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I use hockey cards. Right now it's one with Chris Chelios on it. I've still got a bunch of them from when I was a kid lying around and it's not like I have a better use for them.
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Has anybody here used The Book Depository before? They're a UK-based bookseller that promises free worldwide shipping. I just bought a couple books from them. It was pretty cheap, but I have no idea how long it'll take to get my books.
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Mar 28, 2010 16:52
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Yeah, it's a really good site. As long as my books don't take like a month or two to get here, it's where I'll be buying them online from now on.
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Mar 29, 2010 18:05
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jmaze posted:One is filled with spoilers, and one isn't. The one that isn't is for new readers so they can discuss the books while reading them instead of having to avoid the cesspit that is the old thread. I don't see why this is a problem. But isn't that the very exact reason there's this stuff?
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May 21, 2010 17:27
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Here's mine. I've had an account for a while, but I haven't gotten the hang of the networking part yet. http://www.goodreads.com/thebarkclam
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Jun 6, 2010 14:58
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ShutteredIn posted:biblio.com lets the individual sellers set prices. So sometimes it's still like amazon gouging, but some (betterworldbooks) have free shipping. Most of them give you discounts on multiple books shipping from them. Thanks for this. For some reason, I'm paying $12 less on Biblio for the same books, from the same bookseller, then I am on Abebooks.
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Jun 26, 2010 03:05
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Dr Scoofles posted:Is it normal for writers to sit in bookshops and try drum up trade like a fruit seller on a market stall? I've never seen it before. I heard a story once where Harlen Ellison sat and wrote a short story in the window of a bookstore once to make a point about how writing is actually work (or something like that), but I've never heard of the writer actually pushing their own stuff.
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Jul 11, 2010 15:48
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KevinHeaven posted:I have a couple books lined up for me to read, but I don't know which one I should start with first. I've got Rant by Chuck Pahlaniuk, Generation of Swine by Hunter S. Thompson, and Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Generation of Swine is probably the worst of Thompson's books, so I wouldn't start there. It's a pretty dull and uninspired collection of his columns from the San Francisco Examiner in the mid 80s.
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Jul 21, 2010 13:39
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Well, the thing with Hemingway's style is that he cut his chops writing for newspapers where editors would cut out all the unnecessary words. As a result, he has a really terse, tight style. When I was in journalism school, we studied his short stories for that reason.
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Aug 9, 2010 00:46
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In all seriousness, just hit up goodwill or the salvation army for a used bookshelf. I don't see the point in dropping $60 on something new when you can pick up a used one for a third of the price.
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Aug 22, 2010 16:55
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rasser posted:I'll stop derailing and ask a question instead: How do you BB goons deal with the loneliness of your literaty taste, which I believe must be common for most of us? I really need that someone to share my interests with - and my beloved girlfriend just reads chick lit and Stieg Larsen while I'm keen on discussing Arendt, Levi, Calvino, Miller etc etc. I'm actually pretty lucky that a friend of mine also reads a lot about sports and was an ancient history major, so I can talk about most of what I read, but I find that on the whole I don't really talk about books too often. It's not really a big deal. I guess if I get really lonely about my literary, I could hit up craigslist or something. Also, I hear IKEA has pretty good breakfast, although I haven't tried it yet.
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Aug 23, 2010 18:41
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H.P. Shivcraft posted:I'll toss out a question: I just grabbed a copy of the current Penguin edition of Gargantua and Pantagruel, which is the Screech translation, but I've had trouble finding opinions on how good/bad it is. I've been less than impressed with the most recent Penguin translations of Borges and The Táin, and Rabelais translations are a grab-bag anyway, so I'm wondering what I should expect. Anyone have thoughts in either direction? That's funny, I got a used copy of JM Cohen's translation (Penguin's older translation) of that a few days ago and was wondering along the same lines: if I should have sprung a few more bucks and gone for the newer translation.
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Sep 9, 2010 04:44
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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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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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Oct 2, 2010 18:57
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I usually give whatever the used bookstore doesn't want to Goodwill. Donating to a Rotery sale is a good idea too, though. As long as you don't throw them in the trash, you can't really go wrong.
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Oct 10, 2010 20:07
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LooseChanj posted:I liked that black authors idea. Off the top of my head, I want to put The Color Purple and The Invisible Man by Ellison on the poll, as well as something by Richard Wright. So that leaves two nominations open, suggest away. I'd be down for Native Son. I've got a copy I've been putting off reading for a few months now.
