Sounds like I need to check out Pathfinder. I've been reading Doctor Who and Faction Paradox which do have their fair share of complicated plotlines and time manipulation. Other pieces of media, that squeezed my brain include Legion(TV) and Control(Game), albeit in different ways.

Ok, so it seems like the idea here is to point up the irony of Prince Harry blasting out a book (i.e. publicity) in which he claims to not want publicity. Sure, this is understandable. On the other hand, it's also ironic for the "ugh we're sick of hearing about Harry" people to put this much time and energy into telling us all about how sick they are of hearing about Harry.

I'm kind of sick of hearing about hearing about Harry so I'll stop here before I disappear in a puff of logic.

I like to buy books from places (be it the author or the story itself) that I've traveled to, which gives me a certain connection to the author/storyline. This applies to history books, too, but having a connection with the place really helps with my immersion into the book.

You know it's kind of a little fucked up to treat "a world with only white people" as an acceptable fantasy and concept to promote as totally normal. Right?

Also. Humans are a type of great ape, and great apes evolved in Africa. There are no naturally occurring great apes in the low-sun temperate climates where pale skin developed in humans.

If your goal was to prove people complaining about diversity aren't racist assholes, you are really not helping get that across at all.

>Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because -- what with trolls and dwarfs and so on -- speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

There's always at least one quote from Discworld for every situation.

I've learnt so many terms or rather figured out what they meant by taking the context. But if there was a term that I genuinely couldn't understand, I would look it up. Noosphere was one of them.

It's tik tok...the dumpster of the internet

How? Do you have any data?

I took the giant hulking Everyman Library’s Joan Didion (We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live; Slouching Towards Bethlehem; White Noise; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Where I’m From) with me when I had to drive to the West Coast last year. I got to it by the time I made my slooooooow way back to Chicago.

Also try reading The Count of Monte Cristo at 20ish and 33ish. You will feel that gulf of years that was taken out of Dantes’s life when you remember where and when you first read certain passages.

I stumbled on Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon in 2002 just when I needed it.

Frances Lear's 1992 autobio The Second Seduction hits just right for an introspective soul who loves to read for human reasons.

That should be a start....

It's not the kind of thing I do deliberately, but I do enjoy it when I happen to find myself reading a book during the season it takes place. Or even just reading on a stormy day and the book is describing a stormy day. A couple of months ago I started a book where it used the dates at the beginning of each chapter and it just so happened I was starting it on the exact day the book started. Kinda fun coincidence.

The one time I did it deliberately, I listened to the audio book of How Paris Became Paris while I walked around Paris. It was an amazing experience. It's also a really good book. I recommend it even if you aren't planning to go to Paris any time soon.

I read Moby Dick at 40 based on an article talking about that being the best age to read it. I think there’s some truth to it. Younger readers can understand it too but it does take a certain mindset going in and some reflection afterwards.

I like reading sea stories when I'm riding on a boat/ferry.

Hell yeah! I read Camus’ The Plague at the beginning of covid lockdowns, and boy was it A RIDE. It actually eased some of my anxieties about the whole pandemic thing, a bit cathartic I might say.

Yes, definitly. I like to read books with similar weather and seasons I am currently experiencing.

My favourite experience however was when reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, after returning from big family gathering. Themes of family relations and generational differencess in the book really spoke to me at that time.

I've decided, after reading a book about what James Joyce did to his daughter, that I would never read any of his work. Thank you for validating that stance!

I had a similar experience with "Ulysses." Forced myself to start it, continued to read it, finished it, had about 30% comprehension. Sheesh, it was humiliating, especially because it's supposedly a great book.

[Fun fact: When I was about 12, I heard it had been on trial for obscenity. So I went down to the library, found a copy, and started looking for the dirty parts, seeking titillation. Imagine how well that worked out...]

It continues right away, almost as if there's no reason for it to be in two books. Maybe think of a short intermission or a large book in two halves vs. the two separate books. It's quite good.

King's Cell gave me vivid zombie nightmares for a few months and then once a year for a few years. Which is weird, because I didn't find it so scary or even just good when reading it.

It's next. Though I've heard great things about another country I can't seem to find it in my library or online

Exactly. Another visceral thing was disgust. James described it so well whether it of Jaques or his friend or was at Giovanni or David's own desires. It made everyone more human too me. How vulnerable and shameful they all felt

If you want to explore more of Baldwin's fiction, I highly recommend Go Tell It on the Mountain.

Banning books is stupid in general but only one side is making violent threats and it’s not the one banning curious George

The disillusionment and alienation was so visceral. Holding up a façade and losing everything in the process. It was an amazing read!

Is the second book good? Idk if i want to know how the cliff hanger in the first one ends.