uselessoldguy

joined 11 months ago
[–] uselessoldguy@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Ready Player One.

I still actively resent the editor who asked me to read it for a feature that would coincide with the film's release.

[–] uselessoldguy@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Ursula K. Le Guin once waved off Harry Potter as just more Enid Blyton novels and it may be the most literary shade anyone's ever thrown.

[–] uselessoldguy@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I gave up reading the series after the nine thousandth time someone "grinned evilly" at someone else.

[–] uselessoldguy@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

One of the most celebrated works of English-language devotional poetry is George Herbert's The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, whose subtitle gets me giggling every time.