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Juanito posted:My TBB secret santa experiences were generally mediocre. Especially the year when I got a $15 Amazon GC. I don't know why someone would even join a Secret Santa, and send a gift card that was even less than the gift value was supposed to be. The mod is watching over this Secret Santa and dicking about will be punished, although obviously at his discretion.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:thanks hedrigall we were really wondering about your specific reasons for not signing up for the secret santa Happy to help, fam TV Zombie posted:How did you amass so many books without reading them? Are you making good headway with some of them? I have bad spending habits. A lot of them were from when the Australian dollar was really good 4-5 years ago and I was importing tons of books from the US. I would go on lists/blogs to find recommendations and add like 10 books to my online cart at a time. It was kind of addicting! More recently there are a lot of second hand and kindle books in there. If I see something mildly interesting sounding and it's only like $3, I'll impulse buy. Also I was reading a ton for a few years and if I'd kept up my reading rate I'd be like more than halfway through them now. But nope, video games and YouTube  I need to impose more screen-less nights on myself so I can get back to reading. Tl;dr don't be like Hedrigall
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Ras Het posted:Real head book swap where I send you pre war German linguistics papers and Finnish pastoral novels I'm down as hell and will send you some new zealand realism from the great depression about how miserable it is to be poor
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Nov 18, 2016 00:14
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I have a lot of books too and plan one day to be crushed by them.
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Nov 18, 2016 05:44
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if anyone wants free books I have some more SF ARCs from penguin that I'm supposed to be giving away
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i'm down. what've you got?
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Nov 19, 2016 20:04
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it's the sequel to this: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318369/admiral-by-sean-danker/
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Speaking of giving books away, the TUIB Secret Santa will be open for sign-ups until Wednesday 23rd November. If you haven't signed up yet, today is a good day to fix that. If you have, please feel free to tell your friends about it!
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I've been reading a few Joe Hill novels, and I think I've finally decided I don't care much for him. I read and enjoyed Horns, got through Heart Shaped Box, and now I'm struggling to finish the second half of The Fireman. I'm a so-so fan of Stephen King, but I've always been able to at least finish his books.
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Fart of Darkness posted:I've been reading a few Joe Hill novels, and I think I've finally decided I don't care much for him. I read and enjoyed Horns, got through Heart Shaped Box, and now I'm struggling to finish the second half of The Fireman. I'm a so-so fan of Stephen King, but I've always been able to at least finish his books. I like him enough, but he's not great. And most opinions say The Fireman is mediocre. Real Talk, though: at least 1/3 of the stories 20th Century Ghosts are good/great, and Locke & Key is the best thing he's done, and one of the best comic books I've read. The "November" issue and the "Action Comic" are wonderful and take full advantage of the strength of the medium for storytelling.
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Franchescanado posted:I like him enough, but he's not great. And most opinions say The Fireman is mediocre. I've heard good things about Locke & Key but haven't gotten to it yet. Maybe I'll try that and 20th Century Ghosts after a taking a break from Hill for a while.
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Fart of Darkness posted:I've been reading a few Joe Hill novels, and I think I've finally decided I don't care much for him. I read and enjoyed Horns, got through Heart Shaped Box, and now I'm struggling to finish the second half of The Fireman. I'm a so-so fan of Stephen King, but I've always been able to at least finish his books. The Fireman is kinda crappy. I slogged through it, but I don't think Hill's ever met a pregnant woman, because the main character was utterly unrealistic.
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Locke and Key is a great premise ruined by excessive Kingening
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Picked up Liminal States from audible on a whim, and though the beginning was a little dry, I found myself enjoying it more and more. I'd recommend it to anyone with the time to listen to a 24-hours long audio book.
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I went back to my parent's house to celebrate my mom's birthday and picked up an old copy of Midnight's Children. I hadn't finished it at the time so I thought I would pick it back up even though I wouldn't remember what happened up to my bookmarked point.
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I wanna get Lord of the Rings on audiobook. Is there a version or edition I should get?
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There should be a ritual somewhere to summon Tolkien's spirit and command him to read it aloud for you.
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BigRed0427 posted:I wanna get Lord of the Rings on audiobook. Is there a version or edition I should get? I don't know about an audiobook, but there's a very classy BBC radio dramatization with Ian Holm.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:There should be a ritual somewhere to summon Tolkien's spirit and command him to read it aloud for you. Based on his prose, I imagine he sounded very boring. I think his boring prose with his boring voice would be enough to induce a coma.
