Susanna Moore Puns

Hello to the subreddit!

Some time ago I succesfully asked for recommendations meant for an aunt who likes realistic thrillers and romance; now I come back to you asking for a opinion about my mother, that aunt's sister.
My mother has always been a strong reader (I got it from her, as a matter of fact) and her passions are, on roughly equal ground, detective novels, manner literature, and dynastical sagas, and while she would not admit it she is into overtly feminist fiction: if I were to single out her favourite authors I would go for Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Agatha Christie, while in terms of "National milieus" she is fond anything Scandinavian and of our local Italian literature from the Umbertine age (it roughly matches the Edwardian period in the UK). This being said, she spent most of the life happily outside of the spec-fic ghetto, for in her mind spec-fic meant "elves and orcs and little green men and no feelings" – except that she did read and enjoy Harry Potter, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1984, King's 11/22/'63, and Roth's The Plot Against America, which she either coded as children's literature, thrillers, and/or period pieces.

Recently, however, I pretty much tricked her into the ghetto by gifting her a number of (translated) works that could match her tastes in realistic fiction: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaiden's Tale, Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi, The Best of C.L. Moore, and Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy. As I expected, she loved the diverse modes of Britishness employed by Clarke and Garrett, the politics in Atwood, and how most of Moore's short stories elaborate a character-driven drama in a speculative setting (while, as I thought, the sword-and-planet stuff left her cold) – she particularly enjoyed Moore's proto-cyberpunk story "No Woman Born", meaning that her next gift will be Tanith Lee's equally proto-cyberpunk novel Electric Forest. On this regard, I'd like to highlight that a couple days ago she commented on Lord Darcy with something like: "I don't understand how could this be marketed as sci-fi. It's whodunnit detective fiction, plain and simple, just in a parallel timeline, with magic." and I was like: "You said it. Parallel timeline with magic."

Now here comes my question of the day: I recently read and enjoyed Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar saga, so I would like to sha

I searched, and it appeared that this had not been posted here yet. It's an old article from 2007 republished in May of this year. I found it interesting if for no other reason than to find that one of my favorite fantasy authors is a massive fan of one my favorite comic book writers. For Moore fans, you'll find little new here. He mostly discusses Lost Girls.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/11608804/Susanna-Clark-interviews-Alan-Moore-the-wonderful-wizard-of...-Northampton.html

Hello beautiful people of r/fantasy. I have been lucky enough to read 72 books so far in 2021, most of them in the SFF genre, which is by far a personal best for me. I should actually be able to make it up to 74 as I am more than midway through Dune Messiah (Frank Herbert) and Moving Pictures (Terry Pratchett), but since I do not see either of those two books cracking into my top 10, I figured I could start writing about the best books I have read this year and share with you all 10 mini reviews of the 10 best books I have read in 2021, because like so many others, I just need to talk about it! I would love to read your thoughts on what I read this year.

Most of them are fantasy, although two out of the ten would probably be better described as sci-fi but with enough fantasy elements to them that I figure they can count as is. I will try to keep my reviews as spoiler free as possible and will mark any spoilers with the proper tags.

First, a few honorable mentions that just missed the cut for me but I still found to be fantastic reads that I cannot recommend enough: 11/22/63 by Stephen King, The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter, Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, Tiamat's Wrath by James A Corey, Watchmen by Allan Moore and Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence. In a few of those cases, you will find other books from the same series listed bellow. So with that being said, let's begin!

10. NEMESIS GAMES (The Expense #5) by James A Corey

I read Leviathan Wakes, the first book of the series, at the end of last year and upon finding out that the conclusion Leviathan Fall was due for the spring of 2021, I have spent most of the year pacing myself and reading about one book every month to be caught up for the release of the finale. This series isn't what I would call ground breaking. It doesn't reinvent the wheel and plays on a trope that has been well established, that of humanity tearing itself apart while a bigger world-ending threat is looming in the background, but it does what it does extremely well. The characters are interesting and fun to follow and all of the books are at the very least firmly planted in the "entertaining as hell" category for me. Nemesis Games is the middle book in this 9-books series and is, to my taste at least, the very best one. This book follows the crew of the Rocinante as they are split apart for significant amount of time for the first time in the series, which gives some of Jim Holden's friends

I’ve always found certain books to be fun to read, whether it be the prose, the imagery, the concepts, or some combination of them. And they aren’t necessarily good or unique from a critical perspective so I’m kinda curious if anyone else has any books that they have read that they just thoroughly enjoy despite whatever criticism you have for them.

