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solarisgod · 8 months

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ANTINEON HIERAEON is a metafiction tragicomedy series of seven sagas. The story follows Michael “Micah” Xenowake who recently became an Antigod after having a near death experience, given the ability to manipulate the Narrative and Fate while having the Awareness, a rare knowledge that they are a character in a fictional story and unreal universe made to entertain The Audience. They were soon offered to join the Break Beyond Force, a secret institution of Antigods known as Saints who focus on exorcising Metaeide, these malicious spiritual beings that were created after the world’s fears and traumas. Each saga is a different form of medium, as intended to not only explore the medium types, but also to serve a meaningful part of the serieswide plot as the ANHA series' structure. The following sagas are:

ANTINEON HIERAEON: GOD ENTERS is the first saga that is told in a format of a show in 5 seasons ( season titles pending ) with around 24 episodes per season.

ANTINEON HIERAEON: GOD EXISTS is the second saga told in a film format with 3 movie parts. ( Part I: 2022, Part II: 2010, Part III: 1998 ), the first part being told in a story of around 2 hours, the second of 1 hour, then third of only 20 minutes.

ANTINEON HIERAEON: GOD EXTOLS is the third saga told in an album of 12 - 13 songs ( can be treated as poems if we can't ever able to make music ).

ANTINEON HIERAEON: GOD EXITS is the fourth saga in a format of podcast with 3 seasons ( Season I: Life, Season II: Death, Season III: Rebirth )

ANTINEON HIERAEON: GOD EXILES is the fifth saga as told in a literature series consisting of 3 novels ( Part I: Nevermore, Part II: Evermore, Part III: No More ).

ANTINEON HIERAEON: GOD ENACTS is the sixth saga told in a format of theatre with 3 arcs ( Part I: Despair, Part II: Void, Part III: Hope ).

ANTINEON HIERAEON: AND GOD SAYS " ◎ 〇 ◉ " is the seventh and final saga in an interactive choose your own adventure styled video game format that have 3 chapters ( Part I: You, Part II: I, Part III: Us ).

#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ OOC . ›#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ META . ›#[ ✨ : then there's the mini series of 7 eps set in pre main canon ( God Enters ) that is in Angelparadox's point of view ]#[ and an anthology of infinite spin-offs that basically tell a prominent Antigod character's ' Exittale ']#[ that leads to them evolving into a Antigod ]#[ but yeah ]#[ fuckinggggg holding myself back as I CAN NOT explain why this structure is a thing and summarize each saga ]#[ HEAD IN HANDS . ]#[ but yeah this series is just... insane in so many wyasdbfdkgs ]#[ right now this blog's canon timeline is on God Enters S2 as we finished S1 in the beginning of July it's so djsnfjNSJKFBNL: \

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alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry · 8 months

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I grew up in a family that did not tell

the story. I am listening to it now:

Even the morning you see a robin

flattened on the street, you hear

another in a tree, the notes

they’ve taught each other, bird

before bird before we were born.

And elsewhere, the rusty bicycle

carries the doctor all the way

across an island. He arrives in time.

Somewhere his sister adds water

to the soup until payday. And

over the final hill in a Southwestern

desert, a gas station appears. No,

the grief has not forgotten my name,

but this morning I tied

my shoelaces. Outside I can force

a wave at every face who might

need it. We might

spin till we collapse, but we still

have a hub: Even at dusk,

the sun isn’t going anywhere.

We have lamps. The story insists

it just looks like there’s only

enough oil to last one night.

