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bearshorty January 12 2019, 16:03:23 UTC

Your post about Hugo were great last year in just knowing what stuff is out there. Even in limited version, I am looking forward to them.

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hamsterwoman January 13 2019, 00:22:41 UTC
Oh good, I'm glad you enjoyed following my Hugo journey :)

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aletheiafelinea January 12 2019, 23:03:02 UTC
My favorite book that I hate! :P
XD ! ♥ ! XD ! ♥ ! XD ! ♥ ! XD

Anybody else got one of those? :)
This particular one for me as well, actually. :) Maybe also what I've read of Alice Miller, I have a rant still lying somewhere around. Hm, I was sure there must be more, but now I can't recall any... However, yes, it's very much a thing. I've recognized this feeling long ago: I'm just 'meh, whatever' at books that are simply nothing great, but books that visibly had a chance to be great and wasted it, make me angry. Especially if they're commonly praised.

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hamsterwoman January 13 2019, 00:39:43 UTC
This particular one for me as well, actually. :)

Heh :) Well the icon is definitely free to share, if you'd like! ;) (although I know you use your own, highly-curated set of icons)

I don't think I've read anything by Alice Miller -- what was the problem there?

I'm just 'meh, whatever' at books that are simply nothing great, but books that visibly had a chance to be great and wasted it, make me angry.Yes, this exactly! Although I also acknowledge that you could get this situation from a good author attempting to do something I personally don't want to read, rather than something not worth attempting. Funnily enough, I feel like 'Planet' and Too Like the Lightning, the book in the other icon, kind of hit the opposite ends of this spectrum. TLTL's Palmer has created a narrator who is unpleasant and untrustworthy and on purpose does things that make the reader uncomfortable -- and I can't fault anyone for hating that experience, while I really respected it. I guess similarly I should concede that there are people who really wanted/ ( ... )

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aletheiafelinea January 13 2019, 02:58:22 UTC
although I know you use your own
...This. XD But aww, thank you for the offer. :)

I don't think I've read anything by Alice Miller -- what was the problem there?
She's a Renowned PsychologistTM. Her general shtick is "We're shaped by our earliest experiences and relations with our parents", and analyzing dictators and other historical figures this way. Which, okay, is an idea I can get behind, and definitely a worthy area of research. Never too much of explaining how monsters become monsters and others become what they become.
But. Her realization of this. Holy crap, her realization...
Did you know why Ceauşescu had a very energetic style of waving to the crowds? :3 He was 'clearing the view' because fears like insects plagued the windshield more and more. ... Watching this gesture I sometimes got an impression of someone trying to do away with memories, erase facts. ... And the hand risen still in greeting reminded me the right hand of an adult, just before striking a child. Also Hitler's 'heil' undeniably has the same source. No ( ... )

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hamsterwoman January 13 2019, 05:08:47 UTC
And she actually agrees is lacked conflict, but still likes it for the feel-good.

Yep! I know quite a few people who feel that way, and like, Fair. But it definitely doesn't change that to ME it feels like a waste.

Thank you for the Alice Miller download. Wow, what a lot of BS obscuring some potentially genuinely interesting insights!

Source: Institute of Data From Ass.

Ahaha, I love this phrasing XD And yes that rather seems to be the source XP

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