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Ceci n'est pas un ours.

Jusqu'ici tout va bien.

Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

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riggbeck , to bookstodon French
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You wouldn't get Michael Mcintyre writing an evocative introduction to such a tasty-sounding book as this. I also remember being fascinated by Mysterious Britain, one of the books Stewart Lee mentions. "Calves of iron" might be a useful goal.

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https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/oct/28/in-search-of-strange-and-sacred-sites-the-uks-weirdest-walks

riggbeck , to bookstodon French
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I wonder why it's the dross, like Dan Brown novels, that end up on Oxfam's shelves. Most of the time, in my small town, it's middle-of-the-road bland, shading into the utterly unreadable.

I know Oxfam have good, interesting donations because staff in the past have let me into the Inner Sanctum. Usually I'd leave with handfuls of books of the sort that somehow never get onto the shelves.

The new manager forbids this, but what happens to the good books?

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/26/david-shrigley-turns-da-vinci-code-novels-nineteen-eighty-four

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@Five

As the saying goes, "tough shit."

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The second book on my September TBR was Stephen King's Pet Sematary.

I plan on reading all of Stephen King's books at some point, but Pet Sematary was very high on my To-Do-List, as its reputation was really good. Let's say I was not disappointed: The pacing was great, the writing style grabbed me even though it was quite dense for my taste. Never lost the plot or sight of the characters, which is always a huge danger with me. I even enjoyed the ending, which is not a given with King. A four star book for me, happy to have read this!

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I think Apt Pupil is disturbing because it's a real, rather than an invented, horror. You can see it happening in the resurgence of the extreme right. The film was excellent as well.

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There was a poll that stated—Rowling’s opening line in the HP series is one of best in the world. Someone posted about how there are a bunch of other opening statements that are better.

Here’s one of my personal favorites, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (in English):
“It is inevitable — the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

What are some of your favorite opening lines in literature? 😊
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When the bank blew up, I had just got to the part in "Old Macdonald Had a Farm" where it was Oink Oink here and an Oink Oink there (it's easier to grunt on a mouth-harp than do most anything else, so I was stretching it out a little to make up for spoiling it later on when the Gobble Gobbles commenced), and at first I thought I'd busted my eardrums from blowing too hard.
-Tracker, by David Wagoner

The most perfect opening line and run-on sentence in the world.

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"I once read that buying books represents the illusion of buying the time needed to read them. That sounds about right."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-07-25/books-declining-sales-print-digital-hoarding?fbclid=IwAR1h_BaQghRsWqkFCyL2e8Iw4OGiMoAETvbQ3p6UbYSyRwVLwAi7Jn49iKQ

riggbeck ,
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I share the author's love of real books and have never succumbed to the Kindle cult. The statistics seem to be about new book sales, so I'm curious about about sales of used books, which are the main source of my supply.

If you buy print editions, which do you buy the most?

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I just want to say that I'm very disappointed in 6.96 of you. The other 5.04 people clearly have their heads screwed on right.

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Does a quote have to be from a book? I've always liked it. Here's the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=013zp1Ry4qA

riggbeck OP ,
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Nonsense. The quote says everything I wanted to say about the technocratic capture of reading, so I used it.

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