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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI’m about to start The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman. History! Science! Archaeology!
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI just finished reading the short story “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison. I very much enjoyed it and you might too! Just as a warning, I’d heard it was incredibly unsettling, but I wasn’t really bothered until the last few paragraphs, at which point I kind of freaked. Still totally worth it though.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoMay I just say: “Sometimes She Let’s Me”, the anthology in the NSFW post this week. DOES NOT SUCK ASS, except in the literal sense… As a general rule people act like writing erotica means you can just be ridiculous and sloppy, but this ones pretty good so far. Mind you I’m not THAT far in…
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoHas anyone read the Room by Emma Donogue. I just started reading it after it having great reviews but it seems a little slow and sad, not sure whether to continue. Any recommendations here?
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I haven’t read it, but several people on a message board I go to called Snarkfest read it and were raving over it. These particular people have pretty good taste I think, so I wanted to give it a go. Apparently, a few of them felt it lagged a bit in the beginning as well, so maybe it picks up?
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Please continue. It’s such a good read. A bit depressing at some parts yet uplifting at the same time. You won’t regret reading it :)
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Strongly agree with @Zulu, with the caveat that we can’t know what may be particularly unsettling/press buttons for you… so stop if you are feeling that you need to stop… but I genuinely LOVED this book. Donoghue works her way pretty thoroughly through the possibilities of the situation, so there’s some intensity, but she does it with real…[Read more]
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I’m half way through at the moment on your advice, I think I will have to keep reading. I just find myself so haunted by it that I have trouble sleeping (though to be honest I read it just before bed). However I wake up in the morning grateful I’m not in that situation.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months ago“The Hours” by Michael Cunningham — it’s a rewriting of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, and once I got over my initial feeling that it was sacrilegious to attempt to copy the perfection that is Woolf, I really enjoyed it. It is Autostraddle-relevant because it has been rewritten around the AIDs epidemic in New York in the 1980s, whereas in “Mrs…[Read more]
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoReading George Elliott (a female author who wrote under a mans name for sexism purposes). She’s so, so great.
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I completely adore George Eliot. Have you read “Romola” or “Silias Marner”? They are both excellent and less well known than “Middlemarch” or “The Mill on the Floss.”
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I haven’t personally, but only because I haven’t had time yet. Silas Mather was an option for an outside reading project in English recently…
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That’s the problem about great books — there’s never enough time to read all of them.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoAlright, I generally find myself opposed to reading books once they start to become big mainstream hits and turned into movies and stuff just because I’m weird like that. However, I recently finished reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and it was so, so good. I couldn’t put it down. Unless you just randomly know a lot about the circus, the…[Read more]
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I read Water for Elephants when it first was published, and I really liked it. I think I’ll pass on the movie though- the last movie I saw with Reese Witherspoon in it made me never want to watch another one of her films ever again!
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I’m afraid of all the Twilighters following Robert Pattinson around. I might watch it once it hits DVD. It depends on reviews I guess, because I hate seeing movies that don’t do the books justice.
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Good god, twilight fangirls. I forgot. I was going to go see it in theatres after I read the book, now I’ll probably just illegally download it.
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Now, I can say from experience that going with a friend who also hates twilight fangirls and then making fun of them together during the movie can be a pretty good defense.
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