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xiw posted:(yes that's a nearly 6 year old post that's been bugging me the whole time) itt followups are never late imo
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xiw posted:(yes that's a nearly 6 year old post that's been bugging me the whole time) Bloody hell Xiw, thanks man! That's been bugging me for nigh on 20 years - AND while digging through ebay trying to find a copy (no ebooks exist) I found another one I've been chasing: The Eyes of Heisenberg. Man, I (and since it's been bothering you, you must have read it too) must have read a LOT of Frank Herbert back in the day.
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May 5, 2023 00:16
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A book I read somewhere eons ago has been bothering me but it’s been so long that I’m not even sure what I remember as being really part of it and what’s constructed. Don’t have much to go on either. Woman posing as a man to be a knight (super narrows it down,) and all I really remember is that she goes to confront one of the bad guys and he poisons her. I think the scene takes place in some botanical garden, with them hunting each other between the plants until he gets the better of her, bails and her friend/lover/??? shows up to save her. I remember a fairly decent cover with a woman in black plate armor and the paperback was absolutely thicc but beyond that it’s been lost to time and a thousand different spy and action movies with similar climaxes. Thought I’d ask though, been bugging me for years.
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May 5, 2023 19:25
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Orv posted:A book I read somewhere eons ago has been bothering me but it’s been so long that I’m not even sure what I remember as being really part of it and what’s constructed. Don’t have much to go on either. That is Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
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May 5, 2023 21:04
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navyjack posted:That is Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe Regrettably I can definitively tell you it’s not because I read New Sun for the first time a couple years ago and was very much not a fan. It is pretty funny that it matches my extremely vague choice of wording almost to the letter though.
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May 5, 2023 21:13
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I mean, it's a fascinating retelling of the story where Severian and Agia are the same person. Maybe that will happen at some point in the cosmic cycle.
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May 5, 2023 21:17
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My memory has become an unending cyclopean ruin from which there is no surcease but unfortunately I’m not quite that far gone. I should try rereading New Sun though, I’ve never had such a violent reaction to the prose of a book and I feel like I’m really on the wrong side of history there.
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May 5, 2023 21:28
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i think its ash by mary gentle
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May 5, 2023 21:32
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Carthag Tuek posted:i think its ash by mary gentle Looking over what I can find it isn’t ringing any immediate bells but it’s around the right time and is definitely the kind of thing I’d have read around then. Unfortunately, from some of what I’m reading. Will give it a shot, thanks.
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May 5, 2023 21:55
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Orv posted:Looking over what I can find it isn’t ringing any immediate bells but it’s around the right time and is definitely the kind of thing I’d have read around then. Unfortunately, from some of what I’m reading. Will give it a shot, thanks. yea on second thought i think youre right, its not it its not fantastic but its not bad either. i liked about half of it, unfortunately spread equally over the chapters
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May 5, 2023 22:06
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It’s conceptually really interesting but yeah some of the stuff I was reading about it was not great, let’s say.
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May 5, 2023 22:16
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teen novel where the sidekick character is a conceptual artist with a weird car his final project for art class is, if memory serves, running a wedding cake through a car wash probably a korman or spinelli
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May 6, 2023 07:15
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Probably a long shot, but I'm trying to remember a comic book from the late 90s. Pretty sure it was image. The only thing I remember is a superhuman shows up floating in New York? and they scramble fighter jets to see what's up, and this guy catches one telekinetically and disassembles it into all it's various parts while holding em (and the pilot) in the air. Think the super guy was black, but I'm not 100% on that. His uniform thing was a red and white bodysuit I think. Any help's appreciated!
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May 12, 2023 01:10
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Probably a long shot, but I'm trying to remember a comic book from the late 90s. Pretty sure it was image. The only thing I remember is a superhuman shows up floating in New York? and they scramble fighter jets to see what's up, and this guy catches one telekinetically and disassembles it into all it's various parts while holding em (and the pilot) in the air. Emissary?  He doesn't disassemble the plane but maybe you're thinking of Dr. Manhattan.
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May 12, 2023 01:51
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hexwren posted:teen novel where the sidekick character is a conceptual artist with a weird car Korman's Son of Interflux? It takes place at a high school for the arts.
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May 12, 2023 02:59
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Action Jacktion posted:Emissary? That's it! Thanks man. I've had that panel with him holding the jet in my head for the last week or so and could not remember the name.
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May 12, 2023 09:58
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He's very big.
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May 12, 2023 10:01
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Well duh, it's all about that BBC. Big Buoyant Character.
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May 12, 2023 12:35
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I'm trying to remember a book I read in middle school. It a science fiction book about people mining comets, I believe. I'm pretty sure the first line was "Kato died first." which cracked my friends up.