One Candle Now, Then Seven More by Brad Aaron Modlin

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deus-ex-mona · 1 year

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first world problems ✨intensify✨

#maaaaan. my ✨urge of the hour✨ is to make yet another blog thing for non-hw stuff #the reason for that? i read the deco27 mannequin anthology and now i reallyyyy wanna tl the cinderella and parasite chapters #those two chapters are about the story in the mvs!! cinderella’s was kinda wholesome. parasite’s was n o t—#in cinderella’s: cindy miku (named ‘satsuki’) and her class put on a cinderella play for the school fes or sth #her crush (some dude named hino) was the prince while she was the costume designer. things happen till the end of the fes bc ofc they do #they dance together at the end of said fes，satsuki loses her glasses，hino goes ‘omg you’re q. cute without your glasses’#…and ofc satsuki gets embarrassed and runs away (without said glasses lmao). very shoujo manga-esque. very cute #but in parasite. lol. it stars miku and this ex bf turned fwb dude(???) who apparently got a new gf?#and miku… stalks the dude’s social media to find the gf，turns up at her workplace，and convinces her to dump the bf #and then miku just happily accepts the dude once he was dumped. very unhealthy r/s dynamic i must say—#the rest of the stories in mannequin didn’t stand out as much though. but i think vampire miku’s a gamer girl(???)#(but tbh i don’t like vampire at all so i’m not touching that with a wooden stake whoooops)#maaaaaan why did i have to commit to making this a hw-exclusive blog(?) of sorts… ✨regrets✨#it is suiyoubi my dudes

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windywhispers · 2 years

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@delurkr If you have those articles I’d love to give them a read !!

Actually you’re right though; especially with a small town like Little Hope? Chances are the factory just hasn’t been doing super well for a long while (I wonder if there is other info we could find in the game about the factory?? But I also heard the wiki isn’t super reliable so I wouldn’t know how much I could trust ahaha)

I’d love to go back and roam around the Clarke house before I can give a suggestion for adoption ages for Tanya, Dennis, and Anthony, but honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if Megan got adopted not too soon before everything went downhill with the family. Like maybe a few months or so before things went sour with the factory or maybe even a year or two? So I’m looking at around age 8-9 earliest being 7? The way I’m seeing it is: things were happy for a bit, the factory stuff happened, and the responsibility for Megan gets put on Anne and Anthony, with Tanya and Dennis both being busy with their job/football career. With Anne being preoccupied with trying to rope James back into the family and other chores, I think Anthony would wind up taking most of the responsibility of Megan and thus allow him to feel a little more bonded with Megan (There’s a post I wanted to write about their relationship and it’s reflection in one quote that Anthony says in one of the endings and something in the prologue but it’s currently in drafts).

I do want to say Tanya, Dennis, and Anthony most likely got adopted around the same time as each other since Anthony seems to be at least somewhat close to both of them as well, but as to what age they were? I’m not sure

Maybe I’ll get back to you on a specific age for the three of them! But in the meantime I’d love to hear your thoughts on what ages you think they would’ve been adopted (I wonder if there are photos you can search around for in the house...? If there were any at all?)

#replies: little hope #little hope #little hope rambles #yknow. halfway through the day i was like 'oh maybe i dont have anymore thoughts on little hope'#but ig i needed to be prompted lolol #i forgot whether or not i say it on this blog but ! i dont actually own the game #games like the dark pictures anthology actually give me major anxiety due to the qtes and well. fucking up lol #so i often have to rely on watching other people play it and i watched gab smoulder play through it !#she went through 3/6 endings and i had to watch the rest on my own but it also means i mightve missed on things she checked/didnt check haha #oh i. also wanted to squeeze in the fact that dennis and tanya's relationship with megan also makes it seem like megan was adopted at such a #later time and past when the familial stress started happening #so it gave them little chance to really bond with megan #and so we wind up seein them frequently look down on megan without bothering to get to know her #actually i wonder when tanya started working at the diner? because maybe that might point a little bit more to possibilities of adoption #times/ the family stress started happening #but then again thats also assuming tanyas working to help bring money to the family #shes already mentioned before that she wants to spend as much time away from the family as she could so #BUT ANYWAYS im just rambling now. loooots of thoughts but so little coherency lolol #thats just the windywhispers way

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mandyloves2read · 2 years

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#book review #romance blog #mandyloves2readbookreviews #mandyloves2read book blog #anthology #romance books #mustread #read it now #romancereader #smutt lover #smut reader

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mistpodfics · 7 months

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Baby Bat written by FleetSparrow | @FleetSparrow A DCU Podfic read by mistbornhero for the Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology

Cass gets deaged by a villain and Jaime has to figure out what to do with her. So long as Oracle doesn't kill him, first.

