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How should I take it? I failed to think about any interpretation other than being clickbait (by looking contrarian and exaggerated, withou the text corroborating this take). What is your interpretation of the title?
When someone tells me I’m the best cook ever, I interpret that as hyperbole for fun. Similarly with this headline.
When I read the title of this post, Jon Bois was the first thing that came to mind. 17776 is one of my all time favorite websites, and my goto example of amazing hypertext fiction. https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
> 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…
It can't be coincidence that the author mentions Happy Gilmore , and then goes on to describe the point of the book being finding a world built for you not to fail in, when you thought the other world you did fail in was your destiny, which is basically the whole schtick OF Happy Gilmore , right?
When I read the title of this post, Jon Bois was the first thing that came to mind. 17776 is one of my all time favorite websites, and my goto example of amazing hypertext fiction. https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
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I really liked the Pratchett books, but that one was not really his best.
So what's your pick and why is it "Going Postal"?
E.g. in Reaper Men, I really liked the story of Death & Miss Flitworth. But the fresh starters in the mall were garbage.
Going Postal is surely among his best, but IMHO the small part with the wizards should have been left out.
The fifth elephant was a story that grew on me. I started out finding it Meh, but after a reread I found it rather good.
The witches were also something that got better as it evolved. Equal rites wasn't that good, but Maskerade was a lot better!!!!! I'd say 'The sea and the little fish' would be my prefered witch story, but it isn't even a book.
For the best, I'd go with Night Watch.
ah, not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776 ?
No but it is another story by the same author (John Bois) in which > Tim Tebow finds himself able to do the impossible; he gets the ball and runs it to the end zone. It is then that the entire back of the stadium opens up, and it’s revealed that successful Canadian football drives don’t have a defined stopping point. They go “to street”, meaning that the team can move the ball through the city and out to the wilderne…
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This is incredible. I almost closed the tab when the text grew out of control, I thought it was a bug.
Are you sure it's supposed to do that? I remember reading this story there back when it was printed, and I don't remember the text doing that. I went to read it again a year or so ago, but couldn't, because the text started growing out of control and froze Firefox (as it just did for me now). How do you actually read it? Edit: hmm, if I very quickly scroll to the bottom of the page, I can click the image to go to the…
Jon Bois is remarkable. I never would have imagined that my wife could watch 20m youtube videos on sports statistics trivia but she would get excited when a new Jon Bois video was uploaded! I never knew he wrote fiction too.
I agree completely. Jon, if you're reading this, thank you. He, and all of Secret Base, have deepened my love of sports in just strange and amazing ways. I also never thought that I would honestly look forward to hour long episodes of 80's power-point-like graphics with bad jazz on the statistical careers of old ballplayers. The Monte-Carlo simulations he does are just somehow perfect for me. And I have no idea why.…
I love everything he has ever done. The Breaking Madden series was genuinely inspiring to me and has caused me to pick up football video games and learn more about the game. I nearly stayed up all night watching all 7 hours of their masterpiece on the Atlanta Falcons