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GI fully agree, and I normally go this way. I always have dozen of books of different topics laying around. But as I said, it's been a...
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GThat is the main reason I have like 10 unfinished books right now - not counting the ones I completely DNF. But these books I feel I...
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GI've found it difficult to get through Neuromancer. Definitely not my writing style, but for some reason I'm having a hard time getting...
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GWe pause here to wave at Mr. Calvin Morris, the inexplicable cowboy in Dracula.
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I think that's the reason why Ewan McGregor's little stuttered "That business on Cato Neimoidia doesn't - doesn't count" in Revenge of... -
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Aside from the elements that haven't aged well, Pern isn't actually as romance focused as the modern genre. People called McCaffery "The...
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so that DDI sliver is D&D Insider! I confirmed with Ben. It didn’t shutdown till 2020. 4e made WotC nearly $300 thousand in 2019 with...
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From the post below, Ben Riggs let it out that DriveThruRPG made WotC about $15 million in 20q9 alone:
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GThere's an excellent series of essays about the life of medieval peasants by Bret Devereaux over on his blog, which I'm a big fan of.
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GI mean that depends whom you ask. The "dark age" is famously misrepresented in modern media. The peasants did not work more than us...
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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...