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Franchescanado posted:A collection of his short stories. The complete short story collection is worth every penny and easy to find. (Edit) Like this one. chernobyl kinsman posted:a lot (all?) of his work is available online, as well, so you could read some of the major shorts like A Hunger Artist to see if you've a taste for it Thanks!
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regulargonzalez posted:How do you think Stephen King will be regarded in 100 years? Say what you will about him but he's usually entertaining, he's rarely schlocky in a Dan Brown type of way, he's probably sold more books than any author ever (except God, I guess). I feel like there are a lot of similarities to Dickens, who pet my understanding was regarded in much the same way during his life but whose reputation has grown over time. Not that important, but James Patterson has sold more books than King, as far as active authors go. Shakespeare and Agatha Christie are estimated to have sold a minimum of 2 billion + each (#1 that's not the bible). Although Patterson doesn't really even write his own books anymore so I'm not sure how much that counts. It's easy to sell a lot when you put out 5-6 co-authored books a year. Substandard fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Aug 4, 2018 |
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early king was great and i think/hope he'll put out one more amazing work in his life, almost certainly be in response to getting diagnosed with a terminal disease or something, and that will be what he gets remembered for. imo we're in for a wave of fantastic literature (and music) as the boomers make their peace, one by one, with the complete implacability of death
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Is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court known to be dry and boring, or am I just being uncharitable?
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I ditched it too. I just always felt that I didn’t have the context to get the second layer of meaning and the first layer is not at all exciting.
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it's made entirely worth it by the ending, which is an insanely prescient view of what the First World War would be like with the advent of industrialized warfare
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chernobyl kinsman posted:it's made entirely worth it by the ending, which is an insanely prescient view of what the First World War would be like with the advent of industrialized warfare funny, I totally didn't pick up on that when I read it at age 10
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my good king list btw, and that is all i will say about the man for now: it* misery carrie the shining the dead zone apt pupil cujo (rules, and is better, not worse, for having been written in a coke-induced blackout) firestarter pet sematary *yes i know, but 99% of the book is both super scary and incredibly entertaining, both of which are important for horror
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people will talk about salem's lot and the stand, honestly they weren't bad but they're middling to me
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this broken hill posted:my good king list btw, and that is all i will say about the man for now: I would swap out 'Salem's Lot for IT, personally. Other than that, yeah, that's my list. edit: Actually I haven't read Apt Pupil or Cujo, so I wouldn't include those either.
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A conversation with a coworker today made me remember one of my favorite trash/pulp books from the 80s. It is part of a trilogy but I haven't gotten around to finding used copies of the other two. It's called Texas Triumphant by Daniel De Cruz and is literally Texas cold war fan fiction. In this universe the Soviets are going to invade during the Cold War and the US is too pushover to stop them. What's the solution? Texas secedes from the US and goes to war with the USSR by itself. The highlight of the book is when a Soviet tank division invades Texas which the Texans have no hope of beating. As the tanks drive across a large plain shortly after landing amphibiously on the Texas coastline, the tank commander stops his tank and gets out. He notices the ground is soggy and smells like gas, at which point a guy on horseback dressed as the lone ranger appears on a nearby hill and fires a flaming arrow onto the plain immolating the entire Soviet tank division in a giant conflagration. The whole book is filled with ridiculous Texas fan fiction stuff like that and is glorious. If I ever win the lottery I am going to buy the film rights and make the movie.
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this broken hill posted:my good king list btw, and that is all i will say about the man for now: The Green Mile, Dark Half and the first book (and only the first!) of the Dark Tower series were real good reads, imo. I preferred them to Misery, which was just miserable (:V) to read.
