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wtf

I don’t think the broader populace has any link between the two of them in their minds.

You should be a TV writer.

That’s kind of a different thing than I was talking about.

Your Kraft mac and cheese will be much easier to mix the cheese in my way.

Same if you make mac and cheese with powdered cheese. Make a roux, make the sauce, then mix the sauce into the noodles.

I’m not so sure of your solution, but as an Mbinner…

Definitely that one.

Something I read in history class and not English lit: Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross.

Most American students learn extremely little about how truly horrific the Holocaust was outside of the concentration camps and medical experimentation. This is a book about local Jews being brutally murdered by their own neighbors in Poland. Not by Nazis. Just your average person.

It was really upsetting but enlightening. Everyone should know about the atrocities that occurred throughout so much of Europe during that time.

She also has a prior conviction for intentionally spreading COVID.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Leguin

You read Where the Red Fern Grows in high school? We read it in fourth grade. It was pretty traumatizing. Great, but traumatizing.

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It explores alternate history but doesn’t contain any sci-fi elements. At least not that I recall. So that made the question seem very unserious to me. Especially since I had already agreed with you that it wasn’t sci-fi.

I’ve heard that about The Dispossessed. I tried to listen to it on audiobook and the narration was terrible, so I just couldn’t get far into it. I need to pick up a physical or digital copy.

Oh, and Malazan is great. That one took me two tries to really get into as well, mostly because I initially had trouble keeping track of so many characters.

Enjoying a classic book is not pretentious. Conversely, gatekeeping what people think is a must-read is pretty pretentious.

Reading books which make you think is also not pretentious, and I get the idea that you sure think it is. There’s nothing wrong with light reading for fun, but some people enjoy more variety than that.

The sequels are worth it.

No. The Count of Monte Cristo is a much better and deeper novel, but The Three Musketeers is much lighter and more fun. They’re both good reads for different reasons.

In this case, yes. It’s not a serious question. It’s poking at me. Of course I don’t find the DaVinci Code to be sci-fi. The question makes no sense and comes across as aggressive.

I’ve been thinking the same myself. I remember it having such an impact on me as a kid.