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As my first Let's Read on this site moves towards its thankful conclusion, I look to another project, one that won't simply be an exercise in suffering for myself. And as HPL and Two-Gun Bob have gotten Let's Reads devoted to their work, I figure that the third of the "Three Musketeers of Weird...

Howdy. I'm Datcord. Welcome to my folly. You still have a chance to flee. I'd honestly suggest you take that chance. This is a thread in which I'm going to attempt to do a blind Let's Read of the novel that received the Governor General's Award, which is (I'm informed) the highest literary art...

For a while now, I've been interested in writing my own original work, which happens to involve Norse mythology. I figured that, instead of relying on the knowledge that popculture has given me, I should go to the 'source', as it were. Or, at least, the closest thing to the source we have. That...

So, I might as well jump on the Fanfic review bandwagon, but offer my own flare to it. I love crossovers. I think they're a great invention for media and while some can get underutilized (looking at you, Cartoon All-Stars), others can be great treasures. I grew up on Power Rangers, in which...

Yes, that's right. If Tolkien is the granddaddy of the fantasy genre, Howard is the crotchety uncle. And yet, I'm not super familiar with the series. I've seen the very silly Schwarzenegger movies, and I'm a bit familiar with the setting of the Hyborean Age - I know that Howard wanted to write...

On the third Monday of May, nothing happened. In honor of nothing happening, I shall do something I've been meaning to do for a while. So, Silver Age Superman. We all know it. We've all seen the wacky covers and the insane plot twists and the bizarrely out-of-sorts storytelling. We all know...

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is one of those things that you can't not be aware of if you spend even small amounts of time in a space like SV. And, like many other such things, its something I've been passingly curious about for the last couple of years without ever quite having the motivation to...

I have previously attempted to read Sword of Truth in an attempt to learn and analyze the author's policies while exploring the magic system, but I lost steam around book 5. Now I'm returning to it and trying to share my thoughts. I know the general gist of the plot of the first 11 books and the...

I think we're all familiar with what Frankenstein is in pop culture. Most modern portrayals feature a monstrous amalgamation of a man that can barely think, much less speak, and it only recently came to my attention that this depiction was severely incorrect. So in the interests of diversifying...

Hi there, everyone. You might remember me from Neon Triumviratus Evangelion, which is still continuing, just taking a slight hiatus while I work on some other things. Now; however, I’ve got some time to work on something else, and a friend of mine just happened to toss me a copy of Ready Player...

Welcome friends, and Let's Read the ACKS CORE RULEBOOK ACKS is the Adventurer Conqueror King System, a retroclone of B/X produced as part of the 2nd wave of the Old School Revival(specifically in 2011). It was published by Autarch LLC following a successful Kickstarter campaign. And beyond...

Even as person with a Neo-Pagan beliefs, I can appreciate the rich Christian inspired stories of Tolkien and Lewis. A good faith based narrative should be focused on telling a story with faith in mind rather then focusing on the message and sacrificing writing for it. The following stories do...

. Welcome, dear friends, to your inevitable demise! When you think of comic book villains – proper ones – there are a couple names that jump immediately to mind. The Joker, merciless psychopath and impish clown. Lex Luthor, business tycoon and genius, ever obsessed with the alien. Loki...

Forward: Henceforward is webcomic set in an alternative universe of Rooster Teeth show RWBY. Given that it started coming out early in the shows history, there are significant differences in the world-building and setting background when compared to the show. Now, I’ve both read a bit of the...

Hello, everyone. A good friend of mine convinced me (since she knows how much I LOVE superhero stories+ horror/dark/twisted/demented stories) to create an account here in order to review a work of fiction that she liked very, very much. Namely Worm by Wildbow or, on his real name, John Charles...

The philosopher Simon Critchley listed five books of philosophy to read. One of them was Plato's Republic and he explained his choice thusly: I have a long road ahead of me in my philosophical explorations but it seemed clear to me, and others I listened to agreed, that Plato is the place to...

Theodore Beale. Better known in geekdom by his pseudonym Vox Day (which is in actuality one of many of the damn things he has, but that's a discussion for another time), Beale has earned a reputation as a hateful troll and living ball of petty wrath, engaging in one-sided feuds with John...

So, Ward, the official sequel to Worm has finally started last Saturday annnd despite everything that has happened, I got hooked onto it. Shit, I was supposed to look at this fic with sheer disdain and fear and only read it until it is like arc 3 so I could be spared off the pain of getting...

Some time ago, the RoosterTeeth animation "RWBY" caught my eye. Part of it was the sizeable fandom it has on SV. Part of it was the occasional screenshot I stumbled across, whose art style stood out to me in a good way. So, I sat down and watched the first episode, expecting to fall in love with...

@Nord Ronnoc : Hello, I'm Nord Ronnoc! We read stuff so you don't have to! TheLordofAwesome: Wow. Ripping off a popular internet celebrity to make a catch phrase. That's the sort of quality that'll get you places! NR: If you wanna rip off stuff, get the good ones and do it well! TLoA: Promise...

Join me, scurrilousSeafarer, a certified Worm addict and Pact apologist, as I read through the third of Wildbow's wonderful webnovels, Twig. The second of Wildbow's webnovels that I was reading while waiting for Worm's sequel. It was a time when I'd caught up with everything. I'd read Lord of...

Arright let's have an index pos NO SPOILERS. Seriously. Don't even hint at future stuff. Don't make me just blitz through the whole thing and dump my notes/experience on people with zero chance for discussion. The story is finished. There's nothing left to spoil. The first five Arcs are...

Welcome to my very first proper attempt at joining the Let's Read bandwagon. I've decided to start with something relatively small, and thus I've gone with an eight-issue comic book series. Published by Dark Horse in 2013 and one of the last major comics they published under their Star Wars...

Description in the title. I'm gonna read lore from Moba games or games like them. League of legends, Overwatch, Dota 2, Smite, Gigantic, whatever. I'll warn you if I've already read the lore in question, or even if I have a vague idea of it's contents. So, to start, I'll read A Hero Wakes -...

I've heard a lot about Heir to the Empire, and I decided to finally read it. I already have a general idea of what happens in the Thrawn Trilogy as a whole, so this is more about me trying to see why Timothy Zahn's so well-respected. I plan to go through a single chapter in each post, and...