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Carthag Tuek posted:what the hell is up with the books iphone app You tore your skinny jeans while playing frisbee golf with Mark Zuckerberg?
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I bumped into my "neighbours" (from across the busy street, about 100m away) at the station (they go there to drink, I go there to buy a sandwich), and they told me they have so many books that they always leave some there for travelers to pick up or swap, and that people seemed to be snagging them up at a good pace. I couldn't bring myself to tell them it was me. I'm the travelers who took all the books. Except the ones in German. (I do occasionally leave something because I have a lot of duplicates due to most of my relatives being dead.)
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Aug 1, 2022 07:29
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we have a neighborhood book box thing here in the area that skews towards more the shittier old white people and I've been gradually stopping by to drop my junior high reading off (MTG novels and A People's History of the USA lol) there and pick up stuff that interests me (mostly there's slim pickings tho outside of like, old Goosebumps and Oprah Book Club stuff, found a decent Bette Davis bio and a book on the 1968 DC uprisings) Hoping some old guy is getting his mind blown by Zinn's analysis of the Civil War, or THE MAGICAL WORLD OF MIRRODIIIIN
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Aug 4, 2022 13:10
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here's a sweet little story about a dude who found a business card in a used book: https://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/whats-the-strangest-thing-you-ever-found-in-a-book/
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Aug 4, 2022 15:44
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look at that subtle off-white coloring; the tasteful thickness of it... oh my god, it even has a watermark
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Aug 6, 2022 08:49
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that feeling on the softness of your thumb on the edge of the callous, just rifling the leaves.... brb library
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Aug 6, 2022 10:42
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I once found a hundred marks of my own money inside a book. It was a lot of money for a kid and I have no idea why I'd decided to put it there (it wasnt like a bookmark, none of it was showing). What if I'd never decided to re-read Sherlock Holmes?
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Aug 6, 2022 13:01
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I once found a hundred marks of my own money inside a book. It was a lot of money for a kid and I have no idea why I'd decided to put it there (it wasnt like a bookmark, none of it was showing). What if I'd never decided to re-read Sherlock Holmes? its pretty great to find a unexpected money in your pocket way back i read a thing about giving your future self presents (i think it was about stocking up your pantry?), anyway i started putting like a 100kr bill in my jacket when winter approached, as a present for the spring me. sadly i came to expect the secret pocket money so twice was enough. those early days, though, that version of me who gave me money for no reason was cool
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Aug 6, 2022 13:50
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I heard there's a book barn discord? I poked around but none of the links I found were still active
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Aug 7, 2022 06:15
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TheCog posted:I heard there's a book barn discord? I poked around but none of the links I found were still active https://discord.gg/636qwhqb
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Aug 7, 2022 08:52
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Just started watching Severance and I swear I read a science fiction short story with the same premise. I think maybe it involved a private detective investigating himself or something? Anyone know what I'm talking about, feels like it might be a PKD work but my brain is saying maybe it's an early GRRM piece.
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Aug 8, 2022 04:51
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regulargonzalez posted:Just started watching Severance and I swear I read a science fiction short story with the same premise. I think maybe it involved a private detective investigating himself or something? Anyone know what I'm talking about, feels like it might be a PKD work but my brain is saying maybe it's an early GRRM piece. Paycheck "Paycheck" posted:Jennings, a talented electronic engineer, has accepted a secret contract with Rethrick Construction. The terms of the contract state that he will work for two years on a secret project after which he will have his memory of the time erased and will be paid an inordinate sum. It is implied that this type of working contract has replaced non-disclosure agreements in business and is commonplace.
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Aug 8, 2022 09:24
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You could also be thinking of A Scanner Darkly by PKD, which is about a cop splitting his pysche and investigating himself.
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Aug 8, 2022 11:20
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Yeah, it must be A Scanner Darkly. Sure thought it was a short story for some reason but memory is a fickle thing.
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Aug 8, 2022 14:13
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I almost never spend any time on the veranda unless I'm soldering or something, but today after work I spent maybe three hours there, reading and listening to the trees and birds. (And cars. And a loud lady speaking Spanish.) Now my back is killing me lmao. I need to sort out a good veranda reading chair. Don't want to cram a sofa I there. e: Why is no-one selling proper kitchen sofas anymore  Ikea has one named as such but it isn't shaped like one. I don't want to put anything upholstered there because it gets humid in the Winter.
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Aug 11, 2022 19:08
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https://twitter.com/MrHolness/status/1559831714582740993?s=20&t=XWbEW0lXL86tPdh5stoumg
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Aug 17, 2022 23:16
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Even in my head saying "TerrorTome" has reverb
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Aug 18, 2022 02:17
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First time I've ever preordered a book.
