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Gnoman posted:If you mean defeating the Amazon DRM so you can share the e-book, it is possible but so convoluted that simply buying a copy for your friend would be a better use of your time. yeah ok I wasn't sure if there was a way books could be shared from kindle account to account seems its warez only so I will drop the subject. Thanks for the heads up
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Gaius Marius posted:Well I know one person who is making sure to never read it now. lmao I wouldn't blame you. Humerus posted:There's actually a whole Locked Tomb thread: oh cool I had no clue! I'm gonna read the next two before I go in.
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LurchinTard posted:lmao I wouldn't blame you. And, to answer an unasked question, Taz Muir started off as a Homestuck fanfic writer.
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Bilirubin posted:yeah ok I wasn't sure if there was a way books could be shared from kindle account to account seems its warez only so I will drop the subject. Thanks for the heads up If you guys are part of Amazon family, yes, you can share. But that also means sharing credit cards.
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Bought a copy of Les Miserables, lol it’s so thick it looks like a loving cube, 1300 pages I think I’m gonna give it away, this translation for some reason does not use full town names? Or is that faithful to the original. I skimmed a bit and it goes “and then so and so went to D….., and they stayed there” what the gently caress is that. I’d ran across this with Crime and Punishment before, “he walked the streets of K…..”
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I think that was just a writing convention of the era that was supposed to lend it more authenticity, like "oh dang, I bet author is referring to my town of Kenwich but can't say it outright due to legal reasons!"
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Kinda like how Excel Saga took place in the town of F, prefecture F then? It's meant to be Fukoka, Fukoka Japan. Sorry I have anime of the brain lately, my weakness for Sherlock Holmes fan fics has led me astray.
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Humerus posted:If you guys are part of Amazon family, yes, you can share. But that also means sharing credit cards. Thanks, I had no idea this was a thing and is similar to what I had in mind (shared credit cards aside)
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Turbinosamente posted:Kinda like how Excel Saga took place in the town of F, prefecture F then? It's meant to be Fukoka, Fukoka Japan. Yeah, this happens in Japanese media all the time, even today. Cultural references getting bleep-censored out, books being set in City G or whatever. Not sure on whether it's legally required - some writers do it and some don't - or just a common convention/courtesy thing.
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regulargonzalez posted:I think that was just a writing convention of the era that was supposed to lend it more authenticity, like "oh dang, I bet author is referring to my town of Kenwich but can't say it outright due to legal reasons!" I checked the Gutenberg project Les Mis and it does the same thing, so I'm guessing this is the intended, original experience  Not crazy about this decision, but it's a classic for a reason, I'll live. I'm currently working on Yi Yun Li's "The Vagrants", it's really good, but a hard read. Themes of extreme poverty in totalitarian China in 1979. Some of these details, they seem taken from real life, describes really specific stuff. Not in a Stephen King "I'll think of hosed up poo poo and be entertaining about it" way, more like "This person either heard this first hand, or lived it".
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Back for another BBC Radio Mystery Drama ID: a naked woman is found stuffed into the cabinet of a dentist. All I remember besides that detail is that a former lover of the accused dentist claims that his “style” would be to be naked as well, not clothed or something. Anyone recognize it, it’s driving me nuts!
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Reading Naked Lunch and I don't think I've ever read a book that so intensively hate the reader. It's good, but it's a testimony to Cronenberg's skills as a director that he managed to make a coherent movie out of it.
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Alhazred posted:Reading Naked Lunch and I don't think I've ever read a book that so intensively hate the reader. It's good, but it's a testimony to Cronenberg's skills as a director that he managed to make a coherent movie out of it. I've seen more than a few people say that Naked Lunch isn't meant to be read end-to-end so much as opened at a random page and read aloud to a baffled/disgusted audience.
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Last time I went shopping I saw a few copies of Ulysses, thumbed through a few pages and noped out Looks interesting but one version has no notes and it seemed rambling, and the other version had notes practically for every sentence and sometimes multiple times in a sentence, so it was half page text and half page notes in tiniest font Props to anyone who read that and actually enjoyed it I might get to it one day, but it seems like it will be like decoding a personal geocities page on some esoteric subject back in the day, but for hundreds of pages
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Was it James Joyce who was wrote letters about how much he enjoyed smelling his mistress's filthy farts, or was that Napoleon, or Ben Franklin? Either way, I find that kind of poo poo repulsive; I'll never understand writing that poo poo down lmao.
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That was Joyce, Napoleon just preferred Josephine to not bathe for three days before he met her again and Franklin was a horndog and proponent of the paper bag theory.
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Got a boner from thinking of huffing rear end, but can't actually huff atm? Next best thing is post about it. The only difference is you can get perma'd
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Gaius Marius posted:That was Joyce, Napoleon just preferred Josephine to not bathe for three days before he met her again and Franklin was a horndog and proponent of the paper bag theory. Mozart wrote letters about poop too! https://lettersofnote.com/2012/07/05/oh-my-rear end-burns-like-fire/
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Mozart wrote letters about poop too! and music about butt stuff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch though, more boisterous than horny
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Annath posted:Was it James Joyce who was wrote letters about how much he enjoyed smelling his mistress's filthy farts, or was that Napoleon, or Ben Franklin? I doubt Napoleon or Ben Franklin ever even met the girl, let alone smelled her farts.
