"He valued honesty and those who lived simple lives 'cultivating their gardens,' as he famously put it in his satirical novel Candide."
"The whole purpose of the show Game of Thrones... all of George RR Martin's works are anti-war in nature."
"Companionship, love, and the human struggle against mortality continue to resonate."
"The heartbreak of soma is realizing that the schemes that Simon and Kathryn hatch are just as impossibly naive as they sounded in the first place."
"Gatsby believed in the green light and the American dream, it stood for his creator punished him for this belief."
"There is no canon here. It belongs to you. How do you like that?"
"True struggle in Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars is not external, it's inside."
"Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters."
"When Frodo discusses her choice to become mortal in 'The Return of the King,' she explains that she is chosen 'both the sweet and the bitter.'"
"Some of the best lessons stories teach come from the victory of a protagonist philosophy over the antagonists."
"Reading about their budding friendship is so comforting to me."
"Discover stories about Second Chance romances, adventurous vacation flings, and hot, heavy hookups."
"Open Water by Caleb Azuma Nelson is a meditation on the experience of the black body in modern Britain, specifically the intersection between Blackness and masculinity."
"Dune explores how words and language can be deceptive, and can limit our thinking."
"Dune is about the power of the mind, so that’s how Jessica opens the door."
"Dune is about questioning the whole idea of heroes, religions, politicians, predictions, and plans."
"Dune is about the danger of religion, how it can warp our thinking and control us."
"If any couple makes it out of the end of this book happy, I think it'll be them. I hope it's them because at least one couple deserves to be happy."
"Mr. Miracle is about how to bridge the gap between fiction and reality."
"It's the human heart in conflict with itself."
"From the beginning, her mythic cloak was stained with blood."
"The central theme of A Song of Ice and Fire is intergenerational conflict."
"Love, compassion, and empathy are still possible, even laughter in the face of death."
"A Song of Ice and Fire finds the nobility in humility."
"She practically invents this masculine theme, that of the pre-romantic character."
"Everything I never told you reminds us of the importance of recognizing other people's struggles."
"I really want to read some more magical books this year."
"Magical realism inspires this magic that's tied to emotion, it's not arbitrary."
"Their refusal to buy the book was based not on my treatment of the theme but on the theme itself."
"To bring an end to the song of ice and fire."
"Saruman's relationship with rings of power is analogous to that of a master and a dangerous craft."
"Time travel is one of the Holy Grails of science fiction."
"Shimamura will see a flash of color and it will illuminate him."
"The Thief... so much about the thief is also about isolation and what it's like when you are neglected and when you finally decide to turn your back on society."
"In other words, it always comes back to romance."
"If Huckleberry Finn is about the yearning for the territories because Huckleberry Finn wants to go out into the future, The Great Gatsby is about yearning back toward the European civilization."
"It's that classic conflict of man versus man, man versus himself, man versus Chris Pratt t-rex."
"Cyberpunk 2077 looks really impressive and the fact that CD Projekt RED is still adapting a story and its themes from literature instead of starting from scratch should stand them in good stead."
""Huckleberry Finn" would take on even more of a socially-conscious slant than much of his previous work."
"Both have family at the forefront; you have more of the immediate family in 'Save the Date,' whereas in '10 Blind Dates' you have the entire extended family."
"The blend of mystery and solving, first love and horrible loss was just phenomenal."
"It's odd because Adam's intentions are bizarrely Noble in some regards."
"I love the concept of this, it sounds dark and suspenseful."
"Again, I love family sagas and family dramas, and I feel like this is that on steroids."
"Somebody's freeing themselves from this person."
"Those time-honored good versus evil tropes will never fade away."
"Great stories will always return to their original forms."
"Heroes must die by and large, otherwise they lose their heroic quality."
"This is exactly my kind of story... a reflection on humanity, on human emotions."
"Every angry tweet I've ever seen is just a lot of yelling and nobody's happy."
"You are getting less for your dollar, your dollar purchasing power is going down."
"Austin also seems determined to show through her writing that while her gender was indeed consigned to a restrained subservient role in her time period that didn't mean that they were obliged to take people's [ __ ]"
"It definitely does play off of that enemies to lovers trope."
"Excessive angst for the sake of angst is good actually."
"We may be the Adam and Eve of a brave new world."
"The story of Pasion challenges us to uphold values of truth, resolve, and friendship in the face of overwhelming odds."
