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Stravinsky posted:I will be staying warm thanks to my copious collection of books I have haphazardly laying around my floor during the postapoclyptic end days while you guys can enjoy choking on the fumes of burning plastic and electronics You are gonna break your glasses lol
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Mel have you read City on Fire yet? I just got it from Half Price Books for $14
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blue squares posted:Mel have you read City on Fire yet? I just got it from Half Price Books for $14 I have it but it's on the backlog. I am gonna try to power through it and A Little Life during Christmas.
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Would there be any interest in an Occult/Theosophy/Hermeticism thread if I were to make one?
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Would there be any interest in an Occult/Theosophy/Hermeticism thread if I were to make one? Yes
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Would there be any interest in an Occult/Theosophy/Hermeticism thread if I were to make one? definitely
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Barnes and Noble is doing a thing where they sell signed books by famous authors. I read the list of authors, which was broken down by like, "best-selling mystery authors", "award-winning authors" etc, but there was no "paperback sci-fi trash authors" so I don't give a poo poo
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I started reading How The White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back. It starts off with her still dating the terrible cop, it goes through a quick tour of all the other potential romantic interests, and then she breaks up with the cop. If she ends up with anybody other than Nick, I'm gonna be pissed. All the other guys are all bound up in the retarded zombie plot, which is the worst part of the series. I don't give a poo poo about evil corporations and zombies, and clone zombies or whatever. But Angel starting a romance with the coworker that she at first thought was a dick, but then slowly realized is also somewhat nice but is still a dick would be fun to read.
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boom boom boom posted:Barnes and Noble is doing a thing where they sell signed books by famous authors. I read the list of authors, which was broken down by like, "best-selling mystery authors", "award-winning authors" etc, but there was no "paperback sci-fi trash authors" so I don't give a poo poo I would totally buy a signed copy of Roadside Picnic
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Hi. Can somebody help me. Im looking for books similar to James B Stewarts DisneyWar or Lawrence Wrights Going Clear. Exposes basically. I remember there being a similar book about Sony Pictures but i cant remember the name? Any other suggestions?
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TheCool69 posted:Hi. Can somebody help me. Im looking for books similar to James B Stewarts DisneyWar or Lawrence Wrights Going Clear. Exposes basically. The Informant, Kurt Eichenwald, about the mid-1990s international conspiracy lead by the American company Archer Daniels Midland to fix the prices of lysine and citric acid.
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TheCool69 posted:Hi. Can somebody help me. Im looking for books similar to James B Stewarts DisneyWar or Lawrence Wrights Going Clear. Exposes basically. Crash Course by Paul Ingrassia is an easy read. It's about the rise and fall of Detroit's big three.
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Nov 20, 2015 03:56
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City on Fire, so far, is extremely good.
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blue squares posted:City on Fire, so far, is extremely good. Saving it for break but glad to hear it Doing Tram 83 right now which is also p. good
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boom boom boom posted:Barnes and Noble is doing a thing where they sell signed books by famous authors. I read the list of authors, which was broken down by like, "best-selling mystery authors", "award-winning authors" etc, but there was no "paperback sci-fi trash authors" so I don't give a poo poo do u like books about war
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boom boom boom posted:I started reading How The White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back. Those are all words, and I'm sure they probably form coherent thoughts, but this post reminded me of when my coworkers suddenly start talking about the latest Coronation Street episode.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:do u like books about war Only if they take place in a specific millennium in which war is the only thing people have going on.
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Did you ever find that book you were looking for where the main character and his numerous descendants had a strange colour of pee?
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Nov 22, 2015 01:48
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Enfys posted:Did you ever find that book you were looking for where the main character and his numerous descendants had a strange colour of pee? Unfortunately not. I didn't ask about it anywhere but here tho. Does anybody know a good place to talk about obscure feminist sci-fi?
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How do you guys decide what books to cull when you need to? I have like 7-800 books now and it's getting loving ridiculous. Especially as I just moved in with my boyfriend who has at least half that himself. I can get rid of crappy paperback novels and get the kindle edition, but my hoarder instinct kicks in for anything I bought in hardcover or spent more than $10 on in the last few years.