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https://twitter.com/petridishes/status/1028161219478343680
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this reminds me of some really dumb tweet I saw where someone was really angry about ~the plot~ in les miserable being interrupted by the digressions people need to stop reading books the wrong way
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ulvir posted:this reminds me of some really dumb tweet I saw where someone was really angry about ~the plot~ in les miserable being interrupted by the digressions From later in the same thread: 
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nerds love world building and magic systems in fantasy books but loving hate learning about something real in non genre fiction books
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Selachian posted:From later in the same thread: of-loving-course
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jagstag posted:nerds love world building and magic systems in fantasy books but loving hate learning about something real in non genre fiction books whoa thats hosed up actually
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Need suggestions for next month's BOTM edit: As always, criteria I'm looking for are 1) accessibility -- as few barriers to participation as possible. Clear prose & Available online for free are the ideal 2) interest -- something with a "hook" that will get people to read it. Helps a lot if you tell me why people would want to read the book you're suggesting. 3) off the beaten path -- if it's a book that 3/4ths of the forum has already read, there's no point. We don't need to do a Song of Ice and Fire BotM, etc. 4) merit/quality -- this is subjective but ideally it's a good book Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Aug 23, 2018 |
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ulvir posted:this reminds me of some really dumb tweet I saw where someone was really angry about ~the plot~ in les miserable being interrupted by the digressions Y'all do realize Alexandra Petri is a humor writer, right? Besides, if you're making that joke, you're probably someone who 1) read moby dick and 2) liked the whale facts
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Need suggestions for next month's BOTM The Abolition of Species by Dietmar Dath
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Need suggestions for next month's BOTM I just read Sulphuric Acid by Amelie Nothomb, so that one. It's short and provocative, so there should be plenty to discuss. The premise is a reality show about a real concentration camp with real deaths and all, but there's considerably more to it than the shock value. The only problem is, it's going to be difficult to find in bookshops and libraries.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Y'all do realize Alexandra Petri is a humor writer, right? I like that it was written for people who had never even seen a picture of a whale before, and would have had trouble understanding or even imagining every aspect of what a whale is. You got to admire the man’s ambition really.
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A question for Dickens fans/scholars/whatever: So I know Mystery of Edwin Drood was unfinished, but how unfinished is it? Like, is it functionally pretty readable, just without an ending, or does it feel unedited and fragmentary?
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He was published serially so it's not a collection of notes like the last tycoon. According to Wikipedia he finished 6 of the planned 12 instalments, so it's literally half finished.
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whats that
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Dorothy Lynch posted:whats that Like humour for Americans
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Like humour for Americans Mostly farts and gay jokes
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Mr. Squishy posted:He was published serially so it's not a collection of notes like the last tycoon. According to Wikipedia he finished 6 of the planned 12 instalments, so it's literally half finished. Arguably not, Dickens had a habit of listening to his readers and rewriting depending on audience reaction. I would say three were done and three were last drafts. The most famous example of this was Miss Mowcher from Copperfield, the first time we met her she was a comedic ludicrous figure, the second time she was written sympathetically and had a heroic moment - reason being Dickens received a letter from a woman who had a sister who was a dwarf and she asked him to change her character and explained why. It’s an interesting exercise to go through his novels and compare how people were at the start vs how they evolved 
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Just saw the film version of Susanna Moore's 'In The Cut.' Apparently the book has a shocking ending that the movie left out or greatly reduced. I can't seem to find a description by Googling or even get the book on Kindle to read it myself. Can anyone spoil it for me? In the movie she shoots the killer without him getting to do anything to her, wanders back to her apartment where she left the good cop handcuffed, and that's it. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Sep 2, 2018 |
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https://www.amazon.com/October-Russian-Revolution-China-Mi%C3%A9ville/dp/1784782777 Has anyone read this yet? China Mieville writing a one-volume summary of the events of the Russian Revolution.
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I have and it owns. No idea about its historical accuracy but I couldn't put it down.
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i definitely trust the historical chops of the bald trotskyist who writes fantasy novels
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The lad is a unit. You might not trust him but you'd definitely fall asleep in his arms.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i definitely trust the historical chops of the bald trotskyist who writes fantasy novels Same.
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I'm not going to read anything by China Mieville until he admits that my good friend Stalin did nothing wrong.
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A human heart posted:I'm not going to read anything by China Mieville until he admits that my good friend Stalin did nothing wrong. I have bad news about your friend, and the things he did in the Ukraine
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A human heart posted:I'm not going to read anything by China Mieville until he admits that my good friend Stalin did nothing wrong.
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A human heart posted:I'm not going to read anything by China Mieville until he admits that my good friend Ariel did nothing wrong.
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