For me “Piranesi” (Susanna Clarke), a majority of Christopher Moore’s works, “Neverwhere” (Neil Gaiman), “A Close And Common Orbit” (Becky Chambers), and “A Wizard of Earthsea” (Ursula K Le Guinn) have always been fun reads

Edit. Added Earthsea to the list. How could I have forgotten about it I’ll never know

Eleven months ago, I posted asking what your reading list for 2021 looked like, providing my own reading list to spark conversation.

I've read 132 or so books thus far and expect to finish a few more before year's end. Looking back on my list, I did undertake a majority of the reads and rereads I planned on. Not all, but a majority.

Of the original list, I read:

• 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster (reread)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; Susanna Clarke (reread)
• Lifelode; Jo Walton
• The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane; Paul Mariani
• The Overstory; Richard Powers
• Invisible Cities; Italo Calvino
• The Dragon Waiting; John M. Ford
• The Broken Earth trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky; N.K. Jemisin
• Jerusalem; Alan Moore
• The Name of the Rose; Umberto Eco

I did not read:

• the Worldbreaker Saga: The Mirror Empire, Empire Ascendant, and The Broken Heavens; Kameron Hurley (reread)
• Terra Ignota: Too Like the Lightning, Seven Surrenders, The Will to Battle, and Perhaps the Stars; Ada Palmer
• In the Dream House; Carmen Maria Machado
• Catch-22; Joseph Heller (reread)

In general, I have, as I planned, read more poetry. My short fiction intake is down, though, which I regret, and I have only read one book of essays.

Now the year is not over, of course, but December is a busy time for many, and I'm not going to make any further progress on my list. It's as good a time as any to ask: how many of the books on your 2021 reading list did you read?

I'm looking for literature that aims to cram as much weird imaginative setting, lore, idea, thematic, symbolic, and just plain mindfuck stuff into a single text, creating the literary version of horror vacui. Those sort of books where I can just sink and immerse into an alternate existence created solely from the imagination where all history, philosophy, psychology, politics, science, sociology is taken to extremes of creativity. I'm also not looking for those sort of stream-of-consciousness works which can be dense and full of ideas but are mainly limited to exploring a non-speculative setting or a character's psychology (e.g. Ulysses, Under the Volcano or William Gass' The Tunnel). I feel like I've searched a huge chunk of media available in English for works of this vein and can't find any more examples of creators who might fit the bill, which has let me to start thinking about scouring through other languages.

Below are a bunch of creators that might capture aspects of what I have in mind. Also doubles as a list of creators I already know of which I don't need recommended (the list is non-exhaustive of course).

Experimental writers, Atmospheric writers or Postmodernists: Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Nabokov, Robert Anton Wilson, Donald Barthelme, John Barth, Joseph McElroy, Borges,Richard Powers, Alasdair Gray, David Mitchell, William Burroughs, Victor Pelevin, Anna Kavan, Italo Calvino, Vladimir Sorokin, Evan Dara, Umberto Eco, Cormac McCarthy, Rikki Ducornet, Angela Carter, Don Delilo, Roberto Bolano, Mark Z. Danielewski

New Weird: China Mieville, Michael Cisco, Jeff Vandermeer

Extremely Dense, Imaginative or Atmospheric SF/F: Stanislaw Lem, Greg Egan, Olaf Stapledon, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Gene Wolfe, M John Harrison, Samuel Delany, Project Itoh, Peter Watts, JG Ballard, Mervyn Peake, Bruce Sterling, Terry Pratchett, Philip K Dick, Jacek Dukaj, Marek Huberath, Ursula K Leguin, Susanna Clarke, Greg Bear, Cordwainer Smith, R. A. Lafferty, James Tiptree Jr, All Tomorrows, The Vorrh Trilogy by B. Catling

Japanese writers: Haruki Murakami, Ryu Murakami, Numa Shouzo, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Kobo Abe, Yumeno Kyusaku, Nisio Isin, Maijou Otarou, Dempow Torishima, Mariko Ohara, Ryu Mitsuse

Theory Fiction: Reza Negarestani, those CCRU-writers, Mark Fisher

Film: David Lynch, Cronenberg, Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker, Kubrick, Jodorowsky, Seijun Suzuki, Blade Runner, Tati's Playtime, maybe Nolan films like Inception & Tenet, Andrzej Żuławsk

Do your worst!

