If I could exchange some (not all, but some for sure) of those countless hours I squandered during my 20s and 30s with socializing and being on stages with the bands, I would easily do so, especially if it means that I would have enjoyed reading books more often.

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Agreed, honestly, once the story/poem/etc is out there, it belongs to the reader in this sense.

So much this! As a fast reader, if I slow down, I'm more likely to lose the plot. It's better to stick to my natural reading speed, then reread a specific sentence or paragraph if I need clarification.

Menus with pictures for me. I can't stop looking and staring.. comprehending nothing and end up ordering two chicken tacos out of blissful panic. Happy cake day.

well what else did he wear rolled?

Please elaborate, first time I’m hearing of this!

There's nothing wrong with long novels. The issue with King is that he sometimes writes flabby novels.

For the underrated characters im thinking Regulus Black, but the one that instantly popped into mye head was Florence (the centaur). I wish we could get to know him better....

As for villains, Umbridge was an amazing villain!

I pictured Klara as being young-looking simply because her voice (at least in my head / based on how she is written) feels quite childlike, and it made the most sense for me to picture her resembling a child as well.

And by the end of the book, it's mentioned that Josie has to bend down to hug Klara, suggesting she is child-sized (especially since as a sickly child, Josie likely does not grow up to be that tall).

I'll happily do that. My rate is $300ph, in advance.

Needs to add the right to listen.

Overlong, particularly the opening act. Lazy stock King characters - The Grumpy Old Man, The Good Boy etc etc - truly awful prose on occasion. I mentioned this in a previous post on this book but when you commit a sentence like 'they darkened the darkening sky' to paper and think its good, you're in trouble.

He's showing his age too. Nothing wrong with that, he's older now, but why try and write a teenage character when you clearly can't write a teenager? It had 'how do you do fellow kids' energy running all through it.

The right to not care at all about anything other than the book itself.

>Eliot gave a sealed statement to the Eliot Collection at Harvard with instructions that it be made public at the same time as the Princeton letters.

Has it? Where would you go about finding it if it has been?

Stephen King has a lot of looooong books.

Obligatory Luna Lovegood.

Whatever you do, stay away from The Stand. I don't think you could handle the 1100+ pages!!

I hope I never attain the kind of fame that makes people seek out any and all correspondence I’ve had with anyone after my death.

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I read Evelyn Hugo without knowing anything about it and having no expectations, and I think that was great because it's hard for works to live up to enormous hype.

I couldn't get into Malibu Rising for a while and then it really grabbed me. But I only really like Nina; the other Riva siblings are kind of meh to me. I think TJR thrives with first person perspective centering on one character.

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You're talking about current AI which is in its extreme infancy. It will keep being developed and get better and better.

Some people are stuck on the idea/hope that AI is just going to fail and everyone will give up on it. That's not going to happen though.

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I'm with you. I'm not sure if it's the books getting worse, or if it's my taste changing. Probably the latter. But I almost never reach for a thriller anymore. They bore me, and they feel incredibly shallow.