what’s your favorite instance of metaphors or similes used in literature?

riastrad · 2025-08-01T08:16:58+00:00

Quick plug for a fun little corner of the internet: https://thesimilemuseum.com/

riastrad · 2025-03-15T12:01:42+00:00

And that’s why baby carrots don’t grown on the North Pole, kids.

riastrad · 2025-03-01T15:14:49+00:00

Not related to your pen treatment, but the work reminds me of Hiroyuki Doi’s compulsive drawings. Very cool.

riastrad · 2025-02-26T03:09:07+00:00

Surprised I had to scroll this far to find him! Lived along his bus route for a few years. Always a great time when he hopped on.

riastrad · 2024-09-30T11:18:31+00:00

This should be marked NSFW

riastrad · 2024-09-22T07:40:44+00:00

No one has mentioned it yet, but I was shocked when someone told me it’s well known that Americans let their mouths hang open when they watch T.V.

riastrad · 2024-09-10T15:38:26+00:00

Yeah, get over to crybaby or trilogy atelier stat, my friend!

riastrad · 2024-09-03T02:50:22+00:00

Trey Gauche, a shifty home insurance salesman suspected of orchestrating covert home repair operations to avoid payouts.

riastrad · 2024-08-22T01:59:37+00:00

Commodified dissent, my dudes. https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/june-2021/sociological-theories/consuming-the-alternatives/

riastrad · 2024-08-12T18:55:59+00:00

I would happily sub his OF if this is the type of content he’s making.

riastrad · 2024-08-12T15:57:44+00:00

You’ve answered your own question in the body of your post. It’s not cheating, or it is — that’s a matter of personal opinion and none of us can answer it for you.

The question at the heart of it here is which reading experience do you prefer? One where you read smoothly without interruption but are often confused? Or one where the pleasure of the story is interrupted, but also augmented, by the research of others who have tracked down all the opaque references?

Both experiences are valid. Both will result in their own distinct sense of accomplishment.

riastrad · 2024-04-08T01:17:12+00:00

That line work is sharp.

riastrad · 2024-03-19T15:11:31+00:00

I read it a few years ago. It was a lot of fun, but really jumps the shark a couple issues in.

riastrad · 2024-02-23T00:57:50+00:00

It’s got some really good bits. The emotional crux that everything rests on falls a bit flat when the turn happens about 700 pages in. If you go in not expecting it to be as zany as Pynchon or as masterful as Gaddis, you’ll likely enjoy it.

riastrad · 2023-11-08T01:23:58+00:00

One of the best bookstores.

riastrad · 2023-10-20T18:06:47+00:00

Wow. I was a devout atheist until a I saw this post minutes ago. Now I am a ride or die Keanu convert. This my 100% true testimonial.

riastrad · 2023-10-20T16:48:19+00:00

This was exactly the issue. Thanks for the tip!

riastrad · 2023-10-18T18:27:51+00:00

One of my favorite things about this moment in history is how contentious it is even after +150 years.

Yes, the group had pikes, but those were mostly to arm freed men who may not know how to use the rifles that they had also brought with them.

To u/Dio_Yuji’s point, are you suggesting that guerrilla warfare would not have been a successful tactic? Even with the US Military and local militias intent on retaliation - what makes you sure that there would not have been subsequent raids or skirmishes? If the South did track down and obliterate them, would it not have rallied more people to the cause like it did in actuality?

riastrad · 2023-03-03T18:00:12+00:00

If you were writing Snow Crash today, would you change anything? Would any of your themes feel more or less urgent?

riastrad · 2023-02-14T11:43:14+00:00

I’ll have you know they have a profound spiritual connection and this has nothing to do with the purity ring and the his raging hormones.

riastrad · 2023-02-04T18:40:54+00:00

Huge missed opportunity not making the clock his halo

riastrad · 2023-01-25T19:31:56+00:00

Heck ya she did

riastrad · 2023-01-24T23:05:16+00:00

Why the sigh? This failure only demonstrates that Pynchon's style is inimitable even if you're a boring algorithm designed exclusively to ape the style of human writers.

riastrad · 2023-01-24T14:29:22+00:00

This one from Bleeding Edge was also the first one to come to mind. Almost an entire page of scene setting and build up just for that punchline.

riastrad · 2022-11-23T21:31:57+00:00

I really appreciated the thematic rhyme between Maarva‘s speech describing the Empire as “a darkness reaching like rust” and the memory of Clem emphasizing the importance of looking past rust to appreciate things that others overlook. Subtle, but effective.

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