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NovaSilisko

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Resisting urge to post shelf pictures, it's Nova's thread ;)

Your copy of Stranger in a Strange Land looks like a heavy-duty library edition.

Nobody said you couldn't post shelfies! (haha i'm so clever kill me)

And yeah, it is indeed a former library book, from a high school library that closed down sometime after 1969. Still has a checkout card in it! The last person to check out this book was one Jim Bennett, on October 2, 1969. I believe he was a teacher.

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WinkAllKerb''

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(may be one of the) first troll record ever xDr amazing old "kind" of fiction read also in it's related context ; ) and easy to handle but hard to find and really understand in practice ; )

Art-de-peter.jpg

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Art_de_p%C3%A9ter

"Art fart is a pseudo- medical humorous essay by Pierre -Thomas- Nicolas Hurtaut , published anonymously in 1751. The book is subtitled The Art of farting, theo - physical and methodical testing for the use of constipated people , serious and austere people melancholic ladies and all those who remain slaves of prejudice." (fast google translate, 1751 wow wow and wut ; )

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seriously if you have a chance to find and read it go for it, really it's a lot of fun and distracting reading ; )
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There's a strange paradox at play: The more I read the longer my list of things to read becomes.

A strange game - the only way to win is not to play.

But where would be the fun in that. :)

Totally sympathise with the plight of recently acquired FAS though.

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NovaSilisko

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So, help me to decide what to read next. I am deciding between the following (with vote counts afterward, including those on twitter)

Robert Forward:

-Rocheworld (0)

-Starquake (I ingested Dragon's Egg in its entirety yesterday) (0)

Terry Pratchett:

-Going Postal (4)

-Pyramids (0)

Iain M Banks:

-Excession (1)

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My partner is the daughter of Global CEO to Macmillam Publishing.

My house is damned Library, and any time we go to a used bookstore (the only bookstore type she supports aside from Barnes) we leave with a small library.

On a side note, I got a signed copy of the new version of Enders game for my Birthday. Also for the record. Screw Amazon.

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So, help me to decide what to read next. I am deciding between the following (with vote counts afterward, including those on twitter)

Robert Forward:

-Rocheworld (0)

-Starquake (I ingested Dragon's Egg in its entirety yesterday) (0)

Terry Pratchett:

-Going Postal (1)

-Pyramids (0)

Iain M Banks:

-Excession (0)

One vote for Going Postal.

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My partner is the daughter of Global CEO to Macmillam Publishing.

My house is damned Library, and any time we go to a used bookstore (the only bookstore type she supports aside from Barnes) we leave with a small library.

On a side note, I got a signed copy of the new version of Enders game for my Birthday. Also for the record. Screw Amazon.

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You lucky dog. I don't even know IF there is a used bookstore in my area, and ever since the one independent bookstore in a nearby town closed down I haven't been able to find even A bookstore, let alone a used one. I sure wish there was one, though; It sucks having to order everything totally blind and without being able to thumb through the book to see if I like it enough to buy it. And there's nothing on this earth that replicates that wonderful book smell.

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NovaSilisko

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Forgot to bring up the fact I've ordered six more books:

Hal Clement - Mission of Gravity

Stephen Baxter - Voyage

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (yes, it took me this long to own it)

Lee Correy - Shuttle Down

James Joyce - Ulysses (this one is gonna be a whopper)

Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men In A Boat

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Mission of Gravity is a classic in the field of hard SF.

Hal Clement put a ton of thought into creating believable world, and alien creatures to inhabit that world.

I have a sort of omnibus edition of that work, called "Heavy Planet" - which bundles a sequel story.

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You. I could get along with you. I just dug through my attic and found more than enough reading material to last me the summer, so I'm happy. I have several books to recommend, more or less in the same vein.

-The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson- Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars.

-2312 also by Kim Stanley Robinson- sort of a spiritual successor to the Mars Trilogy.

-Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin. Very good scifi, and not actually much violence.

-The Long Earth, The Long War, and The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.

All good, meaty scifi books.

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NovaSilisko

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I have to get a copy of that. I've heard that it's got so much humor in it but I haven't gotten around to picking it up.

Oh yes. From one of the later books, for example:

"In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move."

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