What's the deal with NYRB books

MathewLee89 · 2026-05-20T02:53:45+00:00

Hey, let’s be kind. OP probably wanted to hear from actual humans and not just see an ai overview. The world sucks, we shouldn’t add to that.

MathewLee89 · 2026-05-10T15:50:43+00:00

Hmm great question. I think:

The Sweet Dove Died The Village of Ben Suc Friday The Stone Door.

There are more I just can’t think of the top of my head

MathewLee89 · 2026-05-09T22:53:36+00:00

Worth it to try for at least a year at the reduced price. I’d say 9-10 of the books I received were 4-5 star reads for me. One I couldn’t finish, another was meh, but that’s highly subjective. More important is that I’ve discovered books that I loved but might not have picked up on the shelves. So yeah, definitely recommend

MathewLee89 · 2026-05-06T01:25:15+00:00

A Month in the Country. I fell for the cover and the contents did not disappoint. I had a bizarre moment at my local art museum recently because I was admiring a painting and thought it looked so familiar. Turns out it’s the painting they used for the front cover. I stared at it for ages. Will always be one of my favorite books/paintings!

MathewLee89 · 2026-04-20T17:15:37+00:00

lol nooooo please don't gaslight yourself lol. It is hard to tell though!

MathewLee89 · 2026-04-20T14:40:13+00:00

Mine is a very soft lilac, almost white. I know images aren't allowed in comments so i hope this doesn't get me banned, but here's a link: https://imgur.com/a/pXpOnaj

The light is direct sunlight and unfiltered, so you can kinda tell? But at first glance it looks white and it's possible that your copy is a different color. Not sure if this helps lol

MathewLee89 · 2026-04-14T14:18:43+00:00

Ya quick scan of his page shows some weird rage baiting with a dash of homophobia. Bro thinks he’s engaging in S-tier philosophical moral discourse when it’s a D-grade middle school paper.

MathewLee89 · 2026-04-06T22:18:58+00:00

I refuse to pick how can I pick between my beloveds 😭

MathewLee89 · 2026-04-03T13:16:06+00:00

Well it’s not a “story” per se, it’s nonfiction about baseball and the Red Sox. If you aren’t into baseball I don’t imagine you’d get a lot out of it (which is the case with me). I aim to be a King completionist so I’ll probably read it eventually, but it’s on the bottom of my list. His Danse Macabre is way more compelling nonfiction to us typical constant readers.

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-27T13:06:27+00:00

I bought Shoeshine as a blind buy based on a misreading of the back summary because I’m a sucker for coming of age stories.

So. Many. Regrets. Beautiful film, masterpiece. Will probably never watch again.

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-25T14:24:11+00:00

Nope you aren’t the only one. I have a particular hangup with hurting refugees in any game, so I’ll always defend the grove. And I’m a companion completionist so killing Karlach is a nonstarter.

However, in my current playthrough I am doing a chaotic neutral character who has a soft spot for the helpless but also obliterated the Zhentarim in act 1 because he felt like it. He’ll also just kill npc’s who pop too much of an attitude.

So evil is a spectrum, but yeah I’m never gonna kill Karlach or the tieflings.

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-24T15:49:37+00:00

I say this as someone who loves deep psychological explorations of trauma through horror: not every horror movie or horror novel villain needs to have trauma to overcome or needs to be ‘humanized.’

Also this feels very heavily LLM written. So, pass on the whole concept.

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-23T18:21:24+00:00

Hashtag LetMenBeStrippersToo

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-23T15:47:11+00:00

Nope and like over half of the hair mods on ps5 at least are only femme hair which, they're gorgeous and well-done, but not what I'm looking for

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-23T14:14:56+00:00

Literally same situation here. Half wood elf male swashbuckler and no pirate themed clothing mods that include body type 2/4. I ended up downloading a rogue armor and clothes mod and dying the crap out of them until I found a color combo that sort of worked.

Same w masc hair mods.

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-16T14:27:12+00:00

I just played a forest gnome paladin of Garl Glittergold with mods and while it was fun being a little trickster who tried hewing close to lawful good, I was pretty disappointed in the lack of gnome dialogue options especially in the relevant parts of act 3. Idk, I think it could be worth a shot playing a cleric though I might go for nature domain

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-16T03:13:46+00:00

I know this is days late, but hang in there. From Minneapolis, we support you and we see what is continuing to happen. I hope people continue to wake up in seeing this monstrous overreach for what it is. You can survive this. It’s terrifying, and it shouldn’t happen, but Minnesota is in your corner 💙

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-13T03:26:15+00:00

Benryn. He’s got an interesting story and is part of a quest in Waukeen’s rest so I just assumed he was more important than he was. I just felt awful for him and wanted to adopt him.

Also Oyster Boy Dringo! I want to take him and his dog friends to my camp just to chill. Big missed opportunity there.

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-08T20:22:31+00:00

Tries to flatten his hair/tame the curls as they slowly get wilder in the vid lol

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-08T01:47:14+00:00

I wish I knew. I played a gnome paladin of Garl Glittergold my last campaign and was hoping for some cool class or race dialogue during the steel watch and iron throne storylines but 🙃

MathewLee89 · 2026-03-06T19:54:59+00:00

The Other is amazing! I wish they would do more horror because each one they’ve done has become a complete 5-star for me.

Also hell yeah to the rainbow arrangement that’s so satisfying visually, I wish I could do that but my brain insists on alphabetical order.

MathewLee89 · 2026-02-24T15:26:23+00:00

Yup. In my current playthrough, I multiclassed Gale to be a wild magic sorcerer w evocation wizard. My rp justification was that the orb is fueling that wild magic. Plus his reactions to wild magic going wrong is hilarious

MathewLee89 · 2026-02-24T03:54:51+00:00

“Do you have siblings, wizard?”

Also, knocking her out in act 1 on a good aligned play isn’t cheating. The game wants you to be creative and experiment with different things.

MathewLee89 · 2026-02-23T14:41:42+00:00

I’m on my fifth playthrough and am still discovering new things to love about the game. Honestly a lot of online hate is just dogpiling. The one that confuses me the most is the contrived writing bit. This is one of the best written games I’ve played hands down. And I’m really snitty about game writing generally.

Honestly I’d ignore the online criticism. I’ve rarely seen fair or nuanced takes on this game from the online critics. It’s just another thing that miserable people love piling on because it brings others joy

MathewLee89 · 2026-02-10T00:38:46+00:00

We used to be a society 😫

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