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zeldadude posted:Hey guys, quick question, my girlfriend is trying to order the Discworld series and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on the best place to order them new. She's been able to find them separately on different websites but wasn't sure if there was one place she could get all of them for cheaper. Cheers
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Juanito posted:So what's the best place? Ha, knew I should've put that in there! She figured out Barnes and Noble's website is the best. Dunno why that wasn't the first website she checked, hah. Specifically the "used" copies that people sell on there, not from B&N themselves.
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Who is a whiz at finding rare books at reasonable prices? I am looking for Pharaoh by Boleslaw Prus, in particular the Christopher Kasparek translation (not the old public-domain Jeremiah Curtin one, which I dislike), but I don't see it anywhere for less than ninety-two dollars.
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Bongo Bill posted:Who is a whiz at finding rare books at reasonable prices? I am looking for Pharaoh by Boleslaw Prus, in particular the Christopher Kasparek translation (not the old public-domain Jeremiah Curtin one, which I dislike), but I don't see it anywhere for less than ninety-two dollars.
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Bongo Bill posted:Who is a whiz at finding rare books at reasonable prices? I am looking for Pharaoh by Boleslaw Prus, in particular the Christopher Kasparek translation (not the old public-domain Jeremiah Curtin one, which I dislike), but I don't see it anywhere for less than ninety-two dollars. There's this on australian ebay: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Pharaoh-By-Boleslaw-Prus-Christopher-Kasparek-/381580502701?hash=item58d7f866ad
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A human heart posted:There's this on australian ebay: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Pharaoh-By-Boleslaw-Prus-Christopher-Kasparek-/381580502701?hash=item58d7f866ad Alas, "Doesn't post to United States." I'll keep looking. Thanks.
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Aug 12, 2016 05:47
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The top of the page also says it is out of stock. Really not clear..
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kind of a cool twitter with sentences from moby dick. Lotta good ones. https://twitter.com/MobyDickatSea (h/t SirBruce)
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Aug 18, 2016 06:33
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You know what else has a lot of cool sentences from Moby Dick?
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Aug 18, 2016 10:02
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1001 Lines To Seem Intellectual At Parties?
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Mr. Squishy posted:You know what else has a lot of cool sentences from Moby Dick? This clickhole post has all of them http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/time-i-spent-commercial-whaling-ship-totally-chang-768
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Does anyone know what this QCS post is referencing? Jose posted:someone got upset in the book barn about harry potter becuase they were forced to live in a cupboard under the stairs or something. does anyone remember that post?
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I definitely remember that but I don't have archives to dig it up. It was in the old Harry Potter thread right?
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i really need that post
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It was more someone confessing that they found reading the first book uncomfortable because they had been abused as a child (can't remember the specifics, it was some kind of abuse by relatives, less whimsical than what the Dursleys did), then a whole bunch of goons started making light of the abuse. It wasn't the barrel of laughs you're expecting.
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It would be cool if the posters in this forum really were forced to live in a cupboard under the stairs.
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A human heart posted:It would be cool if the posters in this forum really were forced to live in a cupboard under the stairs. Sp.. sp.. spongebob Squarepants?
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Hedrigall posted:It was more someone confessing that they found reading the first book uncomfortable because they had been abused as a child (can't remember the specifics, it was some kind of abuse by relatives, less whimsical than what the Dursleys did), then a whole bunch of goons started making light of the abuse. There's an article by Jenny Diski about Roald Dahl and how a responsible parent cannot read their kids that stuff, because it's full of bizarre, violent, misogynistic malice towards miserable characters who should arouse empathy in mature readers. And then she wrote how her kid was like "it's good because the adults get beaten up and the adults don't like that" Anyway that's my take on Harry Potter
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I figured that I'd share this with everyone. Powell's out of Portland is having the quarterly friends and family sale. 30% off your online purchase. Use the code FRIENDY57ERFA and go buy some good books.
