Eat any good books lately?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

any good scary book recommendations for the season that I may or may not read?

[benji]

How was "Stupid TV, Be More Funny?"

It's fine but it has that problem a lot of these kind of books do (including some others I posted in that same post) where it started with too big of scope and never cut down then rushed so the subtitle way overstates the thesis and the whole thing feels like a paper written at the last minute. Half the book is about the journey from the idea to the start of the second season. Then the rest of the book rushes through like eight seasons with only a handful of pages for them. Plus an entire chapter about the Monorail episode because Conan bothered to talk to the guy. Then the conclusion is basically "and The Simpsons is still around today and lots of people know it." 

So you get a short book that's fairly interesting and has some new stuff, and right when you're fully sold the rest of the book is basically what you could read on Wikipedia. The Always Sunny book up there is this but worse especially because the author couldn't get any of the main people to talk to them and seemed to get like five minutes with Artemis as their big interviewee from the book. Just go watch all the podcasts and hear from the guys themselves with more detail!

[chronovore]

The two guys who wrote The Expanse under one nom-de-plume have started a new series, The Captives War. I read a novella of theirs called Livesuit that was really good.

[benji]

The Good


The Okay


The Meh


I want to take issue with Schreier for quoting magazines and websites while not only not naming the source but not citing it in his end notes. The book's also more like an extended Wikipedia entry that rarely does any reporting versus what looks like, from the end notes, him just using stuff people already wrote. He jams all the sexual harassment stuff into a single chapter and suggests it was just one guy who couldn't take a hint that they eventually fired. He's also not a very compelling writer though you can tell he thinks he is. 

[benji]

Great review, Phil. I totally understand why you gave it three stars.

[benji]

[DavidCroquet]

I find myself wanting to post in this thread more, but of all things, I feel like talking about the books I read is the most self-identifying I could post on a hate site.

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That's right, fellas, I am just that much of a literary iconoclast.

[Potato]

Post hog books

[Besticus Maximus]

Tried King Sorrow by Joe Hill, dropped it at about 70% because I actually hated everything about it. This makes me very sad because everyone on earth insists it is a kind of masterpiece and my ears and brain are telling me it's sub scooby doo drivel where every character has the same bitchy marvel voice and manner of speaking. The king arthur parallels are especially cringe.

So I started Old Soul by Susan Barker instead, and it's a lot more grown up and a bit wet but it appears to be about deathnote shinagamis so im sticking it out.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I find myself wanting to post in this thread more, but of all things, I feel like talking about the books I read is the most self-identifying I could post on a hate site.

Let me guess...

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