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Aug 18, 2022 07:35
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Van Veen is such a prick lmao
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Aug 20, 2022 02:01
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So many sequels I’m looking forward to this upcoming months. The Locked Tomb, Scholomance, October Daye. I can’t wait
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Aug 29, 2022 18:46
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Am I crazy or did I read somewhere that Neil Gaiman had a solution to the Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter riddle "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" could have sworn he did but googling turns up nothing
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Aug 29, 2022 22:22
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Alan Smithee posted:Am I crazy or did I read somewhere that Neil Gaiman had a solution to the Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter riddle "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" 'Poe wrote on both' is one I heard long ago and I'm not sure where E: drat, hard finding the origin of that answer but def not Gaiman TheWorldsaStage fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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Aug 29, 2022 22:28
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TheWorldsaStage posted:'Poe wrote on both' is one I heard long ago and I'm not sure where yeah wasn't him though
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Aug 29, 2022 22:30
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Is there an actual term for when an author's tone is out of sync with the subject they are writing about? Thinking in particular of when they very matter of factly bring up something shocking. E.g. "I woke up early that morning. A decapitated body lay on the sofa. I checked the refrigerator to see if we had milk"
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Aug 31, 2022 04:48
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interestingly enough we talked about existentialism vis a vis Albert Camus' The Stranger and how the translations for America were different from the British (where the latter used terms like "he shook my hand warmly" vs the very cold and direct former) that doesn't answer your question but yeah
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Aug 31, 2022 08:51
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Daduzi posted:Is there an actual term for when an author's tone is out of sync with the subject they are writing about? Thinking in particular of when they very matter of factly bring up something shocking. E.g. "I woke up early that morning. A decapitated body lay on the sofa. I checked the refrigerator to see if we had milk" "Tonal dissonance."
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Aug 31, 2022 19:35
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if ur writing a videogame instead of a book it's ludonarrative dissonance e: wait that's a little more different
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Aug 31, 2022 19:44
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SniperWoreConverse posted:if ur writing a videogame instead of a book it's ludonarrative dissonance Yeah, ludonarrative dissonance is when the gameplay and the narrative disagree -- e.g. the narrator describes your character as a pacifist but "kick all of your enemies out of skyscraper windows to their deaths" is a valid gameplay style, or the dialogue tells you that the dark lord is on the verge of completing the spell of dominion but there is no actual mechanical disincentive to spending the next 100 hours cleaning up sidequests while the dark lord chills out waiting for you to show up "in the nick of time". The narrative tone and narrative content being at odds is different and I think "tonal dissonance" is a fine term for it. I believe tvtropes calls it "mood dissonance", which I don't like as much.
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Aug 31, 2022 20:41
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is there a John Milton thread anywhere? or where would the best place be to discuss him? New thread maybe? I am working up to Paradise Lost and just finished Lycidas and was blown away, what an incredible poem. I'd also like to be able to discuss Paradise Lost as I go through it.
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Sep 3, 2022 03:21
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There is a literature thread I suppose it goes there
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Sep 3, 2022 03:26
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Gaius Marius posted:There is a literature thread I suppose it goes there The "quit being a loving child" thread? Okay, I thought there might be one more narrow in scope. I was surprised it was never a book of the month - I went through like 15 years of archives.
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Sep 3, 2022 03:57
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that thread has the most embarrassing title in history and i've never been in there for that reason
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Sep 3, 2022 03:59
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i haven't been to that thread because i am a loving child and don't read that poo poo lol
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Sep 3, 2022 09:38
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It’s actually a very chill thread to post with your friends, or at least it’s been like that for the past few years. Don’t let the title put you off.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:It’s actually a very chill thread to post with your friends, or at least it’s been like that for the past few years. Don’t let the title put you off. Yeah, title really doesn't represent the hard-core nerds inside. I found it very friendly.
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moonmazed posted:that thread has the most embarrassing title in history and i've never been in there for that reason If anyone can say it's wrong, they'll probably change it.
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Sep 4, 2022 01:16
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The title made me laugh when I first saw it. It's really just the classic lit discussion thread
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Sep 4, 2022 16:24
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Any articles talking candidly about what it's like being an audiobook narrator?
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Sep 4, 2022 16:59
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FPyat posted:Any articles talking candidly about what it's like being an audiobook narrator? "yeah, and then i sat in a booth and read a book out for 40 hours. it was really dull and nothing else happened."
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Clicking on amazon pages for books in google search always results in "Sorry! Page Not Found."
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