@Loki
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LorqVonRay1999 — 3 months ago(December 26, 2025 10:31 PM)
Banned where?
Yeah, his books were banned in my grade school library. And high school. No problem with that.
But, oddly enough, the bookstore about eight blocks away carried many of his novels. They had to be purchased.
They were also in the public library.
And have they never been available at the cheapest prices on Amazon? Barnes and Noble? Target?
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Twizlee — 5 months ago(October 12, 2025 12:15 PM)
I'm flying through Freida McFadden books.
The Housemaid
The housemaid's Secret
The housemaid Wedding (super short)
The Wife Upstairs
Do Not Disturb
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Celestia Bloodshed — 5 months ago(October 25, 2025 09:49 PM)
currently re-reading this trilogy (in English, i only read the translated into German version before)
so i can finally start
Songbird & Snakes- then
Sunrise on the Reaping
, both of which i criminally haven't read yet.
cursed, scarred & forever possessed
- then
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sheetsadam1 — 5 months ago(October 28, 2025 03:46 PM)
Fevre Dream
marked the first occasion where a George R.R. Martin book left me completely satisfied
It turns out that he does know how to write an ending after all!
Seriously, though, this steamboat era vampire tale more than earns a slot in the canon of great '80s horror fiction and would make an excellent movie in the right hands. But let's hold off on that for now… he doesn't need any more distractions. Just in case this is one of the sites he ****s around on rather than writing: finish the goddamn books, George!
Currently reading the final book in my October horror marathon and, coincidentally, the same author I was reading back in June when I began this thread.
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sheetsadam1 — 5 months ago(October 31, 2025 07:37 PM)
Awesome! I've not read a ton of science fiction (other than Vonnegut), but I do plan to tackle some of Ray Bradbury's sci-fi work soon. I'm a big fan
Fahrenheit 451
,
The October Country
,
Something Wicked This Way Comes
and
Dandelion Wine
.
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PygmyLion — 5 months ago(October 31, 2025 06:49 PM)
I have been visiting Boston lately for no good reason.
I recently finished up Nathanial Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter
, which takes place in colonial Boston.
Right now, I am reading Henry James'
The Bostonians
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sheetsadam1 — 5 months ago(October 31, 2025 07:34 PM)
Excellent! Hawthorne was a brilliant writer and I've read
The Scarlet Letter
twice. I actually prefer his short fiction, though. Henry James was great as well, though I've not read that one.
After reading nothing but horror fiction since late September, I plan to take a break from that genre next month, with some newly published nonfiction and contemporary fiction, as well as two titles that come highly recommended by a couple of the very best posters here. My tentative November reading list:
The Bible According to Spike Milligan- A recommendation from
@Loki
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky - finally beginning my Dostoevsky journey,
@Celestia Bloodshed
!
Paper Girl
by Beth Macy - A memoir of Rust Belt Ohio from the author of
Dopesick
Nobody's Girl
by Virginia Roberts Giuffre - Posthumous memoir by the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking victim.
Hot Wax
by M.L. Rio - A new novel from the author of
If We Were Villains
, set in the world of music.
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Tigereyes — 4 months ago(November 20, 2025 07:33 AM)
seen this article?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/fyodor-dostoyevsky-formula-happiness/679203/
i just saw that it's behind a paywall. here's The Atlantic's corresponding facebook post from Nov 14:
The Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a tortured soul—he accepted nothing and questioned everything, including his own faith, Arthur C. Brooks writes. And yet, “this deep uneasiness with life led him to create a blueprint for living centered not on comfort and enjoyment, but on meaning.”
https://theatln.tc/fefP74UD
If you are a little uncomfortable in your own skin or a bit at odds with the world, “you may have a bit of Fyodor in you,” Brooks writes. A dose of his philosophy, “though quixotic and challenging, might be just what you need to achieve some peace.” And, as Brooks explains, a look at the recurring themes in Dostoyevsky’s writings—including “The Idiot,” “Crime and Punishment,” and “The Brothers Karamazov”—reveal a set of rules for living a meaningful life.
Those rules, Brooks explains, are: 1) The journey is the destination. 2) To be alive is to embrace freedom. 3) Beware the palace of crystal. 4) The pain is the point. And 5) Look up.
Dostoyevsky believed that pain—even existential anguish—is important in life. “That kind of suffering,” Brooks continues, “is the inevitable and necessary cost of realizing what we all truly seek in life: love.”
When it comes to our daily experiences, Dostoyevsky believed that “we should attune ourselves to the supernatural dimension of human existence,” Brooks writes; only in doing so is it possible to identify what we crave in life. And for those such as Dostoyevsky who have a turbulent soul, embracing this path can better open up the world around you. Brooks expands upon Dostoyevsky’s rules and details the five resolutions that helped him—and might help you—embrace rules:
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sheetsadam1 — 4 months ago(November 22, 2025 05:36 PM)
Sorry I'm late responding. I saw the notification the other day and then fell back asleep
Anyway, here's a non-paywall link:
https://archive.is/GCEh7
#3 is especially interesting to me.
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