i'm considering asking people to recommend me bad books
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> don't need a book to put me on the edge
And you know cozycore is also a book genre?
For example, you learn Becky Chambers is a famous author if you search for cozycore sci fi to duck out of reading only about wars and other dystopias
@pelavarre i don't! this is the first time i've ever seen the word anywhere
(i had assumed something like that exists but not the specific name)
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@whitequark Girlfriend, Girlfriend (the manga)
if you read the synopsis, you might think it is a good book, and it keeps being almost good by accident
@whitequark "The Princess Bride" manages to mess up every single joke with laser precision
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@whitequark Girlfriend, Girlfriend (the manga)
if you read the synopsis, you might think it is a good book, and it keeps being almost good by accident
@ratsnakegames okay i'm intrigued
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i'm considering asking people to recommend me bad books
it's easy to get people to recommend you good books! however, good books make me feel things, often quite intensely. i think usually this is appreciated however i am living what is considered an "interesting life" already and i really don't need a book to put me on the edge in addition to all of the things that normally put me on the edge, like "stalkers" or "immigration" or "wondering if someone i know got shot", etc. similarly i have thought enough about the nature of identity that i'm quite done with it for a while.
most recently i have read Blindsight, which was a good book, but it made me conclude that if i have to choose between another good book and 10 hours straight of youtube shorts, the latter will passively benefit my life by not taking up more of it than i can spare
please recommend me your favorite bad book
@whitequark extrapolating from "Programmierung mit COBOL" (F. Singer, 1982), which is not offensively terrible but thoroughly mid, i expect the ANSI Cobol standard to be a similar experience
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@ratsnakegames okay i'm intrigued
@whitequark i recommend it, it is very enjoyable in just how contrived it is
some characters express polyphobia tho, and the series queerbaits hard (nothing a good headcanon can't fix tho)
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back when i was a child my bedtime reading was "Advanced Win32 Programming" by Jeffrey Richter and maybe i should do that again but make it the basics of DSP or something. this would probably benefit my mental health
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems may i suggest https://raytracing.github.io/ and/or https://pbr-book.org/ ? (though only the latter has printed copies available i think)
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i'm considering asking people to recommend me bad books
it's easy to get people to recommend you good books! however, good books make me feel things, often quite intensely. i think usually this is appreciated however i am living what is considered an "interesting life" already and i really don't need a book to put me on the edge in addition to all of the things that normally put me on the edge, like "stalkers" or "immigration" or "wondering if someone i know got shot", etc. similarly i have thought enough about the nature of identity that i'm quite done with it for a while.
most recently i have read Blindsight, which was a good book, but it made me conclude that if i have to choose between another good book and 10 hours straight of youtube shorts, the latter will passively benefit my life by not taking up more of it than i can spare
please recommend me your favorite bad book
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems may i suggest https://raytracing.github.io/ and/or https://pbr-book.org/ ? (though only the latter has printed copies available i think)
@unnick oh i can't really read paper books (something about the way paper feels on my fingertips is just viscerally upsetting)
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@pelavarre i don't! this is the first time i've ever seen the word anywhere
(i had assumed something like that exists but not the specific name)
@whitequark @pelavarre I've not heard cozycore!
But on the cosy fantasy side, I felt the same after reading Blindsight and immediately reached straight for the next in the Legends and Lattes series.
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea is up there, too
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i'm considering asking people to recommend me bad books
it's easy to get people to recommend you good books! however, good books make me feel things, often quite intensely. i think usually this is appreciated however i am living what is considered an "interesting life" already and i really don't need a book to put me on the edge in addition to all of the things that normally put me on the edge, like "stalkers" or "immigration" or "wondering if someone i know got shot", etc. similarly i have thought enough about the nature of identity that i'm quite done with it for a while.
most recently i have read Blindsight, which was a good book, but it made me conclude that if i have to choose between another good book and 10 hours straight of youtube shorts, the latter will passively benefit my life by not taking up more of it than i can spare
please recommend me your favorite bad book
@whitequark I mean there are like entire genres of fun reads that aren't challenging at all. Romance(primarily straight though kindle and kobo have a bunch of lgbtq versions of the genre) and litrpg which are literally book version of the number goes up feeling.
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back when i was a child my bedtime reading was "Advanced Win32 Programming" by Jeffrey Richter and maybe i should do that again but make it the basics of DSP or something. this would probably benefit my mental health
@whitequark this appears to be some new meaning of "benefit" that I am totally unaware of.
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i'm considering asking people to recommend me bad books
it's easy to get people to recommend you good books! however, good books make me feel things, often quite intensely. i think usually this is appreciated however i am living what is considered an "interesting life" already and i really don't need a book to put me on the edge in addition to all of the things that normally put me on the edge, like "stalkers" or "immigration" or "wondering if someone i know got shot", etc. similarly i have thought enough about the nature of identity that i'm quite done with it for a while.
most recently i have read Blindsight, which was a good book, but it made me conclude that if i have to choose between another good book and 10 hours straight of youtube shorts, the latter will passively benefit my life by not taking up more of it than i can spare
please recommend me your favorite bad book
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems idk if you can really call it bad, but I found reading Day of the Oprichnik non-intense, even though it's written well and is quite funny
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back when i was a child my bedtime reading was "Advanced Win32 Programming" by Jeffrey Richter and maybe i should do that again but make it the basics of DSP or something. this would probably benefit my mental health
@whitequark have you read Ignition! yet (it's hard to get legitimately but I have an epub I can send you)
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@whitequark I mean there are like entire genres of fun reads that aren't challenging at all. Romance(primarily straight though kindle and kobo have a bunch of lgbtq versions of the genre) and litrpg which are literally book version of the number goes up feeling.
@Pokemod97 yes, my issue here is specifically with the phenomenon of "ask someone in my environment for a book recommendation" → "get flashbanged for three days"
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems idk if you can really call it bad, but I found reading Day of the Oprichnik non-intense, even though it's written well and is quite funny
@ignaloidas they... translated Sorokin to English?
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@ignaloidas they... translated Sorokin to English?
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems I read it in Lithuanian, but yes
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems I read it in Lithuanian, but yes
@ignaloidas huh he's a lot more popular than i thought
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i'm considering asking people to recommend me bad books
it's easy to get people to recommend you good books! however, good books make me feel things, often quite intensely. i think usually this is appreciated however i am living what is considered an "interesting life" already and i really don't need a book to put me on the edge in addition to all of the things that normally put me on the edge, like "stalkers" or "immigration" or "wondering if someone i know got shot", etc. similarly i have thought enough about the nature of identity that i'm quite done with it for a while.
most recently i have read Blindsight, which was a good book, but it made me conclude that if i have to choose between another good book and 10 hours straight of youtube shorts, the latter will passively benefit my life by not taking up more of it than i can spare
please recommend me your favorite bad book
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@whitequark this appears to be some new meaning of "benefit" that I am totally unaware of.
@nxskok I've actually considered using PASIAS as bedtime reading with similar reasoning, but concluded I'll need to engage more than that with the subject material to get what I want out of it
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@crow literally in progress, and I feel like that's still too far into the "I am feeling things and their amount is too high" territory
