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D-Pad posted:Got some new ones Rad! I read all of Neal Stephenson's books from The Big U up through Cryptonomicon 12 or 13 years ago. I liked them, but they just kept getting longer and my time kept getting stretched too thin, so I haven't kept up with his stuff. The other books are great as well. Nice score(s)! How's Psychology for the Fighting Man? I want to read that. Gutter Phoenix fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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Nov 21, 2020 21:08
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Yeah Cryptonomicon is one of my favorites of his. I haven't really liked anything he put out after Anathem, which I also have signed copy of. Haven't read psych of the fighting man yet but I am looking forward to it.
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D-Pad posted:Got some new ones Neal Stephenson's signature looks like Armas Paskiainen: 
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D-Pad posted:Yeah Cryptonomicon is one of my favorites of his. I haven't really liked anything he put out after Anathem, which I also have signed copy of. Picked up a signed copy of The Big U a while ago. 
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the Mods, they knew!
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My wife just told me that Penguin/Random House bought Simon & Schuster. These corporate mega-mergers stifle weirdness and variety, so that's a bummer. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/books/simon-schuster-penguin-random-house.html
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The collection grows. 1974 reprinting of Symzonia, considered the first true science fiction book in the US. Published in 1820 about a journey to the center of the earth, 50 years before Jules Verne. This was the first reprinting since the original issue. There is one true first edition on AbeBooks for $12k so this is as close as I can get.   Signed limited edition:   A random old paperback I found that I haven't read yet. I've said my whole life I would be a space janitor if it meant I could go live in space so a book about one is perfect for me:  
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D-Pad posted:A random old paperback I found that I haven't read yet. I've said my whole life I would be a space janitor if it meant I could go live in space so a book about one is perfect for me: This is based on an old Infocom text adventure game from the 80s of the same name. They came out with a half dozen or so different computer-game-to-book titles, including their most famous game, Zork. I actually read this a few years ago and it was...not good. It's a bit of a shame because the game it's based on was (and is) pretty well-regarded. There's also a sequel book (and computer game) called Stationfall. Hilariously, this book and Stationfall were part of a planned trilogy, and the second one advertises the final book in the series...but by then it was the late 80s, text games were on the way out, and Infocom was losing money hand over fist, so it just never got written, meaning the second book ends on a cliffhanger that never gets resolved. As I recall there's some pretty uncomfortably  stuff about the protagonist and an underage character that would definitely not fly in 2020, but I don't remember if it's in this book or Stationfall.
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I think I read the Zork tie-in book when I was a teenager. If it's the one I remember, the twist of the book was that the real protagonist wasn't the adventurer, it was the minor deity who was guiding/guarding them? Not really a mind-blowing concept, but as a kid I thought it was neat, and I think it's a moderately clever way of working with the player/character divide in text adventures.
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D-Pad posted:A random old paperback I found that I haven't read yet. I've said my whole life I would be a space janitor if it meant I could go live in space so a book about one is perfect for me: I'm sure I got Planetfall (the game) for free on gog.com but now I can't even find it on the site. It's still in my GOG library though 
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Today is my birthday and I made a big score at the local used book store: This is a (signed!) 2nd printing of the first paperback edition released in the UK. No idea how it ended up in a used book store in Texas.   And this giant coffee table book. It was sealed when I got it but gently caress that this is something to be enjoyed:         
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Happy Birthday!
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Happy Birthday! Now THAT’S a coffee table book I would be proud to display at home.
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D-Pad posted:Today is my birthday and I made a big score at the local used book store: Strong nostalgia energy seeing that photo. I had that edition I'm pretty sure from library discards.
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Got another beauty in today. This thing is gigantic and weighs 16lbs. It goes well with the giant hip hop book I posted a few posts upthread. Taschen still has copies of this in stock and I HIGHLY recommend it for anybody who likes this kind of art. It's a beautiful book, and each of the artist title pages have a print that comes off the page if you want so you can frame it or whatever.             Here is an example of one of the removable prints I mentioned. There is one for each of the major artists featured:  Edit: Forgot this came in since my last post: 10th Anniversary Limited Edition of Way of Kings        
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I'm the nude person being tongue-lassoed by an Aliexpress decanter.
