Listen Lawnmower_Person, if it isn’t on Wikiepedia, it’s not in the book.
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Hi, is this the podcast Johnny earlier said you recommended to him? Sounds great.
I have also enjoyed a few episodes of The Worst Bestsellers.
For the most part, they read something that was massively popular despite being terrible. But they occasionally come across a book that’s actually great, like Big Little Lies.
And holy shit, I am a casual listener and only now see that they have co-hosted episodes with J. and Collision from I Don’t Even Own A Television!!!111!!!
Bad news: A Werewolf in Riverdale by Caleb Roehrig is not a tie-in to the CW show Riverdale, but rather to the town of Riverdale from the Archie comics. Well–from the Archie Horror comics. Good news: we once again teamed up with J. and Collision from I Don’t Even Own a Television to tackle the big questions raised by this novel, most importantly: did you know that Jughead’s little hat is called a “whoopee cap,” and when Jughead transforms into a werewolf, does he still wear his whoopee cap?
Who do you think is scared?
I’ve been trying to work out what the first word of the title is. In April it was “The”
https://twitter.com/MasonMalmuth/status/1245480160498860033
In May it switched to “A”
https://twitter.com/MasonMalmuth/status/1256079873723916289
Before switching to the article-less “History”
https://twitter.com/MasonMalmuth/status/1265864960023785473
This version matches the cover, but not the way Amazon titles it
https://www.amazon.com/History-World-Gamblers-Perspective/dp/1880685620/
And the “A” made a reappearance in the physical version jmakin got
Small wonder they can’t settle on a spelling for the names of people, if they can’t even figure out what their own book is called.
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I could publish a book of my UP posts. In fact I just might do it.
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On the cover, it’s just “History of the world” with no article. Weird, didn’t notice that.
These are mistakes that will be corrected in later printings; I’ve been assured.
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Over/under on 10 printings?
This is why overpaying for things can be a big problem. The last guy was scamming someone out of 200 bucks probably.
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I Don’t Even Own A Television.
Their review about Bill O’Reilly’s book and Steven Seagal’s are fantastic.
WHAT
That title appears in English teachers’ nightmares. Notice how “the” and “a” are capitalized, but not “of” or “from”.
This happens throughout the book
The obvious answer is that Trump edited the book.
Trump simply doesn’t know the conventions of English capitalization, which generally dictate that only proper nouns and the first word of a sentence get capitalized.
“He’s turning things that are not proper nouns into proper nouns, which does give them an importance they don’t really have,” the writing coach Mary Cullen told Business Insider. “Grammatically, it doesn’t make any sense.”
I re-listened to that episode, it’s one of their better ones. Also, you need to listen to Night of the Crabs to understand all the crab references they make on that show.
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Chapo Trap House did a reading series episode on it
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Seagal is quite the Renaissance man
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Foreword by Joe Arpaio.
LOL
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Beyond parody