>I’ve got the new Dan Brown (audiobook edition) for our flight this weekend to meet the grandchild. Can’t wait for either! Child_lit has been discussing how books perceived as page turners (like The Hunger Games) don’t get the respect they should, but I figure there’s page-turners and then there’s page-browsers–James Patterson, I’m looking at you.
What I think I like most about Dan Brown is the opportunity he gives me to go around correcting everyone’s use of the term factoid to mean a small, arcane, interesting fact. But Brown uses factoids in precisely the way coiner Norman Mailer intended: small, interesting, but completely made-up bullshit designed to look as if it were true.
About Roger Sutton
>nothing to do with Dan Brown (maybe a little to do with factoids)
Would it be possible to limit the number of times a contributor can post per day? or the length of his/her entry? this blog seems to have been taken over by LONGWINDED AND FREQUENT contributor who perhaps should set up shop on their own
>Considering how often Anonymous pipes up around here, I'll certainly take it under advisement.
>Dear Anon:
Perhaps it would be best to recall Virgil's admonition to Dante: "Speak not of them, but look, and pass them by."
Yours truly,
Mrs. Manners.
>whar a tactful – and graceful and well-deserved – reproach from Melinda!
>:) All hail Dante!!
>Perhaps, an alternative, is to disable the Anonymous feature thus forcing posters to face the music and take responsibility for their posts like grown-ups.
Just a thought. The cool thing about eyes is one has the option of shutting them when offended by something.
>It hasn't occurred to you that the call to end anonymous commenting is really just an attempt to shut down conversations that the caller doesn't approve of?
ANONYMOUS
>Some of us are being facetious, anonymous. Certainly, Roger knows me well enough, by now, to just hit the delete button if I get too cranky. And yet he doesn't. The man has guts.
btw – Just got my audio of the new Dan Brown book courtesy of the DH who is also addicted. Perhaps my next post will be on task