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Post by toomanyclouds on May 25, 2017 9:53:04 GMT
@nightscrawl Yeah, I think that'll be my last-resort solution, haha. Just barrel through 20 pages a day trying not to think about it. @regulus That sounds good like a good idea, I think I may actually have to try that. I mean I do the same thing when I play ME:A and then post on this forum, lol, only it's about this book's winding philosophical metaphors about boats and somewhere in a .doc on my desktop.  |
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them please, if you can be bothered :3
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Post by firmicute on May 25, 2017 14:34:46 GMT
Slightly different type of book, but does anyone have tips for getting through a theoretical book that you have to read for research, but where you want to start an argument with the author on every page? Mine features thesis such as "Marxism is an Abrahamic religion" and condescending things like starting sentences with "even people who believe that they are atheists, agnosticts, humanists, etc., [are of course completely wrong]". That kind of tone just severely weakens my respect for the author and his ideas and I'm struggling to find my chill. I'm legit cursing at this book in my room here.  On the plus side, I bought Nexus Uprising last night, so I have that to look forward to. do you own it? If you do, take a pencil and write snarky answers to it- or on a paper and note some nr to it.. That helps me because then I dont have to let that annoyance in me at least, |
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Post by Vallerie on May 25, 2017 19:47:52 GMT
I think I will just go tomorrow and buy all Terry Pratchett books (I had them borrowed before)...they are just perfect in their satire of fantasy genre and the modern world  |
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obiwancomeblowme
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Post by obiwancomeblowme on May 25, 2017 19:51:44 GMT
I have finally...finally started Dune by Frank Herbert. A couple years ago, I saw the movie one boring night with my father, so I vaguely know what to expect. Everyone tells me the books are amazing and to never compare the two. Well, here I go... P.S. I hate worms. And sand. OH! I hope you enjoy it and decide to read the rest. I've read all of the main ones written by him, and some of the prequels written by his son (these don't have the same flavor, sadly). I have yet to read the final, true canon novel that was pieced together from notes and such after his death. The first three are the best, focusing on the core cast. The fourth is what I would consider to tie off Arrakis as an arc, and the two after that just start to veer off into other territory. As far as the films, I have a lot of nostalgia feels for the 1984 version, but the Syfy mini series (with DA2 Sebastian's VA as Paul!) was also quite good. A combination of the casts and visuals would be my ultimate Dune movie. I like how obvious the political game is. I don't even have to guess the treachery. As for the Syfy mini series, do you know when that came out? It may be difficult for me to find a copy if it was that long ago, but I can try.  |
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Post by indrexu on May 26, 2017 0:24:58 GMT
P.S. I hate worms. And sand. ...because it's coarse and rough and irritating and gets everywhere? In high school they made us read this book on critical reading skills which said that if you find yourself disagreeing with the author a lot, just start making little notations against the offending sentences so your mind feels like it can move on and the stress doesn't keep building. I found that it worked for me and was helpful with retention as well. Yes, that's usually a good trick. Write it down on a separate sheet of paper, type it, bitch about it to your friends via SMS, whatever works. I do the last one of those, which is why it's never a good idea for me to have your phone number, because I might start spamming you with "Peter Heather is a total penis, his migration analysis is going to give me cancer" texts. If you keep it bottled up, you're just going to hate the book more and more until you stop reading it and that's rarely a good idea. |
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Post by obiwancomeblowme on May 26, 2017 5:19:28 GMT
Thanks @regulus !
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2017 12:34:59 GMT
Voted Charlotte in the new poll. I've read all her works. She is a queen of angst.
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Post by obiwancomeblowme on May 30, 2017 5:59:08 GMT
I voted Charlotte because I only read Jane Eyre. Somehow, there wasn't much time for more in my Women Literature course, i guess.
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Post by kestrel on Jun 2, 2017 3:02:34 GMT
Currently reading: Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt. It's pretty interesting, and he's a reasonably entertaining author. He lets a lot of the subject matter speak for itself, as he should, though he does put in a lot of jokes, none seem too out of place.
