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Juanito posted:Now I generally use any random piece of paper that I can find as a bookmark. Until I got my kindle, I used the sales receipt. Gravy Jones posted:The bookmark icon on my Sony Reader is a folded over corner. You philistine. 
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therattle posted:leave the bookmark where it was and continue reading from there? Doesn't seem too tricky. When I was in grade school and the teacher would read to us, I always thought she moved the bookmark to the end of where she meant to read. It confused the hell out of me when she got far enough in the book to move it earlier than she started.
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Hughmoris posted:I need help identifying a story. There's a thread for that, which I can't blame you for not noticing because it's fallen to the middle of page 2. 
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The Puppet Master posted:How would you guys feel about a Drama megathread of sorts? For a second there I thought you were looking for E/N.
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Van Dis posted:This forum has terrible taste but here goes nothing. I think it only appears that way. What people are going to discuss on an internet forum they use for recreation is going to give a skewed impression, because who the hell wants to talk about the poo poo they read in lit class when they get home?
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McCaine posted:Are you nuts? If everything weren't swamped with 50 page bullshit about bad fantasy novels people could perhaps discuss something actually worthwhile? Well why are we swamped with such things? I imagine it's mighty discouraging when you're looking to discuss War & Peace and only get a couple replies while the grrm thread is clocking a couple hundred a day. Especially when those replies are poo poo posting trolls. People have different tastes, and it's not surprising that there are popular convergence points like grrm.
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Mr. Fun posted:What is this supposed to mean? Pretty much this: Grum posted:there's no real way to explain TBB's popular topics without acknowledging that SA is primarily a forum full of nerds And nerds like stuff like grrm.
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People need to read the books of the month and post in those threads. Just sayin'. 
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appropriatemetaphor posted:It's all the big summer of Proust and GRRRMMM reread threads' faults. One of the books (there's two this month!) is a really short but awesome read. I finished it in a day, and I read slow. Plus I hear it's online: http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/BlindOwl/blindowl.html
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Goodreads is nice, but it seems to work best for individuals. The communities are a little difficult to manage. Or maybe I'm just anti-social.
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deety posted:a bookseller stocking themselves through the swap That sounds like a really lovely thing to do, making money off it. On top of never giving anything back.
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I need ideas for the book of the month poll I'm planning on posting tomorrow, por favor.
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7 y.o. bitch posted:The Good Soldier Svejk There has to be a freebie version somewhere, someone find it.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I think the best way to read Gravity's Rainbow for the first time is just to give up on trying to make sense of it and let it wash over you. Just keep swimming! That's how I tackled it. Also it helps to cast John Ritter as Slothrop.
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Checkered Slacks posted:Is there a list somewhere of all the previous books of the month from the book club? I quit posting ALL of them in the monthly post because it was just getting too long, but for the people without archives, here's the full list (2009 and the year so far are in the current post): 2006: May: "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift. June: "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut. July: "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote August: "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez September: "The Stranger" by Albert Camus October: "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman", By Richard Feynman November: "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger December: "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Wilde) and "Memories of my Melancholy Whores" (Marquez) 2007: January: "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky February: "The Plague" by Albert Camus March: "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck April: "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami May: "Notes from Underground" By Fyodor Dostoyevsky June: "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco July/August: "Infinte Jest" by David Foster Wallace September: "Love in the time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez October: "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski November: "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie December: "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson 2008: January: "Blindness" by Jose Saramago Febuary: "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut March: "Lolita", by Vladimir Nabokov April: "Babbit" by Sinclair Lewis/"The Windup Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami May: "Post Office", by Charles Bukowski June/July: "Mein Kampf", by Adolf Hitler July: "The Prince", by Niccolò Machiavelli August: "A Confederacy of Dunces", by John Kennedy Toole September: "VALIS", by Philip K. Dick October/November: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid December: The Hound of the Baskervilles
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If you're not reading this month's book, you're missing out.
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I've seen it a couple times. Well, once really, because the other time was an actual "signing", but that was a local genre author. The other time was some nicely dressed young man handing me a flier for his book, power-sell style. Not too common I suppose, but it does happen.
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Need some book of the month suggestions. So far I've got Ragged Dick and Super Fetus, so weird titles I guess.
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maxnmona posted:Lick around the Outside of my Anus and also on the Inside of my Anus by Nietzsche Oh come on, that's Wittgenstein.
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The Machine posted:Carrie - Stephen King Haven't read the Diamond Age, but Perdido was pretty lame. Carrie will make a nice appetizer, and Cuckoo's Nest is loving brilliant. Swap it with Perdido if you want to save the best for last.
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Parker Lewis posted:What would you do? The past couple years I've been slotting in other books to avoid reading a series all in one go.
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My copy of the Communist Manifesto is 75% prefaces from various editions.
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Ok, what sort of theme should I go for in the poll for next month? I'm trying to think of stuff, and I like that Booker list thing.
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Yeah, people always bitch about all the threads being grrm and sci-fi, but no one ever makes a thread for "real" literature. Well, one that's serious and doesn't belong in EW.
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Underflow posted:If your target author is of the very senior kind, you could do what Martin Amis did; take a third (hardcover) book along to be signed "To my dear, dear friend Keith Richards and all the stories we shouldn't tell". Wait a few years till both are dead and hit eBay. Keith Richards died years ago, but he's never gonna stop rockin'.
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Ornamented Death posted:That said, I silently judge people that bring paperbacks (unless paperback is the only edition) because I'm kind of a dick. The only time I've ever gotten something signed by the author it was a paperback. But it was a sorta-local's genre novel and the guy just happened to be there. (The book was decent, but nothing spectacular.)
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Underflow posted:That li'l bitch with the acid tongue has something going right now at http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3348309, no? Or isn't that what this is about? No, there was a "Book Barn Hall of Fame" awhile ago. I'll try to find and resurrect it when I get some time. (Hopefully soonish.)
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Well, here it is (archives required). Looks like it was a reaction to the rash of recommendation threads, and we've got a "megathread" for those now.
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Dr Scoofles posted:Is this subforum the place for literary student chat We could use more of that, so yes.
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7 y.o. bitch posted:you could always use the HIGH LEVEL thread, thats where i'll be postin bout whatev im reading for classes I'm seriously considering putting a "grammar and punctuation counts" clause in the rules. Seriously. 
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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.
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Bukowski owns, and if you don't think so you're a horrible and elitist dork. Ok I've never read his poetry, but his novels are awesome drunkass rambling fun.
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Bukowski was the Tucker Max of his generation, only he didn't suck.
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So what sort of theme should we have for BotM nominations for January?
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How about mentally unbalanced poets? And yeah, I'd need suggestions because honestly poetry really isn't my thing.
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I figure Byron's a given, but what do I know?
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car dance posted:Nevermind, actually found the right thread to ask this in. Dammit, now I gotta know.
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Wanted to call attention to some new (to TBB) thread tags:   , and separate  and  tags. So if you were refraining from posting cuz there wasn't a tag appropriate hopefully there's a little less pressure now!
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I like this poem idea, and yeah you definitely don't want me picking them.
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maxnmona posted:I can't wait for this http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Year-Fell-Love-Went/dp/0805093230/ I just can't get myself to pre-order something that will be shipped instantly.
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