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The first collections of Lankhmar material -- which are all in chronological order, to my knowledge, are the right place to jump in. And...

I'm in my mid-50s now, and I first read it somewhere between late high school and dropping out of college after two + years. So, it had...

Charles Halloway's decision to accept himself, accept his age, resist temptation, was such a powerful moment. It's been almost 15 years...

Fortunately it's possible to read at least a lot of Howard via the Gutenberg Project, so no one benefits, monetarily. The comparison to...

It helps with a lot of these to get hooked on it in one’s midteens, when one is stupid and gullible less experienced in the world and...

Yes about his attitudes, no about his prose. The story I read kinda gallumphed unsubtly along on the prose level, and on the story...

Glenn Bateman taught Sociology

The best starting point for Moorcock is Elric in publication order.

Can't comment on Lieber (much, I've read some Spiders and Snakes stuff, and Conjure Wife ages ago, but I have a handful of Lankhmar...

I recently reread Something Wicked This Way Comes and I was surprised how important Charles Halloway (Will's dad) was in/to the novel...

Bradbury's writing has this strangely beautiful heartbreak. It at once captures what it's like to be a kid, aching to be an adult but...

Currently slowly rereading IT. I think i forget how well Stephen King can write about just everyday human horror, even outside of the...

Yup. That's the cause of a lot of problems people have in the hobby, one way or another.

I think this underestimates how some people deal with frustration. Over time, for some people, that's allit needs (and its easy to...

I'd prefer to believe that people would be smarter than trusting such a critical piece of infrastructure to vibe coding. :D