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Dec 12, 2016 14:34
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Rob Inglis's version is the definitive. Totally unabridged, and he actually sings all the songs. It's loving marvellous
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Hedrigall posted:Rob Inglis's version is the definitive. Totally unabridged, and he actually sings all the songs. It's loving marvellous How would he know the melody of the songs?
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TV Zombie posted:How would he know the melody of the songs? rankin and bass is canon
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TV Zombie posted:How would he know the melody of the songs? He composed them along with someone from the audiobook production company Sorry I don't know if there are canon melodies for each song in LOTR 
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Dec 13, 2016 22:58
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Here's the audiobook version of Boromir's Lament: https://youtu.be/nM0gHCu-FmQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8cqzAUsArM
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I got books for Christmas! A Matter of Oaths by Helen S Wright, and The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook and they're both A+ sci-fi that appeals to me greatly through interesting world-building. 
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StrixNebulosa posted:I got books for Christmas! A Matter of Oaths by Helen S Wright, and The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook and they're both A+ sci-fi that appeals to me greatly through interesting world-building. Did u already read them!?
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Powaqoatse posted:Did u already read them!? 24 and 30 pages into each one respectively due to slow reading + holiday stuff keeping me busy!
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Ah ok, it just seemed like you'd already read them by mentioning the world building as if you knew it but do post back if theyre good
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Powaqoatse posted:Ah ok, it just seemed like you'd already read them by mentioning the world building as if you knew it Will do! The reason I'm impressed with the worldbuilding so far is that in A Matter of Oaths, I can already tell the author put thought into how their weird starship piloting method works, and how it creates a culture of pilots outside of the standards you see in most sci-fi. They pilot ships through 'webbing', which seems to be.... I'm not even sure yet. Full body linkup with the ship, I think? It's weird, and I love it when sci-fi goes weird.
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The world-building impressed me. There was, like, this stuff in the world. And these things, which were cool.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Will do! It doesn't matter how much thought the author put into it because the style it's written in will just be the same tedious crap that all contemporary sci fi authors use. worldbuilding is a disease
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A human heart posted:worldbuilding is a disease
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is goodreads still the best website to use for tracking what you read, if i want to do that? or has someone better come along in the six years since i looked at my goodreads account
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A human heart posted:worldbuilding is a disease
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StrixNebulosa posted:I got books for Christmas! A Matter of Oaths by Helen S Wright, and The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook and they're both A+ sci-fi that appeals to me greatly through interesting world-building. Read both of those recently. A Matter of Oaths was tasty, a few rough patches but a loving solid debut novel. It was recommended to me as "if you like C.J. Cherryh, you should check out...", and that recommendation completely on point. It's a pity that's her only book, but it is at least available for free. The Dragon Never Sleeps was good but weird, and is a book that demands close attention to keep track of all the names and places and, critically, the date, since sometimes it advances by five minutes between chapters and sometimes by five years. I liked it more than Starfishers, or the Chronicles of a Dread Empire (which are written in a similar style), but less than the more tightly focused Passage at Arms and Black Company.
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A human heart posted:It doesn't matter how much thought the author put into it because the style it's written in will just be the same tedious crap that all contemporary sci fi authors use. worldbuilding is a disease I like Vernor Vinge
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Lol I found a brand-new A World History of Art by Hugh and Fleming for fifteen euros at a sale. A human heart posted:worldbuilding is a disease
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ToxicFrog posted:Read both of those recently. A Matter of Oaths was tasty, a few rough patches but a loving solid debut novel. It was recommended to me as "if you like C.J. Cherryh, you should check out...", and that recommendation completely on point. It's a pity that's her only book, but it is at least available for free. Despite being more of a fantasy than SF guy, I think Passage at Arms is one of Cook's best books. It is so claustrophobic and bleak.
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Badger of Basra posted:is goodreads still the best website to use for tracking what you read, if i want to do that? or has someone better come along in the six years since i looked at my goodreads account Yes it is. It's now owned by Amazon and linked into the kindle system so you can set your book as reading and do all your updates and reviews and so on without having to cock around searching for it on the main site.
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