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Zurtilik posted:but which edition?! These 5th edition sourcebooks are the first sourcebooks I’ve ever read (other than snippets in wtf d&d articles). They are really pleasant to read through because of all the pretty pictures. I’ve been dm’ing “lost mine of phandelver” for my family over zoom since June, which is my first experience as a DM. I think my 5-year-old nephew will join in the next session with a forest gnome fighter. more falafel please posted:nice. my feeling is you get to the eschaton you're probably going to finish the book
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wowee i loved invisible cities
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beer pal posted:wowee i loved invisible cities yeah it's such a pleasure. ppeople are always calling one author or another a master storyteller, but that dude is a master storyteller ---------------- |
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more falafel please posted:nice. my feeling is you get to the eschaton you're probably going to finish the book eschaton for the win! well, not 'win' of course... iirc there is no winning, but i'd have to revisit the dozen pages of rules in the endnotes to be sure. i agree that infinite jest picks up in the second half when the ostensible plot starts to move a little more deliberately, so you can gain a little momentum reading it. |
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i don't read a lot of fiction, but i'm about halfway through 'the amazing adventures of cavalier and clay'. it's one of those books that is very obviously well-written, and i can intellectually understand what makes it great, but it hasn't really grabbed me or fascinated me yet. |
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Prof. Crocodile posted:eschaton for the win! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I
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Zurtilik posted:Is that what were calling the original release now or is there actually a product labeled "zero edition"? i meant the recreation by the old school gamers group. the art for the books is lovely I read that thread on the really creepy member tho ---------------- |
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Vei posted:In Writing to Learn, Stephen Jay Gould gets cited a few times, and so I bought one of his books and it's really good so far: Holy poo poo. Probably 9 years ago I helped a friend move. My memory is foggy, it wasn't her book but it was in a pile of things they were getting rid of, but I was looking at this book because it was only the front cover and first 270 pages. She didn't know what happened, where the back of the book went, and it came home with me and has been on my shelf since. I dusted this off, paged through this a bit, and now I'm remembering why I took it. I should read this. How bizarre a coincidence.
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I've spent this year just re-reading from my massive stock of books and will continue you to do so until I'm no longer depressed and stressed all the time. But! I've had two good recommendations just recently and so will be reading works by Angelica Gorodischer (only a few books translated into English) and Naomi Mitchison. Manged to buy a couple of Gorodischer's books from Powell's (instead of Amazon) and I think I can get Mitchison from Half-Price Books. |
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ive got some books on their way from powells too =] wish i could find a canadian store with as big a selection, it takes for ever to get things over the border these days (also the exchange rate) rn im reading jane eyre & enjoying it so far https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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beer pal posted:ive got some books on their way from powells too =] wish i could find a canadian store with as big a selection, it takes for ever to get things over the border these days (also the exchange rate) i think it owuld be really cool to put together a reading list based on attics ---------------- |
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jane eyre incidents in the life of a slave girl the picture of dorian gray hellraiser autobiography of anne frank the yellow wallpaper (? kinda) flowers in the attic a light in the attic pretty depressing freaky list lol ---------------- |
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cda posted:jane eyre it sounds like you're open to short horror stories, so might as well include 'dreams in the witch-house'. |
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Prof. Crocodile posted:it sounds like you're open to short horror stories, so might as well include 'dreams in the witch-house'. oh yeah of course...that's a great connection ---------------- |
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in a little princess she lives in the attic...that's another one
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obviously wide sargasso sea. yo beer pal, you should read that right after you read jane eyre
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ya i was planning on it. it was hearing about that one that got me to read jane eyre. u mean right after like right after though?
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beer pal posted:ive got some books on their way from powells too =] wish i could find a canadian store with as big a selection, it takes for ever to get things over the border these days (also the exchange rate) I've been to Powell's twice. It was basically a religious pilgrimage. |
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I've spent the last few years slowly perusing The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths by Benerson Little
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Awesome winter sig by Symbolic, love it!
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xcheopis posted:That sounds cool! Yeah, it procedurally debunks pirate myths and sheds a more practical light on pirate life in the caribbean sea during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I like it.
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Dick Bastardly posted:Yeah, it procedurally debunks pirate myths and sheds a more practical light on pirate life in the caribbean sea during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I like it. Added to my list. 
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cda posted:jane eyre to kill a mockingbird featuring attic finch ---------------- |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm reading Dead Souls and its NOTHING like the games Lol this is a good joke I appreciate |
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cda posted:Reading Gogol but I can't seem to search for anything Thinking about binging it. |
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cda posted:Reading Gogol but I can't seem to search for anything |
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I just finished infinite jest so now if anyone asks me "have you read infinite jest?" I can (and will) say "yes." |
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take the moon posted:to kill a mockingbird featuring attic finch 
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i'm reading Underworld, and tbqh i'm very skeptical about how the vampires are going to tie in to the baseball memorabilia subplot. |
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I have abandoned all the fiction I was reading in favour of balancing multiple nonfiction and I like it but at what cost
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I'm loving the illustrations. Also the writing. Why did no-one tell me to read Gogol earlier?  
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nut posted:I have abandoned all the fiction I was reading in favour of balancing multiple nonfiction and I like it but at what cost reading moby dick but just the whale facts chapters https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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beer pal posted:reading moby dick but just the whale facts chapters I went in so hard on moby dick, I think I did the first 100 pages in two days and then I realized how much that took out of me with respect to doing anything else that day, esp writing and now I feel like I don't have the effort to continue it  I've relegated whatever effortful reading time I have for a book called Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present, confirming that i am officially lame
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i often feel guilty i dont read more non fiction, i think ive only read like two this year and its freakin september
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beer pal posted:i often feel guilty i dont read more non fiction, i think ive only read like two this year and its freakin september I've been enjoying Slime by Ruth Kassinger. And just got Entangled Life in the mail, it just came out! |
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 the jokes in this thread are getting out of hand.Finally finished Ender's Game today, what a shite ending. At least I can say I'm done.
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bog pixie posted:I've been enjoying Slime by Ruth Kassinger. And just got Entangled Life in the mail, it just came out! Entangled Life came out in May.....how did this happen... |
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