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CapitalistPig posted:Fantasy I'm p sure
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That's definitely not it, the male wizard was the main character, it may have described him as mage or sorcerer or some kind of other magic man word. It was a super long time ago so I'm not sure.
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Sep 5, 2015 02:20
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This conversation has reminded me of a book I read in grade 4 called Z for Zachariah, which is something I've only really half remembered. I just remembered the title and the fact that it was about a young teenage girl living in this valley after a nuclear fallout until this guy shows up and tries to be really dominant towards her and tries to rape her talking about restarting the species. It really freaked me out reading this as a kid. Then it turns out that not only is there a movie, but it was released only a few days ago, but looking at the trailer it looks like they changed the plot a whole bunch.
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Sep 5, 2015 02:41
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Sep 5, 2015 02:56
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I'm having trouble with google. Someone linked me the FOE song and now I'm trying to remember that one anime dancing song where the girl counts really fast and runs back and forth and I think speaks in german for a bit. Help me anime nerds.
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Sep 5, 2015 02:58
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Asiina posted:I'm having trouble with google. Someone linked me the FOE song and now I'm trying to remember that one anime dancing song where the girl counts really fast and runs back and forth and I think speaks in german for a bit. Marisa Stole the Precious Thing e: I should probably be concerned I haven't seen that video in years and knew it right away when you described it
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Sep 5, 2015 03:03
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Lumpen posted:Someone tell me an awesome book to read. Obviously I always bring up One Hundred Years of Solitude. I also love the Alice books, In Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass. I think I keep going back to Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes because I must also really like it. Gonna second the Saramago. I haven't read Blindness though we have it at home in French, I tend to read it in Spanish because Portuguese is tough enough without involving his writing style. I have read The Elephant's Journey, which is fun and slightly light-hearted, Cain one of his last books, it's a bit too critical on religion to the point of preachiness and it loses steam half-way through but it has some fun bits, and The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, which is a bit of a slog early on due to it's unsubtle preachiness, but the third to last chapter, iirc, is a loving masterpiece of writing and the reason the book the exists. It's one of the finest bits of writing I've read in years. I also read Moby Dick this year and it was delightful.
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Sep 5, 2015 03:29
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Kashuno posted:Marisa Stole the Precious Thing Yes that is exactly it. Have this other extremely old video in payment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbMN7LV4NyE
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Sep 5, 2015 03:31
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Obviously I always bring up One Hundred Years of Solitude. I also love the Alice books, In Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass. I think I keep going back to Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes because I must also really like it. I like reading your takes on things, 100. I'll check some of these out!
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Sep 5, 2015 03:34
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Also this one cause it's just as good as the first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcT7eijRbaI
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Sep 5, 2015 03:36
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Who is everybody's favorite author that they feel nobody else has heard of? I discovered Walter Moers last year and his books are incredibly charming and fun. They have this incredible whimsy to them that is very sweet. Also everybody has heard of him, but Anthony Burgess is incredibly underappreciated. Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece, but most of the rest of his stuff is very, very good as well. Check out Nothing Like The Sun for some great writing!
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Sep 5, 2015 03:37
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I don't hear people talk about James Joyce very often. I enjoyed Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses but I don't find a ton of other people who've read them. Those videos are weird Asiina
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Sep 5, 2015 03:39
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CCKeane posted:I like reading your takes on things, 100. I'll check some of these out! Thanks! It helps to give reasons to people for books when you work at library. It's always such a treat to help people get books. The other day I got a woman to take A Confederacy of Dunces and I recommended to another one Remains of the Days and The Elephant Vanishes. I a hit with our older female patrons actually. It must be my accent. Tell me if you read The Gospel because I can gush about that passage for hours and it's brilliant. It had been a long time since I had just needed to turn the pages and was compulsively fingering the sheets of paper as my eyes dashed over the words hungry to know what was going to be said. It's so good. Someone should make a play out of that chapter. Or a movie or anything.
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Sep 5, 2015 03:40
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Sep 5, 2015 03:40
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Lumpen posted:What are your 5 favorite books of all time? Malazan Book of the Fallen series, by Steven Erikson - hardcore epic fantasy series written by an archaeologist/anthropologist by trade, so there's a ton of history going back several centuries and escalating tiers of badasses Vlad Taltos series, by Steven Brust - wizard assassin in a fantasy Mafia, follows the Rule of Cool all the way through and is very enjoyable and accessible Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon - tough call between this and Gravity's Rainbow, but I can reread IV in a weekend and it's an LA story so it wins House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski - nontraditional page layouts and a story within a story, great take on the postmodern style Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace - a great take on modern living, excellent writing all the way and one of the few books I've read where you could really feel what the author was thinking all the way through
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Sep 5, 2015 03:41
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I don't want to commit to favorite authors or top five books or anything right now but two things I've read in the last week that I really enjoyed are Dry by Augusten Burroughs (a reread - I forgot about it for years and found it while moving) and Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (I had ~90 minutes to kill between the end of work and my weekly bar trivia thing and by the time I had to go I was hooked) "Nobody else has heard of" is a big overstatement, but a long time ago I went through a big Donald Westlake Dortmunder series phase and I've never heard anyone outside of my parents mention him. The Hot Rock is a really good movie adaptation with Robert Redford, What's the Worst that Can Happen? is a...movie adaptation.
