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Runnin said:
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William Least Heat Moon (what a name!) nails the various local dialects he hears on his journey around the country. That and his descriptions of the land, little towns and various people make this book worth your time.
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Great, really intriguing suggestion; thanks.
 
Just received my copy of Robert Chambers' The King in Yellow today. I'm hoping to clip through as much as possible afore next Sunday's final episode of True Detective.
 
jpx7 said:
Just received my copy of Robert Chambers' The King in Yellow today. I'm hoping to clip through as much as possible afore next Sunday's final episode of True Detective.
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Did you get it while it was free? They gave it away a week or three ago.
 
jpx7 said:
Only the Kindle / digital versions were free, from what I could tell, and I don't read that way.
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I hear you. I try being bi-, but it still hurts. :eusa_naughty:

I can stomach articles and short stories (and collections).
 
Dalyn said:
I can stomach articles and short stories (and collections).
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I can consume articles online, and short-stories on the shorter side on a screen (though even then I usually want it as a .pdf, or something, and not in a browser window), but even with shorter short-stories I'll usually print them out (and it helps I have free, limitless printing at work).

For instance: I read Ambrose Bierce's "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" and "Haïta the Shepherd" (from Can Such Things Be?, found here in its entirety thanks to Project Gutenberg) in preparation of the arrival The King in Yellow—since it's a source of inspiration for Chambers—and I ended up copying each individual story to Word, reformatting them, and printing them out, despite their short length, because it just doesn't quite feel like "reading" to me in the same way that holding some inky leaves does.
 
jpx7 said:
I can consume articles online, and short-stories on the shorter side on a screen (though even then I usually want it as a .pdf, or something, and not in a browser window), but even with shorter short-stories I'll usually print them out (and it helps I have free, limitless printing at work).

For instance: I read Ambrose Bierce's "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" and "Haïta the Shepherd" (from Can Such Things Be?, found here in its entirety thanks to Project Gutenberg) in preparation of the arrival The King in Yellow—since it's a source of inspiration for Chambers—and I ended up copying each individual story to Word, reformatting them, and printing them out, despite their short length, because it just doesn't quite feel like "reading" to me in the same way that holding some inky leaves does.
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I completely agree. I love books. If I had unlimited printing, that would solve a lot of problems. :rock:
 
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