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A human heart posted:ah, just heard of a book. time to look at how long the audiobook of it is for some reason, that's a good way to evaluate it. As a physical book reader myself, that's a bit unfair. Have you never weighed a book in your hands, do the fflflfllf leaf to see how many pages it's got? It's not a dealbreaker but it's an idk a quality in the measuring of the book along with title author etc, ya know? Seems to me that a 24hr audiobook vs a 2hr one is the same as a fat vs a thin paperback. 
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Krankenstyle posted:As a physical book reader myself, that's a bit unfair. I'm currently sitting in a room with a couple thousand books and not once have I actually cared how thick or thin any of them are beyond worrying that the really thick ones might damage themselves due to how poorly hardcovers are put together nowadays. That said, I can understand being in a situation where you have a set amount of time you want to read/listen to a book within, such as a long plane ride, and want to plan accordingly.
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Ya 9 times out of 10 I don't care if it's long or short (that's what she said).... I'm just saying it's "an information" that you get and may use if you want to. The ebook reader I had on my palm pilot in literally 2001, it didn't have any room for progress bars so I had no idea how far I was in the book, when it would end. That was an interesting feeling, but tbh I'm a lamer who prefers having an idea of how soon the torture will end.
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Selachian posted:Yeah, Williams's work tends to be pretty bulky. lol it definitely has a 90s vibe. so far it feels like mondo 2000: the novel also I'm curious if it had any influence on the whole isekai genre in manga/anime, where people die and wake up in a virtual game world
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please read Perceforest instead
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I just realized that my great new bookshelf with important books on it has an hour or two of direct sunlight to the lower shelves in warmer months. Moving it isn’t an option. Will UV film on the window prevent damage?
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Rand Brittain posted:I just realized that my great new bookshelf with important books on it has an hour or two of direct sunlight to the lower shelves in warmer months. Moving it isn’t an option. UV film reduces fading but it doesn't prevent it entirely. Still, if the bookcase isn't going to be getting full blast sunlight the entire day, UV film should protect it pretty well.
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Rand Brittain posted:I just realized that my great new bookshelf with important books on it has an hour or two of direct sunlight to the lower shelves in warmer months. Moving it isn’t an option. have you considered curtains
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chernobyl kinsman posted:have you considered curtains The timing isn’t really convenient unless I leave them shut all day long.
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Apr 23, 2019 19:49
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I should put uv film on my barrister bookshelves it's out of direct light but why would I have unprotected books like a peasant
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Apr 23, 2019 19:52
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Reading is the only pastime that isn't about expensive gadgets. Please make me forget the words "UV film"
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Apr 23, 2019 21:08
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I'll wrap all of my books in UV film from now on, so that all those ex-library books stay in their mint grease-stained condition for the next 50 years or so
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This may be a mistake to post, but I just finished Danielewski’s House of Leaves, and while I thought it was a good ghost story with some very clever design elements, I’m not blown away or obsessed or haunted like many of the people who told me to read it seem to be. Is there some quality I’m overlooking or dismissing? I guess I feel like maybe I missed the moment for reading it or something. I liked it fine, but the metatextal stuff didn’t really grab me and I just took it as two ghost stories, one classic and one in a contemporary style. I guess I was expecting some kind of encounter with the sublime or like a really good scare, but I didn’t really get either.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:This may be a mistake to post, but I just finished Danielewski’s House of Leaves, and while I thought it was a good ghost story with some very clever design elements, I’m not blown away or obsessed or haunted like many of the people who told me to read it seem to be. Is there some quality I’m overlooking or dismissing? Nah it's a mediocre book that mediocre people like to rave about.
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Franchescanado posted:Nah it's a mediocre book that mediocre people like to rave about. One of my favorite movies about ghosts is Lake Mungo, so I’m there for the concept, but oh well.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:One of my favorite movies about ghosts is Lake Mungo, so I’m there for the concept, but oh well. TBB's Horror Thread is pretty good, so look through that to find a ghost story that catches your interest. Have you read the classics like The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting of Hill House? Or are you looking for something more modern, like Slade House? The best book about ghosts I've read lately was Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders. It has probably my favorite depictions of ghosts in literature, but it's not a horror story. You can post in the TBB Recommendation thread if you have something specific in mind.
