What are you reading in 2025?

[overgeeked]

Thinking about this and some G K Chesterton quotes (e.g. “the poor object to being governed badly; the rich object to being governed at all”) I think that not only do we live in the most financially unequal times in recorded history which are getting more so every day, we live in a time when our richest benefit from the highest levels of stability, opportunity, mobility, and protection.

Sure, you average feudal lord had a level of power over life and death over his peasants that few people have now, but he was also basically a mafia boss (as was everyone he knew) and his position was fairly precarious.

I would argue that the power over life and death remains, it's just obscured slightly.

 

[Parmandur]

Ha, I didn’t realise that William Morris, of Arts and Crafts fame, is reckoned one of the first fantasy writers in English! Thanks for telling us about that. I knew about News from Nowhere (early utopian fiction). I see The Wood Beyond the World is considered quite influential on C S Lewis, too.

Yeah, he invented secondary world fiction

 

[gnarlygninja]

The thing about My Heart Is a Chainsaw is that there are two books that come after it. Most of what I've seen from Jones is Horror, except for some of his very early stuff, which is barely readable. Lansdale is awesome, whatever genre he's writing in.

I will point out that I enjoyed the heck out of I Was a Teenage Slasher, in spite of not liking slasher movies, and in spite of not liking most of the music the book's characters live for. On the other hand, I seem to enjoy reading Horror much more than you do, in general, so that probably explains most of the difference.

I 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 horror books. Although even with those I do usually like the build up more than when the monsters are actually running around.