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ZorajitZorajit posted:Honestly, because it's not a genre that I have any familiarity with. Plus, I'm very much not the intended audience for Cozy Mysteries, though I do like hard-boiled noir so I'm enjoying seeing the overlaps between the two, like Bizarro universes of each other. I will ask this though: where do you fall on "the reader should be able to solve the mystery in the course of the story"? Because I disagree with J on this. If I can (or am expected to) solve the mystery ahead of the character then I'm focusing on that more than on the characters and, if I do, I feel like it creates a weird meta-textual issue of questioning the protagonists competence that they artificially do not puzzle it out. I always have thought that the ideal balance for a mystery story is that the reader should feel like they would be able to solve it but not actually have that be the case. You are aiming for the “oh, of course” feeling but if people can realistically get there before the book does then they will.
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ZorajitZorajit posted:I will ask this though: where do you fall on "the reader should be able to solve the mystery in the course of the story"? I don't care either way, but it does annoy me when "you can't solve the mystery before the protagonist" is given as a criticism of a book where the author clearly didn't intend for you to be able to. It's not a failure on the part of the author if they just weren't writing that kind of book.
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Personally I'm enjoying the show featuring books that are "bad" because of poor execution, plot, characters, etc and not "bad" because they're by horrible people saying horrible things.
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ManMythLegend posted:Personally I'm enjoying the show featuring books that are "bad" because of poor execution, plot, characters, etc and not "bad" because they're by horrible people saying horrible things. Yeah, it makes the podcast so much more relaxing to listen to.
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New episode, Who Moved My Cheese?, which is ostensibly a self-help book but sounds more like a particulary demented children's book. There's been a pretty great string of episodes this year, and I am not sure if it's because their choice of material is stronger or something else.
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I never quite realized how creepy and twilight zone the parable in that book is
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When I was getting into D&D in the late 90s, I was buying my first books from a Walden Books (now closed) in my local mall (still clinging to life.) Cheese was bloody everywhere. On a Redwall kick, I mistook it for some kind of book about real mice and started reading while my parents were away. Man was I ever mistaken. Of course, as the saying about Ayn Rand and Tolkein goes; it's probably open to question as to which book about mice a child should read.
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Oh god that section where the author pats himself on the back about how good his parable is was PAINFUL
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I joined a leadership program when I went to college and we had a retreat where we got a whole presentation about Who Moved My Cheese and it was the woooooooorst so this episode was a real treat.
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I find I enjoy episodes more when I have read the book they're discussing. Who Moved My Cheese? was required reading at a small business I worked for. I was their graphic designer, chiefly pre-production of in-house print items. I did not need any sales knowledge or any of that bullshit.
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SirSlarty posted:I find I enjoy episodes more when I have read the book they're discussing. That sounds awfully like something a Hem would say.
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It's amazing how many self-help books come down to "you need to hold yourself responsible for what others do to you".
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Pope Guilty posted:It's amazing how many self-help books come down to "you need to hold yourself responsible for what others do to you". It's a great way to pretend that it's other people's fault when you gently caress them over.
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ZorajitZorajit posted:That sounds awfully like something a Hem would say. 
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Improbable Lobster posted:It's a great way to pretend that it's other people's fault when you gently caress them over. Gee, I wonder why my boss wants me to read this.
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Pope Guilty posted:It's amazing how many self-help books come down to "you need to hold yourself responsible for what others do to you". This book's message is literally "You are a rat in a maze surviving thanks to the whims of forces larger than yourself and if you starve it's your fault for not adapting". It's late capitalism in book form.
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What the gently caress is even going on in this book, other than pedophilia and sexual violence
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X-Ray Pecs posted:What the gently caress is even going on in this book, other than pedophilia and sexual violence The content warning at the top was enough for me to go "you know what? Pass."
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Yeah, it sounded pretty terrible. Don't scroll over this if you're queasy: While being raped, a man bit off a woman's clitoris. Still, I was getting bored with "cozy mysteries," so I'm glad they're back with unambiguously terrible books.
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There's one of those little free libraries by my place and last time I had a look I discovered a copy of Necroscope. I imagine it's only a matter of time before it has a copy of Wild Animus. I don't know if it got much distribution in Canada but I'm sure that plenty of copies found there way up here one way or another.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Am I the only one who can't find a copy of Wild Animus? The only one in the entire world? I'll send you mine
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I've only seen a copy of Wild Animus once in the wild. It was in a huge bin of children's books at the regional Goodwill facility.
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Do you guys just not have Half Price Books where you live? (Incidentally, I once saw Level 26: Dark Origins there too.)
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Do you guys just not have Half Price Books where you live? I've seen it at a thrift store, but I've also seen some of Shapero's elves giving away new copies on my college campus. This was just a few months ago, mind you.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Do you guys just not have Half Price Books where you live? Now I'm stuck trying to piece through whether or not I would want to shame myself by buying an IDEOTV book from an independent bookseller. Do I just blurt out "it's for a project" ala Mr. Friedman?
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ZorajitZorajit posted:Now I'm stuck trying to piece through whether or not I would want to shame myself by buying an IDEOTV book from an independent bookseller. Do I just blurt out "it's for a project" ala Mr. Friedman? Speaking of “it’s for a project,” this week’s episode has J get savagely dunked by someone for reading a Jack Reacher book in public.
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ZorajitZorajit posted:Now I'm stuck trying to piece through whether or not I would want to shame myself by buying an IDEOTV book from an independent bookseller. Do I just blurt out "it's for a project" ala Mr. Friedman?
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Do you guys just not have Half Price Books where you live? Not in Spain but I do hit up used English books wherever I can! I've had better luck in rural France with that than I have here, oddly enough.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Speaking of “it’s for a project,” this week’s episode has J get savagely dunked by someone for reading a Jack Reacher book in public. At least it was just a Reacher book, better to be mocked for that than for reading a Gor book in public.
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Drunkboxer posted:At least it was just a Reacher book, better to be mocked for that than for reading a Gor book in public. better to be Dad than Daddy
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This one looks like a whopper http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2018/09/30/116-spy-killer/
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The Vosgian Beast posted:This one looks like a whopper
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The Chad Jihad posted:The guest recommended Wizards First Rule, but perhaps strictly for ball-horror reasons Somewhere between Gor and Eye of Argon... I read the whole Black Jewels trilogy as a teen and it's bullshit world still occupies more of my brain space than it has any right to. Realistically I know that if you haven't been exposed to the gruesome sexual violence before than there's nothing else you're going to be able to talk about. But part of me was still disappointed that the drat talking animals don't show up until book two so everyone could get the full blast of saccharine, sentimental family feature lodged right in the middle of all the murderrapes.
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Wherein J and Collision pick a book they used to like because they want to kill their own sacred cows a little: "IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas", a book about writing about music and pop culture. http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2018/10/14/117-iv/
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I don't remember if I read any of Chuck Klosterman's articles in Esquire but if I didn't, I really dodged a loving bullet.
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I'm surprised and saddened that nobody in this thread talked about the Vampire$ episode (I am part of the problem), because it rules.
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