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Literature Please come visit. People get upset, write poetry about it, and post it here. Sometimes we also talk about books. |
12-22-2015, 05:53 PM
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#3226
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Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Posts: 206
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Ok, I understand. What you describe I suffer from too, but to a far lesser extent. Please feel free to talk to me at any time about anything. I promise you I'll listen and try to help if I can.
With regard to posting on the internet, I've had many of my stories pirated. It is just like being robbed or, as you said, throwing your work away. I used to get quite annoyed by this but now I haven't done a seach for pirate copies for ages. Posting your work here will at least give it a sympathetic and appreciative audience. I'll look forward to it.
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12-22-2015, 08:45 PM
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#3227
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 63
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Originally Posted by Black_Ice149
I know that London has pretty much everything a person might want from a city, but I'm so nervous and socially on-edge, that I can barely enjoy anything that has to do with other people. Even from an early age I haven't been able to make casual conversation without getting stressed, and at this point I'm completely closed-off from other people, due to it. Everything I do feels so intensely important, because it's really the only thing that keeps my psyche from breaking down. So I end up spending way too much time just thinking and worrying over anything I write or say, to the point where I often just delete everything, due to it not sounding right enough. And then, after I've pressed "send" or "post", I immediately hate it and regret it. The same goes for talking to people in real life, except worse. If they talk to me first, I can be fine with it, but if I have to reach out, I often feel like I'd rather just die instead.
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I am the same way! I think it's anxiety. It's extreme and quite awful. I feel it has really held me back.
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02-07-2016, 02:34 AM
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#3228
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fiddler's Green
Posts: 1,406
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What is the What - Dave Eggers
Fucking incredible. Recently realized how much time I wasted trying to understand and mimic worthless Gothic literature. Good writing goes beyond spooky dogma.
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02-07-2016, 08:45 AM
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#3229
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 729
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"The Replacement", Brenna Yovannoff. I think it may be YA - but gore, changelings and revenants. Nice.
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02-07-2016, 01:58 PM
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#3230
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Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Posts: 206
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The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie (1936).
Blood, gore, strangulation, serial murder, beautiful femme-fatales, lies, deception and the irreststilbly charming Monsieur Hercule Poirot. All of Christie's novels are beautifully written and contain quite a bit of humour and irony as well as her cleverly crafted plots. This one is a little unusual and feels very modern as the case involves a serial killer. Just the thing to read whilst sipping a glass of dry sherry on a rainy afternoon before the butler calls you down for tea.
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02-07-2016, 07:59 PM
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#3231
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Medford, OR
Posts: 3
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I'm currently reading Gothic Charm School by Jillian Venters.
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02-07-2016, 09:40 PM
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#3232
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Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Posts: 206
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkestBirds
I'm currently reading Gothic Charm School by Jillian Venters.
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Excellent book. Without a doubt a 'must have' for all goths. I have read it several times. Jillian if you read this - WRITE MORE BOOKS - we'll buy them I swear !
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02-11-2016, 01:17 PM
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#3233
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Reading Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett. It's Versus's favourite book so I feel just a *little* pressured to love it XD but it's actually pretty good so far. Such grimdark, much gothic horror. Wow.
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02-14-2016, 03:23 AM
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#3234
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Auckland
Posts: 627
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
Reading Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett. It's Versus's favourite book so I feel just a *little* pressured to love it XD but it's actually pretty good so far. Such grimdark, much gothic horror. Wow.
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I quite liked that series. Too bad the last trilogy of it staring Bequin seems to be have had some very long delays.
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02-16-2016, 01:30 PM
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#3235
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Oh, I didn't now that! Bummer, so far Bequin hasn't had much to do but I'm pleased to hear she gets her own series. When she first showed up I turned to Versus and said "the sex worker lives, right? RIGHT?!"
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02-23-2016, 07:48 PM
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#3236
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 5
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Night and Day by Virginia Woolf.
