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A Proper Uppercut posted:Trying to remember a couple childrens educational books from the 80s or 90s. Was it the m&m math and counting books?
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lifg posted:Was it the m&m math and counting books? That's a drat good guess, but that's not it. Colors aren't right.
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Apr 11, 2019 18:29
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I got a brain worm to re-read some fantasy novels I read as a teen. Starts off with the protagonist being a prostitute in a tavern, before joining up with an assassin and a half giant(maybe? Can't remember), and fleeing something. They go down the roots of the settings world tree, pass through elemental fire, end up popping out the other side of the world centuries later. I can vaguely remember the 4 main characters: Protagonist Chick, starts as a prostitute with an unpleasant backstory, ends up with fire elemental powers and kinda reborn (all scars disappear, wounds close, regains her virginity or something dumb like that), ends up needing a dragon to teach her how to use her powers in one of the later books. Assassin dude: guy from a lost race with close association to air elemental stuff, extremely sensitive to air currents, uses some asymmetrical one armed crossbow thing that shoots razor sharp discs. His arc basically amounts to encountering his own people and realizing he's not a super ugly human, and then embracing his elemental poo poo and living with it rather that being in agony every time the wind blows. Half giant guy: I remember them being big and having some earth elemental powers, finding more of their kind in or around the fortress the group takes over, and nothing else. lovely love interest: water elemental human guy, kind of a dick, meets the group on the other side of the world after they unknowingly spend like a century underground going through elemental fire fleeing whatever on the other side. Has a sword. The fortress they find/take over on the other side has some small house in an underground cavern on an island in an underground lake.
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Apr 12, 2019 03:22
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That’s Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon.
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Apr 12, 2019 04:22
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wizzardstaff posted:That’s Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon. Goddamn dude, you must be some sort of guru. I've been trying to remember what it was called for days now.
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Apr 12, 2019 05:15
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MohawkSatan posted:Goddamn dude, you must be some sort of guru. I've been trying to remember what it was called for days now. I also read that book as a teen. I actually remember far less of it than you described, but “heroes go through the elemental fire of the world tree and emerge centuries later” is pretty unmistakable. (Also I cheated and had to google the author’s name after I remembered the title.) wizzardstaff fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Apr 12, 2019 |
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Apr 12, 2019 14:23
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A Proper Uppercut posted:They were shaped like those Garfield collections, kinda short but wide. The characters in the books make me think of the California raisins or other little blobby guys. Oh I know this one, is it the Mr. Ma-- quote:It's not the Mr. Man series. Oh. Sorry 
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Apr 12, 2019 18:52
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Splicer posted:Did it talk about the green children? I can't remember all the stories told in it, though each one was only a page long or there about, and there was a black & white drawing on each one. When I say orange border on the cover, I'm thinking more like this (though a lot of publishers did this):
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Apr 15, 2019 17:44
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I'm back again looking for more teen horror stories. I thought this one was Anthony Horowitz but the books and anthologies of his short stories doesn't seem to have it. It was called like "Don't Read This" or similar, and about a Chernobyl-esque reactor disaster, but the reader was causing it by reading on, it ended with the omniscient narrator telling the reader to look up so they could see the explosion in the distance. I've still never found this one either (not teen horror, YA novel): It had mermaids in it. Or at least, mermaid-like creatures. Selkies, maybe. The cover I remember quite well - it was white, and featured a blue-haired woman, possibly a mermaid, holding up some kind of mirror or magical relic type thing that proved to be central to the story in some way. The protagonist was a teenager in a magic school. It was, obviously, a young adult kind of thing. I think the title had something to do with the magical relic thing, and it was probably the first in a series? Or this (definitely teen horror short): One time I read a short story that was really like Stephen King's Misery. It's only now I'm actually reading Misery that I remember it. A man is in a car crash and wakes up horribly injured with mangled legs being kept prisoner by a woman. I think the woman wants him to marry her daughter, who's possibly a bit slow? In the end he takes off the bandages and it turns out that his legs weren't actually mangled at all, he was fine, he just thought he couldn't walk. eating only apples fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Apr 18, 2019 |
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Apr 18, 2019 00:38
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Davros1 posted:I can't remember all the stories told in it, though each one was only a page long or there about, and there was a black & white drawing on each one. When I say orange border on the cover, I'm thinking more like this (though a lot of publishers did this):
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Apr 19, 2019 16:57
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This is a short story I read as a kid, probably 20+ years ago. I'd have read it in German, no idea if that was the original language. A young child, I think it was a girl, walks to school by herself one morning. Along the way, she discovers the dead body of someone she recognizes (a teacher?) slightly hidden off the road. There's a bullet wound or a similar sign that the person was murdered. The kid goes to school and tries telling the adults about it, but nobody believes her. So on her way back home, out of spite, she hides/covers the body so nobody else will accidentally discover it.
