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Lazyhound posted:A children’s book where a group of plucky underprivileged kids are trying to save their community centre, which was closed because a dead rat was found in the pool, AGAIN. To raise money to fumigate the building, their detective agency takes on a case from a rich lady whose cat is missing. I think the cat was also used to film cat food commercials? Ultimately, there was some kind of fraud going on, which they figured out because the photo of the cat they were given was mirrored. They only noticed this because the low-functioning autistic child, who they exploited as a human Rolodex, began repeating “DOOF TAC”, which he read in the background of the photo.  I think I want to know what book this is too now.
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Lazyhound posted:A children’s book where a group of plucky underprivileged kids are trying to save their community centre, which was closed because a dead rat was found in the pool, AGAIN. To raise money to fumigate the building, their detective agency takes on a case from a rich lady whose cat is missing. I think the cat was also used to film cat food commercials? Ultimately, there was some kind of fraud going on, which they figured out because the photo of the cat they were given was mirrored. They only noticed this because the low-functioning autistic child, who they exploited as a human Rolodex, began repeating “DOOF TAC”, which he read in the background of the photo. I am reasonably certain you have conflated Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo with an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I am reasonably certain you have conflated Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo with an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. An unholy abomination whose time has finally come
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Lazyhound posted:A children’s book where a group of plucky underprivileged kids are trying to save their community centre, which was closed because a dead rat was found in the pool, AGAIN. To raise money to fumigate the building, their detective agency takes on a case from a rich lady whose cat is missing. I think the cat was also used to film cat food commercials? Ultimately, there was some kind of fraud going on, which they figured out because the photo of the cat they were given was mirrored. They only noticed this because the low-functioning autistic child, who they exploited as a human Rolodex, began repeating “DOOF TAC”, which he read in the background of the photo. My librarian sense tells me you are looking for this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1034046.Mystery_of_the_Fat_Cat
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Lazyhound posted:A children’s book where a group of plucky underprivileged kids are trying to save their community centre, which was closed because a dead rat was found in the pool, AGAIN. To raise money to fumigate the building, their detective agency takes on a case from a rich lady whose cat is missing. I think the cat was also used to film cat food commercials? Ultimately, there was some kind of fraud going on, which they figured out because the photo of the cat they were given was mirrored. They only noticed this because the low-functioning autistic child, who they exploited as a human Rolodex, began repeating “DOOF TAC”, which he read in the background of the photo. haha what the hell dude
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calicokitty posted:My librarian sense tells me you are looking for this: That’s it, thanks!
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This is an elaborate prank, I refuse to believe that book is real.
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How did you get photographs so quickly after the book was identified? Do you have one of those weird bookstores in your town with an old man behind the counter and only like 30 books on the shelves, but somehow he always manages to find exactly what you’re looking for after he tricks you into turning around for a second?
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Lazyhound fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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Lazyhound fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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these are the end times
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“Eleven mallards. Only eleven over the legal limit.” 
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Trying to find a sci-fi story, I think a short story by one of the old time science dudes like azimov or Clark, about AI spaceships that may have been cryoships or generation ships looking for habitable planets for humans to colonize but they never found any. It was kind of sad and mostly from the point of view of the spaceships talking to each other, I think. Ring any bells for anybody? E I'm sure I read it online originally if that helps SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Sep 21, 2018 |
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Fat Cat needs its own thread.
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It looks like there are at least four, probably five, Dogtown books. There will be a thread.
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:Trying to find a sci-fi story, I think a short story by one of the old time science dudes like azimov or Clark, about AI spaceships that may have been cryoships or generation ships looking for habitable planets for humans to colonize but they never found any. It was kind of sad and mostly from the point of view of the spaceships talking to each other, I think. Ring any bells for anybody? I'm sure similar premises can be found in lots of stories but this reminds me of Long Shot by Vernor Vinge. It's also kind of sad and deals with how the ship AI is deteriorating from millennia of space travel. In this story there was only one ship, though, and it's implied that the AI succeeds in its mission. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Collected_Stories_of_Vernor_Vinge#/Long_Shot
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I don't remember if this is a novel or short story, but I remember reading a piece of fiction about a boy who is bullied and occasionally sexually abused by other boys from his school. Now a man, he returns to his hometown and thinks about those experiences from his past and wants a reckoning, although he doesn't know how. The protagonist reunites with at least one of the men who had joined in on the abuse, who has grown into a normal, well-adjusted adult. When asked about his actions all those years ago, this man either doesn't recall the abuse or downplays it as normal childhood teasing. The protagonist is left with a feeling of deep dissatisfaction.
