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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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Rather, "Nobody Will Admit that A Novel about Football is the Best Novel of Our Generation". This does not appear to be about people denying that the book is about football. Also, the novel is actually a novella. Also, it seems not to be a book, but a web page: https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl... [EDIT] Also, from the story: > Raghib Ismail. Call me Raghib. sensible-chuckle.gif [ANOTHER ED…

> Rather, "Nobody Will Admit that A Novel about Football is the Best Novel of Our Generation". It’s interesting to me that I staunchly agree with your correction, and your interpretation of the original title. I unthinkingly parsed the original title to mean exactly this (to mean the corrected version) and didn’t ever consider its “incorrect” literal meaning. It makes me wonder if the original title uses a widespread…

Interesting, I interpreted it in the "revised" wording the grandparent used. I didn't think it should be interpreted literally.

It seems absurd that someone would say "this is the best novel of our generation", and then, despite the fact that it is obviously about football, deny that it's about football. So it seemed unlikely that the title should be interpreted literally like that.

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

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post #4

Rather, "Nobody Will Admit that A Novel about Football is the Best Novel of Our Generation". This does not appear to be about people denying that the book is about football. Also, the novel is actually a novella. Also, it seems not to be a book, but a web page: https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl... [EDIT] Also, from the story: > Raghib Ismail. Call me Raghib. sensible-chuckle.gif [ANOTHER ED…

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

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post #8

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

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 next page before Firefox gets too unhappy.

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

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what it's worth, I found in the comments to this article a discussion by the author of why he doesn't like David French: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/nobody-will-admit-the-b... So I don't know about "hates", but he really does dislike the man.

I got the sense the author wanted to construct an example that would be so obvious as to be laughable. But I immediately thought of Christina Hoff Sommers' claim that feminism has changed to the point that she believes she now looks like an outsider because of it. Is it the truth, or PR? I agree it's annoying that this narrative is so common, but if I spent all my time getting angry about that kind of PR I wouldn't h…

In brief, he mainly complains about Christians blindly following Donald Trump and the current Republican Party.

And has written a lot about cases of sexual abuse by Christian pastors and leaders.

I greatly admire French and agree that his views have stayed consistent, while the beliefs and actions of most of those who shared the label "Conservative Christian" have greatly changed, or at least been exposed.

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

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"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.

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

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post #8

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

the sequel is also excellent
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