Book discussion, reading habits, recommendations and the strange gap between admiring a book and enjoying it.
A broad reading community for recommendations, reactions and thoughtful disagreement. Spoilers should be signposted when a discussion depends on them.
I finished a novel whose central conflict is resolved, yet several character relationships remain uncertain. At first I felt slightly cheated; a day later I realized the ambiguity was what kept me thinking. There's a dif...
I am looking for more nonfiction that explains one subject carefully but still reads like a book rather than a course. I do not mind diagrams, notes or some technical vocabulary. What loses me is when every chapter assum...
I'm halfway through a novel that comes up on practically every list of modern classics. I admire the writing and understand what it's doing, but I actively avoid picking it up at night. Part of me wants the satisfaction...
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