Oh... well... disappointed throughtout the whole book I fear is an understatement 😔

hey everyone! i’m writing a book that’s based in a supernatural prison with a fight club, and i realized i haven’t read anything that i would consider a comp or in that same vein as my story. thus, i’m looking for some recommendations that feature either a supernatural prison, supernatural fight club, or both! any suggestions?

I recently saw someone say they can’t imagine the setting within the book and they read like they are “watching a movie” which got me intrigued. Personally for me when I read, I might get “flashes” of imagery but I think I’m more focused on interactions and actions! So it’s a bit like I imagine the two characters but the background is blank? I often also don’t really have the full image of the characters so it’s just two mannequin like figures. If there are paragraphs of description about the environment I may take a moment to kind of piece it together but afterwards it’s more of the feeling and atmosphere and doesn’t stick around as an image.

How do you experience stories and does it take effort if you “watch it like a movie?” Do you have a soundtrack playing in the background or is it just environmental noises? Do you even imagine how the character voices sound like? How much detail is there?

Hi hello,

I have a small general question to pose for y'all - when do you call it quits with an author?

I'm not talking about cases where the author does something that puts you off, but rather their writing style/plot progression / etc.

I bring this up because there is a specific author who puts out books with such intriguing and fun premises (to me), but the two times I gave them a shot, I was greatly disappointed by the execution. So, I decided their books were probably just not for me. But every time I see one of their books and read the synopsis, I'm like "hmm, maybe I should give it another chance?" So I was wondering what you guys do in situations like these? How many "chances" do you give an author before you just accept that as much as you'd love to love their books, it's not going to happen T_T

"In fact, artifical intelligence as we know it depends entirely on a much wider set of political and social structures. And due to the capital required to build AI at scale and the ways of seeing that it optimizes AI systems are ultimately designed to serve existing dominant interests. In this sense, artificial intelligence is a registry of power."

The introduction is already so fascinating - excited to read a book about AI clearly not written by a STEM fetishist that actually tackles how the inequities of our world are mirrored in this emerging technology. I already know I'm going to be remembering that last sentence every time I'm forced to engage with AI for work (side note - my boss is literally putting together an "AI Task Force" which horrifies me)

hai hai! i'm an avid reader and that mainly means i read a boatload of fanfiction which are mostly sad...but also well written (i have good taste, if you will). I can see some popular fanfics already here in pagebound but not the others. i wonder what others think about adding fanfiction here?

Every once in a while I’ll go through some reviews of books I’ve read just to see what other people think. And something I’ve noticed is that there’s a good amount of people who don’t like slice of life moments or detours when they’re reading.

This got me thinking about the shift away from 20+ episode seasons on tv and the cutting of filler episodes.

I, for one, love slice of life moments in books and filler episodes are often some of my favorite episodes in tv. To me, some of the best character moments come from them. Not development, but moments. Something small that tells you these characters have lives beyond what we’re given as an audience. (Please. Some shows need more than 8 episodes, executives.)

So, is there a correlation? If you like little sidetracks in your books, do you also like filler episodes? Do you not like either? One but not the other? (I’m particularly interested in the why on this one)

Hello everyone! I’m looking to explore Japanese literature and would love some recommendations. Could you please suggest any books by Japanese authors that you think are really good or memorable? I’m open to any genre and would appreciate your favorites!

Like. Okay. I have a small habit of buying too many books. So to cut back on that, I have started to change from just buying the books I want to read, and focus my energy into saving up to buy special editions and hardcovers of the series that I know I absolutely adore as like an actual collection.

I'm thinking of making more use with libraries, the internet archive, etc for reading itself.

I will admit there is no actual question, I just want other people's thoughts about this and maybe some recs on other places to get the books I'm interested in.

Hiii! Looking for some more indie authors to support. Any good recs?

Thanks💜

I'm currently reading a book with lots of Spanish words, and I don't know any significant Spanish. In the forums there's lots of posts saying people are looking up a ton of the words to understand the text. In other book forums I've also seen posts along the same lines unrelated to language, just general "I have looked up so many words; have your dictionary nearby" etc

I basically never look up words. At this point in my reading journey it's quite rare for me to encounter any (English) word I don't know, and even if I don't know it (any language) I can 99% of the time understand the meaning from context clues and therefore feel no need...

Am I just a weirdo for never referencing the dictionary?? How often do you grab the dictionary/Google, and what's a great word you've learned from this process?

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