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So, for those of you who are not aware, esteemed theatre critic and author Bram Stoker is working on a new serial novel, simply titled Dracula. Aside from that I know virtually nothing, save for the fact that it is an epistolary work set in 1897 whose sections will be published the day they take...

Hello! My never-ending quest to get attention from strangers on the internet give back to the community that has given me so much entertainment and joy over the years continue. Rather than writing another quest that I will inevitably abandon due to stress, anxiety, and/or lack of ideas, I...

Due to how slow things are lately for me, and how some media gems either go unnoticed or aren't appreciated, especially on their own wikias, I figured doing a Let's Read of Usagi Yojimbo would be a good idea. I can always do a (re)watch of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles later on when I...

Let's Read Modern Villainess: It's Not Easy Building a Corporate Empire Before the Crash Or: A Fun Game Of Did This Actually Happen, Or Is This Just Weird Worldbuilding? Hi! Thanks for opening this thread, for whatever reason. Sheer curiosity? Interest in "villainess" genre fiction? Or perhaps...

Hello and welcome everybody to Bird is the Word, the only review show by avians, for avians. For our first item, we're taking a look at the first chapter of Household, a tabletop RPG that @chellewalker commissioned a review of: the basic synopsis is that you play as creatures from european...

In an infamous SB and SV tradition, and inspired by a great Let's Read of World War Z on this site, I decided to bite the bullet and try my hand at this thing. Behold, we have another one of Tom Kratman's masterpieces at hand! This is going to be more of a deconstruction of what Kratman wrote...

Out of Character: This is not meant to be a definitive "fixing" of Warhammer 40,000, it's more of a reworking of it to suit my tastes. People should be allowed to enjoy whatever version of the setting they like, including the canon one. This work also covers themes of violence and sexuality and...

I've actually first read about Vorkosigan Saga 4-5 years ago, on a Russian TVTropes knockoff - as an example of having a disabled protagonist, I think. I filed it away as something to maybe someday read, and, as I usually do, promptly forgot about it. I've seen it mentioned multiple times on...

Lets Read: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War So, the book’s out. As I promised when his… enlightening report for the UN was released and our serious journo friend went to the press and said he’d be writing a book, I’ll be reading through it. For the uninitiated - I’m an exile in...

I first caught wind of Berserk by way of a friend I made in college. When there was a light lull in classes, we just talked about a few random things, and the topic of conversation came to what stuff we were watching. I don't quite remember what I recommended he watched, but he immediately told...

Hello wonderful people of SV. I recently started reading "The Traitor Baru Cormorant" by Seth Dickinson. I was 17 pages in when I decided that the little I read was intriguing enough to deserve a play-by-play Let's Read. This is the first time I do something like this, so I don't know what...

I have a history with Riordan's books. I think I was 9 years old when I first saw the Lightning Thief movie and as an idiotic uncultured child I was like, "This is cool!". Then as a 12 to 14-year-old I actually read Percy Jackson and the olympians, the entire series, and I realised two things...

Adi Granov was able to create this pose for a cover... With a series of scraps! Welcome, True Believers, to the future. It's a work in progress, and hopefully the one man building it doesn't get himself and everyone else killed first. Iron Man is a character near and dear to my heart when it...

Sit down and get yourself strapped in, because we're taking a nostalgia trip back to the awkward teenage years! If you were like me, then chances are you first encountered Ender's Game in high school, and you probably thought it was the best thing you ever read. We read this book during grade...

So I really like myths, so I decided to make this reading thread where I read them. I've decided to start on greek myths and stories first since these are the ones I'm most familiar with, but I will branch into and start reading myths from other religions as well. I wanted to start with the...

I've been thinking about trying out different let's reads/reactions to media, likely mostly visual novels. I am interested in branching out from those though. At the same time, I'm interested in trying out blind reactions and also have no idea how much interest there will be in what I'll write...

Back in January, I had some Barnes & Noble gift cards to spend. While wandering aimlessly around, looking for something interesting, I came across a light novel with a rather interesting title: "How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom." That caught by attention, but the summary caught my...

Hey SB! So after some discussion in the thread for the fantastic Fanfic The Companion Chronichles I had the idea to make a summary of the first 4 arcs of El Goonish Shive for people who aren't interested in binging it and just wanna read the good stuff... And while there's other things I SHOULD...

Well folks, after finishing my Let's read of the utterly execrable Warp Speed, it's time to begin another Let's Read for a novel that it is, I hope, a little less unbearable. That said, I will admit that this novel is rather far afield of what I usually read. I know virtually nothing about the...

Hey everyone. I've been interested in making something recently, so I decided to do this lets read. It'll give me a reason to read through this story again on my own and hopefully give you readers something interesting. I've never done something like this before, so I hope that it goes well...

"You won't want to put it down," proclaims John Ringo. He's right. You'll want to throw it at the head of Travis S. Taylor, Ph.D. In the film Whiplash, the sadistic music teacher Terence Fletcher recounts a story about how Charlie Parker screwed up during a cutting contest, which resulted in...

Let's Read Les Fourmis Bernard Werber: Origins Of Smugness Welcome back, you fools. Did you think we were done with Bernard Werber? No, the Great Genius of French speculative fiction has more in store for us. But today we do not tackle the sequel to Thanatonauts, nor his peculiar take on...

Also known as: Modern History. *badum tshh* I can recall the first time I saw this book as clearly as if it happened a month ago; a surprising feat considering how shoddy my memory can be. I was sitting on the wooden floorboards of my dad’s study, sunlight pouring through the louvres in equal...

Hey, all the cool kids were doing it… So, as part of my ongoing quest to find something to do with myself during this seemingly infinite summer holiday/covid-based lockdown, I have decided to turn my attention to doing a Let’s Read of various old genre books that I own or have an interest in...

From A Certain Point of View is a short story anthology released for the 40th anniversary of A New Hope. Released in 2017, it has forty authors who each take some different character--some shown in the movie itself, others interacting with the story in the background--and tells their ‘side’ of...