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i just got sacked again and i am feeling at my most ligottish, and when i am feeling ligottish i think about my father and his nonsense
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 04:26 |
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what if I do the same thing again, maybe the results will be different this time. seems you would have more luck in having your dad 'discover' a book you think he would like rather than gifting it to him.
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 06:27 |
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Cyberdud posted:I had a weird streak where i was interested in the concept of copying one's mind into another body after playing a specific video game a while ago (I assume you'll figure out which one at the end of this post). So i went looking for books that tackle this concept in different ways. Have just read the book thanks to your recommendation. Felt more like a mystery than horror, the clones were all at peace and basically avoided any body horror, even the dude who wasn't a clone. Book owned, thanks for mentioning it.
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 21:37 |
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Koburn posted:what if I do the same thing again, maybe the results will be different this time. dad has always gifted me books so i just want to return the favour whenever my brother and i went to his house for summer holidays, he would give me a "christmas" present of a retired library book from the library where he worked, and would encourage me to read it as quickly as possible so he could take it back and then give it as a "christmas" present to my brother. that's how i developed my incredible speed-reading skills, trying to read while dad hovered around the door going "are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet??" taught me to churn through a medium-length novel in like an hour
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 23:44 |
fauna posted:dammit i believe in the power of love A horrifying short story, right in this very thread!
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 23:46 |
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fauna posted:dammit i believe in the power of love Skyscraper posted:A horrifying short story, right in this very thread! yeah uh, that doesn't sound like a gift to me, that sounds like hell
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# ? Dec 16, 2019 23:52 |
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fauna posted:dammit i believe in the power of love Does your dad like Something Wicked this way Comes?
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 01:07 |
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fauna posted:dammit i believe in the power of love you developed a good skill but an even better one might have been learning to say "gently caress off dad"
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 01:44 |
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you're all mad, my dad is a pristine beautiful creature
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# ? Dec 17, 2019 01:53 |
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Limited edition hardcovers are the new author mill/vanity publishing. You get a small press author nobody reads and do a limited edition of 200 copies, sell 20 to their friends and family and you already broke even, the rest is profit.
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# ? Dec 21, 2019 01:49 |
ravenkult posted:Limited edition hardcovers are the new author mill/vanity publishing. You get a small press author nobody reads and do a limited edition of 200 copies, sell 20 to their friends and family and you already broke even, the rest is profit. You're about fifteen years late with this take. I mean the first part still happens, but those presses don't make a profit and disappear, often with a bunch of customers' money. Edit: What you're seeing more of now are people interested in owning an extremely fine edition of a given book and deciding the best way to do that is to make it themselves, and end up starting a press to get it done. That's basically what Paul Suntup is doing, for example. He's been clear that he's publishing books that interest him, which is why he's jumping from The Road to a bunch of HG Wells books to The Bridges of Madison County. I find it hilarious that there's a subset of collectors that are going to shell out hundreds to thousands of dollars for a fine edition of The Bridges of Madison County just to retain their number/letter for the next book. Ornamented Death fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Dec 21, 2019 |
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# ? Dec 21, 2019 02:18 |
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I don't think I've ever read a Latinx horror book, so I asked Google and decided on The Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez, an Argentine writer. I've only read the first story, but so far it seems to have a North American Lake Monsters vibe; the horror is inserted into a depiction of the cultural/social situation (and it ain't cheery). The first story, The Dirty Kid, is available as an excerpt on the Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/Things-We-Lo...77120303&sr=8-4
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# ? Dec 23, 2019 17:58 |
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Ornamented Death posted:You're about fifteen years late with this take. It's not a take if it's true
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 13:03 |
I there anything that is like "evocative of Magnus Archive and kinda like creepypasta but good"? I guess the keywords would be contemporary, potentially technological, grody and evoking dread. The last horror I read was House of Leaves, loved it.
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# ? Dec 24, 2019 21:00 |
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Black Griffon posted:I there anything that is like "evocative of Magnus Archive and kinda like creepypasta but good"? I guess the keywords would be contemporary, potentially technological, grody and evoking dread. The Southern Reach Trilogy.
