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Orson Scott Card - Ender´s Game

Thanks for the rec, jellyraj, I'll check it out.

Just finished Bel-Ami, thought it was overrated in the end though

  On 8/30/2015 at 11:46 PM, jellyrajah said:

 

  On 8/28/2015 at 5:29 PM, Berk said:

Man, the ending to Anna Karenina is a bit of a disappointment, anyone agree? Or am I missing something? Gotta say I agree with this article: http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/feb/01/anna-karenina-ending

 

 

It's been a few years since I read the book, but now that I think back on it, I do remember the ending being pretty bad compared to the rest of the novel. So it's definitely not just you thinking that

 

ah ok, good to hear!

  On 12/21/2013 at 10:01 AM, mokz said:

Yeah, it's a pretty surreal choose your own adventure book with lots of references to other works and real life thrown around. The main character has some pretty hard mental health problems and the story spins out of control lots of times.

 

  On 12/20/2013 at 6:31 PM, lifeforce said:

 

  On 11/10/2013 at 9:01 AM, mokz said:

Speaking about non-English books, the Finns here might enjoy this book. It's pretty IDMz.

 

That looks like a beautiful language. Would it be difficult to learn ?

Isn't that where Tolkien derived his Elvish from ?

If you know Estonian or some more obscure Finno-Ugric-languages close to Finnish it might be not very hard. Otherwise it's considered one of the most difficult languages to learn, especially the grammar. Also some of the old vocabulary is probably pretty odd, like "sun"->"aurinko".

 

Now, if you want to use the word aurinko it might get tricky..

"from the sun" -> "auringosta"

"also from the sun" -> "auringostakin"

"also to our sun" -> "aurinkoommekin"

"not even from our sun" -> "auringostakaammekaan"

etc..

Just looking back through this post and I thought "fuck it, I need a new challenge in my life. I think I'll try and learn Finnish".

I mean, I'm not in a hurry or looking for a quick fix. Trying to learn a language in the shortest possible time is not what I'm looking for.

A lifetime of study,practice and more importantly, enjoying the experience is more what I'm about.

I've been reading trashy Richard Laymon books, The Stake at the moment.

Finished The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco there, great stuff. Dude knows his medieval culture/history.

  On 9/17/2015 at 12:38 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

Finished The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco there, great stuff. Dude knows his medieval culture/history.

Baudolino is great for that stuff as well, he goes even further down the rabbit hole in that one - based around the time of the Holy Roman Empire and the myth of the Kingdom of Prester John.

The new Clive Barker is shockingly bad. Read up on it afterwards and it seems the original manuscript was over twice as many pages. That's exactly what it reads like. Stripped of all nuance, forced exposition, terrible dialogue, plot threads introduced early on that are never mentioned again (and presumably were in the bits that were cut)

Reads like teen fiction or The Famous Five Go To Hell.

Still not got around to getting hold of the last (so far) Ice and Fire book so gonna read Dune next to satisfy my 'book with fantasy map at the start' cravings.

Bought a 1 penny copy of We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates and it's not only in perfect condition but signed. Noice.

  On 9/18/2015 at 10:50 AM, hello spiral said:

The new Clive Barker is shockingly bad. Read up on it afterwards and it seems the original manuscript was over twice as many pages. That's exactly what it reads like. Stripped of all nuance, forced exposition, terrible dialogue, plot threads introduced early on that are never mentioned again (and presumably were in the bits that were cut)

 

Reads like teen fiction or The Famous Five Go To Hell.

 

Still not got around to getting hold of the last (so far) Ice and Fire book so gonna read Dune next to satisfy my 'book with fantasy map at the start' cravings.

I've never read any Clive Barker, but I did hear that last one was getting panned by everyone.

First time reading Dune?

Yup, finally getting around to it. Had the book sitting here for a few years.

Early Barker is fucking lush, read Books of Blood, Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show.

The Owl Service - It fizzles out at the end but otherwise lovely folk horror set in the Welsh valleys, give it a go if hauntology is your cup of tea.

