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Riker

1:08 AM

how does @ChristopheStrobbe not have the research assistant badge yet

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Mithrandir

8:12 AM

@Riker it's for tag wikis, not tag wiki excerpts.

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Gallifreyan

11:40 AM

@Mithrandir I got it for excerpts >_>

I know I haven't edited that many wikis

HELLO @neilhimself's Norse Mythology is all of 99p on Audible today for members. I have never clicked the Buy button so hard and fast. https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Fiction/Norse-Mythology-Audiobook/B06X9MJW4J

Tweeted by mattdoveywriter on December 14, 2017 at 8:49 AM

^ Listening to it now

Fabjaja

12:24 PM

How could this question be edited for improvement? I thought the effects were quite general? I'm a bit confused as to why it is too broad :/

Mithrandir

12:40 PM

@Fabjaja won't the effect change for each work? Different styles can be used for different effects, depending on how exactly it's used.

Fabjaja

12:53 PM

Hmm... OK, yeah I suppose so

So a better question would be 'What is the effect of the first-person and present tense in X– text?'

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Fabjaja

3:42 PM

@Mithrandir Was the problem that the asker didn't apply his question to a specific text?

Mithrandir

@Fabjaja the problem is that the answer will differ depending on which text, so... I suppose?

Fabjaja

@Mithrandir OK! No probs then :)

Mithrandir

@Fabjaja Great. Also, have I ever officially welcomed you to chat? If not... Welcome! :P

Fabjaja

@Mithrandir Hey thanks! :)

Riker

3:57 PM

@Mithrandir you sure?

Christophe Strobbe

The graphic-novel tag is going to disappear because we don't have any questions that use it (and no tag wiki).

Bookworm

4:29 PM

Q: Why was/are James Joyce's writing revolutionary for its time?

I love his writing, but I don't know why he is considered one of the great fiction writers in English. Why was James Joyce's writing so "revolutionary" for its time. I know that at one time originally it was considered risque for some reason, but I could ask the same thing about Ernest Hemingway.

james-joyce

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Rand al'Thor

6:44 PM

@Fabjaja I agree, and have voted to reopen. It's usually more valuable to have a general overview of a literary technique than just a case study of its usage in one particular text. You've shown that this question is nicely answerable without getting overly lengthy.

One of the things I like about Lit as compared to SFF is that this site accepts questions of broad interest and usefulness, not just minutiae about specific works.

@Mithrandir How does Fabjaja's answer differ depending on which text? It's clearly possible to provide a good executive summary of general uses for this writing style.

@Riker Yes, Mith is right.

Mithrandir

7:13 PM

@Randal'Thor I'm not sure either way at the moment

Gallifreyan

7:23 PM

@DVK-on-Ahch-To question #67 here is somewhat related to your question about the effects of censorship on ABS's works: rusf.ru/abs/int_t03.htm

And question 85 is about their "prophecies"

Gallifreyan

7:59 PM

The Doomed City is one interesting book

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Bookworm

9:43 PM

Q: Finding Thriller/Murder - Mystery Novel involving a girl who forgets the killer due to shock

I have read this book twice. This book is about a girl who baby-sits a neighbours baby and she saves the baby from a serial killer and confronts the killer and due to the shock/trauma of being in that incident she forgets the face of the killer. She seeks psychiatric treatment to find the killer....

story-identification

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Bookworm

11:59 PM

Q: Why did the Looters make so many decisions at parties?

[Dagny Taggart] did not ask why those men chose to make all their crucial decisions at parties of this kind; she knew that they did. She knew that behind the clattering, lumbering pretense of their council session, committee meetings, and mass debates, the decisions were made in advance, in fu...