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I get the mindset that you can't truly claim to dislike something without at least having tasted it, but at the same time, there are so many things and so little time that you gotta filter the stuff that reaches your palate. There'll be false negatives, and that's a shame. I just don't want to waste time on something that is clearly not intended for me. So I'll stick to not having an opinion on Twilight.
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The only reason I bother having an opinion is because it's so incredibly prevalent in modern pop culture. I wanted to know just what the big deal was. Unfortunately, I simply can't get into A Song of Ice and Fire enough to have a real opinion of it. I'm not a huge fan of medieval fantasy environments in the first place (except really specific examples like the Elder Scrolls games and occasional tabletop RPG campaigns), but I find the series too dense and intertwined to be able to get into without a significant time investment that I really can't find an excuse to put forth. The same goes for Lord of the Rings. Famous as hell? Sure. But I've never read more than snippets of the books and never seen even one of the movies all the way through. It's just so far outside my interest that I can't be arsed to open them up.
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Yeah I agree. I read Lor of the Rings and even the Silmarillion when I was a wee lad. They're very good as I recall, but I don't think I could do it now. There's too much stuff in there. I liked the movies when I saw them in the theatre, but tbh they were pretty bad when I later saw them at home. Way too long, and the Hobbits movies turned me right off, I only finished the first one. Haven't read any Fire & Ice, but the HBO show is alright at the moment, so I'll stick with it unless it turns poo poo. It really sucks that franchising has become so prevalent in scifi & fantasy books. I much prefer a stand-alone book to 40 volumes of 1000 pages each, chronicling the rice and fall of whateverthefuck. I don't care about world-building at all. An interesting setting with some real characters dealing with something, 300 pages max, that's it, that's good.
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Oct 9, 2015 23:41
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I don't need to eat garbage to know that it is terrible.
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tonytheshoes posted:Stupid question--I try to be pretty meticulous about logging the books I read on Goodreads, but I'm at a loss when it comes to short stories... Just looking for some other opinions on how you all might log short stories if you don't read the entire book... argh. It's the only area of my life where I have OCD, and I can't figure out what to do. #nerdpeopleproblems If you don't read the whole book it doesn't count! Suppose you could always look for individual novella editions or something.
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Oct 10, 2015 09:31
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Stravinsky posted:I don't need to eat garbage to know that it is terrible. Garbage can be pretty good irl though
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I for one admire a dude willing to read poo poo in order to report back and give the rest of us something to make fun of. But legit dude you read the Twilight remake and took notes and what the hell.
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chitoryu12 posted:I saw some excerpts and somehow it manages to be worse than the original. Mel Mudkiper posted:I for one admire a dude willing to read poo poo in order to report back and give the rest of us something to make fun of. chitoryu12 posted:I saw some excerpts Stravinsky posted:drat, I hate this dumb series and think it is really stupid. So I went to the bookstore and picked up my copy and here's my meticulous thread with line by line dissections chitoryu12 posted:excerpts
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Oct 10, 2015 14:26
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way too intense man
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Oct 10, 2015 14:36
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Snapchat A Titty posted:way too intense man im mad
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Oct 10, 2015 15:28
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Reading is hard for some people.
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If there's a paragraph somewhere that I really like, I'll read that thing again and again. Feels good.
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Oct 10, 2015 16:13
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Stravinsky posted:I don't need to eat garbage to know that it is terrible. garbage is pretty good imhohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNcZrn5dqZw
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Still doesn't explain how he knew what parts of the original book to compare it to 
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Is there a thread for getting help with old books? I have a couple of what I believe are 1890s Swedish Bibles. Trying to figure out exactly what they are and maybe what kind of value they hold. http://imgur.com/a/8nt22 There are 2 books. One has damage to the spine but the rest of the boom is in pretty great condition.
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Goons probably aren't going to be able to help you with something like that. If you really want to know about them, you'll need to track down someone that specializes in old bibles.
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Trastion posted:Is there a thread for getting help with old books? I have a couple of what I believe are 1890s Swedish Bibles. Trying to figure out exactly what they are and maybe what kind of value they hold. I was gonna say Bibles are worthless, but that's a pretty sweet cover. It is Swedish yeah. It says illustrated, how much is it?
