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5⭐ Rating already: "You owe it to yourself to get this awesome novel about ground-level survivors dealing with kaiju and giant robots..."
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First they come for the hatchets, next they'll want to take your falcon away.
Like I’m not even mad if you like Hatchet. Read whatever you want!!! Enjoy whatever you want!!! But women are not rolling their eyes at you liking a book. They are rolling their eyes at the continued sociological conditioning of boys and men to be violent and destructive.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Hatchets are tools, not weapons. It is not used as a weapon in the book Hatchet.
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Remember folks, when you send one of the Big Five publishers that manuscript you worked so hard on, this is the kind of person deciding it's fate
Stop wasting your time trying to please psychos who hate you
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A lot of boys aren’t interested in diasparoid grievance literature or love triangles. Boys need specific nutrients.
Young boys are being discouraged from getting into reading—and it’s because more books are missing one key element, @sophiah_n reports: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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The problem with this is that these men were writing for a different time. They may be wonderfully timeless, but they do not address our current zeitgeist
That’s why indies are so important, particularly in male dominated genres like adventure fantasy and sci-fi
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"Our general attitude towards male readers ages 8-80 for the past 25 years has been "Go **** yourselves" why don't they like reading?"
Young boys are being discouraged from getting into reading—and it’s because more books are missing one key element, @sophiah_n reports: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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Save that a bad teacher can ruin in a semester what a parent can spend a lifetime to build.
My brother and I were raised avid readers - school made him hate it. didn't read for pleasure again for a decade.
My son is 3 and adores books more than toys.
I worry that can be undone.
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Self-publishing is pretty much the only option.
About 70% of publishing professionals are women.
Because agents and editors tend to select books they personally relate to, an increasing number of male authors are being sidelined in the publishing industry, resulting in an overwhelming number of female protagonists on our shelves—and a dearth of male ones.
No wonder young men are no longer reading.
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Childless lords sat in open floor plan new builds musing on pickleball schedules or in 40 foot RVs asking questions of Alexa
Anakin's love for his son redeems him in the end. Even when he wrote himself off as beyond saving.
A culture that stops giving the next generation King Arthur stories will unwittingly drive their children toward Anakin stories.
Demonizing the desire for order does not diminish the innate human desire for order.
Gen Z will root for Anakin over the chaos of spineless ineptitude and moral hypocrisy.
We must give them Arthur.
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Rather than hyperventilating over the phantoms living in your phone, you should buy all of these books and review them. They’re really good.
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“No one watched them”
LWW made 750 million
Prince Caspian made 420 million
Dawn Treader (which was not at all a faithful adaptation, btw) made 415 million.
They weren’t the highest grossing films ever made, but the audience was absolutely there for it
You people forget they made three Narnia movies that were pretty good adaptations. No one watched them. They cancelled the rest.
This movie looks cool. It looks fun. People will go see it.
So far the criticism I've seen just make you all sound insane and precious in the most annoying ways:
- The jungle should be a forest
- The magician is too hot
- The boy is too fat
- The girl is too cute
- Aslan is too cosmic
I'm open to giving this thing a chance. It has to have a vibe if people are going to care care about The Magician's Nephew, a story no one knows anything about.
It's fine to be critical and I wouldn't be shocked if this series abandons Christianity for some pagan occult slop. But It's also okay to make the story visually appealing enough to attract an audience who will then go and read the books.
Stop being weird!
