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Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football

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Re: Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football

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Post by Avshalom »

mehlmao wrote: post #93
labrador wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment sparked some interesting thoughts and when that happens I often think of the small farm I grew up on with my grandparents, because you learn a lot of life's most basic lessons working on a farm. The rhythms of nature enforce a particular and unforgiving honesty on a young impressionable mind. I learned my first thoughts aren't always correct. Like grandpa used to say "truth is in the rain." Grandma would…

Is this a GPT-3 comment?

It's a joke about burying the lede

Re: Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football

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Post by Dylan16807 »

lkxijlewlf wrote: post #49

> Nobody Will Admit The Best Novel of Our Generation is About Football Just stop. We all have different preferences. Personally I hate American football (it's too much like a stupid video game now), so you'll never even get me to read whatever book this person is talking about.

If you won't even look at the article, why are you here to complain about it?

Re: Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football

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Post by btmills »

dinkleberg wrote: post #104
Aaargh20318 wrote: post #101

I skimmed through the article to get an idea about the premise of the book. I don’t see how this book would manage to include large scale space battles. I have therefore concluded that this cannot be the best novel of our generation.

Any recommendations on good books that do include large scale space battles?

The Expanse series was a lot of fun to read, and now I'm catching up on the show.

Re: Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football

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Post by ineedasername »

compiler-guy wrote: post #79
Dotnaught wrote: post #77

"Best Novel of Our Generation" Best out of how many novels that you've read over what period of time? And based on what criteria? Isn't the proper headline here something more like, "I enjoyed this book"?

The title may, just may, not be intended to be taken literally.

not be intended to be taken literally

In this case, that still makes it indistinguishable from clickbait.

Re: Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football

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Post by Aaargh20318 »

dinkleberg wrote: post #104
Aaargh20318 wrote: post #101

I skimmed through the article to get an idea about the premise of the book. I don’t see how this book would manage to include large scale space battles. I have therefore concluded that this cannot be the best novel of our generation.

Any recommendations on good books that do include large scale space battles?

Odyssey One series by Evan Currie (especially the later books).

The ‘Honorverse’ books by David Weber has some good battles as well.

Re: Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

labrador wrote: post #57

> I once told a friend that there are a lot of books I enjoyed as one enjoys a piece of candy After 8 paragraphs of this sort of thing we get to the book The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles follows the adventures of a fictionalized version of Tim Tebow who, brokenhearted over his inability to make it as an NFL quarterback, arrives in Toronto to join the Argonauts What school of writing is teaching writers to bury the lede i…

This type of thing is increasing on YouTube too and rather than fast forward until I get to the meat of the video, I just stop and move on. I get that they're trying to fluff up a small bit of content into something larger for increased revenue but I've gotten to my breaking point in my willingness to tolerate such games. Hopefully others get to that point too and this type of behavior starts having negative returns.

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

fknorangesite wrote: post #88
compiler-guy wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The title may, just may, not be intended to be taken literally.

Right? Not everything is a dry research paper. I will never understand the penchant for so many HN users to be such incredible, over-the-top pedantic sticks-in-the-mud when it comes to titles.

Hyperbole begets more hyperbole to combat the earlier hyperbole. Where does it end?

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Post by Kon-Peki »

perardi wrote: post #69

I do enjoy the idea of a novel that grossly exaggerates the US stereotypes of Canada. Although some Canadian facts are so weird that they are nearly impossible to believe until you research them. Like the extremely well-appointed throne room at the top of the CN Tower that is kept in reserve for the British monarchy in case the UK is occupied during a war, and the royal family needs a secure and luxurious backup.

Ah! No wonder all the elevators are on the outside of the building! The inside is reserved so the Queen can walk up 7000 stairs.

My personal favorite aspect is that the best view from the observation deck is looking straight down through the glass floor, and the look of sheer terror from people afraid to walk on it (while the kids jump up and down on the glass).

Re: Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football

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Post by labrador »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #116
labrador wrote: post #57

> I once told a friend that there are a lot of books I enjoyed as one enjoys a piece of candy After 8 paragraphs of this sort of thing we get to the book The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles follows the adventures of a fictionalized version of Tim Tebow who, brokenhearted over his inability to make it as an NFL quarterback, arrives in Toronto to join the Argonauts What school of writing is teaching writers to bury the lede i…

This type of thing is increasing on YouTube too and rather than fast forward until I get to the meat of the video, I just stop and move on. I get that they're trying to fluff up a small bit of content into something larger for increased revenue but I've gotten to my breaking point in my willingness to tolerate such games. Hopefully others get to that point too and this type of behavior starts having negative returns.

I'll never get used to lectures where first the most minor person says how fantastic people are that follow, then the mid level person adds their two cents about how cool the following people are, followed by the most senior person singing the praises of the lecturer followed by the lecturer who is required to say how he or she doesn't deserve any of that praise but would be happy still if you bought their book.

The longest this took before the lecture started was 29 minutes, although most of the time it's about 5.

You know, Netflix figured out that everyone skips the intros to live comedy shows. People who put on lectures should think about this.

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