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Max Gladstone
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Max Gladstone's personal blog at maxgladstone.com covers writing and culture. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Ghostbusting Lovecraft”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Max Gladstone's posts on genre and craft, including a piece on the Lovecraftian worldview in Ghostbusters and a piece on the fluid fight choreography in John Wick, seen from a prose writer's view.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Ghostbusting Lovecraft2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-15
What Hacker News says?
On the subject of Lovecraft: Ghostbusters is the best comedy ever made about the limits of the Lovecraftian worldview. http://www.maxgladstone.com/2014/09/ghostbusting-lovecraft/
Comment linking /2014/09/ghostbusting-lovecraft/
on “Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)”Submitted Ghostbusting Lovecraft as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's a nice blog post on the fights in JOHN WICK, which are quite fluid. From the viewpoint of a prose writer, but a good take on the visual techniques at work. http://www.maxgladstone.com/2015/04/fighting-words/
Comment linking /2015/04/fighting-words/
on “Why don’t our brains explode at movie cuts?”