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I'm re-reading the Galaxy's Edge series. Just finished Legionaire last night and started Galactic Outlaws this morning.
What are you reading right now?
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Managed to pirate a Brandon Sanderson audiobook original called The Original. So I guess technically not a read, but whatever.
Was quite enjoying it until I hit the bits about the main character feeling sorry for "misgendering" someone and calling a beaner "Latinx." The female main character's husband also was basically a very public crossdresser, or so it seemed. Appears our fat and happy Mormon multimillionaire author has been sadly converged.
Guess if you're co-authoring a book with the queen of SJWs, Mary Robinette Kowal, you get what you get. Still and all pretty good. Maybe I shouldn't let this shit annoy me, but it does.
Was quite enjoying it until I hit the bits about the main character feeling sorry for "misgendering" someone and calling a beaner "Latinx." The female main character's husband also was basically a very public crossdresser, or so it seemed. Appears our fat and happy Mormon multimillionaire author has been sadly converged.
Guess if you're co-authoring a book with the queen of SJWs, Mary Robinette Kowal, you get what you get. Still and all pretty good. Maybe I shouldn't let this shit annoy me, but it does.
Sanderson's work can only be enjoyed through those Graphic Audio productions, with the full voice casts and the nonstop music and sound effects. It keeps you distracted from how terrible the writing is.
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This series had completely passed me by. Looks like the sort of thing I'd enjoy, so thanks for that!
As is spooky month tradition in the Fabulous Bill household, we re-watch old horror movies or entire series' and this year was the turn of Friday the 13th. As part of that I finally got around to reading Crystal Lake Memories. No great revelations in it, but still an enjoyable read with some interesting perspectives from the various casts and crews involved.
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It kept being batshit afterwards and never really stopped. Peter is (wrongly) blamed for setting it up by causing a century-long succession crisis trying to enthrone his tard baby. Catherine's kidnapped baby abolishes Peter's law, which immediately causes another succession crisis, and that rumbles on for another century and ends up killing the zoosadist emperor and the monarchy with it. It's much more amusing/grim in context. On the Heavenly Kiwifarms, where all of us will be poasting eventually, all of those people have threads.
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I've started and really need to finish 'The Towitta Tragedy: the true story of the Bertha Schippan murder' a self published book by Richard Dutschke. It's about a thirteen year old who was murdered in South Australia in 1902. The murder has never been officially solved, although according to Mr Dutschke, everyone at the time 'knew' who really did it. Apparently the Towitta case is quite famous, although I only came across it quite recently when I went on a heavy true crime binge.
Unfortunately a lot of Australian true crime is never given the in depth book treatment that American or UK killers are, so there's quite a few 'famous' cases out there that are only locally well known. I've noticed that it's much the same with Canadian true crime too, trying to get more than a Wiki entry scrapping's worth of detail is impossible.
Yes, I'm a revolting ghoul. I know this and have made peace with that fact.
Unfortunately a lot of Australian true crime is never given the in depth book treatment that American or UK killers are, so there's quite a few 'famous' cases out there that are only locally well known. I've noticed that it's much the same with Canadian true crime too, trying to get more than a Wiki entry scrapping's worth of detail is impossible.
Yes, I'm a revolting ghoul. I know this and have made peace with that fact.
Robinson Crusoe. It's one of the best novels I've ever read. And I'm quite surprised at it's pastoral message. Because I was just expecting quite a simple adventure story.
"Call on me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify Me."
"Call on me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify Me."
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I had an extremely pleasant surprise with a book I picked up when another book I was trying to download,The Cipher, had no one seeding it for a week (still none a month later...) and made a very quick decision with another book that ended up being fantastic and one of my favorites in a long time.
That book is The Call by Peadar O'Guilín. I was concerned when I got it because I saw for the first time the that it was put out by Scholastic and is considered a YA novel, something I didn't know by reading the preview, but continued on when I saw many reviews say it was probably too intense to be considered as such. That turned out to be true because bleak and filled with death of children and body horror galore. The overview is that Ireland is mysteriously severed from the rest of the world via an impassible fog that leads to another realm of horror, and every single child at a somewhat random point in their teenage years is called there for 3 minutes and 4 seconds in real time which is about a day for the child in which they must survive. Even after all of Ireland's dwindling resources are put into training the children, the survival rate is still only about 1 in 10. The protagonist is a girl named Nessa who had polio as a young child and is partially crippled because of it and therefore everyone sees her death as practically unavoidable.
