A master class in close reading, and a towering analysis of novelist Thomas Pynchon. Really good piece for being an essay published in a relatively laid-back periodical.
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Do you set goals like reading a certain number of books in a year? Participate in reading challenges?...
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Hey Beehaw (and others)! Whatcha reading?
Think robots, AIs, hell even nanites or even a spaceship! Do you guys have any sci fi recommendations in this vein?
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/917041...
Anyone else have a book (or books) that they want to read but just never seem to actually get around to reading? Any books you feel like you ought to read but never do?...
You would be shocke dbut ive never read or gotten to read a for dummies book, are they any good if so feel free to suggest some…...
I love these old papers. The diagrams are beautiful, and the writing style gets me every time....
I want to hear about your favorite books that include heists as a major element. Bonus points if it's set in a fantasy, sci-fi, or non-contemporary setting. (Basically I want something like Gentleman Bastards that's not just rereading Gentleman Bastards)
As I've enjoyed the prior audiobooks in the series I am happy to hear book 3 is coming up soonish, August 1st.
Do you reread books or are you done with them once you’ve read them?...
Hey guys,...
I'm dragging myself through an "award-winning" "best-selling" "recommended" book I got from the library and wishing I hadn't. (Yes I know those phrases mean little and I can stop, though I'm nearing the end after hoping it would stop being so hopeless. Yes I can be naively optimistic ;) .) The characters and story are all...
I had picked this up at a used book store a long ways back after reading nothing but rock bios for a while - thought a little historical non-fiction could beef my brain up....
I’ve never had a book that I so immediately wanted to dive right back into. If you haven’t heard of it, but like a good mystery (closer to a self-contained ARG than Agatha Christie) or a good 500 page movie review, I could not recommend it more! This weekend I'm planning to do another read-through to catch things I might...
It doesn’t have to be famous, just a work that you connect with that you feel represents your country in some way.
I believe there are some BookWyrm users here, that’s why I’m trying to (mis)use this community as a support forum....
The fanfiction is currently above 16,777,215 words (we don’t know the word count because fanfic.net uses 24-bit integers to count the amount of words and this fic surpassed the computational limit), and is 2000+ chapters. It is written by Jamesdean5842 and is still being written to this day....
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/632851...
I'm a huge fan of Peter F. Hamilton myself (original username NorthernLightMountain after all) and figured there ought to be more of us around here!...
