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I was T-Boned by a car at 40km while cycling. I rolled on the hood and then the windshield, fell on the other side of the road, did not...

Jackson Lamb in the TV series is a darn sight better as a person and a character than he is in the books (at least the first four books...

I mean, not Tom Cruise specifically... but I guess yeah he's the closest to an action hero they have. For what that's worth. Roddy Ho...

I never heard of her tbh, but what you wrote in this thread made me interested. Do you have a recommendation for someone who is new to...

Finished Anathem. It's a singular novel that takes huge swings, I found kinda boring to read, and yet interesting to think about. About...

That one's on my tbr list, may need to bump it higher

I mean, it is what itbis: I would note that longer books are not necessarily "unedited", because again, length is a virtue and books are...

I’ve been dangerously angry at political stuff today, and Hailey Piper is being, once again, good for helping me focus that feeling and...

Yeah, that's definitely one of the situations where it shines. But I was thinking that in the City of Masks, for instance, which is...

Factually correct. The balance between the ancestries is one of SD's best features though, IMO anyway. I always hated that demihumans in...

That is true and this "bang-for-the-buck" mentality makes me sad and increases my anti-capitalism and cultural-pessimistic tendencies. I...

Finished Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein, which is about how our author (a Canadian who writes about equality and climate change) sometimes...

I missed most of the 20th century and I feel that pain looking at older paperbacks compared to new ones. Because of some wonky ebay...

Me too! I can look at my shelves and see books both famous and obscure, and recall moments I read them hither and yon. And they were. No...

As someone who personally reads nearly exclusively in digital forms, this has always been my take. There’s a vocal minority of digital...