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[โ€“] Dr_Box 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently you can be a successful author without using correct punctuation

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Blindness by Josรฉ Saramago

[โ€“] Dr_Box 2 points 2 months ago

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What to pick from god emperor of dune?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dune the place or Dune the series?

[โ€“] Etterra 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That it doesn't matter how powerful wizard you are, you'll still need to find a way to pay your rent.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The Wizard of Oz?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

About the African samurai, Yasuke.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I learned about him fairly recently too. The end of his life struck me as brutal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My understanding is that no one actually knows what happened to him in the end.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I mean how everyone began to treat him in the absence of the emperor. I don't know, maybe I'm just used to Japan being an innately ethnically warm culture.

[โ€“] sanguinepar 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The word "yclept," meaning "by the name of".

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"Yclept moon, I punish you" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

[โ€“] JusticeForPorygon 2 points 2 months ago

Idk the last book I read was The Mist by Stephen King