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I'd like to own a copy of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine that includes the additional "The Grey Man" in the story. Is there an edition that has that added excerpt, but perhaps some liner notes or analysis as well?
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Aug 23, 2013 15:24
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I did a quick search and it seems like the only edition of The Time Machine to include that is by Easton Press. If you want a critical edition, though, there's a bunch out there. Two that seem promising are Broadview's, which includes a ton of appendixes, notes from Wells on the book and contemporary reviews. WW Norton's edition has notes, a bunch of Wells' science writing and a mix of modern and period reviews.
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Aug 23, 2013 18:16
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For Neal Stephenson fans, how does the Baroque Cycle compare to his other works? Is it worth making time for?
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Aug 28, 2013 21:26
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SanitysRequiem posted:For Neal Stephenson fans, how does the Baroque Cycle compare to his other works? Is it worth making time for? I have finished the first two Baroque Cycle books and I think they are amazing, but their attention to detail reaches almost ridiculous levels so you need to REALLY love Stephenson (which I do). I would say they are much more similar to Cryptonomicon, or more like three Cryptonomicons, as far as their scope and style than something like Diamond Age or Snowcrash. There will be stretches of historical details that are not relevant to the plot that span a hundred or so pages so if you like that sort of thing, give it a shot.
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Aug 30, 2013 19:52
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Thanks for the info, I'll probably get a used copy and see if it sparks my interest.
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Aug 31, 2013 23:03
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Anyone read Desperation by Stephen King? I'm just starting it.
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Sep 1, 2013 01:42
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Lolita is a fantastic book and I've always loved the prose, but what's stopped me from reading more than three times is that my copy has this cover: Although arguably it's better than this more modern cover which came up in GIS: 
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Sep 1, 2013 07:29
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There's actually a new book out called Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl where cover artists have designed covers for the book, there are some really amazing ones. Two of my favorites:  
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Sep 1, 2013 11:05
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 That's perfect.
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Sep 2, 2013 04:46
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Yeah that pink room cover is my favorite by far. My copy of Lolita has such an embarrassing design that I covered it with a paper bag a la grade school textbooks. In other news, Amazon is launching Kindle MatchBook in October: Amazon.com posted:Introducing Kindle MatchBook: For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases will soon allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free. Available for thousands of great print books purchased new from Amazon, going all the way back to 1995 when Amazon first opened its online bookstore. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1001373341 Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an actual list of books yet. I only buy about half my books from Amazon right now, but this could convince me to finally get a kindle.
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Sep 3, 2013 21:08
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Arg can I buy hard copies of ebooks though
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Sep 3, 2013 21:18
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So I'm about halfway through MaddAddam. I haven't read any Atwood outside of this series (which will change soon) but I had no idea that Atwood could be this funny. I'm really enjoying it so far.
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Sep 3, 2013 21:55
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taco show posted:Yeah that pink room cover is my favorite by far. My copy of Lolita has such an embarrassing design that I covered it with a paper bag a la grade school textbooks. Oh man wow, amazon's gonna get so much of my money when I eventually get a kindle.
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Sep 3, 2013 23:30
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Am I the only one around here who has read J. N. Stroyer's novels The Children's War and A Change of Regime? For those that don't know, they are on the premise of "What if Germany never invaded Russia in WWII and held onto Europe to the present day", and told from the viewpoints of a decent-sized cast of characters, mainly a forced laborer (read: slave)who later escapes, a member of the Polish resistance who has infiltrated the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (or RSHA for short) and is vying for the top spot in the Nazi Hierarchy - Führer, and the infiltrator's sister, a high-ranking member of the Armia Krajowa. There are pretty graphic descriptions of torture in the book (the author interviewed modern-day survivors of state-sanctioned torture). A Change of Regime no more than an hour or two after the end of The Children's War and closes most of the plot threads. I would have liked to see a third novel set after ACoR but I'm not holding my breath. I am currently re-reading TCW for the 4th or 5th time.
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Sep 5, 2013 03:30
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Apologies if this ends up being a recommend me a book post. I've always struggled with and been fascinated by the coward archetype in literature and film. Whether it's Falstaff, the Malfoys from Harry Potter, or Wormtongue from LOTR, I just feel like I'm missing the full point of the archetype, I get that they play a good comparison to the courageous hero, but it feels like there is something else that I just don't pick up on. Does anyone know of a good lecture, talk, paper, (or even book) that looks deeper into the classic coward?
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Sep 9, 2013 19:47
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spidoman posted:Apologies if this ends up being a recommend me a book post. No suggestions but I'd add Scooby and Shaggy from Scooby-doo to the trope, as positive cowardly figures.
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Sep 10, 2013 16:22
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I finished listening to the audiobook of Fifty Shades of Grey. I remember when people said it was basically Twilight fan fiction, but I didn't realize they were being literal. Pretty much every thing about the book is awful, just like the Twilight movies. At least the ending is the logical conclusion.
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Sep 12, 2013 03:24
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I miss the Twilight mock thread, we should do that with one of it's bastard offspring. The highlight for me was the poster who made the Bella costume with chestbursting baby.
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Sep 12, 2013 08:24
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Josh Lyman posted:I finished listening to the audiobook of Fifty Shades of Grey. I remember when people said it was basically Twilight fan fiction, but I didn't realize they were being literal. Pretty much every thing about the book is awful, just like the Twilight movies. At least the ending is the logical conclusion. The characters were explicitly Twilight characters in the first draft.
