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fritz posted:The Broken God by David Zindell? BAM! I could kiss you. It turns out the one that I read though was Book Three in the series called War in Heaven! So even better reason for me to remember. Cheers! MacDougall fucked around with this message at 06:20 on May 30, 2009 |
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I browsed through this thread, but it must have been in an older thread. What is the site that you can pay $3.00 to, and they will try to identify a book?
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May 30, 2009 15:45
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Morgan_ posted:I browsed through this thread, but it must have been in an older thread. What is the site that you can pay $3.00 to, and they will try to identify a book?
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May 30, 2009 16:07
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Mountain Lightning posted:There is a book that I think is being made into a movie sometime soon that the idea behind it is dropping your life for months and going out to this retreat and finishing a book. I can't remember the name of the book and it's been bugging me because the concept sounds cool but if it sucks lemme know so I can try and borrow it from the library rather than buy it. Thanks! East is East has a writer's colony in it.
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May 30, 2009 17:42
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various posted:I need help trying to identify a book I think I read about 15 years ago or so. Set in England and definitely English in origin. That's A Shock to the System by Simon Brett. It was made into a film staring Michael Caine though the film's plot is a bit different.
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100 Years in Iraq posted:East is East has a writer's colony in it. That's not the book but thank you for trying!
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May 31, 2009 11:04
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I asked this back in February and finally found out what the book is.Sporadic posted:I read this back in 2005 and it was a paperback. My aunt gave it to me and she was pretty big into Christianity at the time so it may be considered a religious book in the style of Left Behind. It's Judgement Day (formerly known as Millennium Rising) by Jane Jensen  http://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Day-Jane-Jensen/dp/0345430352 http://www.amazon.com/Millennium-Rising-Jane-Jensen/dp/0345430344 Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jun 1, 2009 |
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Jun 1, 2009 05:08
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An old SF book, 60s or around there. It starts in a magazine office, National Geographic or Nature or something, and they're trying to find their oldest subscriber; someone notices that there's a guy who's had a subscription for around a hundred years. They think it's probably several generations of people with the same name but go and meet him anyway, and of course it turns out it's just one man who's been getting it all that time, and after that I can't remember a thing about the book. Anyone?
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Jun 16, 2009 19:56
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Unkempt posted:An old SF book, 60s or around there. It starts in a magazine office, National Geographic or Nature or something, and they're trying to find their oldest subscriber; someone notices that there's a guy who's had a subscription for around a hundred years. They think it's probably several generations of people with the same name but go and meet him anyway, and of course it turns out it's just one man who's been getting it all that time, and after that I can't remember a thing about the book. Anyone? Kinda sounds like an A E van Vogt story, but I'm not sure. I'll poke through my van Vogt collection when I get home, I'm pretty sure he had something that was at least similar to this. I'm definitely thinking of a story, but a lot of his shorts got expanded into novels so that's not necessarily a deal-breaker.
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Jun 16, 2009 20:23
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racecardriver posted:Man, I've been thinking about what this book could possibly be for so long. I read it as a kid, probably 6 or 7 years ago. Hey, I think that was Shade's Children. It sounds creepily familiar, except the tracers were in their wrist.
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Jun 18, 2009 00:36
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I remember reading a book in my childhood that I got off my dad's bookshelf. It was some kind of pulp fantasy with extremely cliche characters, but what caught my attention was that it had a very detailed and interesting system of magic. Magic was divided into different categories, and it was more than just casting different kinds of spells - it was almost like different sciences. There was one kind of magic that worked on sympathetic changes - I remember that the main character moved a gondola around by moving a little tiny balloon model that was linked to it, and making up for the difference in energy required by sapping it from a flywheel. Another kind involved just making deals with demons. The detail and thought that went into the systems of magic was captivating. Does anyone know what book this was, and were there sequels or anything?
