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I’m gonna get to go to a bookstore tomorrow, does anyone have a suggestion for fiction that benefits from having a physical copy? I have been reading mostly on my kindle during covid and already have house of leaves, raw shark texts, the people of paper, the unfortunates, and S in my physical library. Am gonna fall back on some illustrated mythology after getting jealous of mel’s yokai encyclopedia but I’m very open to alternatives if there is another worthwhile book
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All books are better on paper than on a screen. I guess if you want something specifically like the ones you mentioned, I'll say A Humument.
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Jun 11, 2020 23:03
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nut posted:I’m gonna get to go to a bookstore tomorrow, does anyone have a suggestion for fiction that benefits from having a physical copy? Fahrenheit 451.
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Jun 11, 2020 23:06
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nut posted:I’m gonna get to go to a bookstore tomorrow, does anyone have a suggestion for fiction that benefits from having a physical copy? I have been reading mostly on my kindle during covid and already have house of leaves, raw shark texts, the people of paper, the unfortunates, and S in my physical library. Am gonna fall back on some illustrated mythology after getting jealous of mel’s yokai encyclopedia but I’m very open to alternatives if there is another worthwhile book The most obvious answers are meta-fictional works that are essentially impossible to format for Kindle. House of Leaves and Ship of Theseus are two prime examples. E: oh you mentioned House of Leaves. Ship of Theseus is interesting and much like House of Leaves, one of the first things you have to decide is how you're going to read it. Infinite Jest works too, for similar reasons. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Jun 12, 2020 |
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Jun 12, 2020 03:32
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Sham bam bamina! posted:A Humument Seconding this -- I haven't read the whole thing (have only paged through a friend's copy), but it's a gorgeous artifact, if nothing else.
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Jun 12, 2020 03:34
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Pale Fire might arguably be better electronically but I find the act of flipping back and forth to be a lot more satisfying than trying to click links.
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Jun 12, 2020 03:52
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nut posted:I’m gonna get to go to a bookstore tomorrow, does anyone have a suggestion for fiction that benefits from having a physical copy? I have been reading mostly on my kindle during covid and already have house of leaves, raw shark texts, the people of paper, the unfortunates, and S in my physical library. Am gonna fall back on some illustrated mythology after getting jealous of mel’s yokai encyclopedia but I’m very open to alternatives if there is another worthwhile book Building Stories
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nut posted:I’m gonna get to go to a bookstore tomorrow, does anyone have a suggestion for fiction that benefits from having a physical copy? I have been reading mostly on my kindle during covid and already have house of leaves, raw shark texts, the people of paper, the unfortunates, and S in my physical library. Am gonna fall back on some illustrated mythology after getting jealous of mel’s yokai encyclopedia but I’m very open to alternatives if there is another worthwhile book House of Leaves e. oh you already have it. I can read good. So I'm going to go with anything in folio format
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nut posted:I’m gonna get to go to a bookstore tomorrow, does anyone have a suggestion for fiction that benefits from having a physical copy? I have been reading mostly on my kindle during covid and already have house of leaves, raw shark texts, the people of paper, the unfortunates, and S in my physical library. Am gonna fall back on some illustrated mythology after getting jealous of mel’s yokai encyclopedia but I’m very open to alternatives if there is another worthwhile book Dictionary of the Khazars and Hopscotch would be really annoying on a kindle I imagine.
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Jun 12, 2020 06:59
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nut posted:I’m gonna get to go to a bookstore tomorrow, does anyone have a suggestion for fiction that benefits from having a physical copy? I have been reading mostly on my kindle during covid and already have house of leaves, raw shark texts, the people of paper, the unfortunates, and S in my physical library. Am gonna fall back on some illustrated mythology after getting jealous of mel’s yokai encyclopedia but I’m very open to alternatives if there is another worthwhile book Unsurprisingly, I would like to recommend Dhalgren. The later chapters have a lot of inset text, uneven columns, stuff that probably looks crap on a digital copy, and for meta reasons it’s better to have it as a book. It’s less of a ‘gimmick’ novel than the ones you listed though so not sure if it’s what you’re after. Seconding Pale Fire.
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Jun 12, 2020 08:32
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Most Arno Schmidt wouldn't work at all on an ereader, because of weird stuff with columns and so forth.
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thanks everybody, i've got a list and a mask 
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Anyone have recommendations for novels about cults? I know of The Incendiaries and Palahniuk's Survivor but any others?
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TrixRabbi posted:Anyone have recommendations for novels about cults? I know of The Incendiaries and Palahniuk's Survivor but any others? Octavia E. Butler’s Parable series probably counts, right?
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That looks good and not what I expected. To clarify, I'm down with genre or literary depictions of cults, moreso just trying to find as many different fictional depictions of cults of all sorts as I can.
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Jun 16, 2020 00:34
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Racism aside, there are quite a few cults in the Fu Manchu novels. How about the Illuminatus! trilogy, if the Discordians/Illuminati count?
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Jun 16, 2020 00:46
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Selachian posted:Racism aside, there are quite a few cults in the Fu Manchu novels. Sax Rohmer's, Seven Footsteps to Satan?
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Jun 16, 2020 00:55
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The Silver Dove, by Andrey Bely.
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Jun 16, 2020 01:18
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Sham bam bamina! posted:All books are better on paper than on a screen. Hell yeah
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Oh, and Dennis Wheatley, like The Devil Rides Out. If you need a Satanic cult, Wheatley is your man.
