its mostly, it does have some bad points not the nazis as socialists one though. This thread gets into the details but the big problem is when Shirer gets into the pathology and the German identity stuff he does a lot of conjecture. The events are generally good the conclusions presented aren't great. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/284ms6/why_is_william_shirers_the_rise_and_fall_of_the/
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I really like Salinger’s Nine Stories. Any other similar collections by other authors?
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Kestral posted:Thread, please recommend me books that remind you of A Night in the Lonesome October by Zelazny, From the Dust Returned by Bradbury, or The Graveyard Book by Gaiman. These are books that fall into what I can only term the "Halloween Cozy" category: spooky October-y trappings, sometimes a bit unsettling or chilling but rarely actually frightening, often with kids as protagonists. Something Wicked This Way Comes is in this category, but right on the edge, because there's little if any levity to it, and the touchstones I've got for this weird category tend to be a bit lighter. I'm glad you posted this because I would actually love something like Something Wicked This Way Comes. It was my ideal October book. Last year I read Pet Sematary which was also great. I think I would prefer to be unsettled. Out of the books you listed which was your favorite?
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snackcakes posted:I'm glad you posted this because I would actually love something like Something Wicked This Way Comes. It was my ideal October book. Last year I read Pet Sematary which was also great. I think I would prefer to be unsettled. Out of the books you listed which was your favorite? Regarding Something Wicked This Way Comes, there are two other "magic carnival" books I'd consider comparable -- Tom Reamy's Blind Voices and Charles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao.
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something wicked this way comes is the perfect october book. i want to roll around in it. i want to rip out each individual page and eat it, slowly, savoring the texture.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:something wicked this way comes is the perfect october book. i want to roll around in it. i want to rip out each individual page and eat it, slowly, savoring the texture. I was looking for something spooky to read for Halloween-time. Sold!
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snackcakes posted:I'm glad you posted this because I would actually love something like Something Wicked This Way Comes. It was my ideal October book. Last year I read Pet Sematary which was also great. I think I would prefer to be unsettled. Out of the books you listed which was your favorite? Late to this reply, but while none of those books are nearly as unsettling as Something Wicked or Pet Sematary, you might try The Talisman by King and Straub.
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Kestral posted:Thread, please recommend me books that remind you of A Night in the Lonesome October by Zelazny, From the Dust Returned by Bradbury, or The Graveyard Book by Gaiman. These are books that fall into what I can only term the "Halloween Cozy" category: spooky October-y trappings, sometimes a bit unsettling or chilling but rarely actually frightening, often with kids as protagonists. Something Wicked This Way Comes is in this category, but right on the edge, because there's little if any levity to it, and the touchstones I've got for this weird category tend to be a bit lighter. The Robert Heinlein short story collection The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag which includes the novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag and the short stories All You Zombies and They.
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Can anyone recommend, or even know of, some english books covering non-US/British investigative reporting on historical origins of current events or niche subjects? I know that isn't clear and very broad, so let me offer a few examples. 1) I recently picked up Poison Squad by Deborah Blum, which is a history of the Harvey Wiley who was a central figure in establishing the FDA along with a whole bunch of other crazy stuff I never knew about. It's a great book, highly recommend for anyone interested in how "Food Safety" became a thing in the US or has an interest in food science/chemistry. Anyways, it made me think about how food safety grew in other parts of the world, France, Germany, China, Japan, India, etc and my search skills have not been up to the task of finding anything. 2) Something I got from a podcast (Reveal) yesterday that led me down a rabbit hole for the past 24 hours was a brief history of repeat offender laws and their exploitation in New Orleans. Which does tie in with the greater issues, but it made me think about how India probably has a very similar sort of problem on local levels with religion, but it's hard to find anything in English that isn't short form stories about current events or the broader nation-wide problem without any real local context. 3) Another nugget from a podcast (BBC's Real Story) was someone mentioning that Norway had built their social welfare system on the back of maritime trade, prior to the oil money. I'd be interesting to read up about how Norway grew between Independence and becoming stable, financially, with the rise of oil and natural gas.
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Oct 8, 2018 01:34
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I feel bad for never reading Tom sawyer and Huckleberry Finn...until now and its the perfect season for it. Becky and Tom in school slays me.
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Oct 8, 2018 05:25
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I'd like to add Jose Saramago's Blindness for horror recommendations. It's not the spooky ghosts or monsters sort of horror just the immensely disturbing humanity sure can be awful kind.
