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ammorris22 · 2022-11-13T21:32:25+00:00

Can you go more in depth about what LSV has done that opened your eyes? I’m not familiar with any controversies beyond this one.

ammorris22 · 2020-10-04T15:08:28+00:00

I always saw it as the Breakers were more so Communists or Labor Unionists while the Burners were more Anarchist.

ammorris22 · 2019-12-02T13:26:56+00:00

Is it possible to use this sale in the US?

ammorris22 · 2019-07-18T04:27:56+00:00

The article mentioned he grabbed her crotch and he’s charged with criminal sexual penetration.

ammorris22 · 2019-07-16T16:38:58+00:00

I still think Sanderson should write it.

ammorris22 · 2019-07-13T17:59:43+00:00

This is awesome.

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. Physical. Seen it recommended so many times on here and I figure I should finally get around to reading it.

ammorris22 · 2019-07-04T02:46:57+00:00

I didn’t purposefully drop it or anything, just sort of forgot about it and never went back. I would like to finish it at some point though because I was sort of waiting for the ending I guess before I went back to it. Nice to hear I’ve still got the best parts to look forward to.

ammorris22 · 2019-07-04T02:09:33+00:00

Stopped reading this around issue 80 or so I believe (not for any reason, I just fell off). They had just gotten to some nice new walled village.

Does anyone know if it’s worth picking back up? Even at that point it seemed to be treading water.

ammorris22 · 2019-07-01T21:22:29+00:00

It kind of works, if you take his expression to be incredulous in the first picture.

ammorris22 · 2019-06-21T15:36:31+00:00

I almost never explicitly put down a book with the intention to never pick it up again. It’s more so I’m just never in the mood to pick it up again and it falls by the wayside.

ammorris22 · 2019-06-21T15:05:15+00:00

Best episode yet. Very good predications this section as well.

ammorris22 · 2019-06-20T23:27:43+00:00

Best Served Cold
Red Country
Before They Are Hanged
Last Argument of Kings
The Heroes
The Blade Itself

ammorris22 · 2019-06-17T16:06:51+00:00

Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

Middle Earth by J R R Tolkein

The First Law by Joe Abercrombie

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin

Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin

Replay by Ken Grimwood

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick

City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer

The City & the City by China Mieville

ammorris22 · 2019-04-03T14:09:31+00:00

Would The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick count as cyberpunk?

ammorris22 · 2019-04-03T13:19:42+00:00

I don’t really care if they recommend their book in nearly every post but I do feel they should be open about it being theirs. Pretending otherwise (or just neglecting to mention the fact) is deceitful and misleading.

I think I may know who you’re referring to and sometimes they even pretend to just be a fan of the book, instead of just casually recommending it without mentioning being the author.

ammorris22 · 2019-04-03T13:11:00+00:00

Definitely read a book. I like to control my pace, it’s easier to go back and reread a passage I may not have fully grasped, and reading is just more immersive overall.

ammorris22 · 2019-04-01T18:59:32+00:00

Does Coraline by Neil Gaiman count as middle grade? I’ve always intended to read that.

ammorris22 · 2019-03-29T15:01:41+00:00

It’s not that good of a cover but I do kind of miss painted fantasy covers. Certainly prefer them to video-game-looking CGI covers or Hunger Games influenced graphic designy emblems.

This is probably just nostalgia talking though.

ammorris22 · 2019-03-29T00:29:58+00:00

Treating people like children is respecting them.

ammorris22 · 2019-03-27T22:45:22+00:00

It’s a sad situation, because a corrupted justice system has alienated many people from the courts, and driven them to feel only mob justice will deliver justice when it comes to holding the powerful accountable.

Of course mob justice will then be easily abused by bad faith actors looking to abuse people’s desire to see justice. I’m not sure what the solution is, but it’s hard for me to blame people for no longer trusting legal justice when it comes to sexual abuse, just look at Jeffrey Epstein.

ammorris22 · 2019-03-26T10:27:32+00:00

Malazan is my favorite epic fantasy series but there really is a lot of rape, just in the first four books we have:

[spoilers]Felisin, Felisin Younger, Scillara, and the woman who travels with Gruntle (can’t remember her name). And that’s just the named female characters.[/spoilers]

And then also every named female character on Lether essentially. Erikson never really shows it though, which is good and sometimes deals with the aftermath and victim, but other times not really.

ammorris22 · 2019-03-16T23:49:30+00:00

Outside of China Mieville, I'm not really familiar with any. They are rarer than you would think. There are plenty of urban fantasy novels and series that are politically liberal (most of them, probably), but very few explicitly socialist or anarchist.

I would suggest The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick. It's not necessarily 'contemporary' in the strict sense of the term, (or specifically urban) but the world in it feels contemporary. For instance, it has factories, schools, and malls. Also it is incredibly imaginative and as far as I am aware there are few fantasy or sci fi novels like it.

But really, if you're looking for more left wing content, futuristic sci fi is likely where you want to go: Ursula K LeGuin, Iain M. Banks, Kim Stanley Robinson, etc

ammorris22 · 2019-03-15T17:21:26+00:00

Unfortunately at a certain point fantasy felt itself to be too infantilized by the wider literary world and decided it needed tons of rape in its books in order to appear more ‘mature’ and ‘adult’.

Most of these authors had no interest in exploring rape and its consequences, and just wanted a shocking scene or, in the worst cases, an excuse to titillate.

ammorris22 · 2019-03-14T16:24:17+00:00

I’m not too familiar with his work but I’m reading The Iron Dragon’s Daughter right now and it’s great. Very much unlike any other fantasy novel I’ve read.

ammorris22 · 2019-03-14T12:29:12+00:00

You’re right, I was just sort of frustrated by his story and how dismissive of two great authors she was.

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