This seems to be one of Lovecraft’s lesser known works, but it really blew me away. He’s generally more famous for his epic, cosmic horror (and the racism and misogyny) but he has some truly gorgeous shorter tales, and this is one of them. It’s basically a little seafaring tale about taking a ship and traveling beyond the horizon to far distant lands. It’s like 2-3 pages long, but even in that span, Lovecraft does some incredible worldbuilding, creating a hazy, dreamlike, melancholy vibe that stays with you atfer you read it. It made me nostalgic for faraway lands and worlds, and the endless mysteries held by the sea and the empty spaces on maps. Truly a beautiful story.
You can read it here. Highly recommended!
Most books with couples in are the story of how they get together. I’m looking for suggestions where the relationship is already established, whether it’s happy or dysfunctional I don’t mind, so long as the characters are written well.
Edit: Thanks everyone!!! There are so many titles here to get investigating. r/fantasy is great!
The HBO saga runied it for him it seems. I read many interviews and he seems pissed at how HBO wrote their own stories and endings. I did a search on content relating to GOT and WOW resulting in posts from 2 years plus. Now my question to those who have invested the tens of hour reading “The song of since and fire”…. Is the last book even relevant anymore? HBO screwed it up with the “Bran the Broken” for me.
Relevant???
As someone who enjoys fantasy storylines, I just cannot fathom why so much of the genre is hung up on long and tiresome characterizations and descriptions about the setting etc. Why do authors think I’m more interested in how a castle looks like or how many generations there are to some lord than the actual plot?
I find that many authors are obsessed with small details that can take up 100+ pages that have no actual bearing on the plot.
Why?
Is it me or somebody also think that it’s an overrated shit. Just a load of BS with no scientific background to thier claims.. using their pseudoscience it has convinced a lot of people.. All i can say is this book is written by the cleverest person of a cult because it will change and manipulate you into believing and it might work for you for a short time but it is total bull and will ruin your life in the long run.
Having grown in a pretty toxic environment, I was always confused by the vast difference between the communication my friends had with their parents and I had with my parents and this book helped me understand why.
The book gives an indepth information about how different types of emotional toxicity impacts kids.
This book made me look at my parents from an objective point of view and not take it personally and that their behaviour towards me doesn’t have to define me.
One thing I’d have loved is if the author could have included an in-depth chapter on how we can overcome those same toxic behaviour in ourselves, which we find in our parents, but she did include few points on how to effectively communicate though.
All in all this is a must read to people who want to break free from their parents toxic cycle and get an understanding of the trauma they faced in their childhood.
As a child of an abusive father and an explosive mother, I had very hard time understanding my …
This is a bit of a review/rant on Seveneves, its great first part and (to me) incredibly disappointing second part.
Lots of SPOILERS.
The good: moon splosion
The first part of Seveneves reads like a really large-scale, high-concept disaster movie, in which the physics of the situation have been worked out in incredible detail. The moon has exploded and within two years its rubble will cascade into a storm of meteors, cooking the earth. The ISS must be quickly transformed into an ark for humanity and the DNA of earth’s species of plants and animals. It’s a rip-roaring adventure race against the clock where Stephenson pits our heroes against the grim laws of nature: he takes a wonderful delight in taking into account (and making us take into account) velocity, gravity, temperature, pressure, exponential growth, et cetera.
The fun of this part lies somewhere between looking at an extremely detailed miniature and solving a challenging problem. The lengths Stephenson goes to …
In “Marooned in Realtime” there was a family that was exploring deep time in one-way jumps while the protagonist in Charkes Sheffield’s “Tomorrow After Tomorrow” became an expert in musicology just so someone would thaw him out in the future for what he knew. I’d like stories along those lines.
Poul Anderson’s “Flight to Forever” but if it had been on purpose.
So, I’ve posted here before about my love of the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny, especially the first 5 books. I decided to do the audiobooks, via audible.
Holy Guacamole! Alessandro Juliani (Whomever he is, beyond the reader I have no idea) is amazing… It is one of the best audiobooks I have heard in a while.
His voice for Random is just SO GOOD.
I am almost halfway through 9 Princes in Amber and it is so fresh for a book I have read many times… Just great.