PUZZLED PAGAN PRESENTS
A Shrine to Pop Culture Obsessiveness. With Lots of Spoilers
Category: Page Turners
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As Halloween approaches, I’ve decided to do something a little different. Normally I like to spend October talking about horror novels, or at least spooky novels, to get into the mood. And, I’ve largely whiffed on that promise this year, ending up mainly just talking about a Stephen King novel that didn’t end up…
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Every October I like to get in a spooky mood, and generally share a lot of Halloween-themed media with you all. I talk about all manner of creepy stories, in film, comics, and literature. And, one of my tried and true sources of creepy novels is of course, the master of the genre, Stephen…
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Writing about the book I read for this website has kind of changed the way I read. Before I damned myself to share all my thoughts on the media I consume, I would usually just pop around, find a series I liked, and just read them all, back to back, usually resulting in…
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As someone who loves to read, and who is always on the hunt for some new and interesting book to check out, I often find myself relying on any number of potential sources. I take recommendations, check out best-sellers, and sometimes even seek out authors who I’m familiar with for other reasons. Take David…
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Last year I had the pleasure of finding a book that I really and truly loved. Madeline Miller’s Circe was one of my favorite books I read last year, and almost immediately proved to me that Miller would be an author I’d have to keep an eye on. The way that she effortlessly blended a fascinating…
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A few years ago I talked about a book that I found myself really enjoying. It was Gore Vidal’s Burr, an entry in his long-running Narratives of Empire series which sought to create historical fiction tales about various important moments in American history. The series blended real-life and fictitious characters to tell these stories, weaving fact and fiction…
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There are many genres of storytelling that I will usually check out with no real knowledge of the story itself. I’m a huge sucker for noir stories and will pick one up given very little convincing. And, right up there for me are dystopia stories. I’ve always found humanity’s fixation with how society will…
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It can be hard to write a funny book. I’m not sure exactly why that is, but I’ve always assumed it’s just the fact that it’s difficult to weave a compelling narrative while also trying to be funny, something that is incredibly subjective and that can hit people at incredibly varying ways. And, when…
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It’s kind of weird that I haven’t talked about it very much on this site, but if I’m ever put in the position where I’m forced to name what my favorite movie of all time is, and I’m unable to wiggle out of it and list a handful, my main go to is Cameron…
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Every now and then I find myself with with a strong desire to dive into some dorky fantasy. I’ve talked about this before, but my love for books began as a little kid when I started to get obsessed with fantasy. Stuff like the Lord of the Rings, the Chronicles of Narnia, and the Neverending Story were some of…
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