heavy spoilers & topic matter >!the one where he shits himself trying anal for the first time?!<

i mean give the book a chance, i found the way Ocean ties the title of the book into the last parts of the story to be awesome

I don’t think anyone from the outside is in a position to judge that decision.

I second that point about folklore and it's also true for science-fiction. Authors do so much research, not all of it goes up on the page and sometimes even ignored completely because it doesn't make for a good story but it definitely happens. I was 12 when I first came upon the concept of tachyon particles in a pre-teen audience sci-fi book. Tachyon particlea are still totally theoretical but I spent a summer learning what I was able about the laws of relativity, causality paradoxes and M-theory. That same book series also taught me about history when the main characters would travel to points in time and introduced me to the War of the Roses and Lost Colony of Roanoke and I spent time looking into that as well. Then years later I watched Game of Thrones for the first time and saw all of the connections between that world and the War of the Roses (York -> Stark, Lancaster-> Lannister, Bran and Rickon Stark disappearing one night like Edward the Fifth and Richard of York, Tyrion and Richard the Third, two disfigured nobles who are accused of murdering their kin for power, Sansa and Elizabeth Woodville, eldest daughters offered up for political marriages). No creations exist in a bubble, everything is influenced by something and it's one of the absolutely beautiful things about art.

Yeah I mean in the united states its the second language. Im suprised people get by without even a rudimentary understanding of the language.

i rlly liked it when i read it. but u can tell a poet wrote it. not a bad thing, just different in terms of how the book was structured. still a good read though. i loved the writing, heartbreaking but u cant look away

Too bad for you. Jane Austen is the SHIT!!!!

i loved that line sm

Science has shown that reading fiction increases empathy :)

I really tried with this novel but I personally found the writing style unbearable. It was like bad poetry written by a school kid trying to be deep and it often made the narrative feel really fake.

There was some really interesting stuff in the novel and the characters seemed interesting but the writing style got the better of me and I gave up.

I loved it. My medical side loved how he broke down the doctor-patient dynamic and my English major side loved his appreciation of literature and writing. So moving. And poignant.

Along a similar, although funnier vein: “The Bright Hour” by Nina Riggs.

Great read in many ways. I disagree with his decision to have a child but that's just my opinion. There's plenty to like about the book and his perspective

This book is amazingly beautiful and heartbreaking. I recommend it and Know My Name by Chanel Miller to everyone.

His poetry is incredible too! He’s teaching a class at NYU this year and his syllabus has been posted. I’m excited to check out some of his suggestions.

That one scene. I can’t unread it. I cannot recall anything else about the book though I did finish it.

That was an amazing book. I will never forget it.

I'm about halfway through and how they manage the return from Canton is super frustrating.

I loved it. The part about his mother and the woman with the missing leg has stuck with me.

I read Little Women last fall. Really liked Part 1 when the focus was on their sisterhood, which I thought was portrayed quite well, but Part 2 which focuses more on their romances really hurt my rating of the book. From a modern perspective, I thought the men came off as hugely paternalistic (not Teddy so much, but John Brooks and Professor Bhaer for sure), and it was so much harder to care once I stopped rooting for those couples. For a book that's known for its strong independent female lead character, it really does a great job of portraying women as naive and in need of male guidance.

The Martian was originally a web novel.

Reading fiction is not a waste of time. I have a good vocabulary but I run into words I don't know. Can usually figure them out, but I always look them up to be sure.

One of the biggest advantages of reading is that it exercises your mind. Read fantasy or sci-fi and keep characters straight. Have you tried A Clockwork Orange or Lord of The Rings.

It allows your imagination to take you places you've never been. The Pern books are a whole world filled with interesting characters.

How this even needs to be said. Depressing

I enjoy all of them regularly. I'm always partial to, "Kitty Mouse."

One of the things that bugged me the most was the lack of real thought towards the world-building. We're told the British Empire is only able to maintain power through the control of silver magic, yet it seems to hold the same power that it did in our world at that time. For example, the victory at the battle of waterloo supposedly was only achieved because of the silver ships, but that victory happened without silver in the real world.>! Ultimately, it made the ending fall flat because we know what that empire is capable of without silver anyway.!<

One of my favorite books! Very excited that he’s working on another novel.

I’ve heard a lot of people say they stopped reading at that part. It was rough, i didn’t like reading about it, but i understand why it’s there.