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Com exceção de A Fundação e Duna, quais Livros de Space Opera vocês indicam?

Cormac McCarthy is a good metric for how well you can read—it’s not the faux literary fluff that gets praised today, but it’s also not readily apparent to the reader. So much is said in what is unsaid, so you have to really read. For example:

how do I get into On Cinema because the lore seems really cool but also extremely complicated

I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.

that county that Afroman lives in is less than 1% Black lmao do you have any idea how bad you gotta fuck up to make those rural white people side with him

I always knew there was fraud with our tax dollars but I never knew the fraud was this bad. DOGE and Nick Shirley opened my eyes. Then the reaction from the Left opened them wider. It seems like at least 50%-75% of our tax dollars go to fraud. Did you know it was this bad?

I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.