Though right now I'm reading about how much straight white women love eating the placenta and going "dear god, why."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2017 4:59:19 GMT
I voted Charlotte because I only read Jane Eyre. Somehow, there wasn't much time for more in my Women Literature course, i guess. I read it with my women's lit class this past semester. it's 500 pages  it took FIVE WEEKS to get through it. |
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jun 2, 2017 5:04:00 GMT
I voted Charlotte because I only read Jane Eyre. Somehow, there wasn't much time for more in my Women Literature course, i guess. Lol, was it seriously the only book they read for that class? I can think of dozens of authors. |
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Post by obiwancomeblowme on Jun 2, 2017 5:10:10 GMT
I voted Charlotte because I only read Jane Eyre. Somehow, there wasn't much time for more in my Women Literature course, i guess. Lol, was it seriously the only book they read for that class? I can think of dozens of authors. I don't remember all of them, honestly. Jane Eyre was one. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. I believe there were two more books, but I sadly can't recall anything about them besides maybe something about the Caribbean. I had this class years ago and only the Bluest Eye book left an impression. |
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Post by Lady Artifice on Jun 2, 2017 12:14:00 GMT
I'm really loving Devil in the White City right now. I'm probably going to pick up everything else the author has done, starting with In the Garden of Beasts.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2017 3:00:07 GMT
I've never read Bronte anything.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2017 9:27:46 GMT
I've never read Bronte anything. As I said in my previous post, Charlotte writes serious angst, but most of it does end happily! Her writing isn't quite as accessible as Jane Austin, but it is pretty close. The only other Bronte I've read is Wuthering Heights by sister Emily. I couldn't stand any of the characters or the style it was written in (described as a Russian nesting doll for the way it has a character tell the story some other character tells them. Unreliable narrator on steroids). The only movie version of Jane Eyre I can watch, and I've seen several, is the Orson Welles version. It's condensed quite a bit for the film, but it is mostly accurate, even including stretches of dialogue lifted right from the novel. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2017 16:27:25 GMT
I actually have read something from Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey. It was okay. Very short if you just want something to read quickly. The heroine is kind of mousy and it's the whole "suffering governess" plot line again. I can't even remember if there's romance.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2017 3:07:06 GMT
I've never read Bronte anything. As I said in my previous post, Charlotte writes serious angst, but most of it does end happily! Her writing isn't quite as accessible as Jane Austin, but it is pretty close. I don't really even find Austin accessible, honestly. I had to read Persuasion for a literature independent study I did during my last semester of high school and found it really tedious to finish. It was definitely my least favorite thing my adviser made me cover for that course. Especially since it was right after the short story section that included "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and "Young Goodman Brown" which both still haunt me in the most amazing way almost a decade later. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2017 4:20:00 GMT
As I said in my previous post, Charlotte writes serious angst, but most of it does end happily! Her writing isn't quite as accessible as Jane Austin, but it is pretty close. I don't really even find Austin accessible, honestly. I had to read Persuasion for a literature independent study I did during my last semester of high school and found it really tedious to finish. It was definitely my least favorite thing my adviser made me cover for that course. Especially since it was right after the short story section that included "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and "Young Goodman Brown" which both still haunt me in the most amazing way almost a decade later. Persuasion is probably the densest Austen novel tbh. If you ever want to try her again, I recommend Pride and Prejudice, and maybe Northanger Abbey. |
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jun 4, 2017 7:22:52 GMT
When it comes to Austen, Emma is my favourite. Partly because I got good marks for an essay I wrote about it, lol.
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Post by kestrel on Jun 4, 2017 18:23:28 GMT
Pride and Prejudice will forever hold a special place in my heart and I don't even know why, but I love Austen so much. I even sort of like Mansfield Park, which is a struggle to admit. I went to Bath a couple years ago and toured the Austen museum like a giant idiot and went to all the sights and had a blast.
Finished the cannibalism book, and it was definitely really interesting. I'm not sure what it says about me that I read everything except the placenta eating with a straight face, but the placenta eating broke me as a human being.
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it took FIVE WEEKS to get through it.
