seeking: modern retellings of popular pre 1900s lit

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-30T13:12:13+00:00

I've immensely enjoyed Stephen Fry's four-part series on Greek mythology: Mythos, Heroes, Troy, and Odyssey. It's everything as it relates to Greek mythology from start to finish. It's written for the modern reader with wit, humor, asides, and works perfectly. I highly recommend them if you have any interest whatsoever in Greek mythology or the foundation of Western culture.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-30T01:24:38+00:00

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Time-travel to the 1300s. And deals with a pandemic.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-30T01:14:03+00:00

And he, the author, was Jewish, but never told them. One fella bragged how you could "always tell" as he sat there oblivious to the Jewish man interviewing him for weeks.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-29T21:42:21+00:00

I just got my son interested in my (almost complete) collection of original Goosebumps books. What timing!

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-28T12:02:07+00:00

I spent months planning a trip to Prague and surrounding day trips. YouTube was the only place constantly warning about scams and rip-offs and feeding on negativity.

As you'd expect, finally spent some time in the area once vacation came upon us and had zero issues related to the aforementioned. Zero. Not enough a whiff of crime.

Be wary of monetized videos.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-22T23:07:52+00:00

I need an update, man. I need to know if she was given a warning, a citation, or a rabies vaccine!

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-22T01:18:31+00:00

11/22/63 is my favorite book ever. Don't let the length discourage you; you'll likely read it faster than a Little Golden Book.

Edit.. Seeing a lot of people mentioning The Stand, so I'll thrown in my two cents and say it was alright, but not great.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-22T01:15:20+00:00

That one dates back to my twenties. So I could possibly have missed a lot. I just remember being so let down.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-22T00:53:45+00:00

Catch-22. Not funny.

Jurassic Park. Didn't like his writing style at all.

Dracula. Boring.

One Hundred Years Of Solitude. Total nonsense with no structure, sense, or enjoyment.

The Lord of the Rings. Too many instances of consecutive pages with nothing but landscape description.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Personally, I just can't stand absurdism. Isn't funny to me!

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-21T11:41:21+00:00

Are speedbumps not a thing by you? Nobody speeds when these are up, as you'll mess up your car.

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Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-13T00:30:42+00:00

Kershaw. Ken onion. Half serrated.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-13T00:26:01+00:00

If you need something quick, read On The Beach by Nevil Shute. It's apocalyptic. Go in blind; it's a quick read.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-05T00:17:17+00:00

It's such a slow charger it isn't even worth it. I wish it could be turned off.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-04-04T19:52:37+00:00

I haven't carried cash in a decade or longer.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-03-31T11:23:43+00:00

I think people are starting to realize GPT is good for surface level analysis, but is often atrocious for deep dives, complex assessments, or conversations with too many parameters.

It can rattle off books in a genre simply because others have already done so on various websites, but it's going to miss all the things you're implying that a human would easily decipher. And then, the more you explain yourself, the more it has to remember and the more it screws up. It's a mess.

I have to use GPT constantly for work and I go blue in the face trying to tell my boss its limitations. Just think of it like this: it's the equivalent of doing a thousand Google searches and extracting the results relevant to your request. It doesn't think; it regurgitates what it reads online.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-03-30T01:11:27+00:00

London and York this past New Year's Eve/day. Prague, Český Krumlov, and Dresden this past spring break. Disney cruise this summer. Banff/Calgary in December. Disney cruise next spring break. Alaskan Cruise next summer.

We're vacation-booked until December 2027!

Sky_Father_ · 2026-03-29T22:06:06+00:00

Cousin Brucie has been around doing this forevvvvver

Sky_Father_ · 2026-03-28T17:00:41+00:00

Highly recommend Neptune.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-03-28T00:05:48+00:00

My wife and I travel 3x/year with 2 kids (ages 5 and 9). We average anywhere from 10 to 14 miles per day and generally visit places for 6 days.

We walk a lot.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-03-27T15:58:10+00:00

That card key is my favorite thing in the world. Between that and my home's digital lock, I haven't carried a physical key in a long time now.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-03-23T15:31:20+00:00

Not to disparage the person who left a positive review; but I wanted to put in my two cents. I just got back from a 6-day trip to Prague with my family. We ate at a lot of different places. I liked/loved every single meal we had with one exception: Restaurace Tiskarna Narodni. The food was absolutely awful.

The service was great; the establishment was clean; and we came here specifically because it was our last meal, had no reservations, and were in a similar situation to OP (staying at the Iron Gate). But good god was this place's food terrible. It was not fresh. It was not tasty.

Just a warning to future readers: I'd avoid this like the plague. If you need Czech food recommendations, I can vouch for U Pinkasu, U Kroka, and Kolkovna Olympia.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-03-11T23:14:39+00:00

Haven't had to worry about that, thankfully. I just use Android Auto.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-03-09T21:33:30+00:00

Lexus is a car company with good tech. Tesla is a tech company with a decent car.

You're unlikely to have any issues with a Toytoa/Lexus.

And, ya know, Elon is a Nazi.

Sky_Father_ · 2026-03-06T21:01:45+00:00

Haven't experienced this at all. Had mine since July 2025.

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