What are you reading in 2025?

[Steampunkette]

@Steampunkette @Ruin Explorer @Clint_L @Voadam

I got sucked into revisiting this thread from last year today, and remembered that we had a general discussion about how uncommon sexual assault was in our gaming experiences, compared to what the article reported from Fine's book. That reminded me that I did note this surprising and depressing observation when I read Shared Fantasy this year. Just verifying now that I've read that. Fine did report it being very commonplace in his field observations, to the extent that one reason some of the boys and men he gamed with objected to women and girls attending games was that they felt a social pressure to tone down the subject matter if women were present.

Yyyyyyyyyyup.

 

[gban007]

Well, after my earlier confusion, have now read a Memory called Empire as well. Not as heavy as Fifth Season in terms of themes and events, but very engrossing and harder to put down. Raced through it, but very strong book with its own questions and reflections on different cultures and what an empire is like. I found the ending a bit melancholy but definitely want to read the sequel.

Outside of that, continuing a bit of a Stephen King read following the Stand, have reread Carrie - another good read, though tough at times especially having read the forward around the inspirations for it - and planning to reread IT soon.

Also recently read Galactic Front by MD Cooper - latest book in long running series, though been a bit of a gap since the prior entry. Great to be back reading around characters I have gotten to know and love, and contains it usual amount of tension, mystery and action.

 

[Retros_x]

I'm also reminded of George Lucas' dialogue. Some of those sentences required actors to work really hard to try to make it sound natural.

Or the actors just changing it. If I recall correctly Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher famously dunked on Lucas' writing and changed a lot of dialogue "Thats not how people talk, George"