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Gutter Phoenix posted:I found these in a box of free books being dumped by someone moving out of my apartment complex couple of months ago: I had a few of these books as a kid. Whoever wrote clearly hated the show, hated the audience and resented that their career had floundered so much they were having to write tie-ins for little girls. It especially shone through in the Stephanie ones, since they were writing about the most annoying character on a show of nothing but annoying characters.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:For those who haven't seen this video yet: LMAO   Gettin telepathed at by the mspaint sasquatch
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Have we talked about house of leaves yet? Mild spoilers The book is an holistic work that really plays with the medium of a book while also being very well written Beginning normally enough with a framing device that is a report/collection of notes about family moving into a new house that doesn't quite make sense, with internal hallways that can't fit into external foot print and rooms that seemingly appear at the whim of the house While also getting a Hunter S Thompson stream of consciousness ramble from the (ostensible?) Main character who is reading through the notes as you are and struggling to cope with his day to day life because of it (not that he was doing well before) It does appear a bit intimidating but , it really instructs you into how to read it and builds to some beautiful bits that almost play in your head Highly recommend, definitely get the full colour version      
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Dec 30, 2019 22:03
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I got a copy of that from a pile of free books, I need to actually read it.
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Jestery posted:Have we talked about house of leaves yet? Flip to the Heath fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Dec 30, 2019 |
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Lazyhound posted:I got a copy of that from a pile of free books, I need to actually read it. There is a lot of white space, it's a lot smaller than you think
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Dec 30, 2019 23:15
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Heath posted:Flip to the glossary and look up the word "where." The index? It's not there 
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Jestery posted:The index? It's not there Yeah. The word does not occur anyplace in the book.
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Heath posted:Yeah. The word does not occur anyplace in the book. Oh snap
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So this may be the wrong thread, but I’m not sure where else to ask. My parents have a lot of old books. The house they are living in was bought 50+ years ago from a book collector and his wife. For unknown reasons, she was pissed at him when they moved out, and only let him bring one box of books to their new place. The rest have sat in my parent’s basement library until now. Sadly, a leak in the steam heating system led to many of them being destroyed. There are a few things left, and I would like to find good homes for them. There’s some neat things, like an 8 book collection on the history of Egypt from the mid 1800s, and set of old natural history books that have some hilariously wrong info in them (Did you know dolphins are thought to have poor hearing, as they have no ears?). My own house is full of books I don’t read, so they can’t come here. Nice editions of some of these are worth money, but I doubt that these copies are worth much. Is there any good place to donate them to?
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Jestery posted:Have we talked about house of leaves yet? Mark Z Danielewski has been toying around with doing a "TV" version of the book for about a year now. He "leaked" a pilot script that gets very weird and he is currently putting out stuff on Patreon.
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I like the idea of it and it's all very cinematic in my head , but like I'm not sure if it's pragmatically possible Mark me down for curious I think a listen along audiobook could be cool, could really supplement well and allow for cool stuff
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Dec 31, 2019 01:10
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I got the pop up Book of Phobias  
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Jestery posted:Have we talked about house of leaves yet? I've never heard of this. Looks pretty gimmicky, and is giving me horrible flashbacks to forcing myself to finish reading Tristam Shandy and/ or Finnegan's Wake (and less horrible flashbacks to reading Pale Fire). Is it actually any good? EDIT: You said highly recommended, so I'll assume it is good. I'll leaf through a physical copy next time I'm at a book store and see what I think. Gutter Phoenix fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Dec 31, 2019 |
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Zealander posted:I got the pop up Book of Phobias This looks fun!
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I grabbed a stack of turn of the century hardcovers this morning from someone moving out of my apartment building, and scored some good stuff, including the first 3 volumes of Das Kapital, and a version of the Divine Comedy illustrated by George Grosz! I am most excited about that one. I won't be able to scan any pictures today, but will post some in the near future.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I've never heard of this. Looks pretty gimmicky, and is giving me horrible flashbacks to forcing myself to finish reading Tristam Shandy and/ or Finnegan's Wake (and less horrible flashbacks to reading Pale Fire). Is it actually any good? House of Leaves is a book that you can put varying amounts of effort into. First time readers should just focus on the main text and then afterwards they can go back and start going over the footnotes which add a whole meta layer to everything. But if you just read the story you'll still have a good experience as it is an effectively creepy tale.
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I found a 1939 reader from the other side of the country in a Masonic thrift store. Normally I'm not terribly interested in "slightly old book" but this has at least two children's worth of liner notes in it!  1 and 6 seems a bit expensive to me, but it does have extensive colour plates.   
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I've never heard of this. Looks pretty gimmicky The actual story is... fine? But it would never have gotten anywhere near the attention it has if you didn't have to keep rotating the book to read it. Oh, and a couple of specific words are always printed in particular colours and this is absolutely vital for some reason.
