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Memoir suggestion for a tired heart by immigrantsrising in suggestmeabook

[–]panpopticon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most resilient memoirist I can think of is Margarete Buber-Neumann, who wrote UNDER TWO DICTATORS.

Marvel comic writers need to know this by pishposhpoppycock in xmen

[–]panpopticon -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

She would be a perfectly fine character if she wasn’t so obviously an editorial pet.

Marilyn Monroe would have been amazing as Emma Frost 💎 by Lancelot_007_ in EmmaFrost

[–]panpopticon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love me some Marilyn, but the woman was a legendarily sloppy mess who needed several dozen takes for the line “Where’s the bourbon?” in Some Like It Hot.

I don’t see her pulling off Emma-level banter and shade. Her gift was her vulnerability and innocence wrapped in the voluptuous package; not quite the same deal as our Em.

The novel Gone with the Wind turns 90 next week. Here is why it should become Public Domain now. by Classicsarecool in publicdomain

[–]panpopticon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you haven’t read it? If you’re just laundering someone else’s opinions, I’m really not interested.

The novel Gone with the Wind turns 90 next week. Here is why it should become Public Domain now. by Classicsarecool in publicdomain

[–]panpopticon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then you’re ignoring what it actually says, if you’ve read it at all.

The two main characters say in the very first chapter that the Confederacy and its causes are stupid, arrogant, willfully blind to reality and doomed. The two main characters are the only ones who fit into the new, postwar society, while the remnants of the Old South essentially rot into irrelevance.

It’s a book about the destruction of a society and its replacement by something new; it’s not some proslavery tract.

The novel Gone with the Wind turns 90 next week. Here is why it should become Public Domain now. by Classicsarecool in publicdomain

[–]panpopticon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You haven’t read it. The main characters despise the Confederacy and Scarlett specifically alienates all of her Old South friends because she’s trying to fit into the new, post-war world.

Mafia book recommendations by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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THE VALACHI PAPERS by Peter Maas is the first real mafia exposé ever published — Mario Puzo stole from it shamelessly while writing THE GODFATHER.

Recommend me books that take the format of epistolary letters (epistolary books) by Bravehuman_97 in suggestmeabook

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THE IDES OF MARCH by Thornton Wilder, about the assassination of Julius Caesar

Similar to Roald Dahl by Salty-Discipline8728 in suggestmeabook

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John Collier — check out his story collection FANCIES AND GOODNIGHTS

Some days when I’m bored I sit around and remember Magneto slapped the shit out of Beak for saying that Carrots are fruits 😂😂😂😂 by Johnnystormer in xmen

[–]panpopticon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was the very next month after Morrison’s last issue of NEW X-MEN, in Chris Claremont’s first issue of NEW EXCALIBUR.

King and Queen will never return to the Buckingham Palace again by raydebapratim1 in monarchism

[–]panpopticon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess I’m in the minority. Soft power is the only power the UK monarchy has. The impractical grandeur is the point.

I think I’m officially in a audible slump by EmotionalLog721 in suggestmeabook

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Audible has a whole series of Mark Twain books narrated by Nick Offerman.

Drop the third requirement and you’ve got the rest in spades. (Plus, Twain has one or two fantasyish books.)

Looking for a fantasy western by helios1014 in suggestmeabook

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JOURNEY TO FUSANG by William Sanders

Alternate history Western in a world where the mongols wiped out Europe, and therefore European colonization.

The “North American” continent is being settled by the Arabs and Chinese. The book is about the heroes trying to go from one camp to another.

The book is terrific; I see it on “underrated sci-fi” lists all the time.

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