"It's so ironic that a thriller novel where terrible things happen to women has a healthier sister relationship compared to other novels."
"Prophecy will bite your prick off every time."
"Waves are this motif that connects to sand dunes and is also connected to descriptions of time."
"I just love markets, magical markets in books, best Trope."
"The dragons work to highlight what George R. R. Martin thinks all stories come down to: the human heart in conflict with itself."
"Undertale and Dante's Inferno: uncanny parallels."
"The morals in them are fantastic, you know. To all the boys with not being afraid to love."
"Realistic villains like Frollo contrast the message of who's the monster and who is the man."
"The only thing that's worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself." - George R. R. Martin
"Heroes are only as good as the villains they face."
"His name is tall tale when the whole story revolves around tall tales hyperbole."
"A star-crossed lover's take on the ingenue and the rake."
"Lewis experienced an unsatisfied desire that is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction."
"The themes of 'The Lord of the Rings' seemed just as relevant today and it was written so long ago."
"Giovanni's Room is not really about homosexuality; it's about what happens to you if you're afraid to love anybody, which is much more interesting."
"People say they want morally grey characters."
"It's like an action story, it's like a mystery detective kind of story, it's really interesting."
"Happiness is out for the poor forgotten Baba."
"This universe and these characters were not built to survive outside of Hannah Baker."
"Harry Potter is about the magic of love, acceptance, and belonging, the power of courage, the impact of hope."
"This novel doesn't look like it's gonna have a happy ending."
"Authors keep making artists the protagonists of their books because of the romantic notions and stereotypes we have about artists."
"A book that is about men being called to be good men is the most Pro woman book I could think of writing."
"The entire season Bojack has been talking about how his book is going to make people love him again and when he finally reads it he can't even manage to like himself."
"It's the woman's good opinion not sex that drives these idealized heroes."
"The witch is both horror and romance, persecuted victim and self-possessed Modern Woman."
"It's got really great discussions obviously about society's expectations."
"Perhaps the essential fact about ancient Greece that plays a part in the Iliad is that the greatest value men had was that of glory."
"You are scared the Northern lords will read it. They wouldn’t think much of Lady Sansa if they knew how she did Cersei's bidding."
"Highlighting the close, almost sacrificial friendship the Marauders had at school would make their eventual betrayals all the more heartbreaking."
"Buzzkill is emblematic of the things Cates likes to write about: big cosmic ideas grounded in gritty real-world issues."
"A Song of Ice and Fire isn’t about the sword-fights – it’s about the story, the characters and themes."
"Exploring ideas of The Lost Generation, existential crisis, and hedonism."
"...if you like enemies to lovers books you'll probably love this book."
"Kathy's undying obsession with the cruel Heathcliffe is mirrored by her love of this untamed wilderness."
"The Romantic imagination also associated Caliban with a strong resistance to tyranny, a theme which we will shortly see again."
"When I used the word tragedy for the title of my book, it's because a tragedy in the real dramatic sense has to have had an alternative, a real alternative that wasn't taken."
"Both the Odyssey and Joseph's story depict the overwhelming emotions experienced by the fathers during the climactic moment of recognition."
"Sometimes the scariest thing in the book is not the big creepy monster; it's that monster you see looking back at you when you look in the mirror."
"Influencing her tendency to explore themes of suffering, death, and empathy in her later works."
"I think it's excellent Ashlynn and Hunter decided to rewrite their destinies. What's wrong with that?"
"It's not just some petty hunt for a whale. This is, in some sense, an idea of restoring balance to the world and almost in the Old Testament way of retribution."
"Goodreads... calculates those books together to find a theme to suggest new books that you may like."
"Themes of human flaws and vices, pride and greed are extremely common among Greek tragedy, and one of the hallmarks of the genre."
"From the oaths, dooms, and curses of Tolkien's works, we see how powerful loyalty and promises are, and that we must not be faithless."
"They're able to just write about the stasis in people's lives. And that's an interesting thing to read about."
"It's the best found family in all fiction."
"I love a book that has two broken people that really find healing and development and growth by the end of the book."
"The world of Hamlet is a world of surveillance."
"A comedy of errors, a tragedy of truths."
"This book is not about revenge; it is a chronicle of what he calls the rarest and most fragile of alliances: the literary friendship."
"Samson Agonistes... spoke about death in terms of our triumph and also as a Redemption."