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Runcible Cat posted:Short story, Silver Age I think, Sturgeon or Kuttner or someone from that era. Talent, by Sturgeon
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wheatpuppy posted:Talent, by Sturgeon Weird, I went through my Sturgeons before posting and couldn't find it. Thank you!
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Aug 22, 2021 07:54
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I found it! I found the goddamn boy-turns-into-a-gasspump book! I did a little dip into the national library archives and managed to track down the Dutch version of it. The book is called "Super-Brikke". It was written by two Flemish auteurs called Michel Smets and Walter Oliviers, with illustrations by Dirk Lodewijckx. It was published in 1986 by a publishinghouse named Delta. For more details, see here. Now, I am absolutely certain this is the book that I read as a kid. It ticks all the boxes, from subject to time period. What bothers me, however, is that it was indeed Flemish. So how did this absurd story make its way across the world? EDIT: VVV Yes! That would make sense, considering Belgium is divided into French and Dutch-speaking areas. I asked the publisher if they have any more information for me, awaiting there answer now. A Worrying Warlock fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Aug 25, 2021 10:21
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omg There's also a French version called Super-Gilles, does that help? https://www.worldcat.org/title/super-gilles/oclc/906832972
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Aug 25, 2021 10:39
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Uh, weird, because Whang JUST posted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mNAkC9yEK0 He didn't end up finding it, so you could drop him a line, letting him know that you found it. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Aug 25, 2021 11:09
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Sobatchja Morda posted:I found it! I found the goddamn boy-turns-into-a-gasspump book! This is thread history in the making. That's some amazing research.
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Aug 25, 2021 11:16
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I found the English version! It's called Super Giles!  I've ordered a copy from Amazon for prosterity
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Aug 25, 2021 12:20
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Just a little detail on how I found it A user called G.H. Kuiper, commented under the Whang! video with the Dutch name for the book. I searched various things related to the author, Walter Olivers and found that the book was mainly called Super-Brikke I saw that the author also wrote books in French so I eventually found that the French name for the book was Super-Gilles. Since Gilles is close to the English name Giles, I searched for Super Giles and found a listing on Amazon with the above image dflinter fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Aug 25, 2021 12:27
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It's no wonder that it was difficult to find, given the ISBNs are almost nowhere on the internet, meaning it's unlikely much of the books metadata will have been indexed anywhere. Of course now ~the algorithm~ is bound to have picked up on the uptick, which'll mean that everyone will be finding it easily - but a historical search still makes it profoundly difficult to find. It does give me hope that I might eventually find the book with the two cats who eat meatballs after being on a fishing vessel in a storm, that I've searching for for over two decades. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Aug 25, 2021 12:35
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dflinter posted:Just a little detail on how I found it Ohhh weird, so the whang video helped you, in a roundabout way. Crazy! I just thought there was an astounding coincidence that you found it the same day the video was posted. In case you're reading this for the inevitable follow up video, Justin: hey! Love your videos! 
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Aug 25, 2021 12:58
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Uh, weird, because Whang JUST posted this: That's what gave me the idea to do some actual drat research. Woke up, saw my name mentioned in it, thought I wanted to do something. I posted it on YouTube and Reddit at the same time I did here, but when I looked into Whang's discord I found another poster (Also from the Netherlands) there had found it two hours earlier. But man, glad that it has been found.
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Aug 25, 2021 13:11
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dflinter posted:I found the English version! "Reading Bear" in English vs "Série ourson" in French!
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Aug 25, 2021 13:12
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Pug Smugly posted:I'm trying to find a children's picture book that I half remember. This is "Trouble for Trumpets" I wish I could find a cheap copy.
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Aug 25, 2021 13:49
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dflinter posted:I found the English version! That cover art with the legend "9/11 Years" would make someone think it's about something entirely different
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Aug 25, 2021 14:14
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Davros1 posted:That cover art with the legend "9/11 Years" would make someone think it's about something entirely different What are you expecting, some story about indulging in terrible body horror and self-destructive behavior because a childish protagonist feels insulted and has an obsession for keeping the pumps running?
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Aug 25, 2021 14:35
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I love a happy ending.  (Please tell me the book doesn’t turn out to be, like, super racist or something.)
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Aug 25, 2021 14:53
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Another TBB success story.
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Aug 25, 2021 16:56
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I'll try going to the Royal Library this week. According to worldcat they should have a copy, and I might be able to take some pictures there. It would be the Dutch version, though.
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Aug 25, 2021 17:21
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Sobatchja Morda posted:I found it! I found the goddamn boy-turns-into-a-gasspump book! You absolute loving hero! A 20 year brainworm has finally been solved  Seriously, I thought I would never find this!
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Aug 26, 2021 10:42
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Bad news guys As I mentioned in my post with the pic, I bought the book Unfortunately the seller contacted me this morning to say it was in worse condition that originally thought (it was missing 2 pages) and they offered me a refund or another book I asked could they send it to me as I didn't care about the condition, only to be told they sent it to get pulped and can no longer retrieve it
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Aug 26, 2021 10:57
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dflinter posted:Bad news guys This has got a bit of a "Cheese Shop" vibe to it. John Cleese: "Oooh! Camembert, I'll have some of that." Michael Palin: "It's a bit runny...." JC: "No matter, fetch hither the fromage de la belle France! Mmmm!" MP:"I think it's a bit runnier than you'd like it, sir." JC: "I don't care how loving runny it is, just hand it over with all speed." MP:"Ohhhhhhhh!" JC: "What?" MP: "The cat's eaten it."
