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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"?
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…
Edit: watching highlight videos from like 25 years ago.. I had forgotten that he also knelt to pray when he scored, similar to Tebow.
> 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…
Thanks, Capitalism!
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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…
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
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
17776 was something that I heard recommended by a bunch of game developers before anybody else. It's one of the most inventive pieces of science fiction I've ever read (watched? experienced?)
"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.
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.