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Trastion posted:Is there a thread for getting help with old books? I have a couple of what I believe are 1890s Swedish Bibles. Trying to figure out exactly what they are and maybe what kind of value they hold. also try asking if the swedes seen that type of bible just get a gague on how common it is http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3480864&perpage=40&pagenumber=577#pti23
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Oon the ferst dey Gerd sed ledder be light
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Snapchat A Titty posted:also try asking if the swedes seen that type of bible just get a gague on how common it is Thanks. Posted it there to ask. Snapchat A Titty posted:I was gonna say Bibles are worthless, but that's a pretty sweet cover. It is Swedish yeah. It says illustrated, how much is it? I don't know what it is worth. They currently belong to my mother and I didn't want her to sell them for $25 at a garage sale or on Craiglist if they are worth a lot more than that. Mel Mudkiper posted:Oon the ferst dey Gerd sed ledder be light If someone can point me to the spot in the bible where that part is I could probably post that page. I am not a religious person so I have no clue where to look for that. Trastion fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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Trastion posted:If someone can point me to the spot in the bible where that part is I could probably post that page. I am not a religious person so I have no clue where to look for that. Hahhahahahahha
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CestMoi posted:Hahhahahahahha
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CestMoi posted:Hahhahahahahha
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Trastion, that was a Swedish-language-inspired bastardization of the beginning of the Bible, which is "On the first day, God said, 'let their be light.'
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Oct 11, 2015 20:44
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blue squares posted:'let their be light.' I hereby banish you from Book Barn
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Oct 11, 2015 20:49
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ah poo poo haha
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blue squares posted:Trastion, that was a Swedish-language-inspired bastardization of the beginning of the Bible, which is "On the first day, God said, 'let their be light.' That's also not how it goes
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Ras Het posted:That's also not how it goes As I've said before I don't really know a lot about fantasy novels
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That joke was sponsored by fifteen year old me
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blue squares posted:Swedish-language-inspired
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Marlon James wins 2015 Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34511049
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Just sat a general intelligence test and had questions come up on an excerpt from Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.quote:The result, of course, was that the young girl who was the centre of this elaborate system of mystification remained the more inscrutable for her very frankness and assurance. She was frank, poor darling, because she had nothing to conceal, assured because she knew of nothing to be on her guard against; and with no better preparation than this, she was to be plunged overnight into what people evasively called “the facts of life.” I think it's a great piece of writing but the one part I did not understand was: quote:in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow krampster2 fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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As a smart, enlightened chap (who's also a misogynist) he rejects all this artifice. "Lordly pleasure" was an anachronistic phrase even back then, he's far from a randy noble. How dare all these ancestresses dictate to him what he likes. On the other hand, he's also a product of those times, and gets really turned on by the notion. He loves that she's "beginning to develop under his guidance", and senses "a glow of feeling it would be a joy to waken." Basically he's an egotistical prick who doesn't recognize quite how well his wants have been sounded, and is about to reject it mostly because he doesn't like all these old women.
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What's the deeeeaaaal with adult colouring books?!
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what do you mean? they are coloring books for adults, meaning they tend to feature more complex art than those for children. seems pretty easy to understand..
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It's just insane how they've popped up all of a sudden. Did someone like Oprah spruik them? Now I walk into my local bookstore and there's a display at the front of the store of about 600 of the loving things, every publisher jumping on the bandwagon. For a while there were like 5 or 6 colouring books in the top 10 best-sellers in my country. What happened to that thing adults used to do with books, what was it, reading? I can't wait to see billions of these books mouldering in bargain bins for the next decade.
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Hedrigall posted:It's just insane how they've popped up all of a sudden. Did someone like Oprah spruik them?  what the hell country do you live in where 5 or 6 books out of the top 10 best-sellers are coloring books?they are just a fun hobby/timewaster kind of thing like crossword puzzles etc.. they aren't particularly new either, and lots of adults still read books all the time so I'm not sure what you are talking about at all.. though again this might be related to your strange country. also, "spruik", really?
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I think he's Australian. Which should answer all lingering questions you might have.
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