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Hedrigall posted:How do you guys decide what books to cull when you need to? I did (and am still doing) this. Keep anything that was hard to find, or makes you happy when you pick it up. If you still have too many books, up your happiness requirement.
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Hedrigall posted:How do you guys decide what books to cull when you need to? Something that made it easier was finding good homes for the books that I really liked (but didn't need to keep). I gave lots of books to family, and a few friends. Only when I knew that they'd appreciate it, and if I thought they'd enjoy it. I enjoyed doing this. Another thing that helped me to detach was to remind myself that I could easily purchase a copy of the book again the future if and when I decide I want to read it again. It's hard to do this when you're attached to your books, but ultimately it's true with most. I kept some books that I know I couldn't repurchase, some old books that have sentimental value, and some things that are harder to get (for me, treasure hunting books). I was able to cull my collection from over 400 books to less than 50, that fit in the space of a small Uhaul box, and a shoebox. I was able to sell some in the forums here, to recover a bit of money. But I ended up donating a bunch to the library. Now that that whole painful process is over with, I'm very happy that I did it.
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Cool, that's quite a big reduction! My initial goal is to choose 50 to get rid of by February — that's when my city's next big charity book fair is. Then after that, I'm gonna see if I can keep culling.
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Hedrigall posted:How do you guys decide what books to cull when you need to? My goal in culling was to move from several hundred physical books to a collection that was mostly e-books, largely because of storage issues, but also because the superior usability of the Kindle meant that I was reading fewer and fewer of my physical books. The first thing I did was write down my "must keep" criteria before looking at any of my books, so that I wouldn't find myself expanding my must-keep criteria for certain books. What I finally decided on was this list.
Then I stripped all my bookshelves and emptied all my boxes and piled all my books on the floor. I went through the pile and anything that met the must-keep criteria went onto a shelf. Anything that met must-cull went into the cull pile. Anything that met both criteria went into the cull pile. None of my books were literally irreplaceable and the cull criteria were such that if a book met them I wasn't going to re-read that copy of the book anyways. I had about 500ish books when I started. After this first cull phase I had maybe 30-40 on the shelf and maybe 100 in the cull pile. Then I went through the unsorted pile with the goal of culling the entire pile. After all, the goal was to reduce my huge collection to a manageable size, not to reduce an unmanageable collection to a slightly-smaller-yet-still-unmanageable one, and 400ish books are no more manageable than 500ish.
In the end, I ended up with maybe 50-60 books on my bookshelf and a gigantic cull pile. I kept out a few of the cull books which were both good books and in good shape, with the thought of selling/donating them. Stephenson's Anathema and Baroque Cycle. That kind of thing. Maybe 20 books. The vast majority of the books, however, went into the recycling dumpster that very day. After all, "I'll sell these books later or wait for the library to do a book sale and donate them, because books are precious and cannot be thrown out" bullshit was how I ended up with 500 loving books and zero storage space. You don't get more than pennies on the dollar from selling used books and not all of those books would have sold. I decided that I was willing to sacrifice that potential income to get rid of the books immediately and certainly and without the risk of later deciding that maybe I'd keep them after all. I'm much happier with the state of things after the cull, it was totally worth it, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Oh, and those 20 books I saved to donate? That was almost 2 years ago and they're still sitting on my loving bookshelf.
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Khizan posted:[*]Anything I was iffy about, I priced on the Kindle. If the book was $10 or less I got rid of it, on the grounds that the Kindle copy was affordable if I REALLY wanted to re-read it. The same goes for books that you know you can find at the library.
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Books don't come in series do they. Thats TV
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I got rid of most of my paperbacks and book club editions some years ago. I posted a bunch on here and sold a bit of it; the rest went to a local used book store - even with the relatively low trade-in values offered and making several visits a year to see if anything interesting has come in, I'm still sitting on like $300 of credit.
