No.16495
What you've been reading while 8chan was down?
I managed to finish some books from warhammer's time of legend series, all of the Nagash and vampire related ones. Had a lot of fun with that. Stuck on elves though, because they are kind of vomit inducing at times, but I'll eventually manage whole thing.
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No.16496
Asimov's Guide to Shakespere, Isaac Asimov. Not complete, as I'm hitting only a handful of plays that interest me. I'll finish the rest as time and mood dictates.
Snapshots in History's Glare, Gore Vidal.
Negrophobia, Darius James.
Enfin Céline Vint a Contextualist Reading of Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, Wayne Burns.
On Writing, Samuel R. Delany. Reading ongoing.
The Red and the Black, Stendhal. Reading ongoing.
And the fun stuff? Why, yes, I do …
Eisenhorn (omnibus edition), Dan Abnett.
>>16495
If I may, what are your favorite Warhammer novels?
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No.16497
>>16496
>Eisenhorn
That one i heard is good, its in my backlog for certain.
>If I may, what are your favorite Warhammer novels?
I think Rise of Nagash i liked the most out of what i read. Mike Lee made less known Nehekharan past believable before they became Tomb Kings.
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No.16499
I re-read Beyond Good and Evil and contemplated slogging through the Genealogy of Morality again as well but didn't have the mental stamina. Currently reading Lolita.
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No.16503
Just finished pic related yesterday. I think Doc Smith has become my favorite scifi author; he does the adventure stuff better than Burroughs and he does the artsy stuff better than most of Cordwainer Smith.
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No.16505
I actually took up reading for the first time in my life.
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No.16506
>>16505
What did you read, friend?
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No.16508
>>16506
Robert E. Howard's Conan because the stories are just the right length. I'll eventually try something longer, but this feels like a sweet spot right now.
Also looking for the next thing I'll read before I'm through with them.
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No.16510
>>16508
You should look into Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories, as well as the Thieves World stories. Also, the stories by Jack Vance - Vance in particular is good if you want to start off with shorter stories, transition to fix-ups, and then work your way into reading full-length novels.
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No.16512
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No.16518
I bunkered over with /fanfic/ during the downtime.
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No.16521
>>16518
>/fanfic/
Where at?
If 8kun does not regenerate suitably related boards, we're going to need some replacement links. A functional fanfic image-board community would be just the thing. Even if offsite.
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No.16522
>>16521
They were over at: https://smuglo.li/fanfic
along with /a/ and /tg/.
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No.16538
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No.16610
>/lit/ active once 8kun comes up
>8kun lags, 502s, or becomes really slow
>/lit/ tapers off in activity again
>board catalog apparently reverted
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No.16611
>>16610
This entire launch and rebrand is a total clusterfuck.
Looks like I'll have to be on the lookout for alternatives. The main bunkers are decent, but vch.moe will go down whenever Ron claims 8kun is stable enough - again.
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No.16625
Just so everyone knows, I posted on the /lit/ bunker.
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No.16626
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No.16629
>>16626
Look at the top of the page where it says board bunker lmfao.
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No.16630
>Are there plans to give this bunker exposure?
>>16625
>>16626
>>16629
Greetings and happy holidays!
There is only the .onion for now. I have no plans to give the bunker exposure, outside of the link here (and on the fan-fic site? Whoot! Thank you.), but feel free to make use of it. I'll make a note in the bunker it's for fan-fic as well. I've been dithering around with the idea of nabbing a cheap .xyz domain to do this properly and in complete. However, nota bene, I have no intentions to either compete with 8kun, nor steal traffic, nor relocate the board. There are three ideas behind the bunker:
1. I've been meaning to familiarize myself with the Lynxchan application blob. Nothing like learning by doing.
2. I've been meaning to try running an .onion service.
3. More importantly, duing the 8chan downtime, I tried to float the idea of a bunker for 8chan /lit/ across several worthy sites. I was severely rebuffed with much hostility. This caught me by surprise. Perhaps it should not have. I promised myself this would be the first thing I would fix if 8chan ever came back.
I've been meaning to do a write up of my impressions on the whole downtime saga, along with Fred's crusade. It might be better to let that all die and move on. We'll see.
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No.16660
>>16630
>I've been meaning to do a write up of my impressions on the whole downtime saga, along with Fred's crusade. It might be better to let that all die and move on. We'll see.
Are you still working on that? Would you like that published in /v/'s zine?
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No.16704
read dark nature, cool stuff about genetics, but some stuff was outdated or not thought out fully. One thing i find it funny that the author literally, and i mean literally, thinks convergent evolution is a meme.
Also read ian c esslemont's new malazan trilogy. Was good, but he just doesnt compare to erik. Plus the third book was a little lame
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