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I was given so many copies of Black Beauty as a child  Please stop traumatising small children who love animals with a nightmare book of animal abuse and death
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I hate feeling this way. I try. readlly i try. I'm jaw dropping out. My liver is plum give-out I keep trying but I keep failing. no-one Maximum Pepsi fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Apr 2, 2023 |
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the sex ghost posted:The novelisation of the movie Shrek. Was it a novelization of the movie Shrek, or was it the book Shrek! which came out in 1990 and was the original basis for the movie? Because let me tell you, I read Shrek! when I was a kid and then when I saw the movie Shrek I was extremely confused.
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A box set of Babysitter's Club books. Kind of like The Hardy Boys except targeted at adolescent girls. I was a 15-year-old teenage boy at the time. I read one and it was actually fun to discover that sexism goes both ways. One of their pseudo-boyfriends was a total doofus who would stop everything and forget what he was doing if he passed a construction site. Just stared at bulldozers like a slack-jawed moron. E: Maximum Pepsi posted:I hate feeling this way. Are you OK? Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Apr 2, 2023 |
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 My aunt knew that I was a nerd, and that I liked reading. So they bought me the Star Wars action figure encylopedia. I can't find the English version, but it was just like in that picture. Page after page of pictures of action figures. No history of the actual character or their equipment or anything. Just "Obi-wan Kenobi, 1983, plastic-resin, RRP $6.99".
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I got an atlas because I make maps.
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the sex ghost posted:Book of creepy true stories that specifically had an illustration of a Madagascan man eating tree (this one owned though, nice work uncle whoever)
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My mum´s aunt was convinced I wouId Iove whoIe crates fuII of MiIIs and Boon noveIs
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Olewithmilk posted:I can't find the English version, but it was just like in that picture. Page after page of pictures of action figures. No history of the actual character or their equipment or anything. Just "Obi-wan Kenobi, 1983, plastic-resin, RRP $6.99". Oh man, that book actually sounded alright, up until this bit! My condolences - what a let down compared to what they could've done with the book!
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I ended up with two full sets of the Little House on the Prairie books.
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bloodlands by timothy snyder, a whole pile of tarot books for some reason
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Samog posted:bloodlands by timothy snyder, a whole pile of tarot books for some reason could do worse
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My born-again Christian aunt bought me a box set of the Narnia books, I think in the hope that my love of fantasy would help her trick me into reading Christian allegory. It did not, although I did read the lion witch and wardrobe and didn’t hate it. I also vaguely recall getting fancy hardback fairy tale books, and maybe some Oz books? Nothing super interesting, just the shallowest possible understanding of fantasy books.
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Major Isoor posted:Yeah the first was a pretty decent YA book. I think I quite liked the first... three? Then after that it seemed like they didn't have much of an overarching story anymore, beyond the author figuring it out as he went along. But yeah, I'd personally recommend giving the first one a shot at least, if you don't hate the genre The main thing I remember about Artemis Fowl was that there was some sort of contest involving translating the code that went along the bottom of every page. I think it had something to do with a movie adaptation that never happened (unitl 2020, apparently). I didn't bother with the code, but I have a friend who did.
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curlingiron posted:I also vaguely recall getting fancy hardback fairy tale books, and maybe some Oz books? Nothing super interesting, just the shallowest possible understanding of fantasy books. I remember having a book like that - It had The Wizard of Oz and a few fairy tails and was illustrated. I mostly remember the illustrations vaguely unsettling me in the same way the pictures in my Childcraft encyclopedia things did.
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My parents got me the Jay Leno kids book even though/because I was a huge fan of Conan o’Brien. It was what you would expect
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My friend bought me the book Final Fantasy and Philosophy as a joke present for Christmas once. At the time there was an entire series of [Pop Culture Thing] and Philosophy books that ate up a frankly upsetting amount of space on Barnes and Noble shelves -- I think the series kicked off with The Simpsons -- and they were all lazy attempts to tie pop culture stuff into something resembling legitimacy by trying to explain how Sephiroth was a Nietzschean or some poo poo and it was some of the worst poo poo I ever read I think this is where I got my intense aversion to things that are bad-on-purpose because the entire premise of the joke is that such a thing is silly to even exist in the first place. Like those purposely bad low budget movies where all of the "funny" parts are in the trailer for it but then they made a whole drat movie anyway
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I used to do standup so my dad gave me a book this past Christmas written by a popular Australian comedian who got accused of sexual assault by a significantly less popular Australian comedian I used to know, but he denied it when it went public and said he supports #MeToo, so everyone in the media who didn't see it as a chance to drag a notable vocal lefty public figure was like "Okay, we believe you" and it was never brought up again. It was Christmas day though and my family is really spread out all over the country so I didn't want to make a scene about it. Redezga fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Apr 7, 2023 |
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I used to write books. People gave me lots of books about how to write books, because I wrote books.
