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sleez posted:Currently reading a non-fiction book about the history of the gypsies and their way of life, and I dig it. I'm looking for similar stuff where I can learn some fascinating things about other cultures. The Marsh Arabs is really good. You might enjoy Braiding Sweetgrass, which is nonfiction and about Indigenous epistemology/ontology plus ecology. Thomas King’s The Truth About Stories is really loving incredible. If you can find a copy, Ways of Knowing: Experience, Knowledge and Power Among the Dene Tha by Jean-Guy Goulet actually changed my life.
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Dr.D-O posted:My boomer mother always recommends this book because it has something to do with Autism (I have autistic family members). I read it when I was a kid, and I loved it.
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Jan 12, 2020 04:49
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Dang, Ways of Knowing is exactly the type of thing I was looking for, thanks. Hope I can get a hold of it somehow.
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Anyone read Darklight by Bella Forrest? It popped up on a kindle advert and I readily dismissed it seeing as it was described as "twilight for grownups", but then I saw it had really good reviews, and one review gave it one star because there wasn't enough romance. I generally don't trust public reviews of popular books, and I'm not sure what to think from the sample. It's dirt cheap though, and I as far as I'm concerned, vampires never really go out of style.
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sleez posted:Currently reading a non-fiction book about the history of the gypsies and their way of life, and I dig it. I'm looking for similar stuff where I can learn some fascinating things about other cultures. What's the title of the book that you're reading? I have always been curious about the Romani, and would love to finally read a solid work on them.
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Jan 13, 2020 14:15
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IBroughttheFunk posted:What's the title of the book that you're reading? I have always been curious about the Romani, and would love to finally read a solid work on them. It's a German book called "Zigeuner: Begegnungen mit einem ungeliebten Volk" ("Gypsies: encounters with an unpopular people") by Rolf Bauerdick, though, from what I can find, it's only available in German, Dutch and Polish, for whatever reason. Pretty silly if you ask me. I think there's generally a lack of good books on the subject. For what it's worth, "Gypsy Boy" by Mikey Walsh tells the same story albeit from a different perspective and is supposed to be pretty good.
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Jan 13, 2020 19:11
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Black Griffon posted:Anyone read Darklight by Bella Forrest? It popped up on a kindle advert and I readily dismissed it seeing as it was described as "twilight for grownups", but then I saw it had really good reviews, and one review gave it one star because there wasn't enough romance. I generally don't trust public reviews of popular books, and I'm not sure what to think from the sample. It's dirt cheap though, and I as far as I'm concerned, vampires never really go out of style. it’s called “darklight” and the author calls herself “bella forrest”, how good do you think it’s going to be
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Jan 13, 2020 22:08
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Sometimes trash is fun. If anyone else has waded into the same trash, I'd like to know.
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Black Griffon posted:Sometimes trash is fun. If anyone else has waded into the same trash, I'd like to know. are you really asking whether you should buy dirt-cheap vampire porn? of course you should
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Black Griffon posted:Sometimes trash is fun. If anyone else has waded into the same trash, I'd like to know. Alas, the friend of mine most likely to have read it hasn't read it, and I haven't yet fallen to the kind of desperation that would lead me to read kindle-only PNR. Still, god that summary. "Vampires are extinct! Except that they're not, because super-hottie vampire Dorian is in my proximity and drat is he hot!" I love it. Please review the trash when you're done with it, I love reading about these dumb books.
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That's the encouragement I need. I'll report back with my findings, folks.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Journey to the End of the Night. Je suis d'accord.
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REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS posted:Any other sort of grand fantasy series worth diving into? Just about to finish The Black Company series (enjoyed it quite a bit), read The Malazan Book of the Fallen prior to that (took forever, really didn’t enjoy it all as much as I’d hoped). May swap to historical fiction since I’d asked about that before, but any completed series recommendations are appreciated. If you you don't go with Patrick O'Brian (you should), maybe give the First Law trilogy a go?
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Jan 16, 2020 12:01
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Blistex posted:Looking for some good 1950-1970's science fiction, or some modern stuff that's in the same spirit. I've been googling lists of recommended stuff, and it's usually the same 20 results over and over. Le Guin?
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Casual Encountess posted:looking for books both fiction and non about the french resistance/early 20th century french life. Claude Simon's The Flanders Road is mostly from the perspective of a soldier on horseback during the fall of france and also has some of the most astounding long sentences you are ever likely to read.
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I just finished the Oxford time travel stuff (Fire Watch, Doomesday Book, To Say Nothing Of the Dog, Blackout/All Clear) by Connie Willis, which was largely good fun. What else is similar? Goodreads suggest Lois McMaster Bujold, of whose work I've only read the first Vorkosigan(?) story which didn't really grab me.
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Jan 21, 2020 10:15
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Looking for some survival horror/sci fi where outside is bad but inside unsustainable. The Mist is an obvious example, though preferably with extended scenes of people going outside to support the inside. Ideally featuring people with minimal applicable skills doing the best they can vs a hostile environment rather than Gruff Retired Marine vs Some Jerk Splicer fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Jan 21, 2020 |
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Jan 21, 2020 14:16
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Splicer posted:Looking for some survival horror/sci fi where outside is bad but inside unsustainable. The Mist is an obvious example, though preferably with extended scenes of people going outside to support the inside. Sounds like you might like Semiosis by Sue Burke. Or maybe The Corporate Wars trilogy by Ken MacLeod.
