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Mel Mudkiper posted:the thing about Ship of Theseus is that once you finish it you're not even sure if its the same book you started booo
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Dropping this little nugget I saw posted in a FB group today because I feel some of you will get a kick out of it.quote:For the first time in my life, I have failed to finish reading a book purely because the content was too much for me. I expected De Sade's 120 Days of Sodom to be quaintly erotic, like Fanny Hill, but I have never read such filth. Can anyone explain why it's so famous and still in print? I couldn't find anything that made it seem worthwhile.
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Ornamented Death posted:Dropping this little nugget I saw posted in a FB group today because I feel some of you will get a kick out of it. That's hilarious
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Ah, yes, the famously quaintly erotic 120 Days of Sodom
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I want to meet the grandchild or co-worker who knew the lady liked 50 shades of grey and pulled off this not so subtle troll.
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learnincurve posted:I want to meet the grandchild or co-worker who knew the lady liked 50 shades of grey and pulled off this not so subtle troll. One of the weirder things about this is that the FB group it was posted to is focused on horror. And it was a guy that posted.
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Hey, I don't come around this way often, so I'm posing this question here. I'm nearing the end of writing my first book, a horror novel currently around 100k words long (before editing/pruning). Have any goons gotten their books published via traditional methods? How does that work, exactly? Do you have to know someone "on the inside" to really stand a chance? Also, how does advertising get handled? If there's already a thread for this type of question tucked away somewhere, a link would be super appreciated. Ty!
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UWBW posted:Hey, I don't come around this way often, so I'm posing this question here. Go to the Creative Convention subforum.
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UWBW posted:Hey, I don't come around this way often, so I'm posing this question here. There are a few authors that I am aware of that have accounts on SA, but only GeneralBattuta actually posts. (In the Scifi&Fantasy thread.) But yeah, Creative Convention, the Fiction Writing Advice thread.
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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.
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I used some of the money I got for Christmas to buy a bunch of cat cozy mystery books.    And some cat-adjacent cozy mysteries.  I think I may have a problem.
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Foundryside is pretty good so far.
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https://twitter.com/Lubchansky/status/1081097326289190912
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The Grey posted:I've read Neal Stephanson's Snowcrash and Diamond Age, and really enjoyed each.
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I'm currently reading Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show, and I'm pretty sure this is the horniest book I've ever read.
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Fat Cat Takes the Cake is a book wherein the main character successfully gets the person who designed her store's website to hack into the e-mail account of a dead guy whose information they know nothing about, no idea what his online presence was, no idea what his e-mail was, no idea what domain he used, no idea about anything relating to the guy, and it worked and they successfully managed to pull up some e-mails that are actually just text messages treated like e-mails. https://pastebin.com/LA89mZAt I'm not even mad. I love this kinda poo poo. I gotta know. Will they successfully stop the evil underhanded schemes of some old dudes who wanna buy other old peoples' houses for super cheap so they can turn the area into an apartment complex? Will the main character's grandma win the local batter battle baking contest? Will the main character continue to complain about fermented quinoa sprouts while going on not-dates with a guy who won't stop talking about the health benefits of fermented quinoa sprouts? Will she continue to see this guy on her not-dates even though she's currently with another guy? Will anybody question why there have been no less than 5 high profile murders in this small dinky town of Dinkytown, Minnesota, where a particularly fat, orange tabby was found next to 3 of the bodies which were also coincidentally next to 3 forms of food that a cat should probably not be eating? Will anyone tell the author that she shouldn't include a recipe for a cat treat that involves feeding cream cheese to your cat? Will anybody actually make the recipes that are in the back of the book that are so important to the plot that they need to keep stopping to remind me of that the batter battle will be happening soon and that they hope this very good and original recipe will win??? Oh and I guess maybe we'll find out who killed the victim and why but  that's not so important
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Franchescanado posted:I'm currently reading Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show, and I'm pretty sure this is the horniest book I've ever read. That was in a list of books for a free reading assignment in my junior year of high school for English III. I was working as the projectionist at my local movie theatre at the time and figured it was about movies, so I picked it. It was not about movies.
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Franchescanado posted:I'm currently reading Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show, and I'm pretty sure this is the horniest book I've ever read. Have you read Tom Robbins? Any Tom Robbins at all?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Have you read Tom Robbins? Any Tom Robbins at all? oh is that why all the hippies like to read him?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Have you read Tom Robbins? Any Tom Robbins at all? No, not yet. I have a few of them on my shelf to read. I wasn't aware that he'd be similar, but it's not surprising with some of the titles he picks.
