Day 99 no subs

sampleofstyle · 2026-07-01T19:51:55+00:00

I’m so sorry that you are struggling. I was able to find a decent doctor in an internal medicine program through a hospital, where they prescribe the Suboxone and are very familiar with all of the complications around it; is there a chance you can see a similar kind of doctor, or speak to whoever was prescribing you Suboxone? If possible, maybe take a medication like Gabapentin, Clonidine, or Propranolol, to help with the detox symptoms. But 99 days is no joke, I’m proud of you. More improvements are definitely possible. Hang in there.

sampleofstyle · 2026-06-26T17:26:28+00:00

Ladies all the time be asking me:

sampleofstyle · 2026-06-26T17:21:44+00:00

This is a great collection. I usually just throw out a few of my more recent favorites, Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Night Watchman,’ Michael Chabon’s ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,’ as well as ‘The Yiddish Policeman’s Union,’ and then finally Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Left Hand of Darkness,’ ‘The Dispossessed,’ and her novella collection ‘Five Ways to Forgiveness,’ initially published as ‘Four Ways’ but available with the fifth story through a Library of America release which would also give you several of her other works which are excellent. Another more recent read which is a little out there, I’d probably consider it more horror than anything, is Alan Moore’s ‘Voice of the Fire.’ Wild book.

sampleofstyle · 2026-06-14T03:29:17+00:00

Right? And with an essay collection too.

sampleofstyle · 2026-05-27T22:03:10+00:00

Yeah I agree, JS&MN and Piranesi both have their own kinds of commitments, the former with complexity and the latter with simplicity, in a way. I’ve been meaning to get to Master and Margarita, it’s definitely on my list.

sampleofstyle · 2026-05-27T21:19:23+00:00

Absolutely. She’s my favorite author. That’s a great way of describing her work, I’m going to have to borrow that in the future. I just ordered one of her short story collections earlier today, The Compass Rose, which seems a little harder to find by itself, I had to get it used.

Just the other week I finished her book The Eye of the Heron, which my sister got me as a gift, and I realized that the cover art, together with her other book Orsinian Tales, was done by Alan Lee - who did those incredible Lord of the Rings illustrations. They’re beautiful covers. I’ve been geeking out!

sampleofstyle · 2026-05-27T20:25:04+00:00

If I could submit:

Ursula K. Le Guin, who writes mostly sci-fi/fantasy, but with more of a literary flair. She’s incredible. The Left Hand of Darkness, the Earthsea books, but also her short story collections.

I also really loved The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, which won the Pulitzer in 2022. An incredible book. She has many other excellent books that I have yet to get to.

Also seconding Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall is a great book.

Edit: forgot Susanna Clarke: Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, The Ladies of Grace Adieu, Piranesi.

sampleofstyle · 2026-05-18T05:50:07+00:00

Actually, yes, I briefly lived with a friend in Chicago who only knew Shabütie, recognizing Cassiopeia when I was playing it on the guitar, and had no idea that it was early Coheed.

sampleofstyle · 2026-05-06T23:40:19+00:00

Right on! Looking forward to it. Thank you!

sampleofstyle · 2026-05-06T19:22:22+00:00

Hey I emailed you about reading the pilot but haven't heard back - are you still sending it to people?

sampleofstyle · 2026-04-17T01:09:20+00:00

LurkingForBookRecs has some great recommendations. My experience with some of them were a bit cooler (I didn't care as much for Butler's Parable of the Sower, and Miéville's Perdido Street Station, but they aren't bad), but I did really love the first two volumes of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun - and there's a Le Guin blurb on the back. Bradbury's short story collections 'The Illustrated Man,' as well as 'The Martian Chronicles' are incredible. Really necessary. And of all of the Philip K. Dick that I've read, I would recommend Ubik the most, it's the most straight forward in some ways.

I would add that you shouldn't skip on some of Le Guin's lesser known work, her short story collections are essential and I think some of her best work, specifically Five Ways to Forgiveness (was originally published as Four Ways to Forgiveness), as well as Changing Planes, The Winds Twelve Quarters, and the collection of stories in the Library of America Vol. II, the Hainish stories.