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Oct 16, 2010 22:53
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I think 7 Y.O. had it right when he said something to effect of his poetry is really just prose with line breaks. Bukowski's a fun writer - Women stands out for me - but his poetry is rather hit and miss. I know I certainly didn't like it as much as his novels - I read a collection of his a while back that had both and I was skipping over all the poems by the end.
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Dec 1, 2010 15:41
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I've actually found Amazon is pretty good for that. I've plugged in a bunch of books I own and it uses them plus stuff I look at and it spits out some pretty interesting stuff from time to time.
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Dec 8, 2010 01:41
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How do you feel about Penguin's original-spelling edition of Canterbury Tales? It's one I've been thinking about picking up in the new year.
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Dec 23, 2010 16:42
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I wouldn't even recommend Rum Diaries at all. It's pretty much Thompson spinning tales about himself and playing them off as fiction about somebody else (but really about him). There's a reason why a book he wrote in the 1960s wasn't released for decades. Campaign Trail is a much better and funnier book.
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Jan 2, 2011 05:35
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I'd be down for a poem of the month. My goal for 2011 is to get better read in poetry - I'm starting with Chaucer and reading a volume of poetry a month - so I'd take part.
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Jan 8, 2011 17:17
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I'm kind of anticipating The Pale King, but I also probably won't read it until it comes out in paperback.
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Jan 13, 2011 02:14
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How about Rabelais?
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Jan 22, 2011 03:22
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I'm probably somewhat late on this, but I only just found out about the Library of America's story of the week: every week, they post something from one of their collections, be it an essay, short story or something else. It's a neat project and there's a lot of interesting stuff in it's archives (and some good stories in those links).
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Jan 23, 2011 16:28
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Whatever happened to the book swap thread? Wasn't that supposed to happen in January or something?
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Mar 5, 2011 17:44
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I think a baseball-themed month would be cool, actually.
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Apr 30, 2011 17:11
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Quad posted:So I just updated my Calibre and got the Goodreads plugin, now I can easily sync my Sony Reader to my Facebook! ....this would be cooler if I had more than 2 friends doing the same thing. I don't think there's a group, but there's a few posters from here on Goodreads. I think there was a thread a while ago.
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May 7, 2011 03:37
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Would anybody be up for doing a big rear end summer read again? I've got a few book ideas in mind.
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May 25, 2011 15:37
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I have JM Cohen's translation and while I like it, I've also heard Burton Raffel's is good. I think it's the one Norton uses in their anthologies. If you're interested, I could type up a selection from both.
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Jun 8, 2011 21:39
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I'm actually more partial to Werner Herzog's rendition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xFZ0A15Bg&feature=player_embedded
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Jun 20, 2011 00:34
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Anybody doing a big summer read? I'm thinking when I get some time, I'm going to finally start on Fielding's Tom Jones.
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Jun 23, 2011 03:15
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Nice! Jest is a great read, it's not as hard as you'd think once you get into it.
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Jun 23, 2011 04:31
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Goodreads owns, any site with identical lists called best books ever and worst books ever really knows how to recommend 'em.
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Jun 29, 2011 18:40
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Does that not happen at yours? It even used to happen up here, back when we had a real library.
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Jul 20, 2011 02:41
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Your hands naturally secrete oil and it's getting onto the pages. No biggie. I guess if it really bugs you, wear gloves when reading?
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Jul 31, 2011 00:55
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It's really cool the book of the month club is literally about books that nobody wants to read. What's October's category? In-Flight Magazines?
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Aug 27, 2011 00:17
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GZA Genius posted:I just dont see how its a literary classic. It just seems like smut material for goons to sperg on. It's cool when somebody who doesn't know how to read teaches for a living.
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Sep 21, 2011 17:18
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Helmacron posted:I don't know if that's bad, if so the connotation has passed me by like the period of time I probably could have caught my tinea with simple pharmaceutical creams instead of how I'm now working up the nerve to apply this tincture I've concocted from formulin and dettol, of which yes, I just happened to have. I was surprised too. I'm going to take a guess and say he meant the smaller size = more pages, but feel free to get your money's use from your Rogets. Next time you're at the Sally Ann, might I recommend Stunk and White?
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Oct 10, 2011 16:33
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The list of National Book Award finalists was released today. Some stuff there I've been interested in reading (especially Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife and Manning Marable's biography of Malcolm X), but none that I actually got around to. Anybody here get around to these? Any books that really stand out?
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It's probably a matter of someone stepping up. Noted toilet-licker Viconia ran it last year and she's since been banned or something.
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