Brian Brecommends: THE WESTING GAME & DUNGEON MESHI (and a little chat about burning out)
Added 2024-11-14 23:57:11 +0000 UTCI'm back to recommending things! And as always, I spent way more time than I had planned to answer some questions and talk about coming back from my break!
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I remember LOVING The Westing Game. Might need to revisit it.
Jerry H.
2024-11-28 04:40:06 +0000 UTCSeconding this series!!!
Matthew Macomber
2024-11-25 17:21:07 +0000 UTCJust finished Westing Game and really enjoyed it! The edition I borrowed from my library had all of these scans of the author's notes and drawing, it was really cool
Rebekah Bitikofer
2024-11-22 01:41:57 +0000 UTCIf you really love novels with very strong character writing, may I humbly recommend Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy (and there are many more books after the initial trilogy as well!); I don't want to oversell it, but I have never read anything as good as these books, the way the characters are written is just kind of unbelievably good. Basically a character study that happens to be set in a fantasy realm.
Boomer Roberts
2024-11-15 19:57:03 +0000 UTCI have been meaning to check this one out! Thanks for reminding me!
Brian David Gilbert
2024-11-15 17:46:43 +0000 UTCThe Westing Game was my favorite book in middle school (I was a precocious kid)!!
Annette Langan
2024-11-15 16:19:51 +0000 UTCThank you for reminding me of Westing Game, I read it for school and adored it! Have you seen anything about Slay the Princess? I think it'd be pretty up your alley - its content warnings need to be respected, but it's like if Stanley Parable was written by Poe, and I think you'd enjoy the nexus of narrative and horror.
Greg Miller
2024-11-15 14:36:57 +0000 UTCLove to provide the opportunity for you to do βa plugβ, happy to help π. Thanks for the Brecommendations! I find audiobooks helpful for getting to sleep, particularly if you can put them on a timer. That or a decent video essay, I canβt tell you how much Elden Ring lore and themes must be buried in my unconscious mind because of it!
Well-Spoken Rambler
2024-11-15 07:35:11 +0000 UTCOMG the Westing Game...... we read that in like 7th?? grade and I had people yelling BOOM! at me for weeks thanks to Otis Amber lmao. I do remember it being interesting through, I might have to reread it sometime! Glad to see you back Brecommending, I hope you're doing well!! :D
Amber Miller
2024-11-15 05:13:07 +0000 UTCI am happy to hear Dungeon Meshi is completed. I am out here waiting on too many mangas to drop their next chapters like a sucker and need more recommendations for completed mangas while I bide my time. β³
Alexander Turinske
2024-11-15 03:52:22 +0000 UTCHoly SHIT Brian, what a throwback. I grew up with the Westing Game as a favorite, and one of the first books that I reread multiple times.
Ariamaki
2024-11-15 01:49:10 +0000 UTCno way! the westing game was one of my FAVORITE books as a kid! it was so influential to me as a precocious annoying preteen being able to see myself in the "main" character, and I've never heard anyone talk about it but it is so deserving of a brecommendation.
bird mullet
2024-11-15 01:13:54 +0000 UTCI haven't thought about the Westing Game in years but it's so much fun
Daniel
2024-11-15 00:27:53 +0000 UTCthis!! i as an audience member want the people i support & consume media from to be mentally/emotionally safe and making things that make them happy, on a schedule that works for them. that's it
Maia
2024-11-15 00:26:46 +0000 UTCabsolutely make things that you are passionate about, when you feel like it. regardless of what you think your audience wants. but also we want that
rionsanura
2024-11-15 00:13:42 +0000 UTC
