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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 17:45:07 -0400
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Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <100l2ks$2ubig$1@dont-email.me>,
> Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/21/25 12:55 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>> In article <100kria$2r2j0$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A national media conglomerate[1] put out a summer reading list, aided by
>>>> AI. But...
>>>>
>>>> "In fact, only the last five of the 15 novels on the list are real."
>>>> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Easiest, or... hardest?
>>
>> I see your point, but optimist that I am, I'm gonna stick to "easiest".
>>
>> For example:
>> - Since only 5 of them actually exist, you're done when you read those
>> 5. If you want to read more than 5 books, you can choose whatever you
>> want to read for book 6 and beyond.
>>
>> - If you've been assigned this list for the summer[1], any reports you
>> write for the 10 nonexistent ones will not have content mistakes![2]
>>
>> Tony
>> [1] Back in the day, at least, some places used
>> national/pre-packaged/external lists to assign summer reading - for
>> example, say, lists that were provided by national media conglomerates.
>>
>> [2] Though of course, everything else teachers evaluate is still fair game.
> 
> 
> Maybe a better list would be
> 
> 	The Necronomicon

Perhaps "Unaussprechlichen Kulten" or "De Vermis Mysteriis" could 
substitute.  Readers are less likely to be eaten.

Besides, it's fun to say "Unaussprechlichen".


> 
> 	The Grasshopper Lies Heavy

I was just thinking that I'd like to read that.

William Hyde