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Commie NedFlanders posted:i absolutely loved Infinite Jest but i couldn't get through more than 10-20 pages at a time because it filled me with this half-anxious half-excited energy like coming up on a drug that made me want to throw the book on the ground and go for a jog While reading it (I'm about 1/4 of the way through), I was like "I bet the author killed himself" and then later I learned I was right.
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Applewhite posted:That's two Goons with Cormack McCarthy's The Road. Must be pretty good.
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Applewhite posted:That's two Goons with Cormack McCarthy's The Road. Must be pretty good. it is very good symbolic posted:no characterization of anyone a baffling takeaway
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im gaye posted:one must be a novelization of the movie based on the novel What a time to be alive!
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Mar 19, 2016 05:18
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I have an actual full OED
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Mar 19, 2016 05:18
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It's the compressed one (where every page is a photo of nine tiny pages) but still
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I got rid of all but my most treasured books a while ago for the sake of portability  Some day when I'm old and immobile I'll get that complete Yale Shakespeare where each play is its own little hardcover book.
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Mar 19, 2016 05:21
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Come on Commie NedFlanders, post your bookshelf. Don't be chicken. The big bad gov't doesn't care if you own a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook or something.
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Mar 19, 2016 05:22
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sheep goats is the best poster imo
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Mar 19, 2016 05:23
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Hector Beerlioz posted:so you put your books on the floor then i know what you mean. i have more of a book, uh, monument? 
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Mar 19, 2016 05:24
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The White Dragon posted:i know what you mean. i have more of a book, uh, monument? You gotta turn it so we can see the titles! Also what's the series down on the bottom left?
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Mar 19, 2016 05:25
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despite the tactile and mildly erotic pleasures of a paperbound text e-reader usability and quality is finally at a level where I'll just keep my library on this much less glamorous black rectangle and use the shelves for what their ultimate purpose was anyway, a display of my interests
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Shaquin posted:despite the tactile and mildly erotic pleasures of a paperbound text e-reader usability and quality is finally at a level where I'll just keep my library on this much less glamorous black rectangle and use the shelves for what their ultimate purpose was anyway, a display of my interests I have books on e-reader, too, but any book I'm really serious about, I try to get on paperback.
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Mar 19, 2016 05:27
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Applewhite posted:How are they on 4chan already I literally took them like half an hour ago? if im mistaken and you're committing to those being your books i just have to accept that you're a guy who has a hundred graphic novels and even all your normal books are like consistently the hardcover bright colors picture book prints and that is o k if you are happy, i will find a way to be glad for you
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Mar 19, 2016 05:28
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im gaye posted:a baffling takeaway for gently caress's sake there's one named character in the novel and it's not even his real name. there's certainly character DEVELOPMENT, but McCarthy doesn't describe what people look like, just "there is a man and there is a boy". besides, the lack of characterization helps the novel, since it gives you the feeling of "this could happen to anyone at anytime, including you".
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Applewhite posted:You gotta turn it so we can see the titles!  quote:Also what's the series down on the bottom left? i won't pretend that i read high literature, but i certainly read a lot
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Mar 19, 2016 05:30
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symbolic posted:i'm not necessarily wrong its a matter of semantics then
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extra stout posted:if im mistaken and you're committing to those being your books i just have to accept that you're a guy who has a hundred graphic novels and even all your normal books are like consistently the hardcover bright colors picture book prints Those are all my books. E: Not all of my books but the books pictured are all mine.
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The White Dragon posted:poo poo man if i did that it might fall Aw man I wanna read the How to Train Your Dragon books!
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im gaye posted:its a matter of semantics then
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symbolic posted:i suppose, depending on if you count character development as characterization. i personally don't. youre more correct than i am
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Mar 19, 2016 05:40
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I actually thought all this time I had a normal amount of graphic novels (for, you know, a nerd) and that when I posted them you guys were going to make fun of me for having so few.
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Mar 19, 2016 05:45
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Applewhite posted:I actually thought all this time I had a normal amount of graphic novels (for, you know, a nerd) and that when I posted them you guys were going to make fun of me for having so few. the secret is to get the good big ones (from hell, black hole) they blend in better  also seek out hardcovers Thirsty Girl fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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This is what I call my working shelf E: retook w flash so you can read the words raton fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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Sheep-Goats posted:This is what I call my working shelf SPACE DEMONS
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Sheep-Goats posted:This is what I call my working shelf What's pok pok?
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Sheep-Goats posted:This is what I call my working shelf quote:Songs of Innocence and of Experience 
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Mar 19, 2016 05:57
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Hector Beerlioz posted:What's pok pok? Really good Thai cookbook for people that want to make real Thai food but don't live in Thailand with great cultural notes about the nation its food its people Thais like onomatopoeia, "pok pok" is the word for the sound it makes when you use a big (usually wooden) mortar and pestle to either make curry paste or assemble a few distinctly Thai dishes.
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I have the complete color plates and an Erdman complete poetry and prose in my ark
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I wanna read BLOOD MERIDIAN
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im gaye posted:SPACE DEMONS I had to ask in the "ID a book thread" to locate that one again. I read it in sixth grade originally. It's about a computer game that if you beat the first level pulls you into the computer and you have to beat the game or die. The game is also basically learn by death so the stakes are really high!!!! I haven't reread it since getting it. That Battle Circle book is the most grade A schlock I can possibly imagine it's great.
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Applewhite posted:I actually thought all this time I had a normal amount of graphic novels (for, you know, a nerd) and that when I posted them you guys were going to make fun of me for having so few. i bought like 12 before i decided anymore and ill regret my life despite how easy it is to jump into a graphic novel i find i only reread my absolute favorites as often as i reread the entire lord of the rings, maybe i'm just getting old or not that into comics anymore Applewhite posted:I wanna read BLOOD MERIDIAN ask him for his extra copy hes a nice guy
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 I stained and varnished the bookcase myself. 
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Applewhite posted:I wanna read BLOOD MERIDIAN McCarthy is a little difficult to read and BM is his hardest book to read. I actually like Suttree a little more and it's easier so maybe read that first then do Blood. All the Pretty Horses is ok but real loving tame compared to the other two.
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Applewhite posted:I actually thought all this time I had a normal amount of graphic novels (for, you know, a nerd) and that when I posted them you guys were going to make fun of me for having so few. You really want to talk about the embarrassing amount of overlap we got going on here   
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extra stout posted:i bought like 12 before i decided anymore and ill regret my life I don't have an extra those other two are critical pieces on Blood
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gnarlyhotep posted:
looks pretty good i like that sweet huge old copy of the silmarillion though i think you need a copy of children of hurin next to it
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gnarlyhotep posted:
The books go at the front of the shelves not the back WTF
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gnarlyhotep posted:
I think you are the only other person besides me who has the Starship Titanic novel.
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gnarlyhotep posted:
i really wish i still had my copy of Catch-22 though. 
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