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Ornamented Death posted:Seven books, well over 5000 pages. No, that’s too long
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oldpainless posted:No, that’s too long I read them in mass market paperback size and each one is a tiny brick. Good books though, a massive cast in medieval fantasy europe dealing with an invasion, corruption, and weird magic.
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Back in 4th grade (1990) I read a young adult book about Ulysses. It started with him fighting a boar as a young man and ended with him dying as an old man on a hillside years after killing Penelope's suitors with Telemachus. It wasn't Evslin's Adventures of Ulysses but it was similar. Any idea?
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Okay here’s a tough one that I’m trying to remember. I read this book sometime around middle school, I think. (Sometime around ‘99/‘00) It was a teen romance novel based in rural Minnesota where they had German POW camps and some girl I’m pretty sure falls in love with a soldier there. I can’t remember which world war it was during, I just want to see if it’s as weird as I feel like it might have been.
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CherryCola posted:Okay here’s a tough one that I’m trying to remember. Arkansas, but Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene?
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Gats Akimbo posted:Arkansas, but Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene? Oh poo poo that’s it! I must have gotten confused with some other stories of POW camps in Minnesota. Thanks!
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So I've been straining my rusty brain for details about a short story that most likely appeared in a horror anthology during the early 1990's. (I've looked at titles edited by the likes of Douglas Winter and Kirby McCauley, but nothing rings a bell.) In the story, a lonely man travels to a remote desert area known for its mysterious Stonehengian sculptures. The story ends with the man being transformed by the locals into a piece of living statuary, complete with a wind chime-like device placed between his teeth to catch the breeze. Aiiiiieeeeeee. Nostalgic ick factor aside, the main reason I'm trying to track it down is that I seem to remember it being by an author with a reputation outside of the horror genre. I've been googling through the back catalogs of Paul Bowles and J.G. Ballard, but to no avail. (It really seems like it would be by Bowles.) Help. Please.
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Apr 7, 2021 00:28
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Eason the Fifth posted:Back in 4th grade (1990) I read a young adult book about Ulysses. It started with him fighting a boar as a young man and ended with him dying as an old man on a hillside years after killing Penelope's suitors with Telemachus. It wasn't Evslin's Adventures of Ulysses but it was similar. Any idea? I can't find a book to match the date but that sounds like a Rosemary Sutcliff kind of book, maybe look her list up?
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Looking for a very specific short story for a friend. It involves a team of figure skating girls training to be the best they could possibly be. This escalates to increasingly body horror as the girls transcend physical limits to become The Best. Horrific self-damage for ice skating includes: sewing sequins into skin and/or attaching the skates right to their feet for better control on the ice. Closest memory they have of the story is that it was included in a language arts book.
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I started a book back in 2013 or 2014 and I don't remember the name or author and didn't get very far before returning it to the library. It was recommended in a thread here I think so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. It was a scifi novel that started with the main character in space jail and this next part gets a bit fuzzy. The cells were tied up to some strategy game the inmates played against each other and when they did bad the cell shrunk and made life harder for them I think? Then the main character got released to go help the government (?) do something or other (steal something?) Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Apr 9, 2021 03:57
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In Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief the protagonist starts out with many simulated copies of his mind trapped in a (simulated) prison bring made to play the prisoners dilemma. One copy gets sprung from prison to help steal something from a city on Mars, by one of the major factions. If you remember tons of weird jargon with very little explanation, this is the book you mean.
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Apr 9, 2021 04:13
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I'm thinking quantum thief? There's a whole bit where they run prisoners through a literal prisoners dilemma forever.
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Hobnob posted:In Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief the protagonist starts out with many simulated copies of his mind trapped in a (simulated) prison bring made to play the prisoners dilemma. One copy gets sprung from prison to help steal something from a city on Mars, by one of the major factions. Benagain posted:I'm thinking quantum thief? There's a whole bit where they run prisoners through a literal prisoners dilemma forever. It's this. I remember the audiobook telling me his name, vaguely remember how it's pronounced, and knew for a fact I couldn't spell it
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filmcynic posted:So I've been straining my rusty brain for details about a short story that most likely appeared in a horror anthology during the early 1990's. (I've looked at titles edited by the likes of Douglas Winter and Kirby McCauley, but nothing rings a bell.) In the story, a lonely man travels to a remote desert area known for its mysterious Stonehengian sculptures. The story ends with the man being transformed by the locals into a piece of living statuary, complete with a wind chime-like device placed between his teeth to catch the breeze. Aiiiiieeeeeee. In Praise of Folly by Thomas Tessier
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Apr 14, 2021 12:59
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Data Graham posted:Hey I was just remembering a series that I read as a kid and now can't find hide nor hair of it via google or wikipedia. Holy poo poo I just randomly remembered the title of this one, "Veronica Ganz" by Marilyn Sachs Just bubbled up from the depths of my subconscious while I was on a meeting, wtf
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Useful Distraction posted:In Praise of Folly by Thomas Tessier ... Yep, that would be the one. Outstanding. Thanks!
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Data Graham posted:Holy poo poo I just randomly remembered the title of this one, "Veronica Ganz" by Marilyn Sachs Veronica Ganz doesn't wear pants!
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Sobatchja Morda posted:
HOLY poo poo I DEFINITELY DIDN'T MAKE IT UP Your memories of it are a bit more clear than mine, it's a shame you don't have plat, i'd love to compare notes.