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Franchescanado posted:No, not yet. I have a few of them on my shelf to read. I wasn't aware that he'd be similar, but it's not surprising with some of the titles he picks. I associate him very strongly with the 1990s.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I associate him very strongly with the 1990s. and Deadheads
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> orders a trilogy > the books are shipped separately > books 2 and 3 will arrive first 
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My dad: you must read this Kate Mosse trilogy, here take this Me: it’s the third one My dad: oh you will have to buy the other two yourself
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learnincurve posted:My dad: you must read this Kate Mosse trilogy, here take this ughhhh That's up there with finding books 2+3 in a bookstore but not the first one.
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At a local county library I frequent, it's almost guaranteed that any middlingly popular book trilogy/series will be missing the first book, since the series is popular enough that the first book will get damaged/lost over the years, but often not popular enough to justify buying a brand new copy every time it happens (at least at the criminal rates that libraries get charged when they buy direct).
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There's nothing quite like sitting in a traditional, warm, busy pub, having a drink and reading a book while picking up snatches of conversation as you smile to yourself over the humourous little moments in the story. It's the best mix of being anonymous, with no-one to bother you and your solitary time while also having a hint of sociability to it.
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You guys need to watch this hour and a half long book review. It has the most amazing twist at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgMr0JcYJ4
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Mrenda posted:There's nothing quite like sitting in a traditional, warm, busy pub, having a drink and reading a book while picking up snatches of conversation as you smile to yourself over the humourous little moments in the story. It's the best mix of being anonymous, with no-one to bother you and your solitary time while also having a hint of sociability to it. I used to really enjoy this but now everyone's on devices and nobody can tell you're reading a book, they just think you're on facebook also I can't judge people by their book covers any more lose-lose
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I used to really enjoy this but now everyone's on devices and nobody can tell you're reading a book, they just think you're on facebook That's pretty much why I've never tried reading Ulysses. I don't want to be seen with it in public.
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Mrenda posted:That's pretty much why I've never tried reading Ulysses. I don't want to be seen with it in public. that's dumb as hell
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I read Infinite Jest in a coffee shop wearing a tweed blazer what is this poo poo also what the gently caress is trigger warning
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quote:JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE OTHERS FEAR TO TREAD. it should unironically be the next botm
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author of that book: god I hope people don't miss the themes
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I kind of appreciate how horny The Last Picture Show was. It manages to show many different angles of human expression through sexual intercourse--as a tool of control, as a way to combat boredom, as an expression of romance, as a way to fulfill emotional dependence, as a perfunctory action, as spiritual or societal rebellion, etc. I think it's a little too pessimistic in that everyone's sexual maturation (or lack thereof) destroys them. While I think that it's portrayal of women is lovely--they are either manipulative, selfish and obsessed with status (Jacy, Lois), off-puttingly dependent/needy (Ruth), mother figures (Genevieve), or sex workers with discouraging descriptors--the men are actually worse. Sonny and Duane are considered handsome, but they're pretty lovely people, but at least they aren't a homophobic closeted-homosexual molester (Coach Popper), a willfully obtuse cuck (Gene), a child molester (Joe Bob), or any of the countless lovely fathers or rednecks or the preppy kids. Hell, Sam the Lion is revealed to be a genius of love, even. Despite all the toxic masculinity and hypocrisy, the book seems pretty comfortable with vilifying the women while kinda chuckling away the horrible men. Also the normalization of bestiality was bizarre, to say the least. I couldn't help but keep being reminded that one of my high school girlfriends read this book during her senior year(?). I remember her describing it to me with repulsion and confusion. I think it's a bad choice for a high school literature course, and I'm surprised that her school, which is a prestigious private academy, taught it. I don't know if I can say that I liked it overall, but I'm glad I finally read it, if that makes any sense. I'm excited to watch the lauded film adaptation, which seems to have changed a lot of details (the year it takes place, the name of the town, characters, etc.), and I assume, plot points.
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I was actually pretty happy to finally devote all my concentration from TLPS's horniness to get to some real fun literary adventures of One Hundred Years of Solitude, only to immediately start the chapter where all the women are horny for a well-endowed teenager.
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More like 100 Years of Banging.
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Franchescanado posted:
Lots of times high school reading lists will deliberately choose books that have really good movies just so they can then watch the film in class and the students can do compare/contrast essays.
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edit: resolved
actionjackson fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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