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where's the i, claudius BotM thread
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May 8, 2017 22:37
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chernobyl kinsman posted:where's the i, claudius BotM thread In my heart, forever Also it'll go up tonight I've just been slack, pologies
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May 9, 2017 00:04
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Is there anywhere on the internet that you guys know of that compiles and points out awesome book deals? I like just buying stuff on a whim when it's like $3 and then having a bunch of poo poo in hand for when I need a book.
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May 11, 2017 13:51
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I am not a lawyer, but I believe that the books that you get from internet deals advertised by Pinterest blogs are the books you should be reading
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May 11, 2017 14:04
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Quandary posted:Is there anywhere on the internet that you guys know of that compiles and points out awesome book deals? I like just buying stuff on a whim when it's like $3 and then having a bunch of poo poo in hand for when I need a book. If you just want to build up a huge backlog and don't care about anything except price, I'd recommend following the Humble Bundle deals since you can usually get five or more books for a buck.
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May 11, 2017 14:24
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The best overall bargain on books is the Kindle. Buy a kindle, then download literally everything that's out of copyright.
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May 11, 2017 14:31
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The best overall bargain on books is the Kindle. Buy a kindle, then download literally everything that's out of copyright. what if I want to read good books tho
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May 11, 2017 14:40
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Then you're in luck because everything good is out of copyright
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May 11, 2017 14:51
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Ras Het posted:Then you're in luck because everything good is out of copyright If I want to read children prattling about on insignificant distractions I will read pre-20th century literature If I want to read something valuable I will start in 1914
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May 11, 2017 15:01
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Ras Het posted:I am not a lawyer, but I believe that the books that you get from internet deals advertised by Pinterest blogs are the books you should be reading Well, I mean good books. I know a lot of time Amazon will have super cheap deals on reasonable ebooks.
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May 11, 2017 15:05
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Quandary posted:Is there anywhere on the internet that you guys know of that compiles and points out awesome book deals? I like just buying stuff on a whim when it's like $3 and then having a bunch of poo poo in hand for when I need a book. BookGorilla.com for ebook deals (mainly Kindle). They update every day by 10AM (EST). Every day there's at least one good book that is on sale that Amazon won't advertise.
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May 11, 2017 17:31
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Not quite what you want but Tor gives out a free ebook every month for a week or so. This month just started and it's Fire Upon the Deep.
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May 11, 2017 17:34
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Mel Mudkiper posted:If I want to read children prattling about on insignificant distractions I will read pre-20th century literature That leaves you with everything from 1914 to 1930 not counting lapsed copyrights Besides, speaking of prattling, why are you reading anything that isn't Tristram Shandy
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May 11, 2017 17:35
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Speaking of 1914, I've read a bunch of incredible war poems from ww1 but I don't really know any more recent ones. Any recommendations? Found this website, but ehhh http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/Afghanistan_War_Poetry.html
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May 11, 2017 19:14
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Powaqoatse posted:Speaking of 1914, I've read a bunch of incredible war poems from ww1 but I don't really know any more recent ones. Any recommendations? Here, Bullet by Brian Turner is a good more recent collection from someone who fought in Iraq.
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May 11, 2017 21:53
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for physical books I've really taken a liking to book depository. It has a pretty extensive selection (the only place I actually found anything Anne Garréta) and they have really good prices + free shipping they're based in the UK though, so if you live across the atlantic it might be slower than amazon and whatever else you use over there. ulvir fucked around with this message at 11:11 on May 12, 2017 |
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May 12, 2017 11:09
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Also, a great vantage point over Dealey Plaza
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May 12, 2017 11:13
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ulvir posted:for physical books I've really taken a liking to book depository. It has a pretty extensive selection (the only place I actually found anything Anne Garréta) and they have really good prices + free shipping yea ive noticed their selection is huge as well. I usually just sort amazon by price and buy whatever comes out on top though. Mover posted:Here, Bullet by Brian Turner is a good more recent collection from someone who fought in Iraq. Thanks! Noted 
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May 12, 2017 11:16
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ulvir posted:for physical books I've really taken a liking to book depository. It has a pretty extensive selection (the only place I actually found anything Anne Garréta) and they have really good prices + free shipping To chime in, BD actually has really fast shipping for a retailer based in the UK. I usually get books from them within two weeks (living on the east coast of the US). Compare that to other UK-based bookstores, where it can take up to six weeks (and you're still paying for this awfully slow shipping) or the shipping charge is as much, or more, than the book itself (though in this situation you tend to get the book within a week or two).
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May 12, 2017 14:17
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I'm staying in a cabin in North Carolina, and the book selection here is amazing. I read part of Flatland this afternoon, now I'm reading poems by T.S. Eliot, but other notables are Wilde, Thomas L. Friedman, Melville, Bao Ninh, a collection of several Richard Brautigan novels, Kerouac, Borges, Goethe, Flaubert, Khalifeh, Hemingway, Dickens, and Kafka. I'm used to Tom Clancy's filling up the shelves of vacation spots.
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May 13, 2017 01:36
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For Kindle, freereadfeed.com is the place to go for free books. You'll have to dig, but I can usually finds something that interests me.
