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I feel when the movie is more popular as the book its always a sign of that happening. Like when people don't even know its based on a...

This one was quite good. A good prelude to reading Coyote & Crow.

Broke down and got myself the print version of Sundered Isles. https://tomkinpress.com/products/sundered-isles-guidebooks Had a brain...

Never underestimate the elite's ability to pathologize what are actually pretty normal reactions to horrifying oppression.

The later books really deepen the setting in, to me, really compelling ways, while continually making sure to add on more weirdness and...

"The original 1979 edition of Puppy-Kicking Racists Are The Heroes was a seminal publication in the history of Dungeons and Dragons. In...

Here's a link to the stream I looked at the transcript and attempted to search for certain terms via CTRL + F, and didn't see any...

This is such an important concept, and relates strongly to what I was saying earlier. The analogy that I've always found apt is that...

This is just about always the first one I think of when people ask about movies better than their sources (followed by Jaws and The...

I feel the movie The Firm fits there against its John Grisham novel. When I saw the movie I was part way through the novel...

The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa is an intriguing mystery which is a surprisingly early adopter (1995) of the time...

Also surprisingly fascinating: convenience stores! I once hung out with the owner of a convenience store and his explanations of what...

I just finished "The Secret Life of Groceries" by Benjamin Lorr. Really interesting bit of investigative journalism and history about...

I know that I find anthologies of short stories more attractive than full novels for me to pick up and read right now. Tonight I got...

The ones in the show have an odd effect; some of them are really obnoxious but still somehow grow on your (at least they did with me, my...