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the thematic reasons are that having no q's made it impossible to describe the equinox in less than two hundred words
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also, hooray, thank you (again)
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also apparently a book written without specific letters is called a lipogram, which is the rubbishest word possible. i don't like it at all
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so it was actually a kwirk of the narrator, I see, I see
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I want to know if there were any other hidden themes or things in the book but I don't know what questions to ask
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I've never met an au-thor
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One of the crabs was actually a spider I think at one point
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and lots of them were definitely lobsters
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Maybe I should have called it The World Where The Only Word For Any Animals Is 'Crab'
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Crabs Are Wonderful
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I would like to book a lipogram please
it's for a "dinner" party
it's for a "dinner" party
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Fair Play by Tove Jansson - two old women live and work together in some small studio on an island in the sea and have 'adventures' (ten or so short stories baout almost nothing). it was good i really liked it
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That sounds like a calm book. I like calm books.
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Homfrus why are you shaking a dismembered fist at me
you are getting blood everywhere and it is slightly unnerving
you are getting blood everywhere and it is slightly unnerving
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I'm sorry Daren. In the heat of the moment, I went too far. I hope you'll be able to get the fist blood out of the carpet in time for your party.
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It is too late, the lipogram screamed and ran away
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Hooray. How amazing
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weird sea phenomena are the best
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That is so cool the Turks should definitely keep the Champions League final.
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Hard to be a god by Arkady an Boris Strugatsky
This was good but I don’t think I really understood it.
This was good but I don’t think I really understood it.
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I read that last year (?) and liked it. It made more sense than the film, which I saw previously, because that made no sense at all
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the goldfinch by donna tartt - crime story thing about a stolen painting that is quite good but also not anywhere near quite good enough to justify being a thousand bloody pages long really
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apparently they made a film of it and it is terrible
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jesus
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I hope the film is 10 hours long
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entirely needlessly
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I bet the audiobook version features the sound of the performer/reader coughing up blood.
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Dracul, by Dacre Stoker and J D Barker
I was not expecting it to be this brilliant. Based on and using bram stoker's notes, it starts with a sickly 7 year old boy who gets "better". Prequel. If only Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson were this good at copying the original author's style.
Dacre Stoker also wrote a sequel, called The Un-Dead, which was the original name for the book. Different coauthor though, but will have to read.
Along with Makt Myrkranna, the recently translated Icelandic version, which is rather different.
Yes.
I was not expecting it to be this brilliant. Based on and using bram stoker's notes, it starts with a sickly 7 year old boy who gets "better". Prequel. If only Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson were this good at copying the original author's style.
Dacre Stoker also wrote a sequel, called The Un-Dead, which was the original name for the book. Different coauthor though, but will have to read.
Along with Makt Myrkranna, the recently translated Icelandic version, which is rather different.
Yes.
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I can't remember exactly where I read this, but there was a literary website from the 2000s which had a brilliant quote about overly-long books. It went something like: "Writers often joke about not being able to start writing. You will note that they never joke about not being able to stop."
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Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
I'm sure there used to be a bunch of these books at my grandma's house. I had never particularly been interested in them but this one was chosen for an online book club thing that I signed up for, and I really enjoyed it. Very funny, excellent use of language. Good stuff.
I'm sure there used to be a bunch of these books at my grandma's house. I had never particularly been interested in them but this one was chosen for an online book club thing that I signed up for, and I really enjoyed it. Very funny, excellent use of language. Good stuff.
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Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
A most enjoyable Poirot mystery with a somewhat ridiculous ending and quite a lot of simmering racism baked into it, as was the style at the time. Enjoyed it though
A most enjoyable Poirot mystery with a somewhat ridiculous ending and quite a lot of simmering racism baked into it, as was the style at the time. Enjoyed it though
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I am currently working my way though I Hate The Internet by Jarett Kobek. It is very good, funny, depressing. But still funny. I like how blunt it is, and how Kobek managed to throw some "shade" at the UK publisher for censoring bits that aren't censored in the US printing by putting the text "[JIM'LL FIX IT]" after each blacked out bit. This ends up causing the bonus grim amusement of having the monster of Leeds associated in your mind with Walt Disney and Peter Theil among others, and all due to Britain's libel laws.
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its the least they deserve
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Is zat the one with the Grammar School speeches?vom wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 7:41 am Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
I'm sure there used to be a bunch of these books at my grandma's house. I had never particularly been interested in them but this one was chosen for an online book club thing that I signed up for, and I really enjoyed it. Very funny, excellent use of language. Good stuff.
It's very possibly ma fave 'J&W' book, that one!
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It is!
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Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita
An intriguing and strange book, following seven characters across seven days as the tropic of Cancer begins to move North from Mexico to LA, causing everything to go a bit weird. Each character has their own distinct voice and the story brings them all together in a climax that is fascinating but also I have no idea what really happened. I quite liked it though
An intriguing and strange book, following seven characters across seven days as the tropic of Cancer begins to move North from Mexico to LA, causing everything to go a bit weird. Each character has their own distinct voice and the story brings them all together in a climax that is fascinating but also I have no idea what really happened. I quite liked it though
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Conjure Wife by Fritz Lieber
I picked this off my shelf when I wanted something suitably Halloweeny to read, but didn't end up finishing it until today. I loved it though, it's a 50s fantasy horror novel about a sociology professor discovering that his wife is practicing witchcraft and not believing in it until he asks her to stop, and their lives immediately fall apart. Really good fun, I'm gonna have to check out the film version, which is oddly called Night of the Eagle for some reason (although also known as BURN WITCH, BURN, hooray)
I picked this off my shelf when I wanted something suitably Halloweeny to read, but didn't end up finishing it until today. I loved it though, it's a 50s fantasy horror novel about a sociology professor discovering that his wife is practicing witchcraft and not believing in it until he asks her to stop, and their lives immediately fall apart. Really good fun, I'm gonna have to check out the film version, which is oddly called Night of the Eagle for some reason (although also known as BURN WITCH, BURN, hooray)