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it was joyce's wife not his mistress and apparently she was just as filthy but her letters were not retained
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Tree Goat posted:it was joyce's wife not his mistress and apparently she was just as filthy but her letters were not retained Much like her 
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On page 47 of "The Thursday Murder Club" and I hate the setting, loathe all the characters, and hate and loathe the writer. Good thing I already bought two sequels 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:On page 47 of "The Thursday Murder Club" and I hate the setting, loathe all the characters, and hate and loathe the writer. Good... job?
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Megazver posted:Good... job? Moral of the story: don't buy a bunch of books by an author you don't know all at once just to save loads of money on shipping. (Physical shipping of goods, not "what if Richard Osman and David Mitchell had a baby and it was vampire Lee Mack. Which as far as I know is an accurate description of the other kind of shipping.)
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3D Megadoodoo posted:On page 47 of "The Thursday Murder Club" and I hate the setting, loathe all the characters, and hate and loathe the writer. Perhaps it means you don't have old lady energy? My mom read a few before giving them to a friend, I think she found them adequate but trite. Another of her friends she let borrow it didn't like it, apparently couldn't understand what was going on, so it's probably not just you if it helps. I've got my own pile of books to worry about, guess who finally started Lonesome October last night!
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Turbinosamente posted:Perhaps it means you don't have old lady energy? Rude.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Moral of the story: don't buy a bunch of books by an author you don't know all at once just to save loads of money on shipping. (Physical shipping of goods, not "what if Richard Osman and David Mitchell had a baby and it was vampire Lee Mack. Which as far as I know is an accurate description of the other kind of shipping.) why would anyone ship david mitchell with anyone other than his wife, they're so adoragble together
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:why would anyone ship david mitchell with anyone other than his wife, they're so adoragble together Look I'm a shipping expert, not a shipping expert. e: Wouldn't it fairly defeat the purpose?
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Aha, a chance to mention one of my favourite Victoria Coren Mitchell facts: she and a friend wrote, cast and directed a porn film 20 years ago! She wrote a book all about it. Unfortunately the film itself seems nigh-impossible to track down.
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Gertrude Perkins posted:Aha, a chance to mention one of my favourite Victoria Coren Mitchell facts: she and a friend wrote, cast and directed a porn film 20 years ago! She wrote a book all about it. Unfortunately the film itself seems nigh-impossible to track down. Thing is, I'm much hotter than her.
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Gertrude Perkins posted:Aha, a chance to mention one of my favourite Victoria Coren Mitchell facts: she and a friend wrote, cast and directed a porn film 20 years ago! She wrote a book all about it. Unfortunately the film itself seems nigh-impossible to track down. I have been looking for this book for so long and eventually I’m just gonna breakdown and buy it off Amazon. Is the book worth it?
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The book's great fun, and I enjoyed it a great deal! There's a VERY long review on the GR page by someone who read her and collaborator Charles Skelton's work writing for The Erotic Review in the late 90s, which gives some extra background context. It's also a good time capsule of where parts of the porn industry were at the turn of the millennium, in some ways totally alien to nowadays.
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CommonShore posted:I read Bear this weekend. How was it for you? Did you need a cigarette?
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CommonShore posted:Farting and too soon satisfied, I read Bear this weekend.
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I'm reading Hodgson's The Night Land, and it has me curious about something. TNL has been - IMO rightly - criticized for its prose style even as it's considered a kind of weird masterpiece; C.S. Lewis described it as "disfigured" by a "foolish and flat archaism of style," which is this wildly overwrought thing that's trying to sound like it comes from a couple centuries back. One of its eccentricities is seemingly random capitalization, which I've seen in actual old books and documents, and it has me wondering why the capitalization is done this way in Ye Olde Books. Here's an excerpt that should give some idea:quote:And I to stand a little moment, and presently had grown free in my heart to have courage of farewell; and so did turn me at last to the viewing of that wondrous Home of the Last Millions of this World. And the sight was an astonishment and an uplifting, that indeed there was so mighty a thing in all the earth. None of the things capitalized there are actually proper nouns, mind you. It feels like it's being done for some kind of emphasis, but my notion of emphasis is that it's supposed to indicate how a thing should be heard if spoken aloud, like putting stress on a particular word - and this weird capitalization doesn't seem to do that when you try to read it aloud, something I've resorted to a few times to calibrate myself to the cadence of the prose. Anyone have some insight into why this was done in actual historical texts, and / or how it occurs in Hodgson's aping of that style?
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I'm glad you're diving into The Night Land; it's one of those books that really gets hooks into you, if you put the work in to open the door to it. To answer your question, no idea. I always associate that particular affectation with William Blake, and he was insane. I used to have to read the writings of schizophrenics frequently for work and it's so common in such that it's almost a symptom. I think that before modern punctuation conventions developed capitalization was just another form of denoting emphasis. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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