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Apr 21, 2019 00:23
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I got one that's bugging me Old sci-fi paperback, painting on the front of either small people on trees or regular sized people on giant trees. It's set in the way far future, earth is much hotter, giant forests cover all continents from shore to shore. Humans have evolved to live in the trees, have no memory of the earth before. It's possible that humans got small, but I think it was more that trees got huge. Or maybe a bit of both, I don't think it was ever made clear because there were no artifacts or anything from our time that survived. Humans are prey animals to a wide variety of carnivorous plants. Main character is a guy who has to go on a journey, I think because his tribe got wiped out.
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Apr 21, 2019 02:12
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Gripweed posted:I got one that's bugging me
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Apr 21, 2019 02:40
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That's it, thanks!
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Apr 21, 2019 02:52
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This isn't a typical request for this thread but idk where else might be able to help. Someone asked on FB if people had learned about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in school. I did not. HOWEVER, I did recently (like in 2019) read a book that referenced it multiple times. I cannot for the life of me figure out which book it was. It's basically impossible to Google because there's too many results and most of them are retellings of the myth. This book WAS NOT a retelling of the myth, it just referenced it several times. Anyone have a clue? I can type up a list of the books I've read so far this year that I remember if that is helpful.
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Apr 28, 2019 07:02
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What else was the book about?
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Apr 28, 2019 13:54
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:This isn't a typical request for this thread but idk where else might be able to help. yeah we're going to need more to go on.
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Apr 28, 2019 15:06
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I read a lot of books back to back so I can't remember which one had the reference. I'm pretty sure it talked about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, definitely talked about the end with the "don't look back" thing, and I THINK there was some comparison to what was going on in their own life. Here's a (probably incomplete and definitely not in order) list of books I've read recently. Also missing is what I'm currently reading which is Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson   
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Apr 28, 2019 17:44
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:This isn't a typical request for this thread but idk where else might be able to help. Was it in Three Moments of an Explosion, the short story collection by China Mieville? The story was Four Final Orpheuses?
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Apr 29, 2019 00:12
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Nope, definitely never read that. Thanks for the input though!
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Apr 29, 2019 00:52
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Gnomon isn't on your list but it was my first guess since the SF/F thread (and me also) loves it.
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Apr 29, 2019 10:41
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So this is nonfiction so I don’t know if I can post it here. It was a black hardcover, published in the late 80s or early 90s, it had the word “Security” in the title and I, being 12 or 13 and having just watched Sneakers found this book at the UWM library while exploring the stacks (my mom went back to grad school around this time) and  ed it. It was about locks and cameras and lighting and doors and stuff. I’d love to find it and see if they ever updated it.
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May 1, 2019 01:24
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Schadenboner posted:So this is nonfiction so I don’t know if I can post it here. It was a black hardcover, published in the late 80s or early 90s, it had the word “Security” in the title and I, being 12 or 13 and having just watched Sneakers found this book at the UWM library while exploring the stacks (my mom went back to grad school around this time) and A single word doesn’t make it easy to narrow down, but you could try searching the library’s collection or asking a librarian.
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May 1, 2019 02:23
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Lazyhound posted:A single word doesn’t make it easy to narrow down, but you could try searching the library’s collection or asking a librarian. Yeah, I assume it’s long ago been pulped. When I was attending there I half-heartedly tried to find it a few times but never managed to. 
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May 1, 2019 03:00
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I’m willing to bet it was the 1992 edition of Lawrence Fennelly’s Effective Physical Security: Design, Equipment, and Operations.
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May 1, 2019 03:07
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Schadenboner posted:I’m willing to bet it was the 1992 edition of Lawrence Fennelly’s You can read a lot of pages of that on its listing on Amazon, it looks like. https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Physical-Security-Equipment-Operations/dp/0750693908
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May 1, 2019 16:49
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Skyscraper posted:You can read a lot of pages of that on its listing on Amazon, it looks like. DePaul also has access to the current version as an ebook. Looks this this is it! 
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May 1, 2019 17:38
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Schadenboner posted:DePaul also has access to the current version as an ebook. Looks this this is it! Aw, nice.
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May 1, 2019 22:09
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Trying to find an absolutely terrible fantasy novel I read back in the 1990s. This is so bad it boggles the mind, no one should ever read this thing. I want the title so I can warn people to NOT read it level bad. In a fantasy medieval society, that is really the last remnant of humans descending from those few who survived The Great Calamity! (Or Catastrophe! or similar) people of every colour live in absolute perfect harmony. They have totally fixed racism, OK? No, really, and it was so simple! How did they do it? Well...Every 9 months or so, there is a ceremony. Any woman who has a baby age 6 weeks or older takes her baby to a sacred space. It was a natural setting, like a sacred grove, or special altar stone or something. They hand over the baby to a priestess who gives them a goblet with a special liquid to drink. The priestesses mix up the babies, and hand them back to random mothers, lottery style. Because of the magical drink the mothers instantly bond with their baby. Sometimes you do get your own baby back, but in general you have no way of knowing if your offspring is blood related. Since every family now have children of different ethnicities, no one is racist anymore, because how can you be racist towards your own child? The entire thing was this level ham fisted. Yes, it is every bit as bad as it sounds. Please help me find this horrible case of Why was this thing even published?
