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Why was the J-F Bibeau thread gassed?
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barkingclam posted:Jonathan Franzen Over my dead body! But seriously, my hatred for Franzen aside, I think that we can't even try to guess what will be considered a classic from our time. Probably something that has had commercial success but little critical acclaim. Think shopaholic and that kind of crap. It usually happens like that - most of the 19th century classics were their equivalent of soap operas at the time they were published.
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Feb 9, 2012 07:49
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thegloaming posted:Is there a decent sci-fi series (or single book) with multiple well-developed fictional religions? Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Religions, cults, mystical orders, popes all the way through the four books in the series.
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Feb 16, 2012 07:44
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hobbez posted:
My favorite Pynchon book. All the usual stuff: very funny, lots of grotesque bits, silly character names, obscure references. One barely compehensible chapter written from a deranged character's viewpoint.
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Mar 29, 2012 06:46
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Joramun posted:I'd say that's Melville or Twain. Twain, quite likely. Melville, no. At least not worldwide. I'd only heard of Melville in high school and was already familiar with Twain and Poe at the time. I'm not American and it's anecdotal evidence but I think it's correct.
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Mar 29, 2012 20:46
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Iced Cocoa posted:I have a Kindle, but at the moment I'm really not going to buy any books for it since I need to save up for major Christmas purchases. But I'm aware of the fact that there are several free books. Now I'm trying to figure out if there are any free classic books, old sci-fi and that. I managed to get Journey to the Centre of the Earth and The Lost World on the kindle, but where else can I get more books that are legally free? Baen free library offers decent sci-fi fare free od charge. Project Gutenberg has some classic sci-fi titles available. Download Calibre to convert other formats to Kindle compatible mobi. E:fb
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Nov 8, 2012 21:07
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Eight Is Legend posted:At what point does 2666 start to pick up the pace? It's well-written and it is a big book, but I'm at page 135 now and I kinda feel like the story should start to be going somewhere soon. Things really pick up after the part about the critics ends. That's probably something like 20-30 pages further from the spot you're at.
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Jan 22, 2013 23:18
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Soundtrack To Mary posted:I just skimmed through the Reading Challenge thread, and I saw that most people are shooting for between thirty and sixty books this year. I missed my goal of 52 by four books last year. I have a demanding job, two kids and several hobbies. For me, the trick is to read at least a few pages before passing out at night. I barely watch any TV, though.
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May 10, 2013 13:19
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Howard Phillips posted:What are the best books on russian revolution, biographies of stalin, lenin, and trotsky? A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes is the best book on Russian revolution there is. Isaac Deutscher wrote the best biography of Trotsky and a very good one of Stalin. E:Sebag Montefiore wrote two books about Stalin that are very enjoyable.
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Apr 17, 2015 06:53
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So what if your pizza place doesn't own a microtome?
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Aug 22, 2015 22:43
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Is getting Infinite Jest on Kindle a bad idea? Would it be unreadable, with all the annotations or whatever?
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Feb 2, 2016 12:04
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Mr. Squishy posted:More readable as they're hyperlinked. Thanks, it's quite neat.
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Feb 2, 2016 16:21
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I read a lot of non-fic, and any book that is critical of, say, an Arab country or Islam will have a ton of one star reviews by dudes with names written in arabic script. Works for any other religion/ideology too.
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Mar 11, 2016 09:16
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quote:Ugh. Tried again. Guess it's genuine. Sorry, but I can't stand to read Navokov. Sad, as I like the classicists.
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Mar 11, 2016 17:08
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quote:This book is bloated old piece of crap. How this even got published in the first place is beyond me, much less how it has been considered a 'classic' for years. quote:The Odyssey was better than the Iliad, maybe 2 stars. This is awesome, I am really enjoying the reviews.
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Mar 11, 2016 17:59
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I use it to log the books I've read and to mark the ones I want to read. It's not bad for that. Also, a lot of goons up there, and a somewhat decent system of recommendations based on your shelves or genre preferences.
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Mar 11, 2016 22:17
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Casimir Radon posted:Islam, Biblical Minimalism, Azerbaijan. All really polarizing topics if you read Amazon reviews. I had no idea Biblical Minimalism was a thing, and now I'm hooked. Any book recommendations?
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Mar 13, 2016 22:05
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Professor Shark posted:Is there a thread here for the Aubrey-Maturin series? Yes, a bit further down, inactive since March. Can't link it for you because I'm posting via the app at the moment.
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May 23, 2016 00:50
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Hedrigall posted:I'm getting depressed by reading all the comments online about the actress playing Hermione Granger in the new stage play I guess she's some sort of a... black mage 
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Jun 5, 2016 22:11
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/07/14/world/europe/ap-eu-hungary-obit-esterhazy.html?_r=0 RIP Peter Esterhazy. Maybe your death will make me read one of your critically acclaimed books.