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Sep 12, 2013 13:54
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Josh Lyman posted:I finished listening to the audiobook of Fifty Shades of Grey. I remember when people said it was basically Twilight fan fiction, but I didn't realize they were being literal. Pretty much every thing about the book is awful, just like the Twilight movies. At least the ending is the logical conclusion. Yeah, when it was self-published, the author had to change the character's names because it was a literal Twilight fanfiction. Think about that: one of Art Garfunkel's favorite books is an erotic Twilight fan fiction with the names changed.
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Sep 13, 2013 00:50
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I guess I'll cancel my subscription to his book club then.
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Sep 13, 2013 02:56
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60 pages into Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and I'm bored to tears. Am I alone?
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Sep 15, 2013 06:58
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Concerning the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony: do the books need to be read in order? I have read the first and have the third sitting on my shelf.
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Sep 15, 2013 20:53
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Ninja Gamer posted:Concerning the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony: do the books need to be read in order? I have read the first and have the third sitting on my shelf.
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Sep 15, 2013 20:59
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I'm still a week into SA forums: is there a forum or a post for non-fiction? Or did I just have my eyes glaze over and not see it?
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Matthew_O posted:I'm still a week into SA forums: is there a forum or a post for non-fiction? Or did I just have my eyes glaze over and not see it? There are some threads for broad topics, like the following. There used to be others but these seem to be the only active ones. For eg, there used to be a science book thread but it died  The History Book Thread! Essays, long form journalism, and writing about the real world Make a new thread if you have a broad topic to recommend/request - eg: threads for books about war, biology, film-making, etc etc, but really specific threads like "books about Ukranian folk dancing in the mid-to-late 17th century" would be useless. For those specific requests you could always try the recommendation thread which gets questions about everything. edit: if you do start a thread though, try to have some recommendations ready to go and put some effort into an OP. Don't just make a thread with one sentence like "Anyone know any books about x?" Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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Sep 25, 2013 06:38
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Hedrigall posted:There are some threads for broad topics, like the following. There used to be others but these seem to be the only active ones. For eg, there used to be a science book thread but it died Thank you, I might just do that after I search to make sure what I post is not covered in another thread.
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Sep 26, 2013 05:11
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Matthew_O posted:I'm still a week into SA forums: is there a forum or a post for non-fiction? Or did I just have my eyes glaze over and not see it? I've been here for years and I was actually looking for a non-fic thread in here last week, was surprised not to see one.
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Sep 27, 2013 01:35
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There is one, just in a different subforum: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3415084
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Sep 27, 2013 03:41
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Sad news: Colombian poet and novelis Alvaro Mutis died today at 90. If you're not familiar with his work, NYRB has a great collection of his Maqroll novellas.
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Sep 30, 2013 01:34
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Please tell me I am not going crazy... I recently read the Racketeer, by John Grisham. Some of his work I enjoy. Maybe I'm alone, but the Racketeer (and a lot of his books) just seem like he's writing the same character over and over in almost the same story over and over. Which I would do if I was getting paid like he is, but...
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Qwo posted:There is one, just in a different subforum: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3415084 It's mainly left wing and tends towards the academic but that really ought not to put you off - the recommendations are pretty solid.
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RIP Tom Clancy. I hated all your non Jack Ryan stuff but thanks for the books 
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 If you haven't heard, it's a science fiction novel for the generation raised on Sega Genesis and oculus rifts. Will update when I'm done with this, as I'm starting it this weekend. And I'd love to hear what you guys thought of the sequel to "The Shining" if anybody has picked it up yet. I'm going to do so sometime in the future when I get the money. Xires fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Oct 3, 2013 23:16
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AlphaXires posted:
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Casimir Radon posted:I'll save you some time, it's loving horrible. It's a never ending string of 80's references with no point whatsoever. I disagree, the '80s references are what the world in that story is built out of. It's definitely something to be aware of before you start reading it though, since it's obviously not everyone's cup of tea. If you don't like the '80s and/or video games, you're probably best off giving it a miss. I loved every bit of it.
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elbow posted:I disagree, the '80s references are what the world in that story is built out of. It's definitely something to be aware of before you start reading it though, since it's obviously not everyone's cup of tea. If you don't like the '80s and/or video games, you're probably best off giving it a miss. I loved every bit of it.
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Oct 4, 2013 03:26
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Not sure if anyone cares, but up there I said I was sixty pages into Robinson Crusoe and bored to tears. Well, it turned out to be pretty good. It just occurred to me that I should leave this update, in case my comment prejudiced anyone against the book.
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AlphaXires posted:
I just finished it yesterday. It isn't really a sequel to The Shining. I mean, Dan Torrance is the main character, but it isn't a horror novel. It's more a combination of a character analysis (Danny, living in the shadow of both The Overlook and his father) and a thriller. It was decent enough on its own merits, but the way you feel about it will depend on how you feel about Jack Torrance. Vague spoilers: If you think he was a flawed and complicated person who might've actually made something of himself if it wasn't for The Overlook, you'll probably dislike it. King (through Danny) focuses more on the monster he became instead of the tragedy of the person he might have been. And there's a soap opera plot turn about 3/4 through that made me roll-eyes like a motherfucker. All that said, it wasn't awful, and it did have some pretty good moments, mostly when it focuses on Dan's life.
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