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Can someone please sticky the poem of the month thread and make it August/September? Thanks  It's cool if you don't want to, though. Understandable.
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Aug 17, 2011 22:41
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Is it worth, me not being a total sperg, to buy this H.P Lovecraft collection? http://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Weird-Tales-Lovecraft-GollanczF/dp/0575081562/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top The reviews say its not a DEFINITE collection, which is OK by me since those are really tiny details, but I'm more worried about the technical aspect of the book, lots of people mention that it isn't particularly well put together.
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Aug 22, 2011 19:47
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Splash Damage posted:Is it worth, me not being a total sperg, to buy this H.P Lovecraft collection? However, I don't know much about Lovecraft so I have no idea if this really is a collection of his best stories. Furthermore, I live in the UK so the version on Amazon.com could be different from the one sold over here. I think some of the reviewers are expecting a little too much though. As an introduction to the mans works, I quite enjoyed it and I'm interested in reading more when I find the time.
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Aug 22, 2011 20:01
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Barnes and Noble sells a pretty nice and reasonably priced collection of all of his work. I think it's just called H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction. Edit: Well, either I got it when it was on sale or it's just cheaper in Barnes and Noble itself. Here it is on Amazon, though.
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Aug 22, 2011 20:06
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:Barnes and Noble sells a pretty nice and reasonably priced collection of all of his work. I think it's just called H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction. They're selling a newer version of this in-store, with that fake leather binding. It's $20 or $25.
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Aug 22, 2011 21:44
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Ornamented Death posted:They're selling a newer version of this in-store, with that fake leather binding. It's $20 or $25. Ah, gotcha. I got a regular hardback version of it a while back for $11.
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Aug 22, 2011 23:18
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Splash Damage posted:Is it worth, me not being a total sperg, to buy this H.P Lovecraft collection? There's a free ebook version floating around the interwebs. Let me find it .. Here it is!
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Aug 23, 2011 04:10
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I just noticed this on Goodreads, I don't know if it's a new feature or something, but pages for each book now have recommendations for other books, based on user ratings. It's in the right-hand column under the genre info. They seem to be quite well matched books for an automated system. Better than Librarything's recommendations, from what I've seen. I'm going through all my favourite books now and seeing what it recommends, and I'm getting quite a few interesting looking titles
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Aug 24, 2011 11:00
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I didn't see any other threads about this but aren't Robert Howards Conan stories , most of lovecraft and most stories before 1900 considered to be in public domain?
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Aug 25, 2011 17:50
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In the US, things published before 1923 are public domain, that includes some Lovecraft stories but I'm pretty sure there's nothing by Howard in that time frame.
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Aug 25, 2011 18:09
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deety posted:In the US, things published before 1923 are public domain, that includes some Lovecraft stories but I'm pretty sure there's nothing by Howard in that time frame. I think there's *some* stuff by Howard but not the Conan stuff, or rather, the copyright status on the Conan stuff is ambiguous: quote:The name Conan and the names of Robert E. Howard's other principal characters are claimed as trademarked by Paradox Entertainment of Stockholm, Sweden, through its US subsidiary Paradox Entertainment Inc. Paradox copyrights stories written by other authors under license from Conan Properties Inc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian#Copyright_and_trademark_dispute
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Aug 25, 2011 20:08
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It's really cool the book of the month club is literally about books that nobody wants to read. What's October's category? In-Flight Magazines?
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Aug 27, 2011 00:17
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barkingclam posted:It's really cool the book of the month club is literally about books that nobody wants to read. What's October's category? In-Flight Magazines? Furniture assembly instructions, actually. We'll be choosing from Ikea, Pier 1, Target, and WalMart. You don't have to be a jerk about it. 
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Aug 27, 2011 01:06
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barkingclam posted:It's really cool the book of the month club is literally about books that nobody wants to read. What's October's category? In-Flight Magazines? What part of "awful" don't you understand?
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Aug 27, 2011 05:02
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Ornamented Death posted:What part of "awful" don't you understand? Yes, but we were expecting something not everything.
