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worms butthole guy posted:Anyone know of any horror titles that take place on the ocean? Nonfiction, but: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick is really good. You'll learn a lot. You'll learn a lot about cannibalism.
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worms butthole guy posted:Anyone know of any horror titles that take place on the ocean? The Deep? Black Helicopters by Caitlyn Kiernan takes place (in part, if I am remembering correctly) near the ocean if that's close enough for you
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StrixNebulosa posted:Nonfiction, but: Ooo I loved mayflower, I'll check this and the deep out
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Bilirubin posted:The Deep? Or maybe I was recalling Agents of Dreamland. Whatever, they are both short so read them
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worms butthole guy posted:Anyone know of any horror titles that take place on the ocean? The Scar by China Mieville is definitely body horror at times.
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worms butthole guy posted:Anyone know of any horror titles that take place on the ocean? 100 Fathoms Below, Steven L. Kent Ok, it might actually take place under the ocean.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Thread, I want zombie survival novels. Zombie books. Books about zombies. Not a novel, but Stephen King has a short story that takes place in a classic zombie apocalypse - Home Delivery, found in Nightmares and Dreamscapes
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StrixNebulosa posted:Thread, I want zombie survival novels. Zombie books. Books about zombies. Novelty option: Red Harvest, a goddamn Star Wars zombie novel. It's set in a sith academy in the Old Republic, and goes way the gently caress harder than you'd expect from a Star Wars publication. More of a horror book than a survival book, though. Haystack fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Jan 22, 2023 |
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worms butthole guy posted:Anyone know of any horror titles that take place on the ocean? Sphere Although that’s under the ocean.
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worms butthole guy posted:Anyone know of any horror titles that take place on the ocean?
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worms butthole guy posted:Anyone know of any horror titles that take place on the ocean? Call of Cthulhu Boats of the Glenn Carrig i mean i'll take low hanging fruit for $100 but still
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Call of Cthulhu I'd never heard of the second one and now I've downloaded it from Gutenberg, so tanks for aiming low
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:I'd never heard of the second one and now I've downloaded it from Gutenberg, so tanks for aiming low everything by William Hope Hodgson is worth reading. It's either brilliantly great (e.g., the main text of The Night Land) or brilliantly awful (the frame narrative of The Night Land).
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:everything by William Hope Hodgson is worth reading. It's either brilliantly great (e.g., the main text of The Night Land) or brilliantly awful (the frame narrative of The Night Land).
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anilEhilated posted:I'd stay away from the Carnacki stories, those are just irredeemably dull. Well, at least they're short I read those coming right off of reading Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which mentions Carnacki in a few places, so they had a bit of glow-by-association cast over them for me
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Well, at least they're short Yeah that's dull too so it's an easy transition. At least the movie is OK.
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I'm looking for a recommendation for my wife. What she reads today is mostly autobiographies or self-help / self-help-adjacent books, but she wants to try to get back into fiction. The last fiction series she read and really enjoyed was Harry Potter nearly two decades ago. So this may be a challenge. Based on her likes / dislikes, I think a light-hearted romcom in a magical setting would be a good bet. Or maybe a high-level mystery / thriller where the stakes aren't too high. If it gets too in-the-weeds, serious, or grim-dark fantasy, she'll bounce off. I don't think she'd be opposed to YA, but she did express wanting to try adult fiction.
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I also prefer lighter fiction, so here are some of my recommendations: The Goblin Emperor. A nice, sedate book about personal growth amid court politics in a low-fantasy setting. Standalone, with disconnected sequels in the same setting. Fortune's Pawn . A neat mashup of Firefly, HALO, and steamy romance novel. First book in a three part series. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Also Firefly, but more about found family. Stands on it's own, but has sequels.
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Good-Natured Filth posted:I'm looking for a recommendation for my wife. What she reads today is mostly autobiographies or self-help / self-help-adjacent books, but she wants to try to get back into fiction. The last fiction series she read and really enjoyed was Harry Potter nearly two decades ago. So this may be a challenge. Piranesi
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Chas McGill posted:Piranesi Hell yeah this is the rec
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Bandiet posted:The answer should be All These Years by Mark Lewisohn, but there is currently only one volume, taking us to the end of 1962 (in 1700 pages). Still, Lewisohn is by far the most comprehensive Beatles-writer alive, and maybe the next volume will be out by the time you're ready for it. So I got it and it's a lot to take in but just what I asked for. Tyvm!
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Good-Natured Filth posted:I'm looking for a recommendation for my wife. What she reads today is mostly autobiographies or self-help / self-help-adjacent books, but she wants to try to get back into fiction. The last fiction series she read and really enjoyed was Harry Potter nearly two decades ago. So this may be a challenge. I've recently been rereading the Penric and Desdemona series by Lois McMaster Bujold so I will throw my rec in for that. You don't really see any romance in the first few books but they're short, fun, but with some occasional serious undertones. For more modern UF style- maybe the Riley Thorn series by Lucy Score. Contemporary mystery romance with supernatural elements (psychics and ghosts).
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For what it's worth, I recently recommended Holly Black's Elfhame books (The Cruel Prince et al) to my wife, and she devoured them and went looking for more. They're kind of short on the "light-hearted" side, although not so far as to be grimdark. Another possibility: Stardust.
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Selachian posted:For what it's worth, I recently recommended Holly Black's Elfhame books (The Cruel Prince et al) to my wife, and she devoured them and went looking for more. They're kind of short on the "light-hearted" side, although not so far as to be grimdark. 
