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But even then I think TV and movies based on books are often better than a lot of other TV or movie writing, so perhaps it's not all bad? 🤔😁

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Side by side photos of a bannister with a horse on the end. The Book: A horse beautifully carved directly into the bannister. The Movie: A plastic horse toy hung on the end of the bannister with a string.

I can't say this has ever happened to me, but I understand some readers worry about getting to the end? 🤔

P.S If you know where this is from let me know so I can add credit.

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Two drawings of a woman reading with arrows indicating her attitude is going around in circles. Top: "I'm dying to know how it ends!!" Bottom: NO!! I have to read slowly, I DON'T want it to end!"

That black hole is something else. By Arthur Inverse The Last Philosopher is a ride. The story starts with a black hole named, wait for it. Di- I mean Richard. And as a black hole should be, he think's hes the absolute center of the universe, able to bring everything to him and underfoot. Then we are brought to our chrotchity old headmaster of our school. The story so far has been good with worldbuilding, pictures and maps in the story adding just the right amount of touch and immersion to help visualize wheer you are and what is going on within the chapters. I found little to no errors in word choice, flow, and spelling. Solid all around.

March 1st-7th The Last Philosopher: Part One ebook will be free on Smashwords 😊

I know I've handed out a free link before but this is free where it would normally cost 99 cents so that's somehow better 😜😁

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1928619

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Fan made moving cover of The Last Philosopher.

Cover a book I assume doesn't actually exist, with a 1950s looking picture of a young man pointing at an engine. Title: Everything I don't like is WOKE, a book for basic dickheads The young man saying: This engine is woke.

I just discovered the Fanart friday tag so you're going to be getting some fanart of my story The Last Philosopher on fridays 😁

This one is a map of the Sojurut continent before and after "The Spell"

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The digital version of this map was drawn from my pencil scribbling, which I guarantee you don’t want to see, by https://www.wattpad.com/user/edoggypaws

The Last Philosopher, an epic fantasy has mastered all of the essentials of the genre. The worldbuilding is incredible. And might I say I was very excited to see maps included in the chapters. Our world is important as it shapes not only the plot but the characters as well. I get the sense that in this first installment we are getting the tip of the massive iceberg behind the world of Huom. Something that you did incredibly well with was your characterization. Your characterization in this story was absolutely incredible. You showed us stellar characterization through actions and the inner thoughts of the characters themselves. Overall, this was a refreshing unique take on fantasy! A very engaging read. The pacing is a little slow but the pay-off and reward is so worth it in the end. And the plot has so much potential going forward. There is so much clever wit in this story as well which | thoroughly enjoyed! Nothing like some good old cynicism and humor!

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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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.”