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Khizan posted:The vast majority of the books, however, went into the recycling dumpster that very day. After all, "I'll sell these books later or wait for the library to do a book sale and donate them, because books are precious and cannot be thrown out" bullshit was how I ended up with 500 loving books and zero storage space. I was with you with all the book-culling, but this bit hurt me. Books are precious, if not to you then to somebody, somewhere. Is having to wait for a sale before you donate the only option where you are? Here in Australia, nearly every city/town has a charity shop like Lifeline who take donations all year round. They sell anything they get in their stores, and consolidate stuff every few months for massive book fairs in capital cities. I dunno, I just think books should go anywhere else before the recycling bin, unless they really are damaged beyond usability.
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Hedrigall posted:I was with you with all the book-culling, but this bit hurt me. Books are precious, if not to you then to somebody, somewhere. This attitude sounds romantic but is really just silly given the enormous number of absolute garbage books that are produced in massive quantities and are still floating around out there. If you are talking about something like novels or history or philosophy or cookbooks, sure, those are all still useful to someone as long as the book is in good condition. The thousands and thousands and thousands of copies of obsolete business books, political screeds, y2k preparedness guides, ghost written celeb memoirs, stuff often purchased in bulk by colleagues of the author and given away for free at businesses conferences and political rallies or press events... there's nothing remotely "precious" about those, even if some of them might be mildly entertaining for a minute. Let alone something like a phonebook, which is still produced in massive numbers. A book in and of itself is not some sacred special object, it's just a carrier of information. I can understand why a specific book might have special meaning for someone of course but the medium in and of itself is no more "precious" than a candy wrapper.
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Hedrigall posted:I was with you with all the book-culling, but this bit hurt me. Books are precious, if not to you then to somebody, somewhere. If you live in America, Goodwill is a good choice. But if there's any mold on a book, just toss it now.
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Hedrigall posted:Is having to wait for a sale before you donate the only option where you are? Here in Australia, nearly every city/town has a charity shop like Lifeline who take donations all year round. They sell anything they get in their stores, and consolidate stuff every few months for massive book fairs in capital cities. Why are you waiting and hoping to cull 50 in three months, then? Going from 800 books to 750 books inside after three months is not going to improve conditions by any notable amount because 750 books is still an unmanageable collection. Fifty books is especially meaningless if you've moved in with your boyfriend and you're actually looking at a house-wide total of 1100-1200 books. Culling 50 by February is not going to make things any better. What's the goal after that going to be? 50 more by May? At that rate your collection might be manageable by 2019. Maybe longer depending on how many more books you get in that timespan. Here's what I think you should do: You say that Lifeline is a charity shop that will take your book donations and sell them, and that I should have done something like that. So. Box up 200 books and donate them to Lifeline by the end of the week. 200 books is a sizable cull that will have an immediate impact on your storage conditions and make you realize just how much space those books are taking up. It's also large enough that culling 200 books within a week will force you to think of your books as things you are trying to get rid of and not precious babies you are adopting out to good homes.
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750 books is hardly unmanageable; I have nearly twice that number and have no problems with management.
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That depends entirely on how much space you have. If you want to cull because of space issues there's no real difference between 750 books and 800 books.
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Hedrigall posted:I dunno, I just think books should go anywhere else before the recycling bin Like a nice crackling hearth fire that provides warmth and comfort
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boom boom boom posted:Unfortunately not. I didn't ask about it anywhere but here tho. Does anybody know a good place to talk about obscure feminist sci-fi? i don't know but it would be nice to have a place to talk about sheri tepper's loving insanity
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I don't know if this is the place but I've been plowing through a lot of short fiction collections and wanted to vent: it seems like there's a lot of magical mystery women who lurk in the wilderness waiting to bang dudes until eventually he returns to the real world because reasons and is forever haunted by her half-forgotten memory? I feel like I should take up urbex or something so I can meet some fey broad who may or may not be a ghost
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Lost of Circes in folklore.
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RentACop posted:I don't know if this is the place but I've been plowing through a lot of short fiction collections and wanted to vent: it seems like there's a lot of magical mystery women who lurk in the wilderness waiting to bang dudes until eventually he returns to the real world because reasons and is forever haunted by her half-forgotten memory? I feel like I should take up urbex or something so I can meet some fey broad who may or may not be a ghost A nymph trope, maybe?
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