Highschool was pretty standard. College it was the pillow book, and conference of the bird, golden ass, and the symposium by Socrates. What Helped shape my views? That would be a modest proposal which made me laugh my ass off in class.

Is depiction always endorsment for you?

And just to set the stage, I think Dresden books go overboard with the description of women.

I do find it annoying when a sudden romance or sex scene appears in a story that is otherwise a thriller or mystery story as I feel it too often breaks the pacing of the story. I usually just skip a few pages to try to get back to the interesting part of the story.

You want to appreciate it in a whole other level?

Read it alongside The Atlas of Middle-earth by the amazing Karen Wynn Fonstad who died too soon. But she left a remarkable legacy for fandom.

Tolkien didn't just have a firm grasp of mythology, he understood a lot about geology. Perhaps because he based the lands of Middle-earth on real places that he'd been.

After mind-enriching and mind-blowing experience of reading LotR with the Atlas, I would never want to read LotR without the Atlas.

The actress was 22.

And honestly, Incest was essential to the plot of Game of Thrones, it is the incident that lead to the whole thing. Bran, and so the audience, had to see who were fucking, so that Jaime can push Bran from the window. If I remember correctly, it was clothed sex at well. Realistic? I mean, some noble families had interbreeding, humanity is weird.

In HotD the plot revolvs around a family that marries their close family, traditionally. I think realism is a bad argument here, but it also isn't a moral failing on part of show writers.

Can 16 y old (character) consent to an adult man? I mean, not really. The show isnt endorsing it by showing it though, and the adult man is a shady character so it isn't a case of "but the good guy is doing it". The scene was pretty artfully shot, it focused more on what the character's were feeling than straight up porn.

There absolutely is unnecessary sexual assault and nudity in GoT. I think you chose poor examples of it.

I disagree. He's a legend. I listened to all of these and these thoughts never occurred to me. The books just flew by.

Agreed!! I like his normal speaking voice but some of the character voices are awful. I think Daenerys and Sam are the worst. Makes them sound dumb. And several minor characters have slobbery voices that are just unpleasant to listen to.

I love reading this book in the winter. I hope you’re in a snowy place!

To The Lighthouse, what a treasure!

I’m just shocked that people discuss books on 4 Chan. I’ve been to the site twice and was promptly traumatized both times lol

That trek across the wilderness in the last third … I didn’t want it to end! Amazing stuff.

Hello - looking for suggestions on books that involve the protagonist being...well, a cunning badass. For comparison, to name a few of my favorite characters/books would be Locke Lamora (Gentlemen Bastards series), Geralt from The Witcher, Kaiser from Mistborn series, and Batman in all media. They all pull off crazy heists/plans, but I think the controversy of these characters in their worlds is also what I enjoy (Geralt being feared from locals, Batman being 50/50 to the population, Locke being a thief).

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I am pretty open to all genres, as I read them all.

Never heard of it. Obscure author?

I read the Folio edition last year and I felt like this novel was ahead of its time. I’m surprised that it hasn’t been adapted as a film or streaming series. The relationship at the center of the book is unique and complex and ultimately moving.

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - yeah I got me some first world problems

Eva Luna - really dug the mystic realism and tried to write like Allende for a while after reading it…

American Gods by Neil Gaiman - loved it. Suited my feelings about religion perfectly. Not impressed with where the tv adaptation went after S1.

No Sugar by Jack Davis. So dated. Kill me now.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - teenage me was disappointed it wasn’t scary in the slightest.

I agree with you, but others do not. I posted this:

>Cry Wolf by Tami Hoag Is the Worst Dreck of a Mystery Novel That I've Ever Read

>First, it's far more romance novel than it was mystery. For the first 400 pages (out of 528 pages) she spent far more pages on describing her characters having sex than she did the mystery.

Is the beginning of my review of it.

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East of Eden. I started missing the characters the moment I closed the book.

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I buy books as I like to support authors and bookstores.

I have the bad habit of being a completist and will buy the whole thing before I even read the first book. Some series that I’m not as sure about I may get as ebooks as they go on sale.

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Indeed women are subject to sexism in many areas of life, but is "magic ovaries" and/or "men fear us because we are so powerful" the way to go? From my perspective, that sounds like an escape, a way to distract people in general from facing the real problems and working to solve them. I can believe with all my might that, if I concentrate hard enough, and as the Universe, I'll be able to command Mjölnir, but that still won't fix the wage gap or the lack of real job opportunities for women, or the disparity in domestic life and household responsabilities. (Even if it were cool to toss Mjölnir around and have it come back to me upon comand, unlike my keys).

That’s one of my favorites as well :) just beautiful!

The presence of wilderness is the exact opposite of desolation. Wilderness is full of life, as we see in Fellowship as they travel through rich lands full of flora and fauna, where even the trees have a form of animal-level consciousness. It is in fact beautiful and in any other circumstances (fleeing the Ringwraiths) would have been a charming and beautiful experience.