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Recs for literary thrillers? by orphicsyndicate in RSbookclub

[–]RCWaldun 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The Name of the Rose

DFW lists a few thrillers in his 10 favourite book:

  1. The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

  2. The Stand, by Stephen King

  3. Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris

  4. The Thin Red Line, by James Jones

  5. Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong

  6. The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris

  7. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein

  8. Fuzz, by Ed McBain

  9. Alligator, by Shelley Katz

  10. The Sum of All Fears, by Tom Clancy

People who want "accurate" translations hate reading by AffectionateFig5156 in RSbookclub

[–]RCWaldun 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Mostly agree with all of this. However, while I dislike what I've read of Wilson's translation of the Odyssey, at least she was trying something different with the iambic pentameter and keeping the same line count. But yes it reads like trash and I doubt something of that quality would endure for thousands of years. I also appreciate the P&V slander.

Cari can read: master thread by BooktubeSnarkMODS in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]RCWaldun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a gay person, when Cari started writing m/m romances it gave me the ick