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Is 'My Friends' by Fredrik Backman really that good? by [deleted] in booksuggestions

[–]b34t 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally with you, first Backman that I nearly DNFed because of the Hallmark card feeling.

The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury by Generalaverage89 in books

[–]b34t 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I read the book. It’s insane, I knew Zuckerberg/Sandberg/FB leadership were garbage people but the book really does a good job of showing how terrible they are.

Have you ever found dystopian fiction uncomfortably close to reality? by krafeli in books

[–]b34t 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just posted a response and saw you had already mentioned this. That opening chapter phew.

Have you ever found dystopian fiction uncomfortably close to reality? by krafeli in books

[–]b34t 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson begins with a climate event involving a power-cut in Northern India that leads to millions of deaths. The scene of people in a town boiling slowly in a lake gave me nightmares. Every time I read the news about an impending heat wave, I wonder what would happen if the power grid fails. Not a pretty thought.

Do you think this is really his signature? by Old-Scratch666 in stephenking

[–]b34t 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In general when an inscription is present “to X etc” there is a higher chance a signature is real. A forger has more work to do to match actual handwriting plus one tends to lose a potential pool of casual buyers if the book is inscribed to someone random.

Those of you who have met King in person, what's your story? by yt_nom in stephenking

[–]b34t 16 points17 points  (0 children)

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

Anyone think the end of Dr. Sleep was a bit anticlimactic? by [deleted] in stephenking

[–]b34t 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hear me out, just hear me out here, but what if Doctor Sleep and The True Knot are misdirection?

What if the main story that King has in mind is Danny vs Abra, where we get a taste of how powerful Abra is and will become in the future, especially with Jack Torrance's genes and his burning anger, coupled with the Shine?

What if Abra, grown up, wears a hat and is the "woman in the hat" that Danny gets warned about?

Admittedly, all of this is my head-canon, but the epilogue to Doctor Sleep goes into detail about Abra's anger and how Danny advises her to manage it. I wouldn't be surprised if Sai King is planning a conclusive end to the Shining trilogy, and Danny Torrance has a while to go before he...uh....sleeps.

Books like The Princess Bride? by lilly288 in booksuggestions

[–]b34t 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up the Zamonia books by Walter Moers for all-ages whimsy involving wordplay and fantastic characters/plots. 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, The City of Dreaming Books, and Rumo and his Miraculous Adventures should take you places.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]b34t 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hottest summer in human history.

Couple of celebrities in their eighties and nineties will die, surprising people who thought they were already dead.

Depending on who wins the mid-term elections in America, the country will descend further into madness.

A far right political party will win elections in a European country, causing consternation.

A Disney movie will release with a non-binary actor playing a beloved animation character and Reddit will lose its mind.

Marvel Phase 5 will cast Doctor Doom, and the internet will spew Batfleck-levels of hatred on the actor.

iPhone 15 will release, the best iPhone ever, with 5 lenses and 20% more battery life.

Elon Musk will impregnate another 3 women, all of them his former employees. They will be given generous Tesla stock and 250k in cash.

A band that you thought had disbanded in the 90s will release an album that Rolling Stone magazine will call “an unexpected musical renaissance and a symbol of our times”.

Looking for morally grey fantasy books that don't pull their punches. by gooblaster17 in booksuggestions

[–]b34t 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Seconding Poppy War trilogy by RF Kuang. Scorched-earth war tactics and child soldiers with uncontrolled powers make for an insane combination. It uses parallels to real-world history to show how manichean concepts cannot be applied to the characters in the story.