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Sundae posted:I used to write books. People gave me lots of books about how to write books, because I wrote books. How many copies of Stephen King's do you have.
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Heath posted:My friend bought me the book Final Fantasy and Philosophy as a joke present for Christmas once. At the time there was an entire series of [Pop Culture Thing] and Philosophy books that ate up a frankly upsetting amount of space on Barnes and Noble shelves -- I think the series kicked off with The Simpsons -- and they were all lazy attempts to tie pop culture stuff into something resembling legitimacy by trying to explain how Sephiroth was a Nietzschean or some poo poo and it was some of the worst poo poo I ever read Oh god, this reminded me horribly of when my usually an excellent gift-giver father bought me Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for my birthday. Poor Dad, I do not think I hid my distaste well.
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Heath posted:My friend bought me the book Final Fantasy and Philosophy as a joke present for Christmas once. At the time there was an entire series of [Pop Culture Thing] and Philosophy books that ate up a frankly upsetting amount of space on Barnes and Noble shelves -- I think the series kicked off with The Simpsons -- and they were all lazy attempts to tie pop culture stuff into something resembling legitimacy by trying to explain how Sephiroth was a Nietzschean or some poo poo and it was some of the worst poo poo I ever read my cousin, who was kind of immature until he went to college, was really excited to give out his first ever christmas gifts he had gone out and bought himself. I really loved the gesture, even though he got me discounted cookbooks and a rick and morty philosophy book.
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Heath posted:My friend bought me the book Final Fantasy and Philosophy as a joke present for Christmas once. At the time there was an entire series of [Pop Culture Thing] and Philosophy books that ate up a frankly upsetting amount of space on Barnes and Noble shelves -- I think the series kicked off with The Simpsons -- and they were all lazy attempts to tie pop culture stuff into something resembling legitimacy by trying to explain how Sephiroth was a Nietzschean or some poo poo and it was some of the worst poo poo I ever read we were having this discussion recently in the pop culture thread in c-spam - I think it is basically impossible to try to synthesize or replicate something that is "so bad it's good" because anything like that requires a real artistic sincerity at the heart of it to be worth watching/reading/etc. Like, you have to be a person who is playing Final Fantasy and genuinely thinks "this is all a metaphor for the Spanish civil war, and that's awesome" and then really commit to fully exploring that idea. If at any point, you lose that and start winking at your own premise, the entire thing falls apart. Like, what is enjoyable about these things IS the real commitment to what is clearly a bad idea, and we as an audience are kind of joining the creator in that sunk cost fallacy by taking part in it. Making something like a Sharknado where the premise is almost "isn't this movie ridiculous?" just shatters that whole experience. Yes, it is, so why did you make it? lol
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:we were having this discussion recently in the pop culture thread in c-spam - I think it is basically impossible to try to synthesize or replicate something that is "so bad it's good" because anything like that requires a real artistic sincerity at the heart of it to be worth watching/reading/etc. Like, you have to be a person who is playing Final Fantasy and genuinely thinks "this is all a metaphor for the Spanish civil war, and that's awesome" and then really commit to fully exploring that idea. If at any point, you lose that and start winking at your own premise, the entire thing falls apart. Like, what is enjoyable about these things IS the real commitment to what is clearly a bad idea, and we as an audience are kind of joining the creator in that sunk cost fallacy by taking part in it. Making something like a Sharknado where the premise is almost "isn't this movie ridiculous?" just shatters that whole experience. Yes, it is, so why did you make it? lol I was with some other friends and we were idly flipping through Netflix a while back. Turns out there is an entire category for those bullshit Sharknado type movies and we were just watching the trailers. But even just doing that was enough to get the entire joke of the movie across. One friend was insisting we watch one called Velocipastor about a pastor who is a were-raptor or something that he insisted was actually pretty funny and I told him outright I will not watch it because I do not see a reason to commit 80 minutes or whatever to it when I can just watch the 2 minute trailer and get the whole thing. Similarly with these books the entire joke is the cover and that you'd have something so silly on your shelf. Like mixed in with your regular books you've got "Pride and Prejudice... And Zombies?!?!" "Abraham Lincoln... VAMPIRE HUNTER!?!" you could fill the whole book with Lorem Ipsum and it would be exactly as funny as the actual book as written. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that could possibly be in Abraham Lincoln: gently caress Lord of the Moon that is funnier than the idea of a book being titled Abraham Lincoln: gently caress Lord of the Moon.
