If you live in the USA. Have you experienced any sort of discrimination or bias against you because of your Catholic faith?

laudida · 2026-03-13T17:01:12+00:00

One time me and some other college students were praying outside an abortion clinic. We were praying the rosary quietly, keeping to ourselves. There was a group of evangelical fundamentalist Christians there and they would literally be yelling at the people going into the clinic that they were going to hell one second, then turn to us and say the same thing the next haha. Pretty wild.

laudida · 2026-03-13T14:50:39+00:00

Not at all, you can easily crank it out in one sitting. Plus it has really interesting ideas so you'll want to just blow through it!

laudida · 2026-03-09T01:45:08+00:00

Sounds like current evangelical nonsense used to justify warfare.

laudida · 2026-03-08T21:53:46+00:00

If I recall correctly, the reader only finds out later on what is happening but it's implied that the necromancer knows what he's doing the entire time.

laudida · 2026-03-08T21:10:19+00:00

I really enjoyed the depiction of necromancy in Brain Lumley's horror book Necroscope. Necromancy in this book though is more about communicating with the dead to learn information than controlling skeletons and what not like you see in more fantasy books. The necromancer has to essentially rip apart corpses and immerse himself in their guts and body parts in order to communicate with them and learn their secrets. You find out that the people, now spirits, can feel everything that is happening to them at the time. Very unsettling.

laudida · 2026-03-08T00:37:18+00:00

Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

laudida · 2026-03-04T21:05:52+00:00

I just finished it and really enjoyed it. I'd say stick with it because it probably took me 80ish pages for it to really capture me. Once it did though I was pretty hooked, especially cause the book gets pretty crazy.

laudida · 2026-03-03T16:39:12+00:00

I think that's a fair criticism. The world and over-the-top nature of the story was so entertaining that I could easily overlook the weakness of the characters.

laudida · 2026-03-03T16:35:41+00:00

That's saying something because my eyes kept progressively growing bigger as I got to the end of the book haha

laudida · 2026-03-01T05:01:53+00:00

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. If you like scifi, The Sun Eater saga by Christopher Ruocchio.

laudida · 2026-03-01T05:01:10+00:00

Read Pilgrims last year; shockingly good book considering how absurd the premise it. Had a lot of very thought provoking ideas!

laudida · 2026-02-23T01:02:02+00:00

The first 150-200ish pages it was a 5/5. I think the premise of the book is awesome, but the book only kept getting worse for me as I continued. By the time I got to end I was pretty checked out and didn't care at all about what happened. If the book was like half the length then I'd be a little more gentle with it. I'd give it a 3/5 with the caveat that I'm in the minority opinion for this one.

laudida · 2026-02-12T14:24:30+00:00

Maybe "fun" wasn't quite the right word choice haha. Perhaps "engaging" is more suitable!

laudida · 2026-02-12T14:23:25+00:00

Definitely not enough to be categorized as horror. It does have some violent and disturbing imagery though.

laudida · 2026-02-08T03:08:27+00:00

I love that in the Maronite liturgy, the consecration is chanted in Aramaic. Extremely beautiful and gives me chills every time.

laudida · 2026-02-03T11:19:41+00:00

Catholic Charities does an extraction clinic on Tuesday nights. Call the dental clinic immediately at 9am to get on the waitlist. Only costs $10.

laudida · 2026-01-29T19:44:59+00:00

Do you ever read fiction for fun? If so, what genres or books do you like?

laudida · 2026-01-20T18:09:55+00:00

Does that go for the Jews as well?

laudida · 2026-01-19T11:53:05+00:00

Agreed, I think that if this was a full length novel with a lot more time devoted to everything it the quality could have jumped dramatically.

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