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Pablo Nergigante, skeleton warrior)
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all of this bullshit sounds incredibly stupid let's talk about what i'm doing instead which is playing animal well
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May 18, 2024 14:28
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nichijou and monte cristo own though as does 100 gecs which im being told by my friend i have to clarify
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May 18, 2024 14:28
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nichijou ftw.
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May 18, 2024 14:30
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Feels Villeneuve posted:nichijou ftw.
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May 18, 2024 14:31
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if you like sci-fi schlock then the book barn scifi thread is good. there's some guy who posts whatever's on offer for kindle, but at the mo he's looking after a stray kitten instead
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May 18, 2024 14:34
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Violen posted:all of this bullshit sounds incredibly stupid hell yeah, brother, hell yeah
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May 18, 2024 14:36
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I don't have a book at the moment, what are youse favourite books Frankenstein is another good classic. I often go back to Terry Pratchett books when I don't have a current one. Small Gods is probably the one I enjoyed most. Neil Gaiman is great too. He gets a lot of deserved praise for American Gods, but honestly I liked Anansi Boys even more. fun hater posted:les miserables. but if you want something light, all of hugos novellas are great, like "last day of a condemned man"
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May 18, 2024 14:37
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Leraika posted:didn't that awful virtual porn thread get gassed before the what
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May 18, 2024 14:41
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the one about loving a computer
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May 18, 2024 14:43
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speaking of novels i recommend once a week or so, bulgakov’s master and margarita is an amazing read.
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May 18, 2024 14:43
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:the one about loving a computer well obviously this is admin approved
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May 18, 2024 14:45
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I don't have a book at the moment, what are youse favourite books go read the george miles cycle by dennis cooper
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May 18, 2024 14:47
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I haven’t read The Count of Monte Cristo but a few years ago I read The Black Count, a biography of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas who was an inspiration for his son’s works. Interesting book
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May 18, 2024 14:47
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wanna read some cardassian literature
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May 18, 2024 14:50
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Cranappleberry posted:wanna read some cardassian literature  
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May 18, 2024 14:55
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alexander dumbass lol
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May 18, 2024 15:00
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Al! posted:alexander dumbass lol
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May 18, 2024 15:03
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Leraika posted:didn't that awful virtual porn thread get gassed before i think internet explorer decided it would be funnier to move the thread to gbs than to gas it
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May 18, 2024 15:08
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There’s a Jefferson biographer named Dumas Malone, it’s even more fun to mispronounce than Alexander Dumas
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May 18, 2024 15:09
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I don't have a book at the moment, what are youse favourite books ficciones and im not even finished
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May 18, 2024 15:10
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Don Quixote is the funniest book I've ever read and it's not even close
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May 18, 2024 15:14
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Al! posted:alexander dumbass lol
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May 18, 2024 15:21
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solidarity with symbolic even if 100gecs is some of the worst music I've ever heard
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May 18, 2024 15:26
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Lately I've been enjoying reading Bone and Scary Godmother to my daughter. Both are excellent comics. Bone is more all ages, Scary Godmother aimed more at little kids, but has more intricate art.
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May 18, 2024 15:35
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I haven’t read The Count of Monte Cristo but a few years ago I read The Black Count, a biography of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas who was an inspiration for his son’s works. Interesting book Heath posted:Don Quixote is the funniest book I've ever read and it's not even close
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May 18, 2024 15:42
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Orbs posted:Oh yeah, I was thinking of fiction, but for nonfiction The Black Count is fantastic. Alex's dad was an incredibly interesting person, and you can tell he thought so too, since his dad's story clearly inspired a lot of his work. One of the funniest parts was when they found a fugitive woman who claimed to be a princess of an African country and instantly believed her story even though she was obviously European. Or when Sancho had to take a poo poo so he got up and went into the woods but it stank so bad that the Don woke up and throttled him
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May 18, 2024 15:50
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It's entirely too many gecs.
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May 18, 2024 16:07
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mycophobia posted:another cool random event that happens in my head somewhat more often (earlier today in fact) is sharp stabbing pains in my right temple. they'll just show up and pulse five or six times to make me stop whatever im doing and say "gently caress, stop, please stop" while i shut my eyes and clutch my head. never know when it's going to happen, it's a fun surprise Sounds like you’re developing psychic powers
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May 18, 2024 16:11
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I got into Don Quixote like a decade ago but the book is literally the size, shape and colour of a brick, one of these days I'm annihilate a spider with it. Though it's probably not hard to get back into, iirc it's pretty much episodic. Though Count of Monte Cristo I also find super long but doesn't feel like it, it's a surprisingly breezy read. Helps that it's divided into about evenly sized chapters that are relatively self-contained, and even the asides are fun stories in their own right. Probably because of how it was originally published per chapter in newspapers iirc. Which makes it interesting to try to picture what it musta been like when it was first being published, chapter by chapter every week or so with new twists and turns. Probably a lot like TV shows today. And I bet you had fan theories, fanfiction, fan translations, and people cutting out the newspaper pages to stick together for makeshift books.
