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chernobyl kinsman posted:

trying to read the iliad but i just cant get into it because some rear end in a top hat told me that troy loses

wait what

# ¿ Nov 8, 2018 07:33

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 00:33

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chernobyl kinsman posted:

it might be particularly bad now but it's not new, aristotle was making GBS threads on the desire for spectacle in the 4th century BC

A direct link to Debord's book for no reason

# ¿ Nov 8, 2018 07:42

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chernobyl kinsman posted:

ive given it some thought and ive decided to become one of those people who argue that shakespeare was a secret catholic

[ASK] me how Henry IV, Pt. 1 was a coded anti monarchist plea for democracy

# ¿ Nov 21, 2018 03:14

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Ornamented Death posted:

Dropping this little nugget I saw posted in a FB group today because I feel some of you will get a kick out of it.

That's hilarious

# ¿ Dec 13, 2018 04:40

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Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Have you read Tom Robbins? Any Tom Robbins at all?

oh is that why all the hippies like to read him?

# ¿ Jan 17, 2019 16:01

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Hieronymous Alloy posted:

I associate him very strongly with the 1990s.

and Deadheads

# ¿ Jan 17, 2019 21:02

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pikachode posted:

happy valentines day

I wish you and your new boyfriend Ligotti well today

# ¿ Feb 14, 2019 15:48

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chernobyl kinsman posted:

yay another discord to idle in and never post

# ¿ Mar 13, 2019 01:14

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oh hey look at our mod getting all famous in the AV club https://news.avclub.com/something-awful-was-saved-from-the-brink-of-collapse-by-1833420483#ib0tra2hlbzej7d9ln0zbjz.1w2bio2ktaxgm

# ¿ Mar 23, 2019 16:51

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chernobyl kinsman posted:

is discord like slack. what is discord

mIRC for Web 2.0

# ¿ Apr 5, 2019 05:41

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Burning Rain posted:

there's a TBB channel on the SA discord though, isn't there?

"the SA discord" which one, am on like 5 now

# ¿ Apr 5, 2019 14:40

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Burning Rain posted:

why though?

A game related discord, CSPAM/what Hieronymous said, something for giving Lowtax cash, another one for lefty raging, and book nerds discord for folks to not post about books in another place

# ¿ Apr 5, 2019 18:12

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Apparently lots of people pay attention to that non comic book writing Ellis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...m=.fc6a2705b8f9

# ¿ Apr 15, 2019 14:13

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

jesus christ

"Why aren't these millennial writers as famous as these genX writers became after they published their big novels" is a take so hot I want my generation to just go away

# ¿ Apr 15, 2019 14:21

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

Gene Wolfe has died

We don't yet know his last words, but we can be assured they were overlong and could have used an editor

once you pop you can't stop

# ¿ Apr 16, 2019 00:49

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ulvir posted:

this is a good place to discuss it

just assuming that is a link to FYAD

# ¿ Apr 16, 2019 22:11

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Selachian posted:

Pro archivist here. My first recommendation would be if you really want to preserve this stuff, don't use tape at all. Write the cataloging details on a slip of acid-free paper and tuck it into the book so it sticks up with the information visible.

If you must use tape, look for an acid-free tape like Filmoplast, or document repair tape. Check Hollinger or Gaylord Archival.

Also sprinkle your library with random bear facts

# ¿ Apr 18, 2019 05:48

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Ras Het posted:

The answer to that question very much depends on what you're looking for. Fantasy novels, nonfiction, classics, misery porn, harlequin, sports sagas? For most purposes Goodreads is probably fine

Goodreads is mostly fine. I have not yet had a good recommendation from its "suggested because you read X" algorithm though, and classic books tend to get lower overall ratings because of sooper smart online readers who "don't get all the hype"

# ¿ May 5, 2019 17:59

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Hieronymous Alloy posted:

https://twitter.com/MedievalMss/status/1130900425450954752

goddamn

post it in the "book of cspam" thread and watch a goon's head explode

# ¿ May 22, 2019 07:06

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was waiting for the vote it go for like an hour or something?

# ¿ Jun 1, 2019 06:22

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Here you go. WaPo's recommendation of which book to read at which age of life from 1-100. Let the fighting begin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/entertainment/books/100-books-for-the-ages/?utm_term=.70da678480a4

# ¿ Jun 27, 2019 01:23

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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:

All of Cormac McCarthy�s westerns, particularly Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian is one of my favourite books ever but be forewarned it's excruciatingly violent (very much the point of the book in fact).

quote:

Also everybody swears Lonesome Dove is the best western novel ever written but somehow I�ve never actually read it

Funny enough I've been to McMurtry's bookstore in Archer City and seen him around town but very much the same. I should probably correct that.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2019 17:23

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In "LOL Goodreads recommendations" today it suggested that because I liked Binti, I should read a Mordecai Richler novel.

I mean, Richler is good but what?

# ¿ Jul 19, 2019 06:11

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Hieronymous Alloy posted:

I think Mel got mad at us he's not around so much any more =(

"Us"?

