The book is A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas. Also included in this suit is the book Gender Queer, a gay autobiography. The suit seeks to require parental consent for anyone under the age of 18 to purchase these books.
Barnes & Noble pressured to restrict sales of 2021’s most banned book - CBS News
Virginians - what happened to you?
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Thank you to the mods for approving this post! The r/fantasy community has been a wonderful place for me, and I think for any author trying to push the boundaries of the genre. You all played a huge part in launching my career with your enthusiastic reception of Gunmetal Gods. This is just one small way I want to give back.
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Lightblade Blurb
In three days, Jyosh will slay the God Emperor, or die trying.
But first he must train his lightblade skills. While asleep. Each hour of sleep equals a day in a lucid dream, plenty of time to master the essential lightblade techniques and hopefully get skilled enough to defeat the monster who enslaved him and …
I got the first nine books in this series as a gift over a decade ago, and about six months back decided to sit down and read them. I am currently halfway through book five (Soul of the Fire) and…hoo boy, do I have some thoughts.
First of all, depictions of violence/war and sexual assault were already edging on unnecessarily graphic and frequent in book one; by book five, it’s ramped up 200%. I mean, does this author have a rape fetish or something? The amount of mass and individual raping that goes on, in such great detail, is unreal. I understand the idea behind a raping and pillaging army >!like the Imperial Order!<, and using sexual assault to enforce the level of evil they aspire to, but Jesus Christ.
Second, I started to detect some of the author’s politics sneaking in as early as book two (IIRC), where >!Richard rescues Du Chaillu (of course from her gang of rapist captors) and convinces her to keep her rapist’s baby!<, spewing some pretty basic pro-life talking …
EDIT: Damn, wasn’t expecting this to blow up! Thanks for all the encouraging words (and awards). Cell data comes and goes here so I’ll be checking the thread here and there answering whenever I can. It’s really nice to talk about this stuff though because I’m pretty much the only serious reader up here lol
A little background first: In early 2021 my life kind of fell apart very quickly. I lost my job, my long-term relationship of almost 10 years dissolved and I had a falling out with my dad, leading me to damn near a mental breakdown.
So I decided to make a clean break of it and do something I had always fantasized about - I left the big city and everything in my life behind and travelled up to northern British Columbia, Canada with nothing but a backpack, some clothes and an e-reader. Found work at a remote wilderness lodge just doing maintenance and odd jobs. The plan was to disconnect myself from everything and be somewhere in nature with barely any …
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai is the second best-selling novel in Japan of all time. I read he killed himself shortly after publishing the book which is essentially an autobiography, but with fictional characters. The author had also inspired horror manga artist Junji Ito. Of course, curiosity got the best of me; I had to read this book.
It fucked me up, friends. It is a really short read that took me just a few days, and let me tell you, it’s a page turner. The protagonist is a very troubled individual, but the raw look into his psyche helped me sympathize and oftentimes relate to his behavior. After finishing it, I feel a little empty. I can’t stop thinking about it.
I recommend reading this if you want a book that really analyzes the complexities of the human mind, but I would avoid it if you are struggling with deep depression. Additionally, there are themes of sexual assault, suicide, and child abuse, as well as quite a lot of misogynistic statements throughout the book.
I’ve only just created the sub so everything is very much in the early stages. My hope is that it becomes a place for people with terrible attention spans, like myself, to discuss short books we’ve read, notable awards and potentially a weekly/monthly book club. So this sub essentially…
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The rise and fall of galactic empires. History that isn’t just the story of ‘big men’. And crises and conflicts that are so well written it almost feels like you could figure them out yourself if you could tear yourself away from the book long enough to think it through!
The original trilogy is among the most popular works of the Golden Age of sci fi, and for good reason. The overall story arc established in the first book is very, very good, and provides such a great framework for the whole series. Here’s the setup:
Hari Seldon is a scientist living on the capital planet of the galactic empire, the planet-city Trantor. He combines mathematics and psychology to create the new science of psychohistory, and with it predicts that the empire that has ruled and kept the peace for tens of thousands of years will collapse within 500 years. The collapse is inescapable, but Seldon sees a single, narrow path that could shorten the dark ages after the collapse from …
Been going through some shit recently and haven’t read any new books like I usually do, just have been rereading Le Guin. Truly the chicken soup for my soul. Been bouncing from Lathe of Heaven, Left Hand, and Dispossessed and then back again.
The Left Hand of Darkness
My go-to reread and my most read book is LHOD If you haven’t read any Leguin START HERE. True story, I went on a date recentish and we come to the topic of books, and I talk about LHOD, she recognizes it says her high school teacher made her read it and she hated it. There was no second date.
It’s an “easier” read than Dispossessed and a more relaxing read than Lathe of Heaven. I have reread this so many times that there is no tension in it for me. Thats a good thing cause it makes a cozy book even cozier. This book is about many things if you make it so, duality is the most obvious, and most prevalent, the title itself is in reference to duality. It could also just be a hero’s …
Like the title says,
looking for novels that explore dead alien ruins / dead alien civilisations. I’m a big fan of Halo with the forerunners/ Stargate with the Ancients etc so I’m looking for novels that explore ancient ruins with a nice story. Thanks!
Since Jurassic Park back in the 90s, it seems like dinosaurs have never really gone away in terms of popularity. The new Jurassic World movies, as crappy as they are, still make a shit ton of money and the recent consensus on Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet shows that dinos are still as popular and fascinating as ever. They just seem like one of those evergreen, forever in vogue subjects that people love exploring.
Which is why it’s weird to me just how little dino representation there is when it comes to books. I can’t even really think of another fiction novel outside of Jurassic Park/The Lost World that had any kind of popularity or success.
I suppose it’s probably pretty hard to actually have a scenario where using dinosaurs is viable? You pretty much just two choices. Go the JP route and have people resurrect dinos in the modern world or have some kind of time travel involved where people travel back to the past to encounter them. The latter can definitely …
For Tchaikovsky fans like myself.
I think “ridiculously prolific” is an accurate description when it comes to Tchaikovsky, but after reading four of his books (Children of Time, The Doors to Eden, Shards of Earth, and Eyes of the Void), I started noticing recurring tropes and commonalities.
Nothing wrong here, just wondering who can name more: