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I haven’t listened to audiobooks for a while (basically because I don’t have an hour long commute to work every day now) but I tended to...

I recently started the audiobook of Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky and I have noticed a trend where I am engaged with and enjoy nonfiction...

Also read The Raven Scholar this week. It’s beautifully written, with some lovely character detail and worldbuilding, especially in the...

Finished The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (Some Desperate Glory), which is basically a reflection on adolescence set at a more realistic...

OK. I guess it just felt more respectful to me compared to its predecessors. It was nice to see they filmed on location in Japan using...

He did work on it but the book we have is not any version of the book he wrote at any one time, and isn’t a book he wrote at all, since...

Mmm, that is a highly debatable contention at best, honestly. Certainly Tolkien wanted to publish some version of the Simarillion at...

I really have to disagree about You Only Live Twice - Bond and Dahl’s approach to Japanese culture (veering somewhere between exoticism...

HP was getting dissected for years before JK Rowling started tweeting about trans people, people were arguing about both the goblins and...

My point is that it's still allowed to be brought up outside of this thread, if i were to make a thread say about the casting of the HP...

It’s never going to stick just to the show/game without the author. Because nothing says “Eff you” to the people the people she’s...

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Oh, I don’t think either book is trying to hide its provenance, and I remember making fun of them with my friends when they came out*...

My two cents on the Potterverse: A lot more people would still be enjoying Harry Potter if it weren’t for JK Rowling’s personal...

Yeah, there are a lot of mean assumptions in Harry Potter that are often handwaved because it's a fantasy book. The more that the...