Podfic Length: 07:43 minutes

#dcu #podfic #length: 0-10 minutes #now that my blog is fixed I'm catching up on crossposting #Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology #Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology IV #blue

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alpaca-clouds · 9 months

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The history of Solarpunk

Okay, I guess this has to be said, because the people will always claim the same wrong thing: No, Solarpunk did not "start out as an aesthetic". Jesus, where the hell does this claim even come from? Like, honestly, I am asking.

Solarpunk started out as a genre, that yes, did also include design elements, but also literary elements. A vaguely defined literary genre, but a genre never the less.

And I am not even talking about those early books that we today also claim under the Solarpunk umbrella. So, no, I am not talking about Ursula K. LeGuin, even though she definitely was a big influence on the genre.

The actual history of Solarpunk goes something like that: In the late 1990s and early 2000s the term "Ecopunk" was coined, which was used to refer to books that kinda fit into the Cyberpunk genre umbrella, but were more focused on ecological themes. This was less focused on the "high tech, high life" mantra that Solarpunk ended up with, but it was SciFi stories, that were focused on people interacting with the environment. Often set to a backdrop of environmental apocalypse. Now, other than Solarpunk just a bit later, this genre never got that well defined (especially with Solarpunk kinda taking over the role). As such there is only a handful of things that ever officially called themselves Ecopunk.

At the same time, though, the same sort of thought was picked up in the Brazilian science fiction scene, where the idea was further developed. Both artistically, where it got a lot of influence from the Amazofuturism movement, but also as an ideology. In this there were the ideas from Ecopunk as the "scifi in the ecological collaps" in there, but also the idea of "scifi with technology that allows us to live within the changing world/allows us to live more in harmony with nature".

Now, we do not really know who came up with the idea of naming this "Solarpunk". From all I can find the earliest mention of the term "Solarpunk" that is still online today is in this article from the Blog Republic of Bees. But given the way the blogger talks about it, it is clear there was some vague definition of the genre before it.

These days it is kinda argued about whether that title originally arose in Brazil or in the Anglosphere. But it seems very likely that the term was coined between 2006 and 2008, coming either out of the Brazilian movement around Ecopunk or out of the English Steampunk movement (specifically the literary branch of the Steampunk genre).

In the following years it was thrown around for a bit (there is an archived Wired article from 2009, that mentions the term once, as well as one other article), but for the moment there was not a lot happening in this regard.

Until 2012, when the Brazilian Solarpunk movement really started to bloom and at the same time in Italy Commando Jugendstil made their appearance. In 2012 in Brazil the anthology "Solarpunk: Histórias ecológicas e fantásticas em um mundo sustentável" was released (that did get an English translation not too long ago) establishing some groundwork for the genre. And Commando Jugendstil, who describe themselves as both a "Communication Project" and an "Art Movement", started to work on Solarpunk in Italy. Now, Commando Jugendstil is a bit more complicated than just one or the other. As they very much were a big influence on some of the aesthetic concepts, but also were releasing short stories and did some actual punky political action within Italy.

And all of that was happening in 2012, where the term really started to take off.

And only after this, in 2014, Solarpunk became this aesthetic we know today, when a (now defuct) tumblr blog started posting photos, artworks and other aesthetical things under the caption of Solarpunk. Especially as it was the first time the term was widely used within the Anglosphere.

Undoubtedly: This was probably how most people first learned of Solarpunk... But it was not how Solarpunk started. So, please stop spreading that myth.

The reason this bothers me so much is, that it so widely ignores how this movement definitely has its roots within Latin America and specifically Brazil. Instead this myth basically tries to claim Solarpunk as a thing that fully and completely originated within the anglosphere. Which is just is not.

And yes, there was artistic aspects to that early Solarpunk movement, too. But also a literary and political aspectt. That is not something that was put onto a term that was originally an aesthetic - but rather it was something that was there from the very beginning.

