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Dear dodos,

I bet every book collector here started reading books, not just buying them and then stacking them, classifying them, describing them, and so on.
But to chat with each other about reading itself, LastDodo is not the right place.
There is an enormous knowledge here about the books as objects themselves, and that is incorporated in the catalog in all sorts of ways. But that knowledge has grown from the experience of the book.
Talking about it with others also has its advantages, but we can't do that here, or the Community pages would be overrun with threads that have nothing to do with collecting anymore.
You can do that on Ezzulia though. That is a forum that is accessible for free. To be able to read some threads you have to be registered, and to be able to comment and start threads yourself, of course. And every month there is a reading challenge.
So, feel free to check out Ezzulia to chat, or to ask questions about your reading, or to discuss something seriously.
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PeterMotte

I don't know this site Ezzulia, but go see what is being discussed in terms of books. As a frequent reader of thrillers in particular, it is useful for me to get tips on writers, etc. I am registered at https://www.goodreads.com/ but more because I read English and American. By the way: American writers basically use a different language than British writers...

Do not agree with you that we should not be allowed to talk about the content of books, etc. on the forum, books are already meager in terms of forum posts and where does that come from being overrun with threads? That is not a wish of lastDodo .. I think.
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Yes, when it comes to the collecting aspect, so keeping editions apart, etc. But when it comes to content, and whether you like a book, etc., then I think they will not appreciate it on LastDodo if there are suddenly huge forums and sub-forums arise with discussions about authors, book recommendations and so on.
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It is certainly allowed to talk about the content of (comic) books, etc. here. Please even.
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April 21, 2023 13:50
Talking about it with others also has its advantages, but we can't do that here, or the Community pages would be overrun with threads that have nothing to do with collecting anymore.

PeterMotte
Some assumptions with which I disagree. Anyone who has something to say about a book can do so here. I do think that quite a few users have other motives than sharing reading pleasure to enter an item.

As for Ezzulia, I'm not thrilled.
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Ah, so? Why not?
I'm not talking bad about Goodreads, it's too English-focused. Even if I look for reviews of Flemish or Dutch books, for example, and end up on Goodreads, they are almost always in English. Goodreads somehow provokes that. I'm not saying they do that on purpose, just that the Goodreads environment causes it.
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Because of two reasons:
1. I get the impression that it mainly concerns books in the popular genre, for example fantasy, thrillers and recent novels. I usually skip those genres.
2. A meaningful discussion about a book should have a little more depth than what I quickly found. For example 'I love this book' 'Me too' No, I don't' is a bit of a waste of my time.
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vertigo No, it depends on the reader. To give you an idea: last year, for example, I read 2 philosophical essays by Sartre, two by Aristotle, and two by Etienne Vermeersch.
I haven't read much this year, but that includes Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, and that's quite something.
The depth of the discussion depends on who joins the discussion, of course, and since all members of Ezzulia do it in their spare time, you shouldn't expect them to suddenly start writing very in-depth literary-philosophical essays.
I honestly don't think it goes any deeper on Goodreads. And I only mention it because GR was mentioned here before.
And finally: if you know what someone's taste is, you often no longer need that "I liked this" to know whether you want to read it. There's nothing stopping you from going into more detail afterwards.
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PeterMotte vertigo Harry56 Rene
Very simple is hot.
Tastes and colors differ (from person to person).
What is good for one person is bad for another.
One reviewer praises a book, another criticizes it.
Someone else doesn't have to tell me what I'm good or less good, bad, average,... is.
I'll decide that myself.
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April 21, 2023 15:23
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Sounds like Bus what you say.

