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I just finished The Last Dragonslayer series by Jasper Fforde.

The internal logic was sometimes a bit lacking but the fun and interesting ideas were not, and that's just as good 😁

I was a little disapointed in the fantasy writer whose best idea for the big bad was galactic domination 😂

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https://bookwyrm.social/book/2227770/s/a-place-both-wonderful-and-strange

The new book that Scott Meslow wrote on Twin Peaks is so far—I'm a third in—the best I've read. Fun, interesting, puts a finger on paedophilia—because the series handled masterfully that like no other media did, as far as I know—and with a lot of explanation that isn't navel-gazing. I recommend this book!

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Crucially, Twin Peaks never feels judgmental of Laura, or her peers, who are almost constantly subjected to the dangers faced by any teenage girl who dares to exist in a hostile and violent world. That doesn’t excuse the physical and emotional violence Laura inflicts on others; it’s simply an acknowledgment of the cycle of abuse that began, if you take The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer as canon, in 1984, when Laura was twelve.
“Kyle was very resistant to doing a series,” says Johanna Ray. “We didn’t know that we had him until the very last minute. But usually, David ends up getting what he wants.” An early, extreme example of that came on Ray’s first day on the show, as they discussed who might play Andy Brennan, the weepy deputy with a heart of gold. “Harry [Goaz] was David’s limo driver,” says Ray. “I was in a meeting with David and Mark Frost, and David said, ‘Well, I know who I want for the deputy sheriff. This guy that drove me to the Roy Orbison concert the other night.’ Mark and I went, ‘Oh, here we go,’” but they gamely agreed to meet with Goaz, who had exactly zero credits to his name. “And he turned out to be brilliant.”
The character’s name—an allusion to the famous plane hijacker D. B. Cooper—was “just a little bit of playfulness on my part,” says Frost. “I think in the back of my mind, I was thinking, Well, wouldn’t it be great if people just had the tiniest little sliver of doubt in their mind that this guy actually is an FBI agent? Did he jump out of a plane and put on a nice suit? It’s one of many ways that the show could have gone on a very different road.”
Cooper has come to Twin Peaks to solve Laura Palmer’s (Sheryl Lee) murder. At the time the pilot was written, it was an inherently doomed mission; not even Lynch and Frost knew who had done it. “We didn’t want to solve it, at that point,” says Frost. “That was a clear decision on our part, creatively. We didn’t want to limit ourselves. And we felt if we locked it in too early, that’s exactly what we’d end up doing. [If we waited], something that might occur to us that’s even more interesting.”

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I'm looking for recommendations for audiobooks 😁

Preferably simple enough that I can keep up while doing other stuff at the same time, but not so simple that I get bored,

The last series was Skullduggery Pleasant, if that helps.

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Two panel meme of a person being uplifted by an angel. Panel one: Frank Herbert getting rejected by every credible publisher. Panel two: A company that specializes in car repair manuals thinking his story about giant worms and space drugs is kinda neat.

https://pivic.blog/blog/excerpts-from-clare-carlisles-transcendence-for-beginners/

I've written a blog post with excerpts from Clare Carlisle's wondrous philosophy book 'Transcendence for Beginners'.

As great philosophy books come, Carlisle writes clearly and simply about something that could easily be hard to digest; Carlisle makes the reader's journey easy and explosive. I really recommend this book.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/2215992/s/transcendence-for-beginners

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A typical book cover for Fitzcarraldo, the publisher: white background, blue type: title at the top, author's name in smaller type in the middle, and the publisher's name and 'Editions' at the bottom, in even smaller type.