Now I want to listen to the audiobook, too!

Very nearly every book made into media might as well be completely different stories down to the bleeping reversal of the actual point.

I recently watched White Noise. Then I read the book. Then I watched the movie again and I was so happy, because they stuck very close and worked ways to include much that did not happen in dialogue but was described in the book! They did leave out, as far as I know, one emotionally important bit of the story, and severely altered another. The former, though, wasn't necessary. The latter probably they felt wouldn't sit well the way it was.

Way back in the days of yore (I'm older, see), you wrote the publisher. Example:

To: Gray Rinehart
c/o Baen Books Editorial Offices
P.O. Box 1188
Wake Forest, NC 27588

This is an actual author, and this is a mailing address on the Baen website.

I've ran into quite a few things that read completely different with me now than when I was young. nod nod

Is Eric a virgin? Just asking. evil smirk.

I mean, Michael Whelan covers! Though he's been doing covers for decades.

There is probably a mix of covers, though.

And their wives went to doctors who prescribed various things such as trepanning, leeches, laudanum...

It's always been this way. We just didn't used to have anti-depressants and marijuana wasn't easy to get. Go do a search on asylums. Alexander Hamiton's daughter, after her brother died, apparently spent the rest of her life in a state of childlike mental capacity, for no reason they could figure.

Yeeeees and no. You certainly find out awful things sometimes, like the aforementioned Orson Scott Card, or the far more horrifying Marion Zimmer Bradley. And then I re-read her books with that information, and started to see it.

Genetics are delightfully complicated. However, even with the too simple Mendel square, you can see it happen. You put in the extra chromosome, and watch as it drops into one gamete and another ends up with the normal count.

Attempt at humor: It lacks any >!abuse, sex, and etc.!< So... yes?

I'm reading that book with a pre-teen right now. We're closing on the end! I've read the second, but haven't read the third yet.

Well, I thought the sex scene in IT when Beverly takes each boy in turn was out of the blue and was unnecessary. Oh, and that the two of them had sex when they were adults, and he's a happily married man with a wife he loves.

OMG a Stephen King book in which no women gets forced to have intercourse even by the circumstances, and the only sex scene is between consenting adults, even though one is a young adult! I... I just don't know what to do with this. /s

Of course, the Queen is going to have to have intercourse with whomever she has to marry for political reasons, because the damage to her face will always mar her beauty blah blah blah but there are other worlds than this. (Sorry, little in-joke.)

I have no idea if there's a majority. I've seen a lot of complaints about the book, largely based on the second half. However, for me since your apparently easiest complaint is consensual sex that happens "offscreen", I'm kind of exasperated.

I might suggest listening to a chapter or two at a time. Then replay it. I've sometimes found I missed some things by being distracted. I do listen, after all, while driving or working on something.

I treat the first book as a collection of short stories that tie together. The thread connecting them? The survival and gradual thriving of the Foundation. Problems with the stories: as a woman, the fact that women weren't even NPCs. (sort of a joke)

Many sci fi apocalyptic stories are just like this. A healthy community with decent resources, isolated by distance, and how they have to deal with the threat of the neighbors now that law and order have broken down. Granted, most of the time they're set in a country, or even an island on Earth.

I believe It is the cause.

There was also a sort of malaise (probably the wrong word) in Derry, because of It. Any small issue affecting the negative behavior increased. I theorize low impulse-control, for one thing.

The trouble with Castle Rock is that they ran it quickly into the ground.

And in one way the opposite of the book.

I have a joke/theory. The reason the hungry ones have been having trouble finding Shining munchies is because the Can-Toi have been collecting psychics to train as Breakers.

I haven't read The Institute, but I really didn't have trouble with Fairy Tale. The only time the man's language was strange was when he was on his journey, and that was affected by his location.

Your topic reads like the opposite.

I'm probably not going to be able to express it well, and indeed might even say it very badly. I'll try, though. The U.S. government has one purpose. To keep the states united so they don't start going to war against each other. So there have to be standard laws that apply across all of the states, and laws that apply only in certain states must not violate those laws. Now just replace the word "laws" with "taxes". Sort of, anyway. The taxes that we pay go towards being able to pay the national debt.

Now, this is going to sound ridiculous as I don't know how to say it, but the idea here is that companies don't want to pay taxes, so they try to own government officials to have those people stop rulings that will make them pay taxes. So the folks who want the government to have more authority mean to make those companies pay the tax they should owe.

Because in theory, every person watching that movie has paid Netflix to use it.

Your library bought that digital book. One book. One person can borrow it. Two books. Two people can borrow them. Tax money has already paid for those books.

No, it is not. It's considered a good, solid relationship when a pair don't want to be separated because of their intense bond. It's the reason foster systems try to keep siblings together.

Humans, despite being animals, are not dogs, cats, penguins, etc.

Record them bragging about it, and report to the police or someone like that. You may even have a case. Sort of. I know, it's not that easy. This is more of an impulse advice.

It was apathetic joke. (I am attempting a joke here, but I'm quite bad at it so I apologize.)