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Whoa -- that's a high bar.

I may have to check this out now.

The worst violence (incl. the scene mentioned above) is largely "off-screen". But definitely there. And a communal drug trip (hive mind stuff) is a key plot point. Also polygamy is a running...

Dune.

Holy cow!


I've been putting it off for years. But decided I wanted to read at first book before seeing the movie. And damn. DAMN.

This some above-average sci-fi.

Yowza -- that's a slog.

Zahn is hands-down the single best Star Wars author.

And his Thrawn is one smooth operator.

Prof Mead -- So Constantine founded a new capital city for the Eastern Empire in 330. But that was still a long time after Narmer unified Egypt, which was when?

Entire bleary-eyed 8AM class...

After watching the first 5 seasons of The Expanse, I started into the books.

And -- as in all things -- the books are even better.

I dont know if indecisive is the right word. By the end of Dance, I was reading her as cracked. She's coo-coo for cocopuffs. Years of PTSD and still a teenager.

(Arya, I think, has similarly...

I dont disagree with any of that. But on the whole, I still enjoyed Dance.

The audiobook, on the other hand, is substantially less well performed than books 1-4. Dude manages to make Dany sound...

Good Earth was another HS English assignment (11th grade, I think). Had to finish it, but it never felt like a chore.

Grapes of Wrath, though, that was like chewing bubble gum that lost its...

This. I remember craving a rare hamburger after the first couple chapters of White Fang.

There wasnt Hallmark channel back then. (Long ago ... in the 1990s)

I remember we had the movie on a home VCR tape with a handwritten label. Which means mom probably recorded it off TV.

I...

Our 10th grade English lit teacher had us read Hardy's "Return of the Native". The lead female character, Eustacia, was the firs time I found a girl in a novel (without any corresponding comic or...

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Hemmingway: To die. Alone. In the rain.

The Odyssey is about Odysseus.

The Iliad is about Iliadeus.

Matthew 5-7, then. Strongly recommend.

I started a long reply to #349 about how capitalism and Christianity are fundamentally incompatible. But then remembered my own distaste for (what would quickly become) political discussion outside...

Marvel made a bunch of comics free on their app (Marvel Unlimited) for these troubling times.

Free issues include some vintage Spidey and Xmen. Also some of the newer reboots of Capt Marvel,...

Agree -- I found that Narnia is much better for reading aloud to that age group.

You recommend?

Ooooh -- and it has an audio version so I can listen in the car! Nice!

I guess that could be setting the bar pretty low if you dont much like that person.

Thrawn is one smooth cat.

Dr Aphra has succeeded Cortana as my curvy interstellar crush.

I'm reading comic books. And I dont care what anyone thinks.

The recent Marvel reboots of several Star Wars comics have been really, really fun.