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# ? Dec 25, 2019 11:50 |
Black Griffon posted:I there anything that is like "evocative of Magnus Archive and kinda like creepypasta but good"? I guess the keywords would be contemporary, potentially technological, grody and evoking dread. the raw shark texts, also play Control
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# ? Dec 25, 2019 18:51 |
Played Control, GOTY contender 100%. I've wanted to check out Southern Reach after watching Annihilation, and I'll check out Raw Shark. Thanks!
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# ? Dec 25, 2019 19:08 |
I'll always associate raw shark and gone away world with house of leaves for some reason
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# ? Dec 25, 2019 23:33 |
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What are the best stories to look forward to in North American Lake Monsters? The first story was a great little spook, but "SS" just felt like some slice of life story in a Nazi gang? Was there a monster I missed, or horror at all? Or am I a dummy and those characters are revisited in a later story?
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:46 |
SniperWoreConverse posted:I'll always associate raw shark and gone away world with house of leaves for some reason same with the former, haven't read the latter
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 03:53 |
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COOL CORN posted:but "SS" just felt like some slice of life story what is your home life like
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 04:20 |
COOL CORN posted:What are the best stories to look forward to in North American Lake Monsters? The first story was a great little spook, but "SS" just felt like some slice of life story in a Nazi gang? Was there a monster I missed, or horror at all? you got that the mom was a cannibal right
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 04:26 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:you got that the mom was a cannibal right
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 04:39 |
COOL CORN posted:What are the best stories to look forward to in North American Lake Monsters? The first story was a great little spook, but "SS" just felt like some slice of life story in a Nazi gang? Was there a monster I missed, or horror at all?
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 07:06 |
Raw Shark Texts work on a kindle? I would never ever read House of Leaves on anything other than paper, but I get the impression Raw Shark might not be quite as, uh, experimental.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 08:42 |
it's not as nuts as HoL and would probably work fine but I got the actual book way back and haven't been able to crack it open in a while. There's nothing that I really remember that makes it weirdly unnavigable or anything, at least if you have a modern kindle. The only one I have is the old e-ink kind and I'm not about to fire that bad boy up and try to check this. No real idea where I left it, probably the same box that has the physical book right next to it. I think on that one it could potentially be super weird and some pages would have to be rendered as images, and some could come out malformed if you have odd or extremely small or huge text size settings or something. An example is this screenshot I grabbed from the kindle preview: looks fine on pc but i could see those olden e-ink ones making a few places indecipherable. In the book this is one page and at least in the preview on amazon it looks like an infinite scroll type situation. There's a few pages where the actual turning of the page is part of the effect iirc and scrolling it might not exactly feel the same, idk. Most of it is a regular book. One thing is supposedly there are extra chapters in some editions, for every chapter of the normal edition there's supposed to be a hidden complementary one somewhere in the world or online and I guess the book you pick up is only like half of the "real" book. I dunno how true this is and it sort of seems like bullshit to me. I would have to reread it to really be able to recommend it or not but I remember it as being pretty alright and interesting at the time.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 10:27 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:you got that the mom was a cannibal right Ah. I did not. I mean, I sort of did? Anyway I get it, it's me that's the dummy. But the more I think about it, the more I appreciate it. It's definitely Stephen King-esque where the horror is a backdrop to the interpersonal drama. Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Dec 27, 2019 |
# ? Dec 27, 2019 11:40 |
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Okay I just finished "The Crevasse" and I'm hooked the gently caress back in. Wow.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 14:36 |
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I need to re-read North American Lake Monsters; it's been enough time. Wild Acre, Sunbleached and The Monsters of Heaven have stayed with me the most. Especially The Monsters of Heaven. Some of the imagery is seared into my memory.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 14:44 |
I don't have a paperwhite, but I have a 10gen kindle bought this Christmas so I assume it's still modern. Still, I'd like to make sure before I take the chance on digital instead of print, so if anyone else knows, shout out. I did buy North American Lake Monsters though, because anything that sears itself into one's mind is totally my poo poo, I think.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 15:03 |