My favorite writer is James Lee Burke, the only author where I've reread the novels/thrillers 3 or 4 times, actually a bit bizarre, because it's typically American in terms of crime and misery. Whereas I have an aversion to American feature films or ditto crime series. The film adaptations of some Burke novels were Dragons. Burke is a master of both dialogues and descriptions and no chapter or page is boring. Because I have trouble with language and putting something logical on paper is and remains difficult for me, I have the impression that this writer has it in him naturally. I am what you call a visual thinker ( a bearer expression ?) a well written book is a movie to me. I sometimes try a moderately written book, but I generally give up. I regularly get advice, "you should try this writer" but yes it has been limited to a handful of authors in recent years.
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Of course that's true. The question is, how do you find the books you love to read?
And if you enjoyed reading them, but you have comments about them (comments are not always negative), who do you tell?
Or who are you going to ask?
A forum of readers is not a question of writing reviews to denigrate or praise books.
It is a matter of speaking about books to learn more about them, such as which ones you like to read, which ones you would avoid, what you hadn't noticed in a book that someone else might have noticed.
It is really not Ezzulia's intention to destroy each other's preferences.
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But if you write 'which books you like to read and which ones to avoid' that is nothing more or less than a mini-review... LD is a catalog and the info about a book is usually on the back, or am I mistaken?
And can the right / wrong games begin.
And isn't LD primarily a platform for collectors?
Do you want to talk about the content of a book; well then there are those other sites.
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buizer Well, that's it: for the content I recommend Ezzulia ( http://ezzulia.nl/forum/ )
The back of the book is not reliable in that area, because it is an advertising copy.
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To give you an idea: the Ezzulia forum has a total of 483,835 posts and 8,743 topics.
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Don't you have to abide by the forum rules?
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PeterMotte .
Sorry, but now you have already made a lot of advertising / promotion for E.....a.
And as Rene indicated, it is not forbidden to talk about the content on the forum.
Then start a topic/thread on the forum.
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Perhaps a useful idea : 'My personal top ten in reading books'.
On Lastdodo, in separate subsections under Books.
Start with 'in Dutch'.
later possibly in English, American, French (or 100 other languages...)
NB 'My personal top twenty in Comics' can already be started at De signed reep
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Boekenmagazijn "And don't you have to follow the forum rules there?"

Yes, of course it is, but I haven't had any problems with it yet.
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Actually, we are just waiting for you to bring in-depth analyzes of scientific and philosophical writings. :)
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Actually, we are just waiting for you to bring in-depth analyzes of scientific and philosophical writings. :)

PeterMotte I think there is a misunderstanding. Didn't want to claim anywhere that I had the intention/had the time or inclination/was able to provide an in-depth analysis of scientific and philosophical writings, but I do think that a superficial exchange of opinions is a waste of effort ;-)


Book Warehouse "And don't you have to follow the forum rules there?" Yes, of course you do, but I haven't had any problems with that yet.

PeterMotte
Also a misunderstanding here. Boekenmagazijn means, I think, that advertising other websites on this forum is not allowed.
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vertigo It's really not just superficial exchanges of opinion.
As for those other sites, it's not a sales site. It's a forum. Things are sometimes offered, but I haven't sold anything yet, and don't even bother anymore.
LastDodo is an online collection catalog cum sales site, and Ezzulia is a forum.
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PeterMotte And it's a forum too; you put those 68 messages on it yourself.
And advertising (for whatever) is indeed not allowed.
Just fire up the 'topic'.
Takes some effort (on your part).
That won't happen by itself. If you're not interested in books, don't...
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I'm not going to start such a topic here. I said it before: on Ezzulia there are a total of 483,835 posts and 8,743 topics about READING books. LastDodo just isn't made for that.
By the way, what do you mean by those 68 messages? Which 68 messages?
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I once looked at Ezzulia but saw with growing surprise that hardly anyone there knows anything about SF from before 1980. Almost only Fantasy is cited and pretended to be the only thing there is.
I don't think it's for me.
My fingers are itching to give advice on what to read, but I think it will be an agony for me. They don't even seem to know Meulenhoff's series, in which a lot of good SF has appeared.
I know, I should put this on that site, but I won't...
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I am a fan of good science fiction films, which I can count on a few hands. Are there authors of which you have read the books a second time because it is so good? Tastes differ, that's obvious, but I'm curious. A movie that made a big impression in my youth = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jGOKYHxaQ
Read now to a story by one https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison
Apparently a celebrity..
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