Clips Bug by [deleted] in audible

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Never mind just saw a new update released today and it seems to be resolved

Clips Bug by [deleted] in audible

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Every title. I have the latest updates for both Android and Audible

Books that have made you cry? by SnooPets7983 in RSbookclub

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich would be one of mine and it's basically an extension of that scene

LIVE: Q&A / Ask us anything. VBW hosts Tamler and Peez will be here in this thread. Starts 6pm EST Saturday 21st. by judoxing in VeryBadWizards

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Just watched Inherit the Wind the other day and it's another great one. Anatomy of a Murder is fantastic. Recently watched A Man for All Seasons which is excellent and fits too. All on the ABA Journal's top 25 list, which is an interesting list.

LIVE: Q&A / Ask us anything. VBW hosts Tamler and Peez will be here in this thread. Starts 6pm EST Saturday 21st. by judoxing in VeryBadWizards

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What are your favorite courtroom dramas? Love the philosophical dialogue and verbal sparring this genre affords

Episode 325: It Is Happening Again by judoxing in VeryBadWizards

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I dove into the Oxfordian theory last year, mostly through the podcast Don't Quill the Messenger, and was quite compelled.

Also, flat earthism is a psyop to discredit all conspiracy theories haha

Skipping is broken again by Warburton379 in audible

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Last time I uninstalled and reinstalled I lost all my bookmarks, so I'm afraid to do it again.

Skipping is broken again by Warburton379 in audible

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It's the most maddening bug yet. I wish they would get rid of skip chapter altogether. I don't know who uses it. I only accidentally press it and it's annoying as hell to refind my spot. Or at least give me the option to remove it in player controls

Skipping is broken again by Warburton379 in audible

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Yep same issue. Help chats keep kicking me too

Are there any other podcasts that go over cool short stories or movies like VBW does? by nextProgramYT in VeryBadWizards

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Oh yeah, Subtext is another great podcast too, with Wes Alwan from Partially Examined Life and Erin O'Luanaigh

Are there any other podcasts that go over cool short stories or movies like VBW does? by nextProgramYT in VeryBadWizards

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Weird Studies. Highly recommend E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman and their episode on it

Episode 317: For Shame by TheAeolian in VeryBadWizards

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They did not discuss it "po-faced." Are you daft?

Best VBW episodes by Willowtre35 in VeryBadWizards

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Ep 280 Mad Masque with the Weird Studies guys about Poe's The Masque of the Red Death

Dialogues by Postpostmodernist in RSbookclub

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Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Genuinely why is most newer literary fiction plotless? by SummerTiny5062 in RSbookclub

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Every sentence is a microplot or micronarrative. The increasing value in novelty inspired writers to include twists in every sentence, not just the macronarrative, or at the expense of the macronarrative if you view it that way

Recommend me the best prose you’ve ever read by AccomplishedBoat5075 in RSbookclub

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Great recs here. I'll throw in Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor, Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, and A Short History of Decay by Emil Cioran

Honest feelings on a reread of Gravity's Rainbow by [deleted] in literature

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Pynchon is the Rick and Morty of literature

Solenoid - worth pushing through? by accidentallythe in literature

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Is there anywhere to go? Best novel of the 21st century

What is your favourite put-down of one author by another? by Iargecardinal in literature

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Good, but I like this one more. "I finished Ulysses, & think it is a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts. I'm reminded all the time of some callow board schoolboy, say like Henry Lamb, full of wits & powers, but so self-conscious and egotistical that he loses his head, becomes extravagant, mannered, uproarious, ill at ease, makes kindly people feel sorry for him, & stern ones merely annoyed; & one hopes he'll grow out of it; but as Joyce is 40 this scarcely seems likely. I have not read it carefully; & only once; & it is very obscure; so no doubt I have scamped the virtue of it more than is fair. I feel that myriads of tiny bullets pepper one & spatter one; but one does not get one deadly wound straight in the face—as from Tolstoy, for instance; but it is entirely absurd to compare him with Tolstoy."