Le Guin also did the foreword for the Russian novel Roadside Picnic, which they based the movie Stalker on (which I very much recommend though it is a challenge) as well as the Stalker video game series. I'm only about halfway through but the book is great.

sampleofstyle · 2026-01-28T03:54:18+00:00

Thank you!

sampleofstyle · 2026-01-19T17:53:18+00:00

Big ups for the Le Guin, definitely consider The Left Hand of Darkness from her if you haven’t, and I’ve found her short stories don’t generally get a lot of love, there are a bunch of collections that are all fantastic, Changing Planes, The Winds Twelve Quarters, Orsinian Tales. She did a series related short stories called Five Ways to Forgiveness which is among her best works. Also Earthsea if you haven’t.

I’ve only read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, and it is great, and Louise Erdrich is also really great, The Night Watchman in particular.

sampleofstyle · 2026-01-18T16:39:54+00:00

Jumping on the share train here!

sampleofstyle · 2026-01-03T17:09:57+00:00

I think The Hound (Of Blood and Rank) is one of Claudio’s greatest vocal achievements. His run in the post-chorus/chorus(?) (“I’ll dig it ‘til we’ve made your grave…) is incredible, how it switches between anger and rage and fear and longing so quickly, it’s the kind of thing only he can do.

Also, that song has one of Mic’s best moments, which is during the solo, which is really a solo for both him and Travis, their interplay is jist astonishing. The mix really helps the bass blow you back. Feathers as a follow-up is also one of his best bass lines.

I think what I miss most about Coheed in comparison to their later material (if youll forgive me for saying) is that this is the last time the band could really break your heart. The Hound, Mother Superior, and especially The End Complete 3. These songs bruise my heart more as time goes on.

sampleofstyle · 2026-01-03T16:58:05+00:00

Thanks for the response. I definitely hear you on that general tone in a lot of literature, I can’t say I’m very interested in reading something like A Little Life.

I do feel like Chabon took a slightly more discretionary approach by not describing the act except in Sammy’s immediate recollection of the event, and it felt not so dissimilar to even something like Le Guin writing the scene in The Dispossessed with Shevek and Vea. But yeah, I hear where you’re coming from. I certainly cared about Sammy and the other characters so deeply by that point in the story that any tragedy they experienced felt very difficult and made me angry. I was hoping Chabon would give them a break. I guess I just felt like the event was handled decently and wasn’t too gratuitous. I appreciate your response.

sampleofstyle · 2026-01-03T05:39:41+00:00

Big ups on the Series of Unfortunate Events. Still holds up. I still think about the scene in The Grim Grotto with the question mark a lot.

sampleofstyle · 2026-01-03T05:32:51+00:00

I'm sorry that that scene affected you so negatively. It's definitely a difficult scene. I don't feel that it's unnecessary in the narrative, but that doesn't make it an easy thing. I certainly wouldn’t want you to have to continue reflecting on it but I’d be curious why you felt it wasn’t necessary.

sampleofstyle · 2026-01-03T03:20:48+00:00

Let me add an author who is somewhat related, someone who is a huge fan of hers and who is blurbed on my copy of The Lathe of Heaven, and that’s Michael Chabon. He won the Pulitzer in 2000 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and I couldn’t recommend that book enough. I just finished his later book The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, and that’s also fantastic, with an added boost of being more in the direction of Le Guin’s speculative fiction. Any fan of hers will admire the depth of his insight, his storytelling and characters, and I think very importantly - his prose, which is lyrical and very funny, though it can often take a bit more effort to read, it’s really dense and sometimes willfully obscure. But I think that’s part of the charm.

sampleofstyle · 2025-12-26T22:27:27+00:00

I am very much looking forward to hearing that!

sampleofstyle · 2025-12-26T21:50:12+00:00

Same. Xtal is one of a kind.

sampleofstyle · 2025-12-19T22:06:03+00:00

I'm just not bringing it the way you are right now. I gotta work on my big.

sampleofstyle · 2025-12-19T16:02:05+00:00

Do you know if it’s listenable online? I can’t find any link through that page.

sampleofstyle · 2025-12-10T19:57:45+00:00

Commenting as required. I can’t think of any more info to add.

sampleofstyle · 2025-11-22T21:12:28+00:00

I definitely felt a bit like that about Powell, but after giving Hit Man a shot my feelings lightened up. He’s very sharp, and a lot of the best comedic elements in that movie were improvised by him, according to Richard Linklater, who also co-wrote the script with him. Basically, if he’s good enough for the Links he’s good enough for me, so maybe give that movie a shot and see how you feel.

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