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House of Leaves' mystery is in its aesthetic. It's an attempt to blend written media with the physical medium in which it's made. Whether it's successful in that or not is up to the reader, but it's interesting nonetheless and it has a lot of thought put into the presentation. It's the rare sort of thing where the story is using words as building blocks of something mimicking a physical space, rather than a more conventional narrative that uses language to paint a picture. It's a bit of a victim of its own success, because I remember thinking it was much more interesting at the time it came out than it seems to me now, although I still respect it for what it is. It is one of those books you can get lost in looking for the little hidden details, which works towards its overall conceit of a landscape that never stays static. It's worth checking out and it was a crazy popular book so you can probably find it at any Salvation Army or whatever without much digging. Even if you don't read it I recommend giving it a good flip through to see if it interests you, just to see what it's like.
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It is a bit of a gimmick , but if it wasn't so well written it would become insufferable What save it from said insufferableness is that the non-twisty parts are very competently written and that the book doesn't use it as a crutch. The story itself has very clear themes and every 15 minutes or so there is just a cool thing, be it a narrative device or character development or piece of writing
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Jestery posted:It is a bit of a gimmick , but if it wasn't so well written it would become insufferable You have me curious. Gimmicky things can be cool if done well. I'll check it out one of these days.
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These are related to the bizarre paranormal Sasquatch/ UFO rabbit hole we went down recently in the magazine thread:         This is a book by the lady who painted all of those sasquatch portraits:  
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A few new books (only peripherally related to UFOs and Sasquatch): This is by actor George Kennedy, and also stars George Kennedy. This is one of 2 he wrote. More on this and the other book soon.              
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Stealing this from the Blessed thread cause I just love neat cover and spine designs:
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Pershing posted:Stealing this from the Blessed thread cause I just love neat cover and spine designs: That's loving rad! I've never seen that set before.
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I scored a last minute free fourth row ticket to see a Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolenz Q&A hosted by the SF Sketchfest yesterday: Please enjoy this blurry picture I managed to get:  (Left to Right: moderator blurry Paul Myers, blurry Mickey Dolenz, blurry Mike Nesmith) It was cool. The most interesting thing I learned was that Mickey Dolenz and Alice Cooper were friends and neighbors. Alice Cooper babysat Mickey's kids. Anyway, the moderator, in addition to being Mike Myers' older brother, also wrote the excellent biography of the Kids in the Hall I posted awhile back:
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Pastry of the Year posted:who among us hasn't searched for a used copy of Electrocution Night '78? Fernwood 2-Night was goofy as hell. I need to watch that show again. It's has literally been decades since since I've seen an episode, but I still remember bits, like the guy in the iron lung. Martin Mull and Fred Willard are so goddamn funny.     From this book: 
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Fernwood 2-Night was goofy as hell. I need to watch that show again. It's has literally been decades since since I've seen an episode, but I still remember bits, like the guy in the iron lung.
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wa27 posted:Any opinion on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman? It seems like something that would be extremely up your alley. That show, against all odds, did get a DVD release and I've watched ~75% of it and it's really dang good. It's a huge investment of time, so I couldn't say, honestly, "hey, go watch every episode of this unusual 70s soap" but I'm really fond of it and found it full of surprises above and beyond its spawning Fernwood 2-Night.
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I have never seen that, although I was vaguely aware of it. I had no idea Fernwood 2 Night was a spin off until I just looked it up. I'll have to check it out and see what I think before I commit to watching 325 episodes!
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Pastry of the Year posted:That show, against all odds, did get a DVD release and I've watched ~75% of it and it's really dang good. I have the DVD set and want to get back into watching it every night. It can be tedious at times (it is a soap opera, after all), but it's really something special. I've actually never seen Fernwood 2Night but I know the set includes several episodes as bonus content so I should probably check it out. It looks like someone has uploaded most of MHMH on youtube, though I don't know if there's gaps in the episodes or not.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I've been looking for a copy of this for years: I love that the wall is labeled "PETition" rather than "PARtition." Also, the font nerd in me noted that this book is typeset in Souvenir.
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wa27 posted:I have the DVD set and want to get back into watching it every night. It can be tedious at times (it is a soap opera, after all), but it's really something special. I've actually never seen Fernwood 2Night but I know the set includes several episodes as bonus content so I should probably check it out. There's a very good and admirably thorough episode guide here (PDF link).
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oh dope posted:I've been meaning to contribute to this thread for a while, so here goes. I keep thinking about this book that was posted last month. I need to dig out my copy of the Egyptian "Book of the Dead" and read it again. EDIT: Speaking of which, I got a copy of the Tibetan "Book of the Dead" from the free pile of books at my apartment building I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. I've never read that, and don't even really know what it's about, but it's on my short list of things to read (or at least peruse) in the very near future. I still need to post pictures of the rest of those books. They are in my car trunk, so maybe later today if I get the chance. Oh, and scan some of the George Grosz drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy. Those are rad. I like George Grosz' art a lot. I posted his autobiography at some point earlier in this thread. It's worth a read, even if you don't know who he is (I didn't). The Portland (Oregon) art museum has (or use to have) a really great collection of his drawings from the Weimar period. Gutter Phoenix fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:I love that the wall is labeled "PETition" rather than "PARtition." LOL, I didn't even notice that.
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On the subject of TV, I just made a new thread about the reality show Love After Lockup: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3911040
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