Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.
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7% complete! Barbarius has read 3 of 40 books.
Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless …
With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a touch of Hugh …
There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is just shuffling …
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.
@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.
One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it seeks to abolish the state. …
A century has passed since the gods fought and drove themselves to extinction. Now only their bones remain, promising great …
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in …
Bedtime story 😁
Eighty pages/four chapters in and there is still nothing that connects this to the previous two so far... I mean, it's not bad, I'm still enjoying it. Just odd so far...
This third book seems, currently, completely disconnected from the first two; so far it's about life as a fellow on a college board. Is Lewis just telling us about a day at work? We're almost thirty pages in; where's this going?
‘My mother used to say I was born reaching, which is true. She also used to say it would get …
Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that …
This was a really beautiful read. It's very short, written intentionally to be read in one sitting. It tells the story of an elderly lady presently in Australia 2023, and when she was five and being removed from her village in Palestine in 1948. And the parallels of what has and hasn't changed in 75 years. Very poignant. Almost poetic. Definitely essential reading to help understand our current times.
Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because …
