ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
It takes a depraved sort of person to really love donna tartt. I told you already but I'm designing an entire course around that novel, lol
jamie tartt > donna tartt
It takes a depraved sort of person to really love donna tartt. I told you already but I'm designing an entire course around that novel, lol
I don't think anybody would judge you for that. It's all most of us can manage in our limited free time.I am reading a series of James Patterson books right now, it's not going to win any literary awards but I don't mind sometimes reading stuff that takes minimal brain power to get through
Pretty similar, to be honestjamie tartt > donna tartt
I am reading a series of James Patterson books right now, it's not going to win any literary awards but I don't mind sometimes reading stuff that takes minimal brain power to get through
I don't think anybody would judge you for that. It's all most of us can manage in our limited free time.
Dan Brown, on the other hand, wants everyone to know how smart he is. That's why when he gets it desperately wrong it matters whereas nobody gives a shit if National Treasure isn't realistic
Bro basically all Townie and I use this thread for is to talk about Stephen King. You’re good.
I've just started it and I'm going to start the book next week and see if I can get ahead of the series. Definitely trashy if you are invested in the public's perception of how actual history and methods and scholarship (symbology! Lol!) operate, but also great fun to see what absolutely ridiculous super-heroic intellectual abilities Brown can attribute to a single person.I've enjoyed the Dan Brown books enough knowing they're complete trash and all wrong. But I guess they keep me entertained enough. We're currently watching the Lost Symbol series on Peacock, which is weird since it's supposedly a prequel to the Tom Hanks version of the character from the movies, but it takes place in current day. It's not great tv by any means, but it's ok. Not gonna win any Emmys for sure.
I've never read a Stephen King novel, I am ashamed to say. The closest I've ever gotten is re-reading the Stephen King Mafia game thread.
I'm guessing it's not? Sorry I just picked the first thing that came to me.This post led me to furious googling about whether the National Treasure movies are based on a book. I'd read the hell out of that as long as the part where the Declaration of Independence almost gets put in a kitchen oven is still in there somewhere
You a horror guy? You should start. There's a reason he's the most popular writer in history. Fun reads.
I've just started it and I'm going to start the book next week and see if I can get ahead of the series. Definitely trashy if you are invested in the public's perception of how actual history and methods and scholarship (symbology! Lol!) operate, but also great fun to see what absolutely ridiculous super-heroic intellectual abilities Brown can attribute to a single person.
It's only dangerous if people start believing in his conspiracy-driven psuedo-histories of academic problem-solving
Yeah it's exactly that kinda stuff that bothers me. I don't care at all if it's a wild fantasy but he goes for this tone of absolute seriousness and verisimilitude and fact that is largely convincing if you don't know otherwise. People believe this stuff!The one thing I remember most from the Lost Symbol book is there's one part where Langdon is in a cab driving past Stanton Park on the Hill and I lived like a block from there at the time (and it's also not the way you'd go from the Capitol to Union Station or wherever he was going).
Unfortunately the "unfortunate childhood" is a rich literary trope.
Lbe you should probably just watch Ted Lasso
Unfortunately the "unfortunate childhood" is a rich literary trope.
I rarely read fiction and I guess I just no longer have the patience for reading real deep, meaningful books. I got enough of that as an English major. Most of what I do read is nonfiction. I want to pick up Drew Magary's new memoir about his brain injury and recovery.
I'm also bad about reading books unless I'm on vacation by the beach or pool or flying, but now that I have a toddler, the days of relaxing by the pool or beach are donezo.
Unfortunately the "unfortunate childhood" is a rich literary trope.
Yeah it's exactly that kinda stuff that bothers me. I don't care at all if it's a wild fantasy but he goes for this tone of absolute seriousness and verisimilitude and fact that is largely convincing if you don't know otherwise. People believe this stuff!