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November 13th, 2009
literarytattoos
[ohmyparamour]
| 02:09 pm - Howdy
I am curious if anybody have an Death Cab For Cutie lyric tattoos?
If you do, or knows anybody who does, please comment!
Any of you guys met Tattoos artists who are really sick of doing textual tattoos? They claim it's passe and really common ):
Current Location: Singapore, Singapore
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whatwasthatbook
[pitselly]
 | 10:54 pm - what was that sci fi alien book I read in the late 90s.
I can't remember the name or the author of this book, I read it a really really long time ago. Luckily my memory says I can probably detail the plot ad nauseam.
It was a hardcore sci-fi, with the main focus being on the aliens, not at all a space opera so much as worldbuilding the alien's society and genetic makeup, birth of society etc etc. They were pretty small, and looked like beige Shellos Pokemon, though I can't tell you if that's from a description in the book or from the fevered recollections of preteen!me.
There's a scene where the aliens create a numeric system by naming each number after a preexisting noun. When the aliens die, they are chopped up and eaten. At one point, one of the aliens is an albino, and starts some sort of fringe religion. The aliens don't raise their young, all the eggs are put in a sort of communal orphanage thing and cared for by aliens assigned the job of keeping after them. Eventually, humans make contact with the aliens, and find that the alien society moves ten times faster then theirs (or something like that-- you know, basically, an hour for us is like a year for them). Because of this, it's implied (or stated outright, can't recall) that the humans who make contact, introduced in the beginning of the book, have been alive for about the same amount of time as the entire span of the alien civilization. Eventually the humans send down like, literature and stuff, and one of the aliens is named Moby Dick. The humans leave the aliens on a vaguely disappointing 'it's not our place to mettle!' note.
OH AND on a completely unrelated note, I once read a book where a character was named 'Plastic', it was some kind of dystopian thingummy completely unrelated from the above alien book. Ring any bells?
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November 12th, 2009
whatwasthatbook
[kia_kirkland]
 | 09:49 pm - Two Korean sisters...
All I remember is that the book was about two sisters. They were both Korean. The older one was stressed out about her SATs and then met this Hispanic guy (I think)? Then the younger sister became scared that her older sister was going to run away with the guy, but in the end she didn't. I remember their parents worked in a laundromat (or something along those lines). Their mother was a real b*tch. I really liked the book, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it's called. I'd be grateful if anyone can tell me the title~!
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whatwasthatbook
[bombsreverse]
 | 07:26 pm - Help?
So I was directed here from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) bookish and hopefully you can help me, and apologies if you're seeing this twice.
I read the book in like grade eight, and thinking back on it I probably shouldn't have been reading it at that time.
It was a comedic take on a number of fairy tales, the main character was Prince Charming, Charming was his actual name, and he goes on a quest to save and then marry Sleeping Beauty, along the way he encounters both Cinderella and Snow White, I think in the end he ends up with Snow White because Sleeping Beauty ends up being pregnant by the king? I'm not sure about that particular part but I know she wants nothing to do with Prince Charming.
I also remember that either Snow White's mother or Cinderella's step mother tries to seduce the prince while he's at their palace, for some reason I remember her as a dominatrix figure.
Sorry that this is so long, but still fairly vague. Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about and a plate of internet brownies to you if you do know.
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whatwasthatbook
[r3n4g4d3]
 | 04:07 pm - Illustrated Edgar Allen Poe?
Okay, I once found a book of Edgar Allan Poe poems and stories that was illustrated in graphic-novel form by someone who did another somewhat-famous graphic novel/comic book series, and I want to say it was the same guy who did Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, but I'm not sure....
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whatwasthatbook
[emo_supremo]
 | 05:40 pm
I read this book when I was pretty young, and I've been trying to remember what it is for years! The main character is a young girl who I believe is home schooled. I think I remember her saying she got to do her classes in her pajamas.
The girl had stuffed animals that came to life and I think it was fun for her at first but it got out of hand. I believe a family member mailed her the stuffed animals from another country/place. At the end, there was a spell that made the stuffed animals come to life only on certain nights.
If anyone has an idea of what this might be, it would be amazing! Thanks so much!
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whatwasthatbook
[isarian]
 | 01:01 pm - Online Novel - Hackers, Techno-Thriller
Hi all!
I read a novel online a while ago - 2003-2004 that I only ever found on a web site for free, although it was available for print too. It was about an ex-government operative who had reclused from the world, purchasing land in Colorado under the shell nonprofit the "Letterbed Foundation For Children" (or something similar). In this world, computer experts are called "Wizards" and typically all are part of the "Guild" of systems administrators. There is VR, both for business purposes and for gaming.
He gets pulled into a large conspiracy involving other hackers that ends up pulling him away from his isolated home and into this conflict. In the process he runs into an old colleage with whatever three-letter agency he worked with, and a woman agent in the same agency who he becomes romantically attached to. The end up on the run from the cops when the hackers they are trying to fight frame them for murder.
Does this ring a bell to anyone? I thought it sounded a lot like Cory Doctorow's work, but it's not one of his novels.
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whatwasthatbook
[sneakishfrog]
 | 12:47 pm - two books. FOUND.
1. On Being Sarah
by Elizabeth Helfman
YA-fiction, read between 1995-98, about a young girl with severe cerebral palsy, who cannot speak and uses a letterboard to communicate. She has an older sister who I think calls her "Squib", and no, it's not the book Squib by Nina Bawden. I'm pretty sure it's told from her perspective, but is not first-person narrated. For some reason, I remember the corner of the school library it was in was either the author's last name R through Z, or title R through Z section!
2. No More Monsters for Me! by Peggy Parish
This one's in bits and pieces: pretty young (probably not chapter-style) book, read in late 80s or early 90s. All I remember: there are monsters hiding in the house, and a basement where the protagonist's (I don't even remember if it's a young girl or boy) grandma has lots of canned goods and jars of things like sauerkraut (maybe). It's a loooong shot. But the Where the Wild Things Are hype is bringing up memories of it.
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whatwasthatbook
[__loveisrevenge]
 | 07:23 am - Children's Book Help?
I'm trying to remember the name of this book I loved having read to me when I was a kid. It was a picture book, and the story was about these kids, I think a brother and a sister, who were going to be babysat by their uncle. The book ended with them taking a bath, and the uncle got in the bath too with all his clothes on. Any help?
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whatwasthatbook
[preosmo]
 | 03:19 am - Looking for a young adult novel . . .
About six years ago I rented a book from the library. It was paperback, thin (about 100-150 pages) and tall. I want to say the cover was purple or blue, possibly. (I'm in the US, btw)
Anyway, it's about a girl, fourteen or so, who has new neighbors move in across the street. They have kids so she takes up babysitting them. The father of the children ends up coming on to her and molests her. I don't remember many scenes. At some point the main character asks her older (female) cousin what 'popping a cherry' is. Then later, after she confesses to her cousin what happened, she's outside and the wife of the guy who molested her comes up and attacks the girl, scratching her with her nails.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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