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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
She once asked my brother and I if we would mind if she told people that we were my dad's children by his first wife (which is, of course, her).
Heh. My parents will, to this day, sometimes tell people they bought me at the second-hand children store.
Ugh. Unfortunately, aforementioned cookies are somewhat stale. I have a feeling they don't bake fresh ones on a Friday. This is most disappointing.
The Morning News has collected the best Amazon one-star reviews of Time's 100 Best Books.
Here's one for LionWitchWardrobe:
“I bought these books to have something nice to read to my grandkids. I had to stop, however, because the books are nothing more than advertisements for “Turkish Delight,” a candy popular in the U.K. The whole point of buying books for my grandkids was to give them a break from advertising, and here (throughout) are ads for this “Turkish Delight”! How much money is this Mr. Lewis getting from the Cadbury’s chocolate company anyway? This man must be laughing to the bank.”
The Sun Also Rises:
“Here’s the first half of the book: ‘We had dinner and a few drinks. We went to a cafe and talked and had some drinks. We ate dinner and had a few drinks. Dinner. Drinks. More dinner. More drinks. We took a cab here (or there) in Paris and had some drinks, and maybe we danced and flirted and talked sh*t about somebody. More dinner. More drinks. I love you, I hate you, maybe you should come up to my room, no you can’t’… I flipped through the second half of the book a day or two later and saw the words ‘dinner’ and ‘drinks’ on nearly every page and figured it wasn’t worth the risk.”
Clockwork Orange:
In the first 20 pages, Alex and his lackies beat a guy senseless and rob him; they steal a car and trash it, they get into a vicious gang fight; they attack a couple at their home, destroy the husband’s life work (his book, A Clockwork Orange), beat him and his wife senseless, and rape the wife. This really ticked me off.
It really ticked him off. ::dies::
This really ticked me off.
JD Salinger's doing Amazon reviews now?
Yep, that CS Lewis guy is all about the product placement....
Hee:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
“I don’t see why this book is so fabulous. I would give it a zero. I find no point in writing a book about segregation, there’s no way of making it into an enjoyable book. And yes I am totally against segregation.”
Having never read The Sun Also Rises, I kind of love that review. And RE the Turkish Delight, I cannot tell you how disappointed I was when I got a chance (as an adult) to eat some. Edmund, really! That was not worth selling your soul.
Turkish Delight sucks!
I was imagining something like truffles, wrapped in caramel or something.
Also this comment on The Grapes of Wrath (1939) does pretty much sum up how I feel about The Old Man and the Sea, if you substitute salt water and fishing for dirt and migrating.
“While the story did have a great moral to go along with it, it was about dirt! Dirt and migrating. Dirt and migrating and more dirt.”
Hec, what is your tag from?
Lord of the Flies (1955)
Author: William Golding
“I am obsessed with Survivor, so I thought it would be fun. WRONG!!! It is incredibly boring and disgusting. I was very much disturbed when I found young children killing each other. I think that anyone with a conscience would agree with me.”