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Jun 18, 2009 11:33
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Petr posted:I remember reading a book in my childhood that I got off my dad's bookshelf. It was some kind of pulp fantasy with extremely cliche characters, but what caught my attention was that it had a very detailed and interesting system of magic. Magic was divided into different categories, and it was more than just casting different kinds of spells - it was almost like different sciences. There was one kind of magic that worked on sympathetic changes - I remember that the main character moved a gondola around by moving a little tiny balloon model that was linked to it, and making up for the difference in energy required by sapping it from a flywheel. Another kind involved just making deals with demons. The detail and thought that went into the systems of magic was captivating. Does anyone know what book this was, and were there sequels or anything?
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Jun 18, 2009 12:10
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Morlock posted:Maybe Lyndon Hardy's Master of the Five Magics? Synopsis and details of the magics at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Five_Magics This is it, I remember the gondola scene.
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Jun 18, 2009 12:49
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Petr posted:I remember reading a book in my childhood that I got off my dad's bookshelf. It was some kind of pulp fantasy with extremely cliche characters, but what caught my attention was that it had a very detailed and interesting system of magic. Magic was divided into different categories, and it was more than just casting different kinds of spells - it was almost like different sciences. There was one kind of magic that worked on sympathetic changes - I remember that the main character moved a gondola around by moving a little tiny balloon model that was linked to it, and making up for the difference in energy required by sapping it from a flywheel. Another kind involved just making deals with demons. The detail and thought that went into the systems of magic was captivating. Does anyone know what book this was, and were there sequels or anything?
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Okay, I'm de-lurking in the hopes that I'll get lucky. I read this fantasy book maybe 15 or 20 years ago. The main thing I remember is that the protagonist had to save the world by repairing/visiting something referred to as The Interface, which, according to how I remember it, controlled all of the magic in the world. My brain could just be making that part up. It could also be making up: a flying carpet on the cover (definitely unsure about this bit), and a dragon. I know that's not a lot of detail, but my brain really gets caught on that Interface part, so maybe someone recognizes it. Googling of course just comes up with video games and programs. I want SO bad to read it again, because it didn't make a lot of sense when I was a kid, but I remember liking it. I need to give it another go but I doubt I'll ever find it.
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I have been trying to think of the name of this book and I am going to feel like an idiot when someone tells me within two seconds. Guy is shipwrecked or something and a hurricane comes through and he ties himself to the tree. Edit: Found it, The Cay. ExCruceLeo fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jun 26, 2009 |
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Jun 26, 2009 21:15
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I'm trying to pin down which book a subplot that's stuck in my head is from. The book involved a writer, and this subplot concerned a shady publisher or publishing agent who wound up in South America (I think) publishing the writer's stuff as his own. I want to say this was either "Pale Fire" or "The Third Policeman" but neither of those seem right. I'm pretty sure the book had that same kind of tone to it though.
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Jun 28, 2009 04:25
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I vaguely remember a short story (or maybe it was a short film?) that focused around the night-time murders of some people in San Francisco (or somewhere else?). Before they were killed they always heard a loud rhythmic crash coming down the street, and it turned out that someone was dropping a bowling ball down the street from the top of the hill, killing people below. I may have messed up a lot of the details, but the "bowling ball bouncing down a hilly street and killing people" thing is basically what it boils down to.
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Jun 29, 2009 07:45
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Archyduke posted:I'm trying to pin down which book a subplot that's stuck in my head is from. The book involved a writer, and this subplot concerned a shady publisher or publishing agent who wound up in South America (I think) publishing the writer's stuff as his own. I want to say this was either "Pale Fire" or "The Third Policeman" but neither of those seem right. I'm pretty sure the book had that same kind of tone to it though.
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Jun 29, 2009 08:11
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You are about to remember that it's Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade.
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Jun 29, 2009 18:16
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Okay so this is a young adult novel. It starts with a kid leaving for this camp, he's all worked up that he had a fight with his mom before he left and he never got to say bye before she died. At this camp all the kids are harvesting some kind of crop. He tries to leave but they won't let him, the place is sort of cult like. If my memory serves me it ends with a high speed air boat chase. I can't promise any of this isn't skewed because it's been such a long time since I read it.
