Maybe it proved to be the perfect hook for the story. Maybe the prose grabbed you then and there. Post anything that was exceptionally memorable.

To discuss your favorite and most hated women (male and female) in literature.

I think the only female author book I ever finished was “Pride and Prejudice” (didn’t even read Harry Potter, lmao). But history is full with them, you have authors like Mary Shelley , Margaret Mitchell , Margaret Atwood , Isabel Allende and so on.

To discuss and recommend authors and books from the 20th century in general.

A few great modern authors that come to mind and who’s works I’m quite familiarized are Albert Camus, Vladimir Nabokov, F Scott Fitzgerald, Jorge Luis Borges and even though they are still alive and publishing Mario Vargas Llosa (his older works are fantastic) and Kazuo Ishiguro (haven’t read Ishiguro yet, but i have “never let me go” on my reading list)

To discuss about the books, textbooks and papers you are currently reading.

I finished Moby Dic a couple of days ago. Next i’ll pick up Pale Fire by Nabokov. I started reading that book a few months ago and stoped after the poem because i was reading it before sleep and couldn’t focus well. Even though I still remember what happened and took a few notes, I decided to start from the beginning again.

!boozers !nicotine !newport !schizomaxxxers !soren do not discuss, I am grumpy and exhausted

As per title, it doesn't let me pay for some reason even though it worked for the first time.

So you can discuss your weekly readings.

I’m still reading Moby Dic, currently halfway through, so far is great, though as English is not my native language It means I have to look up quite a bit in the dictionary to learn the “old timey” words, but I’m using it less now the more I learn, it also made me check up the Bible to find the biblical counterparts of the characters with biblical names, which is interesting.

https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7974/john-wick-is-so-tired-kyra-wilder

So you guys can discuss and recommend history book of any kind. This is also the type of book I read most over the years so here’s my recommendation list

On Ancient Mesopotamia

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Paul Kriwaczek)

On Ancient Egypt

The rise and fall of ancient Egypt (Toby Wilkinson)

On Ancient Greece

The Spartans (Paul Cartledge)

Rise of Athens (Anthony Everitt)

Alexander the Great (Paul Cartledge)

Alexander the Great (Philip Freeman)

On Ancient Rome

The Storm before the Storm (Mike Duncan) WARNING: Duncan is not an historian and his books are just a collection of primary sources with his opinions on them, so take this with a grain of salt”

SPQR (Mary Beard)

Augustus (Adrian Goldsworthy)

How Rome fell: Fall of a Superpower (Adrian Goldsworthy)

The Fall of Rome (Bryan Ward Perkins)

On the Byzantines

Byzantium: The surprising life of a medieval empire (Judith Herrin)

On the Baltics

The northern crusaders (Eric Christianssen)

On the Middle East

Jerusalem a Biography (Simon Sebag Montefiore)

The Arabs (Eugene Rogan)

The House of Wisdom (Jimal Khalili)

On precolumbian Americas

The Maya (Michael d Coe)

1491 (Charles Mann)

1493 (Charles Mann)

On the Portuguese Empire

Conquerors (Roger Crowley)

On Caribbean Slavery

Mastery Tyranny and desire (Trevor Burnard)

The Plantation Machine (Trevor Burnard)

Colonial America

The Island at the center of the world (Russell Shorto)

Colonial Africa

King Leopold’s Ghost (Adam Hochschild)

On American slavery

The fall of the House of Dixie (Bruce Levine)

Empire of Cotton (Sven Beckert)

On Imperial Russia

The Romanovs (Simon Sebag Montefiore)

On WW1

The Great War (Peter Hart)

On the Nazi economy

The Wages of Destruction (Adam Tooze)

There is always something we disagree with the majority. So here’s a thread to talk about it.

Mine is this: is an overrated, over quoted above average book, not bad, but far from being a masterpiece. Animal farm is Orwell’s best work of fiction and Brave New World is a much superior and plausible dystopia. 1984 style oppression is just hyperbole.

So you can discuss your favorite Fantasy and Horror books. As well as trash talk about the authors and books of those genres you hate the most.