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May 18, 2024 16:11
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a badass classic novel is a hero of our time. also this sounds pretentious but who cares: i like finnegans wake. i won't pretend that i understand it but reading it is an enjoyable aesthetic experience, similar to me to looking at abstract art. i feel similar about dhalgren by samuel delany although that one is a bit easier to follow. farewell.
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May 18, 2024 16:13
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I got into Don Quixote like a decade ago but the book is literally the size, shape and colour of a brick, one of these days I'm annihilate a spider with it. Though it's probably not hard to get back into, iirc it's pretty much episodic. I think people don't realize that for a very long time the episodic format is how people consumed novels
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May 18, 2024 16:19
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Around this time of year I like to pull out my Annotated copy of Lolita and flip through it while sitting in my porch. Even if I haven't looked at it for a while I can open a page at random and read for a bit and find all kinds of connections between disparate passages, echoes of things from earlier in the book that resonate later. Some pages at high tension parts of the book are so completely marked up with pencil that I had to add a couple sticky notes to add more since I ran out of margin and I keep a set of multi-color tabs that I have coded to mentions of specific things (the appearance of the color pink, the appearance of or allusion to certain characters, "twinning" aspects that Nabokov was very fond of using, etc.) so that I can flip back to those parts later and tie them together in my notes. I have a couple of index cards that I have stuck at parts in the book too with things I want to investigate later. I probably could/should read through the book front to back again but this method of jumping around reveals interesting threads because once I find something that catches my attention I stop and go looking for where I suspect the connection to be and the advantage of the Annotated edition is that I can then check annotations and see if my theory is supported by the notes, or I discover something independently and that feels cool too. If you haven't read it I would say absolutely do not read the Annotated version first, but instead do an immediate reread and check all of the notes
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May 18, 2024 16:34
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May 18, 2024 16:38
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Heath posted:Around this time of year I like to pull out my Annotated copy of Lolita and flip through it while sitting in my porch. Even if I haven't looked at it for a while I can open a page at random and read for a bit and find all kinds of connections between disparate passages, echoes of things from earlier in the book that resonate later. Some pages at high tension parts of the book are so completely marked up with pencil that I had to add a couple sticky notes to add more since I ran out of margin and I keep a set of multi-color tabs that I have coded to mentions of specific things (the appearance of the color pink, the appearance of or allusion to certain characters, "twinning" aspects that Nabokov was very fond of using, etc.) so that I can flip back to those parts later and tie them together in my notes. I have a couple of index cards that I have stuck at parts in the book too with things I want to investigate later. do u like pale fire
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May 18, 2024 16:40
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Unlock the forlorn wolf coat by buying the leather bound Longfellow translation, gamer.
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May 18, 2024 16:42
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Wormskull posted:Unlock the forlorn wolf coat by buying the leather bound Longfellow translation, gamer.
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May 18, 2024 16:42
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lobster shirt posted:do u like pale fire Yes but I haven't gone back to it in the same way. Not yet at least. I'm currently reading Foucault's Pendulum. or rereading, I picked up my copy and realized I hadn't finished it because it had a plane ticket stub from a trip I took to see my parents (almost 9 years ago to the date, May 19th) at chapter 72 and I remember none of it so I'm restarting. Read Name of the Rose a few years ago and loved that too
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May 18, 2024 16:46
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lobster shirt posted:the count of monte cristo (novel) is so sick I like it more than The Three Musketeers and all its sequels and I like those a lot. Don't try to write a modern adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo though, it turns out that's very cursed.
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May 18, 2024 16:47
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Bicyclops posted:I like it more than The Three Musketeers and all its sequels and I like those a lot. Don't try to write a modern adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo though, it turns out that's very cursed. Modern Count of Monte Cristo would be basically Batman. (IIRC Bane's backstory was based on it, though pretty loosely) That or a sequel to The Shawshank Redemption, which apparently outright references it. Kinda funny that there's a Simpsons episode (in the early zombie seasons) with a Monte Cristo riff that quite sensibly heavily condenses the story, and simplifies the accusations that get him sent to prison to having English sympathies... which, intentionally or not, is what happened in the real-world case that loosely inspired the original story. It took me a bit to actually figure out the timeline and the context for Dantes' accusation and imprisonment, was a lot of flipping back and forth to the footnotes and probably checking Wikipedia. Thing is you can't really blame the story for not explaining it for audiences over a century later in different countries and languages who are less familiar with Napoleon's exile, return and exile 2: Elba Boogaloo, because to them it'd be recent history like 9/11 is to us.
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May 18, 2024 17:05
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mycophobia posted:another cool random event that happens in my head somewhat more often (earlier today in fact) is sharp stabbing pains in my right temple. they'll just show up and pulse five or six times to make me stop whatever im doing and say "gently caress, stop, please stop" while i shut my eyes and clutch my head. never know when it's going to happen, it's a fun surprise That sounds horrible dude, I hope they stop or you at least develop nen powers or something
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