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Jun 30, 2009 21:41
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I remember a book that described a post-apocalyptic Earth where surviving humans bred giant rabbits and set up large nets to catch swarms of flying beetles. The entire system was set up by a pre-apocalypse scientist who knew the only things that would survive were a handful of humans, grass, rabbits, and bugs. The scientist's son survived in cryogenic sleep, waking up many many years later to discover this new world in which he is seen as a messiah due to the legend of his father's accomplishments. Please help me remember this book!
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Jul 1, 2009 20:39
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Jack Bandit posted:Okay so this is a young adult novel. It starts with a kid leaving for this camp, he's all worked up that he had a fight with his mom before he left and he never got to say bye before she died. At this camp all the kids are harvesting some kind of crop. He tries to leave but they won't let him, the place is sort of cult like. If my memory serves me it ends with a high speed air boat chase. Is it The White Fox Chronicles by Gary Paulsen? I used to loving love that book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Fox_Chronicles
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Jul 1, 2009 21:20
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This used to be my favorite book when I was a child. It's about two kids(teenagers?) who are having the same dreams. I forget what the dreams are exactly, but they are having exactly the same dreams. Somehow they find out they are sharing this experience and team up to do something. I think the word dream may be in the title. Great book from what I remember, I was also a pre-teen when I read it.
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Jul 1, 2009 21:38
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tuprac posted:This used to be my favorite book when I was a child. It's about two kids(teenagers?) who are having the same dreams. I forget what the dreams are exactly, but they are having exactly the same dreams. Somehow they find out they are sharing this experience and team up to do something. I think the word dream may be in the title. Great book from what I remember, I was also a pre-teen when I read it.
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Jul 1, 2009 22:15
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Odd_Lockset posted:Is it The White Fox Chronicles by Gary Paulsen? I used to loving love that book. I don't think that's it but sounds pretty sweet. What's weird is in the back of my mind it always seemed like a Gary Paulsen book but I don't think it was.
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tuprac posted:This used to be my favorite book when I was a child. It's about two kids(teenagers?) who are having the same dreams. I forget what the dreams are exactly, but they are having exactly the same dreams. Somehow they find out they are sharing this experience and team up to do something. I think the word dream may be in the title. Great book from what I remember, I was also a pre-teen when I read it. Slight possibility it's "The Girl with the Silver Eyes"
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I'm looking for the name of a series. It's about 5 gods in a fantasy land, and all that I can remembr is that one of the gods is called the Bastard. When he's summoned, there's a lot of noises and smoke. Somebody recommended the series in a fantasy thread. I've tried Google and Wiki to no avail. I wrote down the series name and now I can't find it.
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Hubcap Hal posted:I'm looking for the name of a series. It's about 5 gods in a fantasy land, and all that I can remembr is that one of the gods is called the Bastard. When he's summoned, there's a lot of noises and smoke. Somebody recommended the series in a fantasy thread. I've tried Google and Wiki to no avail. I wrote down the series name and now I can't find it. Sounds like Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series.
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Jul 8, 2009 16:47
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This is not exactly the same caliber of book as most people are asking for, but I figure it's worth a try... I've recently been going through illustrated children's books that I had as a child for artistic inspiration. But there's this one book that I remember very clearly, but that I can't seem to find... it was a version of Beauty and the Beast, and the illustrations were in this beautiful art-nouveau style, but the lines were thick and black and didn't incorporate much (if anything) in the way of facial features. Think Mucha, only simpler and less curvaceous, and patterned like stained glass. I remember the hands especially were very delicate and poised, with thin fingers. I've Googled and Amazoned to no avail. Everything is either Disney, essays on how fairy tales are all about sex, or harlequin romance novels. Walter Crane's version popped up a lot, but that's not it. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
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Jul 9, 2009 00:18
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Okay, this has been driving me crazy for about an hour now. After over 50 searches on google and even texting kgb for an answer, I still don't remember the name of this book I read last year. It was about a psychopathic serial killer with a split personality. He goes about killing women for most the book, I think in London, or it may have been NYC. Anyway, the first girl he kills is in a convience store, and he smashes her head in with a hammer. Then her mom walks in and he kills her, too. I feel like that should be enough for SOMEONE to identify this book, but if not I can name some more things that happen. The most notable thing that took place was a huge bus bomb, and the killer saves a little girl and is all over the news as a hero. OH GOD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME.
