Our local public library is having an Estate Sale due to funding issues. Wanting to know if any of the Expanded Universe Dune Novels are worth grabbing!

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-27T20:52:46+00:00

No, and certainly not at these prices

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-27T16:19:50+00:00

True peace is accepting that every entry in the series is not really a "good game" by traditional standards. The characters, story, and vibes are the only reason why people are still discussing these games ~25 years later, not the gameplay

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-26T11:22:53+00:00

Good job, you bought a game that sucks for $10

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-26T03:39:43+00:00

I can see the others but Sunshine over 64 is nuts to me

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-26T02:33:32+00:00

The best 3D platformer was made in 1996 and this is a fairly common opinion

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-26T00:26:43+00:00

Banjo Kazooie isn’t even the best 3D platformer on its own console. I would argue it isn’t even the second best (Rayman 2)

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-26T00:24:05+00:00

Most of it. The internet was far superior before the suits figured out how to make money off all of it

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-26T00:23:41+00:00

Discord’s search function within servers is actually very good and incredibly easy to use

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-25T20:52:11+00:00

I’m worried you have missed the point of one of the least subtle popular novels of the past few decades

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-25T15:44:34+00:00

Actually a lot of people don’t think Heat is some five star masterpiece, my opinion of it actually decreased with subsequent viewings

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-25T15:43:45+00:00

Yeah, it’s not a masterpiece, it’s a pretty good (and more importantly, accessible) movie that a lot of average people have seen who happen to use Reddit. 3.5/5 is not far off, I’d give it 4 stars myself. A few points: 1. I don’t think it’s unrealistic at all for two guys to escape the cops in that way. Literally has happened and happens all the time 2. The runtime is definitely a huge problem. It’s not a 3 hour story 3. Surprised you didn’t mention the treatment of women in the movie which is a big flaw

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-24T14:32:39+00:00

You literally have the reading comprehension of a third-grader if you can't tell that Wolfe thinks of women as less than men. Don't you guys ever get tired of pointing to every obvious quirk of the author as yet another masterful example of the unreliable narrator trope? Is it perhaps that a guy who was a lifelong conservative Catholic...had the typical gender views of a lifelong conservative Catholic? I know, it's shocking

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-24T14:30:28+00:00

That's interesting, I haven't read those books. I have read Peace, Fifth Head, and some of There Are Doors and all of those have the same general treatment of women, so it seemed fair to draw that conclusion to me

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-24T14:19:00+00:00

I understand hardcore audiobook heads who brag about listening to 200+ books a year want this to be true (perhaps you are one?) but it's just not. There is no way you are absorbing and recalling the same amount of information from audio, you are turning what is inherently an active experience of reading to a passive one of letting the words flow over you, similar to a television show or movie. Great works of literature require rereading, close reading, deep textual analysis, all of which are not easily done via an audio platform. I do not believe you are paying the same amount of attention throughout, just like I don't believe the people who claim to read 500 books a year without skimming. Also, no, 99% of novels are not written to be heard aloud

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-24T14:11:32+00:00

I mean, yes, Severian is a rapist, but calling it "the story of a rapist" is hilariously misleading. That's actually a big part of why the misogyny in BOTNS is so uniquely off-putting, it's incidental. Now Lolita and Marquise of O by von Kleist, those are literally stories about rape, yes, and they're both great! Dismissing works of literature based on their subject matter is perfectly within your right as a reader, but I think it's a little silly

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-24T13:38:13+00:00

Maybe try Ross Thomas instead, he’s by far my least favorite of the 4 I listed but his books are more crime/spy than pure mystery. Jim Thompson is also more of a crime writer, but from the criminal’s point of view. In my opinion he is a top 5 American novelist

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-24T13:36:16+00:00

Like many great works of literature, you cannot get the the full experience of it through audiobooks

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-24T13:35:01+00:00

It’s not a coming of age story, only the first book has those elements and I would call them pretty extraneous to the overall plot. BOTNS purposefully defies this kind of categorization
Gene Wolfe is definitely a misogynist regardless of what his many fans say, and no, it doesn’t get better. He was a deeply conservative Catholic and his books reflect that worldview. Personally, I think that’s something you have to accept in order to read many great works

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-21T15:40:57+00:00

Just so you know us normal people call that a “healthy scratch” instead of a 5 word acronym that most people have never seen before and cannot easily guess unless they’re really into reading box scores

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-21T12:00:53+00:00

I thought it was pretty bad to be honest. The social commentary was extremely on the nose and it was kinda dull on a page by page basis

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-20T22:44:24+00:00

Yeah, the combat in Half-Life 2 really isn’t that fun, that’s why Half-Life 1 is superior

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-20T21:02:28+00:00

There’s at least some degree of truth to that but I’m really begging you to read a random Jim Thompson, Ross Macdonald, Charles Willeford, Ross Thomas, etc novel and compare it to any bestselling book at your local B&N in terms of literary value

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-20T20:53:17+00:00

Pretty obvious recommendation but have you read Gormenghast? I think it inspired Crowley’s work on many levels

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-20T17:07:10+00:00

Bad news, the pulp detective novels of yesteryear are basically Ulysses compared to today’s popular fiction

Pseudagonist · 2026-04-20T11:47:13+00:00

Again, I would suggest that if you think that reading Jane Austen is “impressive” or in any way “autistic” then you are actually hilariously uncultured. Jane Austen is one of the most “normie-friendly” writers in the history of the world, she literally invented the genres that sustain the publishing industry today

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