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theblackestofsuns · 4 months
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Time Out Of Joint (1959)
Philip K. Dick
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archivist-dragonfly · 3 months
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Book 485
The Best American Infographics 2014
Nate Silver / Gareth Cook
Mariner Books 2014
So, Mariner Books, who has been publishing the Best American series for more than a century, I think only published Infographics for four years, between 2013 and 2016. I get why it didn’t work and why they don’t publish it anymore. It was kind of expensive, a bit unwieldy, and probably didn’t sell all that well. That’s too bad, because it is a very interesting way to look at a year. Now, I don’t really remember what happened in 2013, but by thumbing through this book, I have a guess.
There are infographics comparing the haircuts of Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, which states have the most closeted gay people, house fire damage, hate speech on Twitter, the debt ceiling, how a new Pope is chosen, the NSA’s surveillance, unmanned space missions, bees, the fashion of Justin Bieber, tornadoes, drone attacks, and much more.
Like I said, it’s an interesting way to look at a year.
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lilibetbombshell · 9 months
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V. Lee: What do you say when writers ask about trends or are worried about writing into a trend? R. Clark: I tell them not to worry about it. If it’s good, it’s good. We might both be wearing jeans, but we look different in the jeans because our bodies are different. Just because somebody else has done it, was their version corny? Is your version better? And you have to be honest with yourself about that. I think sometimes writers are trying to avoid trends, but they also don’t have anything new to say about that trend.
It’s not interesting to read something that feels like a summation of other people’s work or a regurgitation of other people’s work. But if I can tell that you’ve engaged with all these other things and then you sat with it for a minute and then you were like, “Well, this is what I think about that.” Or, “What if we sprinkle this other thing in?” Or, “You know what? I’m going to turn this on its head and throw a wrench into this whole conversation.” So you’re talking about the same thing, but the angle on it is new. That’s fun.
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quirkycatsfatstacks · 10 days
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Review: Homecoming by Kate Morton
Author: Kate MortonPublisher: Mariner BooksReleased: April 4, 2023Received: Own Find it on Goodreads | More Mysteries Book Summary: It’s Christmas Eve, 1959, and one small Australian town is about to be rocked by pain and loss. An entire family is gone in an instant, and there’s no clear answer as to what happened. It will soon become a lingering unsolved murder case. In 2018, Jess was a…
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bargainsleuthbooks · 7 months
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#Everyoneinmyfamilyhaskilledsomeone #BenjaminStevenson #BookReview #AudiobookReview #Mystery #Humor #MarinerBooks #HarperAudio
I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. #everyoneinmyfamilyhaskilledsomeone #benjaminstevenson #bookreview #audiobookreview #mystery #humor #darkcomedy #marinerbooks #harperaudio
Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I…
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cineastesview · 1 year
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REVIEW: Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
REVIEW: Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
A somewhat estranged family agrees to meet up for a reunion for an odd reason — one of the Cunningham sons is being released from prison. Ernest Cunningham is the narrator, brother to Michael (the ex-con) and nephew to Katherine, the perfectionist party planner who organized the reunion. She decides to rent out a mountaintop ski resort in the middle of winter. As family members arrive one by one,…
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driftlessarearev · 1 year
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, by Steve Brusatte @ nyjb
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, by Steve Brusatte @ nyjb
“The Rise and Reign of the Mammals is an important book, full of fascinating mammals and the dramatic history of mammal paleontology.”
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jewishbookworld · 1 year
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What’s So Fun­ny?: A Car­toon­ist’s Memoir by David Sipress
What’s So Fun­ny?: A Car­toon­ist’s Memoir by David Sipress
From a longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist, an evocative family memoir, a love letter to New York City, and a delightful exploration of the origins of creativity—richly interleaved with the author’s witty, beloved cartoons. David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted…
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traffrogers · 28 days
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this week on traff getting obsessed with an au that barely exists
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nemfrog · 9 months
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The shark in pursuit of a meal. In ocean land. 1927.
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a-book-of-creatures · 8 months
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This is poetry to me
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xolen1 · 1 month
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One of my favorite parts about warhammer books that feature space marines (especially chaos space marines) is that they are all catty bitches. Every single one is basically a high-school girl who loves starting drama. They can't go five minutes without making an underhanded comment or calling each other a bitch it's very entertaining.
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lilibetbombshell · 1 year
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when you think about it combining thousands of supersoldiers literally incapable of fear with a strictly atheist, rational regime was a colossally stupid decision, and not for the reasons you're thinking of
y'know those cheesy old horror movies where the protagonists are spectacularly stupid? like, they find a spoopy book bound in suspicious leather and go, "haha lets read from this WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG" and twenty minutes later they're being chased by demon minotaurs or something. and the whole time you're screaming "NO YOU FUCKING MORONS WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT WAIT WHY ARE YOU GETTING UNDRESSED NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO HAVE SEX" and then the demon minotaurs kill them while they're having loud passionate sex because god forbid horny teenagers should ever have fun. ok so hear me out, astartes and primarchs in the pre-heresy are the same as the dumbass teenagers, except for the sex-having part (i think they T-pose at each other instead)
think about it. THEY KNOW NO FEAR. they're missing one of the key instincts we possess for recognizing dangerous situations. most people who find a spoopy book bound in suspicious leather are gonna be, y'know, spooped spooked. they won't want anything to do with it. the more anxious/scared will straight up leave. but astartes literally can't get spooked! they might burn the book for being xenos filth or something but beyond that there's nothing to balance out natural curiosity and/or lust for war trophies.
and this combines really badly with the imperium's rationalism! see, even if you don't fear the spoopy book, superstition/religion/fairy tales/etc. still provide a powerful incentive to stay away from it. you're gonna look at it and go, wow, that book looks satanic, messing with it might summon demon minotaurs, i should stay away. but the imperium actively discourages that line of thought! there's no way the spoopy book can do any harm, it's just a spoopy looking book! in fact, you SHOULD read the spoopy book just to demonstrate how not-superstitious you are!
yeah so this is why fulgrim walks into a creepy temple full of ritual snake orgy and thinks, hmm that snazzy sword the snake guys are obsessively fucking around would make a nice trophy. or why it never occurs to magnus that making deals with the fair folk might be dangerous territory.
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one-time-i-dreamt · 3 months
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I went to the marine museum with my dad which for some reason was holding a comic book convention and ended up losing him, for some reason they were also holding a martial arts tournament.
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