Beyond terrible at prose. She does a better (but still inadequate) job defending her hurr-durr positions in non-fiction, where she doesn't have flimsy inventions of situation propping up eight page monologues of utter tedium. The absolute definition of a dumb person's idea of a smart person or a poorly read person's idea of a great writer. Just grievance for dudes in their early 20s.
Your choices online basically does this for you. Therefore you are fed news and articles that reinforce your opinions and biases. It is one of the reasons we are currently so split.
it's a bit like swimming across a river. you get halfway across, it's as much hassle to go back as it is to keep going. the covenant books were a bit like that; the last ones were read in the vain hope that it would be the last. i kicked that last book around the room and burned it when i finished it.You read all 12 books of a series you found so underwhelming?
Fool me once, shame on you... Fool me twelve times...
I think it was 70 in the copy I had. Must have been larger print.
Thank you for validating my feelings on this book! You hear such great things about it. I thought it was crap and gave up about 1/3 of the way through.
Heh, Gravity’s Rainbow is a tough one. I found that about halfway through it either got easier (and goofier) or maybe I just began to think the way he writes. Fun but not necessary.
That's a bit of false equivalence.
If I sat next to that guy on an airplane I'd act stupid.
I've suffered through some things that later on, the light came on and I "got" what the creator was trying to do. Sometimes then I appreciated or even liked it.
I'm going to respectfully disagree. I read the New York Times, Washington Post AND The Wall Street Journal and Barons in addition to other articles from other sources that catch my attention. Not every article, every day, but a variety. You choose to live in an echo chamber, you can get both sides of an issue if you want to.
I had my Facebook account hacked and it took Facebook two weeks to figure out that I was me, not some person who logged in as me from Vietnam. They had my phone number, my email and a copy of my driver's license. I spend much less time on Facebook now. I use it to keep in touch with friends, bands, animal rescues. I often say, Facebook is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build a house, or you can use it to hit yourself in the face. Don't blame the hammer for YOUR choice.
