Interesting! I'll have to play around with that. Not that I need more book recommendations, just to see what it does.
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Apr 03, 2013 5:58:20 pm PDT #20585 of 28367
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
EpicTangent - Apr 04, 2013 8:05:29 am PDT #20586 of 28367
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Fun concept, but definitely still needs work. Took me 3 tries to get it to recognize a book, then the suggestions weren't all that. Hopefully, it's one of those things that learns as it gets used.
le nubian - Apr 04, 2013 8:09:45 am PDT #20587 of 28367
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
What ET said.
The site didn't recognize the last 3 books I read. Which actually gave me a bit of a complex.
EpicTangent - Apr 04, 2013 8:38:20 am PDT #20588 of 28367
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Okay, tried again, using le n's "last 3" model. Did much better - current book recognized and other books in same series recommended; didn't get 3rd Montmaray book, but had the first 2; got the recent Niffenegger, though I'm not sure about the recs.
So maybe it is learning...or my last 3 books are less obscure than my first sample (though really, the one it didn't recognize was Time Traveler's Wife - it got Her Fearful Symmetry, but not Niffenegger's actually famous, made into a movie book?)
le nubian - Apr 04, 2013 9:00:48 am PDT #20589 of 28367
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Is anyone here reading Scalzi's "The Human Division?"
hippocampus - Apr 04, 2013 9:59:50 am PDT #20590 of 28367
not your mom's socks.
A friend is, le n - she's blogging it at [link]
DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 6:51:25 am PDT #20591 of 28367
Woe to the fucking wicked.
So, I've started House of Leaves. I'm only a couple chapters in, but I get the feeling that this might not be good bedtime reading because of the creepy. At the same time, I don't want to not read it because it's really good and hits a number of my favorite things in stories (unreliable narrator! Layers of meta-story! Living with ambiguity! Fake reality!)
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2013 7:50:47 am PDT #20592 of 28367
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You should definitely read it at night alone, maybe with your closet door just slightly ajar.
Definitely.
DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 7:57:07 am PDT #20593 of 28367
Woe to the fucking wicked.
P-C, I mean this in the most loving way possible, but fuck right off. I'm in an old, creaky building, and the bottom half of my bed goes halfway across my closet doors. Last night, I was lying in bed, thinking, "Stupid Sunday night with no traffic. Why can't there be traffic?"
What's weird is that I've read all but the last book of ASoIaF, which gets pretty graphically gruesome, and it didn't particularly bother me. I'm not a fan of gore, but I don't find it disquieting in the same way as a cold, physically impossible hallway . My psyche, she is strange.
Strix - Apr 08, 2013 8:11:03 am PDT #20594 of 28367
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
What's everyone's "worst(best?) book to read alone in the house late at night?"
I have read "The Haunting of Hill House" a zillion times and I STILL get the cold creepies when I read it.