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there was a cartoon where a kid turns into a car (and the transformation looks like something cronenberg would make, but for kids) so turning into a pump IS weird but still completely imaginable edit: the parents using their son-pump at the end is both incredibly funny and disgusting Doktor Avalanche fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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Apr 21, 2021 10:10
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Trying to remember the name of a short story about a cartographer or geographer who discovers that one person had written a bunch of masterful yet lesser-known monographs on cities around the world under different pen names. Along with the accompanying maps, they capture the soul, history, and culture of these cities. He is obsessed with these books and they become his professional inspiration. Decades later in his career, he finds one more book and is able to puzzle out the man's identity. He pays a visit to his house and is shown that even in retirement, the master cartographer has been producing exquisite maps of the local area. They talk about the nature of their art and what drives them in their work. I remember the ending is that the man drives home in silence.
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Dell_Zincht posted:HOLY poo poo I DEFINITELY DIDN'T MAKE IT UP Ha, I googled this book, and found your post earlier ITT. Now I really wanna read this thing.
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Every time the gas pump boy comes up in this thread I want to find it, but search results are just other people looking for it on reddit/goodreads/this thread. I’m starting to get Candle Cove vibes from it, honestly.
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wizzardstaff posted:Every time the gas pump boy comes up in this thread I want to find it, but search results are just other people looking for it on reddit/goodreads/this thread. I’m starting to get Candle Cove vibes from it, honestly. I was thinking this myself. I bet if you go ask your parents about that story, they'll laugh about how you used to just look at an empty notebook while you made up all these stories about a boy who turned into a gas pump.
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The gas pump story seems like prime material for Justin Whang's youtube channel; somebody should send him a message about it. I don't think he's covered any lost books but he definitely deals in lost media/weird internet poo poo in general (I should warn that quite a lot of the material is  ):https://youtube.com/c/WhangWhangWhang
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I'm trying to find the name of a science fiction story I recall only dimly, so details may be wrong here. The main conceit is that a spaceship returning to Earth is in some kind of time loop. I think it keeps exploding and the loop resets. I also think that there's a stowaway involved that causes this somehow. And unless I'm completely mistaken, there's some extra cruel twist at the end where they decide to murder the stowaway to get back safely, but that just throws them into another, worse, time loop? I know it's not "The Cold Equations".
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gschmidl posted:I'm trying to find the name of a science fiction story I recall only dimly, so details may be wrong here. That sounds a bit like A Little Something For Us Tempunauts by Philip K Dick, but it's not a perfect match.
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froglet posted:That sounds a bit like A Little Something For Us Tempunauts by Philip K Dick, but it's not a perfect match. No, that's absolutely it. I don't know where I made up the stowaway, I guess the extra weight is machine parts. Thank you!
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There's one book I read where is a time loop but it's some weird so where the dude has to kill this guy over and over before they go into wasp by popping his odd open so he (the stowaway) didn't die from some weird radiation thing or time thing. Also, didn't we solve the gas pump earlier in the thread or was that somewhere else online?
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Apr 24, 2021 14:01
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There was a Goodreads thread by people who were also unsuccessfully looking for it.
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A fantasy (maaybe steampunk-ish?) novel, taking place in a big city in a huge cavern. Maybe everything is underground and the surface is deadly or something. Must have read it about 10-15 years ago, and it was fairly new at the time. The protagonist may have been a woman. Pleaae help me
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Biplane posted:A fantasy (maaybe steampunk-ish?) novel, taking place in a big city in a huge cavern. Maybe everything is underground and the surface is deadly or something. Must have read it about 10-15 years ago, and it was fairly new at the time. The protagonist may have been a woman. Pleaae help me City of Ember?
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Sounds like it could be Mortal Engines Edit: for some reason I read that multiple times as "big city in a huge CARAVAN" , gonna go lie down The Chad Jihad fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Apr 27, 2021 |
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Action Jacktion posted:City of Ember? pretty sure it’s gonna end up being this. great book iirc
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Two books I read as a 15+ years ago: 1. Protagonist is transported to a different world, red grass, barbarian like people. At end of book it turns out it is the future and everyone in his world died (to ebola I think but maybe I made that up), and he dedicates the rest of his life to curing ebola. 2. A book where a child moves to a new town or visits a new town. He is spending summer there, coming of age type story. At end of book he finds another missing kid (who I assume was missing but only really remember him finding) in a refrigerator. I think the kid was playing in fridge and either suffocated or was struck by lightning.
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I remember one time in like fourth grade I skimmed through a book that a classmate gave a book report on or something, it was a sci-fi-ish sort of thing that took place on some kind of alt-Earth where things were more or less like here but went under different names. Specifically I remember there were “relks” and “gran” which were horses and chickens respectively. Googling for relks and gran turns up nothing except spelling corrections though lol
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Fritzler posted:Two books I read as a 15+ years ago: That first one is The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen.
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Data Graham posted:I remember one time in like fourth grade I skimmed through a book that a classmate gave a book report on or something, it was a sci-fi-ish sort of thing that took place on some kind of alt-Earth where things were more or less like here but went under different names. Specifically I remember there were “relks” and “gran” which were horses and chickens respectively. Double post! Could this be The Boy Who had the Power by Jean Sutton and Jeff Sutton? 'He regarded the relk sorrowfully . Krant pulled the animal up short and barked , “ Bring in the gran . They go to market tomorrow . ” “ Tomorrow ? ” Jedro was appalled . “ I can ' t get them there that soon . "'
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Action Jacktion posted:City of Ember? that's not it, even though it ticked like, all the boxes. the one I'm thinking of is pretty dark as I recall and definitely not written for children. But I appreciate the effort!
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Biplane posted:A fantasy (maaybe steampunk-ish?) novel, taking place in a big city in a huge cavern. Maybe everything is underground and the surface is deadly or something. Must have read it about 10-15 years ago, and it was fairly new at the time. The protagonist may have been a woman. Pleaae help me https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12666103-a-face-like-glass? YA, technically, but Hardinge tends to be pretty nontypical for YA.
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