I just finished this book after a breathless three days, and wow, it was a doozy. Warning, MASSIVE spoilers ahead, and this is a book that definitely should not be spoiled. All of the tension and interesting details would float away without being anchored by the slowly growing awareness of what is happening.
I do not think it was in the book, rereading the book again (2nd time), because of the series’ changes, or the 1990 Mini-Series (my opinion best visual expression of ‘It’) & much later 2-movies (I disliked both, but keep giving them a try to impress me & they fail).
I liked the series a lot, even with gory bloody scenes (I hate those type of visual entertainment & never scares me, just grosses me out) & main, Kid, character dying, until the following changes that make no sense.
I hate it.
Was never necessary,
I been re-watching ‘Stranger Things’, to prepare to for the show shutting down. Like the show, but it seems almost like a ‘Steven King’ knock off, more so with every sense begun. I also love the original ‘Twilight Zone’ best SciFi stories ever made, better than any TV & Movies ever made. I cannot tell you how many timesI have watched them, but give me $100 each episode I have watched & I would become the richest person in the world. I really liked the original ‘Amazing Stories’ as well. I liked all the remakes of both series that followed.
Through a lot of the series there is a woman providing character Lilly Bainbridge comfort & was the daughter of the circus clown, I believe her name was Ingrid Kersh, played by Madeleine Stowe. They tell this character’s story starting with her as a young teen, minimally 10-years old, in the circus with her clown father, back in 1908. Then she is in the present time of the series, kind of confusing, but I know it started in 1958, looking at least 40s, maybe, 50s years old (my mother is watching to, when I brought it to her, she says late 40s). So, she is looking way too young, for minimally how old the character has to be. 1958 - 1908 = 50-years old + she was at youngest 10-years old in 1908 (again my mother agrees with that) = 60-years old. Even if she looks 55-years old, that is at least 5-years too young.
I tried to read Stephen King several times across the years and I don’t know, it never worked. Tried his short stories, the different genres he wrote, … a bit of everything. It frustrated me a bit because I loved every single adaptation from his work in TV show or movie form.
The guy or gal who was never trained and never expected to be getting into the spy business. Perhaps, even when up to their eyeballs in secret codes and fake identities, they’re still clueless as to what they’ve got themselves into. And that makes them relatable because, well, it could be me, or you.
László Krasznahorkai is only the second Hungarian to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature. He follows Imre Kertész (1929–2016), whose best-known book outside Hungary is Fatelessness – an account based on the author’s experience as a teenage prisoner in Auschwitz. When the fifteen-year-old protagonist is liberated and returns home, he finds that nobody truly understands what has happened. Words have become detached from their meaning.
Strange Pictures was published by YouTuber Uketsu in 2022 and translated into English in 2025. The book is about multiple drawings connected to different murders and the interlinked story connecting them together, told through simple writing and hand drawings.
I'm not taking any sides in this discussion by posting this. The article was in my RSS feed and I thought it might promote some discussion in these smaller communities. Please check out the article as it covers a lot more than what the title says :)
Despite the click-bait tite, I am thinking about a couple of factors. First, the context I'm considering is specifically about inviting well-known/published authors to an AMA. I'm posting this question here, because most authors write in one or maybe two genres, and the authors I'd like to see answer AMAs are fantasy and sci-fi authors. I haven't yet come across any "big name" AMAs in any community yet, but I'm impatient.
I'm finishing the Stormlight Archive series right now and I think I need something with a bit less of the murder / war / violence aspect that many fantasy books have.
When it comes to modern serial writers, there's not another name that comes to my mind more important than Wildbow. Author of Worm (Parahumans) and other lengthy serials, they are arguably the genesis of current interest in the medium.
I've been seeing her name a lot lately in terms of good science fiction and fantasy. I feel like I've lost so much attention span in terms of my ability to read and stuff and I'd like to start getting back into it, perhaps starting with her (or Terry Pratchett lol).
I understand that the newer version has a different ending and some new characters and scenes that weren't in the original. But the original is what got all the accolades and was considered his best book.
I read The Count of Monte Cristo some years ago, and it remains one of my favorite novels. This year, I committed to read *The Three Musketeers*. I chose a Librivox audiobook narrated by Mark Smith, since I had enjoyed his recording of *Tarzan of the Apes*.
We wanted to invite other Lemmy readers to join us in a reading challenge, we have tried to structure this so it’s very flexible with regards to genre, and we don’t require you to join or post on !books@lemmy.world. We had just put in the work to make it and thought we could share the fun. (Admins/Mods please feel free to delete if inappropriate or unwelcome)
cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/9497120
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Reading stories regularly strengthens social-cognitive skills—such as empathy—in both children and adults. And this, in turn, ensures that we can empathize with characters more effectively and more quickly when we are reading. This is the subject of linguist Lynn Eekhof's Ph.D., which she will receive at Radboud University on 15 January. "I think we need to capitalize more on the wonder of what stories do, rather than merely seeing reading as a practical skill."
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