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Nullifidian

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Katılım Şubat 2022
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Nullifidian
Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@LookAroundCafe Increasingly it is being used that way, while "book" is being made synonymous with novel (e.g., saying that a work like Hamlet is a play, not a book—it's a book if it's in codex form). I've heard people use the phrase "nonfiction novel" & they weren't talking about In Cold Blood.
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@paul_jkrause Tom Jones by Henry Fielding The Letters of Pliny the Younger Ben Jonson's Plays, Vol. 2 edited by Felix E. Schelling The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Farewell to the World: A History of Suicide by Marzio Barbagli
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Paul Krause@paul_jkrause·
Inspiration before writing. What are you currently reading?
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@Hokuboku @CantEverDie Our local AMC chain is running one screening a day because of the Oscar buzz along with several other of the best picture nominees.
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@ofthevolsci out on One Battle After Another after a mere 15 minutes, which, if true, is plainly not enough time to judge a 2hr 47min movie in. I think this author may be worried about the same thing being done with books, especially if a reader doesn't have to say which page they stopped at.
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@ofthevolsci people won't stop to consider the alternatives (liked it but got tired of the subject matter before the book finished, couldn't finish it because it was due back at the library, misplaced the book halfway through, etc.). I just saw a Tweet by someone who alleged that he walked 2/
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@ofthevolsci that kept one's progress in the books one was reading broke. Other than to log books I'd heard of and was interested in, that was my ONLY use for it: to keep track of where I was in the several books I was reading. Now I've reverted to using tickets as bookmarks. 2/2
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@ofthevolsci I can see the merits on both sides. There is no reason for an author to pointlessly antagonize readers, but on the other hand I thought the DNF shelf was stupid for the same reason. But I stopped using Goodreads as soon as their front page widget (which they still haven't fixed)
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Therewillbbooks@Therewillbbooks·
Tolkien would have hated Infinite Jest too
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@ScoobertOnFilm You lose me when you suggest watching it. I probably would hate it, which is why I'm going to keep the cost of a ticket in my pocket. I've already had enough trouble with the rabid fans of Hamnet for disliking their darling, and that was a movie I was at least hopeful of liking.
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Scoob@ScoobertOnFilm·
Watch Project Hail Mary and hate it before twitter tells you to "just have fun"
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@allie__voss There is no instead. I don't go to therapy for the same reason I don't have a stand mixer: I have no reason in my life to pay for such a thing. Therapy isn't a requirement to live a fulfilled life and the contrary idea is... well, very much in the interest of therapists to spread
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Allie ✞
Allie ✞@allie__voss·
Where are the people who’ve never been to therapy? What do you do instead?
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Leon Musk@ben_dover808·
@RepJackKimble I blame the Jews for sinking the Titanic. You tell me “Iceberg” isn’t a Jewish name.
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Rep. Jack Kimble@RepJackKimble·
I didn't even know that LeRoy Jenkins was a Jewish name.
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@AuthorGFAllen Yes. I like keeping a roughly even mix of fiction to nonfiction, because too much nonfiction is like homework, but too much fiction starts to make me feel untethered from reality.
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G. F. Allen@AuthorGFAllen·
Do you read fiction or nonfiction books?
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@SketchesbyBoze Shakespeare's history play King John declined toward the end of the 19th C., fewer and fewer people knew that the actual line was "to gild refined gold, to paint the lily" so they smashed the first and second together to arrive at the metaphorical absurdity of "to gild the lily".
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@SketchesbyBoze Another thing that's happening is that we're losing the common cultural touchstones that generated these phrases, so people haven't ever encountered the real original. And this has been going on for over a century, as the example of "gild the lily" shows. As performances of 1/x
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@crabmonster @peachylian I agree, but my view is that even people who read trash deserve better than to be treated as a mere demographic to be marketed to by publishers. If they're allowed to get away with putting ads for Hallmark in romance novels, they'll put ads for Criterion in Pynchon novels next.
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apprentice cult leader@crabmonster·
@_Nullifidian_ @peachylian yeah that's fair! glad to hear it, I do the same sometimes. it's hard to get into a deeper discussion on here, my main beef is with people equating YA horseshit with actual literature. ultimately people should do what they want, but I wish more people would engage with hard books
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@crabmonster @peachylian books and authors, even some who later became popularly acclaimed like Percival Everett and László Krasznahorkai. It's one way I keep abreast of recently published books and find something new when I don't feel like reading anything I have at home or that I already know about.2/2
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Nullifidian@_Nullifidian_·
@crabmonster @peachylian The irony is that you are talking to someone who has frequently done just that. Admittedly, I do narrow it down to the library categories or sections of the bookstore that I generally like before making my random selection, but that's how I've discovered many of my favorite 1/x
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@LookAroundCafe @paul_jkrause @Hokuboku @CantEverDie @ofthevolsci @Therewillbbooks @ScoobertOnFilm @allie__voss