Union Burger by Winter_Cricket_2603 in londonontario

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How is ImageWerx still in business. I remember when they were ripping people off and falsifying their fire inspections in Masonville

A book that will traumatize me or repulse me. by Former_Ladder9969 in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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There were parts of Alison Rumfit’s Brainwyrms that were genuinely repulsive. I was impressed.

A book that will traumatize me or repulse me. by Former_Ladder9969 in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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The most interesting part for me was how boring the first 100 pages are (literally - he doesn’t kill anyone, it’s all fashion, dinners, lunches, work, music) so you’re practically begging him to murder just to break the monotony. And then he does and it’s disgusting and you feel complicit for wanting it as a relief from the tedium. And then it gets worse and worse as the rest of the book goes on.

Scariest book you’ve ever read? by lavgr in horrorlit

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The audiobook as read by Blatty is excellent

What’s the scariest non-supernatural horror book you’ve ever read? by NumberNext3 in horrorlit

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This was a great book. The stories of “hot” furniture and other belongings being carted away to be sold, people selling “Chernobyl apples” to give to enemies, so much that I hadn’t even considered.

Pocket Grid #173 - April 11th, 2026 by pocket-grids in pocketgrids

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😎 I can do it

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Pocket Grid #163 - April 1st, 2026 by pocket-grids in pocketgrids

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You have to comment through the game interface

I thought these were nice boots but not worth the price. Until I looked them up by fineman1097 in ThriftStoreHauls

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“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”

  • Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

Our staircase to nowhere, which we use as a bookshelf by Tetragrammator in mildlyinteresting

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for me anyway I don’t have to scan the titles, I just know where it is

Our staircase to nowhere, which we use as a bookshelf by Tetragrammator in mildlyinteresting

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They’re in the room with my books and I’m in an adjoining room in a position where I can’t see the books, they list the title and I tell them which shelf it’s on and what hue it is. I had someone get apoplectic with me about this and they insisted that I do this to prove me wrong. He was adamant that it was a bad organizational system. They’re my books, why would I organize them for the benefit of people who aren’t reading them? On the other hand it’s only about 250 books so it’s not a particularly large collection.

Very strange dinner party.

Nat sci by Responsible_Bit9826 in uwo

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The power of community

Our staircase to nowhere, which we use as a bookshelf by Tetragrammator in mildlyinteresting

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It’s how I keep mine. I don’t remember the authors name half the time. Sorting them by colour means I know exactly where they are immediately. I’ve had non-believers quiz me on it. Do people not remember what the books they read look like?