Ooohh, very good. Continuing on that "Bicentennial Superman" line that the first TPB started with, but throw in some (more) family drama!
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Barbarius finished reading The Vision, Volume 2 by Tom King
Once upon a time a robot and a witch fell in love. What followed was …
Barbarius started reading The Vision, Volume 2 by Tom King
Once upon a time a robot and a witch fell in love. What followed was …
Let's continue this distraction.
Barbarius finished reading Soul's Winter by Michael Zulli
Eh... it was okay.
Barbarius started reading Soul's Winter by Michael Zulli
Slight break from Greek poetry...
Barbarius wants to read Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless …
Barbarius wants to read Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter
Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter
With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a touch of Hugh …
Barbarius wants to read Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi
Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi
There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is just shuffling …
Barbarius quoted The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
Lewis was a very impressionable man, and this was abetted by his great generosity and capacity for friendship. The unpayable debt that I owe to him was not 'influence' as it is ordinarily understood, but sheer encouragement. He was for long my only audience. Only from him did I ever get the idea that my 'stuff' could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The Lord of the Rings to a conclusion. We neither of us expected much success as amateurs, and actually Lewis had some difficulty in getting Out of the Silent Planet published. And after all that has happened since, the most lasting pleasure and reward for both of us has been that we provided one another with stories to hear or read that we really liked - in large parts.
J.R.R. Tolkien
— The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis (Page 720)
This afterword, presented without further comment, is the last text on the last page of this book, and it is such a beautiful honouring of friendship between two writers who simply enjoyed each other's stories.
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@futzle That would drive me mental...
The Iliad is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical …
I'm reading this for two reasons: 1. I've been playing a lot of Hades recently, which has a lot of Greek characters in it (e.g., Achilles and Patroclus). 2. Christopher Nolan's next project is The Odyssey. So I want to read that, and I don't want to read it before reading this.
However, I'm already immediately disappointed that in this translation all the names of Greek gods are "translated to English" (according to Bryant); so we have Jupiter instead of Zeus, etc.
Barbarius finished reading The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
Barbarius started reading The Operating System by Eric Laursen
The Operating System by Eric Laursen, Maia Ramnath
One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it seeks to abolish the state. …
Barbarius wants to read Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne
Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne
A century has passed since the gods fought and drove themselves to extinction. Now only their bones remain, promising great …
Barbarius started reading The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in …
Bedtime story 😁