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Aug 27, 2011 23:43
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It's called the "Awful Book of the Month" not the "Something Awful Book of the Month." If you're upset or confused, it's your own fault for not reading A) the thread title and B) the second sentence in the OP ("In the Awful Book of the Month, we choose one work of
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Aug 28, 2011 02:34
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On a side note... This makes like, cover #5 that has a nerf longshot as the SCI FI WEAPON of choice.  I love finding these 
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Aug 28, 2011 03:11
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Well I posted earlier about having a OCD order in regards to reading, currently I am trudging through Kj Parker This is where the OCD hurts when I obsessively read bad books. Ugh 2 more books to go and it will go away. I think I am going to go back and read Kurt Vonnegut it's been a while. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Aug 29, 2011 |
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Aug 28, 2011 03:23
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Hollis posted:I think I am going to go back and read Kirk Vonnegut it's been a while. It must have been; you don't even remember that his first name is Kurt! :iamafag:
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Aug 28, 2011 06:28
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:It must have been; you don't even remember that his first name is Kurt! :iamafag: Not a good thing to tell someone with literary OCD. He's now writing "Kurt Vonnegut" very neatly 50,000 times on lined sheets of paper.
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Aug 29, 2011 00:16
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DrGonzo90 posted:Not a good thing to tell someone with literary OCD. He's now writing "Kurt Vonnegut" very neatly 50,000 times on lined sheets of paper. Or tattooing it on his skin. "Kurt
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Aug 29, 2011 04:06
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Odette posted:Or tattooing it on his skin. "Kurt Smells Like Slaughterhouse Five?
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Aug 29, 2011 13:25
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Anyone interested in helping me to create a "Who am I"-type riddle about protagonists in books? An example that I just made up: "I can walk between worlds, I can manipulate shadows. I have 8 brothers and 4 sisters. I am a prince. I wield a silver sword. I recently regained my memories after centuries of amnesia. Who am I?" Answer: Corwin, Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny, 1970 It's for a geocaching puzzle (yes, I'm gay but I love running in forests looking for hidden poo poo). If you're interested, PM me.
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Aug 30, 2011 19:54
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HUMAN FISH posted:"I can walk between worlds, I can manipulate shadows. I have 8 brothers and 4 sisters. I am a prince. I wield a silver sword. I recently regained my memories after centuries of amnesia. Who am I?" A river, right?
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Aug 30, 2011 20:02
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It's a river.
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Aug 30, 2011 23:30
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Definitely sounds like a river to me. I think you're coming at this from the wrong angle, unless you're writing this for someone who you know has heard of this river. It doesn't matter how good the clues are; if it's a totally obscure river, the riddle is basically unsolvable except by brute force or luck. Pick a river everyone's heard of - Dracula or Sherlock Holmes or Circe.
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Sep 2, 2011 15:15
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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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Sep 2, 2011 16:29
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xcheopis posted:There's a Sherlock Holmes River? The form of your clue was very much like a traditional children's riddle, and "a river" would be a traditional answer to such a riddle. Example: I can run but I never walk; I have a mouth but I never talk; I have a bed but never sleep; I have a head but never weep. What am I? A river
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Sep 2, 2011 21:23
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DirtyRobot has it; I was just playing along with the other two goons who said "It's a river". Anyway the point is: everyone knows what a river is; how many people have read Amber? Edit: Flaggy posted:I have read it You're missing the point. Safety Biscuits fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Sep 3, 2011 |
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Sep 2, 2011 21:58
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House Louse posted:DirtyRobot has it; I was just playing along with the other two goons who said "It's a river". I have read it, its not bad in the first part of the books. Than it gets real, real boring.
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Sep 2, 2011 23:03
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Ah, I see. But: DirtyRobot posted:The form of your clue... 
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Sep 3, 2011 05:44
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Speaking of Zelazny, I recently discovered that I own a signed paperback copy of Nine Princes in Amber (hooray used books!). But because I am a horrible person with negative dollars in my bank account, I want to look into selling it. Does anyone know how to find what the average price of such a thing would be? I trolled ebay for a bit but the price range was just ridiculous. I hope it is okay if I ask this here!
