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don wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:01 am

ldar wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2019 6:47 am

hey guis does audiobook count as reading..?

yeah why not? I actually think the best way to talk about any kind of media (because there's so many varieties now and people feel like they should discuss them separately) is as "text." A text is any durable collection of ideas which can be transmitted from one person to another. across space and / or time .. so, yeah, audiobook is a text but so is a cathedral and a comic book and a video game... You read a text not just by receiving it passively but by actively decoding it and placing it in context. so you could "read" Assassin's Creed Unity or whatever if you truly had nothing better to do

this is a tangent from a great thread, but I'm working on a theological treatise so I've got a bunch of weirdo vocabulary to test out

To get back on topic lemme tell you about one of the most fun books I own. I read it before bed every night. It's this collection called The Essential Ellison and it's a doorstop sized collection of Harlan Ellison stories filled with his notes and commentary and introduction after introduction after introduction ... I don't think anyone will ever write better stylish pulp purple prose than Harlan Ellison, and even when his ideas are a little shopworn or predictable he writes with so much guts that you can't help but smile at just how vivid and how complete he can get. He also dedicated the collection in part to Alfred Bester which warms my heart

Check out the cover:

peng wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:50 am

shameless shilling: im really enjoying the book i got in my daggermag BOX OF TRASH shipment

the book is action right from the get go so im not stumbling through lengthy passages describing shit i dont care about which is a really attractive feature since im illiterate and have a very smooth brain

City life is anonymous and, as it were, abstract. People are related to one another, not as total person­alities, but as the embodiments of economic functions or, when they are not at work, as irresponsible seekers of entertainment. Subjected to this kind of life, indi­viduals tend to feel lonely and insignificant. Their ex­istence ceases to have any point or meaning.

Penseroso wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:18 pm

no joke read the original Conan stories. Very high test and fun to read

don wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:38 pm

I'm glad you like it! I love those old action books from the 70s and 80s. The market for that kind of escapist but masculine action lit is pretty much dead and I can't figure out why. Do people not want to read about karate battles and mysterious deaths anymore?

peng wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:50 pm

don wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:38 pm

I'm glad you like it! I love those old action books from the 70s and 80s. The market for that kind of escapist but masculine action lit is pretty much dead and I can't figure out why. Do people not want to read about karate battles and mysterious deaths anymore?

im by no means an expert but i have to imagine publishers and editors really forced authors into the Young Adult genre. gotta have everything nice and watered down as much as possible and broad enough to sell to a 4 quadrant readerbase, and if we're lucky we might even get a movie or TV adaptation!