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chernobyl kinsman posted:weirdly specific av, who did you piss off I called out a bunch of faux progressive types for casual racism towards people from KSA and it got turned into people unironically believing I am on the payroll of the Saudi Prince
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Mel Mudkiper posted:So today I learned two things My father owns a book that is a contemporary philosophical refutation of JLS, and it is about pelicans I don't remember the title and cannot in good faith recommend you seek it out, but I wanted to infect you with the knowledge that it exists
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Feb 18, 2020 05:15
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I called out a bunch of faux progressive types for casual racism towards people from KSA and it got turned into people unironically believing I am on the payroll of the Saudi Prince
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Feb 18, 2020 08:45
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The local pub has been closed for a whole and only just now did I notice the next one has a shelf with a sign "take! no cost!" So I guess I'm reading all the Bourne books now.
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Feb 18, 2020 19:20
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I'm pissed, my Kindle just asked if I wanted to turn on word learning mode for kids because I clicked on the word "nacreous"
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Feb 19, 2020 02:20
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TheAardvark posted:I'm pissed, my Kindle just asked if I wanted to turn on word learning mode for kids because I clicked on the word "nacreous" Thanks you just reminded me of the lyrics of To Anacreon in Heaven.
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Feb 19, 2020 04:12
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TheAardvark posted:I'm pissed, my Kindle just asked if I wanted to turn on word learning mode for kids because I clicked on the word "nacreous" so you said yes right
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Feb 19, 2020 05:49
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chernobyl kinsman posted:so you said yes right I am curious what % of people at large could define that word on sight. This is apparently the only book on my Kindle that has the word in it and I have some esoteric and old poo poo downloaded.
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Feb 19, 2020 06:24
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If you know what nacre is, not the most common word but hardly esoteric, you should be able to figure out "nacreous".
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Feb 19, 2020 06:36
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Is nacre the more common word outside the states or something? I've never heard it used IRL in my entire life, it's literally always called mother-of-pearl. A word I've never heard outside of a biology textbook in high school, converted to an adjective with an odd pronunciation. I'm going to die on this hill.
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Feb 19, 2020 06:45
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Sham bam bamina! posted:If you know what nacre is, not the most common word but hardly esoteric, you should be able to figure out "nacreous". Look at this scrub who doesn’t remember one of like five adjectives in Slaughterhouse Five 20+ years after high school.
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Feb 19, 2020 14:43
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Sham bam bamina! posted:If you know what nacre is, not the most common word but hardly esoteric, you should be able to figure out "nacreous". "nacreous" is uncommon but not unheard of but I think I've only seen "nacre" once in my life and I don't even remember what book it's in.
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Feb 19, 2020 15:21
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Something to do with nudity I reckon
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Feb 19, 2020 16:34
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I read a couple of Robert Aickman stories in a semi-delirious insomniac state and I think it might be the preferable way to read him
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Feb 19, 2020 16:50
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capitalism stands between me and mr aickman
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Feb 20, 2020 02:55
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France Gets Its Weinstein Moment NYT misspells Epstein once again
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hallelujah posted:capitalism stands between me and mr aickman cold hand in mine is on libgen Mel Mudkiper posted:I read a couple of Robert Aickman stories in a semi-delirious insomniac state and I think it might be the preferable way to read him which ones did you read and did you like them
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Feb 21, 2020 07:12
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I've been going through Dark Entries I read The School Friend while under the pre-mentioned delirious state and that is a story very much meant to be read in a state of altered awarness
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Feb 21, 2020 07:27
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I've been going through Dark Entries but did u like it
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Feb 21, 2020 07:32
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I started reading reading my sister's old copy of Michel Stroganoff and I remember Verne being a much better writer. Could be the translation. Could be I'm not seven anymore.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was my favorite book when I checked out the Anthony Bonner translation as a kid. I tried to revisit it a couple of years later with another library branch's copy of the public-domain version by Some Victorian rear end in a top hat and barely made it past the first page before returning it. No idea if it's the same way in Finnish, but his English translations are worlds apart.
