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This is embarrassing as hell but whatever. It was a Harry Potter fanfiction, I'm pretty sure it was from fanfiction.net, about Neville dealing with his parents' madness and the aftermath of a suicide attempt. I know I attempted to find this ages ago but there's just too much garbage to sort through. Edit: never mind I found it and it was horrible. AnonymousNarcotics fucked around with this message at 06:44 on May 12, 2018 |
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I don't remember if this is a novel or short story, but I remember reading a piece of fiction about a boy who is bullied and occasionally sexually abused by other boys from his school. Now a man, he returns to his hometown and thinks about those experiences from his past and wants a reckoning, although he doesn't know how. The protagonist reunites with at least one of the men who had joined in on the abuse, who has grown into a normal, well-adjusted adult. When asked about his actions all those years ago, this man either doesn't recall the abuse or downplays it as normal childhood teasing. The protagonist is left with a feeling of deep dissatisfaction. Possibly The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I'm looking for the author of an urban fantasy book titled Underworld or Underground? It's set underneath New York City and was published in the 80s or 90s. Downsiders by Neal Shusterman?
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This isn't a typical request for this thread but idk where else might be able to help. Someone asked on FB if people had learned about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in school. I did not. HOWEVER, I did recently (like in 2019) read a book that referenced it multiple times. I cannot for the life of me figure out which book it was. It's basically impossible to Google because there's too many results and most of them are retellings of the myth. This book WAS NOT a retelling of the myth, it just referenced it several times. Anyone have a clue? I can type up a list of the books I've read so far this year that I remember if that is helpful.
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I read a lot of books back to back so I can't remember which one had the reference. I'm pretty sure it talked about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, definitely talked about the end with the "don't look back" thing, and I THINK there was some comparison to what was going on in their own life. Here's a (probably incomplete and definitely not in order) list of books I've read recently. Also missing is what I'm currently reading which is Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson   
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Nope, definitely never read that. Thanks for the input though!
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Gnoman posted:This is a very long shot, but there's a story that I have only the dimmest memory of. The only thing I remember is that a major character (possibly the protagonist) was named Chris, and it ended with her being turned into a chrysanthemum plant. Is this it? Picking Crysanthenum by P. L. Hampton It's about a character named Chrysanthemum, nicknamed Chris. And the genre is fiction/fantasy.
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Beerdeer posted:The library between worlds from the Magicians? You mean the neitherlands?
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I posted this in the Discord but it hasn't been found yet. HELP. Book from early 2000s, mystery. I think it was part of a series. Something having to do with the internet. It had a black cover with blue writing on it. The one that I read had something to do with snow... A ski lodge or something The cover was black with blue text all over it, maybe code? There were no pictures on the cover as far as I can remember. It was definitely late 90s/early 2000s and the early internet was an important part of the story. Maybe they had met on a forum or something? That's what connected the books in the series I think. It didn't have the same characters, but all had to do with this internet group The book that I had had something to do with snow or skiing or a ski lodge and the text on the cover was blue. I think other books in the series had a different color text all over the cover AnonymousNarcotics fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:I posted this in the Discord but it hasn't been found yet. OMG I figured out what the book was. It was a book series called danger.com and the one I was thinking of was "Shiver" 
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Posting for a friendquote:Ok hive mind, give me a hand. Every time I watch The Matrix, I recall that as a child (this would be the 90s-early 00s) I read a short story that definitely heavily inspired it. Can't seem to find via google. Gonna place what info I remember from it below. If anyone recognizes or remembers anything relevant lmk:
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Splicer posted:Wake Up To Thunder by Dean Koontz He said that wasn't it 😕
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Drakyn posted:I inflicted this awful bullshit on the Sci-fi and Fantasy thread in passing: Time frame of when you read this/how old it might be?
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I had a therapist/counselor who read an excerpt from a book (some sort of self help/cbt book) and now I'm trying to track down the book. It was a very outlandish example of catastrophic thinking. Something like a woman woke up late and her catastrophic thinking was that she was going to miss the train for work and her husband would divorce her and she'd lose everything so she might as well jump in front of the train
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Looking for a book I read as a kid (New York, late 90s/early 2000s) but it was definitely an old book already. I'm pretty sure it had a dark red cover. It was about a boy who did a series of trades to get something he wanted (or maybe it was for someone else?) The only item I can remember he traded was a stamp collection. Edit: it was The Seventeenth Swap by Eloise McGraw AnonymousNarcotics fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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A book that's a biography of a fictional author, interspersed with excerpts from "his books" This was a large (height/length) hard-cover book. The cover may have been blue? The book was a biography of a fictional author - the pages were in color, with pictures of the author's books and excerpts and descriptions. I took it out from the library once a long time ago, but never finished it. This must have been sometime between 2009 and 2017. I think the title may have been something along the lines of "The Life and Work of [Fake Author]"
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yaffle posted:It's "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick" by Chris Van Allsburg. Looks like a similar premise, but this isn't it. It was pretty new when I took it out. Probably published no earlier than 2000
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rollick posted:Maybe A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley (2013) by Warren Lehrer HOLY poo poo THIS IS IT thank you so much!
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Trying to find a Holocaust book I read as a kid. - Read between 1994 and 2004 - Definitely age appropriate (children's book/middle grade/YA) - it had something to do with a train (people being packed in on a train?) - it had something to do with a camera or photographs
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Owl at Home posted:Ok, I have one I need help finding. This is almost exactly the plot of Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult but with a prince in the book
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The first one sort of sounds like The Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike
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