now imagining a YouTube account called The Angry Literary Nerd doing shticky screaming at a book videos
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 20 May 2022 10:07 (one year ago) link
This is not good.
The latest episode of The Backstory with Andrew Neil is out now.This week, @afneil talks to @AyoCaesar about why she’s “literally a communist”, her support for Jeremy Corbyn and how she deals with the abuse she gets on Twitter.Listen wherever you get your podcasts.— Tortoise (@tortoise) May 26, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 May 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
thread drift taken to delirious new heights
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 26 May 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
I have not read this thread, but this strikes me as a not very helpful use of the poll feature. Why compare in this way?
― youn, Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
I started to skim the content and realized people here say interesting things whatever prompt they are given.(I stick by the oddness of the comparison. I think you are challenging something outside literature.)
― youn, Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
(outside the form of the novel assuming it transcends time and place and more or less writers had/have a common idea of what they want to achieve)
― youn, Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
― youn, Saturday, 28 May 2022 bookmarkflaglink
Most polls don't lead to much interesting discussion. This was a bit different, maybe you could read it?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
Or just read this:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/28/books-by-women-that-every-man-should-read-chosen-by-ian-mcewan-salman-rushdie-richard-curtis-and-more
"Howard Jacobson: Middlemarch by George EliotNot every page of Middlemarch is a masterpiece of impassioned intelligence, where action is imbued with thought, and thought is shaped by feeling; but every other page is. No man or woman can be considered educated who hasn’t read it at least twice."
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 May 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
I started to skim the content and realized people here say interesting things whatever prompt they are given.― youn, Saturday, May 28, 2022 7:35 AM (five hours ago)
― youn, Saturday, May 28, 2022 7:35 AM (five hours ago)
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 28 May 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
No man or woman can be considered educated who hasn’t read it at least twice.
Okay, Casaubon
― jmm, Saturday, 28 May 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
Real car crash of a piece. Just schizophrenic in the way it's put together lol.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 May 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link