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Does anyone know how well putting one of those desiccant filled metal trays behind your books on the shelf would work to help keep the humidity low? I know they use them in storage boxes but I'm not sure how well it would work in the relatively low air flow behind the books.
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Dr Scoofles posted:I'm starting an English Lit degree this month and would love to chat about the books and theories I'm studying with TBB folks without being accused of soliciting homework help. you could always use the HIGH LEVEL thread, thats where i'll be postin bout whatev im reading for classes
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ONE TWO THREE TIMES TWO TO THE SIX/JONESING FOR YOUR FIX OF THAT LIMP BIZKIT MIX
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7 y.o. bitch posted:you could always use the HIGH LEVEL thread, thats where i'll be postin bout whatev im reading for classes Its a thread I've been hesitantly reading and feel stupider and stupider every time I open it. I think once I actually get into my course and start actively learning and advancing I'll be sure to jump back in 
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Sep 21, 2010 07:36
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7 y.o. bitch posted:you could always use the HIGH LEVEL thread, thats where i'll be postin bout whatev im reading for classes I'm seriously considering putting a "grammar and punctuation counts" clause in the rules. Seriously. 
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Sep 21, 2010 07:58
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gently caress prescriptive grammar,
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Sep 21, 2010 13:22
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Could a German speaker please help me translate a bit of what's on this page? I just woke up from a dream where I was buried in snow with only my face showing, my great grandmother (died about 15 years ago) walked up and told me the only thing she regretted was not being saved by ______ and I think she said 'Don Feinen.' Google led me to that book, called God Blessed Thoughts and translates Don Feinen as fine don. Do the words Don Feinen or Don Fine or Dawn Feinen/Fine ring any bells for anyone?
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Sep 21, 2010 13:54
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Maytag posted:Could a German speaker please help me translate a bit of what's on this page?
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Sep 21, 2010 14:05
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First Google gets me lost near Gualala, now this. Thanks for checking it out!
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Sep 21, 2010 14:09
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Dr Scoofles posted:Its a thread I've been hesitantly reading and feel stupider and stupider every time I open it. I think once I actually get into my course and start actively learning and advancing I'll be sure to jump back in Mebbe there's a niche for a medium level thread, for almost real guys!
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Sep 21, 2010 15:48
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LooseChanj posted:I'm seriously considering putting a "grammar and punctuation counts" clause in the rules. Seriously. I'm sorry LooseChanj, I usually post correctly here, but sometimes things slip!
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Sep 21, 2010 19:21
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Dr Scoofles posted:Its a thread I've been hesitantly reading and feel stupider and stupider every time I open it. I think once I actually get into my course and start actively learning and advancing I'll be sure to jump back in I post in that thread and I've got a 10th grade education. Believe in yourself
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Sep 21, 2010 20:27
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Yeah, the thread is pretty intimidating. Certainly a good read, though... I just haven't had anything to contribute, and I figure a crappy post is worse than none at all.
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Sep 21, 2010 20:38
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I'm just finding that threat neat reading. Literary theory is something I'd like to know more about and I'm learning from what's there.
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Sep 21, 2010 22:50
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LooseChanj posted:I'm seriously considering putting a "grammar and punctuation counts" clause in the rules. Seriously. Why.
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Sep 22, 2010 02:55
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Hi, everyone. Here's a thing:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3350961
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Hey Book Barn I was just given a kewl complete (I think) set of Charles Dickens books and they are really old and I'm afraid to read them but I decided that I'm going to have a Charles Dickens December and try to read as many as I can and I'm pretty excited about it. Anyway I wanted to tell someone so I came here because I know that you would understand how I feel. Thanks for your attention.