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Long shot, but here goes: Horror story that I remember reading a decade ago or longer. There's a house where some gruesome murders took place that's now a tourist attraction. Inside the house (in the attic/basement, whatever) lives some kind of mutant deformed monster thing that did all the killings. For some reason it wakes up and starts going after people again. I think it woke up because one of it's relatives shows up to tour the house, although he/she doesn't know that they are a relative. The second one is a Lovecraft type story about a statue that gets delivered to a museum. the statue is hollow and has some ancient god or demon trapped inside. It gets broken open (of course) and the god/demon goes about killing people until our hero puts a stop to it all.
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CrayZHorse posted:Horror story that I remember reading a decade ago or longer. There's a house where some gruesome murders took place that's now a tourist attraction. Inside the house (in the attic/basement, whatever) lives some kind of mutant deformed monster thing that did all the killings. For some reason it wakes up and starts going after people again. I think it woke up because one of it's relatives shows up to tour the house, although he/she doesn't know that they are a relative.
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Morlock posted:One of Richard Laymon's Beast House series? Ah! "The Cellar" sounds a lot like it, and for $0.88 at Amazon it is well worth a try! Many thanks
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I'm trying to think of the name of a book I read a long time ago. It's about three friends who decide to commit the perfect crime, and they end up blackmailing their teacher. Then one of them wants out or something? They have the teacher toss out a backpack out of a train into the snow or something like that. The name is something like Letter Perfect or something, but I googled that and came up with nothing.
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I've been trying to remember the name of a short story I read in high school and I just can't figure it out. I remember that this scientist builds a machine of some sort and points it at some object in the sky which causes the machine to give out this sound or some other emanation that makes people insanely euphoric. So euphoric that they cease eating or doing anything else and basically will just listen to it until they die. Somehow the inventor escapes the machine and goes to congress or some other political body to try to stop the machine from being mass-produced but the person trying to market them turns on the machine and dooms everybody I guess.
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I may have posted this in this thread long ago, but let me give it another shot: I read a short story in high-school that i'm pretty sure was part of a chapter in my lit book about stuff inspired by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. In the story, a woman is wandering around a destroyed town, unable to remember anything about the town or who she is. She's desperately looking for a mirror, a puddle, anything that can show her her face - because she thinks that if she sees her face she'll remember who she is. The whole story has a really creepy, dream-like atmosphere. At the end of the story she finds a house that's not entirely destroyed and finds a mirror inside, and when she sees her face she remembers everything, and it ends something like "and who she was, and the name of this town, and why she would never be able to leave it." or something close to that. Any help?
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I read a time travel short story out of a collection years ago. It was a comedy involving a physicist who's wife cheated on him, and he tries to go back in time to change it (I think). Eventually he gets pissed off he cant change it he starts doing radical things in the past to change anything in the present, like helping Madame Curie build an atomic bomb, murdering George Washington etc. I've been googling it all morning and can't find anything.
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Drunkboxer posted:I read a time travel short story out of a collection years ago. It was a comedy involving a physicist who's wife cheated on him, and he tries to go back in time to change it (I think). Eventually he gets pissed off he cant change it he starts doing radical things in the past to change anything in the present, like helping Madame Curie build an atomic bomb, murdering George Washington etc. I've been googling it all morning and can't find anything. e: vvv Hooray! See you at the Académie! vvv Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jul 19, 2009 |
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Morlock posted:It's The Men Who Murdered Mohammed by Alfred Bester. So it is. Thanks!
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