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Please find the list below

2749. Real-Life BPMN, 3rd Edition: Jakob Freund & Bernd Rücker

2750. Reading the World: Ideas That Matter, 3rd Edition: Michael Austin

2751. Quantitative Methods for Business, 13th Edition: David R. Anderson & Dennis J. Sweeney& Thomas A. Williams& Jeffrey D. Camm & James J. Cochran

2752. Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods, 4th Edition: Michael Quinn Patton

2753. Public Policymaking, 8th Edition: James E. Anderson

2754. Psychology: The Briefer Course: William James

2755. Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges, 8th Edition: Beth Black

2756. Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment, 4th Edition: Linda A. LaCharity & Candice K. Kumagai

2757. Persuasion : Social Influence And Compliance Gaining, 5Th Edition: Robert H. Gass & John S. Seiter

2758. Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology, 4th Edition: Clark Spencer Larsen

2759. Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale, 1st Eition: Marina Warner

2760. NYSTCE EAS Educating All Students Test (201) Secrets Study Guide: NYSTCE Exam Secrets Test Prep Team

2761. Nutrition for Healthy Living Updated with 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 4th Edition: Wendy Schiff

2762. Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions and Rationales, 14th Edition: Marilynn E. Doenges & Mary Frances Moorhouse& Alice C. Murr

2763. Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes, 4th Edition: Edward A. Keller & Duane E. DeVecchio

2764. Mosby's Exam Review for Computed Tomography, 2nd Edition: Daniel N. DeMaio

2765. Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference, 13th Edition: Kathleen Deska Pagana & Timothy J. Pagana & Theresa N Pagana

2766. Microbiology: A Systems Approach, 5th Edition: Marjorie Kelly Cowan

2767. Media, Crime, and Criminal Justice, 5th Edition: Ray Surette

2768. MCSA Guide to Installation, Storage, and Compute with Microsoft Windows Server2016, Exam 70-740, 1st Edition:

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Administrative Note: Ever since I discovered the r/Fantasy Bingo in its second year (2016), I’ve been obsessed with figuring out how often books or authors were read for people’s cards or for each square. (I even went back and figured out the stats for the very first one, though I never posted it.) However, as the subreddit grows, the number of people participating has also grown, and I’m afraid these posts take me longer and longer to do, so this will be my last Bingo Statistics post.

My past Bingo Stats posts:

• 2016 Bingo Statistics
• 2017 Bingo Statistics
• 2018 Bingo Statistics
• 2019 Bingo Statistics

PRELIMINARY NOTES

Before I get to the numbers, here are some caveats:

1. I don’t decide who gets a successful bingo (that’s /u/lrich1024!), so when assembling this information, I don’t question a book you may have read or where you placed it on your card.
2. To make it easier for my analysis, I did one book per square (except for short stories). If you submitted a series or omnibus title, I took only the first book (I didn’t do this in a couple minor cases, however). If you said you read Heartstrikers by Rachel Aaron, for example, I wrote down that you read Nice Dragons Finish Last so I could compare you against others who read only the first book.
3. Graphic Novels, Light Novels, and Webserials: I find it more useful to compare these specific series against each other instead of by issue or volume, so the person who read Monstress Volume 1 was compared with one who read Monstress Volume 3.
4. I attempted a gender breakdown, but I may be wrong! I said female/male/nonbinary/other based on the pronoun the authors preferred (author bios were useful in this regard), but sometimes I guessed. In a few rare occasions, I couldn't find evidence either way and left it alone. If you notice an error on my part, please let me know.
5. If you want to see the raw data, please click this link. I don’t include anyone’s username on this sheet. Books and stories that were only read once are highlighted read, but the f

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Buenosdillas

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

There hasn't been a post all year!