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A human heart posted:bruh this is a forum you can just make a thread I’ve been lurking / posting on this website for close to twenty years and I have never made a thread.
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Nut up homie
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Barnes and Noble is redoing the covers of their line of public domain books, and it includes this, the worst book cover of all time
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Oct 18, 2022 18:34
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Gripweed posted:Barnes and Noble is redoing the covers of their line of public domain books, and it includes this, the worst book cover of all time It's a great cover for the kind of people who would buy it, though. People who think they can use ~ancient Asian wisdom~ to vanquish their enemies (make sure people who laughed at them once don't get a promotion)
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A friend's fantasy novel recently got a 1-star NetGalley book review that said "I really wasn't expecting a bird to turn into a witch but couldn't stop because I'm the kind of person who has to finish a chapter" (this is the first thing that happens in the book). NetGalley reviewers are kind of starting to remind me of undecided voters.
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Oct 27, 2022 22:14
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Has anyone written a comprehensive biography of John MacAfee?
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Oct 28, 2022 02:08
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Rand Brittain posted:A friend's fantasy novel recently got a 1-star NetGalley book review that said "I really wasn't expecting a bird to turn into a witch but couldn't stop because I'm the kind of person who has to finish a chapter" (this is the first thing that happens in the book). This is also the first thing that happens in The Night-Bird's Feather, which is excellent. I am in favour of birds turning into witches.
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ToxicFrog posted:This is also the first thing that happens in The Night-Bird's Feather, which is excellent. I am in favour of birds turning into witches. It was in fact The Night-Bird's Feather that I was referring to.
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Hello, TBB. This year's Secret Santa thread is up, and all reading this are welcome to participate. It went fantastically last year, and I can't wait to watch it happen again.
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I'm excited, I got some lovely stuff last time and am looking forward to doing it again!
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Nov 7, 2022 13:00
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Could I get a discord invite? The last link I could find was expired.
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Nov 8, 2022 17:43
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RoastBeef posted:Could I get a discord invite? The last link I could find was expired. https://discord.gg/CAT4vBMu
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Thanks!
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If I have to hear about Maple Grove one more time I'm going to reach into the novel and strangle Mrs.Elton myself
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Nov 11, 2022 20:52
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One week left to sign up for Secret Santa. Don't be a stranger!
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I preordered Garth Marenghi's Terrortome and it's actually lame and kinda sucks. Are there any good horror pastiches (I guess thatäs what I'm looking for)? I liked the Wooster vs. Cthulhu bit in one of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen books. Alan Moore might be incapable of writing a comic book but he can write.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Are there any good horror pastiches (I guess thatäs what I'm looking for)? I liked the Wooster vs. Cthulhu bit in one of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen books. Alan Moore might be incapable of writing a comic book but he can write. The bolded thing is Kim Newman's entire published body of work. Additionally, Fred Saberhagen's first two Dracula Chronicles books are surprisingly decent considering their publishing date, but that series gets insanely stupid and bad after the Dracula-Sherlock Holmes mashup which is book #2 in the series. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Nov 22, 2022 |
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quantumfoam posted:The bolded thing is Kim Newman's entire published body of work. Looks interesting, thanks. Although I think I'll skip this one without remorse: quote:Newman's first published novel was The Night Mayor (1989), set in a virtual reality
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Hi thread. I'd like to ask about Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust, or rather the two released volumes, and their age suitability. I've not read these (I was waiting until the third volume is released) but I'm aware that they are darker than HDM, and one or both of them contains instances of sexual assault, including on Lyra.. To give a brief background, my daughter is 11 next month. She has devoured books since she was 5, but up until recently my wife and I would also read to her sometimes in the evenings as a holdover from storytime in her younger days and a bonding/sharing books we love with her type of thing. Earlier this year she decided to wind this down, which is sad, but understandable. HDM was one of the last things I read to her, after which she started trying to get me to read her TBOD. I told her no at first, given what I had read about the contents, and that maybe we'd revisit in a couple of years. Recently she has started nagging about TBOD again, and indeed for me to read them to her rather than to read on her own, which I would obviously love, but I'm in two minds content-wise. The thing is (and I'm only saying this as it's relevant to the point at hand, not to be a nauseating boastful parent), she is exceptionally advanced for her age, both intellectually and emotionally, and it is about a year on from my initial decision. Not quite as long as I had planned to wait before allowing her to read/be read them, but still a year is a long time at that age. She knows and understands about sexual assault and the issues around it, and is not a stranger to violence and swearing. She's recently watched the first two Craig Bond films for example, which contain a fair amount certainly of the former. It's hard to advise without knowing my daughter of course, but how just grim are the books? How explicit/detailed and dark are the scenes of sexual assault and is there anything else to be aware of? OneSizeFitsAll fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Nov 23, 2022 |
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Somehow I made it this far in life having read no Culture books, so I started Consider Phlebas, or as I am thinking of it so far, "The Increasingly Distressing Adventures of The Shapechanger Dude." Other than barely surviving, this guy has the worst luck.