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regular mike posted:The novelization of Speed 2: Cruise Control hell yeah dude!!!! Whoever gave you that new great literature when they saw it. So mcuh literature. The best literature. The best people know that is what literature is. I was given John Bolton's book....I'm a leftist.
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my mom used to buy me Neil Degrasse Tyson books, because she remembered I had a bunch of Carl Sagan books ...thanks?
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curlingiron posted:Oh god, this reminded me horribly of when my usually an excellent gift-giver father bought me Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for my birthday. Poor Dad, I do not think I hid my distaste well. I was also given this book for my birthday and made an attempt to read it to be nice, which resulted in me being surprised with tickets to the movie when it came out.
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Enfys posted:I was also given this book for my birthday and made an attempt to read it to be nice, which resulted in me being surprised with tickets to the movie when it came out. 
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 Hey look what I found at the book store today   This section on masculinity that I flipped to randomly is a riot in light of recent revelations about Rowling
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Journey to Joona, which was some sort of evangelical christian Narnia (like even more than Narnia) but with swans.
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my mum thought that because i liked violent video games and liked to read that i would be into this big coffee table book about forensics with pictures of real murder victims and mangled corpses and stuff like “this blood settling pattern is characteristic of strangling” HORSE-SLAUGHTERER fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Apr 9, 2023 |
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lmao your mom is pretty cool
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HORSE-SLAUGHTERER posted:my mum thought that because i liked violent video games and liked to read that i would be into this big coffee table book about forensics with pictures of real murder victims and mangled corpses and stuff That is a good gift and you liked it and nice avatar
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Major Isoor posted:Oh man, that book actually sounded alright, up until this bit! My condolences - what a let down compared to what they could've done with the book! I really did try to read it, because it felt like something I should be interested in, but I couldn't do it to myself even at that early age. Edit: somebody got me, and I still have this, which is pretty much the same thing but good (if you are not quite that huge a nerd):  I also recommend Star Trek: A History of the Future and Star Trek: Encyclopedia for all your nerdly needs. Olewithmilk fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Apr 9, 2023 |
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Olewithmilk posted:I really did try to read it, because it felt like something I should be interested in, but I couldn't do it to myself even at that early age. Ah yeah, that's the kinda thing I had in mind. I've got a similar book, but for vehicles - this one. So odd that they'd even have a weird catalogue of their toys, though. Very odd. I wonder if the person who got it for you expected the book to be more like the two books we linked
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My dad got me a bunch of weird Piers Anthony books he found at a garage sale.
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I think it was my uncle that got me this one: I was 9 or 10 years old. I did not like it, but my parents wouldn't let me see the movie and some of the pages were photo stills from it, so that was cool My grandma got me Eragon when I was a HS junior because I wanted to become a writer. It was meant to inspire me; the book was (famously!) written and published by a 15yo. A well-meaning gift, but I had the exact opposite reaction and then some. I hated it so loving much that it actually made me angry to read, and by extension I began to hate myself for having the same dream as this guy (an irrational idea, but I was young and stupid). Not only did I drop the dream of becoming a writer, I gradually stopped reading altogether and took nearly a two decade-long break from it lol. whoops! Later in life I learned his parents were both authors, worked in publishing, and had a lot of friends in that world, so the whole story of an unlikely teenager serendipitously being discovered was pretty bogus
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The Dregs posted:My dad got me a bunch of weird Piers Anthony books he found at a garage sale. Okay, yeah, this is the worst one.
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