Again: There has been an artistic and aesthetic aspect in Solarpunk from the very beginning, yes. But there has been a literary and political aspect in it the entire time, too. And trying to divorce Solarpunk from those things is just wrong and also... kinda misses the point.

So, please. Just stop claiming that entire "it has been an aesthetic first" thing. Solarpunk is a genre of fiction, it is a political movement, just as much as it is an artistic movement. Always has been. And there has always been punk in it. So, please, stop acting as if Solarpunk is just "pretty artistic vibes". It is not.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk, I guess.

#solarpunk #solarpunk aesthetic #solarpunk fiction #political movement #history #history of solarpunk #amazofuturismus #put the punk back in solarpunk #scifi #science fiction #clifi #climate fiction #ecopunk

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kkecreads · 2 years

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Christmas Cookies Mysteries by Various Authors

Published: November 2, 2021 Ally Press Pages: 312 Genre: Mystery Anthology KKECReads Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I purchased this book on Amazon, and I leave my review voluntarily. Everybody loves Christmas … and mysteries. And now the two of them have been combined. We hope you’ll enjoy this fun little project revisiting the Christmas Cookies CD. — Joe Bonsall, The Oak Ridge BoysChristmas is…

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soracities · 8 months

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hii words cannot describe how much i adore your blog!! i was wondering if you had any favorite arab poets whose works deeply moved you/whom you’d like to suggest? i would love the recommendations as an arab girl who’s trying to expose herself more to arab lit :) thank you!!

i do!!!! ngl i think i am always just reccing the same poets in different variations but i loved all of these, and hope you find some joy in them also (not all of them are works of poetry but all the authors themselves are poets) 🤍

Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women

Paris, When It's Naked / Shifting the Silence / The Cost for Love We Are Not Willing to Pay (Etel Adnan)

Without an Alphabet, Without a Face (Saadi Yousef)

Pages of Day and Night (Adonis)

The War Works Hard / The Iraqi Nights (Dunya Mikhail)

A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor / Barefoot Souls (Maram al-Masri)

The Neverfield (Nathalie Handal)

Miracle Maker: Selected Poems (Fadhil Al Azzawi)

Revolt Against the Sun (Nazik al-Malaika)

Flawed Landscape (Sharif S. Elmusa)

I'Jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (Sinan Antoon)

Memory for Forgetfulness / Almond Blossoms and Beyond (Mahmoud Darwish--or anything by him, really)

additionally @barcarole has a lovely list of arabic poems here which i also hope you enjoy. also honourable mention to Badr Shakir al-Sayyab because by god what i wouldn't GIVE to finally have an English translation but for now am consoling myself with "Rain Song" and these two

#also did not include farrokhazad bc i'm never sure if iran is included w arab literature since the language is farsi or if its based on #shared region / history / culture #but enjoy!!!#ask #stuckinapril #poetry recs

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alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry · 10 months

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we need a god who bleeds now

a god whose wounds are not

some small male vengeance

some pitiful concession to humility

a desert swept with dryin marrow in honor of the lor

Ntozake Shange ~ We need a god who bleeds now

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royaibigbang · 4 months

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yo ho! it's sign up time y'all!

what is a big bang?

a big bang is a fan-led event in which writers and artists collaborate together to create long-form content. each writer gets a selection of artists drawing for their story, and a beta-reader if they choose. this event gives creatives a chance to bring their ideas to life in the form of creative teams. ever had a nagging idea for something long or intricate? now you’ve got the chance :)

as this is a royai big bang, the only conditions are that the content created is focused on roy mustang and riza hawkeye – platonic, romantic, or otherwise!

the plan is to not only foster the creation of long-form content specifically for royai, but to create some beautiful epubs of these fics as well as the anthology. i want everyone to feel proud of what they’ve created!

the current plan is to have 5 big bang writers, and 20 anthology writers, and about 30 to 40 artists. collectively this group will create over 600,000 words of royai fanfic, and approximately 120 different pieces of fanart.

a big bang, indeed.

