Lord of the Flies stuff has happened and it has never been like LoftF. People generally cooperate to survive.

When society is lost, humans just build new societies. We like them.

Anyone who’s been to an all-boys school knows that boys become a special kind of feral when there are no girls around, especially in that preadolescent stage. I’d wager that it would’ve been an entirely different dynamic if there were girls on that plane.

What I loved about the pajama top is that not only do I have one that says that, but I just got done reading another book that briefly pokes fun at people who wear shirts that say, “Namastay in bed.” Lol

What's LLM-Romance?

But then it is the translation that adapts it? I don’t get it. Not saying you are not right. Or that I am wrong. Just that with reading it in English and googling the names of the monsters, they all connected to polish folklore. Which was cool. I did not google every single one of them, just the ones with trickier descriptions. From there I found also their legends which were from polish myths and fables. Good that it is more diverse and not only Polish stuff is there.

Still hate Yennefer tho hahaha

This sub tends to be limited to repeating the same conversations about a handful of selected authors/titles.

A few times I tried to make posts recommending some different titles by newer authors, and the mods hassled me because of "promotion" (true, I guess?) and "low-effort" (ouch. I could be worse).

I could go elsewhere, but hey it's the only game in town.

And here is the problem: I enjoy none of these books and would say that none of them (despite mentioning FOB) have a "vibe" with their music.

I just feel like correlating music to books is something that doesn't really work.

Name of the game is death. Such a fast paced page turner. Then it just ends. Don’t want to ruin anything. Will just have to read for yourself. It’s a quick read.

Here is an entire thread dedicated to that question with a handy chart.

Oh. I think you hit the bullseye, nice

This is a different topic but I can't help the feeling that ancient people didn't take their myths as literally as we think they did. Ever heard modern religious people say ,,oh the Bible/Quoran/Tora isn't to be taken literally, God isn't an old guy with a beard sitring on a cloud, these are all metaphores and paralels and parables that speak of an idea etc"?

What if ancient Greeks were like ,,oh the myth of Persephone isn't to be taken literally, I mean, she didn't ACTUALLY collapse beneath the crust of the earth! It simply meant, that..."

Pray you don't get tinnitus. I've got it and I haven't enjoyed complete silence in decades. I currently have the news on tv and music on the radio and I can still hear the ringing.

Disagree. Zombies need to be internally consistent. Not consistent with books written by competitors. No one owns zombies. It does make sense to explain origins of plague when your characters would know it. Like a scientist. If main character is a lumberjack there's no reason for them to know exactly why zombies are running amuck. Variety is the spice of life. I can find something in zombie category I want to read.

I just finished Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado. It was really good.

Oh yes, I loved the first season, haven’t finished the second

Yes report it

It's copyright infringement, so I would totally report them.

I LOVE this book and Tana French is one of my fave authors, but I never recommend this particular one to people because the ending is sooo unsatisfying. I understand it as a choice and respect the balls it took for a debut author to do that, but I also get how deeply frustrating it is.

Oh well, I take it You read in English, so it was a very direct translation from original (Polish) to English. So a lot of the words that don't have the counterpart in English may have been Polish. Other Slavic languages do have their own words for those creatures, so in translations those were used. In short, You googled the untranslated into English Polish names, so got results in Polish.

But I don't know. I read the books in a Slavic language and it all seemed familiar and well translated, never had my hands on the English localisation (:

I listen to ambient or music when reading. There are several albums by Steve Buick, Music for Reading Horror/Science Fiction etc. that I find really work for me.

Only if you want to. It has already been removed from the sub so you do not have to do anything.

No, that would be a promotional comment.

Could I post this in the booksuggestiions thread?

They’re definitely going for the “girls will be violent too” angle. Which I greatly appreciate.

would it be possible to link to the pictures, these sound amazing