What are you reading right now?

Paedantic Basterd · 03-14-2019, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

you must be looking at good books then

it's the lastfm of literature

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...f-land-and-sea <-- 2.95 average

and pretty much every book I've looked at there has had at least several incredibly harsh reviews

Good god how bad does a book need to be to get less than a 3.5?

DwnWthVwls · 03-14-2019, 07:30 PM

I think your idea of what a 3 means and how the community views a 3 might be different. Even on booktube I see a lot of people not having many good things to say about a book and give it a 3. 1s and 2s are rare by bookish standards. It's a weird community :P

Paedantic Basterd · 03-14-2019, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

I think your idea of what a 3 means and how the community views a 3 might be different. Even on booktube I see a lot of people not having many good things to say about a book and give it a 3. 1s and 2s are rare by bookish standards. It's a weird community :P

That's the thing--Goodreads has a built in rating system where a 1 literally corresponds to "I disliked this", a 2 is "this was ok", and a 3 is "it was a good book". I have read some terrible books on there that were like a 4+ in rating.

Mondo Bungle · 03-15-2019, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd

Good god how bad does a book need to be to get less than a 3.5?

not very

it's just boring

innerspaceboy · 04-11-2019, 05:44 PM

It's great when a FB memory inspires me to delve deeper into a subject I'd previously neglected or abandoned for the next shiny, alluring project. The latest was the memory of my alpha testing an open source Chrome add-on that I had used frequently at the office in 2016.

My CEO had been wholly confounded by the process as I described it. As both a company president and a devout Christian, all authority in his world has always come from above. I attempted to outline the principles of a cooperative - one of horizontal management and one whose aim is simply for the betterment of the community rather than for financial compensation.

His brows furrowed deeper as I explained that the Android OS was Linux-based. And whenever I'd finish citing an example of an open source project, he always returned to the question:

"BUT WHO TELLS THEM WHAT TO DO?"

A wise friend had responded to the post advising me to hand him a copy of The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary.

It took the FB memory to inspire me to finally heed his advice. The book is open source and I read the full text in one sitting. Immediately upon completion, I ordered a physical copy for my library. It has also lead me to explore other classic software engineering texts, like The Mythical Man-Month and an array of widely-held principles of clean code.

I love it!

OccultHawk · 04-14-2019, 11:59 AM

Rage
Novel by Stephen King

Either King got sensitive about school shootings or he wanted to build more mystique around it. Like all his stuff, at worst it’s really fun.

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When King decided to let Rage fall out of print in the United States, it remained available only as part of The Bachman Books. In contrast, the other novels that appeared in that compilation - The Long Walk, Roadwork, and The Running Man - are available separately in the USA. Rage remained available in the United Kingdom and other countries in The Bachman Books for a time, but later appeared to become unavailable.[9] New editions of The Bachman Books do not include Rage.

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King said, in his keynote address at the VEMA Annual Meeting on May 26, 1999: "The Carneal incident was enough for me. I asked my publisher to take the damned thing out of print. They concurred."

Just finished it.

First published between The Shining and The Stand as Bachman. Must have been written earlier though. Like a less polished up Carrie sans the supernatural. ****ed up 1970’s high schoolers.

OccultHawk · 04-14-2019, 12:01 PM

Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed
Book by Kathy Marks

Give this a go.

The Batlord · 04-14-2019, 12:03 PM

Oh **** I think I might still have The Bachman Books. I never finished it but The Long Walk definitely made me want to read more of his short stories. I'm kinda curious if it was an influence on Battle Royale tbh.

OccultHawk · 04-14-2019, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

Oh **** I think I might still have The Bachman Books. I never finished it but The Long Walk definitely made me want to read more of his short stories. I'm kinda curious if it was an influence on Battle Royale tbh.

Battle Royale is one of the most engaging novels I’ve ever read.

Unfortunately the movie and the comics and everything else that grew out of it is ****ing garbage.

The Batlord · 04-14-2019, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Battle Royale is one of the most engaging novels I’ve ever read.

Unfortunately the movie and the comics and everything else that grew out of it is ****ing garbage.

lol I read a bit of the comics and that bit where the teacher rapes some chick is one of the goofiest things I've ever seen. Like so ham-fisted and try-hard that it couldn't even be offensive. The movie was fun if low rent but I never read the book to compare it to.

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