Space horror, at its best, grapples with the anxieties that acknowledging our place in the universe entail by necessity: being insignificant, being alone, floating on a small grain of sand suspended in a sea of nothingness with only a thin strip of air holding it back. Being beyond the limits of what the human brain can intuitively reason about. Free Will being a lie the machinery of our brain tells itself. Being at the mercy of random chance the next time the universe decides to hurl a rock or electromagnetic storm at us. Having a finite amount of time before we die.

All of these can be expressed through good cosmic/space horror.

In that case, if I may chime in, I'd recommend library books and second hand books.

That’s great OP. We do a lot of the same things and our raising three avid readers. (The oldest, a teenager, his reading dropped off sharply when he got his first cell phone at age 12 so we won’t be making that mistake again.) Another simple thing people often overlook is to keep televisions and video games out of bedrooms. Our kids are allowed to stay up a half an hour after getting into bed, longer on weekends, and the only thing go do in their rooms is read!

A Painted House is a top 5 book for me.

I’m just a bit confused where you thought I was talking about the resale market at all.

I will. Thanks.

Thank you. I will absolutely do that next time.

This is exactly what I thought of! I do judge books by their covers and held off reading that one for a while because of the cover. The cover is eye-catching, but it does not reflect the substance of the story. Plus Elizabeth’s whole thing was that she didn’t want to be written off for being a woman, and to me, it feels like the cover reduces her to her physical attractiveness.

Those old sci-fi-zine covers are amazing.

I might suggest once you read it, checking out the other miniseries

The Paramount+ mini series with Whoopie Goldberg

And thank you.

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Yes, I fully understand that, which I think is reflected rather clearly in how incensed I am at the morons that invited the suit with their idiocy.

You, my friend, are doing it correctly.

Right there with you. I’ve finished 10 books so far this month, I’m in the process of 3 1/2 books (one did not work as audio so I’m attempting to swap to ereader) but I also DNF 5 books this month.

That sounds a bit mad when I write it out but one was a medical history that used really outdated terms despite being mostly recent and made me doubt I could trust the conclusions, one was a series that no longer was working for me, one was a topic I realized I had more expertise in than the author (one of my niche obsessions in history), and two were probably lovely but I realized I wasn’t the right audience. By quitting them, it freed me up to read the other books and oh I felt such joy at every one I finished. Coming off of that feeling just encourages me to keep reading rather than dwelling on the DNFs as a failure.

You haven't. Out of curiosity which version of The Stand did you watcg

r/stephenking would be happy to talk about it (: I haven’t watched the mini Series yet Bit I’m reading the stand currently

If you're reading this thread, I recommend Ship of Fools by Richard Russo

Yeah idk why someone downvoted this, reading isn’t anything particularly great as compared to another hobby but I would say it’s one of the best side ones

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Yes they do (the problem is the ending paragraph and how it diverts from Wiki-article consistently, but corpos would write this)

Original Galaxy Magazine publication

oh cool!!

I remember crouching by my fish tank at night at that same age, secretly reading by the little light in the aquarium hood.

I loved the whole Expanse series, but yeah I think the horror sections might be my favourite parts (maybe tied with the action sequences).