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appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

Ballsworthy posted:

Remember where you were in the book it is not tough bookmarks are for the weak

I don't know whether or not you're joking, but my girlfriend does this. Of course, she rarely gets further than a dozen pages into a book.


I'm reading The Brothers Karamzov right now, and the first page of annotations is right across from the last page of the book. I wish they'd shoved a blank page in there because trying to *not* read some sort of spoiler is soo hard.

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appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

therattle posted:

Or at all!

:munch:

Maybe you should just read them for yourself? All the people saying they are "worthless politically driven trash in the guise of a lovely novel with cardboard characters" are just a bunch of socialists who probably haven't even read Ayn's masterful Works. What I'm saying is that you can't judge a book until you've read it, and there's a reason they're controversial. Give them a shot, make up your own mind, and don't give into the SA group think! Okay I'm heading off to read the collected works of Stephanie Meyer and Dan Brown in order to--oh ho ho! Not really, I know those books suck without having to read them.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

The banner ad for the re-read thread is amazing.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

LooseChanj posted:

People need to read the books of the month and post in those threads.

Just sayin'. :toughguy:

It's all the big summer of Proust and GRRRMMM reread threads' faults.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

I imported my library into goodreads from some other book program, only to realize that I had stopped updating it a while back.

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3838124

Alright have to go through and add everyone as friends now.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

Mr. Fun posted:

Any interest for a "How do you approach fantasy?" thread?

I'm for it, the forum is clogged with so many Hemingway, Proust, Pynchon, and Joyce threads it'd be nice to broaden people's horizons.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

Y-Hat posted:

Surprise surprise, Orson Scott Card is homophobic for religious reasons.

:rolleyes: Guys I'm not a homophobe, honest!

Yeah that sort of stuff made me stop reading any of his stuff. Well that, and that the next book after Ender's Game kinda blew.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

fritz posted:

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Here's a nice little article about Bierce:

http://www.thenation.com/article/36576/bierced

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

drat poysky closed his thread. I wanted to read more of his novel.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

Pompous Rhombus posted:

Kind of retarded and not really work-safe, but I still laughed.

Girls and books :allears:.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

Flaggy posted:

Does anyone use the online "swap" services for books? paperbackswap.com comes to mind and I know there are others. Are they worth it, or something to forget about.

I used bookmooch to get rid of all my old Star Wars books. I'd say it was worth it because I got rid of 30 or so mildly embarrassing books and ended up with a lot of good stuff.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

Pompous Rhombus posted:

I was going to try that with some duplicates/stuff I didn't like, but it seemed like everyone was willing to take my good books with an hour, but the waiting list for everything I wanted was like 20 people long.

If you want a few specific books, it's probably better just to buy it or go to the library, swap sites seem better for getting things off your "I heard this was kinda interesting" list.

With bookmooch, I ended up sending out about 20 books in the first week, then just kinda sat on the points and slowly snapped up good books when they appeared.

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

Hung Yuri posted:

Has anyone read "The Chronicles of the Black Company" or other books by Glen Cook?

I bought it on a whim and I'm kind of disappointed in his style of writing. It's sort of imaginative but its like he's jumping from one thought, as if he's abusing periods.

I picked up the first two books used; I only read the first one.

I really didn't like his style, the whole thing just seemed...flat. As if it were a low budget movie with bad acting.

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appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

El Axo Grande posted:

A friend recommended that book to me and so I stopped talking to him.

It also didn't help that he said modern fiction was not as good as what the comics industry was producing

What an idiot, obviously he should have said the video game industry.

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