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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 18:09 
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My issue is Dresden

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To be fair there are reasons for that...

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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The last book, but the spoiler refers to an earlier one, although they all blur into one and I would struggle to tell you anything that happened in any specific book.


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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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It's the one where Dresden gets hurt and tired but manages to save the day with an inspired, last minute solution


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Dresden, ta. Bobby forgot to mention that :)

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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When did present-tense books become a standard? I got the audiobook of Divergent (yes, I know. I'm a teenage girl) for cheeps and it's all in present tense. I quite like it. It lends a sense of uncertainty and danger to the story. Kinda like watching a film.

Are there any major books written like that?

Edit: The Hunger Games (yes, I know. I'm a teenage girl) is present-tense apparently, says Google. I've read that. Didn't notice.


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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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Present tense first person?

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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Fifty Shades of Grey is. Some Reacher books are. All the Jack Daniels books are. Bits of The Martian are. Adrian Mole is ;) Black Beauty is ;) ;)

I don't think it's that rare.

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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I guess not. Can't say I've ever noticed before. Must be down to the Audiobook being a bit more immediate.

Hang on, Adrian Mole is a diary. How can that possibly be present tense?


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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:27 
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Fifty Shades of Grey is. Some Reacher books are. All the Jack Daniels books are. Bits of The Martian are. Adrian Mole is ;) Black Beauty is ;) ;)

I don't think it's that rare.


I think second person past tense is rare. Choose your own adventure are present are they not?

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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Hang on, Adrian Mole is a diary. How can that possibly be present tense?

Ah, I was first-personing.

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Fifty Shades of Grey is. Some Reacher books are. All the Jack Daniels books are. Bits of The Martian are. Adrian Mole is ;) Black Beauty is ;) ;)

I don't think it's that rare.


I think second person past tense is rare. Choose your own adventure are present are they not?

And an epilogue at the end of red-shirts.

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
I Capture The Castle
The Handmaid's Tale

Also, I believe Wolf Hall is. I remember reading something about it being Cremwhale's account, first person present tense, but I've not read it.

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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I can't stand reading first person or present tense. Really irritates me.

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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Mark struggled to think of how to respond to Craster's comments without risking further upset.


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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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Mimi had once worried about Craster's desire to rage quit over writing styles, because she had always admired his beard, and in particular it's gingerness, which was so ginger that it out-gingered even ginger, (which was not and had never been actually ginger coloured). Since the beginning of time, many great philosophers had pondered on the un-gingerness of ginger, but not Mimi; and she was not thinking of this now, purposefully, as she refused to do anything in the present tense.

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Mark struggled to think of how to respond to Craster's comments without risking further upset.

Dave also thought about this. But I have now reached an epiphany: I don't care. An angry Craster can't do much to me.
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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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Mark struggled to think of how to respond to Craster's comments without risking further upset.

Dave also thought about this. But I have now reached an epiphany: I don't care. An angry Craster can't do much to me.
I like cock.

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Mark struggled to think of how to respond to Craster's comments without risking further upset.

Grim... found Mark's comment most amusing.
His concentration slipping, he accidentally flexed one mighty bicep before he could stop himself.
The resulting shockwave vaporised the surrounding buildings and killed anyone within sixty meters, and seriously injured people within the next ten. Several nearby women who survived the devastation found themselves inexplicably pregnant.

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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markg wrote:
Mark struggled to think of how to respond to Craster's comments without risking further upset.

Grim... found Mark's comment most amusing.
His concentration slipping, he accidentally flexed one mighty bicep before he could stop himself.
The resulting shockwave vaporised the surrounding buildings and killed anyone within sixty meters, and seriously injured people within the next ten. Several nearby women who survived the devastation found themselves inexplicably pregnant.


:DD I think I :luv: you.

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:DD I think I :luv: you.

NOOOOOOO you'll anger Craster!

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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I think I :luv: Craster...?

No, wait, I get it...

I think Craster :luv: s you.

Honestly, I think there's enough of you to go around.

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 Post subject: Re: New generic book thread
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Mimi wrote:
I think I :luv: Craster...?

No, wait, I get it...

I think Craster :luv: s you.

Honestly, I think there's enough of you to go around.