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I'm trying to remember a possibly cyberpunkish book set in the future, female main character, maybe partially set in DC. One aspect of this future was a Vietnam-type war fought against Chinese robot soldiers in Tibet in this setting's past.
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Also a story for kids or ya about a kids boarding school where they had secret cool tunnels to do stuff in, possibly the group of main characters called themselves "the worms"??
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I'm sure similar premises can be found in lots of stories but this reminds me of Long Shot by Vernor Vinge. It's also kind of sad and deals with how the ship AI is deteriorating from millennia of space travel. In this story there was only one ship, though, and it's implied that the AI succeeds in its mission. i'll have to find and read it to be sure but that sounds like it, thankyou very much!
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm trying to remember a possibly cyberpunkish book set in the future, female main character, maybe partially set in DC. One aspect of this future was a Vietnam-type war fought against Chinese robot soldiers in Tibet in this setting's past. The Rachel Peng books by K.B. Spangler? First one is Digital Divide.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I don't remember if this is a novel or short story, but I remember reading a piece of fiction about a boy who is bullied and occasionally sexually abused by other boys from his school. Now a man, he returns to his hometown and thinks about those experiences from his past and wants a reckoning, although he doesn't know how. The protagonist reunites with at least one of the men who had joined in on the abuse, who has grown into a normal, well-adjusted adult. When asked about his actions all those years ago, this man either doesn't recall the abuse or downplays it as normal childhood teasing. The protagonist is left with a feeling of deep dissatisfaction. Possibly The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper?
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I'm trying to think of a book I read in elementary school. All I can remember is the main character's name is Rory, a new girl moves to town and he's jealous, and they bond over the Aurora Borealis. I think she also ate pizza by putting two slices together, topping side to topping side.
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Leavemywife posted:I'm trying to think of a book I read in elementary school. All I can remember is the main character's name is Rory, a new girl moves to town and he's jealous, and they bond over the Aurora Borealis. I think she also ate pizza by putting two slices together, topping side to topping side. Did it involve steamed hams?
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Longshot but here goes. It's a sci-fi story, possibly published in the 70's or 80's? I don't recall much of the plot except that there's some kind of huge creature from whom steaks can be sliced off while it's alive and it lactates white wine; some rich lady was hosting a party and brought one of said creatures along for catering (it apparently painlessly regenerated the sliced-off flesh? I recall the wine was a chablis because at age 13 I didn't know what that was and had to go look it up.) Also there are centaur-like aliens (possibly hermaphroditic?) who 'speak' via singing and there's like three genders; it takes like five adults to successfully birth one child as it keeps getting passed back and forth; there's reference to 'foremothers' and 'hindmothers'. Also I recall a passage very approximate to this one: ' "I'm horny," she sang, "wanna screw?" 'Horny' and 'screw' were not exact translations but they were as close to the concept as the human mind could come'
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Astrofig posted:Also there are centaur-like aliens (possibly hermaphroditic?) who 'speak' via singing and there's like three genders; it takes like five adults to successfully birth one child as it keeps getting passed back and forth; there's reference to 'foremothers' and 'hindmothers'. That's gotta be John Varley. One of Titan, Wizard, or Demon. Full trilogy around the centaurs.