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if you have questions not answered by either the FAQ or event timeline, then please send through an ask to the blog.

#royai #roy mustang #riza hawkeye #fullmetal alchemist #fma #mod post

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bambi-kinos · 4 months

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Beatles Reading List (Introductory)

Hi guys. So I saw a post floating around asking about "where to start" with the Beatles and how to find out more about them. Moeexyz's recommendation on it was to read fanfiction and this alarmed me a bit. Fanfiction just isn't a good source to get information about the band for one simple reason: fanfic authors change stuff for dramatic purposes all the time. It's just not a great way to get more information about them because fanfiction by necessity shifts things around for the sake of storytelling.

That Beatles iceberg is nice but the only way you're going to get a good picture of the Beatles is by doing a lot of reading of published sources. That's right. You're in for a lot of homework.

In an effort to combat misinformation, I asked the McLennon discord server to help me put together a rough list of introductory level books for Beatle fans that want to learn more about the band. These books are either a) read by me or b) read by someone I trust and I have included her quotes about the books she liked. I'll have color commentary talking about what they are and why they should be read. I do not consider this post finished! My server is constantly reading and discussing (we're looking at podcasts right now because they're the ones doing interviews with Liverpool citizens who were peers of the Beatles!) and they're being very gracious by contributing to this list. That means that this post may be updated in the future as I read more! If you want to keep up with updates then give my blog a follow, I'll post every time I update this list.

Some of these books are available on Archive.org but others can be gotten through your local library or through piracy. If you buy something, buy it used. Never pay more than $20 for a Beatle book.

The Whole Story

Anthology This is the documentary made by the band after John Lennon's death in 1980. It is both a documentary as well as a book (essentially a script of the documentary) which makes it very accessible. This is the version of the story that the band wanted to put out and includes interviews with Paul, George, and Ringo. They cover their beginning to their end. Anthology can be found on archive.org if you want to read it: https://archive.org/details/beatlesanthology0000unse_y2k8 The episodes are also available on Archive.org. If you search for "Beatles Anthology" and select "movies" option to search for videos then you will find it there. It's worth the watch and is all around the best introduction to the Beatles.

The Beatles - Hunter Davies This is the only sanctioned biography of the band. It's written in older language since it is contemporary to the 1960s but it's still very readable and a good intro. It is part of the media image that the band wanted to present at the time so you should make sure to think about what you are reading, who is saying what, and contemplate why he is saying it. It it still a great resource.

150 Glimpses of the Beatles - Craig Brown This is a short book that describes 150 anecdotes about the Beatles and what it was like to experience them. I recommend this because it demonstrates what a unique and personal experience the Beatles are while also demonstrating their global reach and how they became the most famous rock band in the world. It's a short read but a good one and there are many charming and thought provoking anecdotes in it. The story of the Beatles is just as much about their fans as it is about the band and you cannot understand one without looking at the other.

Books About Each Beatle

This particular section is a bit of a minefield. Many books written about the Beatles are of questionable veracity or just out and out wrong. (I can think of two that were written as blatant cash grabs and filled with libel that someone should have been sued over.) My recommendations on this may change so please check back from time to time! John Lennon

The John Lennon Letters - John Lennon, edited by Hunter Davies Primary source documents of the various letters and missives John wrote through his life. This may be the most important book on the list because it shows us who John really is: just another ordinary guy like us, trying to get through life. Also gives insight into his mindset as the decades pressed on.

The Making of John Lennon - Francis Kenny This is a very vital and heartbreaking read for people who want more insight into John. John Lennon is the most famous Beatle but he is also the one who's image is the most obscured and distorted. Francis Kenny is a Liverpool native who puts John in his proper context. To quote my server friend who read this one: Kenny, himself a Liverpudlian, takes into account how life in Liverpool in the first half of the 20th century shaped not only John but everyone he knew and his entire family. Mimi and Julia get a good critical view, and Uncle George gets his moment in the sun. He also lays out how class divides affected the Stanleys and then how Mimi took it out on John and Julia. He quotes a 1880s travel guide of London that said Liverpool was called "the New York of Europe," because of its economy and place on the ocean, and like in the Gilded Age New York that was happening concurrently across the ocean, Liverpool had pockets of wealth and splendor surrounded by poverty and rough living. Definitely a pro-read and a great insight into the culture and time John lived in. It does not fall into the pitfalls of hero worshipping John but Francis Kenny still treats John with sympathy and respect, hard qualities to come by when it comes to the cashgrabs written about John and his family.

