A question for those who read Babel by R. F. Kuang - should I go for audiobook or eBook?

I'm trying to figure out the psychology of someone who wants personal letters made public... eventually. Is the person protecting the privacy of the other recipients and senders of the letters? In that case, why ever make them public? More likely, is it ultra-egoism and a need to control? (C'mon, do you really think the famous people are preserving the letters for History?)

WJ Williams third book of the Metropolitan cycle.

The Parfume by Patrick Süskind as well!

Seconding this recommendation. It's a really good adaptation!

Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Dumas got paid by the line, which had an interesting effect on the work, mainly giving it a modern readability due to the dialogue-heavy scenes and comedic situations the characters constantly found themselves in)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (the first written of her novels, it is definitely the most like YA, but in a definitely good way. The characters are relatable (you may not ever meet a Lady Catherine from Pride and Prejudice, but everyone knows a John Thorpe in their lives) and the satire is relatable. Just change out gothic romances for YA or crime thrillers, gigs for sport cars, and Bath for London or New York and the satire still holds up)

Don Quixote by Cervantes (absolutely hilarious, with scenes that feel straight out of Monty Python or a Terry Pratchett novel)

I saw this too and think it's really cool! It would also make a lovely gift for someone as you could personalise it for each person. You could even buy some cheap books from a charity shop to practice on first.

>In 1949, eight years after James Joyce died, his letters began to travel the world. Thanks to microfilm technology, popularized a few years earlier, the contents of his archive at the University of Buffalo became more accessible to curious readers and meddlesome critics than ever before.

>T. S. Eliot encountered them thousands of miles away, at the British Museum, in London, where he came face to face with a past self: his own letters to the Irish writer, lit up on a projection screen before him. Such exposure made Eliot uneasy. Later, in a letter sent across the ocean to Emily Hale, a teacher at a boarding school in Massachusetts, Eliot recalled the anxiety he’d experienced that day in the museum: “I thought, how fortunate that I did not know Joyce intimately enough to have made personal revelations or to have expressed adverse opinions, or repeated gossip or scandal, about living people!”

From the New Yorker piece about it

Of Mice and Men. I just got 45 fifteen year olds to actually enjoy it.

Also, some libraries, at least in Italy, can actually order english only books

But then you'll miss out on the history of the Parisian sewer system

Needful things was the first sober book i think. Tommyknockers came out in 1987. King didnt get clean till 1988/89.

I only read ebooks out of convenience. I read a lot. If I bought physical copies I wouldn't be able to afford food and I also don't want to deal with storing them. Library isnt an option because it's a bit further away and I'm notorious for not returning the books in a timely manner, if they even have what i want to read. So ebooks it is.

Thanks - on Reddit too late at night for brain function

The last couple books I read covered some dark/heavy topics so I wanted something more lighthearted, but this book has just made me angry. lol. It has great reviews on GR too, which I don't understand. Booktok, maybe?

Came to say anything by Vonnegut

Oh goodness, I’ll need to get that! Loved his Thursday Next series.

> Grapes of wrath - Hemingway

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I think a lot of books are published without editors nowadays, yes.. Also, the cover of that one looks like it was designed on Canva, haha

What the fuck did I just read :)

It's worth mentioning that ebooks can help fill in the gap. Sometimes you can get a library membership and get ebooks that way. There are also some ebooks that are freely available, like from Project Gutenberg or Standard eBooks. They are typically a bit older, but there are a lot of great older books.

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding is hilarious!

The last I heard, JM (Babylon 5) Straczynski, the executor of Ellison's estate, had pledged to preserve Ellison's house and make all of his work available in new editions. Clearly it's taking some time, and existing contracts and licenses may have lapsed.

Frankenstein was published in 1818 and is quite readable.

Again, it's a scale for maximising profit. As mentioned elsewhere, all of these formats cost relatively the same amount to print and bind, so the earlier, more expensive formats make more money for the publisher, and offer the consumer a choice, both in format and early access.

Usually, the hardback and the larger paperback are released together, the paperback being slightly cheaper. Then the B-format paperback comes some time after that. There used to be an A-format, or 'mass market' paperback that was the cheapest of all, but those have fallen out of fashion.