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This Inevitable Ruin

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This Inevitable Ruin

Matt Dinniman

The time has come! Book seven in the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series is here! They call it Faction Wars. The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal... It all makes for great fun and even greater television. After all, none of these powerful aliens really die when they’re playing war. Except this time. This time, winner takes all. Those who fall, stay in the ground. As the AI continues its rapid decline, Carl and company take advantage of the chaos. For the first time ever, the crawlers are fighting back. They are now one of the nine teams. And this season, there’s a tenth army on the playing field. The NPCs, who are normally used as nothing but cannon fodder, have become fully self-aware and formed a team of their own. For Donut and Katia, the stakes are even higher. Only one of them will be allowed to leave this level. If they all want to survive, they’re going to need a little help from a veteran or two. This is it. This is what they’ve been fighting toward. This is war. This inevitable ruin.

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Worst book talk!

What it says on the tin: What is the worst book you have ever read and finished? What about the worst book you ever read and DNFed?

(Remember this is all in fun, to meet people with similar tastes, and because I'm curious, not to shame anyone for liking or disliking books you liked or disliked!!)

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria. Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.

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Re-reading tips?

Hiya! So, I'm currently planning to re-read the Six of Crows Duology. One of the reasons is bc I have a writing passion project that I'm currently trying to write and Six of Crows Duology is honestly awesome at writing multiple PoVs so I wanna learn from them. So~ do re-readers out there have any tips for me? Bc I can't seem to actually do a re-read (but movies/show is so easy apparently, i'm doing a SPN rewatch rn, all 15 seasons of em!)

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Murakami

So, I read the other Murakami posts that have been asked here, but they did not answer my current need. Which is:

Give me one reason why I should read Murakami.

I'm currently reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, about 140 pages in, and I DNF'ed Kafka on the Shore a couple years ago a little over halfway (I think I was at 250+ pages and there were about something like that left). I've also read Men Without Women and I liked some of the stories. So, I have given this a try.

But I am currently struggling with the abundance of misogyny and overt sexualisation of every single female character. I'm also struggling with the fact the nothing happens. The one story line in Kafka on the Shore I cared about seemed to have been completely forgotten after the first 100 pages.

So, why should I read Murakami? Will I get some kind of revelation at the end (nothing big or like IRL but just book related) that means it was worth it to power through 600 pages? Or am I reading the wrong Murakami books?

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Murakami

So, I read the other Murakami posts that have been asked here, but they did not answer my current need. Which is:

Give me one reason why I should read Murakami.

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Sep 03, 2026

Água Viva

5.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: Plot:

I don't think I have the words or ability to convey my thoughts about this book onto a page. The way the narrator talks about our inability to fully convey what we want through the written word feels exactly like how it is trying to sit down and try to capture my thoughts about this book in an accurate way that represents what I think.

Because I'm not entirely sure I know what I think. I'm full of questions and thoughts and can't seem to fully put it away. The page in my book journal is mostly filled up with quotes that possibly convey the important parts of the fragements that make up the novel, but I don't think anything can capture it as much as just reading it. It has a loose plot that alone creates the atmosphere of the novel. The fragmented desperation in these writings makes the exploration into life, humanity, and existence unique in the way it sticks and doesn't let go even after the last page of the novel has been turned.

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Água Viva

Clarice Lispector

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector’s, Água Viva stands out as a particular triumph.

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Sep 02, 2026

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Matt Dinniman

A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend. It is bedlam on the eighth floor. As management reels from the unexpected conclusion of the seventh level, the surviving crawlers stumble onto the eighth and find themselves scattered. It’s a map based on Earth’s final days before the collapse, where ethereal, intangible ghosts of humanity go about their lives, oblivious of the impending doom. Living amongst these ghosts are monsters based in Earth lore. “Legendary” creatures tied to the geographical location they inhabit. Each team of crawlers is given a task: find and capture six of these beasts. The captured monsters will be turned into cards. Cards that can be summoned into battle again and again. The stronger, the deadlier, the better. At the end of the floor, the bad guys will also have decks, and they will have some of the most powerful cards available. So it’s crucial to assemble the toughest squad possible. But, like always, there is a catch. There’s always a catch. As Carl and Donut know all too well, just because someone is captured, it doesn’t mean they have been tamed. Her name is Shi Maria. She’s easily the most powerful monster in their area. If they want to survive, they must capture her. But she is no ordinary beast. She’s intelligent. She was once married to a god, a god who is now missing. Her special attack is known to drive one insane. They call her the Bedlam Bride. “Beware, beware. Beware the Eye of the Bedlam Bride”