For criticism before I praise the book a lot I'll say it absolutely has YA tropes. Nessa despite being crippled is impossibly strong in her arms and it basically stated to be the most beautiful girl in the survival school, basically the 'my flaw is being too perfect' trope where a single flaw allows the character to be endless talented in everything else. Despite this being somewhat prevalent I appreciate the book still shows she has no chance in pure strength against well trained men and does have to rely on tactics in such situations. You also have the YA romance stuff, but is almost deconstructed by the situation of the world.
I found the book to be extremely well paced which is a problem many stories deal with. I thought a ton of time was going to be spent in Ireland with only maybe the later half if the book showing The Grey Land, which is the other horrible realm, but luckily the POV switches to Nessa's acquaintances when they are called and you get to follow their struggle (and almost always death) in The Grey Land. The first of these happens very quickly in the story which is great because it really ups the stakes. Outside of the looming inevitability of Nessa's call there begin to be several threatening things happening in Ireland that keep that part of the story interesting as well.
I was going to write a review before reading the sequel book, The Invasion, but I put it off a couple of days and wouldn't you know it trannies got assmad and got a fucking ISP to fuck over KF in that time so now I have finished it as well. I don't think the follow-up was as strong, but it continued the story of characters I came to care about and really ramps up the stakes to apocalyptic levels. The kind of story changed dramatically from a more slow tension to all-out danger but the concepts are still good and there was a lot more to learn about the hows-and-whys that gets resolved.
Someone uploaded the audiobook of The Call to YouTube so I would highly recommend giving it a listen when you're doing something else since you can do so for free.
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Oh yeah, and I am currently listening to Tales from the Gas Station by Jack Townsend and it s a big downgrade. I got it in a hurry because I needed a new book and it's getting harder to find ones I'm interested in. It's basically a creepypasta author turning his creepypasta into a narrative and it's fine for the most part. The audibook is narrated by a YouTuber named Mr. Creepypasta and for a guy who has over a million subs for narrating fiction he fucking suck ass at such. Like, the only audiobook I ever listened to with comparably strange narration was Neuromancer and that was read by the author who has an inflection like a cross between Chris-chan and Grant McDonald of Ram Ranch fame in the 90s.
Also the last part I read had CIA agents explaining the concept of creepypasta to the protagonist after lol so random scooping his own eyes out with a spoon... yeah, kinda cringe.
That book is The Call by Peadar O'Guilín. I was concerned when I got it because I saw for the first time the that it was put out by Scholastic and is considered a YA novel, something I didn't know by reading the preview, but continued on when I saw many reviews say it was probably too intense to be considered as such. That turned out to be true because bleak and filled with death of children and body horror galore. The overview is that Ireland is mysteriously severed from the rest of the world via an impassible fog that leads to another realm of horror, and every single child at a somewhat random point in their teenage years is called there for 3 minutes and 4 seconds in real time which is about a day for the child in which they must survive. Even after all of Ireland's dwindling resources are put into training the children, the survival rate is still only about 1 in 10. The protagonist is a girl named Nessa who had polio as a young child and is partially crippled because of it and therefore everyone sees her death as practically unavoidable.
For criticism before I praise the book a lot I'll say it absolutely has YA tropes. Nessa despite being crippled is impossibly strong in her arms and it basically stated to be the most beautiful girl in the survival school, basically the 'my flaw is being too perfect' trope where a single flaw allows the character to be endless talented in everything else. Despite this being somewhat prevalent I appreciate the book still shows she has no chance in pure strength against well trained men and does have to rely on tactics in such situations. You also have the YA romance stuff, but is almost deconstructed by the situation of the world.
I found the book to be extremely well paced which is a problem many stories deal with. I thought a ton of time was going to be spent in Ireland with only maybe the later half if the book showing The Grey Land, which is the other horrible realm, but luckily the POV switches to Nessa's acquaintances when they are called and you get to follow their struggle (and almost always death) in The Grey Land. The first of these happens very quickly in the story which is great because it really ups the stakes. Outside of the looming inevitability of Nessa's call there begin to be several threatening things happening in Ireland that keep that part of the story interesting as well.
I was going to write a review before reading the sequel book, The Invasion, but I put it off a couple of days and wouldn't you know it trannies got assmad and got a fucking ISP to fuck over KF in that time so now I have finished it as well. I don't think the follow-up was as strong, but it continued the story of characters I came to care about and really ramps up the stakes to apocalyptic levels. The kind of story changed dramatically from a more slow tension to all-out danger but the concepts are still good and there was a lot more to learn about the hows-and-whys that gets resolved.