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Theres a ghost in Blackwater
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:One of my favorite movies about ghosts is Lake Mungo, so I’m there for the concept, but oh well. Mel Mudkiper posted:Theres a ghost in Blackwater Everyone should read Blackwater, and I thought that ghost was particularly unsettling for some reason. There's so many reasons to love Blackwater so everyone should read it anyway But if you want a really good twist on the traditional haunted house novel, The Elementals (also by McDowell) is very good. I haven't seen Lake Mungo so I can't tell you a book that's much like it, but different takes on the haunted house idea may be my favorite category of books, there should be some in the terrible first post of the horror thread. If not, I can probably barf up a list of them.
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Rand Brittain posted:The timing isn’t really convenient unless I leave them shut all day long. you should board up your windows like a cool reclusive book man
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A human heart posted:you should board up your windows like a cool reclusive book man Or just live in the basement like me 
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I just went with blackout curtains, I feel like an underachiever.
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I'm tired and just want to like things sorry for ever being lovely I hope you all like the books you read and read books you like God bless
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:This may be a mistake to post, but I just finished Danielewski’s House of Leaves, and while I thought it was a good ghost story with some very clever design elements, I’m not blown away or obsessed or haunted like many of the people who told me to read it seem to be. Is there some quality I’m overlooking or dismissing? If you skip all the bullshit and focus on just the Navidson narrative, there’s actually a creepy little story there. It’s not amazing but it’s not terrible, either. The mediocre bit is you have to wade through hours of bullshit (some of the structural / typeset stuff works better than the rest) to get to that story and it’s all loving edgelord awfulness.
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Ras Het posted:Reading is the only pastime that isn't about expensive gadgets. Please make me forget the words "UV film" Disrupt the bookshelf
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https://twitter.com/alloy_dr/status/1121392092440342529
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Apr 25, 2019 13:36
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I guess this is how they tried to get adults to read Newberry winners: 
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quote:Dear readers, Ellroy fans, and seditious sustainers of the American literary tradition:
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Apr 30, 2019 08:51
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Thanks I hate it
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Apr 30, 2019 17:05
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Loved the first LA Quartet & Underworld USA and everything before them, but tbh his recent writing has become a drag, he's gone too far up his own rear end imo. He needs an editor who can say no.
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I like Ellroy, but Perfidia failed to grab me. I think he's just been working the same schtick a little too long. What was fresh when LA Confidential, White Jazz, and American Tabloid came out now seems like just more of the same with different names swapped in. He's not creating interesting characters anymore, and his attempt at doing non-white male protagonists in Perfidia in Kay and Hideo just felt unconvincing.
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Gross.
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Is there a historical novel thread? I just picked up Shogun by Clavell ten minutes ago and it's pretty baller so far, capturing the Aubrey-Maturin spirit in this prologue.
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There are some problems with Shogun.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There are some problems with Shogun. What are they? It can't be less historically accurate than Nioh
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Novels are never "historically accurate", whether they're set in the past or the present.
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cebrail posted:Novels are never "historically accurate", whether they're set in the past or the present. I tend to think of historical accuracy as less of a black and white "this is exactly how it happened back then, the author used a mind reading device and a time machine to find out how it happened" and more of a spectrum. The Aubrey-Maturin books are like, the most historically accurate books I can think of, in that they capture the feel of the era alongside the technology and morals and so on. Nevermind that they're not strictly accurate - there never was a Captain Aubrey, and events most certainly did not unfold like they do. So the question stands: what's wrong with Shogun? I'm genuinely curious here, the writing seems to be solid and while I'm not expecting total authenticity, it seems to be relatively close. So far at least. (And yeah, I know it changed the names of the historical figures.) The Nioh comment meanwhile was a joke, because as much as I love Nioh, I'm 99.8% sure William Adams didn't learn Japanese by being possessed by a cat spirit, and that he didn't spend his time in Japan fighting yokai.
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Is there a good resource online anyway for generally seeing book quality? Oftentimes I'll pick up a random book and if would be nice to know if it was actually worth reading. Something like metacritic would be great, since Amazon/Goodreads reviews and star ranking tends to be useless
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The answer to that question very much depends on what you're looking for. Fantasy novels, nonfiction, classics, misery porn, harlequin, sports sagas? For most purposes Goodreads is probably fine
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Ras Het posted:The answer to that question very much depends on what you're looking for. Fantasy novels, nonfiction, classics, misery porn, harlequin, sports sagas? For most purposes Goodreads is probably fine Goodreads is mostly fine. I have not yet had a good recommendation from its "suggested because you read X" algorithm though, and classic books tend to get lower overall ratings because of sooper smart online readers who "don't get all the hype"
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