Truth be told, outside a few movies and shows I’m pretty much clueless about fantasy lit and still a novice on horror. So I’ll just and enjoy the comments.

Have fun!

It's a collection of smartly written short stories that cover multiple MOS's. If you like it, I suggest Missionaries, about four people connected to a violent situation in Columbia. There's also a scene where a dude gets cut in half with a chainsaw in front of his family.

Bibliophile dramanauts, I was thinking about having a few recommendation threads according to genre, this one is Sci-fi but then we could go into horror, fantasy, realism, math textbooks, etc.

Here’s mine, or at least the few one’s I read.

HG Wells

“War of the Worlds”

Isaac Asimov

I robot

Foundation Trilogy

Frank Herbert

Dune

Dune messiah

Andy Weir

The Martian

Edit: I forgot about Robert Henlein, in his case “Starship Troopers”

Malibu was a small publisher and distributor who basically ate up most of the small comic publishers in the black and white boom and then made bank being the distributor for early Image. Malibu was also known for its very advanced computer coloring department which was the best in the industry at the time. Soon after this they would leverage the massive capitol influx into making their own superhero universe, the Ultraverse. This Tv spot is right before the launch of the Ultraverse. Some interesting things to note here are mention of a Dinosaurs for Hire Saturday morning cartoon which never actually aired. We get mention of the superior sales of the manga market from editor in chief Chris Ulm "they print more comics then potty paper in japan" and he also says "Comics in general are being looked at more and more as ways to prototype ideas visually, and then translate that to electronic media [video games] cinema or TV or animation". Within in a year of launching the ultraverse Marvel would wholesale buy Malibu to gain access to their advanced coloring and keep DC from gaining more market cap. Within a year of buying Malibu Marvel would reboot the ultraverse and move the most popular characters to their main universe. Within a year of doing that Malibu would be shuddered and all properties of their properties owned by Marvel would remain untouched to this day. No reprints, no new books, or even cameos in other Marvel Comics. To this day upper level execs are tight lipped about the death of Malibu and why the ultraverse wasn't revived.

From this we can see what happened to the comic industry before it died and that even at its height in the 90s comics were being increasingly looked at as little more then IP banks for more successful adaptations.

We all know about hack writers. Their work is of poor quality and some are quite prolific. But hack writer =/= writer I don’t like. What are some hacks you enjoy and which one’s you can’t stand?

My favorite hack is Dan Brown, his Robert Langdon series are a guilty pleasure of mine (though Origins was too terrible with the recycled plot). Langdon is a Mary Sue and his plots are so over the top I can’t take seriously while also being a page turner.

One I can’t stand is Paulo Coelho, who is unfortunately Brazil’s most famous writer abroad. So pretentious, and some people take it way too seriously, the alchemist reads like an YA novel. Another one is Reddit’s darling Neil Gaiman.

Let’s discuss the best and worst among the Terrible and Untalented

William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616 O.S. (May 3, 1616 N.S.). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra died on April 23, 1616 N.S.

Both of them are among the most renowned writers in history, and both of them are literary symbols of their respective native languages and home countries.

Let’s talk about their works. I own a Spanish copy of Don Quixote, though I confess I haven’t read it yet. I’ve read 3 of Shakespeare plays: Macbeth, King Lear and Coriolanus (so far my favorite), and have Hamlet and Othello on my reading list.

What are your favorite plays or least favorite one's? Favorite characters, heroes or villains? Same for Cervantes, for those more acquainted with his works.

So, I started reading Moby Peepee, and I didn’t expect this book would be so funny. I’m currently on chapter 13, and up to this point Ishmael and Queequeg had so many “no homo” moments. Can’t wait for the Captain Ahab chapters.

I’ve also finished “It” by Stephen King. It was my first King book, and god, I didn’t expected for it to be 50% filler, so many pointless and endless backstories of side characters that never show up again, plus the creepy child gangbang near the end had some “50 shades of Grey” tier writing. A friend of mine recommended me “The Shining” but l’m not quite sure anymore.

What do you guys recommend?

