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Any recommendations for "historical" crime novels? I'm thinking mostly pre-industrial. So far I've read some Ruusuvuori, Van Gulik (one of my favourites but only because they're hell of fast reads), Eco's Il nome della rosa, Christie's Death Comes as the End (which wasn't very good), and one of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels but I can't remember the title. In English, Finnish, or Swedish (as long as it's pretty much standard Swedish). e: a few things some writers of historical fiction seem to love that I do not love: awkward foot sex scenes on the smithy floor, detailed descriptions of nautical manoeuvres, info dumps. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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Haystack posted:What are some good swashbuckling adventure books? I've got The Princess Bride and Stardust in mind as reference points, but I may be interested in anything in that approximately-renaissance-adventure mold. I don't know if they're great but Samuel Shellabarger made a lot of money with swashbuckling novels. I've only read Prince of Foxes (which they made a film out of) and The King's Cavalier and I was reasonably entertained. (Joke answer: https://archive.org/details/surgeonsstories00topegoog - I don't know if there's a full or recent English translation.) Anyway thanks for the recommendations, thread. e: Actually, "swashbuckling" might not mean what I thought it means so 
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Feb 13, 2018 13:34
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(I may have asked about this previously somewhere but gently caress me if I can remember where and what the results were). This is pretty broad in that I'm also interested in other sorts of media besides books but there's something I want more of: literary shenanigans. I mean both works that are deceiving or attempting to deceive the reader/audience*, and also works about works meant to deceive the reader/audience in some way. Doesn't really matter if it's fiction or not. Stuff I guess I'm trying to mean: Calvino's Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore, that one Paul Auster novel (or was it a novella? I forget), Welles's F for Fake, that art book with the people turning into alligators and poo poo. *) Or someone else I guess; censors, spies, whatever. Maybe even the characters in the work - as in Mathieu's Julius Corentin Acquefacques although "works where characters are somehow mislead" is a bit too broad of course. I guess Moore's Watchmen would qualify, for instance, but only just. OK I hope that was vague enough 
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Apr 17, 2018 11:34
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Mel Mudkiper posted:It was a joke about US history curriculum emphasizing the stories of whites Hah hah. e: Excellent recommendations BTB.
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Apr 19, 2018 21:04
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Subjunctive posted:My daughter’s music teacher is Mr Medley. The former head gardener of the University botanical gardens is called Arno Kasvi welp that's my name story god bless.
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Apr 29, 2018 04:30
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:They go downhill in quality unfortunately. It's a stop when you feel like it they don't get better series, unless you're really attached to the characters and want the whole character arc. Wimsey has no character beyond "hello I can literally do anything and I can do it better than anyone what ho".
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Nov 2, 2018 01:11
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StrixNebulosa posted:Somebody tell me about amazing true crime novels / story collections. Or fictional crime, either or. I want good writing and interesting/horrible events to read about. Tangential to this, is there a good book (or good books) about art forgery in English? I've read pretty much all there is about it in Finnish but it's pretty much introductory stuff.
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Nov 5, 2018 00:42
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:There's one really neat biography of an art forger whose author then turned around afterwards and tried to become a literary forger: Ohhh I know all* about De Hory and this I am going to look more into. Thank you very much  *) All that was in the last book I read. e: Oh I should've remembered him from the movie as well.
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Nov 5, 2018 00:50
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Bilirubin posted:The Cornish Trilogy (Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, Lyre of Orpheus) by Robertson Davies. Well I don't mind novels about art forgery. However, after BingTMing a plot summary for Rebel Angels I can safely say it's not what I'm looking for. e: Well that was quick. Apparently Rebel Angels and The Rebel Angels are very different things indeed.
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Nov 6, 2018 14:17
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StrixNebulosa posted:Most of my crime novels are here, and holy cow are In Cold Blood + The Executioner's Song good. Like, insanely well written and getting creepier as we approach the crime itself. I found myself settling in to watch the second half of the Shining yesterday, and I had to turn it off because I just wanted to read. Which says something, because that movie has been insanely compelling! quote:"The Executioner's Song" is also the title of a poem by Mailer, published in gently caress You magazine in September 1964 
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Nov 10, 2018 17:21
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:From a post on Facebook (not mine) R.U.R.
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Nov 11, 2018 21:18
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:You should really get Bartleby and Co, and look up all the works that Vila-Matas catalogues in it, that should keep you busy I chanced upon a translation of this on a book shop's bargain table for a few € and it is a good book, thank you
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Dec 31, 2018 12:58
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Salt Fish posted:Big catch-22 hater checking in, book is not for me. It's the "Maltese Falcon" of books. Wät 
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Jan 4, 2019 11:01
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Is Finnegan's Wake like the Finnish classic (which literally no-one has actually read despite claiming otherwise) Alastalon salissa? I quote from Wikipedia (translation my own):quote:Alastalon salissa is a story of six hours, during which a group of villagers from Kustavi discuss investing in Herman Mattsson of Alastalo's bark. The most famous episode in the detailing of the meeting, altogether comprising about nine hundred pages, is the choosing of the pipe, wherein the master of Härkäniemi walks to the pipe rack at the back of the hall and chooses the pipe most suiting of his needs. This contemplation and thought processes both related and unrelated to it take about seventy pages worth of text (3. chapter).