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03-14-2016, 07:40 AM
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#3237
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 4,036
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The Girl Who Lept Through Time - TsuTsui
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"I've an idea. Why don't we play a little game. Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive. Just for a while. What do you say? Let's pretend we're human. Oh, brother, it's such a long time since I was with anyone who got enthusiastic about anything."
― Jack Osborne
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03-18-2016, 08:22 AM
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#3238
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 729
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Just finished the last of the Dark Tower series.
I need something else to read. Hopefully adult books. Even if they're decent subject matter I'm old and cranky, therefore getting sick of the YA tropes.
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03-19-2016, 12:46 AM
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#3239
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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ANCILLARY JUSTICE ANCILLARY JUSTICE ANCILLARY JUSTICE.
Ahem. You should read Ancillary Justice.
Just finished Anno Dracula and it was...eeeeeh.
If my reader charges I'll be reading Northanger Abbey next.
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03-20-2016, 05:13 AM
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#3240
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 729
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My friend likes that book I think. Looking into it.
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03-20-2016, 07:44 PM
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#3241
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Your friend has excellent taste.
It's about a space empire in which people have no gender, and the narrator uses female pronouns as a neutral default. The narrator is also an AI who inhabits thousands of bodies used as soldiers, until something happens and she's down to one. Then, then she is on a quest for revenge.
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03-22-2016, 04:12 AM
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#3242
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 729
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Yes! That's the one they've been talking about! I might chew through the cheap paperbacks I have to make space and then borrow/order it.
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03-22-2016, 12:06 PM
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#3243
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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It's definitely one of those series where I start to become envious of those reading it for the first time.
Finished Northanger Abbey, and I'm mad that I didn't read it in high school. Why didn't anyone tell me Jane Austen is hilarious? Catherine is such a goth chick and a bit of a dunce, I would have identified with her like crazy eleven years ago. As is, I'll have to make do with the witty satire.
Reading Carmilla next, then maybe I might read some of the gothic novels Jane Austen mentioned.
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03-23-2016, 02:21 AM
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#3244
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 729
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I just finished the first book of Lucifer (going back to get favoured gn's in order) and am about to start reading Daniel Way's Deadpool. Regretting that I don't have much comic money.
Then I'm going to quickly read up Tithe (which had/has promise but has already started veering annoyingly young adulty - same way as the Replacement. Don't you hate that? Something's good and then a wild Mary Sue/brooding love interest appears. There need to be more adult supernatural books that aren't crap romance!)
The I'll see if I can borrow Ancillary Justice.
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03-25-2016, 10:58 AM
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#3245
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 4
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I reading book on programming
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07-11-2016, 07:14 AM
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#3246
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Asgard!!
Posts: 62
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Well, I'm currently reading two things. A story Fanfiction.net, called The Way. The other is an actual book, Lords of Chaos.
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04-07-2020, 03:19 AM
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#3247
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Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: In Hell.
Posts: 327
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No one has read a book in four years...
I'm always reading too many books at once, but I'm only gonna mention one, which I've only started recently.
Ash by James Herbert.
It's the final book in the David Ash trilogy, and I've read the previous parts as well. The plots in all of these are pretty ridiculous (Well, actually in the first two they they were sorta fine until they weren't anymore, this third one dove straight into it.) but David Ash is just an excellent character and I can't get enough of him regardless. Too bad he is coming to his end.
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04-09-2020, 03:49 PM
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#3248
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 232
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I'm reading "other minds" yet another book on cephlapod intelligence. And a warhammer 40k novel... Because I am a literary slut.
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05-04-2020, 03:20 PM
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#3249
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Join Date: May 2020
Posts: 24
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I'm reading Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie. It's a collection of short stories, and it's pretty great.
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05-05-2020, 11:58 PM
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#3250
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 232
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I'm reading several books for review,(the backlog is getting serious now)... including a rather interesting book on mycelium, and the overall interconnected nature of plants. And yet another "space bullet drama" as my partner calls them, because I apparently don't have self control.
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