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Franchescanado posted:Especially The Monsters of Heaven. I just finished this one (work is slow today). Wow. I can't remember reading something during the daylight hours that made me shiver with discomfort before, but that was expertly written. The way Ballingrud tangles together social status, sexuality, loss, grief, and animal-like violence is just... wow. edit-- even if I do just picture this in my mind: Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Dec 27, 2019 |
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Black Griffon posted:I don't have a paperwhite, but I have a 10gen kindle bought this Christmas so I assume it's still modern. Still, I'd like to make sure before I take the chance on digital instead of print, so if anyone else knows, shout out. Do you live near a library? If so, just put a hold on their website and go pick it up for free sometime. COOL CORN posted:Wow. I can't remember reading something during the daylight hours that made me shiver with discomfort before, but that was expertly written. The way Ballingrud tangles together social status, sexuality, loss, grief, and animal-like violence is just... wow. Yeah, it rules. The desperation is palpable. I need to pick up Ballingrud's new collection sometime. Still haven't read it.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 15:33 |
Franchescanado posted:Do you live near a library? If so, just put a hold on their website and go pick it up for free sometime. I live in Norway, so while we have good rear end libraries, original language English niche fiction isn't always guaranteed.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 15:39 |
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Ah gently caress, "Sunbleached" was heartbreaking. I can't tell if Joshua died at the end or not though, like - burnt up in the sun, I mean
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 16:02 |
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And now I've finished the book. Honestly, I regret saying bad things about it earlier. "S.S." was a low point for me, but everything else was just outstanding. I had to take a walk outside after "The Good Husband" because I was very close to breaking down into sobs throughout the whole thing. It just was so real and genuine and heartbreaking. I can't believe how consistently good this whole book was. But also: https://twitter.com/NBallingrud/status/1192901455826575366 I'm so excited for this now, but how in the HELL are they going to adapt "The Way Station"?
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 19:07 |
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SniperWoreConverse posted:it's not as nuts as HoL and would probably work fine but I got the actual book way back and haven't been able to crack it open in a while. There's nothing that I really remember that makes it weirdly unnavigable or anything, at least if you have a modern kindle. The only one I have is the old e-ink kind and I'm not about to fire that bad boy up and try to check this. No real idea where I left it, probably the same box that has the physical book right next to it. I just finished it on Kindle last night. The way they handle those formatted sections seems to be images of the text so the formatting stays. I have the Kindle app on my iPad set with the black background and white text so all the text-as-images show up as white squares with black text. I haven't seen the paper version so I don't know how if the paging and scrolling on Kindle mucks that up at all, but there were a couple pages where it was obviously supposed to give the impression of an image moving over several pages, but instead was a couple white boxes of text on a screen.
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 19:25 |
Library only has the Norwegian translation of Raw Shark and I'm not even giving that a chance. Oh well, can't have enough print books!
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 19:30 |
SniperWoreConverse posted:One thing is supposedly there are extra chapters in some editions, for every chapter of the normal edition there's supposed to be a hidden complementary one somewhere in the world or online and I guess the book you pick up is only like half of the "real" book. I dunno how true this is and it sort of seems like bullshit to me. it's true and the extra chapters were easily findable online last i checked, although not all of them were ever discovered. most are from other editions or translations, but one was like left in a USB stick under a bench in a park
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 20:21 |
Not trying to clown on you or anything COOL CORN, but S.S. was really, really good. I can't even really place the feeling it gave me, but after finishing it I felt like had to... breathe out. Rather, if that was a low point, I'm really excited to get to the rest of the stories.
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 04:15 |
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Black Griffon posted:Not trying to clown on you or anything COOL CORN, but S.S. was really, really good. I can't even really place the feeling it gave me, but after finishing it I felt like had to... breathe out. Hey, different strokes, it's all good! I'm glad you liked it, and the bottom line is the collection is one of my favorite books now so, yeah enjoy it.
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 04:23 |