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Ben Nevis posted:The library has a couple of these that look interesting. Any specific place to start or just go? A Heart so White is a good starting point. Or just dive in the trilogy Your Face Tomorrow - an honest-to-god spy novel hiding behind page-long sentences.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Hieronymous my pitch for jojo is it's a cliche fist of the north star ripoff until the author realizes he is gay and gives all the characters avant garde clothes and lithe sexy ghost slaves that have magic powers and who they often do glamour poses with At what point does the shift happen Because yeah the first episode seemed really just cliche boring anime FIGHTS also, mean to a dog But I'm totally down for glorious manly bros but I only have so much time
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Nov 29, 2018 21:09
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:At what point does the shift happen Skip to season 2 (stardust crusaders) and wiki phantom blood and battle tendency to see what you missed but mostly it's about gay vampires
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Nov 29, 2018 21:12
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Also when I say gay vampire I dont mean derogatory "lol twilight" gay but
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Nov 29, 2018 21:14
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The more I hear about JoJo and the more people try to sell it to me, it just sounds worse and worse.
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Nov 29, 2018 21:16
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Franchescanado posted:The more I hear about JoJo and the more people try to sell it to me, it just sounds worse and worse. Its anime dadaism
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Nov 29, 2018 21:19
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Its anime dadaism that's like most anime though, I mean, I tried to watch FLCL years ago and yeah, no Bebop was good though, it had a good dog, good music. Mel Mudkiper posted:Also when I say gay vampire I dont mean derogatory "lol twilight" gay but drat
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Nov 29, 2018 21:24
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The only anime anyone needs is Night Is Short Walk On Girl. Thank you end of discussion.
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Nov 29, 2018 21:25
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:that's like most anime though, I mean, I tried to watch FLCL years ago and yeah, no Mel, you say how dada is Jojo you say Well, I ask you Is the current protagonist a twink sailor with four testicles who has a magic ghost that steals things with bubbles answer 
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Nov 29, 2018 21:50
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Also when I say gay vampire I dont mean derogatory "lol twilight" gay but I am very conflicted right now. Have I accidentally been buying my 14 year old daughter the sex books?
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Nov 29, 2018 21:51
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I guess if the Lit thread likes Jojo I should read it???
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Nov 29, 2018 21:53
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learnincurve posted:I am very conflicted right now. Have I accidentally been buying my 14 year old daughter the sex books?   in all seriousness no they are not sex books, if anything it is probably the least explicitly sexual manga there is right now
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Nov 29, 2018 21:55
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Yay our carefully built bond of trust has not been broken.
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Nov 29, 2018 21:57
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let me tell you my opinions about anime here in tbb:
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Nov 29, 2018 22:05
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Burning Rain posted:let me tell you my opinions about anime here in tbb: technically they are bound as long form graphic novels in the US so Hieronymous says they count
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Nov 29, 2018 22:08
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Hardback as well. I’ll climb the hill that jo jo is a real book, because if it isn’t then my Beatrix Potter anthology is not either and that would be silly.
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Nov 29, 2018 22:12
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Mel Mudkiper posted:technically they are bound as long form graphic novels in the US so Hieronymous says they count Technically manga is allowed but yeah anime is off topic my bad ill move this thread to anime land i guess?
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Nov 29, 2018 22:13
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Quick, everyone join me in enjoying how ridiculous romance novels are!quote:New York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill continues her sexy Deadly Angels series, as a Viking vangel’s otherworldly mission pairs him with a beautiful chef who whets his thousand-year-old appetite . . .
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Nov 29, 2018 22:20
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I respect romance novels as fiction more than most fiction in the same way I respect video nasties more than most movies. There is something dignified in being so unflinchingly meant for gratification and consumption
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Nov 29, 2018 22:33
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StrixNebulosa posted:Quick, everyone join me in enjoying how ridiculous romance novels are! Well, I don't know about y'all but I'm a-gonna go have a lie-down
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Nov 29, 2018 22:55
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Well, I don't know about y'all but I'm a-gonna go have a lie-down I genuinely don't know what the best thing about this is: - Cnut - It's the seventh in this series - The first few pages (in the amazon preview) are about how Cnut is fat and proud of it
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Nov 29, 2018 23:12
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StrixNebulosa posted:- The first few pages (in the amazon preview) are about how Cnut is fat and proud of it quote:lean, mean, vampire-devil fighting machine. I have so many questions.
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Nov 29, 2018 23:24
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Cnut is a perfectly normal name 
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Nov 30, 2018 06:22
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StrixNebulosa posted:- Cnut its pronounced canute and its a perfectly fine name for a viking
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Nov 30, 2018 06:58
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About 70 pages into Blood Meridian. a.) Wow. I mean wow. I love McCarthy's prose. b.) Holy gently caress. 
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There was a thread, Cormacian, albeit final and done now. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3503637 Still perhaps some may in time enjoy the interpretations of death and horrors and life and it, but not, who knows?
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Krankenstyle posted:There was a thread, Cormacian, albeit final and done now. Thanks! I did a quick scan of the past year or so of threads and didn't see anything. I'll give it a look later on.
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DrankSinatra posted:About 70 pages into Blood Meridian. Prepare yourself, because the ending to this book is amazing.
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Did anyone else read the Disney: A Twisted Tale books? I read one of them, Reflection (a what-if AU where in Mulan, Shang dies of his injuries after the avalanche, and Mulan goes into the Chinese afterlife accompanied by his Family Guardian to save him). It was really interesting, written by Elizabeth Lim. It portrayed the Chinese afterlife with some really interesting ideas, like the literal Mountain of Knives, and added some neat interactions with, for example, her ancestors reactions to her disguise as she inevitably runs into them. Of course Shang finds out her secret and gets pissy, but the interesting part is that his Guardian doesn't give a poo poo, or at least is faster to come around - it's only the world of the living that cares about your genitals, the demons and deities don't pay any mind to it. It also has a great sequence near the end that really plays into the title and the themes of the song that the book is named after. I thought it was a really cool book and plan on looking out for the others in the series.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Quick, everyone join me in enjoying how ridiculous romance novels are! Why do they have to travel to their present to gently caress, tho
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PenguinKnight posted:Why do they have to travel to their present to gently caress, tho Because then the ladies don't work as self-inserts for the reader and without that half the appeal is gone.
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Dec 3, 2018 03:37
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idk about that. if i were trapped in the past with a hot vampire dude, i’d be like “finally, time to bone”
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PenguinKnight posted:idk about that. if i were trapped in the past with a hot vampire dude, i’d be like “finally, time to bone” No hot running water for clean up, I guess?
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yeah that’d suck
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StrixNebulosa posted:I genuinely don't know what the best thing about this is: Krankenstyle posted:Cnut is a perfectly normal name sounds like this name is a tought cnut to crack 
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Mel Mudkiper posted:sounds like this name is a tought cnut to crack Oh it's good enough to tide him over
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Bought Ship of Theseus a week or so ago and finally took it from its packaging and opened it. WTF. I see now why it's not on Audible. I'm kind of intimidated to even start it.
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regulargonzalez posted:Bought Ship of Theseus a week or so ago and finally took it from its packaging and opened it. WTF. I see now why it's not on Audible. I'm kind of intimidated to even start it. It's not quite as tough as it looks. Roll with it and it will eventually start making sense. Just remember, the color of the ink in the marginalia has significance...
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I read through the preface. I'm debating just reading through the book itself and then going back through the annotations vs. doing it all at once. And I presume the color of the ink indicates the timeline?
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the thing about Ship of Theseus is that once you finish it you're not even sure if its the same book you started
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