I think this was for my birthday, but an aunt got me a women’s bible? Like, it was a nice Bible, it was focused more on stories of strong women from the Bible (s/o Esther) but it was weird? I wasn’t super religious but already had three Bibles, if you can make any sense of that.
She gave me so many whack gifts that I’m not 100% sure if that was Christmas or a birthday, but it was the only book she ever gave me and it was better than the Bedazzler she gave me once.
Oh no.
I never understand the “bible is the literal word of god” folks. The Bible itself is pretty clear that god did not in fact write it.
The books I have in the worst condition are all paperbacks. I’ve got a hardcover from 1923 that’s in great shape.
Of course I had a hardcover of the third Harry Potter book which is so far the only book I’ve ever had where 200 pages just came out of the binding.
Ultimately I think it’s the binding plus the owner who determines quality. But I mean almost all my books are secondhand and the ones that aren’t are all old, and the paperbacks are all in the worst condition, the hardcovers are fine.
Now to give a monkey a shower.
We had to read that in high school, and I hated it. Couldn’t keep track of who was who - too many people with similar names or literally the same name - and then we couldn’t figure out what the one character was saying most of the time with his thick northern accent, in text.
I like the Puppini Sisters cover of the song, though.
Love me a good history of torture book. I’ve got a book called something like “How They Died and Where They’re Buried” which is just entirely about how celebrities died and, yeah, where they’re buried. It’s super interesting. They give really short biographies for each celebrity so I’ve ended up learning a lot about people I wouldn’t otherwise normally look up.
I’m checking to see if any of my TBR books are getting mentioned. I’ve got 1100 TBR books, I don’t need more.
I knew the ending before I read the play, just from pop culture osmosis I guess.
I mostly remember reading the play on the bus to a band function.
Boy I was brain farting real hard and thought you said you were a preschooler and an adult suggested you read that, as a preschooler.
I finally gave up reading the fourth book after it had been in my “currently reading” for like 5 years and then sold all five books. If book 6 ever comes out, I’ll just get a summary. I read through the first book so fast, I don’t know what happened.
Maybe the secret to defeating the Viltrumites is just to boxing and capoeira against them.
I’m assuming he put some coded hints about… something in them, but it was definitely an extremely unexpected line.
Like idk maybe he just really wanted Mark to read his books and there’s no deeper meaning to it.
I started Schindler’s List in I think 2017. Still on there. Not actually sure where my copy even is now. Think I might just dnf and watch the movie instead. It’s just… so dry.
The only times when a title has really been what draws me in is the specific subgenre of shirtless medieval Scottish bodice-rippers. There’s nothing as intriguing as “Bared to Laird” or “Too Scot to Handle”, which are both real titles.
Yeah, same. They all say the same things, but I’m interested if, like, Stephen King thought the book was A Triumph and hearing that, say, E.L. James thought the book was great colors my opinion of it. I only really care what the quotes say on comedy books because sometimes they’ll be like “Dreadful. No human should read this” and “How did you get into my office?”
I like to think of it as, if I was forced at gunpoint to reread this book, how angry would I be that I have to reread the book or I get killed?
5 - easy. Liked the book, easy reread. Having my life threatened is a great excuse to reread it.
4 - Still okay. It might take a while, but fine.
And of course 1 is essentially “I might actually prefer the bullet to rereading this book.”
The less gruesome scale is
5 - Great book. No notes.
4 - Good book. Some notes.
3 - Okay book. Several notes.
2 - Bad book. Many notes. Probably did not finish it.
1 - Awful book. Tons of notes. Probably did not finish. Would recommend this book for crafting purposes only.
Offhand I can’t think of anything I’ve read I would give 1 star. Even stuff I didn’t finish I’ve given 2 stars.
Oh look another actual first amendment violation.
I mean most of the hype for this show has been from people who liked the show and also Fortnite so I don’t know if it’s a super good comparison. DC’s movies are also just so sucky I don’t want to compare them to anything else.
I think it depends on what’s being changed and why. Like, I don’t LOVE it but I understand updating the Babysitter’s Club books for modern children, or updating older kids books to get rid of stuff that didn’t age really well. But stuff like Carrie doesn’t need to be updated to reference blogs and youtube instead of newspapers.
I mean I think it’s totally fine for modern kids to read old books that have landline phones and having to all go to the library to use a computer for a school report, but I also think it’s fine for some books to update that stuff. Like back when I was a kid I read plenty of older stuff, or stuff that took place in older days, and that was fine, but I don’t think I could stand only ever reading fiction where people communicated via telegraph.