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Jan 9, 2019 08:44
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40-Degree Day posted:Can anyone recommend me some horror books? I've read some Stephen King stuff over the years and never got the "can't sleep after reading" thing people say they from his books. I wanna be unsettled and freaked the gently caress out. Any type of book is cool. Might be too unsettling but https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Risk-Michael-Lewis/dp/1324002646
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Jan 24, 2019 21:16
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I was looking for something to recommend to chernobyl kinsman while drunk yesterday and none of the books I could think of were available in English. Anglowned! (Not even the highly amusing comedy answer that first came to mind:) 
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Mar 3, 2019 10:08
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StrixNebulosa posted:Might've asked this before, but let's try it again: I'm looking for books that capture the feeling of X-COM. Military sci-fi against an incredibly dangerous force, one that might be impossible to defeat. I'll take horror or optimism or both, just - something, anything that captures the feel of the original X-COM game. You mean a book where the protagonists just go in and set literally everything on fire and then explode the everything that is on fire? Can't think of anything right off the bat.
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Mar 13, 2019 00:14
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I admit that I have not actually read any of the Chtorr books myself. I don't know how it's supposed to be pronounced but "Chtorr" makes me think of the "this is how little kids cough" cat.
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Mar 13, 2019 18:12
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Pegnose Pete posted:Trying to read Marquez's 190 Years of Solitude and really struggling now. Hot take: it's not good so don't feel bad for just giving up. La mala hora is a much better novel.
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Mar 19, 2019 14:53
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Dirty Frank posted:Our man in Havana maybe? Greene is contemporary by a lot of standards but I get the feeling not by the asker's.
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Apr 9, 2019 18:32
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funkybottoms posted:Olen Steinhauer Vai olet sinä Steinhauer?
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Apr 9, 2019 21:03
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John Connolly.
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Apr 15, 2019 23:06
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Re: kids' books: has Astrid Lindgren been translated to your language?
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May 3, 2019 20:36
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A human heart posted:god almighty is there anything that some clown online won't call depressing. like im sure the children can handle it man, take it easy. Maybe they're depressing if you have depression? (Of course as a Finn my metric for "depressing Finnish childrens' book" is somewhat skewed by having read "Mr. Huu Moves" as a kid. Everything is "Happy Little Elves" compared to that.) 
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May 6, 2019 21:25
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Any Russian crime novelists besides Akunin any good? (Nothing supernatural TIA) E: oh and I don't read Russian.
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Sep 7, 2019 17:39
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chernobyl kinsman posted:no it sucks pretty bad I almost bought it but then I happened to see the film (or possibly the sequel) on TV and yeah nah lol.
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Sep 12, 2019 09:45
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. Or as it is known in some markets, "The Entire Contents of My Boat's Pantry - A novel about condensed milk"
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Sep 16, 2019 21:35
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bowser posted:I'm looking for, uh, "historical fiction" that takes place during or around any of the events of the Bible. I know there's an entire genre of "biblical fiction" but I'm hoping for something that isn't so pushy with religious morals. Waltari's The Secret of the Kingdom? (Haven't read it yet  )
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Sep 23, 2019 19:43
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anilEhilated posted:It is pretty pushy with the morals but a fairly good read nonetheless. Oh, darn, I guess I'll not read it for another 27 years then.
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Sep 23, 2019 21:00
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Seriouspost: you're dumb (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 24, 2019 00:38
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Its Coke posted:- Skillfully evocative descriptions that paint a picture Well I mean: 
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Oct 20, 2019 22:24
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An Apple A Gay posted:looking for icelandic/scandinavian dark crime thrillers Not Iceland but "The Girl in the Ice" by the Hammers?
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Oct 25, 2019 23:14
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Also Jörn Lier Horst.
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Oct 25, 2019 23:15
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LibCrusher posted:I’m kindling the first book now. Even if you don't like it you don't have to burn it 
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Nov 15, 2019 01:21
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Imagining a huge “Warning: Child Abuse” sticker on my copy of Maxim Gorky’s My Childhood and LMAOing rn Sometimes I still think of the line "my mother kept hitting me on the head with a frying pan rather vigorously"*, sometimes I don't. *) No idea how the line is originally, or in English translations, but that's the gist of it anyway.
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Nov 15, 2019 11:42
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I'd say the Charlie Parker novels but they actually kind of suck.
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Jan 31, 2020 03:48
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No  big enough.
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Feb 17, 2020 19:20
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Franchescanado posted:CineD's Movie of the Month is Wong Kar-Wai's In The Mood For Love, one of my favorite movies, and it's made me realize that I really don't know the stand-out literary classics that are about unrequited love and/or affairs. So I have two requests for recommendations. Maugham's The Painted Veil? E: I'd also throw in Greene's A Burnt-Out Case but any number of people might not agree. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Feb 18, 2020 15:07
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Ras Het posted:Every single classic is about people having affairs. All of them, from start to finish. It's like asking for books in which sad people have a bad time Murder is not an affair though 
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I think HA ugh he's a real jerk!
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