The *only* Updike that ever comes up in my experience is Witches of Eastwick!

Honestly, His Wife? A Horse is probably at least as culturally relevant as half of Updike.

If men and boys read books purely because they were written by men they liked then you’d think the MrBeast James Patterson book (boosted by a $1 million reader prize) would have been a huge hit. But it was actually a “historic bomb.” Just saying

I know I'm writing from a biased & privileged viewpoint as a bookseller but SO many young people are telling me everyday they're getting back into reading. And they want to read the good stuff, the nuanced stuff, the beauty. And they want to talk about it with other readers. And take notes by hand.

Whereas i played a total asshole so we got along great in act 1 (and yes i did save the poor lil tieflings) - Go ahead and make him go *poof* with a pointy stick if you don't want to deal with him, I say! lol

Oh, there you go, admitting you had FUN, when you should have been hard at work doing, uh, cutscene dialogue flashcard memorization drills, or something?

Yes, I know people who avoid playing the game because the romance aspect is so...pushy?

They invented an "ethically justifiable Omelas" where instead of one child, it's trans women, and instead of utopia it's a society that's gradually getting worse for some reason even though they keep throwing trans women under the bus

laughed a little too loudly at that one hahahah

this is a serious matter, the man is trying to resist the tyranny of book.

look, i'm not going to speak for stephen rooney, but if I were him I would be hiding in a bunker.

In this book, Astarion: IS tortured. IS forced to eat vermin. IS forced to "entertain" a guest with sex. IS subject to mind control. (And we learn at LEAST one victim of seduction in the past WAS lured back under order from Cazador!) What he says happened, in the game, happens!

No, it's a great way to go and I wish the game didn't make it so bumpy!

if i hear one more youtube video say "that's where it gets crazy/weird" i'm going to set the tv on fire. letting ai write your script makes all y'all sound exactly the same kind of tedious and annoying

one last san francisco story: I overheard two guys in a bathroom stall doing cocaine while talking about salesforce

Sweet. Cool-looking world mythology textbook score in the free book pile.

I was kind of self- trained like a pigeon to peck/click on that side of the wheel tbf