Endless Ends

[Endless_Night]

And now I'm wondering if I would be shocked or not.

Based on recent experience, I am going with, No.

 

[Apisto42]

I’m shocked on your behalf.

 

[Endless_Night]

I’m shocked on your behalf.

Oh, hush. I am no longer speaking to either of you.

*flips hair*

 

[Apisto42]

Oh, hush. I am no longer speaking to either of you.

*flips hair*

It’s okay, I’m just imagining that you also were bopping as you flounced off.

 

[EyesOnHers]

When you try to shock someone and they're all like, meh.

Don't know what this is about but hands you a taser in case it helps you get the desired effect

 

[Apisto42]

Don't know what this is about but hands you a taser in case it helps you get the desired effect

 

[Endless_Night]

Don't know what this is about but hands you a taser in case it helps you get the desired effect

So extreme!

I like it.

 

[LadyLascivious1]

To know one in particular and needing no response -

I can offer chocolate and French 75?

 

[Endless_Night]

There are days it feels we've become so ecumenically focused in our societal thinking that it's flattened out meaningful individual conviction.


Observation for the day.

 

[GetNerdy]

There are days it feels we've become so ecumenically focused in our societal thinking that it's flattened out meaningful individual conviction.
Observation for the day.

.. that would be an ecumenical matter.

 

[Endless_Night]

Fiction these days seems so drear and saturated with the same brush. I rarely read anything newly published anymore.

Aren't we due for an innovative bump?

I'm ready for a new Golden Age of . . . something.

 

[Endless_Night]

.. that would be an ecumenical matter.

Well, okay then.

 

[Magesthicc]

Fiction these days seems so drear and saturated with the same brush. I rarely read anything newly published anymore.

Aren't we due for an innovative bump?

I'm ready for a new Golden Age of . . . something.

Publishers only finance works that sell in today's world, and unfortunately, they offer very little intellectual stimulation.

My favorite book began as a pamphlet back in the 19th century, and after a long time, the installments were compiled into a book.

Today, anything that sells well is milked dry, and then the next thing that sells or is promoted on social media by influencers is released.
Arguments, plots, and complex language are all sidelined.

Another one of my favorite books has such complex language that it is difficult for me to read it even today and although it was one of the most read and sold books in known history. People look for easy ways to stimulate their minds, it is not a bad thing, but maybe that reason is why we don't get new groundbreaking..... somethings this days

 

[Endless_Night]

Publishers only finance works that sell in today's world, and unfortunately, they offer very little intellectual stimulation.

My favorite book began as a pamphlet back in the 19th century, and after a long time, the installments were compiled into a book.

Today, anything that sells well is milked dry, and then the next thing that sells or is promoted on social media by influencers is released.
Arguments, plots, and complex language are all sidelined.

Another one of my favorite books has such complex language that it is difficult for me to read it even today and although it was one of the most read and sold books in known history. People look for easy ways to stimulate their minds, it is not a bad thing, but maybe that reason is why we don't get new groundbreaking..... somethings this days

Agreed. Social media has changed the way we read.

Which, change is inevitable, it's merely that this effected change doesn't suit me. It's all tropes, and publishing economies, and fast pacing. I particularly miss the wealth of description and the use of a full bodied vocabulary. I miss the intellectual stimulation.

We need a fresh flip.

 

[hotoldrguy]

Agreed. Social media has changed the way we read.

Which, change is inevitable, it's merely that this effected change doesn't suit me. It's all tropes, and publishing economies, and fast pacing. I particularly miss the wealth of description and the use of a full bodied vocabulary. I miss the intellectual stimulation.

We need a fresh flip.

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” So I guess it is about how you spin it

 

[sweetlydeviant]

Agreed. Social media has changed the way we read.

Which, change is inevitable, it's merely that this effected change doesn't suit me. It's all tropes, and publishing economies, and fast pacing. I particularly miss the wealth of description and the use of a full bodied vocabulary. I miss the intellectual stimulation.

We need a fresh flip.

sorry to barge in!

The commercialization of literature is truly something!
I won’t lie, some of it is fun when I’m in the mood for a light, mindless read. Akin to some sappy romcom on tv.

But I do think we’ve lost something along the way. Perhaps it’s a symptom of late-stage capitalism?? where even our leisure is optimized, packaged and made palatable for mass consumption. I joined a book club and some of the conversation has left me wondering if I even read the same thing as they did?

I agree, I miss the richness of language, the indulgence in description, take me through the setting, make me feel!! *sigh*
Just makes me want to delve back into classics again and again.

 

[Endless_Night]

I won’t lie, some of it is fun when I’m in the mood for a light, mindless read.

Oh, I too like my bits of fluff.

But I do think we’ve lost something along the way. Perhaps it’s a symptom of late-stage capitalism?? where even our leisure is optimized, packaged and made palatable for mass consumption.

Interesting attribution.

I joined a book club and some of the conversation has left me wondering if I even read the same thing as they did?

You are not the first person I've heard say this.

I agree, I miss the richness of language, the indulgence in description, take me through the setting, make me feel!! *sigh*
Just makes me want to delve back into classics again and again.

This calls to mind a book by one of my preferred authors. It is by no means my favorite book. Nor even my favorite book by that particular author.

It was written at the very beginning of the science fiction New Wave. You might think that time frame would put it out of touch, yet I cry at the end. Every single time.

The current book landscape simply does not not connect me with the human condition in the way older style writing did so well.

 

[hotoldrguy]

Oh, I too like my bits of fluff.


Interesting attribution.


You are not the first person I've heard say this.


This calls to mind a book by one of my preferred authors. It is by no means my favorite book. Nor even my favorite book by that particular author.

It was written at the very beginning of the science fiction New Wave. You might think that time frame would put it out of touch, yet I cry at the end. Every single time.

The current book landscape simply does not not connect me with the human condition in the way older style writing did so well.

What is the title of the book?

 

[Endless_Night]

What is the title of the book?

Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein. 1961.

 

[hotoldrguy]

Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein. 1961.

I LOVED that book! It was the first Heinlein book I read

 

[Endless_Night]

I LOVED that book! It was the first Heinlein book I read

It is, honestly, one of my least favorites of his books.

But. When Micheal discorporates.

 

[hotoldrguy]

It is, honestly, one of my least favorites of his books.

But. When Micheal discorporates.

what is your favorite?

 

[Endless_Night]

what is your favorite?

Of Heinlein?

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. That libertarian revolution. Good stuff.

You know, I just realized -

I cry at the end of that one, too.

 

[Endless_Night]

I am considering taking the farm apart board by individual board.

"As God is my witness!"

*shakes fist at sky a la Scarlet O'Hara*

 

[Apisto42]

I am considering taking the farm apart board by individual board.

"As God is my witness!"

*shakes fist at sky a la Scarlet O'Hara*

Have you considered fire?