# ¿ Aug 16, 2019 05:11

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Hieronymous Alloy posted:

https://twitter.com/GuardianBooks/status/1173605732639363073

That's cool as hell

# ¿ Sep 18, 2019 06:03

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Thus Spake Zarathustra certainly belongs there.

Also give Babyfucker a try too.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2019 06:30

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Annual United Way book sale is on. I browsed the shelves for potential gems among the Ian Rankin cast offs and obligatory copies of Future Shock and walked off with

A hardcover of Lincoln in the Bardo (I already have it but got it to give to a friend), hardcover of Barney's Version and softcovers of Foucault's Pendulum (have not read this in forever) and Solomon Gursky Was Here so it was kind of a Mordecai Richler sort of afternoon.

$6 total

# ¿ Nov 25, 2019 22:31

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Spiritus Nox posted:

For lack of a better place to put this - has anyone here ever had issues reading manga in the Nook app? I keep getting an Unsupported Document Error trying to read a manga I bought on their own store, and the app's suggestion of uninstalling/reinstalling both the book and the app itself proved useless. I think it has something to do with this specific manga being listed as a "book" instead of as a "comic" like the other manga I've bought - think the app's expecting it to be in a different format than it is and breaking. Anybody run into this before? Know of a fix?

there is an entire forum dedicated to animes and mangers you'd probably get better help there

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 22:54

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MockingQuantum posted:

But you must ask her out using only quotations from Gravity's Rainbow

There is no graceful way out of this now. Darlene has brought a couple-three more candy jars down off of the shelf, and now he goes plunging, like a journey to the center of some small, hostile planet, into an enormous bonbon chomp through the mantle of chocolate to a strongly eucalyptus-flavored fondant, finally into a core of some very tough grape gum arabic. He fingernails a piece of this out from between his teeth and stares at it for a while. It is purple in color.

ps be mine

# ¿ Dec 18, 2019 02:24

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twitter and bisted posted:

I'm thinking of getting into Cormac McCarthy. I was told The Crossing is good but it's the second part of a trilogy. Does one need to have read All the Pretty Horses first?

You should probably just read it too because it is supposed to be good

# ¿ Dec 22, 2019 01:08

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hahaha

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...91a9_story.html

# ¿ Dec 24, 2019 02:32

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Sham bam bamina! posted:

Jemisin, the Hugo Award-winning fantasy author, blends speculative and literary fiction in this, the first of a new series. Five New Yorkers must come together to save their city, which has literally come to life, in a story that�ll give you �Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse� vibes.

Its an expansion of that short story from When is Black Future Month isn't it?

Too bad, it was a nice self contained story as is

# ¿ Dec 24, 2019 18:01

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I never found Dickens enticing vOv

# ¿ Jan 12, 2020 06:50

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excellent bird guy posted:

Read Crime and Punishment when I was 18 the summer before starting college and LOVED it. David Magarshack translated that version in the 1950s. That goodness it wasn't Constance Garnett...
Since then I've wanted to get back into Russian lit via Pevear & Volokhonsky, but have not. I did read Peaver's 3 Musketeers, it was very exciting! I have Count of Monte Cristo that maybe I should read if just for the inspiration onto personal creative projects.
This past year, I have the habit of, when watching a series or reading a book, writing down passages in a text document (that I do not share.) I have read/watched so much media, and having nothing to show for it except a fond memory tinged by a feeling of guilt. I read Moby Dick, but this is nothing but a fond memory, details mostly forgotten.
This text file of quotes and personal reactions of all the fictional work that I've consumed for the past year allow me some reasoning to read/watch and enjoy fictional works without feeling that I am wasting time.

cool

Did you cut it in half?

# ¿ Jan 23, 2020 06:20

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PsychedelicWarlord posted:

Can I get a link to the discord?

https://discord.gg/5K3RHH

# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 17:51

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

So today I learned two things

1. Johnathan Livingston Seagull was not written in the 1700s

2. It is about an actual Seagull

Jesus just read it it takes like half an hour and then you will be empowered to achieve your greatest!

# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 19:42

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

The only thing of any merit in the Alchemist is that the dude goes on a journey to find a special treasure and in the end the treasure is like an actual treasure with diamonds and poo poo and not self-discovery or the friends he made along the way or whatever bullshit

the thread is now about Pilgrim's Progress

# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 19:43

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chernobyl kinsman posted:

we're shut for the rest of the semester and im having a panic attack about what this will do the academic job market so im going to stress-write an article and rush it out for publication in between bouts of binge drinking and destiny 2. not getting a lot of reading done is what ims aying

Lucky ducky! We just had classes canceled today and have the weekend to figure out how to deliver lab-based content virtually, with those classes starting on Monday :suicide:

# ¿ Mar 14, 2020 02:26

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Krankenstyle posted:

deal

what are the terms

To hell with sobriety?

# ¿ Mar 14, 2020 02:27

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 00:33

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And I had just gotten used to the Book Bam

# ¿ Mar 20, 2020 05:48

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