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Sep 5, 2015 03:52
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Ernie. posted:can someone explain phillip k dick to me? Although Counter-Clock World was hot garbage but not in the way you describe, it was just a half baked premise that was basically ancillary to a really dumb plot.
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Sep 5, 2015 05:56
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i cant believe we are losing dinklebot and getting nolanbot
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Sep 5, 2015 05:58
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I really liked Dinklebot. He was just detached enough to sound robotic while still giving a decent performance.
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Sep 5, 2015 06:47
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Sep 5, 2015 06:59
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The Ninth Layer posted:Malazan Book of the Fallen series, by Steven Erikson - hardcore epic fantasy series written by an archaeologist/anthropologist by trade, so there's a ton of history going back several centuries and escalating tiers of badasses We like very similar books, TNL. I'm reading I don't know how I wrote Inherent Vice when I was thinking Infinite Jest. They have very similar names! George Kansas fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Sep 5, 2015 |
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Sep 5, 2015 07:39
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Catch-22 and 4 animorphs 3 Tobias ones and the first crayak one which I think stars marco
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Sep 5, 2015 07:40
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Last night I danced underneath a giant robot spider that was on fire also there were octopus men It was awesome
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Sep 5, 2015 12:17
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Rarity posted:Last night I danced underneath a giant robot spider that was on fire also there were octopus men Were you dancing inside Final Fantasy 8?
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Sep 5, 2015 13:08
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BottleKnight posted:Were you dancing inside Final Fantasy 8? Time did definitely feel compressed!
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Sep 5, 2015 13:17
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Rarity posted:Last night I danced underneath a giant robot spider that was on fire also there were octopus men Bristol Arcadia?
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Sep 5, 2015 13:31
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Dugong posted:Bristol Arcadia? Yep!
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Sep 5, 2015 14:11
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Rarity posted:Yep! Ah fun I've finally sorted a place out in London and I'm moving in on Monday. I've seen some great plays so far and I'm gunna book some gig tickets this weekend.
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Sep 5, 2015 14:22
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I missed book chat! My favorite books are: The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck Oblivion by David Foster Wallace Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Sep 5, 2015 14:37
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Rarity posted:Last night I danced underneath a giant robot spider that was on fire also there were octopus men Rarity posted:Time did definitely feel compressed! I just looked up Bristol Arcadia, that sounds like a total blast  
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Sep 5, 2015 15:43
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Sep 5, 2015 16:17
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QuoProQuid posted:My favorite books: [list] I haven't read it but I thought for years it was called "The Master and the Margarita" and was about a dude that just loved his iced alcoholic drinks. QuoProQuid posted:Books I Regret Reading:[list] This sounds precious. Her crap is one of the more popular things in public libraries it seems. I think my secret shame is having read Infinite Jest and not having either not enjoyed it or not understood it. I think I bring this up every time we do bookchat. I'd prefer to think I didn't understand it because, if I did that means that I just didn't really care for it. Unfortunately because it's so long I really won't be re-reading it for many years to come if ever. For a book that's in many ways 3 books in one I did enjoy the passages about AA. The tennis and the international intrigue didn't much do it for me in the end.
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Sep 5, 2015 16:28
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Quid there's a liberal Christian blog called Slacktivist that deconstructs Left Behind and points out the glaring theological flaws in it. It's brilliant and you should check it out.
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Sep 5, 2015 17:07
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100YrsofAttitude posted:I think my secret shame is having read Infinite Jest and not having either not enjoyed it or not understood it. I think I bring this up every time we do bookchat. I'd prefer to think I didn't understand it because, if I did that means that I just didn't really care for it. Unfortunately because it's so long I really won't be re-reading it for many years to come if ever. For a book that's in many ways 3 books in one I did enjoy the passages about AA. The tennis and the international intrigue didn't much do it for me in the end. Part of the book is that way too much is going on to follow in a single read and it is a book meant to be reread, but if you didn't really get much out of it round one, yeah you probably just don't like it. I really like it but it definitely doesn't resonate with everyone and it is amusing you feel like you should like it.
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My favorite books change a lot. Maybe today there are... Candide by Voltaire Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins Mythology by Edith Hamilton Honorable mentions: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, Will Grayson/Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by some lady. Books I Regret Reading I despise books that are wordy for the sake of being wordy. Anything by Anne Rice fits this bill. I also hated The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Frankenstein, and Atlas Shrugged for this same reason. Also Atlas Shrugged is evil. Wuthering Heights is also guilty of this but has a really hosed up and interesting story underneath so I give it a pass. The Hobbit is fantasy and needs that flowery language.
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Sep 5, 2015 17:44
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just kidding best rear end books nintendo power egm wizard magazine spider-man #1 wolverine (picture book_ worst rear end bnooks yearbook
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Sep 5, 2015 17:45
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I like Infinite Jest but have started taking note summaries of each chapter after I finish it. Not because it's hard to read but just because of the bulkiness of the prose. I started reading on ebook before I had to switch to paperback just because of stuff like footnotes and referring back to previous chapters.
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Sep 5, 2015 17:58
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Little Mac posted:Books I Regret Reading #noragrets I read over a hundred books in this series as a kid
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Sep 5, 2015 18:01
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I think the only book I've ever really regretted reading in its entirety was Unwind, cause it was not only dumb but made me feel ill with some of the stuff that happened in the ending. With books if I don't like it I'll just stop reading it, so I don't really regret it.
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There are billions of books out there. If you're out of school and not required to read any particular book, why would you read it if you don't like it?
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