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Splicer posted:Looking for some survival horror/sci fi where outside is bad but inside unsustainable. The Mist is an obvious example, though preferably with extended scenes of people going outside to support the inside. Nick Cutter's The Troop probably works for you. It's fun and gross.
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Splicer posted:Looking for some survival horror/sci fi where outside is bad but inside unsustainable. The Mist is an obvious example, though preferably with extended scenes of people going outside to support the inside. I really enjoyed "The Terror" by Dan Simmons, which fits that mold very well. The outside threat is both real (environment) and mystical, and the unsustainable is fed off that. There's an AMC series too that is very good, though much is changed (which is a good thing), as well as a 2nd season that is completely unrelated.
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I need a good book about something interesting that happened in America any time before the Civil War
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Gripweed posted:I need a good book about something interesting that happened in America any time before the Civil War Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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Franchescanado posted:Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon Oh sorry, I should have said, it needs to be a straight up nonfiction history book. It's for a history class.
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Gripweed posted:I need a good book about something interesting that happened in America any time before the Civil War 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3890912
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"Inversions" by Ian M. Banks blew my loving panties off. And "player of games" by Ian M. Banks was so drat good that I considered giving up books... If any of you are Banks fans, I'm looking for other authors to check out.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus That looks great, thanks
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BLDuck posted:"Inversions" by Ian M. Banks blew my loving panties off. And "player of games" by Ian M. Banks was so drat good that I considered giving up books... This looks interesting I will take a look. Thank you for the recommendation.
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Jan 26, 2020 02:48
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I'll be visiting Palestine in a few months and am looking for a few books to provide context to the history and conflict there. A friend recommended "One Palestine, Complete" - is it any good? Are there other books that would be better reads? I'm not opposed to relatively thick histories as long as their worth reading.
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i'm going to read the devil's highway, which is about some a tough journey of immigrants through the desert from mexico to the us does anybody know any good books about this kind of experience - any kind of migrants not going through official channels - from elsewhere in the world? i want to read a few to get a sense of how it happens in different places.
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BLDuck posted:"Inversions" by Ian M. Banks blew my loving panties off. And "player of games" by Ian M. Banks was so drat good that I considered giving up books...
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If you’re needing some near future cyberpunk in your life, William Gibson’s Agency just came out. It is a loose sequel to his last book, The Peripheral. I was pretty enthralled by the creative ways he too current technology and pushed it to possible near future logical conclusions in Peripheral, and loved the characters. This new book does not disappoint. It has even more of that type of stuff. My favorite being an app like Uber, called Followr, that lets anyone hire “followers” to track and follow anyone you want. Both books have a lot to say about our current political climate and global warming. Both books love AI and all the antics they can get up to. I would highly recommend both! I haven’t been able to put Agency down for one minute and in three days I’m already 70% through it.
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Hi guys, I'm in a rut because in keep trying to find the perfect book and nothing I start is hooking me. I was wondering if there was a book that is somehow like Twin Peaks The Return? More so the weirdness with the lodges and the jumping man, not the small town drama. My favorite authors are Murakami, Palahniuk, Easton Ellis and then, I dunno, a bunch of random one offs I guess - House of Leaves, Raw Shark Texts, Book of The New Sun? I feel like I've just been reading all the Murakami novels for the past few years. Now I'm looking for something along the same lines but a bit more exciting, bit more ramped up.
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Borrowed Ladder posted:Hi guys, I'm in a rut because in keep trying to find the perfect book and nothing I start is hooking me. probs an indirect fit, but Vorrh by Catling is weird as hell to read.
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I'd say the Charlie Parker novels but they actually kind of suck.
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Borrowed Ladder posted:I feel like I've just been reading all the Murakami novels for the past few years. Now I'm looking for something along the same lines but a bit more exciting, bit more ramped up.
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Jan 31, 2020 03:50
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Borrowed Ladder posted:Hi guys, I'm in a rut because in keep trying to find the perfect book and nothing I start is hooking me. Jose Saramago. Especially Blindness, The Double, All the Names Wolf in White Van, kinda The Magus, also kinda Ship of Theseus
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StrixNebulosa posted:
This sound pretty rad I'm gonna give it a shot Sham bam bamina! posted:
I'm thinking I might need a break from the nuisances of Japan but I'll probably come back to this later in the year regulargonzalez posted:
I've read Wolf and Magus, they're good and good suggestions. I own Ship but haven't read it because I feel like all the little insert pictures are important and I don't want to have to keep track of them. I'll get to it someday. I really love the film Enemy so Saragamo should be a good fit. Thanks guys!
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https://twitter.com/alloy_dr/status/1223203562194395137?s=20
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Sham bam bamina! posted:A lot of the YOSPOS guys who love Banks also love Hannu Rajaniemi. I'll go check his stuff out. Thanks, man.
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Borrowed Ladder posted:Hi guys, I'm in a rut because in keep trying to find the perfect book and nothing I start is hooking me. You should check out Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu, it whips rear end.
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