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This is dark fantasy/horror story, stylized as an ancient oral legend, which tells the story of a simple man’s journey and gradual descent into darkness - and ascension to power. We tried to give our villain protagonist some psychological and philosophical deep, not just “HAHAHA I am evil and will rule the world!”.

Here is the audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCdlph835qc

If You prefer to read: https://adeptusrpg.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/tale-of-the-necromancer/

I am an author of the text, other guy read it and recorded. We are very interested in Your feedback and discussion.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/3300814

Yet another slice of pure gold from her. She's become my favourite author of horror/weird/thriller fiction. I'm not going to say anything about the plot but the book itself is another one of her multi-layered descents into a place where you're unsure what's true and what's not until the very final reveal. Dark, quiet and measured with slices of genuine horror, her style always reminds me a lot of Peter Straub's best work like Koko or Ghost Story.

'Holly' is also very good, but for different reasons. I always have preferred King's shorter works like Revival or Carrie to his big monster doorstopper novels, which always feel flabby and overwrought to me. And he struck gold when he created the character of Holly Gibney. She's as immensely likeable as ever and has more shit to go through in this one. It's pointless talking about King's style as everyone already knows what they're getting so if you appreciate it when King reins in the worst of his tendency to waffle, you'll like this one.

Like books that got very popular but you never really could get into.

Could be translated from english to another language you speak or translate to english from another language

I have way too damn many lol. probably at least 400

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2644486

Don't know if people know of this site or not but just in case you don't, it's pretty damn good. All they require is an email address (I used an anon one with no issues). You can follow up to 100 authors and get alerts when new stuff is announced and published.

It's also got a decent future search, showing up everything being published in the next 7 or 30 days which you can also narrow by genre.

They do use Web Beacons on their site and in their emails but uBlockOrigin will handle the website and DDG Email Protection can handle the emails.

I used to enjoy participating in book clubs (be it in person or online), but between emigrating, the pandemic and life changes I haven't been in one in quite a while. What about you? Do you enjoy reading groups? If so, in person or digital?

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/759157

What the title says, I'm tired of the trope where humans are the least advanced in the universe.

I'd like to read something different where we're the more advanced ones (not necessarily the most advanced). As an example I quite enjoyed the Ender's Game sequels and the angle of us being the more advanced ones was quite interesting.

Do you have any recommendations?

Basically, title

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3688704

I am reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (P&V translation). About 20% through. It's starting to get interesting as the characters start to take shape. Till now I have read and enjoyed the P&V translations of both Crime and Punishment and Demons. This is a huge book and I am looking forward to enjoying this for a while! I am just excited and wanted to read other people's thoughts.

I really liked To Kill a Mockingbird even though I barely remember it.

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And the other books in the Earthsea series too, of course.

I've only read the first three books, actually. I should fix that.

cross-posted from: https://mstdn.social/users/edwilk/statuses/110945771856400927

Bambi

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/08/22/bambi-for-the-serious-reader/
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