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May 20, 2023 20:10
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hooah posted:"Kato died first." That really ceterums my censeos.
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May 20, 2023 21:08
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I guess I should just give up on DuckDuckGo as a search engine. I tried that first and got nothing. First hit on Google was correct: "Heart of the Comet" by David Brin.
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May 20, 2023 21:24
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A thread in the new Scholastic Book Fair forum made me think of this: In primary school, so 1988 to 1992, there was a picture book that I absolutely adored and I always pulled it out to pour over the illustrations whenever we went to the library. It was a book about a particular street in a city over time, I think from its founding and up to the then-present day, and finally another page imagining what it might look like in the 21st century. I remember especially the nineteenth century page with horse-drawn carts on the road and gas street lights. I loved that page most of all. I don’t remember what the book was called or what any of the words might have said—I was only in it for the pictures. I vaguely think the city was Providence, Rhode Island, but I really can’t be sure of that.
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May 22, 2023 21:06
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Ortho posted:A thread in the new Scholastic Book Fair forum made me think of this: probably not either, but Will Eisner's Dropsie Avenue and Crumb's Short History of America come to mind. Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 21:45 on May 22, 2023 |
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May 22, 2023 21:42
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Ortho posted:A thread in the new Scholastic Book Fair forum made me think of this: That sounds like A Street Through Time illustrated by Steve Noon. https://youtu.be/Vog1shTL6f0
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May 22, 2023 23:04
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wizzardstaff posted:That sounds like A Street Through Time illustrated by Steve Noon. It sounds a lot like it, but "A street through time" was published in 1998. Could it be something by Peter Spier? The Legend of New Amsterdam perhaps?
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May 23, 2023 05:23
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I was thinking it might be a Stephen Biesty book, the guy who does all the cross sections. In fact that's who I remember creating A Street Through Time and I had to do a double take when I searched it just now.
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May 23, 2023 05:36
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There is a good collection of "picture book stories across time" at... oh, it's offline. Wayback Machine to the rescue! https://web.archive.org/web/2013032...nges-over-time/
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May 23, 2023 06:20
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wizzardstaff posted:That sounds like A Street Through Time illustrated by Steve Noon. It looked a lot like that—that style of illustration and spread across the whole page—but this was definitely an ‘80s book. I was in high school in 1998. It’s a book I haven’t thought about in a thousand years and I wish I could remember more about it.
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May 24, 2023 13:44
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YA book I read in the 90s that had a segment where teens soaked tennis balls in lighter fluid, lit them on fire, and hit them around
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Jun 9, 2023 06:34
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I think that was called the Anarchist Cookbook
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Jun 9, 2023 13:18
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I'm pretty sure it's a liveleak video from back in the day.
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Jun 9, 2023 15:43
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People did this at Action Park in the tank dodgems that shot tennis balls.
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Jun 9, 2023 15:50
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If anyone can help me track this down I’d be stunned and forever grateful — there was a fantasy book probably released sometime in the 80s or early 90s. It was about a small group of kids on a quest to meet a mythical beast figure that I dimly remember as vaguely centaur like, potentially called the Stag or something of that nature. There was also a sugary candy motif throughout — I think the mythic beast dug candy. I believe that was the first book in which I encountered marzipan.
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Data Graham posted:I think that was called the Anarchist Cookbook the tennis ball in the anarchist's cookbook involved strike-anywhere match heads.
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voltaireodactyl posted:If anyone can help me track this down I’d be stunned and forever grateful — there was a fantasy book probably released sometime in the 80s or early 90s. It was about a small group of kids on a quest to meet a mythical beast figure that I dimly remember as vaguely centaur like, potentially called the Stag or something of that nature. He's less a centaur and more an anthropomorphic moose, but are you thinking of The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles?
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Jun 13, 2023 03:47
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GrayGriffin posted:He's less a centaur and more an anthropomorphic moose, but are you thinking of The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles? That's exactly what popped into my head too
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Jun 13, 2023 05:02
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GrayGriffin posted:He's less a centaur and more an anthropomorphic moose, but are you thinking of The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles? Opopanax posted:That's exactly what popped into my head too This is exactly it, you beautiful geniuses, both of you.
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Jun 13, 2023 12:14
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Another successful goon project!
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Hi, thread. Looking for a short story that a teacher read to us once when I was in grade 8 (around 13ish I guess?). I think it may have been by Eudora Welty or Flannery O’Connor or someone writing in a similar vein. Basic plot is a new girl comes to a small town and there are two boys who vie for her affections. The story ends with the girl getting hit by a car (truck? Bus?) as she’s running to cross the street where the two boys are standing with big bouquets of flowers. Does this ring any bells for anyone?
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City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison? (I kid, I kid)
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