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Jul 14, 2016 21:48
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blue squares posted:I'm getting frustrated as I try to decide what to read between the three books I'm agonizing over. Alive, the story of the soccer team that crashed in the Andes; In the Garden of Beasts, Larsen's book about Nazi Germany; and The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer winner that documents the rise of Al-Qaeda and the attack on Sept. 11. The Looming Tower is probably the best non-fic I've read during the last few years, comparable only to Wright's Scientology book. I'd go with that one.
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Jul 15, 2016 08:47
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Another sort of: The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco. Although, the protagonist might not be aware he had sinned.
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Jul 17, 2016 20:57
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Middlesex and every novel Franzen ever wrote are also crap. That list is crap. Gilead is cool, though.
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Jul 31, 2016 20:44
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Hedrigall posted:I want to see a "best moving pictures of the 20th century" list made in 1916. We didn't invent writing in 1990, though.
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Jul 31, 2016 23:54
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So dare is in TBB now? Great.
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Sep 23, 2016 07:47
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I'm certain ICP will be awarded the Nobel prize for physics for their revolutionary work in magnetism.
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Oct 13, 2016 17:26
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Well, my absolute hero is Townes Van Zandt. Townes Van Zandt is so good Steve Earle named his son after him and also gave the world this quote “Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan‘s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” You have good taste. You are also probably prone to depression, but so am I. God, Tecumseh Valley, that has to be the bleakest song ever written, but I just can't get enough of it. I thought this quote would be relevant to the discussion: Wikipedia posted:According to Susanna Clark, Van Zandt turned down repeated invitations to write with Bob Dylan.[27] Dylan was reportedly a "big fan" of Townes and claimed to have all of his records; Van Zandt admired Dylan's songs, but didn't care for his celebrity.[27] The two first met during a chance encounter outside a costume shop in the South Congress district of Austin, on June 21, 1986.[27] According to Johnny Guess, Dylan later arranged another meeting with the songwriter. The Drag in Austin was shut down due to Dylan being in town; Van Zandt drove his motorhome to the cordoned-off area, after which Dylan boarded the vehicle and requested to hear him play several songs. Take the plunge! Okay! fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Oct 13, 2016 |
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Oct 13, 2016 21:14
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I read all of Jack McDevitt's Alex Benedict books, and all the Long Earth books, and now I'm starting on The Expanse. Are they a good addition to my downward spiral of series binges? They are rather readable and the plot keeps moving forward in every chapter. Some people dislike the genre hopping (book four is pretty much a western in space) and there is no depth, characterization nor elegant prose but if you could handle McDevitt, you'll be fine.
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Feb 17, 2017 00:10
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Mods pls namechange to "frilly elf fiasco"
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Mar 13, 2017 14:32
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I have a couple of suggestions: Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryu Murakami, because it's about the weirdest gang war ever. Caribou Island by David Vann, because it's been sitting on my shelf for some time now and that one dude has been yelling at everyone to read David Vann since at least 2012.
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Apr 24, 2017 21:49
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Enfys posted:Never change, Goodreads. Am I imagining this, or did a writer send an irate reader a page full of commas and told him to apply them as desired?
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Jul 5, 2017 21:53
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I'm used to it now, but that was one weird transition. Being able to pull a word from dictionary by touching it mitigates the lack of buttons up to a point.
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Aug 19, 2017 09:10
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Number Ten Cocks got perma'd LMAO
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Sep 20, 2017 22:03
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Who cares, read Javier Marías anyway
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Oct 4, 2017 13:33
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StrixNebulosa posted:What does this forum think of Barbara Tuchman? I got Guns of August as a Christmas gift amongst other things and I want to hear what goons think of it. I once got yelled at by a mod for recommending Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror as an overview of medieval life since it was about a rich white dude. Me insisting that we don’t really have many sources about how poor women of color lived in the Middle Ages to write books from didn’t go down that well either. Thanks for reading my story about a Dutch Marxist moderator of the Something Awful forums.
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Dec 26, 2017 19:32
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'm not quite sure how to take this, because H. Alloy is the only mod in The Book Barn and they're a cool person. It was a long time ago, the mod was a dude who used to mod GBS I think. He later got doxed and his nudes were posted in Helldump. I can’t remember his name. And yes, H Alloy is a chill person.
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Dec 26, 2017 22:38
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cloudchamber posted:That's Mccaine. Posted a ton back when LF was still around. Yes, thank you!
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Dec 27, 2017 00:17
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Ulio posted:Ya thanks I saw the comparision chart on Amazon and seems like your right. Kindle Paperweight seems the most standard version. Is the regular Kindle just bad? It shows it has worse resolution and no built in light/led. The inbuilt light is worth the price difference
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Jan 6, 2018 18:41
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Jazz Marimba posted:I didn't see a thread for it, so can I ask here or is there a better place? I read a short work of fiction that was probably online and I can't find it anywhere and was hoping for help There is an identify this book/story thread around these parts
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Mar 9, 2018 21:25
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Hold a nazi rally reenactment and burn all the books in a big pyre
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Apr 30, 2018 16:56
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