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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 23, 2025 04:31 AM)
I have read Lord of the Rings, Song of Achilles and Conan (I've actually read a ton of Robert E. Howard; in my opinion, he was a much better writer than his friend Lovecraft). Discworld has been on my radar for a long time and I really should give it a shot someday.
I'll look into some of the others! The Armageddon Rag is the George R.R. Martin novel I've had on my to-read list for a while.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 27, 2025 03:18 AM)
Cool. My local library actually started a romantasy book club a few months ago and it seems to be doing well!
Not quite the same thing maybe, but have you heard of the book
Sterling House
by Alix E. Harlow? It's a gothic romance fantasy set in Appalachia… as well as in another realm
I really enjoyed it!
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Celestia Bloodshed — 6 months ago(September 26, 2025 02:41 AM)
ok it's a couple, actually:
so i started Tolstoy's
The Kreutzer Sonata
today, a short novella i should be finishing by tomorrow.
i also started Patricia Highsmith's
The Price of Salt
, source novel of Todd Haynes' film Carol with Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. i've seen the film before i knew it was adapted from said novel and loved it a lot. i hope this one holds up bc i was slightly disappointed with her last Ripley novel, the last book i've read from Highsmith.
furthermore, i'm still reading the Stalin biography,
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
by Simon Sebag Montefiore which i started before my reading slump and am now continuing, again, in a slow pace of reading one chapter a day, to fully absorb everything that i'm reading.
and lastly, i'm also reading a compilation of short stories by Black African authors and have just finished the (first) section which was writers from South Africa. now i'm onto a short story by Angolian writer, Oscar Bento Ribas.
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 26, 2025 02:51 AM)
Nice! I've actually read
The Price of Salt
. I think you'll dig that one for sure.
I'm nearly finished with
Stage Fright
(so far no skeleton with a keytar, so ****ing lame!), which has been a fun, light read.
And I've also begun the Daphne du Maurier short story collection I picked up a while back. Only the first two stories so far, the title story "Kiss Me Again, Stranger" (good story, although a bit predictable) and… yes, "The Birds"! It's not really similar to the Hitchcock film at all, but both are masterpieces. I won't spoil all of the major differences, but I will say that it's much, much darker and different enough that one could actually make a more faithful adaptation without worrying about living up to Hitchcock. And somebody most definitely should!
But I'll have a more complete rundown on all of that once I finish the book!
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