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zedatkinszed t1_ixr61ql wrote
Reply to comment by homecountygent in People who are forced to read a lot (e.g. students), how do you find the time/energy to also read for pleasure? by FrostyGenie
I mightn't have been clear in my post. It's not that they don't read or watch for pleasure it's that they don't at all.
I once had a woman of 20 come up to me in 2nd year of a media course, in a module about films, telling me she has never watched a film!
zedatkinszed t1_ixr3g5k wrote
Reply to comment by homecountygent in People who are forced to read a lot (e.g. students), how do you find the time/energy to also read for pleasure? by FrostyGenie
Speaking as someone who teaches literature and media students and who taught drama at university for years.
You'd be depressed by how many don't read/watch films/go to plays. It's a really weird phenomenon
zedatkinszed t1_ixpz18a wrote
Question is was McMurphy even real. Or at least is he actually the person the Chief depicts.
The book was about the power of an institution to fuck ppl up. It's told by Chief Bromden who rebels because of (or at least after) what he sees happen to McMurphy.
Bromden was clearly ill. He's not a reliable narrator.
Different case with the film in this case the story is face value and Mac is in the Ward to avoid real jail. He is ill and a pathological anti-authoritarian figure but he's not suitable for or in need of a psychiatric hospital.
zedatkinszed t1_ixpxuqv wrote
Reply to The Hobbit was a big disappointment for me by filisterr
It is very definitely a book for kids. It's not at all like GRRM's or Rothfuss's work.
zedatkinszed t1_iu8ulyc wrote
Reply to do you prefer hardcovers or paperback? by Knight-300
C'mon, paperback wins every time.
zedatkinszed t1_itu6xu5 wrote
>I’m ruled by my biological clock, which mandates one unshakeable conclusion: nothing of value is ever achieved in the morning. Typically I get up late and spend a couple of hours moving from a comatose state into something resembling human life. Then I’ll start work about 1 or 2 in the afternoon.
As a grad student I used to do this. But as a writer I found it impossible to actually live, write and work this way. Turns out that your body clock can change and that getting up decently early does help.
>I don’t believe in writer’s block. I think it’s a self-indulgent too-precious mystification of what is, after all, a job like anyone else’s. Do nurses get nurse’s block?
On this I agree and disagree. Nurses and other caring professionals get "empathy fatigue". Writers block is a kind of burnout. It is avoidable and it is fixable but it is also a thing.
zedatkinszed t1_ixumm2o wrote
Reply to Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind: worth the read? by Sacred-Moose
No. They're crap and nobody should be supporting Goodkind's work. He was as terrible a person as he was a writer.