No, he was pretty damn racist even for living when and where he did.

There is a pretty good run down here. Skip the first half and start at "Response to those who say Lovecraft merely reflected the racism and hatred of his times"

I won't read anything with extreme, overly-descriptive violence or anything scatological. I couldn't continue reading Stephen King's Dreamcatcher after that disgusting toilet scene.

I don’t like this book so nobody should read it ever!!

• Hitler probably

I agree with you on pretty much everything, to a T. I replied to an earlier comment about the pacing and noted that I think I went into it with pacing bias since my wife told me it was slow in parts. Again, I don’t think by any measure it was awful - just kinda similar to the slow parts in 20,000 leagues under the sea.

Completely agree about the relevance of Joe. Like he felt somewhat insignificant to me… Regarding Cal, I align with you exactly. I initially disliked him and liked aaron then completely swapped. Kathy was also excellent.

It's not pedantry to point out that it's possible to have a completely different reaction to a text when you hear someone else read it vs. reading it yourself. I don't make that distinction to shut people down or make a value judgement (I've made that clear multiple times), I make that distinction because it has the potential to give two people even more to talk about when it comes to a given book.

Do you have any interest in actually responding to anything I've said with elaboration of your own, or are you just going to repeat the "pedantry" thing over and over again with zero substantive analysis? It seems like you're just throwing that out because you have a reflexive disinterest toward the idea that anyone would even consider a book in that way, so you respond by just dismissing it entirely as pedantry. It's akin to someone wanting to talk about the way that decanting wine can affect the taste, and you just writing it off as irrelevant and tedious fussiness solely because you've never thought about wine in that way yourself.

I was disappointes by "where the crawdas sing" because it was presented by one of the best books on earth and to me it was just okay

Totally agree about the racist language. Being Asian and my wife also being of Chinese descent, the treatment of Lee by smaller side characters were pretty upsetting (the nurse at the end kinda turned my gears).

Both of those works are very much like watching a horrible car crash happen and you can't look away.

I don’t personally like the look so no I wouldn’t

But do wtv you want with your books, and I’ve seen people come up on my TikTok too that do this and sell them

I totally get that. My wife was actually the one who recommended it to me with the cautionary “there are some slow parts, but just get through them” quote that is all too famous. I must’ve just gone in with some pacing bias.

I got into reading as an adult and was one of the first books I read, didn’t have any issues with the pacing because it seemed to fit the time and setting so well. Time just moved slower but it fit the book perfectly for me.

I have thrown away some books and so far have not been struck by lightning. Most of them were secondhand books that were in really bad shape. I read them but just tossed them afterwards because I couldn’t in good conscience waste someone’s time sorting and selling them. One was a book I really liked, but the copy I got was NASTY (you don’t want to know), so I threw it out and bought a new copy to keep.

There have been a couple books that were in fine physical condition, but I found them so abhorrent I threw them out so they wouldn’t be inflicted on someone else. These were also secondhand paperbacks, nothing rare or special. Throw it away and be at peace ✌️.

It's not.

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Understanding Women. Any chapter of 98 chapters, except Chapter 11.

Kant's Critique of pure Reason

So pedantry it is then.

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It's about ebola and it's actually quite terrifying.

When you have Kindle connected to wifi you can long-press on a searchable item. With Rushdie, maybe he is referencing an actual historical figure, or location, or political situation, and it will bring up reference material/dictionary, probably not as extensive as searching on phone, but definitely help to provide context.

I came to Ian M. Banks Culture series later in life and loved them and had been through the first few volumes when I learned of Banks' passing and it utterly changed the way I read the subsequent volumes. Such a loss that I haven't brought myself to read the last. He was so full of joy and humor and ideas that I couldn't wait to see where he would go next.

Animal Farm

The Demon in the Freezer. It’s about Smallpox

Are you seriously comparing the complete experience of a continuous, immersive text like a novel to reading a text message? I've already elaborated in another comment to you why I think the distinction is relevant in terms of the two formats, so I'm not sure why you're trying to flatten down all nuance by equating the entire thing to snippets of text on your phone.

1. You must be fun at parties. And i mean it. I’d love to have you as a dinner guest.
2. I am not familiar with the slob.
3. I like horror. It’s one of my favourite genres. The Haunting of Hill House is my favourite - although is that horror…? And I like anything with Catholicism and possession and general demonology, even though I am not anywhere close to Catholic. Gore - I can stomach but it doesn’t tickle me.
4. I love murder mysteries / twisty thrillers the way you love horror. Even with those, gore is meh for me. I’m there for mystery and the reveal.

It’s Harry Potter for me, but long time ago when I was 12, 13. I remember borrowing those books from a friend and finishing 1-4 real fast then I realised I only had 2 books left in the series (HP7 had not even been released yet back then). I started to slow down and haven’t even touched the book or watched the Deathly Hallows by now. Dont want to end my childhood yet 😅