Someone uploaded the audiobook of The Call to YouTube so I would highly recommend giving it a listen when you're doing something else since you can do so for free.
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Oh yeah, and I am currently listening to Tales from the Gas Station by Jack Townsend and it s a big downgrade. I got it in a hurry because I needed a new book and it's getting harder to find ones I'm interested in. It's basically a creepypasta author turning his creepypasta into a narrative and it's fine for the most part. The audibook is narrated by a YouTuber named Mr. Creepypasta and for a guy who has over a million subs for narrating fiction he fucking suck ass at such. Like, the only audiobook I ever listened to with comparably strange narration was Neuromancer and that was read by the author who has an inflection like a cross between Chris-chan and Grant McDonald of Ram Ranch fame in the 90s.
Also the last part I read had CIA agents explaining the concept of creepypasta to the protagonist after lol so random scooping his own eyes out with a spoon... yeah, kinda cringe.
Sumptinsfuckey
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Hope you like it. If so the authors do another series called Forgotton Ruin. US Army rangers vs Monsters in a D&D based world.
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I am currently going through both volumes of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation. I am in the middle of the second book, the shortest, and have finished the supplements. I think I have passed the point of being confused and understand him clearly enough.
However, I wanted to share this delightful work.
Very short. I think nothing of Rousseau's political or social views, but this is a wonderful meditation on striving for a community whilst being a natural outsider. The Peter France translation, I can't judge it by the original French, is sharp and lacks a certain cryptic quality that factors into a lot of others works from the era. It breathes and is quite carefree in how it speaks. If I was still an English student, I would suggest this as a good essay on psychogeography. Rousseau claimed to hate writers and loathed writing books for book's sake, but he seemed to put a great deal of effort into every sentence here.
Rousseau saw himself for most of his life as a 'Citizen of Geneva', he had a community which he never inhabited, but this book was written after the Swiss condemned his work. There is a feeling of an old man who was and would never be satisfied wherever he lived.
A few, I included, see him as precursor as Marx, and perhaps he has impacted history in a repugnant way. It does not matter me now. This book was a delightful mediation on walking, the close relationship between solitude and loneliness, and thinking I have read in a long while. The most comparable writer is Nietzsche, himself a man flawed, with an absent childhood, and forever wandering. I assumed Nietzsche felt little of him, but apparently, he saw as a quite challenging thinker to his own worldview and one he kept coming back to.
However, I wanted to share this delightful work.
Very short. I think nothing of Rousseau's political or social views, but this is a wonderful meditation on striving for a community whilst being a natural outsider. The Peter France translation, I can't judge it by the original French, is sharp and lacks a certain cryptic quality that factors into a lot of others works from the era. It breathes and is quite carefree in how it speaks. If I was still an English student, I would suggest this as a good essay on psychogeography. Rousseau claimed to hate writers and loathed writing books for book's sake, but he seemed to put a great deal of effort into every sentence here.
Rousseau saw himself for most of his life as a 'Citizen of Geneva', he had a community which he never inhabited, but this book was written after the Swiss condemned his work. There is a feeling of an old man who was and would never be satisfied wherever he lived.
A few, I included, see him as precursor as Marx, and perhaps he has impacted history in a repugnant way. It does not matter me now. This book was a delightful mediation on walking, the close relationship between solitude and loneliness, and thinking I have read in a long while. The most comparable writer is Nietzsche, himself a man flawed, with an absent childhood, and forever wandering. I assumed Nietzsche felt little of him, but apparently, he saw as a quite challenging thinker to his own worldview and one he kept coming back to.
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I'm reading several occult pieces of literature, and reading a true crime book called "The Family Next Door", it is really good and really sad. This true crime book takes you in immediately and leaves you asking, "Why? What? What the fuck why would they do that?" It's really good and I highly recommend it.
The occult books so far are really interesting as well.
The occult books so far are really interesting as well.
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I've actually started to look into some old biology books that have diagrams of what an animal may look like for some future tee shirt designs
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I’ve become completely demotivated. Nothing is novel or interesting enough to grasp my attention for long and I don’t know where to go with my literary travels. Recommendations? I’ll consider any work although I’ll need sufficient convincing if it’s genre fiction.
