Akhil
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Just once, can Amazon stop updating book covers any time a book is adapted to a movie/TV show? This is worse than physical books with their "stickers" declaring "Now a major motion picture" or "Now on Netflix", and having actors on the cover.
December 30, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Just once, can Amazon stop updating book covers any time a book is adapted to a movie/TV show? This is worse than physical books with their "stickers" declaring "Now a major motion picture" or "Now on Netflix", and having actors on the cover.
@rnrhamster.bsky.social Hello, I'd joined the #HotFrankSummer reading club back in June, but I can't access the feed at the moment. Was told to contact you since you're the feed owner. Could you please look into it?
Also, is there any centralized feed that I can follow to keep up with book clubs?
Also, is there any centralized feed that I can follow to keep up with book clubs?
December 29, 2024 at 11:47 AM
@rnrhamster.bsky.social Hello, I'd joined the #HotFrankSummer reading club back in June, but I can't access the feed at the moment. Was told to contact you since you're the feed owner. Could you please look into it?
Also, is there any centralized feed that I can follow to keep up with book clubs?
Also, is there any centralized feed that I can follow to keep up with book clubs?
No amount of reading Camus can help me cope with the Sisyphean task of doing my laundry. Why is laundry never ever "finished"?
December 10, 2024 at 3:06 PM
No amount of reading Camus can help me cope with the Sisyphean task of doing my laundry. Why is laundry never ever "finished"?
I don't know if anyone frequents #HotFrankSummer anymore, but there's a discussion I'd like to have. (1/?)
Writing about Blade Runner 2049, Helen Lewis wrote the movie is "an uneasy feminist parable about controlling the means of reproduction".
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
Writing about Blade Runner 2049, Helen Lewis wrote the movie is "an uneasy feminist parable about controlling the means of reproduction".
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
Blade Runner 2049 is an uneasy feminist parable about controlling the means of reproduction
Its villain, Niander Wallace, is consumed by rage that women can do something he cannot.
www.newstatesman.com
June 19, 2024 at 6:42 AM
I don't know if anyone frequents #HotFrankSummer anymore, but there's a discussion I'd like to have. (1/?)
Writing about Blade Runner 2049, Helen Lewis wrote the movie is "an uneasy feminist parable about controlling the means of reproduction".
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
Writing about Blade Runner 2049, Helen Lewis wrote the movie is "an uneasy feminist parable about controlling the means of reproduction".
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
In other news, Roman numerals are a mystery to me. Chapter IV, not Chapter V.
Chapter 5
"... yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our enquiries."
Clearly, Victor would not have been a fan of ethics committees and oversight boards. #HotFrankSummer
"... yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our enquiries."
Clearly, Victor would not have been a fan of ethics committees and oversight boards. #HotFrankSummer
May 21, 2024 at 3:35 PM
In other news, Roman numerals are a mystery to me. Chapter IV, not Chapter V.
Much like how Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" is a poem about the transience of power, its ability to corrupt men and fill them with hubris, I feel "Frankenstein" is about hubris-driven men who seek grandeur through discoveries - be it life, or a sea passage.
#HotFrankSummer
#HotFrankSummer
May 21, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Much like how Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" is a poem about the transience of power, its ability to corrupt men and fill them with hubris, I feel "Frankenstein" is about hubris-driven men who seek grandeur through discoveries - be it life, or a sea passage.
#HotFrankSummer
#HotFrankSummer
Chapter 5
"... yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our enquiries."
Clearly, Victor would not have been a fan of ethics committees and oversight boards. #HotFrankSummer
"... yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our enquiries."
Clearly, Victor would not have been a fan of ethics committees and oversight boards. #HotFrankSummer
May 21, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Chapter 5
"... yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our enquiries."
Clearly, Victor would not have been a fan of ethics committees and oversight boards. #HotFrankSummer
"... yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our enquiries."
Clearly, Victor would not have been a fan of ethics committees and oversight boards. #HotFrankSummer
So Victor went all-in on something akin to Goop to "rebel" against his father, and then he decided to pursue science and rationality, much like a Silicon Valley bro from the early 2010s. If this trend follows, I guess he'll dabble with stoicism in a couple of years. #HotFrankSummer
May 19, 2024 at 3:26 PM
So Victor went all-in on something akin to Goop to "rebel" against his father, and then he decided to pursue science and rationality, much like a Silicon Valley bro from the early 2010s. If this trend follows, I guess he'll dabble with stoicism in a couple of years. #HotFrankSummer
Chapter 1 started out fine, and then it progressively got worse, because yikes, Victor is a weird, creepy child. #HotFrankSummer
May 18, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Chapter 1 started out fine, and then it progressively got worse, because yikes, Victor is a weird, creepy child. #HotFrankSummer
Letter II paints a portrait of a man who is insecure about his lack of formal knowledge. He rants about not having a friend who "gets him", a friend who can "fix him". But why pine for a friend who gets you when you could just be friends with the sailors you've hired? #HotFrankSummer 1/2
May 16, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Letter II paints a portrait of a man who is insecure about his lack of formal knowledge. He rants about not having a friend who "gets him", a friend who can "fix him". But why pine for a friend who gets you when you could just be friends with the sailors you've hired? #HotFrankSummer 1/2