I listened to one years and years ago to see whether they're as craptastic as their reputation. Oh yeah. Clumsy and boring. Mysteries for people who hate mysteries, I guess.Silent Majority wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 12:04pmI could be reading my first even Patterson.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 11:08amHow could this not be hilariously awful?
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I always think of Stephen King's dismissal of Patterson's readers as being mildly ashamed to be reading fiction. "Sure, I did read that book, but I learnt a lot about airports."Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 12:11pmI listened to one years and years ago to see whether they're as craptastic as their reputation. Oh yeah. Clumsy and boring. Mysteries for people who hate mysteries, I guess.Silent Majority wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 12:04pmI could be reading my first even Patterson.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 11:08amHow could this not be hilariously awful?
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Well, that's amusing given that King, at one time, described his fiction as a Big Mac and fries. He's not altogether wrong, tho. The Patterson I listened to confirmed that, yeah, his stuff is for people killing time in places like airports.Silent Majority wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 12:25pmI always think of Stephen King's dismissal of Patterson's readers as being mildly ashamed to be reading fiction. "Sure, I did read that book, but I learnt a lot about airports."Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 12:11pmI listened to one years and years ago to see whether they're as craptastic as their reputation. Oh yeah. Clumsy and boring. Mysteries for people who hate mysteries, I guess.Silent Majority wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 12:04pmI could be reading my first even Patterson.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 11:08amHow could this not be hilariously awful?
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"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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His stuff it terrible, but perfect if you are driving alone on a four hour road trip. I say driving alone so you can loudly exclaim, "holy crap, this is awful" without your husband telling you that you are too critical and judgmental.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 12:39pmWell, that's amusing given that King, at one time, described his fiction as a Big Mac and fries. He's not altogether wrong, tho. The Patterson I listened to confirmed that, yeah, his stuff is for people killing time in places like airports.Silent Majority wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 12:25pmI always think of Stephen King's dismissal of Patterson's readers as being mildly ashamed to be reading fiction. "Sure, I did read that book, but I learnt a lot about airports."Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 12:11pmI listened to one years and years ago to see whether they're as craptastic as their reputation. Oh yeah. Clumsy and boring. Mysteries for people who hate mysteries, I guess.Silent Majority wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 12:04pmI could be reading my first even Patterson.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 11:08amHow could this not be hilariously awful?
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Especially that album James Patterson made with Van Halen …
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It's not at all out of the realm of possibility.
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Have at it, fiction haters: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.ph ... 686a3a66bc
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Alright, once I wrap up my current kindle book, I'll start on this and see how much I can be bothered with!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 5:03pmHave at it, fiction haters: https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.ph ... 686a3a66bc
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True, too, that America's nuclear partnership with Japan has existed since August 1945.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 87221.html
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been seeing an awful lot of jingoism from my liberal friends over North Korea and it's really depressing me.
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What variety of jingoism are you hearing? Our government has been cozy with cruel strongmen since the country was founded. I think a lot of this is just a nice little distraction and an opportunity for Trump to pat himself on the beck yet again.
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This idiot might take American troops out of Korea!
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Well, for one thing a lot of people upset that the US flag was displayed as equal to the DPRK's. Also a lot of upset over Trump saying he'd pull out American troops and end wargames. And precisely none of them have said anything about Korean self-determination or how South Koreans overwhelmingly support the peace process.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑14 Jun 2018, 11:45amWhat variety of jingoism are you hearing? Our government has been cozy with cruel strongmen since the country was founded. I think a lot of this is just a nice little distraction and an opportunity for Trump to pat himself on the beck yet again.
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Trump is "traitorous" for doing diplomacy with North Korea.
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One thing that drives me batty is the common discourse where liberal = left. This lazy binary thinking where not being conservative must mean being left. There's some overlap in cultural areas, where centrists have accepted a lot of leftist cultural liberation arguments, but when it comes to most every other area—trade, taxes, foreign policy—there's a fuck of a lot more daylight between liberal and left than liberal and conservative.
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