John - Cynthia Lennon John's first wife, Cynthia, wrote two autobiographies about herself and John. This is one of them. It's a tough read in many places but a good one. Hers is a voice that doesn't shy away from John's flaws and actions but she also takes care to tell us why she and so many other people love him and remain loyal to him.

Paul McCartney

Many Years From Now - Barry Miles This is Paul's only sanctioned biography. It is formatted as a quasi-interview with Paul where there are interruptions of regular prose in each chapter. There are eyebrow raising moments where you can tell Paul is not quite telling the truth but it's important to read and identify these moments since Paul's habit of embroidering the truth is important to know and understand. Nonetheless it is still a lot more honest than I was expecting when I read it.

Paul McCartney: A Life - Peter Ames Carlin Probably the best Paul McCartney biography on the market. Peter Ames Carlin also did a similarly great bio of Paul Simon for people who are into that. To quote my friend Betty who read it: Paul gets to be a whole person here: the preternaturally talented boy wonder, the guy casting around for meaning, the less than attractive moments and qualities described without getting preachy or turning to [Paul Derangement Syndrome]. Carlin treats him with dignity instead of something to be gawked at and gossiped about. His (many) sources are cited at the end of the book. What I really appreciated was the ideas he put forth that I've only seen on Tumblr and not in Serious Official Biographies, which says to me he's writing as a fan and scholar and not a journalist trying to fill column inches.

George Harrison

I Me Mine - George Harrison Make sure to get the extended edition! George Harrison in his own words. There's a lot to say about this biography but it won't make much sense without context so I just encourage you to read it. George Harrison was, in my opinion, the best Beatle.

George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door - Graeme Thomson A good no bullshit biography about George Harrison. This covers his life as the material musician and the man seeking the divine. Graeme worked very hard to be respectful of George and his life, did extensive interviews with George's wife Olivia. Such a pro-read and definitely the best George biography written to date.

Ringo Starr

Photograph - Ringo Starr Ringo has stated that this book is his autobiography. In a few bumpers on the Beatles Sirius XM channel Ringo says that he doesn't want to write a biography like the others did but he was happy with putting this photobook together and essentially writing a bio through the captions. This is the closest that we will get for a biography for him as of right now. In time that may change but this is your best option. Piracy is the way to go when it comes to getting a copy of this, iirc it was a limited run and getting a physical copy might be very expensive these days.

Brian Epstein

A Cellarful of Noise - Brian Epstein/Derek Taylor This autobiography was ghostwritten by Brian's assistant Derek Taylor. It's not a tell-all but Brian talks about his youth and how he met the Beatles, including giving his own personal (and accurate) insights into each band member.

Conclusion

There are many, many books about the Beatles. Almost all of them offer something but most are about very niche periods in the Beatles history. When it comes to understanding the band I tried to put together a list where you can get an overview of the band and then read materials that either come straight from the Beatle in question or are not as biased as the competition. I am a McLennon shipper but for a post like this I did my best to recommend books that don't have that kind of bias in them so this is a list you can send to non-shipper friends haha.

In another post I will put together a history book list in the order of their timeline as a band, starting from the Quarrymen and on to the present. There is a LOT of ground to cover in a historical arrangement and it will take a while to compile. Please check back here regularly or give me a follow: whenever I update this post or make a new list, I'll make sure to post about it.

My plan is to make a website with all of this information that anyone can reference but it will take a long long time to make such a thing so put a pin in that one.

#the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #richard starkey #brian epstein #beatles merch #beatles books #book recommendations #book recs

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