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All these books I don't have time to read

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  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    "Er...that works with the same book with the same cover. So unless you're arguing that one book is actually two..."

    Actually, if it is the same book with the same cover, you can pick up the book and put it back down on the table. You don't necessarily have to use a different book the way you necessarily have to with one of a different cover.

    I suppose you could make an even more irrelevant distinction between two mostly identical books where one has a scratch, but they both represent the exact same deliberate artistic efforts, unless the scratch is some post-modern bullshit.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    NO 


  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2011-11-20 21:39:51
    Has friends besides tanks now
    "What exactly are you looking for in writing, Everest?"

    Amazingly, not much; I want authors who can write with fair vocabulary and still flow well, but who aren't also too distracting through some amateur quirk or other, whether or not said quirk is derived from attempts at demonstrating supposed fluency.

    "So I'll go with trying out Sherlock Holmes because Sherlock Holmes is awesome."

    I was planning to binge on horror/mystery after Christmas, so this works.

    ^ Damn. See, I'm not gonna do that to myself.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    What kind of horror are you specifically interested in? Supernatural, zombie, other stuff?
  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2011-11-20 21:44:04
    Has friends besides tanks now
    Any horror, really; while I don't actually find myself scared when reading horror (supposedly Pet Sematary was scary enough that King himself had to put it down while reading it, but I didn't bat an eye, though I really did enjoy it), I greatly like the idea and the tone.

    I suppose I have a soft spot for the supernatural (vampires, specifically), but any horror will do (except zombies), as long as the writing's good.
  • DYREDYRE

    Then please explain to me why the same book can have different covers.

    The same book can have different text though, too, so that's not much of an argument (different editions of a book might introduce or fix typos, or more extremely you can translate a book into another language, or probably other things that I don't feel like thinking of right now)

  • Wicked223Wicked223
    edited 2011-11-20 21:47:47
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    ^ Damn. See, I'm not gonna do that to myself.


    Well, really, I don't expect to actually finish any of those lists. It's really more there for memory's sake.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    "Pet Sematary"

    Is that really how it's spelled?
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Dracula's always a classic that is one of my favorite books, as well as the works of Poe. They're also available for free via e-book or really cheap physically.
  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2011-11-20 21:50:45
    Has friends besides tanks now
    ^^ It makes sense when you read/watch it.

    ^ Oh yeah, I have a collection of Poe's stuff. And I've already read Dracula.

    Anything else?
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Hmmm, more recently there's Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain novel which is great. If you can tolerate flowery prose I really recommend Lovecraft's works, paritcularly The Rats in The Walls, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out Of Time. Darkly Dreaming Dexter is also a good horror-mystery blend though you'll have to deal with flowery prose there too.
  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now
    I don't mind flowery prose as long as it flows well. And I've read some of Lovecraft's stuff, though not any of the ones you listed.

    I'll look up the other two.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Darkly Dreaming Dexter is the inspiration for the Dexter TV show but the books are much less soap opera-y and much more horror-mystery-thriller.
  • ThemThem
    Good people don't end up here.
    My list of books to read has been growing faster than I read books for at least the past two years. (Before that point I'm not sure because I didn't have a single place where I kept track of them.) (...and I've just remembered three more books that belong on the list.)

    On the other hand, it tends to be disproportionately weighted toward some genres over others such that when I really want to read something else now suddenly there's none of it on the list.


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