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Astrofig posted:Longshot but here goes. It's a sci-fi story, possibly published in the 70's or 80's? I don't recall much of the plot except that there's some kind of huge creature from whom steaks can be sliced off while it's alive and it lactates white wine; some rich lady was hosting a party and brought one of said creatures along for catering (it apparently painlessly regenerated the sliced-off flesh? I recall the wine was a chablis because at age 13 I didn't know what that was and had to go look it up.) Lol, yep John Varley I didn't recognize the first part with 'Some rich lady' so I searched John Varley Chablis and found... quote:It was sixty revs after the preliminary scout first discovered the site and found it good. The flacks and hypes were returning from their forays into the woods, laden with game. These were ape-like creatures: two of the few predatory species Gaea had ever produced. Gaea was not good at predators. A hype would have fared poorly in an African jungle. But in Gaea, most of the fauna were not good at flight, either, simply because they had no predators. The principal source of meat, the smilers, did not have to be stalked–they didn’t run–or even killed. Meat could be harvested from them in long strips, doing no harm to the smiler. Many a smiler steak was sizzling in the commissary building as the first great feast was prepared and laid out on long trestle tables with immaculate white cloths and big crystal jugs of chablis. A breathless quiet fell over the site as all awaited the arrival of Gaea. It was broken only by the excited meet, meet, meeeet of the bolexes as they jostled each other for position. Some rich lady indeed...
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Didn't someone create a breakdown graph of all the different ways the centaurs and humans could have sex and make a baby? It was some insane pic with a lot of variations.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Didn't someone create a breakdown graph of all the different ways the centaurs and humans could have sex and make a baby? It was some insane pic with a lot of variations.  It's straight from the book. Although no humans are involved; each Titanide (centaur) has three sets of genitalia, male and female, so they can reproduce in any way from self-fertilization to multi-parent combinations.
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Leavemywife posted:I'm trying to think of a book I read in elementary school. All I can remember is the main character's name is Rory, a new girl moves to town and he's jealous, and they bond over the Aurora Borealis. I think she also ate pizza by putting two slices together, topping side to topping side. The Hot & Cold Summer by Johanna Hurwitz.
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Action Jacktion posted:The Hot & Cold Summer by Johanna Hurwitz. Thank you. That's been driving me bonkers.
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A story about a boy whose mother is dying and for some reason he has to travel across America to the coast which is repeatedly referred to as “the place where the sea meets the sky”. He can sidestep into another dimension, and I think he was special because he doesn’t have an alternate self there. This means he steps into the equivalent place to where he is now, rather than to where his double is in the other dimension. This bit is really really confusing to me and I can’t work out how it worked, but I believe it was a major theme. I think a villain had a club foot in one or other dimension, because when the hero switched between the two he noticed tracks in the sand where the villain had been dragging his foot around. If anyone knows what I’m on about and can tell me how the whole dimension hopping thing worked that would be great. Edit: I think he eats a spliff so the police don’t find it on him and gets really ill. Might be a different book I’m thinking of. Sanford fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Sep 25, 2018 |
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Sanford posted:A story about a boy who’s mother is dying and he has to travel across America to the coast which is repeatedly referred to as “the place where the sea meets the sky”. He can sidestep into another dimension, and I think he was special because he doesn’t have an alternate self there. This means he steps into the equivalent place to where he is now, rather than to where his double is in the other dimension. This bit is really really confusing to me and I can’t work out how it worked. I think a villain had a club foot in one or other dimension, because when the hero switched between he noticed tracks in the sand where this version had been dragging his foot around. Talisman by Stephen King e:not sure about the dimension hopping, I know the alternate reality was somehow smaller so you travelled faster through it. Might’ve had something to do with the titular talisman.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Talisman by Stephen King Haha what the gently caress dude I hadn’t even finished posting Edit: I just read the synopsis on wikipedia. Is it as bad as it sounds? I read it aged about 10 and remember being enthralled. Sanford fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Sep 25, 2018 |
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Sanford posted:Haha what the gently caress dude I hadn’t even finished posting It’s a good book for a child to read. I might’ve been 14 at the most and it was a great read at the time. I don’t think it would really work for an adult.
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It’s very good and I just reread it about a year ago, but I’m also a big King fan so I’m probably biased
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I’ve got an Audible credit and roadworks have currently blessed me with an hour each-way commute, so I’ll give it a go. Thanks!
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