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Rolo posted:Oh cool there’s a book of the month thread? *starts reading book* THERE'S A FRONT PAGE?!?!?!?
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Hello, I don't currently post in the "barn" as it's known locally by the locals, so this may be a stupid question, but is there a thread I'm not seeing where people recommend audiobooks specifically? I've been thinking of listening to some but it's easier to commit to something like that if you see even one human say "yes this was a good experience/a cool book to listen to". Sorry if this is something dumbasses come and do all the time.
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Jul 3, 2021 23:36
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There's an audiobook thread which isn't the most active in the forum but has plenty of recs, and if you are interested in or looking for a particular genre etc people will definitely have ideas: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3127942
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Jul 4, 2021 00:36
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Enfys posted:There's an audiobook thread which isn't the most active in the forum but has plenty of recs, and if you are interested in or looking for a particular genre etc people will definitely have ideas: Hell yeah, this is the stuff, thanks.
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Jul 4, 2021 20:39
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https://mobile.twitter.com/yesterdaysprint/status/1413497305542500359
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Jul 9, 2021 16:08
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Ugh twitter is poo poo. Their old crop method was garbage & they've apparently now decided on another that is also garbage. Gonna try direct embed:  Anyway, I wonder if a specific book set that off. Skimmed Wikipedia's 1912 in Literature & some years prior. Perhaps Howards End?
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Jul 9, 2021 16:42
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Is there a thread for indie bookstores to buy books from? I'd want to wean myself off of Amazon but they are just a big and known seller of books.
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Jul 12, 2021 03:52
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Just finished Maya Angelou's first autobiography and thought it was a fascinating read. How are the other six books in the series? If they're as strong as the first one, I'll make sure to get to them sooner rather than later.
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Jul 12, 2021 05:31
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TV Zombie posted:Is there a thread for indie bookstores to buy books from? I'd want to wean myself off of Amazon but they are just a big and known seller of books. I'm not sure how location dependent this is but you can search for books and authors here: https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/amazon-alternatives/
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Jul 12, 2021 08:42
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TV Zombie posted:Is there a thread for indie bookstores to buy books from? I'd want to wean myself off of Amazon but they are just a big and known seller of books. Try bookshop.org
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Jul 12, 2021 13:06
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Are goon translations ever considered for Book of the Month status? Because https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3972041
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Jul 19, 2021 18:07
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TV Zombie posted:Is there a thread for indie bookstores to buy books from? I'd want to wean myself off of Amazon but they are just a big and known seller of books. Biblio.com in the US is a clone of ABEbooks (which got bought by Amazon). Business model is that they are the front end of an online store for stores that otherwise might not get foot traffic/digital foot traffic. Really pretty good for used books, and you can see the store's other inventory, if you want to 'shelf shop'. For scifi/pulp, and similar, would throw out Dreamhaven Books in Minneapolis. (Caveat: I worked there like 15 years ago). They have a niche sideline of vintage smut, too which makes for great gifts if you have weirdo friends. 1950s 'under the counter' books. Dreamhaven Books Minneapolis
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Jul 19, 2021 18:51
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https://twitter.com/PandasAndVidya/status/1416581721290596355?s=20
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Jul 19, 2021 20:49
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i think i get bored by very descriptive books because i tend to immediately invent a mental image of a scene with some basic description upfront and going into further detail, unless it is unexpected or significant for reasons beyond painting a picture, just completely washes over me. until lately i've put effort into going over the details when i'm reading a book that is descriptive, but i was just reading the purple cloud - an old last man on earth story - and the book turns into nothing but a litany of descriptions partway through as he wanders the ruined world, and i realised i could push ahead with this but i'm basically going to get nothing out of it i haven't already gotten from what i've read already, so i gave up on the book that's not a good rule of thumb or anything, just for that book, but the general point about description is something that i don't think i'll ever shake. you tell me there's a sunset, i have my own idea of what that is like and unless this one is seriously divergent, half a page describing it isn't going to overwrite that and i will get bored. i'm not talking detail in all areas, just in description of the physical. i know that a good writer will use their description to create mood or express character, but even then, i prefer it to be brief or done another way. i just learned the word aphantasia and that isn't what this is, because i create mental images really easily, i think i just have a bandwidth limit on how much language i can use as a basis for that before i am desensitised. anyway just something i was thinking about. roomtone fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 05:25
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roomtone posted:i think i get bored by very descriptive books because i tend to immediately invent a mental image of a scene with some basic description upfront and going into further detail, unless it is unexpected or significant for reasons beyond painting a picture, just completely washes over me. I got real good at glossing over scenery and wardrobe when reading the second book in the Clan of the Cave Bear series. Everyone I know in IRL life whose read the books say they did that too. But then I quit anyway because it's just really boring in every way. I'll get back to it one day if I don't die before that, which I'm hoping for. E: RE: Girugamesh: #whoa #wow
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Jul 20, 2021 07:13
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I think people's brains worked different back then. We've been rewired by the internet.