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If you told me this book was a put-on by Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness, I'd believe it.
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I would like to know more about the Terrible Sand Pit Tragedy
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Heath posted:I would like to know more about the Terrible Sand Pit Tragedy It wasn't nice.
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How can this book have been written in 1994 while also telling the story of the Something Awful Forums, “Alarming Gas Explosion”? Can this man tell the future?
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Heath posted:I would like to know more about the Terrible Sand Pit Tragedy i went to the beach after planning for months and got sand in my pits and it hurt, so my day was ruined a loving tragedy
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Blue Moonlight posted:How can this book have been written in 1994 while also telling the story of the Something Awful Forums, “Alarming Gas Explosion”? Can this man tell the future? Are there even non-alarming gas explosions?
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Blue Moonlight posted:How can this book have been written in 1994 while also telling the story of the Something Awful Forums, “Alarming Gas Explosion”? Can this man tell the future? Vincent Van Goatse posted:Are there even non-alarming gas explosions? According to James Joyce, yes.
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Someone found a J'ai Lu cover weirder than the one from The Hobbit I posted some time ago. https://twitter.com/SFRuminations/status/1355708781095759875
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More!     This next one I was on the fence about until I saw the sticker inside:   My artist edition of Fahrenheit 451 from Suntup came in. As usual it is absolutely gorgeous. Can't recommend Suntup enough if you like fine press limited editions:      After the book it has a whole other section: 
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Ornamented Death posted:Someone found a J'ai Lu cover weirder than the one from The Hobbit I posted some time ago. From further down that thread: https://twitter.com/SFRuminations/status/1355710482154459146 From memory, the naked catgirl with the prehensile tail is a major character. E: Spoilered for kitty titties.
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Another great find. First edition of a 70s diet book by none other than Dr. Death himself. This was self published by him so not a lot of copies out there. 
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That’s a really clever cover design.
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That's awesome! I've never seen that. I just looked for other books by him and saw this:  
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I now desperately want to read A Pictorial History of Philosophy by Dagobert D. Runes
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Not hugely weird , but an odd read The sequel to 2001 a space Odyssey 2010 the Odyssey continues  It's an odd one, that has the impression of watching a B-movie where the screenwriter was obsessed with explaining himself to the detriment of the story, buuut the cinematographer was really talented Like it has beautiful descriptions of passing by planets and appreciating the scale of them and the science feels like science rather than magic But drat you can tell the page adhere he gave up and went to the pub •might wanna take a second pass at this one Arthur  •"the scene is like...uhhh...hmmm...uhhh, read lord of the rings? Like that"  It's enjoyable in the way that something is so bad it's good Jestery fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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Jestery posted:Not hugely weird , but an odd read There are two more books in that series. 2061 and 3001.
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Ornamented Death posted:There are two more books in that series. 2061 and 3001. I'm excited to see the pulpyness of the two others aswell
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Jestery posted:But drat you can tell the page adhere he gave up and went to the pub These examples both seem fine to me? What's wrong with the phrase "he was really very good"?
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Tiggum posted:These examples both seem fine to me? What's wrong with the phrase "he was really very good"? Its the explicitness of them that kinda gets me Like "he was really very good" just makes me want to get out the read pen, circle it and write "try explaining how he is good, show don't tell" The author has so deftly described stuff prior in the book that hitting "he was really very good" just feels wholey out of place. And the Lord of the rings one, again is just explicitly giving reference rather than working it in It's not a character saying something like "Reminds me of something out of the depths of a tolkien book" "da comrade, Mordor" it's going point blank to the camera "hi there reader, it's like that other epic book series , you know lord of the rings? Yeah that one"
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I'm willing to give a pass to someone describing a player's musical skill in a written format by just straight up saying he's good at it
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Fair cop, it just something that jumped out at me
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