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So dare is in TBB now? Great.
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I used to like reading about serial killers, etc. But just finished Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. I was familiar with the guy, knew he was really bad. But dang, he was way more hosed up and conniving then I had thought. He also had a ton of targets that thankfully never panned out. I think I'm done with books about serial killers. I've read a few books since, but still can't get Dennis Rader out of my mind. The book is very good, if you're interested in serial killers and/or Dennis Rader. I've decided that I'm not.
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Juanito posted:The book is very good, if you're interested in serial killers and/or Dennis Rader. I've decided that I'm not. good call i do sometimes get fascinated by accounts of horrible things but i really dont want to know those same things. thx for the caution
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Ras Het posted:There's an article by Jenny Diski about Roald Dahl and how a responsible parent cannot read their kids that stuff, because it's full of bizarre, violent, misogynistic malice towards miserable characters who should arouse empathy in mature readers. And then she wrote how her kid was like "it's good because the adults get beaten up and the adults don't like that" The things that people say are bad about Dahl are exactly the reasons I liked him as a kid.
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You were drawn to him as a child because of his anti-semitism?
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Is there an author from the 20th century who didn't have a lovely opinion?
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Is there an author from the 20th century who didn't have a lovely opinion? Yeah, whattya wanna know?
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The first two Potter books, especially at the beginnings, felt very Roald Dahl-ish and were part of their attraction.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Is there an author from the 20th century who didn't have a lovely opinion? I think Franz Kafka was a pretty decent dude. Please don't prove me wrong.
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im pretty sure his most questionable stance was ardent zionism which, eh he was also an anxious neurotic which makes him A-OK in my book chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Oct 2, 2016 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:he was also an anxious neurotic which makes him A-OK in my book 
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Llamas have those weird hosed up teeth so they can castrate rival males. Do Alpacas use them for the same reason and does this book elaborate? I got a slightly giddy feeling today as I went into a charity shop which was selling what looked like a first edition of The Gathering Storm for about £1 It wasn't 
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Is there an author from the 20th century who didn't have a lovely opinion?
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Terry Pratchett? Monarchist scum whose liteary work had a negative impact on human civilization
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Rush Limbo posted:Llamas have those weird hosed up teeth so they can castrate rival males. Do Alpacas use them for the same reason and does this book elaborate? It's just 12 pages of cute llamas
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Ras Het posted:Monarchist scum whose liteary work had a negative impact on human civilization he is to be indicted for contributing, like douglas adams, to degenerate pseudointellectual reddit-atheist geek culture, not his support of the one true form of government
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chernobyl kinsman posted:he is to be indicted for contributing, like douglas adams, to degenerate pseudointellectual reddit-atheist geek culture, not his support of the one true form of government If he was going to be a monarchist you'd think he could have supported the divine right of kings instead of lame constitutional monarchy bullcrap
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blue squares posted:I'm getting frustrated as I try to decide what to read between the three books I'm agonizing over. Alive, the story of the soccer team that crashed in the Andes; In the Garden of Beasts, Larsen's book about Nazi Germany; and The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer winner that documents the rise of Al-Qaeda and the attack on Sept. 11. Do try Alive. You've got to have a certain tolerance for "inspired by God" stuff - both the survivors and author are catholics - but it was how the framed things to themselves at the time. I much preferred the book to the feature film and the documentary film.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:im pretty sure his most questionable stance was ardent zionism which, eh Zionism was a pretty big issue and seen as a silver bullet to solve the "Jewish Question" at the time. It is kind of touching that Kafka started to learn Yiddish and Hebrew in his 30s because he wanted to connect with his ancestral past. His family was German/Czech speaking and very keen to distance themselves from the shetls. The worst anyone ever dug up on Kafka was a in recent book which revealed....he ordered some erotic literature. Pretty tame stuff, it seems. As far as I remember, Kafka never ran for office on a "family values" platform, so... meh? 
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