Can't type for shit and only had a couple, what's happening?

  On 9/18/2015 at 11:33 PM, hello spiral said:

Yup, finally getting around to it. Had the book sitting here for a few years.

 

Early Barker is fucking lush, read Books of Blood, Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show.

I love those, but I also loved his 2001 novel Coldheart Canyon.

finally finished up dostoyevsky’s ‘the idoit’, & found that despite the obvious brilliance of its author, his tense tragicomedy iz an endurance test of shakespearean melodrama. shit was a long read, & all the characters were p annoying yet glad 2 hav red it lol. the plot's roller coasting unpredictability is liek a louis ck or lynch miniseries script, &, funnily enough, the novel’s insight into the human condition was apparently inspiration enough for tarkovsky 2 consider filmy the confusing, ambitious, challenging story. 7/10

now rereedy:

  On 9/17/2015 at 4:03 PM, caze said:

 

  On 9/17/2015 at 12:38 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

Finished The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco there, great stuff. Dude knows his medieval culture/history.

 

Baudolino is great for that stuff as well, he goes even further down the rabbit hole in that one - based around the time of the Holy Roman Empire and the myth of the Kingdom of Prester John.

 

Lush, I'll check it out!

  On 9/19/2015 at 12:32 AM, tec said:

The Owl Service - It fizzles out at the end but otherwise lovely folk horror set in the Welsh valleys, give it a go if hauntology is your cup of tea.

i've been slowly working my way through the tv series. have you seen it? it's very bizarre in how it's made incorporating experimental filmmaking with a sort of dreamy folk narrative.

read the back and picked this up immediately. i have a slight fascination with the yakuza (mostly bōsōzoku) so this immediately fascinated me especially considering how the cute the author is

  On 9/22/2015 at 9:40 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 9/19/2015 at 12:32 AM, tec said:

The Owl Service - It fizzles out at the end but otherwise lovely folk horror set in the Welsh valleys, give it a go if hauntology is your cup of tea.

 

i've been slowly working my way through the tv series. have you seen it? it's very bizarre in how it's made incorporating experimental filmmaking with a sort of dreamy folk narrative.

 

 

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i'm curious if the books explain where the plates with the owl patterns came from, and whether there is a part that explains a mural they find on the walls of the house they're vacationing at

 

I hadn't planned to but if you think it's worth a watch I'll give it a crack. Yeah it goes into the backstory a little, it leaves bits up to your imagination which is refreshing and kinda cool for something that is for children too.

^^ i definitely think it's worth watching (you can increase the recommendation by factor of 5000 if you've read the books) since alan garner wrote the script. also, this was granada's first show to be shot all on location (in wales) but it's not shot like a television show but rather like an experimental film that's edited into different episodes- and for a (kids?) show some scenes are pretty scary.

btw: the shows music sounds like it was done by the focus group

i still have maybe 3 more episodes to watch but i'm hoping they explain where the plates came from (so far, only the legend has been given)

  On 9/23/2015 at 7:09 PM, Nebraska said:

^^ i definitely think it's worth watching (you can increase the recommendation by factor of 5000 if you've read the books) since alan garner wrote the script. also, this was granada's first show to be shot all on location (in wales) but it's not shot like a television show but rather like an experimental film that's edited into different episodes- and for a (kids?) show some scenes are pretty scary.

 

btw: the shows music sounds like it was done by the focus group

 

i still have maybe 3 more episodes to watch but i'm hoping they explain where the plates came from (so far, only the legend has been given)

Sweet, sold on the music alone! I'll try and track it down.

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“Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”

Excerpt from Morrissey's debut novel ^

  On 9/24/2015 at 4:17 PM, doublename said:

 

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“Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”

 

Excerpt from Morrissey's debut novel ^

 

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood - Pashazade - The First Arabesk

Just started the Ghosts of Sleath by James Herbert. Enjoying it so far.

I just started reading Aphex's "Interests:", don't know if I'll be able to finish it one day.