Book Thread 2021
Book Thread 2021
I read a book!
I can't remember how many I'd read before the collapse, so it'll have to go unnumbered
I can't remember how many I'd read before the collapse, so it'll have to go unnumbered
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Anyway it was The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel, and it was good, sad, like her other books. This one was sort of about the 2008 financial crash but also sort of not really
One of the characters takes minutes long videos of everyday nothings, so I'm going to assume she was based rpentirely on me
One of the characters takes minutes long videos of everyday nothings, so I'm going to assume she was based rpentirely on me
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Also this was the second novel I've read in the last year which starts with a woman falling off a ship and remembering her old life in a vivid burst as she drowns (the other one was the promise by silvina ocampo)
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Which is a good coincidence, because the other book I am currently reading was forgotten journey by silvina ocampo (Argentinian short stories, good, couple of stories not yet read)
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I quite enjoyed that too. I think I read every non-Pandemic-related Emily St John Mandel book last year, what a time it was
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I actually started reading a new book yesterday because it was summer and I could sit in the garden
but now it's not summer any more and it might snow on monday
but now it's not summer any more and it might snow on monday
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i sat outside this afternoon determined to enjoy these last few hours of sunlight, resolutely ignoring the chattering of my teeth and the shivering of my limbs
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(then i came back inside where i have remained eve since forever and ever shall)
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So far this year I have read:
A witcher book
A terrible Sci-fi book called Warship
And
a closed and common orbit by Becky chambers which was better than Long way to an angry planet, but was still a bit too twee.
A witcher book
A terrible Sci-fi book called Warship
And
a closed and common orbit by Becky chambers which was better than Long way to an angry planet, but was still a bit too twee.
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how shit was the witcher book
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Today I read Kingdom by Jon McNaught, which gravid kindly sent me (because it was defective)
Anyway despite its defects (for some reason one page from near the start is reprinted towards the end instead of whatever page was supposed to be there, which is a pretty baffling trick) it was really lovely. About a family going on a nice drab british holiday and that's it really
![Image](https://www.page45.com/store/Kingdom-7.jpg)
Anyway despite its defects (for some reason one page from near the start is reprinted towards the end instead of whatever page was supposed to be there, which is a pretty baffling trick) it was really lovely. About a family going on a nice drab british holiday and that's it really
![Image](https://www.page45.com/store/Kingdom-7.jpg)
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ooh that does look lovely
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The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins
A man called Dave grows a big beard and then floats off into the sky. 10/10
A man called Dave grows a big beard and then floats off into the sky. 10/10
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I've nearly read an entire book this weekend, thanks to sunshine
but it's not finished yet so you'll have to wait for my thrilling verdict
but it's not finished yet so you'll have to wait for my thrilling verdict
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Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
well this was depressing. perfect sunny garden reading, about the death of an alcoholic and the doomed addicts that used to hang out at his squalid flat. it was pretty compelling but I didn't like it as much as the other Jon McGregor books that I've read, which had some faint inkling of hope in them occasionally
well this was depressing. perfect sunny garden reading, about the death of an alcoholic and the doomed addicts that used to hang out at his squalid flat. it was pretty compelling but I didn't like it as much as the other Jon McGregor books that I've read, which had some faint inkling of hope in them occasionally
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Hooray. I was going to post a picture of the bit you missed, but the maximum filesize for uploads seems to be 256 kb and I don't know how to make it that small.dng wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 2:23 pm Today I read Kingdom by Jon McNaught, which gravid kindly sent me (because it was defective)
Anyway despite its defects (for some reason one page from near the start is reprinted towards the end instead of whatever page was supposed to be there, which is a pretty baffling trick) it was really lovely. About a family going on a nice drab british holiday and that's it really
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Maybe I can just describe it to you frame by frame.
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so now you'lll have to enlargen it to some sort of gigantic proportions
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It's too late, I have fired it into the sun.
(Sent it by email.)
(Sent it by email.)
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yes. thank you. also it was a very good page. hooray
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The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
A young nobleman decides to live in the trees, does so for the rest of his life. This was lovely, I saw some people talking about it on one of the film sites I hang out on and thought it sounded good, and indeed it was. It's a rambling tale without much conflict really, just playful exploration of the pros and cons of living in the trees.
A young nobleman decides to live in the trees, does so for the rest of his life. This was lovely, I saw some people talking about it on one of the film sites I hang out on and thought it sounded good, and indeed it was. It's a rambling tale without much conflict really, just playful exploration of the pros and cons of living in the trees.
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also that was my first e-reader read. now I am hoping I can figure out how to link it to my library card and get virtual bookes for free
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I read that last year and liked it a lot
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Then I read an umberto eco book that was very similar in many ways (the island of the day before) but also which I really hated entirely
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Were you doing a season of authors whose names end in O
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Dr Bloodmoney - Philip K Dick's version of fallout 3, this was pretty absurd even by Philip k dick standards, with everyone's madness and bigotry and paranoia and general insanity turned up to the maximum. Then it has the most underwhelming ending ever, and it sort of deflates everything so much you wonder why you bothered reading it
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that's one of my favourites
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or at least I remember it being absolutely incredible
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its really great till the end
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which could probably be a review of 90% of his books i suppose
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I really liked that one as well
i think me and vom both discussed it in an old book thread
it has a radioshack thing and a talking dog? and an Phocemegalic or something, like in Alien Resurrection
i think me and vom both discussed it in an old book thread
it has a radioshack thing and a talking dog? and an Phocemegalic or something, like in Alien Resurrection
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yes. and a poor lonely man in space, trapped in a satellite forever
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The people of the black circle by Robert e Howard
Conan cannot help but fight every unspeakable horror he sees.
Conan cannot help but fight every unspeakable horror he sees.
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I read We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson and it was amazing
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I think the only story of hers I've ever read before is The Lottery (also good). Although I've probably consumed the haunting of hill house by osmosis too
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I'm pretty sure we have discussed the haunting of hill house at some point
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The Discontinuity by David Guy
Damn, this was bleak. I loved all the island exploration stuff, it reminded me of the Atlas of Remote Islands and also Wind Waker. The rest of the plot was mysterious and terrifying. Hooray.
Damn, this was bleak. I loved all the island exploration stuff, it reminded me of the Atlas of Remote Islands and also Wind Waker. The rest of the plot was mysterious and terrifying. Hooray.
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hooray. they were exactly what i was thinking of, basically, as they're my two favourite things
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that and untold misery
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also thank you for reading it, vom. i hope it wasn't too full of typos or unreadably constructed sentences
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they're usually my speciality
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I only spotted a few typos, one of which may have been deliberate as it recurred several times ("horison"?) - obviously the writing is quite stylised in that olden-timey-but-is-it-actually-olden-times kinda way so I was unsure if certain things were a quirk of the narrator, or if I should report you immediately to the police
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I liked it though it was good
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horison (and frosen) were deliberate (there's no z's or q's used for thematic reasons)