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GGenre as we use it is more about marketers categorizing the readership than the text. Some people like the good puzzle of a mystery...
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GHorror is also an incredibly broad genre. It’s not all gore or gross out. You also have thrills, psychological horror, gothic, zombies...
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GThere’s good and bad popcorn, and cotton candy, whipped Jello, whatever. Very nearly anything can be done well or badly, and writing...
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GI may need to revise my thoughts about horror novels, my cat reminded me (by trying to eat them) that I actually like T. Kingfisher's...
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GI finished reading The Roots of the Mountains, by William Morris, last night. It felt like a bit of a slog, probably because I was...
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Always nice to see a Whit Stillman movie reference in the wild. :) This movie is so fun. Very dry. Such a time capsule of NY prep... -
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FYI, these threads have multiple participants and thus they're multi-participant conversations. A post may quote you, but that doesn't...
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This is definitely off-topic (and it's entirely my fault) but can you share what parts of Pern would go over well today? I remember it...
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I think we've memory holed a lot of the elements of the Pern books that wouldn't play well today.
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Don't really want to pile on about the "relatively obscure" comment regarding Dune, Foundation, and Wheel of Time so I won't quote it...
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With the Abrams/Kelvin universe being officially cancelled, it looks like Star Trek is being rebooted by the guys who made the recent...
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GIf you don't want to read about sadness, maybe take a pass on this one folks. Today was... not a good day. One of my cats has clearly...
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Ggban007 reacted to Epic Meepo's post in the thread What Bit Of Fan Fic/Edit/Theory Made a Thing Better or even GREAT For You? with Like.
Has anyone proposed this yet: When a Time Lord regenerates, they don’t grow a new body, they borrow one from a parallel universe. Their...
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Ggban007 reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread What Bit Of Fan Fic/Edit/Theory Made a Thing Better or even GREAT For You? with Like.
Yup, the OG was inspired heavily by The Hidden Fortress, and Akira Kurosawa Samjrai movie about two peasants who traipize through the...
