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I had forgotten how many of the illustrations in Van Gulik's judge Dee novels portray topless or nude young women. Also how many of the plots involve incest or hints thereof.
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Feb 13, 2020 18:27
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I suppose illustrations depend on the publisher, but I really only remember only one plot that involved incest, the one set in Canton.
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Feb 13, 2020 23:54
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anilEhilated posted:I suppose illustrations depend on the publisher, but I really only remember only one plot that involved incest, the one set in Canton. The Necklace and the Calebash. Maybe it was just the two, they kind of blend togerher when you read four in a row 
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Feb 14, 2020 05:18
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I've never heard of Judge Dee. So it's classic detective books set in like Ancient China? Yea I like that concept. I'd really like to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Speaking of detective genre, I went through a phase of reading most all the Raymond Chandler books, and two Dashiell Hammet. Red Harvest was my favorite, the bloodiest goriest book I've ever read. Right now I'm reading Redwall. It's a series I really liked at 10 years old, the first 'serious' series I ever got in to. I'm impressed with the big vocabulary, it' not dumbed-down or condescending like what I think of as being children's literature.
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excellent bird guy posted:I've never heard of Judge Dee. So it's classic detective books set in like Ancient China? Yea I like that concept. I'd really like to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The Dee books are all very matter-of-fact but that makes them fast reads so if you feel like it give one a go. I read Red Dawn as a kid and frankly don't remember anything about it apart from one character wearing a scarf? I guess I should re-read it but ars longa vita brevis. Re: children's books, I just found my mum's copy of Watership Down and realized I've never read it. I guess the title "Ruohometsän kansa" (People/nation of Grass Forest) didn't make it tempting to child me. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Feb 15, 2020 14:56
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Feb 15, 2020 15:42
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The Haunted Monastery? I should really re-read those.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Re: children's books, I just found my mum's copy of Watership Down 
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anilEhilated posted:The Haunted Monastery? Yeah. Apparently I paid all of 50 cents for it at a flea market. Worth it for the cat-with-a-hosed-up-face pic alone. I don't think I've actually read this one before. E: the first entry on the "similar pages" list below the Wikipedia article for Watership Down is Adolf Hitler?? 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Feb 15, 2020 19:04
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About 2/3 of the way through Scoop. It's right on track to being yet another Waugh book that disappoints the hell out of me, which has been pretty much every work of his I've read that isn't Brideshead. So far it's underwhelming, at times funny, at times reminding you that Waugh thought the Italians were doing fine things in Abyssinia, and a pinch of gas warfare nothing to get your panties in a twist over. But mostly it's underwhelming.
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Feb 16, 2020 00:32
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excellent bird guy posted:Right now I'm reading Redwall. It's a series I really liked at 10 years old, the first 'serious' series I ever got in to. I'm impressed with the big vocabulary, it' not dumbed-down or condescending like what I think of as being children's literature.
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Feb 16, 2020 02:19
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I've been doing a chapter by chapter readthrough of these old Vampire: The Masquerade tie-in books, the Masquerade of the Red Death trilogy. I'm still on the first book, but I was wondering if it would be okay to make a thread and post them here too. I'm not familiar with TBB rules on let's read threads.
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excellent bird guy posted:Right now I'm reading Redwall. It's a series I really liked at 10 years old, the first 'serious' series I ever got in to. I'm impressed with the big vocabulary, it' not dumbed-down or condescending like what I think of as being children's literature. How do you feel about this old epistolary comedy article from humor website Something Awful? https://www.somethingawful.com/news/bargain-book-bin-3/
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Feb 17, 2020 16:09
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Ugh, just found a reason for ebooks > paper books. Flipped open my murder mystery and it landed on a giant "PART 2 DEATH OF A [TITLE]" and oh. I know who that is. Damnit.
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Feb 17, 2020 16:24
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Mumbly posted:I've been doing a chapter by chapter readthrough of these old Vampire: The Masquerade tie-in books, the Masquerade of the Red Death trilogy. I'm still on the first book, but I was wondering if it would be okay to make a thread and post them here too. I'm not familiar with TBB rules on let's read threads. 
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Feb 17, 2020 16:28
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I ordered four more judge Dee novels because I got some money and am dumb.
