Fear of misceganation, and the past or future corruption of your bloodline.

Same here in my ELA class. I honesty thought there wws more to it then that cliffhanger ending.

Thalassophobia. Plus racism.

Same. But The Stand is so good.

Original art vs newer is pretty broad-- things released simultaneously in US/UK for example can have different covers. And even your example of HP -- the original UK or original US? And classics, sheesh! What even is the original art for some of those?? I don't feel like this preference question is quite answerable, I sometimes see different artwork on formats for newer stuff!

I don't often read paper books anymore, I prefer a slightly larger font on kindle because I hate using reading glasses. But back before I was all eReader, I preferred Mass Market as those were easiest for me to handle and didn't have a weird texture I hate like some trade paperbacks. I hate dust covers sliding around and mostly lost those anyway for hardcovers.

Be fair, he was way more racist than a normal New Englander. To be clear, the average New Englander was pretty damn racist, but H. P. Lovecraft would have placed first in the racism Olympics, but he refused to compete on the grounds that lesser people would be there.

Yes it was. I didn’t expect to like it but I was sucked in. It was short but very poignant

The last time that I tried, I gave up and just read the footnotes.

By the way, there is a famous translation by HW Longfellow.

If there's an afterlife where you're in eternal bliss or torture, I'm fairly certain they wouldn't care much about how their correspondence makes them look.

I have a feeling you're about to be the victim of a very colorful and exciting murder.

Communism killed him. Got it.

Nah ur wrong there's only one right way to interpret it and you fucked it up

I’ve liked some of the King novels that I’ve read but have generally preferred his short stories. I do think that horror is better suited to the short story format, and as much as I enjoy the genre, horror novels are almost always a disappointment.

I thought IT was OK. It definitely felt like something a person wrote in their cocaine days and was. The Stand on the other hand-- gimme all the bloat, I'm here for it!

Nah ur wrong

Yes! And the whole bit in the shrieking shack where he is willing to revise his entire understanding of the last decade - when he realizes Pettigrew is alive - but he ALSO doesn't allow Sirius to become a murderer by exacting revenge.

He never said he didn't love her, did you read his note? He thought he did love her and those notes were sincere, but he realized that he loved the ghost of her. So your 1 of 2 things is just not true.

I’ve always thought the murders really happened. I think people miss the point of the final scene. It’s not that Bateman isn’t a murderer, he is, but It. Doesn’t. Matter.

Due to the vapid, superficial world he lives in No. One. Cares. No one cares if he’s Paul or Patrick or Whomever, everyone is interchangeable. No one cares if he’s a psychopath, he’s young and attractive and rich, so they don’t care. He’s literally been saying psychopathic shit for the entire novel, no one cares. His own lawyer laughs off his murder confession. The realtor covers for him for her own gain. The police are never going to arrest him, not even if he murders someone right in front of them. So there really is No Exit for him, he’s stuck, as a terrible person surrounded by terrible people. He’s in hell.

That’s how I always read it anyways.

The Ciardi translation is still my favorite, but the one by Robert and Jean Hollander is also quite good, and it has the best critical apparatus of any English edition that I’ve come across. It’s worth it for the annotations alone.

Where do fish people figure into all this?

Or?

ee cummings

A big part of the problem is not the language but the allusions. If you don’t know who made the “Great Refusal” or what a White Guelf is than you are going to need to stop reading the poem and read a long footnote. That’s guaranteed to kill your momentum and enjoyment.

My wife says I'm a terrible lay. Actually, it's that the sex she expects is too pedestrian for a savant like me. 😌

His request was that her letters to him be destroyed.