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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1343649" data-attributes="member: 259">A couple brief hijacks:&nbsp;First, if you wanna read a fantastic western written recently, pick up something by Cormac McCarthy.&nbsp; Might I specifically recommend Blood Meridian?&nbsp; Not only is it a great story, it's even all literamary 'n stuff.&nbsp; It's definitely got good inspiration for running scary creepy games, too.&nbsp;Second, for a good romance written recently, check out Joyce Carol Oates' A Bloodsmoor Romance.&nbsp; Someone described it &quot;as if Little Women were written by Stephen King.&quot;&nbsp; Great description of a hilariously weird book; again; it's also a hifalutin book by a Real Live Respectable Author.&nbsp; But that's less important than the fact that you'll have great fun reading it (if you can get past the rather slow first third).&nbsp;Third, there's plenty of great standalones being written; the book I'm reading right now, The Grand Ellipse, is one such book.&nbsp; If you see it at the library, pick it up and read the prologue; if nothing else, it'll teach you how to run elementals in your D&amp;D game <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.&nbsp;Fourth, very interesting conversation; carry on!&nbsp;Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 1343649, member: 259"] A couple brief hijacks: First, if you wanna read a fantastic western written recently, pick up something by Cormac McCarthy. Might I specifically recommend [i]Blood Meridian[/i]? Not only is it a great story, it's even all literamary 'n stuff. It's definitely got good inspiration for running scary creepy games, too. Second, for a good romance written recently, check out Joyce Carol Oates' [i]A Bloodsmoor Romance[/i]. Someone described it "as if [i]Little Women[/i] were written by Stephen King." Great description of a hilariously weird book; again; it's also a hifalutin book by a Real Live Respectable Author. But that's less important than the fact that you'll have great fun reading it (if you can get past the rather slow first third). Third, there's plenty of great standalones being written; the book I'm reading right now, [i]The Grand Ellipse[/i], is one such book. If you see it at the library, pick it up and read the prologue; if nothing else, it'll teach you how to run elementals in your D&D game :). Fourth, very interesting conversation; carry on! Daniel [/QUOTE]

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