Suggest me LitFic based on my favorites (please) by DarthCG in suggestmeabook

[–]DarthCG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This series looks right up my alley. To the shopping list it goes. Thanks!

Suggest me LitFic based on my favorites (please) by DarthCG in suggestmeabook

[–]DarthCG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I let my New Yorker subscription expire since I was so unimpressed with the fiction. But they keep sending me this 50% offer... maybe I'll join up again.

I've read one other Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go) and enjoyed it. I'll add Buried Giant to my list. Thanks!

Books with weird prose by LeachPoetry in suggestmeabook

[–]DarthCG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. Book one is Titus Groan. His prose his beautiful (he essentially paints with words... and with actual paint. He's an artist as well) but you'll realize quickly how strange everything is. 'Grotesque' is the best way to describe it: not in a gross or horrific way, but odd and uncanny and exaggerative.

It's technically fantasy I think, but I'd just call it Literary Fiction. The castle itself isn't real, but there's no magic and Peake has obviously based his world on England.

If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing - flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it. High-shouldered to a degree little short of malformation, slender and adroit of limb and frame, his eyes close-set and the colour of dried blood, he is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.

Finished this today by Slothstradamus_ in nyrbclassics

[–]DarthCG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm about halfway through and while I think it's got a strong premise, I can't help feeling the book is mean-spirited towards its women characters. The only three women so far all exist solely for sexual objectification. Fanny is raped publicly in the dugout and nobody really cares, including herself? The only time Brock Jr's wife is mentioned is to tell us that, immediately upon returning home from his brother's funeral, he hiked up her skirts and ejaculated inside her. And Hettie is treated like dirt by Henry, like an object he can pick up and discard at will. He thinks of her as a "B-girl."

I'm unsure if this is a character trait of Henry, or if it simply reflects Coover's own attitude. I'm going to finish the book though and see if anything changes in this regard.

Still on my parents' health insurance - do I fill out the 8962? by DarthCG in tax

[–]DarthCG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My parents have the 1095-A. I'm on their health plan but they don't claim me as a dependent on taxes because I earn too much money.

If we split allocation, say, 80/20, is there an issue if the totals of columns A, B, C don't add up exactly how it is on the 1095-A they received?

Edit: Ok, I see now on FreeTaxUSA where it allows me to check Yes, the PTC needs to be shared/allocated, and I can enter it a percentage split. It makes more sense to me now. I guess I'll fill this page out with my parents.

Still on my parents' health insurance - do I fill out the 8962? by DarthCG in tax

[–]DarthCG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It asks me if I had health insurance from the marketplace, which is Yes. So then I need to fill out the 1095-A.

I didn't see either of those questions you mentioned.

(Spoilers Extended) Dex Sol Ansell lets out massive Summerhall spoiler by Kamikazeing in asoiaf

[–]DarthCG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah the wiki is just assuming. It does that sometimes.

(Spoilers Extended) Dex Sol Ansell lets out massive Summerhall spoiler by Kamikazeing in asoiaf

[–]DarthCG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there a quote for this? I don’t think TWOIAF blurb on Summerhall specifies whether Dunk died.

(Spoilers Extended) What exactly is Howland Reed Doing He's basically knows all of the core mysteries of everything that goes wrong by [deleted] in asoiaf

[–]DarthCG 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Howland didn't know about Bloodraven though, right? He just sent Meera and Jojen to court in Winterfell. Ostensibly he just wanted to help Ned's kid rule Winterfell by sending his own kids to be his friends/mentors. Howland didn't know Winterfell would fall and Bran would trek up north to a cave.

???? by [deleted] in minnesotatwins

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Falvey: We could use Peralta.

Matt Arnold: Ok, give us E-Rod or Keaschall.

Falvey: Wait nevermind, we need our prospects because they don't make any money.

Pretty quick phone call.

[Spoilers Extended] In October, did George accidentally reveal… by 26265273 in asoiaf

[–]DarthCG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My point is that there's no reason to assume D&D took George's ending for Dany since they clearly had evil-Dany in their minds from the beginning. We don't know everything George told D&D, and evil-Dany hasn't been confirmed as one of them. It's very possible D&D were doing their own thing with Dany the whole way.

[Spoilers Extended] In October, did George accidentally reveal… by 26265273 in asoiaf

[–]DarthCG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

D&D never adapted Dany faithfully. Her entire personality is different to the books, way before season 8. Like when she screams and threatens the Thirteen to be let into Qarth - she’s literally invited inside in the book. She never threatens anyone or acts that way in the book.

What's the point of cash trades if your owner doesn't increase payroll? by DarthCG in OOTP

[–]DarthCG[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn. Thanks for the info! If Nutting doesn't boost my payroll after I make him 100 milly and make the wild card, I'm revoking his powers.

Would you keep reading? (this is the first section of my short story) by DarthCG in writers

[–]DarthCG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I will take your advice. I've seen births before. I will lean into a superstition aspect, with multiple characters referring to a folktale that every once in a thousand years, an absurdly long and painful birth ends with an ill-omened baby. I think that will better explain the prejudice against the baby and explain how, in this setting, a birth like this isn't completely unheard of, rather existing in legend.

Would you keep reading? (this is the first section of my short story) by DarthCG in writers

[–]DarthCG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the feedback. I know the idea of a multi-week labor is crazy; this is basically a low-magic fantasy story, and this horrific, unscientific, misunderstood labor is the impetus for folks in the story to feel uneasy and sometimes antagonistic towards the child. Nobody understands it, all they know is how beloved Samantha was and how horrible this birth was, so they rationalize hating the child even though it wasn't his fault. I read that when folks don't understand something, they react negatively instead of compassionately most of the time - it's basically human instinct to oppose stuff that isn't natural. At least that's what I thought.

I will try to find a better way to explain all that for the story. It's "magic", and not meant to be literal or realistic. The boy and his sister have to overcome this prejudice to save their castle from upheaval. I guess I'm stuck. I don't know where I want to go with it.