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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 08:12:03 -0400
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On 5/22/25 1:02 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:
> In article <m96ho6Fq177U1@mid.individual.net>,
>   ted@loft.tnolan.com (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
>>
>> 	The Grasshopper Lies Heavy
>>
>> 	Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie
>>
>> 	Misery's Return
> 
> I am afraid that I don't recognize the 3rd and 4th titles. 

The 3rd is from the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes. It's a nighttime book 
that Calvin's Dad has read to him a thousand times, but Calvin still 
insists.

The 4th is from Stephen King's "Misery". When the author of a popular 
series kills the protagonist (Misery), a deranged fan kidnaps the author 
and forces him to write "Misery's Return".


I can add
> another title, _Dire Dawn_ (though I suspect that not many people have
> read the novel that mentioned it)
> 

Where does that one come from?
Tony