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That one is not necessarily considered the best intro to the series or loved by the fans of the series. It's a Culture novel that only features them as enemies of the protagonist. If you end up not liking that one either, Player of Games is probably the most accessible entry point and Use of Weapons is probably the best one.
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I certainly don't dislike it, I can't deny that it's funny to read about mr murphy finding more ways to make this guy have a bad day. Dunno how I ended up deciding on it as a first dip into the series, some ancient recommendation or another I suppose. I'll keep an eye on those next, thanks!
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The anti-intellectualism in the reddit book sphere is certainly something. Apparently Sarah J Maas is a better writer than Balzac because more people like to read the former rather than the latter.
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:Hi thread. I'd like to ask about Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust, or rather the two released volumes, and their age suitability. I've not read these (I was waiting until the third volume is released) but I'm aware that they are darker than HDM, and one or both of them contains instances of sexual assault, including on Lyra.. Have you thought about talking to your local library's children's department and asking these questions? Librarians live to answer questions like this. And worse case, if that Pullman series is too bleak for a 11 yr old, the librarians should be able to recommend you something similar but not as dark. Arrath posted:Somehow I made it this far in life having read no Culture books, so I started Consider Phlebas, or as I am thinking of it so far, "The Increasingly Distressing Adventures of The Shapechanger Dude." Megazver posted:That one is not necessarily considered the best intro to the series or loved by the fans of the series. It's a Culture novel that only features them as enemies of the protagonist. I'd call Consider Phelbas the best retro-active finisher to the Culture series instead of the Hydrogen Sonata. Given how stacked the deck the Culture is playing with over the other 9 books in the Culture series, it is seriously impressive how far the main character acting alone gets in Consider Phelbas. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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quantumfoam posted:Have you thought about talking to your local library's children's department Change the subforum name to this lmao.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Change the subforum name to this lmao. Absolutely, hahaha - it's (naturally) even better when taken out of context. Perfect title for TBB 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Change the subforum name to this lmao. Asking basic questions like that can get some amazing replies. Like being banned from the library for <REASONS>. Or thinking public libraries charge per book taken out (like Blockbuster Video did). Or thinking public libraries work like Netflix and not wanting to pay the monthly subscription fee.
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What is the deal with internet archive wanting me to "borrow" ebooks it's been like that for a while is this some kind of nft scam poo poo or what
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SniperWoreConverse posted:What is the deal with internet archive wanting me to "borrow" ebooks No, it's a deal they have with several libraries and a function of them being a real actual library/archive rather than a piracy website despite how people tend to use it. They're being sued by publishers over it.
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Got my sister the Finnish translations of Billy Summers and Later (they both came out this year) for Yule and even though I'm not a King fanatic, I kind of want to read them both. I guess I'd better wrap them right now. (Also why the gently caress does a publisher put out two books by the same author the same year with matching dust jacket styles, but they're different sizes? That's just mean.)
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SniperWoreConverse posted:What is the deal with internet archive wanting me to "borrow" ebooks they are a library that you can borrow ebooks from and they have a lot of good ones that you can't find anywhere else.
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I mean, it is kinda hosed up that I can't keep the ebook. But the more I think about it the more I'm starting to suspect some of the way things are set up are kinda bs
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So I was thinking back to that book the secret history and honestly I always felt that there was never actually a first murder and it was just a bunch of rich kids getting high and seeing a man get killed by a catamount. Did anyone else get this vibe
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slurm posted:So I was thinking back to that book the secret history and honestly I always felt that there was never actually a first murder and it was just a bunch of rich kids getting high and seeing a man get killed by a catamount. Did anyone else get this vibe Mm it was a satyr, or possibly a faun.
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It occurred to me that in school we read plenty of poetry from the interwar period and earlier, but really nothing after that. Where can I get an introduction to contemporary stuff?
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I have encountered a cow orker who to date has recommended I read Paolo Coelho about forty times. I have osmosed mostly bad-to-bland things about his work from people whose tastes align with mine - should I just bite the bullet and read the Alchemist or something?
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Gertrude Perkins posted:I have encountered a cow orker who to date has recommended I read Paolo Coelho about forty times. I have osmosed mostly bad-to-bland things about his work from people whose tastes align with mine - should I just bite the bullet and read the Alchemist or something? the cow orker 
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Gertrude Perkins posted:I have encountered a cow orker who to date has recommended I read Paolo Coelho about forty times. I have osmosed mostly bad-to-bland things about his work from people whose tastes align with mine - should I just bite the bullet and read the Alchemist or something?
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I still have a copy that was lent to me and I haven't opened it. Also by a coworker. You're in good company
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