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Good-Natured Filth posted:I'm looking for a recommendation for my wife. What she reads today is mostly autobiographies or self-help / self-help-adjacent books, but she wants to try to get back into fiction. The last fiction series she read and really enjoyed was Harry Potter nearly two decades ago. So this may be a challenge. Man you just described like half of the light novel genre. I'm not versed enough in light novels to be able to offer any firm recommendations, but if there's a light novel thread go ask in there and you will get so many recommendations.
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Good-Natured Filth posted:I'm looking for a recommendation for my wife. What she reads today is mostly autobiographies or self-help / self-help-adjacent books, but she wants to try to get back into fiction. The last fiction series she read and really enjoyed was Harry Potter nearly two decades ago. So this may be a challenge. Not sure if this is what you mean but I'm enjoying Legends & Lattes more than expected. It is fun, wholesome, cozy and breezy.
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Good-Natured Filth posted:I'm looking for a recommendation for my wife. What she reads today is mostly autobiographies or self-help / self-help-adjacent books, but she wants to try to get back into fiction. The last fiction series she read and really enjoyed was Harry Potter nearly two decades ago. So this may be a challenge. Has she read Terry Pratchett? She might like the Tiffany Aching series especially.
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Howdy! Recently I've been doing some writing involving psychedelic experiences that also tend to focus on the character's body, or I guess you could call it embodied experience. I'm looking for poetry/prose for inspiration because I feel like my writing is... lacking when it comes to these kinds of states. I've done psychedelics before, but there's a kind of... language breakdown in trying to translate my own experience in to text, Just to clarify, I'm not looking for poetry/prose about or inspired by psychedelics, I'm looking more for poetry/prose that captures something about the psychedelic state. It doesn't have to be "trippy" or any such adjective, just perhaps describing things in an abstract way. Likewise with the body. This project I've been working on deals a lot with the reality of being embodied/having a body in space time and the sort of little details we don't really think about due to say, having a disability (I'm disabled if it matters, and this is something I'm kind of struggling to get across in text is that sort of fundamental difference of bodily experience.) I realize this is a vague post but I'm happy to clarify. I'll take anything in the ballpark. Thank you for reading and I appreciate any suggestions!
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magic cactus posted:Howdy! Its not poetry or prose, but "True Hallucinations" by Terrance McKenna might be of help/interest to you. It's an interesting read regardless.
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Kvlt! posted:Its not poetry or prose, but "True Hallucinations" by Terrance McKenna might be of help/interest to you. It's an interesting read regardless. Likewise "Storming Heaven" by Jay Stevens, also, Blake?
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Not fiction, but you might like John Lilly's The Center of the Cyclone, which is about his experiments in "reprogramming" his brain with psychedelics.
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Selachian posted:Not fiction, but you might like John Lilly's The Center of the Cyclone, which is about his experiments in "reprogramming" his brain with psychedelics. Kvlt! posted:Its not poetry or prose, but "True Hallucinations" by Terrance McKenna might be of help/interest to you. It's an interesting read regardless. yaffle posted:Likewise "Storming Heaven" by Jay Stevens, also, Blake? I've actually read everything here apart from Blake, is there any recommendations where I might start with his writings?
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magic cactus posted:I've actually read everything here apart from Blake, is there any recommendations where I might start with his writings? I guess "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" would be most connected with psychedelics, but you should read "Songs of Innocence and Experience" as well, just because.
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yaffle posted:I guess "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" would be most connected with psychedelics, but you should read "Songs of Innocence and Experience" as well, just because. I'll check it out. I'm unfortunately woefully under-educated when it comes to poetry, so I appreciate anything remotely in the ballpark. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Hey TBB, can anyone point me in the direction of any notable fiction books that are almost exclusively world-building, instead of character-focused stories? I'm an artist and I have a fictional setting I've been developing and iterating on for years, but ultimately I don't know what to "do" with it. I'm far more interested in developing the world itself than telling stories set within it about the characters that fill it up which has made it difficult to package into a thing that can be delivered to an audience in a fun way (like a novel or graphic novel or whatever). So I'm looking for examples of storytelling that primarily tell you about a place, rather than telling you a chronological linear story set within that place, if that makes sense. Ideally something that's completely standalone as opposed to e.g. The Silmarillion which fleshes out the world that existing stories are set in, but I'm up for that stuff too because I just want some inspiration for ways of delivering a story that consists of pure world-building rather than character-based narrative. e: The Codex Seraphinianus is one of my all-time favorite things, for what it's worth, and I'm familiar with the Voynich Manuscript, but I'm particularly interested in more traditional storytelling rather than surreal art cryptography stuff. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is the obvious "book about setting" rec, although it's about a lot of different settings.
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He writes a lot of character stuff too but I absolutely love Nathan Ballingrud's world building
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deep dish peat moss posted:Hey TBB, can anyone point me in the direction of any notable fiction books that are almost exclusively world-building, instead of character-focused stories? Here's a few off the top my head: Dunsany's Gods of Pegana Austin Tappan Wright's Islandia Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Star Maker Jean D'Ormesson's The Glory of the Empire Milorad Pavić's Dictionary of the Khazars Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home fez_machine fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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My memory is fuzzy but I believe Jan Morris's Hav fits the bill. Also for an interesting interpretation of character worldbuilding check out Pessoa's Book of Disquiet. I am playing fast and loose with the term "worldbuilding" here though so YMMV. Edit seconding what fez_,machine wrote. magic cactus fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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