@jinksb I loved Paddington as a kid. Just following that Winnie-the-Pooh trajectory, I guess.
I'm currently reading THE WHIM OF THE DRAGON by Pamela Dean. It's book 3 in a trilogy. Some kids travel to a fantasy land. The kicker is that it's the fantasy land they all made up in play, including characters, tragic plot, etc. Hoist by their own petard, basically. :)
HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD by Ottessa Moshfegh is a strange and unique collection of short stories. Truly weird. I recommend it highly!
GNOMON by Nick Harkaway is pretty great, everyone! Highly recommended. By me.
@lycaon I love *If on a winter's night a traveler*. Picked up in a small book shop in London, sort of randomly, a couple decades ago.
If you like historical fiction, Dorothy Dunnett's THE GAME OF KINGS is pretty good. Scotland in the 16th century.
@aqsalose That.... is a lot of sequels.
2017 left a lot of unfinished books in its wake. As a compulsive finisher of books, I'm wondering if I should return to them or just try to make a clean break of it...
@elias I think you just create an account on a different instance? I wonder what the minimum number of users is for an instance to have a decent posting rate?
@ColourOfSpring Boy, what a great idea! HENDERSON THE RAIN KING is pretty great, funny stuff. I'm also a big Woolf fan. If you haven't already ready it, I'd highly recommend MRS. DALLOWAY
I already forgot where I originally found this, but it was a fun read:
http://spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
#sciencefiction short story on the topic of public domain and copyright.
I finished my fourth read-through of Homestuck (technically 3.75) and here are my unorganized thoughts Show more
@lycaon Same! I love even terrible time travel movies. It's a genre I have such a weak spot for.
@lycaon For a first movie, Brick is very good. I also really liked The Brothers Bloom and Looper.
BTW Ted Chiang is one of my favorite contemporary SF authors.
He has a wonderful ability to take weird "what if" ideas and concepts and turn them into excellent SF.
Some favorite short stories:
"Exhalation" http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/
"Tower of Babylon"
http://gws.soonlabel.com/misc/Ted%20Chiang%20-%20Tower%20Of%20Babylon.pdf
I sort of like how Polansky writes about books he's read, too: http://www.danielpolansky.com/rantings/
I just finished reading A CITY DREAMING by Daniel Polansky a couple of days ago. This book is fantastic! A wizard comes to New York City, but it turns out the city's full of 'em. A series of disconnected magical happenings that slowly grow into a coherent story and a satisfying conclusion.
@panoramix How did you figure out how many pages you read?
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#religion (I'm a religious studies major)
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