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Aug 26, 2021 11:06
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I don't believe that story one bit
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Aug 26, 2021 11:26
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Carthag Tuek posted:I don't believe that story one bit Yeah I would be skeptical too! See some screenshots for proof https://imgur.com/a/eidl4QN
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Aug 26, 2021 11:35
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Repost from a few years ago. It's not The Drowned World I read this around 1999-2000. Post-apocalyptic book set in England. I remember flooding down Tottenham Court Road (in London, I was living close by there at the time, so it stuck with me), and some fella (the bad guy?) on an abandoned cruise ship. There was a scene towards the start when a woman was about to be impaled vaginally on a pole, and the narrator shot her in the head to spare her that. I think one of the lads impaling the woman had the remnants of a police uniform on. Bad guy may have called himself Jesus. Pretty sure the book was written in the first person. Also I think the narrator had a brother Gambrinus fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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Aug 26, 2021 12:02
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dflinter posted:Yeah I would be skeptical too! You found the book though at least, that's something. Now to trawl charity shops and car boots in the hope of one day finding it!
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Aug 26, 2021 12:17
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dflinter posted:Yeah I would be skeptical too! Countdown for this book to be relisted at £50 after all the recent attention.
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Aug 26, 2021 12:47
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Dell_Zincht posted:You found the book though at least, that's something. Now to trawl charity shops and car boots in the hope of one day finding it! I just wish they had contacted me before sending it for destruction I asked them again but they re-iterated it was gone Now we know the name, surely it is only a matter of time before another becomes available However, I believe some scans of the Dutch version are incoming as per a Reddit user on the Whang! subreddit so not all is lost!
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Aug 26, 2021 13:36
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dflinter posted:I just wish they had contacted me before sending it for destruction How's your Dutch, lol
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Aug 26, 2021 14:17
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Some scans have been posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/Whang/comments/pbz2k2/we_have_scans_for_superbrikke_thanks_to_nore_on/
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dflinter posted:Some scans have been posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/Whang/comments/pbz2k2/we_have_scans_for_superbrikke_thanks_to_nore_on/ They got scans, and the person scanning couldn't be bothered to get a picture of the kid AS the gas pump? 
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:They got scans, and the person scanning couldn't be bothered to get a picture of the kid AS the gas pump? I believe it was a worker in the library that did it and they were only allowed to scan the first 18 pages or something
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Aug 26, 2021 16:17
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lol everybody loving sucks
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Aug 26, 2021 16:48
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I had no idea I was featured so extensively in that Whang! video btw, lol
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Aug 27, 2021 10:22
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Dell_Zincht posted:I had no idea I was featured so extensively in that Whang! video btw, lol
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Aug 27, 2021 11:13
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Sorry to bring it back to Revival chat but I just finished it and had recommended it to my almost 80 year old mother in law early on when it was still just a very well told, compelling King story. Whoops!
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Aug 30, 2021 18:10
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Bookish posted:Sorry to bring it back to Revival chat but I just finished it and had recommended it to my almost 80 year old mother in law early on when it was still just a very well told, compelling King story. Holy gently caress, gooooood job  Here's hoping it truly is only complete fiction.
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Aug 30, 2021 18:20
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Wow I thought for sure the gas pump book was some salvia fever dream in the OPs part. Mandela effect conspirators are going to have a field day with this.
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Aug 30, 2021 23:38
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Bookish posted:Sorry to bring it back to Revival chat but I just finished it and had recommended it to my almost 80 year old mother in law early on when it was still just a very well told, compelling King story. Oh my god. That poor woman
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I'm trying to remember the name of a book and my googling isn't paying off. It was a Dan Brown knock-off featuring a US professor of South American mythology who gets carted off by G-men to go on a race against the clock in the Amazon looking for a meteor. It involved pantherlike monsters, punching crocodiles and dodging hellfire missiles. Also nazis, I think, because why not? It was dumb as all gently caress and I hate-read that fucker out of spite.
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I definitely haven't read it but did some googling of my own...is it Temple by Matthew Reilly? From wikipedia: Temple is split into two stories, both set in South America: One set during the Spanish Occupation of South America and one set in 1999 at the same place. The main focus of the former story is the journey of a monk named Alberto Santiago who becomes a traitor to his country after witnessing Spanish atrocities among the Incan civilisation. Aiding an Incan Prince named Renco Capac to escape, Santiago begins a quest to protect a special Idol - 'The Spirit of the People', an idol carved from black stone with purple veins running through it, actually carved from a meteorite that fell on earth, from the invading Spaniards. Upon his return to Spain, Santiago records his story in a transcript in San Sebastian Monastery in France. Four hundred years later, a group of German armed militia known as the Stormtroopers raid the monastery, executing all but one of the Jesuit monks living there, recovering the Santiago manuscript. Meanwhile, another party raids DARPA (The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) headquarters in order to capture a new superweapon known as the Supernova. DARPA sends Colonel Frank Nash to Peru with the aid of NYU linguistics professor William Race to recover the idol before anyone else can retrieve it. Their mission: to retrieve 'the Spirit of the People' (as the natives call it), carved out of Thyrium-261, a nuclear material from a binary star system that came to Earth via a meteorite. Thyrium has the potential to provide virtually limitless clean energy, which can fuel the Supernova, a next-generation weapon of mass destruction with the power to decimate a third of the Earth's surface and bring about Doomsday. e: the detailed plot summary mentions jaguar monsters later on, that's gotta be the same book. (Unless there are--gulp--two of them?) wizzardstaff fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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