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Jul 20, 2021 08:50
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Harry Turtledove has a way better and more active Twitter than you think he might https://mobile.twitter.com/HNTurtledove Genuinely surprised.
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Jul 21, 2021 05:50
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Harry Turtledove has a way better and more active Twitter than you think he might I ended up unfollowing him because he tweets so much it was dominating my twitter. He tweets a ton.
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Jul 21, 2021 08:32
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roomtone posted:i think i get bored by very descriptive books because i tend to immediately invent a mental image of a scene with some basic description upfront and going into further detail, unless it is unexpected or significant for reasons beyond painting a picture, just completely washes over me.
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Jul 23, 2021 14:39
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Megazver posted:I think people's brains worked different back then. We've been rewired by the internet. https://mobile.twitter.com/EwdatsGROSS/status/1413518842060582915
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Jul 23, 2021 23:18
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Most things on the Internet bore me big time stylee so that doesn't compute.
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Jul 23, 2021 23:55
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Most things on the Internet bore me big time stylee so that doesn't compute. idk if you were boring before the internet, but you certainly are now!
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Jul 24, 2021 00:14
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Marc Laidlaw of Half Life fame wrote a couple of Fantasy books and they need to be more widely read, he made them temporarily free because he's apparently sold very few copies (like less than a hundred). I read Underneath The Oversea and it's a very good, fun fantasy adventure, and I'm about to start the second book (which was written first? and happens before Oversea) Cmon, you can't go wrong with this price, he's a great writer, and I loved that book, it's criminal that it hasn't become a bestseller. (I think it's the cover, too abstract maybe, but I promise this is fun). If you're into fantasy, give it a shot and leave it a review. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0914ZMHH9?searchxofy=true&binding=kindle_edition&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tkin&qid=1627176428&sr=8-1 (This link was taken straight from his twitter, I don't make anything off of it) 
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Jul 25, 2021 03:05
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Can't beat the price of 'free'! Nabbed. You should post about it on /r/fantasy, it's more or less the biggest fantasy community online with many actual authors as posters there. It'll get some eyeballs on the books.
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Is the Book Barn discord server still active? Who are the mods in it?
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quantumfoam posted:Is the Book Barn discord server still active? Who are the mods in it? yes Mrenda and Sham iirc
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Aug 1, 2021 04:27
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hard pass then, thanks. If anyone likes weird literary associated meltdowns, whoever runs the Project Gutenberg Canada website has been having a extended meltdown for quite some time.
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quantumfoam posted:Is the Book Barn discord server still active? Who are the mods in it? It's still around. https://discord.gg/55kuTp9q is the link. Unfortunately the only active mods are myself and Mrenda and neither of us have the time to really be active mods in it. Right now at least I'm just relying on everyone's good faith to not gently caress it up. In the meanwhile for moderated discussion we still have the forum.
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The discussion in the discord is pretty chill and barely needs moderation IMO. It’s a good place to hang out, so please join us goons.
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Aug 1, 2021 15:36
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quantumfoam posted:hard pass then, thanks. Holy poo poo http://gutenberg.ca/index.html looks like a geocities rant.
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Aug 1, 2021 15:38
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He's right.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:He's right. Yep.
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Aug 1, 2021 16:34
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About Canada being a new colony of America?
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Aug 1, 2021 17:19
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His Twitter is amazing
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Aug 1, 2021 18:58
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Hey does anyone have a link to the old king arthur related thread where some goon/goons broke down each of the knights and their stories? I think a big piece of it was all the weird supernatural powers each knight was written to have had. I remember it being really entertaining and wanted to revisit it now that the green knight is out in theaters my archives searching has failed me
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Aug 1, 2021 20:45
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lifg posted:Holy poo poo http://gutenberg.ca/index.html looks like a geocities rant. It's absolutely surreal to read a website formatted like this, but making a reality-based argument instead of pure Thoughts From Mars
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Jerkface posted:Hey does anyone have a link to the old king arthur related thread where some goon/goons broke down each of the knights and their stories? I think a big piece of it was all the weird supernatural powers each knight was written to have had. I remember it being really entertaining and wanted to revisit it now that the green knight is out in theaters https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3617881
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I started to read a book in Swedish and ran into the problem that the print in my Swedish-Finnish dictionary is so small I can't read it anymore. It's not like I still couldn't read the novel and get the story but I hate it when I run into a word I don't know and can't immediately look it up. e: It is a rather small dictionary but I was able to use it last year  
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I started to read a book in Swedish and ran into the problem that the print in my Swedish-Finnish dictionary is so small I can't read it anymore. It's not like I still couldn't read the novel and get the story but I hate it when I run into a word I don't know and can't immediately look it up. is that a pack of matches for scale? No reading glasses made would help me with that. Get a proper book (or just use the internet)
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