[carjug]

Youse Guys might like these here books. They are all long or complicated, or have big-ass words from dictionaries.
1) Joe Abercrombie. : He has two series out. Read them both, and it is like a half dose of Erikson.
2) Tanith Lee . Flat Earth and Paradys. She is hot & cold, but when she is on fire she has no equal. Don't read her if you are stupid, she uses big words and doesn't suffer fools.
3) Bone by Jeff Smith. It is a children's comic, and is best compared to LOTR with Bugs Bunny slapping Gandalph silly.
4) David Mitchell. Cloud Atlas. On tape if you can find it.
5)Connie Willis, Blackout. Not Fantasy, Historical Fiction, but it is stinkin' long, and out as a recorded book. World War II from the points of view of people in the Nazi bomber sights. London Town.
6Catherynne Valente. Orphan's Tales. Better than her best selling "Girl Who" children's stories, because the gloves are out and the knives are out.
7Susanna Clarke. Norris and Strange.
8) Gaiman , Sandman Comics.
9) Zelazny Amber.
As usual . keep your eyes out for books on tape. These suckers are long.
There, I've done my penance. Youse guys are now at liberty to look fer these. I just finished the last quarter-inch of Crippled God tonight, now it is time to finish the Kelly Link book I started so many months and years ago. I may just take up fishing. As a hobby, that's all.

[Abyss]

Bone is so not a children’s comic. Readable by not too young children, sure, but not a children’s story.

[polishgenius]

I appreciate the effort, but I'm a bit confused by the implication that these are rare or people on this forum might not have heard of them before?

[worry]

I've been described as "norris and strange" on occasion, and let me tell you, it stings.

[carjug]

[One more Suggestion for you ungrateful wretches, Magician King by Lev Grossman (sp). If you ever wanted to give old Aslan a case of Mane fleas, push that Rat off the Dawn Treader, and get frisky with the White Witch, then you will love this Amti-Narnia series.
So There, you bunch of high bred lords and ladies, see if you have me to kick about anymore. Hood take the lot of you, I'm getting double -drunk.

[QuickTidal]

carjug, on 12 February 2018 - 01:10 AM, said:

3) Bone by Jeff Smith. It is a children's comic, and is best compared to LOTR with Bugs Bunny slapping Gandalph silly.
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^^This may be the most inaccurate description of BONE I've ever read. Every word in fact. I'm a little humbled by the level of inaccuracy to be honest.

Also, do books on tape still exist? I mean, I think they went to CD's in the 90's, and to digital sometime in the early 2000's...I don't even know that you could find a book on tape at a library....let alone a device to play it on.

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[QuickTidal]

worry, on 12 February 2018 - 06:08 AM, said:

I've been described as "norris and strange" on occasion, and let me tell you, it stings.

Man, I KNEW you were a busybody in a Manchester community.

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[carjug]

I just did what would have been polite in the first place, and read a lot of old postings about what you other Wretches read. I want to add something, take your Wretched selves to your local public libraries and check out the Books on Tape / CD ? RecordedBooks, whatever. Check out at least Three. Take them home, stick them into gadgets, and see what works. Dredsem / Jim Butcher is a good example, in print he is repetitive and immature, but on tape, he is repetitive, immature, and a TON OF FUN. Norris and strange by Clarke is the reverse, on paper it invites Burns own Sleep, but on tape it comes to life, and you can knock out a dirty sink while the Wizards are Dueling.
Don't believe me, find Night Circus by Wassername? and listen to it. It doesn't get no better!
I am a book-snob, I am a book-snob!

[Aptorian]

Reading Carjug's posts makes me wonder if spam bots have passed the singularity and nobody noticed.

[Gorefest]

What ever makes you think that, human?

[Mentalist]

Audiobooks' quality depends on narrator.

Also, I do not really comprehend Audiobooks. I can't pay attention to Audiobooks, I'm too much of a visual learner.

Being long isn't necessarily indication of quality. And if you find reading a "chore" or "penance" then you are doing it wrong.

[Salt-Man Z]

Mentalist, on 12 February 2018 - 05:16 PM, said:

Also, I do not really comprehend Audiobooks. I can't pay attention to Audiobooks, I'm too much of a visual learner.

I fall asleep listening to audiobooks. I've fallen asleep with physical/e-books too, but when that happens at least I know where I stopped.

[Gabriele]

Alternative Goose, on 12 February 2018 - 04:49 PM, said:

Reading Carjug's posts makes me wonder if spam bots have passed the singularity and nobody noticed.

I wonder what he smoked and where you can get it.

[Macros]

Has to be a regular trolling

[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 12 February 2018 - 05:29 PM, said:

Has to be a regular trolling

This was my assumption as well.

[Abyss]

Nah. Just new here. Give him time.


I listen to a metric shitonne of earbooks, but i can't sit around doing so. It's what i do when driving, commuting, walking somewhere routine, or doing routine stuff (laundry, trash, recycling, changing oil, dishes, wall repair, nanite harvesting, death ray maintenance, etc.) around the house because the staff were insolent and i had them fed to the otyugh in the compost heap, occasionally at the gym if its something particularly good. I fall asleep in seconds if i try to listen in bed or even sitting down.

[worry]

I am going to start using the phrase "the gloves are out".

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 12 February 2018 - 07:00 PM, said:

Nah. Just new here. Give him time.


I listen to a metric shitonne of earbooks, but i can't sit around doing so. It's what i do when driving, commuting, walking somewhere routine, or doing routine stuff (laundry, trash, recycling, changing oil, dishes, wall repair, nanite harvesting, death ray maintenance, etc.) around the house because the staff were insolent and i had them fed to the otyugh in the compost heap, occasionally at the gym if its something particularly good. I fall asleep in seconds if i try to listen in bed or even sitting down.

This is me with podcasts. If I even THINK about laying down...it's nap time. LOL. As long as I'm doing something and up and about when I listen, it's fine....I assume the same would be true of audiobooks.

[Mentalist]

Yeah, since my prime earbook would be bus/subway during commute, that'd be instant sleep time.

I manage to sometimes zone out with dead tree/ebooks as well (depends on how tired I am), but with an audiobook it'd be instant and guaranteed lights out.

[Morgoth]

We already have one sentient bot in RACHEL. Do we really need a second, less polite version?