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Carthag Tuek posted:Sure but using the boxes we've had in the family for five decades is free I'm glad someone other than my mom does this, and I fully expect to use that sacred inheritance for the rest of my life
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Antivehicular posted:I'm glad someone other than my mom does this, and I fully expect to use that sacred inheritance for the rest of my life 
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lol I have banana boxes from the early 1980s, before I was even born, sitting my garage. My dad gave them to me to help me move after college, but they've been around for at least 8 different moves between the two of us they are still incredible strong. I also do the layer of books -> layer of non-books thing, which conveniently eliminates the one big downside of banana boxes
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Someone recommended Grace of Kings as a really good fantasy with East Asian mythology instead of Western European. I loving loved it and dove into the second one, Wall of Storms. And I’ve been captivated by it throughout. An event around the end just happened that was so tragic and so well-earned that I don’t even want to continue reading. I’m heartbroken. I haven’t felt this way reading a novel in a very long time.
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tuyop posted:Someone recommended Grace of Kings as a really good fantasy with East Asian mythology instead of Western European. My neighbor just read this series and says it's now her favorite fantasy series she's read and I'm equally excited to start on it soon. Another good one is Sanderson's Emperor's Soul, which is a short novella and one of his best, and was influenced by a trip to China.
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Louisgod posted:My neighbor just read this series and says it's now her favorite fantasy series she's read and I'm equally excited to start on it soon. Another good one is Sanderson's Emperor's Soul, which is a short novella and one of his best, and was influenced by a trip to China. Oh interesting, Branderson (and Rothfus) kept me away from fantasy basically until now, and I used to love Robert Jordan and forgotten realms stuff as a kid. I’ll check out the novella though since I’ve only read one of the mistborns and I don’t want to be a dick.
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tuyop posted:Oh interesting, Branderson (and Rothfus) kept me away from fantasy basically until now, and I used to love Robert Jordan and forgotten realms stuff as a kid. I’ll check out the novella though since I’ve only read one of the mistborns and I don’t want to be a dick. Huh those are the ones that sucked me, weird how people can have opposite experiences. Emperor’s Soul is considered to be one of his best works despite being 175 page and does a great job capturing an East Asian setting and culture.
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Started reading Sense and Sensibility at home. I bought the book ("The Complete Novels") in 2000 
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https://twitter.com/bookishcauldron/status/1636912273628307458 I'm aghast at this. I cannot imagine the mental leaps you'd have to make to try to do this to someone.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/bookishcauldron/status/1636912273628307458 Yeah, she should actually be throwing boring rear end "adult" books at the daughter if she wants to drive her back to YA "Here honey, why don't you start with this hundred year old translation of War and Peace"
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EricBauman posted:Yeah, she should actually be throwing boring rear end "adult" books at the daughter if she wants to drive her back to YA Dude war and peace rips
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Mar 19, 2023 01:08
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an adult wants her to read it, so it's by default LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME
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Megazver posted:an adult wants her to read it, so it's by default LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME Okay that’s valid
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/bookishcauldron/status/1636912273628307458 tweet back at her things like Great Expectations or Portnoy's Complaint eta: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/25/author-lauren-myracle-calls-on-overprotective-parents-to-stop-banning-books
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Fahrenheit 451 but for YA is a undeniable moral good and should be encouraged.
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Portnoy's Complaint bored the poo poo out of me.
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Was there an ereader review thread? Boyfriend's mother needs a new one that isn't a kindle/in Amazon's ecosystem. Apparently our local library switched to a lending program that isn't supported on those readers.
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It's more of a question what requirements that program has? Is it just epubs now? You can Calibre them. If it's some special app, I guess you need to use whatever device the app is available for.
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Megazver posted:It's more of a question what requirements that program has? Is it just epubs now? You can Calibre them. If it's some special app, I guess you need to use whatever device the app is available for. I'll have to do some drilling and play the telephone game to figure out what's going on, as I don't do the ereader thing (and of course the name of the new app is forgotten by my link). What's Calibre though; a sideloading app or...?
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Turbinosamente posted:I'll have to do some drilling and play the telephone game to figure out what's going on, as I don't do the ereader thing (and of course the name of the new app is forgotten by my link). What's Calibre though; a sideloading app or...? Calibre is a library management program for ebooks. It also converts between pdf/epub/mobi/etc. you run it on a computer and it can even email books to your ebook reader or whatever. It was suggested because it could just convert the original files so you can use whatever app you want.
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tuyop posted:Calibre is a library management program for ebooks. It also converts between pdf/epub/mobi/etc. you run it on a computer and it can even email books to your ebook reader or whatever. Ah. Doing some digging it looks like our library went to using Libby, which is not approved by Amazon's app store. She mentioned that even with the assistance of a library tech she couldn't get "the work around" to work on her kindle so I'm wondering if an attempt to sideload it failed for some reason. Thanks for the pointers guys; it definitely helps bring some stuff about the situation into focus.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/bookishcauldron/status/1636912273628307458 I'm so glad my parents just let me read whatever I wanted regardless of target age. Though I think that was partially because it made packing for vacations easier, since we devoured them quickly enough as it is, so having wider options made sharing easier and everyone didn't need their own huge pack of books. It did lead to me reading stuff like Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi books at age 11, which was maybe slightly inappropriate, though the only long term effect was a lifelong hate for characters who are acting entirely based on their boners.