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The Constellation of Forgotten Things

Tiffany Chu

When love transcends the boundaries of time, memory, and even death itself. In the world of Reveria, broken dreams rise as trails of light across the night sky. A blacksmith's boy vanishes into rebellion. Two cosmic beings—one of Memory, one of Void—discover their forbidden love might reshape reality. The Constellation of Forgotten Things weaves together interconnected tales of love that defies impossible distances: between life and death, earth and sky, remembering and forgetting. Each story illuminates a different facet of love's power to endure—and its cost. This collection is both an act of remembrance and a celebration of the stories we tell to keep our beloveds alive, proving that some bonds transcend even the veil between worlds. Perfect for readers who love the lyricism of Madeline Miller and Alix E. Harrow, the emotional storytelling of Studio Ghibli films, and the mythic beauty of Ursula K. Le Guin's work. If you read for gorgeous language and deep feeling rather than fast plots—these stories will captivate you. Love that would change the constellations and the reality of existence.

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Studying literature

Just a post to share my excitement with you guys!! Last year I decided I wanted a change and went back to school, today I attended my first class in the degree of Modern Languages and Literature! I’m going to be learning Russian and Greek on my first year. And then Russian and English. And I’m just soo happy if I’m being honest!!! But also so scared to go back to learning after a couple of years of working lol.

Have any of you guys studied literature, languages, or something of the sort too? How did you like it? Any tips? I hope you guys had the best Monday!🫶🏽

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pocketmills

english literature studies

hi boundlings!

my order of books for my final year of college just arrived, so i'm reading them all this week. i'm really excited for some of them, and it got me wondering- what is the best and worst book you've ever had to study and why?

my best--- the grest gatsby. i'm studying it this year and it's genuinely a book i love and enjoy.

my worst--- of mice and men. stereotypical but my teacher made us analyse it in such detail that i can no longer see the word rabbit without wanting to smash my head into the wall.

(ps... my books this year are everyman, the great gatsby, king lear and william blake's poetry. if anyone here has any advice i'd appreciate it haha)

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Neon Aliens Ate My Homework and Other Poems

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Sep 01, 2026

Neon Aliens Ate My Homework and Other Poems

3.0

Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 2.5Characters: Plot: Audiobook: 3.0

I will admit that I barely looked at this as anything other than poems, a fun title and a way to fit into HRCYED 3.0. It seemed more fun than the other alternatives and I could've probably looked more but this was 46 minutes of my time (though really it was more like 30 because I listened to it at 1.5x speed.)

Those minutes were, unfortunately, only meh. The poems are a mix of funny and okay, but they're very basic. I can very much see this appeal to children and even as an introduction into poetry in a way that's a lot more fun than I sometimes think poetry is for kids, maybe even older than the kids normally interested in having fun with farts or whatever. But at the same time, this was highly mediocre in terms of poetry and I kinda wish I'd decided to spend my time elsewhere. It was okay

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Neon Aliens Ate My Homework and Other Poems

Nick Cannon

Just in time for National Poetry Month, Nick Cannon, entertainer extraordinaire, debuts his poetry book for children. Nick Cannon---the unstoppable entertainer, comedian, actor, and musician---was inspired to write Neon Aliens Ate My Homework and Other Poems as a way to combine the worlds of poetry and hip-hop. These two mediums have shaped Nick into the prolific artist he is today. To furtherpay respect to the urban storytelling that inspired him, each funny, gross, wacky, or thought-provoking poem in this collection is illustrated by one of six incredible street artists who have shown his or her work around the world. There are even four illustrations by Nick himself.

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