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May 3, 2019 18:49
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I'm trying to remember the name of an oldish science fiction story. It might have been written by Arthur C Clarke, but I might also be getting that mixed up because of the newspads in 2001: A Space Odyssey. George RR Martin and Harlan Ellison are also candidates. The story is about eBooks, way before eBooks were a thing. It's pretty much a story about the paper printing industry having anxiety attacks about this oncoming threat to their business model. It was pretty darn predictive, which is why I think Clarke is the most likely author. I can't remember many other details.
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May 13, 2019 17:55
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I'm trying to remember the name of an oldish science fiction story. It might have been written by Arthur C Clarke, but I might also be getting that mixed up because of the newspads in 2001: A Space Odyssey. George RR Martin and Harlan Ellison are also candidates. Cyberbooks by Ben Bova?
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May 13, 2019 18:20
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Hughlander posted:Cyberbooks by Ben Bova? goodreads posted:When this book was published in 1989, it was clearly a science fiction. Now, in 2013, only 14 years later,
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May 13, 2019 20:10
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Goodreads can typo?
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May 13, 2019 20:36
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Hughlander posted:Cyberbooks by Ben Bova? Huh, I think that is it. Thanks.
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May 15, 2019 04:47
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I'm not sure if this is a novel, a short story, a tv show, or a movie, but I feel like I've definitely seen something where a character repeatedly quotes David Lee Roth's autobiography "Crazy From The Heat" and takes it for profound wisdom. I know Phil Hartman does it in an episode of NewsRadio, but that doesn't scratch my mental itch here. Does anyone remember another story where a character does that?
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May 17, 2019 00:08
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A while back I was looking into short story competitions, and I came across a winner of one of those competitions that really blew me away. A lot of the story has stuck with me, but unfortunately the name of the work, its author, or even the competition itself has since escaped my mind. I was hoping you guys could help me remember it again. The competition was recent. I want to say post-2010 recent. I believe it was written by someone of Cuban heritage, but the gender of the author is fuzzy in my memory. The story took place in the 1990s and was about a Cuban refugee that came to Miami and was now working as a community organizer to help other Cuban refugees acclimatize to life in America. I remember a few things vividly: The protagonist left his family in Cuba, and was considering bringing them over as well. He was in talks with a smuggler to do the deed, but was becoming uncertain if they family would survive the trip as many other such smuggling attempts had failed. When helping those Cuban refugees who had recently arrived, he had to stress the importance of throwing away trash. Trash could always be valuable in Cuba as it could be reused. A recent refugee tells the protagonist the story of a man who collected enough spare parts to create a make-shift motorbike. The protagonist tells the refugee that they better not try that in America. The story continues along these lines. Creating contrast between life in Cuba and America. i.e. how in Cuba although food seemed rare, rice with fish paste was filling, but now in America where food is abundant a whopper from Burger King only makes you want more. Or that in America you can stand on a street corner and say "To hell with Bill Clinton!" and no one would care. But you could also be yelling for help on a street corner and no one would care. I realize this is something of a long-shot, but I would love to read that story again. CourtFundedPoster fucked around with this message at 05:32 on May 17, 2019 |
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May 17, 2019 00:14
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CourtFundedPoster posted:A while back I was looking into short story competitions, and I came across a winner of one of those competitions that really blew me away. A lot of the story has stuck with me, but unfortunately the name of the work, its author, or even the competition itself has since escaped my mind. I was hoping you guys could help me remember it again. I’m p.sure this was an Archer ep?
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May 17, 2019 00:16
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Schadenboner posted:I’m p.sure this was an Archer ep? I haven't gotten around to watching Archer yet, so I don't think that's where I am remembering this from. I remember very vividly reading this short story on a library computer after class. What's the name of the episode by the way?
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May 17, 2019 00:23
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CourtFundedPoster posted:I haven't gotten around to watching Archer yet, so I don't think that's where I am remembering this from. I remember very vividly reading this short story on a library computer after class. He’s being silly. There is a recurring Archer plot with Archer vs. various Cubans, but it isn’t similar to what you described.
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Which book has a character named Jackson* with one blue eye, and one green? I thought it was The Girl with the Silver Eyes, but I'm starting to doubt that. * I'm pretty sure.
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