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Turbinosamente posted:Ah. Doing some digging it looks like our library went to using Libby, which is not approved by Amazon's app store. She mentioned that even with the assistance of a library tech she couldn't get "the work around" to work on her kindle so I'm wondering if an attempt to sideload it failed for some reason. Thanks for the pointers guys; it definitely helps bring some stuff about the situation into focus. Well, it should be possible on Kindle Fire or any other tablet, but not the eink Kindles. You might need to jailbreak the Kindle Fire maybe.
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Turbinosamente posted:Ah. Doing some digging it looks like our library went to using Libby, which is not approved by Amazon's app store. She mentioned that even with the assistance of a library tech she couldn't get "the work around" to work on her kindle so I'm wondering if an attempt to sideload it failed for some reason. Thanks for the pointers guys; it definitely helps bring some stuff about the situation into focus. I use Libby on my phone to browse, then select read on kindle and it works pretty good for me. Sometimes Libby will redirect me to an Amazon webpage to click “borrow this book” but other than that never had a problem. 
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So I've been digging through lists of "best historical fiction novels" and family sagas and such and enjoying exploring a genre I'm unfamiliar with, and I ran into "Hanta Yo" and was curious about a Native American family saga novel... up until I discovered that the author was a mega-fan of Ayn Rand, made up a lot of bullshit for book, and more.  Here's an absolutely fascinating set of articles about this.
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I'm so used to idealization of various native American peoples from a left-wing communalist perspective that seeing the right-wing individualist version surprises me.
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FPyat posted:I'm so used to idealization of various native American peoples from a left-wing communalist perspective that seeing the right-wing individualist version surprises me. It's a very strong strain in right wing American politics especially in the old West. Barry Goldwater would regularly cosplay as native american as part of Arizona high society.
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Just heard a Youtuber pronounce the I in memoir and I never knew I could get this mad at something like that. e: Oh actually I should've known as I already got real mad at people calling normal-length (like 250-300 pages) novels novellas.
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I have a very stupid hypothetical question: assuming the time and resources to learn any language, which language would you learn and which works should be prioritized in that language? Assume that the motivation is primarily to read literature in the original. I do have enough Latin to puzzle out the classics with a dictionary for the more difficult words, enough Spanish to survive in a Spanish-speaking country, and enough French not to embarrass myself completely (but maybe a little) while ordering dinner, but that’s it. Currently I’m just considering classical Greek, but I imagine there are better options.
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I'd learn French and then just read comics because French literature just isn't good.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'd learn French and then just read comics because French literature just isn't good. I could read Tintin in the original. That’d be cool.
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Oh how to choose? I probably would have chosen Chinese in the past because of the long literary tradition and like, how its culture is a big black box to me. But, every piece of Latin American leftist sociology or history I’ve read translated has been deeply impactful and I would really love to be able to talk to these folks and read more obscure stuff. Or Arabic for the poetry. And West-African magical realism has given me a new lens into colonialism and development that is teaching me so much. I want more of that than what’s been published in Anglo countries.
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ideally you should have learned the divine tongue that was taken from us in the chaos of babel and read the akashic records, op
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Just heard a Youtuber pronounce the I in memoir and I never knew I could get this mad at something like that. I just tried pronouncing it that way and it sort of sounds like a pokemon
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Just heard a Youtuber pronounce the I in memoir and I never knew I could get this mad at something like that. What does "pronounce the i" mean, like memo-eer? lol if so
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StrixNebulosa posted:So I've been digging through lists of "best historical fiction novels" and family sagas and such and enjoying exploring a genre I'm unfamiliar with, and I ran into "Hanta Yo" and was curious about a Native American family saga novel... up until I discovered that the author was a mega-fan of Ayn Rand, made up a lot of bullshit for book, and more. Purely for reference as I was also curious, the current ASAIL site has the same issue on their website, though bizzarely the text hasn't been digitized and scanned. https://www.asail.org/archives/publ/sailns/34-2/ ...there are so many systems and documents that should be digitized. If I were a billionaire, one of my projects would be a nonprofit that would just travel around offering to do that for various entities for free. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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WarpDogs posted:I just tried pronouncing it that way and it sort of sounds like a pokemon You're right  Maybe that's why it was bugging me so much.Carthag Tuek posted:What does "pronounce the i" mean, like memo-eer? lol if so Meh-mwah-oir. It's hard to describe.
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Loucks posted:I have a very stupid hypothetical question: assuming the time and resources to learn any language, which language would you learn and which works should be prioritized in that language? Assume that the motivation is primarily to read literature in the original. I do have enough Latin to puzzle out the classics with a dictionary for the more difficult words, enough Spanish to survive in a Spanish-speaking country, and enough French not to embarrass myself completely (but maybe a little) while ordering dinner, but that’s it. If I had a magical learn-a-language button, I'd probably learn Mandarin and finally read all of those terrible xianxia webnovels without translation. I suspect the language also become more and more relevant culturally and economically in the coming decades.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Meh-mwah-oir. It's hard to describe. link pls
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'd learn French and then just read comics because French literature just isn't good. read annie ernaux and proust, and then try writing that sentence one more time.
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