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Junkie Disease posted:I feel bad for never reading Tom sawyer and Huckleberry Finn...until now and its the perfect season for it. Mark Twain is good. His books on river boat piloting and travel are where he really shines imo
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Can anyone recommend a good biography on Michael Faraday. A fictionalized version of his life is also fine.
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Does anyone know any good books about American folklore and/or UFOlogy?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Does anyone know any good books about American folklore and/or UFOlogy? UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth by Saler Ziegler and Moore
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I'm looking to get my brother something spooky for his birthday - it's near halloween - so I'm looking at wayne barlowe's inferno or brushfire. Since they're a roughly similar price, anyone have any opinions on which one I should get him? or any similar coffee table books I should get him instead?
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I just read The Stranger Beside me and now I want a scary rear end murder mystery book to read. I've read American Psycho and The Silence of the Labs series. Anyone have any recommendations?
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Happy Hedonist posted:I just read The Stranger Beside me and now I want a scary rear end murder mystery book to read. I've read American Psycho and The Silence of the Labs series. Anyone have any recommendations? If you want scary murder story check out the current Book of the Month it's nonfiction!
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:If you want scary murder story check out the current Book of the Month I was actually eyeing it on Amazon, so hell yea. Sounds fun.
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Finishing "The Spy who came in from the cold" and really digging it. Is there a good order for Lecarre books?
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Lockback posted:Finishing "The Spy who came in from the cold" and really digging it. Is there a good order for Lecarre books? For the Smiley books, chronological, although A Murder of Quality is a fairly straight-forward murder mystery and doesn't feature the Circus/espionage, so I'm not sure if it's essential reading or not.
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Lockback posted:Finishing "The Spy who came in from the cold" and really digging it. Is there a good order for Lecarre books? I loved The Constant Gardener. gently caress the movie and the haters.
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Read the Divine Cities books by Robert Jackson Bennett and enjoyed them immensely. Anyone have recs for fantasy adventures of the spy/detective type? Preferably with lots of badass ladies and no weird misogyny hour.
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coolusername posted:Anyone have recs for fantasy adventures of the spy/detective type? P Tim Powers' Declare is the big one.
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coolusername posted:Read the Divine Cities books by Robert Jackson Bennett and enjoyed them immensely. Anyone have recs for fantasy adventures of the spy/detective type? Preferably with lots of badass ladies and no weird misogyny hour. Randell Garrett's Lord Darcy Investigates
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Looking for some books on anarchism for someone who doesn't know a whole lot about it but is interested in the subject. Any good essential readings or places to start?
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coolusername posted:Read the Divine Cities books by Robert Jackson Bennett and enjoyed them immensely. Anyone have recs for fantasy adventures of the spy/detective type? Preferably with lots of badass ladies and no weird misogyny hour. e: Also, The Traitor Baru Cormorant.
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Kvlt! posted:Looking for some books on anarchism for someone who doesn't know a whole lot about it but is interested in the subject. Any good essential readings or places to start? Once you get a few names of books, you'll find you can get a lot of them for free from various online repositories! Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin is like a main stay whenever this question get's asked. Anarchy in Action by Colin Ward is also supposedly good. Both of those you can get for free as PDF's or read online for free at some Marxist themed websites, no  at all.
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OscarDiggs posted:Once you get a few names of books, you'll find you can get a lot of them for free from various online repositories! I'll check those out, thank you!
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Kvlt! posted:Looking for some books on anarchism for someone who doesn't know a whole lot about it but is interested in the subject. Any good essential readings or places to start? Anything by David Graeber for modern anthropology stuff. I’d start with The Utopia of Rules because it’s super accessible, but Debt: The First 5000 Years is great, and I really enjoyed The Democracy Project. I’ve been working my way through Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman as well. I’d recommend skipping the biographical sketch.
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Can someone recommend me some good downers? I'm looking for something bleak and lonely, preferably in an everyday modern setting.
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Meldonox posted:Can someone recommend me some good downers? I'm looking for something bleak and lonely, preferably in an everyday modern setting. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene Very Catholicism though.
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Dear American Airlines: A Novel - by Jonathan Miles Or Ham on Rye, but it's not very modern if I get your meaning correctly. If modern is not so much a requirement Journey to the end of the night - Céline is about as bleak as a book gets and it's awesome.
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repent and submit to rome, hieronymous
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Meldonox posted:Can someone recommend me some good downers? I'm looking for something bleak and lonely, preferably in an everyday modern setting. The Pale King
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