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Space Cooter posted:Hey Book Barn I was just given a kewl complete (I think) set of Charles Dickens books and they are really old and I'm afraid to read them but I decided that I'm going to have a Charles Dickens December and try to read as many as I can and I'm pretty excited about it. Anyway I wanted to tell someone so I came here because I know that you would understand how I feel. Thanks for your attention. Are they illustrated? My mum gave me an oldish set of all of Dickens books a few months ago, they stink to high hell of fusty dusty-ness but the lovely drawings inside make up for that. Go ahead and read them, thats what books want! I'm reading Little Dorrit at the moment, so I'll be with you as you embark on your journey. I have set myself the goal of reading the whole lot sooner or later.
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Sep 25, 2010 17:47
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Is there a thread about the Emberverse series by S. M. Stirling somewhere? Or just a general Stirling thread? In the past year or so said books have become one of my absolute favorite series, and I might be interested in discussing them with goons 
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Dr Scoofles posted:Are they illustrated? My mum gave me an oldish set of all of Dickens books a few months ago, they stink to high hell of fusty dusty-ness but the lovely drawings inside make up for that. Go ahead and read them, thats what books want! I just looked inside one and they do have very nice color illustrations! They're good-looking books although in not the best shape - each one has its own slipcover and there's a different illustration on each spine  After looking over them they aren't a complete set, but oh well. The publishing information says that they're from the '30s. The insides are actually in good shape, I'm just worried about the binding falling apart!
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Sep 25, 2010 18:42
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Ohh they are nice! Much nicer than mine. I really wouldn't worry about the binding if you read them carefully. I have some books that are close to 200 years old and they still stand up to me reading and re-reading them. I guess if it is a worry then why not buy the cheapy penguin versions for readng and creasing and save these for occasional fondling?
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Sep 25, 2010 22:14
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Yeah I already have a lot of them in cheapo paperbacks to be abused but I'm going to make Dickens December a very Special Occasion and read the fancy fancy books. It will be fun. I went to the used bookstore today looking to pick up a couple of books and I ended up spending $50... which is a lot in used bookstore dollars 
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Sep 25, 2010 22:35
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You can also buy the Nonesuch Dickens which are really nice looking, illustrated, and not all that expensive.
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I was looking at an ebay description for a very old science book (think 1850s), and it mentioned having two black and white "plates." What are those?
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the posted:I was looking at an ebay description for a very old science book (think 1850s), and it mentioned having two black and white "plates." What are those?
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Sep 28, 2010 04:41
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Plates are inserted photographs which are on a different kind of paper, because old printing presses couldn't handle images and text on the same page I guess.
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Sep 28, 2010 05:26
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What method of book purchasing puts the most money into the author's hands? Is there any difference between B&M, Amazon, eBook, etc?
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Parker Lewis posted:What method of book purchasing puts the most money into the author's hands? Is there any difference between B&M, Amazon, eBook, etc? Really depends on the situation. If they are published with a small publishing house, then buying directly from the publisher would be best. If they are published by one of the giants, I don't think it really makes a difference.
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The Nobel announcement is set for next Thursday - time to start brushing up on your dissident authors. I am 100% certain that it will be Ko Un this year*, so I'll just go ahead and call it now. *I say that every year, but it's going to look really impressive if he ever actually gets it. I mean, c'mon Nobel committee, he's a poet, a democratic activist, and his devout Buddhism is thrillingly exotic; you guys should be lapping this poo poo up.
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inktvis posted:The Nobel announcement is set for next Thursday - time to start brushing up on your dissident authors. I am 100% certain that it will be Ko Un this year*, so I'll just go ahead and call it now. That seems like a pretty safe guess. Here are the Ladbrokes odds. It seems like a pretty thin field, although as an Australian I'm pleased to see Les Murray ranking so highly. And I love the fact that Bob Dylan is in there every year at 150 or 200:1.
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Oct 2, 2010 17:05
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It's really about time Pynchon got one.
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Oct 2, 2010 17:10
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Pynchon, Doctorow. Or Magris - he's one of a heterogenous group of Italian writers, some dead, with enormous talent between them. They might just give them a prize and call it Magris' prize.
