February 26, 20242 yr (The top ten all time sellers starts at 2:19) For instance of Dicken's fifteen novels Two Cities is the most far fetched, implausible. His other's are fiction which could have really happened. The first person to write good realistic fiction was Jane Austen (about 1810). She doesn't make the top ten. Apparently people want to be swept away with the fantastic. C.S. Lewis: Lion Witch Wardrobe H. Rider Haggard She. 1886. Rumpole of the Baily stole his famous slogan "She Who Must Be Obeyed". J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit. Cao XueQin Red Chamber (sold a zillion in China) Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians a.k.a. And Then There Were None J.K Rowland Harry Potter J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings Antoine de Saint Exupery The Little Prince (a kid traveling in space) Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote Edited February 26, 20242 yr by Fielder 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
February 26, 20242 yr Well...... I've kind of always had this feeling that I live real life every day.... Like a truck driver that wouldn't be caught dead playing American truck simulator, why would I read about people just like me doing similarly mundane things, when I can read about fighting dragons, or single handedly winning an interstellar war? Like many, I will read about (semi) real life if it includes enough naughtiness though, but of course that's just biology, evolution, hormones and etc temporarily taking control of the bus, so I plead insanity.... 🤔 We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 26, 20242 yr I like history myself. True things that happened to real people. Someone said “fact is stranger than fiction.” Or “ you can’t make this stuff up.” Vic green
February 26, 20242 yr I lean heavily toward realism, but if the more fantastical is well done, and I can concoct some kind of means by which the fantastical can be explained, like reality/physics being different in that realm, I can handle it.
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