GrudaAplam
GrudaAplam t1_jegejiu wrote
Reply to Complete silence by d_brasse
Pray you don't get tinnitus. I've got it and I haven't enjoyed complete silence in decades. I currently have the news on tv and music on the radio and I can still hear the ringing.
GrudaAplam t1_jee0w1r wrote
Reply to How do you make a habit of reading for leisure, not only for university studies? by bunga_Berapi
Well, I don't spend much time watching YouTube.
GrudaAplam t1_jec164f wrote
Reply to comment by Snoo57923 in Need help to add number of pages in a book by Jesper_Slade
It wasn't. I don't use /s for sarcasm. I hope my words convey my message adequately.
Often leads to downvotes, though, I gotta admit.
GrudaAplam t1_jebooqg wrote
No, I read every word. If I accidentally miss a sentence, or a paragraph, or a page, I go back and read it.
I even read the sections in languages I don't understand.
GrudaAplam t1_jebngv0 wrote
Reply to comment by Snoo57923 in Need help to add number of pages in a book by Jesper_Slade
Is it not an omnibus? One book that contains a number of books? So it is a/are some book/s.
GrudaAplam t1_je95qeq wrote
Don't worry about it. It doesn't matter. Just read the book/s.
GrudaAplam t1_je7198o wrote
I read it recently. Most likely you won't understand my references but I do find eerie contemporary echoes with Nadia Bartel's lockdown parties, Bec Judd's Brighton crime wave and the Micheal Clarke/Jade Yarbrough/Karl Stefanovic kerfuffle.
So, yeah, to some extent Australia resembles The Great Gatsby 100 years later.
GrudaAplam t1_je6zxx5 wrote
Reply to Do you guys create monthly tbr’s? by thegayboy__
No. I just have shelves and piles of books. Oh, and boxes, but I'm getting some new shelves so I'll get the books out of the boxes and onto the shelves and hopefully reduce the piles as well.
GrudaAplam t1_je4kezo wrote
I have one of his short story collections, Kiss Kiss, which I liked well enough.
GrudaAplam t1_je2x2a4 wrote
Reply to What makes a book stand out to you? by svagelj
>what is it about a book cover that attracts you to pick up a copy of a book by an unknown author?
That rarely happens. However, the Bill Gregory cover illustration of Laura Joh Rowland's Shinju did attract my attention. It is a medieval Japanese style drawing of what looks to be a parade over a bridge with a city scene in the mid ground and a snow tipped mountain in the background (although it may just be a busy bridge, upon closer inspection).
That did not lead me to buy the book, it led me to read the back cover blurb, which did lead me to buy the book by an unknown to me author.
Interestingly, there are a number of other editions of that book with different covers. If I had come across one of those other editions I would not have read the back cover blurb and would not have bought the book.
GrudaAplam t1_je2v40w wrote
Reply to When do you consider a book 'read'? by Penrod_Pooch
It's up to you.
GrudaAplam t1_jdst0dz wrote
Reply to comment by QueenMackeral in I just realized talking to Chatgpt about books I finished helps me process and think about them by QueenMackeral
I think about it, mull it over. Writing it down helps me formulate and clarify my thoughts.
I don't read reviews or articles until after I've written mine. If I have missed something well that's too bad. I don't really expect anyone to read my reviews, anyway. They disappear in amongst the hundreds or thousands of other reviews.
To be fair, that's the way my brain works anyway. I have a Humanities degree and I am accustomed to thinking by writing.
GrudaAplam t1_jdsgute wrote
Reply to comment by Morasain in I just realized talking to Chatgpt about books I finished helps me process and think about them by QueenMackeral
Why doesn't it? Anyway, see the title of the post. It helps me process and think about them.
GrudaAplam t1_jdqaml2 wrote
Reply to I just realized talking to Chatgpt about books I finished helps me process and think about them by QueenMackeral
I find writing a review does that for me.
GrudaAplam t1_jdpr235 wrote
Reply to (TW: DV) What is with all the super popular contemporary novels featuring violence against women? by travelling_cirque
Maybe highly popular contemporary novels are no longer your thing.
GrudaAplam t1_jdjjktk wrote
Of course. I'm not gonna learn by osmosis
GrudaAplam t1_jdjjdpz wrote
Reply to comment by GomerStuckInIowa in I read Finnegan's Wake so you don't have to by machobiscuit
Nah, some guy on the internet read it and upon finishing said they didn't understand it and it's not worth reading. That's good enough for me.
GrudaAplam t1_jdetp3k wrote
Reply to How do you rate your books on Goodreads? by pensieve64
I don't rate so much on enjoyment as on perceived quality.
5 = great
4 = good
3 = okay
2 = poor
1 = terrible
GrudaAplam t1_jcdrzlz wrote
The medium is the message.
GrudaAplam t1_jaa9jrs wrote
Reply to Just read Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott and it may just be the single most eye opening book I’ve ever read by sashanktungu
Yeah, great book. Funny, too.
GrudaAplam t1_ja7crpo wrote
Reply to Chapter one - the purple cylinder. by [deleted]
You didn't finish the second sentence.
GrudaAplam t1_ja51dm8 wrote
I just use goodreads.
GrudaAplam t1_j9xwupc wrote
Reply to The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks, is one of the weirdest books I have ever read by [deleted]
Yeah, great book. Banks is one of my favourite authors.
GrudaAplam t1_j9o54eu wrote
Reply to My greatest fears as an author by JD_Gameolorian
Try a writing sub. This is a sub for books
GrudaAplam t1_jegexnw wrote
Reply to comment by HoneyBadgerFYouUp in Weekly Recommendation Thread: March 31, 2023 by AutoModerator
Here is an entire thread dedicated to that question with a handy chart.