|
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.
|
# ¿ Mar 27, 2010 10:07 |
|
|
# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 23:29 |
|
therattle posted:Or at all! 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.
|
# ¿ May 11, 2010 19:56 |
|
The banner ad for the re-read thread is amazing.
|
# ¿ May 21, 2010 19:23 |
|
LooseChanj posted:People need to read the books of the month and post in those threads. It's all the big summer of Proust and GRRRMMM reread threads' faults.
|
# ¿ Jun 4, 2010 10:40 |
|
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.
|
# ¿ Jun 8, 2010 00:59 |
|
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.
|
# ¿ Jun 26, 2010 03:55 |
|
Y-Hat posted:Surprise surprise, Orson Scott Card is homophobic for religious reasons. 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.
|
# ¿ Jul 9, 2010 22:54 |
|
fritz posted:An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Here's a nice little article about Bierce: http://www.thenation.com/article/36576/bierced
|
# ¿ Jul 12, 2010 10:34 |
|
drat poysky closed his thread. I wanted to read more of his novel.
|
# ¿ Aug 11, 2010 07:58 |
|
Pompous Rhombus posted:Kind of retarded and not really work-safe, but I still laughed. Girls and books .
|
# ¿ Aug 18, 2010 04:23 |
|
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.
|
# ¿ Aug 24, 2010 21:43 |
|
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.
|
# ¿ Aug 25, 2010 00:08 |
|
Hung Yuri posted:Has anyone read "The Chronicles of the Black Company" or other books by Glen Cook? 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.
|
# ¿ Aug 26, 2010 05:35 |
|
|
# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 23:29 |
|
El Axo Grande posted:A friend recommended that book to me and so I stopped talking to him. What an idiot, obviously he should have said the video game industry.
|
# ¿ Oct 13, 2010 05:14 |