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I'd like to see Roth finally get one, but I'm starting to think that if he was ever going to, he would have by now.
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The complete review guy has a pretty crazy rundown and analysis on odds of Nobel favorites: http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/201009c.htm He thinks it's going to be a poet over a novelist this time. I really don't think an American is going to get one anytime soon.
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Can anybody suggest to me some good Chinese literature? I read The Three Inch Golden Lotus by Feng Jicai earlier this year, I really enjoyed it and I thirst for more. I'm more interested in books written by Chinese writers rather than books written by Westerners about Chinese life (they always seem to want to write about concubines and court politics, which at this point I'm sick to death of.)
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I would recommend Soul Mountain pretty highly. It's a novel by the first Chinese winner of the Nobel for literature (Gao Xingjian), here's something I wrote about it in another thread: Soul Mountain is the semi-autobiographical story of a writer's journey around China after a (false) diagnosis of lung cancer. It's basically a series of linked vignettes set in various places around the country (around 80 if I remember correctly, ranging in length from 2 to 20 pages). The most interesting and difficult thing about it is that the protagonist splits during the course of the story into four pronouns - 'I', 'you', 'he', and 'she'. The conversations and interactions between them are a bit mind-bending, since it's never entirely clear whether they're figments of the protagonist's imagination or independent characters, but I suspect this was a difficulty in the translation (apart from this and a few untranslatable folk songs, the translation is excellent). It's a difficulty read but well worth it. I've just bought the first volume of The Story of the Stone, which is apparently a classic Chinese novel, although I suspect it may involve some concubines & court politics. Also worth checking out is the Chinese Literature thread on the World Literature Forums, where people who are very widely read in that field give some recommendations: http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/tags/chinese%20literature.html
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Can the videogame nerdfaces in that "books that define a generation" thread be probated or something?
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Facial Fracture posted:Can the videogame nerdfaces in that "books that define a generation" thread be probated or something?
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Can someone recommend some good horror novels for October? I read The Fall and The Passage last week and have read 23 Stephen King books so I've missed a bunch.
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Horror suggestions: Shirley Jackson. She's best known for The Lottery or The Haunting of Hill House, but I think her best book is We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Richard Matheson. His short fiction is really great. His longer stuff is more hit or miss, and avoid Hunted Past Reason at all costs because it's total poo poo. You can't go wrong with any of his anthologies, though. Thomas Ligotti. His books and stories have this weird, dreamlike kind of horror, his style is the kind of thing people either love or hate. Unfortunately they can be kind of hard to find. Mira Grant's Feed. The idea of bloggers covering a presidential campaign during the zombie apocalypse sounds corny as hell. But this is actually a solid, fast-paced story about politics, paranoia, viruses, the news, and what people will do for power. And also zombies. Kim Newman's Anno Dracula. This a follow-up to Dracula, if that book had ended with the Count winning. England's become openly infested with vampires, and famous characters from Victorian history and lit interact while hunting a serial killer. I typically hate recent takes on older characters, but I really enjoyed this book anyway. Norman Partridge's Dark Harvest. It's about an isolated town with a bloody Halloween tradition. The writing style seemed very heavily influenced by older Stephen King stuff.
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Don't know if there's a "lost and found" for this subforum, but I need help identifying two books I read in middle school. The first is a book about a kid who runs away from home and comes across a house (on a hill?) that has magical properties. There are other children living in the house and he is welcomed with treats and all sorts of goodies. Later we come to find weird things are happening and eventually the main protagonist leaves the house to seek out his parents, who have aged considerably since he left (although he stays the same age). I read this book in middle school and I remember my English teacher mentioning there were talks of a movie based on the book, but obviously they never came to fruition. If anyone remembers these books, especially the second one, I will be thoroughly impressed and very grateful. Edit- Immediately after posting I found the title of the second book- Virtual War. LiterallyAnything fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Oct 6, 2010 |
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