I don’t know if this counts, but when I was about 13I was very excited to find an enormous book in my favorite genre at the time, Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard.
It was the first book I ever put down in disgust without finishing. In the almost half-century since then, there are under a dozen that I haven’t finished. Shows you just how bad it is.
It’s not clear to me if this still conker was painted or otherwise designed to pass as a real one. I could see someone who was an enthusiast carrying around a metal version as a good luck charm or a memento.
This is actually inspired by a very famous Iron Man comic cover from the late 1970s, where Tony Stark confronts his alcoholism for the first time.
If you want to know where the writers of the Iron Man movies drew their inspiration, it was largely from the comics of this era.
I haven’t done it, bit I believe that with a pressure cooker you don’t need to soak the chickpeas.
All but one of my grandparents had died before I was born, and the remaining one died when I was about 10. She was a stickler for social rules, so I found her kind of intimidating.
A quetzal in the rainforest of Panama.
To sleep, perchance to dream. And in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!
Hamlet (hopefully I didn’t get it too wrong)
I have been using walkscape as well. My walks with the dogs have almost doubled in length, just because I have a little incentive to achieve a goal in the game.
The “Mission” paragraph above the highlighted text is even more ludicrous!
There are estimated to be between 200,000 and 400,000 significant deviations (i.e. not just spelling mistakes) in the New Testament manuscripts we now have. Scholars make educated guesses about what the correct wording is, but those are still guesses.
You know the story of the adulteress who is going to be stoned? That was added at least 100 years after the rest of the Gospel of John was written.
The oldest surviving manuscripts of the Book of Luke, which was the first gospel written, ends with the women running away from the empty tomb and not telling anyone. It is believed that the resurrection story was added later.
Bart Ehrman does a very good job of explaining these issues on his YouTube channel.
Then the way you have seen it spelled with an accent is wrong. It comes from French, and in French there is no accent there.
And they are still banned in Canada. It’s easy enough to tell US TV, because of the flood of pharmaceutical ads.
Of course the companies would claim that they are just providing information, but they certainly wouldn’t pay hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more, if it wasn’t helping their bottom line.
And the Canadian CANDU reactor design has been meltdown proof for 60 or 70 years.
My Dinner with André - two people talking in a restaurant for the whole movie. But if you are in the right mood, it’s amazing.
I bought a book that had Yggdrasil in a CD that I used so I didn’t have to go into the university for the Unix labs.
I think that the entirety of the book, around 1,000 pages, was printed out man pages.
I think that singing English songs would be very, very helpful. It forces you to use the phrasing, pronunciation, and emphasis of a native English speaker.
Did you know that you can edit the title of your post? You should think about it!
And I found that dilaudid (hydromorphone) did nothing for me, didn’t even help my headache!
Even as a 13-year-old, I could see gaping holes in the plot and inconsistencies. The aliens were hardly alien.
Even more so, I could see that the writing was clumsy and the dialogue was stilted. I could see how the writer was developing the story, and so I was not pulled into it at all. I was actually thinking to myself that I could write something like this. And I was 13!
I haven’t seen the movie, but from the sounds of it many of the problems with the book are also on screen.