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May 13, 2017 07:26
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i had a nightmare once that i was trapped in a remote cabin with nothing but tom friedman books
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May 13, 2017 17:09
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Has anyone purchased from ebookmar.com before? I've got most of the Wheel of Time series in paperback versions and would like to get the whole series in mobi for my kindle and they're charging $100 less than anywhere else I've seen it.
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May 25, 2017 17:32
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I know this has been asked before, but which translation of War and Peace would book goons recommend?
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May 27, 2017 23:54
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Enfys posted:I know this has been asked before, but which translation of War and Peace would book goons recommend? I read this version and had no troubles with it. the maude's are supposed to be good, too avoid overly cheap versions as it's like 100% chance it's Constance Garnett, which is the same translation that's in public domain ulvir fucked around with this message at 16:58 on May 28, 2017 |
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May 28, 2017 16:54
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I really liked the Pevear and Volokhonsky version.
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May 28, 2017 17:03
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Enfys posted:I know this has been asked before, but which translation of War and Peace would book goons recommend? I really liked the Anthony Briggs version, eminently readable and just drat captivating (but that might just be Tolstoy).
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May 28, 2017 22:18
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About halfway through World Without End after having read Pillars of the Earth a few years ago. I can't really remember the style of Pillars, but I know it was written twenty years previous -- is Follett always this schlocky? Some parts are almost GRRM-esque.
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May 29, 2017 16:45
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Im a newbie here so please be nice. Can anyone recommend a good alternate history book? It doesn't have to be a story, per se. I would be just fine with a collection of essays about various "what if" scenarios throughout history (What if Carthage defeated Rome, What if the South won the Civil War, what if JFK wasn't assassinated, that sort of thing). I know it's kind of cheesy but I would love a book like that to take with me on a long car trip in a few weeks. Suggestions?
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May 29, 2017 21:37
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Niall Ferguson edited a book like that called Virtual History. If you have time also check out the critique that Richard Evans wrote of counterfactual historical writing, Altered Pasts.
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May 29, 2017 21:41
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Your Taint posted:Im a newbie here so please be nice. years of salt and rice is the only good alt history novel i know of, so read that one
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May 29, 2017 21:48
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corn in the bible posted:years of salt and rice is the only good alt history novel i know of, so read that one But if you do read that one make sure to look for The Years of Rice and Salt after that. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBFNPG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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May 30, 2017 01:09
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Your Taint posted:Im a newbie here so please be nice. The Man in the High Castle
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May 30, 2017 19:56
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harry turtledove's the guns of the south, which poses the question 'what if time-traveling afrikaners gave the confederacy AK-47s'
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May 30, 2017 23:00
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chernobyl kinsman posted:harry turtledove's the guns of the south, which poses the question 'what if time-traveling afrikaners gave the confederacy AK-47s' A history professor I knew recommended this book and that's when I started to suspect he was a horrible racist
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May 30, 2017 23:04
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the trump tutelage posted:About halfway through World Without End after having read Pillars of the Earth a few years ago. To answer your question: yes. I read Pillars of the Earth a few years ago and it was super schlock. I.e. the main character’s wife dies and 3 pages later he's having sex with a beautiful stranger, you know all the villains are wicked because they rape a lot, etc
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May 30, 2017 23:26
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union is good alt-history. 1. It isn't shlocky 2. It isn't advancing an agenda 3. It creates a world that feels lived-in and real 4. It's actually well written
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Jun 1, 2017 05:34
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The Yiddish Policemen's Union is good alt-history. I picked up that book on a daily deal and really liked it. I haven't read any of his other novels but I intend to pick up the Adventures of Kavalier & Clay in the future. I saw HBO streaming has the movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and I remembered I'd picked up the book on a sale ages ago so I thought I'd read through it before checking out the movie, and it is an odd duck. It's like a biography interspersed with a novel, and doesn't know which one it wants to be. While I don't dislike it, I'd rather have the book be more focused on one than the other, as it interrupts with the flow as it goes from a dialogue scene to pages of history of one of his exploits and back again. I'd read another book-into-movie recently, Little Big Man, and it was great; funny, witty, sometimes depressingly sad, the novel was better than the movie and the movie was great as well.
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Jun 1, 2017 16:31
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Your Taint posted:Im a newbie here so please be nice. I quite enjoyed The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling. The premise is that the northern hemisphere is ravaged by meteor strikes in the mid-19th century, and the British government relocates to India. The story is about a British cavalryman investigates a plot against the Raj. It's something of a tribute to Edwardian adventure fiction but I don't think it was too racist (though it probably is - I was maybe 16 when I read it so I wouldn't have realised). Harry Turtledove's How Few Remain is fine as a standalone novel about the Second American Civil War in 1882. The series that spins out of it isn't terribly good, though. One thing I'd recommend if you're interested in post-war British politics is the oeuvre of a company called Sea Lion Press, which goes in for that kind of thing. It ranges a bit in terms of subject matter: they have one where Britain in the 1980s is shifted 250 years back in time, and one which I particularly enjoyed which basically shuffled every prime minister since 1945 so they all serve their terms in different orders.
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do not ever read harry turtledove goddamn
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