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Jun 16, 2020 01:35
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Ursula K. LeGuin also has a sort of cult/religion in The Left Hand of Darkness. Though it’s quite removed from human, earth cults. I think The Cabin at the End of the World also depicts some culty behaviours. In Spin, one of the main characters joins a cult.
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Jun 16, 2020 04:40
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Selachian posted:Racism aside, there are quite a few cults in the Fu Manchu novels. I gotta reread that soon e. uh, oh also Helter Skelter maybe?
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I’ve never made it past the first book of Illuminatius but I love that one book and reread it multiple times it’s a gloriously long shitpost
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Foulcault's Pendulum probably counts?
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Jun 16, 2020 12:35
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These are all great suggestions though The Silver Dove looks the most like what I was aiming for. Also, Illuminatus is def a series I've meant to start for years and this is a good reminder.
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Hey dudes. I'm almost finished reading Neal Stephenson's books, and am looking for more hard scifi. In the vein of Stephenson, Weir, Sagan. Doesn't have to be as intense, but something grounded on the edge of reality. Something with clever ideas for tech, politics, or culture.
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Jun 19, 2020 02:39
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Dominoes posted:Hey dudes. I'm almost finished reading Neal Stephenson's books, and am looking for more hard scifi. In the vein of Stephenson, Weir, Sagan. Doesn't have to be as intense, but something grounded on the edge of reality. Something with clever ideas for tech, politics, or culture. I read a book a while back called Infomocracy which might fit the bill. Tbqh I gave it like a B-, but that's what I'd give Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon too, so if you liked those you might like this. It was definitely a diverting read with some fun ideas about the future of politics woven into a story with fairly unbelievable characters that stayed in well-worn roles.
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Dominoes posted:Hey dudes. I'm almost finished reading Neal Stephenson's books, and am looking for more hard scifi. In the vein of Stephenson, Weir, Sagan. Doesn't have to be as intense, but something grounded on the edge of reality. Something with clever ideas for tech, politics, or culture. Not sci-fi, but if you liked Stephenson’s Anathem you should check The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
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Dominoes posted:Hey dudes. I'm almost finished reading Neal Stephenson's books, and am looking for more hard scifi. In the vein of Stephenson, Weir, Sagan. Doesn't have to be as intense, but something grounded on the edge of reality. Something with clever ideas for tech, politics, or culture. I recommend hard sf all the time (and ask for some too) if you check my post history. My go-tos are like, Children of Time, Pushing Ice, Rendezvous with Rama, the Expanse books, stuff like that. Aurora by KSR if you haven’t already. Recently I really enjoyed A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, Doggerland, Semiosis (though it’s a riff off of a much better book about sci fi plants that I can’t remember the title of, it was written by a botanist!).
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Dominoes posted:Hey dudes. I'm almost finished reading Neal Stephenson's books, and am looking for more hard scifi. In the vein of Stephenson, Weir, Sagan. Doesn't have to be as intense, but something grounded on the edge of reality. Something with clever ideas for tech, politics, or culture. Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams might fit pretty well.
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Dudes. Thank you so much. Bought most of those suggestions; now have backlog. My mom bought me Semiosis a while ago, but I haven't touched it for no good reason. The same happened with SevenEves, which got me into Stephenson, so this is perhaps a sign. Of note: Stephenson's novels have obvious flaws and areas that could be improved (Characters that are tough to keep track of and somewhat one-sided, women as objects, a bad quasi-villain, and consistent stereotypes of made-up races in Seveneves etc). To me, what he has done right is so good that the net enjoyment from his books is higher than from any other fiction author I've read. I think Diamond Age is my fav, followed by Anathem, but they're all good, and I've read all but ReadMe, Dodo, and the parts of Baroque I haven't gotten to yet. Dominoes fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Jun 19, 2020 |
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Dominoes posted:Dudes. Thank you so much. Bought most of those suggestions; now have backlog. My mom bought me Semiosis a while ago, but I haven't touched it for no good reason. The same happened with SevenEves, which got me into Stephenson, so this is perhaps a sign. yeah despite all of his flaws, i find him so engaging, easy to read, and just fun. i am going to reread cryptonomicon here soon because i read it 15 years ago or so. maybe it will seem new
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Oh man, I forgot about Cryptonomicon. If you liked that, good chance you'll enjoy Gravity's Rainbow too.
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Dominoes posted:Dudes. Thank you so much. Bought most of those suggestions; now have backlog. My mom bought me Semiosis a while ago, but I haven't touched it for no good reason. The same happened with SevenEves, which got me into Stephenson, so this is perhaps a sign. Anathem is a good book and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. 
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I say otherwise. >:)
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If anyone browsing would like a preview of Cryptonomicon.
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Dominoes posted:If anyone browsing would like a preview of Cryptonomicon. Lol this is good
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Btw, his new one, Fall; or, I almost abandoned it early because it was too normal and grounded in the real world. Boy...
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Jun 20, 2020 02:59
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Dominoes posted:Hey dudes. I'm almost finished reading Neal Stephenson's books, and am looking for more hard scifi. In the vein of Stephenson, Weir, Sagan. Doesn't have to be as intense, but something grounded on the edge of reality. Something with clever ideas for tech, politics, or culture. Stephen Baxter's NASA series (Voyage, Titan, and Moonseed), or his Xeelee Series
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Dominoes posted:Btw, his new one, Fall; or, I almost abandoned it early because it was too normal and grounded in the real world. Boy... Yeah I feel like the nuclear strike thing could have been its own novella and that would have been pretty good. But then you get into this loving billionaire worship and like, 
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