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House Louse posted:Definitely sounds like a river to me. I've read the books so the answer didn't seem obscure to me but I'm not sure how "I can manipulate shadows" and "regained my memories after centuries of amnesia" = river. Am I missing out on an in-joke?
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Ah, I see. But: DirtyRobot posted:The form of your clue... 
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Irish Joe posted:Isn't that true of a lot of books, though. I was reading The Mandarins recently and I couldn't help but think how much better everybody's life would have been if they had Prozac in the 40s and 50s. Nearly all of the mystery/suspense novels I've read would resolve fairly quickly if they'd only had cell phones.
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Helmacron posted:Unless you're on the decklage that steeps down yonder from you, the page underneath's width that mm longer or so, then you gotta play some tricky poo poo out because someone, somewhere, thought that inconveniencing you personally with some weird old fashioned book cut was his God Given mission circa 2012. I feel like people who like deckled edging would be the people who appreciate Monty Python for it's timelessness and don't entirely think we should, you know, but that it would be pretty cool if we only used the original Oxford Dictionary for english and here's why: Beg pardon?
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DirtyRobot posted:Sticky! Let's talk books! Do you mean something like Love After The Tale of Genji?
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skasion posted:In Cordwainer Smith’s “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” there’s a bit where the protagonist and his girlfriend find a magical prediction machine which tells her “protagonist will love you for the rest of your life” and then tells him “you will love girlfriend for about the next twenty minutes”. Cue confusion immediately followed by girlfriend death. In Gary Jennings’ Raptor this gag is repeated pretty much verbatim, but with a magical prediction Jew instead of a computer. Are both these guys ripping off someone earlier, or was Smith the first to come up with the joke? It shows up in lots of folk tales from different cultures around the world.
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skasion posted:Got an ATU number? No, I just read a lot folk/fairy tales.
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Maxwell Lord posted:So is there a thread for the current RWA implosion? It’s fairly entertaining in a sad way. https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/egndb7/romancelandia_romance_writers_of_america_is/
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Krankenstyle posted:I have a stack of random short story collections from used book stores that I keep near my bed. When I get in that not-able-to-read-books zone I pick out any one of them and look at the index for a really short short story to read I'm doing Wodehouse short stories and Max Beerbohm.
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TheAardvark posted:What was y'all's first "adult" book? I was 8 or 9 when I read Call of the Wild because it was on my grandma's bookshelf. I still kept to more age appropriate/YA stuff mostly for a while but it kinda broke the barrier for reading non-children stuff for me. Lord of the Flies, age 9 or 10. I thought it was a Boys Adventure book, which, technically... Would LOTR count? I read that earlier than LOTF. xcheopis fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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There are a few series of graphic novel adaptations that are interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_Classics http://www.classicalcomics.com/ https://www.greatillustratedclassics.com/Default.asp https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215175/the-graphic-canon-vol-1-3-by-russ-kick/ I like seeing how artists adapt novels I've already read. The selection from Emerson Hunt's Inferno in the Graphic Canon convinced me to buy two of his books. Lance Tooks adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Bottle Imp put him on my "list of authors whose works I must own in their entirety as soon as I have some money".
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macabresca posted:I think Animal Farm is more about that, 1984's always seem to be just about life under stalinism in late forties and fifties. After all there is no purge in this book, only individual people disappearing if they get too cocky Well, not the fifties.
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macabresca posted:Stalin died in 1953 so there's a bit of fifties but yeah, I phrased it wrong Orwell died in January, 1950, so, no.
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cda posted:So there's a little bit of the January 1950s in it is what you're saying? "Wow, antibiotics are amazing! Wait, no"
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Children and man-children love books with world-building and/or character-building. Congratulations on growing up? Why are you referring to women as children?
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Jack B Nimble posted:Can anyone recommend a small business book store with a robust website I could use to order books from instead of Amazon? If not, I'd settle for an affiliate amazon link. In the South, maybe New Orleans or Mobile, would be ideal, but otherwise anywhere in the USA is fine. I already googled my area and the only private book store I know of doesn't have a web site. I asked my irl friends and we've all just bought books on Amazon for decades, oops. https://www.indiebound.org/
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Are goon translations ever considered for Book of the Month status? Because https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3972041
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