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Feb 21, 2020 14:26
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Sham bam bamina! posted:20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was my favorite book when I checked out the Anthony Bonner translation as a kid. I tried to revisit it a couple of years later with another library branch's copy of the public-domain version by Some Victorian rear end in a top hat and barely made it past the first page before returning it. No idea if it's the same way in Finnish, but his English translations are worlds apart. I've progressed a bit and I don't think a good translation could help with an extremely jarring penchant for stating the painfully obvious and then re-stating it like three times  But either he was better in some books or the decades have gilded my memories.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:but did u like it Straight up don't know yet. I think I do, but I need more time to digest his storytelling style because it is definitely fascinating Like, I my feelings on his stories so far remind me of an old joke about Swedes. "In Sweden, everything is fine, everything is good. And then one day Uncle Sven runs naked and screaming into the woods after drunkenly setting his house on fire. But then next week he reappears and everything is fine, everything is good." Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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I just had to uninstall the latest Stalker total conversion because it was consuming my life/harming my sanity. I’d love some recommendations for books about either Ukrainian myth/folklore or post-soviet Ukrainian cultural identity. Voices from Chernobyl is already on my list, not that that’s either of those, but I figure it’d come up anyway. Edit: shitfire, I thought this was the recommendations thread. Feel free to chime in though, all. Carly Gay Dead Son fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Feb 21, 2020 19:15
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Oksana Zabuzhko's Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex is really good. The Museum of Abandoned Secrets looks even better, but I haven't read it yet.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Oksana Zabuzhko's Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex is really good. The Museum of Abandoned Secrets looks even better, but I haven't read it yet. Hell yeah. Into it. Her non-fiction looks good too, but appears to be mostly untranslated so far.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Oksana Zabuzhko's Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex is really good. The Museum of Abandoned Secrets looks even better, but I haven't read it yet. seconding this.
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Got a pile of Amazon gift cards from work/christmas and they finally added up to a new Kindle Oasis. Sent the thing back already. Whoever decided to have a slippery metal back on a kindle is ... dumb. My paperwhite has this nice velvety rubber backing and feels so nice. There is also this weird hump thing that annoyed my fingers, and it also has page turn buttons which also annoy my fingers. The big screen was nice, but not that much larger. I guess if they can basically make the paperwhite with a bigger screen I might try again, but that Oasis was just weird for something you'll be holding in your hands for hours and hours.
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Philthy posted:Got a pile of Amazon gift cards from work/christmas and they finally added up to a new Kindle Oasis. I'm not a huge fan of the form factor either after having mine for a month or two. I think it's just the lack of balance for me, I read 400+ books on my Voyage and my hands find it very comfortable. I may get used to the Oasis, but I honestly wish they'd just keep putting out Voyages as "premium" paperwhites.
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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 Tuberculosis still kills over a million people a year my dude.
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Catfishenfuego posted:Tuberculosis still kills over a million people a year my dude. this is one of those moments where I wonder if I should bother to clarify or just continue to get quoted by people who missed the point
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It's a stupid point, like all those listicles about how cell phones "ruin" movies from the 20th century.
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Feb 26, 2020 04:56
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idk who needs to hear this, but i'm doing a livewatch of ralph bakshi's wizards (1977) in byob yes it's a movie, but it's a weird movie so it kind of counts as literature. maybe enough people in here are interested in either fantasy or european history to come share the love
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It's a stupid point, like all those listicles about how cell phones "ruin" movies from the 20th century. What the gently caress are you even talking about
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hallelujah posted:idk who needs to hear this, but i'm doing a livewatch of ralph bakshi's wizards (1977) in byob It's very weird you would post this in TBB and not, like, one of half a dozen appropriate CineD threads. We have a casual GenChat and animation threads, you know.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:What the gently caress are you even talking about Nobody is bewildered by tuberculosis or whooping cough or every mother dying in childbirth any more than by people riding in carriages or wearing corsets or fighting in the Napoleonic Wars. What kind of moron could find it "bizarre" that a book set in the past involves different things happening from the present? Franchescanado posted:It's very weird you would post this in TBB and not, like, one of half a dozen appropriate CineD threads. We have a casual GenChat and animation threads, you know. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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I'm reading Brighton Rock after finishing Our Man in Havana and why does the prose in this one kind of suck? The story is good though, so far.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Very, very weird for someone to invite the people in a forum they post in instad of the people in a forum they never post in. Fair enough! But they posted about Bakshi in the CineD animation thread literally the day before they invited the book forum to watch a movie with them, and did not post it in the animation thread. People like watch-alongs in CineD.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Something actually less dumb than I remembered, since they're at least hypothetical. Not even this bullshit actually conflates the past and the present like your post presumes everyone does. That is a very angry post about a point I wasnt making and maybe you should calm down
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