This made me laugh - great comparison! :)

The Sorting Hat, without his eye for good rivalry we would never have a decent book series 😏.

Blurring of Reality was an essential aspect of the book. It's implied that the protagonist is completely delusional, but it's intentionally ambiguous enough to make his violent freak-outs a possibility. I think the film version also plays along this line and slips hints either way.

Readers can interpret it any way they like.

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The first one who dies

At it’s root, it seems quite a lot of it is classism.

I'm reading Musa's translation right now and finding it very accessible. Here's a pdf:

https://yeauganda.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/mark-musa-the-divine-comedy-inferno-volume-1984.pdf

Love the book! I have a few copies, including the graphic novel. The movie is spectacular! 💖🦄

If you like nightmares and dreamscapes I highly recommend you check out Night Shift. Most consider it Kings best short story collection.

Here is a pdf of my favorite story from the collection called The Last Rung on the Ladder

https://hausmann10thenglish.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/lastrung_king.pdf

This story truly showcases that he is more than just a horror author.

>Like, sometimes your interpretation is just wrong.

Is it though? If someone can provide examples from the text that the feel supports their interpretation convincingly enough; then how is it wrong? That is the entire purpose of analysis and examination of art. If you disagree you're free to try and argue why that can't be the case; but simply pointing at the text and saying "the text doesn't literally say this" is quite possibly the worst way to go about it - after all, Animal Farm is famously an allegory for the russian revolution; but while it's been a good while since I've read it, I don't think it gets too literal with it. If someone were to talk about their interpretation, would you point to the book and say that since it doesn't literally feature tsarists and communists - that because it's just about animals - their interpretation is wrong and invalid?

What about if I say that Harry Potter is actually about a determinism and how nothing matters and everything is determined at the moment of your birth; and the world merely happens to you?

Yeah somewhat, he wrote to other writers a lot and he often discussed, well, writing and his thoughts on various aspects of, well everything.

That said when i say the man has a lot of letters, there's something like 3500 of them set to be printed when they finish up volumes 22 and 23...

This is a comforting thread for me - I have given up on a small pile of thrillers in the last two years. With some, I was at the 70% - 80% mark and just couldn't push myself through the last slog to find out how it all ended.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest was a welcome exception.

Call Ouija me!

Personally I use Libby and my library. Occasionally I've had to buy a book. I knew about libro.fm for a while because they market themselves as competitor to audible. But after we got some real numbers from Sanderson. I was curious because he never mentioned libro.fm. Considering the competition and the numbers Sanderson quotes I wonder if libro.fm isn't much better for authors. Afterall Libro is committed to splitting profits with partner bookstores. So if Libro's model is sustainable they need a larger share of profit. Who loses? I don't have the answers to these questions. And I would love input from industry insiders. But I can't believe the authors are getting a much better deal than they do with audible. The only benefit for authors choosing Libro in this hypothetical is that only audible (and kindle for that matter) pressures authors into exclusive deals. I find those deals to be particularly heinous since they exclude libraries during extended period upon release.

Yeah he hated everyone who wasn't a wealthy white educated Christian city dwelling New Englander of British descent

Thank you for reminding me to reread it.

A true masterpiece that is often overlooked.

I always recommend this. I think it's the best example of how he writes and they aren't really horror all.

Then your a pedantic ass. No one cares how you consumed the book, they want to talk about the story you both are familiar with.

I’ve found books to be better company and better friends than real people

Like sampling.

Take my English degree for asking this, but what’s the larger drama here about their relationship?

See that’s wrong, you didn’t read it, you listened to it. Now is one method superior to the other, not especially, though most people I know listen while doing something else compared to exclusively reading. But you both got the story and can talk as equals.

In some cases I would even argue that you have to consume the book one way and then consume it the other the second time.

I read the Dresden files first but my mate listened to them. So on my second time round I listened to them while driving and thoroughly enjoyed it. With Dresden Files the audiobooks have became such a part of why they got big as well as creating the world, I mean James Masters has became the voice of Dresden and added to my experience.

But to say that you consumed media one way when you did another is factually wrong, and if you say you read it I will ask what edition of book did you get.

Correct, it merely challenges the other person's suggestion that this event represents "people seek[ing] out any and all correspondence I’ve had with anyone after my death."

This correspondence is notable for its content and recipient; it's not just "any and all with anyone." There aren't teams of researchers trying to track down Eliot's tossed-off thank-you note to his catsitter.

Is that on android? I’m looking for it on iPhone and I don’t see it