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I posted my stuff ages ago and am still hoping it'll arrive in time. There's one more delivery before Christmas, right? ninja: Crying of Lot 49 is a good introduction to Pynchon, yeah. V. is nuts but Inherent Vice (one of my Santa presents last year!) is another good intro. son of ninja: I finally opened my parcel.  Thanks, Furious Lobster! Nabokov is great (I was thinking about him a lot the days before this arrived, so you may be psychic) and I've been hearing good things about the Knausgard. It's intimidating, but now I suppose I've got a reason to plunge in. Cheers! Safety Biscuits fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Dec 25, 2018 |
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I got home from work yesterday and found a note from the USPS taped to the door saying they needed me to come down to the post office and sign for a package from Taipei. Hmmm... I went down to pick it up today and it was the thoughtful gifts from my Santa. Nicely wrapped and with a cool postcard and letter. I appreciate the note with the personal description of the books. These are really prefect for me. They will all broaden my reading into areas new to me, yet still look interesting books that I will enjoy.  The Three Electro-Knights by Stanislaw Lem It's a neat little book of "robot fairy tales". I read the first one tonight. It had the combination of feeling like an old legend and sci-fi at the same time. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel Delany A non-fiction book about the gentrification New York's Times Square went through, and why that's not necessarily a good thing. I've always heard stories about how seedy the area was and how it's cleaned up and better now. It'll be interesting to get the alternate take on it. Legends of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong Described as important to China as Star Wars and Harry Potter combined and by China's most widely read author. The Chinese Lord of the Rings? I'm ashamed to admit I haven't heard of this before. I definitely need to read this and it sounds fun. Looks like it's a series. Anyone know how many more there are? Thanks for the awesome books! I'm looking forward to reading these over the long winter nights!
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Phew! I'm glad that arrived, and sorry it's a couple of days late. I hope you enjoy the books!
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I apologize for the delay in posting this. Busy schedule and technical difficulties.                                I'm 90% sure this guy printed out his manuscript's DOC so he could turn it into a PDF for Lulu with his scanner.
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Holy poo poo, that is powerful. It's like looking into the eyes of a very stupid god. Oh my God, the scribbled-out page! All I can think of here is J-F Bibeau printing out a revised first chapter of Felsic Current as a little booklet and sticking it in the copies of the book he sent out. On one hand, this guy doesn't have Bibeau's excuse of having a ton of books printed before writing the revision; on the other hand, this guy at least had the sense to go with POD instead of pre-printing his vanity pile.
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The priceless bit is the handful of screencaps of emails he sent to himself, with old school Gmail logos and his unobscured email address and everything. I'm genuinely uncertain if it's a huge joke or completely, unselfconsciously terrible. Either way, the book is a thing of amazing, idiotic beauty.
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MockingQuantum posted:I'm genuinely uncertain if it's a huge joke or completely, unselfconsciously terrible. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Jan 1, 2019 |
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So the scribbled pages are not from a previous owner of the book?
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TV Zombie posted:So the scribbled pages are not from a previous owner of the book? Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Jan 1, 2019 |
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Jan 1, 2019 07:34
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The emails, my god. Absolutely incredible.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:drat Guy A. Person, these are incredible! thanks so much! i'll post a pic in the AM hey post them books I sent you
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Guy A. Person posted:hey post them books I sent you poo poo my bad!  these are seriously awesome, thanks so much dude. on haunted castles atm
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chernobyl kinsman posted:poo poo my bad! poo poo I was just flipping through the scandinavian folklore book the other day LMK how it goes
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Furious Lobster, I finished My Struggle 1 today. It was great, I loved how fluidly it slipped and digressed from one subject to the next and the microscopic attention to detail. I've got book 2 beside me right now. Great choice!
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Safety Biscuits posted:Furious Lobster, I finished My Struggle 1 today. It was great, I loved how fluidly it slipped and digressed from one subject to the next and the microscopic attention to detail. I've got book 2 beside me right now. Great choice! Glad you’re enjoying the series!
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chernobyl kinsman posted:poo poo my bad! oh wait i missed one, the history of philosophy book was in my bag. that one is also great
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chernobyl kinsman posted:poo poo my bad! Nice, that's what I needed to see! Also Antivehicular I am about halfway into Geek Love and it is great. Not at all what I expected based on the title, it's been a very pleasant surprise.
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Thanks for the great selection of books, Tim Burns Effect! I can't wait to start reading Moby Dick. Also, the note about the textbook was hilarious! 
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post the communist bits
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Sounds like everyone got their stuff and it was a great success. Thanks all who participated!
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I did finally send out my free books! They should be arriving any day
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:I did finally send out my free books! They should be arriving any day I just got mine like an hour ago! Thanks so much, will post pictures after I eat and do dishes
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pleasecallmechrist posted:I just got mine! Thank you so much! The card is awesome. My phone won't take small enough pictures to post but this is so cool and what a surprise! Happy rest of the new year! The books I got you should show up any day now. I first mailed them on December 12th, but I guess there was an issue with the address, and it didn't get returned to me until right after Christmas. I shipped them again two weeks ago. I hope you get them this time because I got you some really good stuff. I feel really terrible and anxious that this happened. 
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Finally got my hands on the books that AnonymousNarcotics sent me, despite complications. Aurora 7 is right up my alley, Who Is Vera Kelly? looks fun, Programming the Universe looks interesting, and Sock is a novel by Penn Jillette about an atheist sock monkey. Good spectrum of books. Thanks!
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Nice stuff!
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Yay I hope everyone enjoys the books. I just found out that The Strand has a 48¢ book shelf as well. Mwahaha.
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