Mimi should have stopped using first person present tense, to avoid angering the Craster. When historians looked back at the Fall of Man, this was identified as the point of no return.

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I think I :luv: Craster...?


Heh, look, I even gave him your last name.

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Mimi wrote:
I think I :luv: Craster...?

No, wait, I get it...

I think Craster :luv: s you.

Honestly, I think there's enough of you to go around.


Mimi should have stopped using first person present tense, to avoid angering the Craster. When historians looked back at the Fall of Man, this was identified as the point of no return.


Mimi sidles in between Craster and Grim... interruptiung a moment of pure hairy man-bear love, and in an instance the love rage pulses through both man and all her atoms are first torn apart and then smashed furiously against each other.

Craster, in a deep sweat and with a crooked knowing smile looks at his lover and whispers 'ah, the Higgs Boson' and they Hi5 it back into oblivion.

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That's an excerpt from my new book: Fifty Shades Of Nay.

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Did you...did you..Did you just describe being Eiffel Tower'd by Grim.. and Cras?

I feel ill

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I have no idea what that means, so let's say 'no'.

I was more describing two huge forces running towards each other with a woman trapped in the middle. I saw what Grim... did to Ange all by himself with a mere chest-bump.

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Mimi wrote:
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Mimi wrote:
I think I :luv: Craster...?

No, wait, I get it...

I think Craster :luv: s you.

Honestly, I think there's enough of you to go around.


Mimi should have stopped using first person present tense, to avoid angering the Craster. When historians looked back at the Fall of Man, this was identified as the point of no return.


Mimi sidles in between Craster and Grim... interruptiung a moment of pure hairy man-bear love, and in an instance the love rage pulses through both man and all her atoms are first torn apart and then smashed furiously against each other.

Craster, in a deep sweat and with a crooked knowing smile looks at his lover and whispers 'ah, the Higgs Boson' and they Hi5 it back into oblivion.


I...okay.

*goes with it*

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Did you...did you..Did you just describe being Eiffel Tower'd by Grim.. and Cras?


Mimi wrote:
I was more describing two huge forces running towards each other with a woman trapped in the middle


Sounds about right.

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Mimi wrote:
I have no idea what that means, so let's say 'no'.

Mimi totally did describe herself being Eiffel Towered by Grim... and Craster.

Grim... went to his bunk.

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Mimi wrote:
I have no idea what that means, so let's say 'no'.

Mimi totally did describe herself being Eiffel Towered by Grim... and Craster.

Grim... went to his bunk.

Since he was young, all of Grim...s sexual fantasies inckuded Craster. This made a whole lot more sense after the fateful day they met. Mr Chris was so overwhelmed, he forgot how to put on his coat.


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what is second person perspective?


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what is second person perspective?


You go to Google and you look up a definition. You read it, and this now makes sense to you.

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Yeah, but what is second person perspective?


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It's when the author writes as if (s)he is writing to you personally. So:

You've been feeling very confident recently and have decided that it's time to go out into the world dressed in your hamster costume for the very first time. You're splendid.

Something like that.

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Thank you Mimi, Curiosity is just rude, I could have googled it, but wanted to engage in conversation.

So, in the tense state, does the "immediacy" of the phrase make a difference?
So, in Dresden books and the like, it is written as, "I went to the door/ I opened the door/ the door was open." which is first person past tense. But it isn't written in the way of someone telling the story from the 'now' about events in the past, like those Patrick Rothfuss books.

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That's a point - all the Dresden books are written in first person, and Craster loves Dresden enough to enthusiastically discuss spoilers with me.

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I think Dresden is assumed to be some sort of journal or personal log, as he talks informally and sometimes talks directly to a reader. I lot of first person past tense is written like a simple recall, almost like someone remembering in narrative.


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So, I'm about a third of the way through American Psycho. I think this is probably one of the most disturbing books I have ever read. It's a superbly written and way better than the film.

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It's an incredibly disturbing book.

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It really is. I thought the film was pretty good though. I'd read the book before the film came out but Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman never seemed wrong or totally at odds the one I had in my head.


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Just skip the chapters describing the music to lose nothing from the overall experience. That was done much better in the film.

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Ooh, I may have to get hold of this.

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I felt the film didn't really portray Bateman as a particularly fleshed-out character. The book showed he had many layers and was much more compelling to me.

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