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Feb 17, 2020 16:30
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some days I wake up in the morning and think about how cool it would be if Paulo Coelho got hit by a car
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Feb 17, 2020 16:52
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Mel Mudkiper posted:some days I wake up in the morning and think about how cool it would be if Paulo Coelho got hit by a car I'll probably regret asking, but what's wrong with Paulo Coelho that being hit by a car would fix?
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Feb 17, 2020 16:54
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'll probably regret asking, but what's wrong with Paulo Coelho that being hit by a car would fix? He would die and in such a way to be a profound counter point to his hallmark bullshit
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Feb 17, 2020 17:32
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'll probably regret asking, but what's wrong with Paulo Coelho that being hit by a car would fix? his books are jonathan livingston seagull but with more vaguely new age woo
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Feb 17, 2020 18:55
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Also the coordinator for our level at the University wants to make it the assigned reading and I flat out told him I refuse to use it for aesthetic reasons and will actively sabotage anyone else trying to teach it
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Feb 17, 2020 18:57
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So today I learned two things 1. Johnathan Livingston Seagull was not written in the 1700s 2. It is about an actual Seagull
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Feb 17, 2020 18:59
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chernobyl kinsman posted:his books are jonathan livingston seagull but with more vaguely new age woo Mel Mudkiper posted:So today I learned two things
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Feb 17, 2020 19:10
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I never really paid any attention to anything but the title and based off the title I assumed it was one of those door stop 18th/19th century gentry novels
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Feb 17, 2020 19:15
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Mel Mudkiper posted:He would die and in such a way to be a profound counter point to his hallmark bullshit Oh I see.
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Feb 17, 2020 19:18
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The only thing of any merit in the Alchemist is that the dude goes on a journey to find a special treasure and in the end the treasure is like an actual treasure with diamonds and poo poo and not self-discovery or the friends he made along the way or whatever bullshit
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Feb 17, 2020 19:31
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Mel Mudkiper posted:So today I learned two things Jesus just read it it takes like half an hour and then you will be empowered to achieve your greatest!
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Feb 17, 2020 19:42
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The only thing of any merit in the Alchemist is that the dude goes on a journey to find a special treasure and in the end the treasure is like an actual treasure with diamonds and poo poo and not self-discovery or the friends he made along the way or whatever bullshit the thread is now about Pilgrim's Progress
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Feb 17, 2020 19:43
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The protagonist of Pilgrim's Progress is named Christian and I am not sure I can handle another painfully on-the-nose protagonist name today
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Feb 17, 2020 19:57
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I read Jonathan Livingston seagull in high school on the recommendation of my friend's dad who was whatever unitarians call their priests
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Feb 17, 2020 20:23
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If you guys ever feel like you don't have what it takes to be successful just remember some rear end in a top hat wrote a book about a smug duck and became famous
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Feb 17, 2020 20:44
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I wonder if we ever find a cure for cancer if future literary scholars will find our fictional characters always tragically dying of cancer as bizarre as the 19th century's obsession with Consumption
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Feb 17, 2020 20:51
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I wonder if we ever find a cure for cancer if future literary scholars will find our fictional characters always tragically dying of cancer as bizarre as the 19th century's obsession with Consumption I don't think most readers consider 19th-century characters' consumption-dying ways bizarre though. Most people (at least in the west) are old enough to have had relatives whose younger siblings died of it. It's not like they didn't have it in the 1900s. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Feb 17, 2020 |
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Feb 17, 2020 20:54
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I wonder if we ever find a cure for cancer if future literary scholars will find our fictional characters always tragically dying of cancer as bizarre as the 19th century's obsession with Consumption future literary scholars will be well aware that cancer was deadly in our time, just like I won’t bat an eye at some character dreading diseases we have vaccines for now
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Feb 17, 2020 22:39
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Is mel mudkiper really a teacher in saudi arabia?
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Feb 18, 2020 00:32
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A human heart posted:Is mel mudkiper really a teacher in saudi arabia? No, but I gave up on trying to convince people Edit: lol I didnt see there was an avatar
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Feb 18, 2020 01:23
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The protagonist of Pilgrim's Progress is named Christian and I am not sure I can handle another painfully on-the-nose protagonist name today In his other book, the main character is named Mr. Badman.
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Feb 18, 2020 01:30
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Jerry Cotton posted:I don't think most readers consider 19th-century characters' consumption-dying ways bizarre though. Found a boomer
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Mel Mudkiper posted:No, but I gave up on trying to convince people weirdly specific av, who did you piss off
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