Like August of last year I was maybe 250 pages from the end and I just lost all desire to finish it. I finally slogged through the rest of it just to say I did. I don't know if it's because of the long break or just that there are hundreds of characters to keep track of but it felt like every other page I was having to look at a wiki to figure out who someone was. I'm probably gonna take a long break before starting the next book.

Overall I still enjoy the series but my biggest complaint with Sando is that he purposely writes some scenes in a way that is completely incomprehensible. It's kind of hard to explain but things are happening in a scene that purposely don't make sense because he hasn't revealed the meaning behind what's happening yet. It's kind of a running theme in the series. Like in this book the huge climactic battle scene at the end (which spans like four chapters at least) I understood maybe 25% of what was happening. Every page or so it would jump between one of a dozen characters, something would happen that didn't make sense, it would jump again, and so on. And then I check a wiki or reddit or something and there are pages and pages of explanation that people have written and I'm just wondering where the frick they got all of it and did we even read the same book.

anyway we're on to cincinnati

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Sherwood wears her politics on her sleeve too, so we have the strange combination of a writer telling us a story about government agents, while actively disliking the government - the police are the bad guys, the climate protestors the victims. More than once, in fact over and over again, the spies working for MI6 question why they are devoted to a colonial power that has caused so much misery around the world. We get lectures on climate change, capitalism, colonialism, as though Sherwood is determined to use this opportunity to tell us all how the world should be. The straining to be politically correct throughout results in some unintentional hilarity (no tigers were sacrificed in the making of this action scene!)

Our new Double-O agents in the central roles are a woman and a Muslim man. M has been shuffled off to semi-retirement and for some unknown reason his former secretary Moneypenny, with no military experience, is now in charge of the Double-O section. Poor Major Boothroyd (Q) has been replaced by a computer, with the credit for that invention not belonging to him but a Mrs Keator (who?) and run by two young upstarts Aisha Asante and Ibrahim Suleiman (both questioning why they serve Her Majesty after the way their ancestors were treated by the Empire). The 3rd new 00 agent - Dryden - tips the whole thing over the edge into parody - he's black, gay, comes from poverty AND deaf!

Apparently this is planned to be the first in a trilogy

Surely the Fleming estate must have picked a writer with a long track record of working with beloved franchises and characters to let her make such wholesale changes?

https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/kim-sherwood

I am a Lecturer in Creative Writing. As a novelist, I contribute towards teaching creative writing and literature at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. I also supervise postgraduate dissertations, and am available as a PhD supervisor. I currently teach on the Creative Writing MSc and the English and Scottish Literature MA. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, I taught literature and creative writing at undergraduate level at the University of East Anglia (2014-2015); on the Critical and Creative Writing MA at the University of Sussex (2016); and co-developed a Creative Writing BA as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of the West of England (2016-2021). My debut novel, Testament (riverrun, 2018), was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Award, shortlisted for the Best First Novel Award, and won the Bath Novel Award and the Harper's Bazaar Big Book of the Year. In 2019, I was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. I am now writing a trilogy of Double O novels expanding the James Bond universe for the Ian Fleming Estate and HarperCollins. The first in the trilogy, Double or Nothing, was published September 1st 2022. My next literary novel is A Wild & True Relation, out with Virago in February 2023. The novel follows a girl who joins a smuggler's screw in eighteenth-century Devon, and explores women's writing and history in a subversive adventure story.

>Her second book

got ready to catch up on a few years of nosleep, sorted by top, literally none of these are scary, nor are they even well written. i stopped reading them in probably 2016-2017 when all the hottest stories started boiling down to "bigotry was the real monster all along" "big bad evil guy does a heckin wholesome" or just weird, impotent revenge fantasies you can tell are written about the author's bully

the top post of the last few years is https://old.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/wqnymn which is just a stupid shallow reddit bait about a cheater but even sillier than usual main character's wife when her husband gets drunk and chips part of his brain out in front of her

are there any the past few years that don't suck butt? i used to stay up all night scared shitless over these, the bar is low, i can't believe nosleep has somehow gotten so bad they can't even scare me

I wanted to share it with you guys