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Recent reads, a collection of a independent 90s-era comic that had popped up on my radar some years ago. I'd heard enough to interest me but then found out this was yet another indie title that was incomplete when the publisher went bust and it sort of dropped off the radar for me.
So I find that the series had been collected a few years ago and I was intrigued by how this was put together considering the series had the plug pulled only three issues in.
The Collected Exit 6: The Adventures of One Boy Trying to Self Publish a Comic Book in the Late Nineties by Sean Tiffany is part comic collection, part artbook and part autobio. Mr. Tiffany, a freelance illustrator and Joe Kubert school graduate had worked as a colorist and so on for Marvel when, inspired in part by other comics creators who went the self-publishing route, he decided it was time to work on a project of his own.
After some time and effort, self-publishing through his Plastic Spoon Press, Tiffany released the first issue of his action/horror/humor book Exit 6, a comic about Courtney, a teenage girl lamenting living in a small town where nothing happens - until her younger brother is kidnapped by a family of vampires for nefarious purposes. Keith Howard, a member of said family but firmly opposed to them arrives to help her against his clan, introducing himself by crashing through the front window of the pizza place she works at. The series was well received by comics critics, was almost considered for an Eisner Award and was nominated for a Russ Manning Best Newcomer Award, and was well promoted, but despite any buzz the advance sales for issue 3 were not so hot, and he'd run out of money so was forced to shut it down, with a 4th issue completed and a 5th one penciled that would not see the light of day.
The autobio part is the really interesting part for me, since I've read my share of small press comics that for one reason or another were cut short. Sean Tiffany relates the story of the conception of the original idea a decade before, it's development, the path taken to get the comic published which involved more than a bit of money, time and effort, how things went wrong, and the aftermath.
So I find that the series had been collected a few years ago and I was intrigued by how this was put together considering the series had the plug pulled only three issues in.
The Collected Exit 6: The Adventures of One Boy Trying to Self Publish a Comic Book in the Late Nineties by Sean Tiffany is part comic collection, part artbook and part autobio. Mr. Tiffany, a freelance illustrator and Joe Kubert school graduate had worked as a colorist and so on for Marvel when, inspired in part by other comics creators who went the self-publishing route, he decided it was time to work on a project of his own.
After some time and effort, self-publishing through his Plastic Spoon Press, Tiffany released the first issue of his action/horror/humor book Exit 6, a comic about Courtney, a teenage girl lamenting living in a small town where nothing happens - until her younger brother is kidnapped by a family of vampires for nefarious purposes. Keith Howard, a member of said family but firmly opposed to them arrives to help her against his clan, introducing himself by crashing through the front window of the pizza place she works at. The series was well received by comics critics, was almost considered for an Eisner Award and was nominated for a Russ Manning Best Newcomer Award, and was well promoted, but despite any buzz the advance sales for issue 3 were not so hot, and he'd run out of money so was forced to shut it down, with a 4th issue completed and a 5th one penciled that would not see the light of day.
The autobio part is the really interesting part for me, since I've read my share of small press comics that for one reason or another were cut short. Sean Tiffany relates the story of the conception of the original idea a decade before, it's development, the path taken to get the comic published which involved more than a bit of money, time and effort, how things went wrong, and the aftermath.
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I’m listening to a podcast where a wife literally reads infinite jest to her husband and they do a short discussion after each passage. Its on part 100 I think. I read ij in my 20s and it pissed me off. I thought it was overly complex and show-offish and I chalked it up to being the work of a Pynchon acolyte (fuck Pynchon). But holy shit it’s crazy how much I missed the first time around and how much effort and love he put into that book. I was surprised at how much of the horrifying stuff I remembered. But also how much of the love and nuance I missed. It’s called infinite cast. Dfw really was better than everyone else. I think that’s why he got so much hate. To read this book as a writer who is trying to compete must be infuriating. He reminds me of Dostoyevsky, great at building scenes, but not the best at plotting. Also I just read the new franzen book, crossroads. I think it might be his best book yet and I look forward to the next part of the trilogy.
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Love In A Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford. It's basically about an extremely beautiful and wealthy young lady who seems uninterested in eligible bachelors. Why? She was molested by her super gay uncle.
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I'm reading a manga called Dog Nigga.
The name should speak for itself... Anyway, inserting pictures isn't working for me now for whatever reason, so I'll just say that you can read it easily for free at a site called mangalife
The name should speak for itself... Anyway, inserting pictures isn't working for me now for whatever reason, so I'll just say that you can read it easily for free at a site called mangalife