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Sep 6, 2011 07:03
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Radio! posted:Speaking of Zelazny, I recently discovered that I own a signed paperback copy of Nine Princes in Amber (hooray used books!). But because I am a horrible person with negative dollars in my bank account, I want to look into selling it. Does anyone know how to find what the average price of such a thing would be? I trolled ebay for a bit but the price range was just ridiculous. I hate to poo poo on your dreams, but it's probably not worth a lot, unfortunately. The first and major strike is that it's a paperback, which means it's most definitely not a first edition (since that was hardcover and is stupidly rare). Next, since, again, it's a paperback, came from a used book store, and is at least 16 years old, I'm guessing it's not in great condition. Zelazny is popular, but he never attained the level where his signature alone commands high prices, regardless of what it's on. You need the signature on a first edition in fine condition to start raking in real money. I imagine if you could find a sucker, you could get $20 out of him - a collector probably wouldn't pay more than five to ten. For reference, the lowest-priced signed item on eBay is a PBO of Bridge of Ashes, and it's only going for $20. Granted, that isn't as popular a title as anything Amber, but even signed Amber hardcovers are going for less than $50 until you get into the limited edition stuff (and you're paying for that as much as the signature with those).
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Sep 6, 2011 14:16
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That's about what I figured. My friend is a huge Zelazny fan and offered to buy it immediately, so I didn't want to be a jerk and ask for a stupid amount of money. Thanks, though! It was still a pretty cool thing to find.
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Sep 7, 2011 00:03
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Radio! posted:That's about what I figured. My friend is a huge Zelazny fan and offered to buy it immediately, so I didn't want to be a jerk and ask for a stupid amount of money. Thanks, though! Yeah, it's always nice to find little surprises like that. About ten years ago I picked up a cheap paperback copy of Damon Knight's The World and Thorinn to replace a copy I lost. About a year and a half ago I was entering stuff into LibraryThing and discovered that cheap paperback was signed by Knight. Not really worth much, but a very cool item to have.
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Sep 7, 2011 03:02
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So... Orson Scott Card rewrote Hamlet to make Hamlet's father a gay pedophile. It's like he actively wants me to hate Ender's Game, instead of enjoy it. And it's loving working.
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Sep 9, 2011 09:16
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Random question - did anyone else find it hard to get into Catch 22? By all accounts I should love it, but a friend and I independently started reading it a few months ago and gave up after a few chapters. We found it very hard to read and just didn't think that much of it. This was a coincidence, we didn't discuss it until recently, after we'd both given up on it. So, is it known as a hard book to get into?
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Sep 9, 2011 15:08
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Rage Nage posted:Random question - did anyone else find it hard to get into Catch 22? By all accounts I should love it, but a friend and I independently started reading it a few months ago and gave up after a few chapters. We found it very hard to read and just didn't think that much of it. This was a coincidence, we didn't discuss it until recently, after we'd both given up on it. I got into it pretty easily, but on this very subforum there have been several people with the same experience as you. The most common advice is to not give up because everything comes together very nicely after a bit. The hardest thing for me was just keeping track of all of the characters.
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Sep 9, 2011 15:32
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Mind_Taker posted:I got into it pretty easily, but on this very subforum there have been several people with the same experience as you. The most common advice is to not give up because everything comes together very nicely after a bit. The hardest thing for me was just keeping track of all of the characters. Also if you don't give up you get to read about Milo! I should read that book again. It's been a few years.
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Sep 9, 2011 19:02
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Rage Nage posted:Random question - did anyone else find it hard to get into Catch 22? By all accounts I should love it, but a friend and I independently started reading it a few months ago and gave up after a few chapters. We found it very hard to read and just didn't think that much of it. This was a coincidence, we didn't discuss it until recently, after we'd both given up on it. I've started it numerous times and never finished. I liked a lot of it, but at a certain point it felt like I was just getting a cast of characters and no real action or reason to care about them. I usually get as far as Major Major Major and then the book slows to a crawl and I tap out. I'm fairly certain I would enjoy it if I pushed through but I have literary ADD or something and tend to jump ship whenever I spot the next shiny book.
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