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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!
Date: 23 May 2025 19:22:13 GMT
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In article <100qg3o$7er4$3@dont-email.me>,
Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 21/05/2025 18:58, Tony Nance wrote:
>> On 5/21/25 1:44 PM, 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
>>>
>> 
>> Ha! I'd read #3 in a heartbeat, as well as all its sequels.
>
>#3 is bedtime reading for "Calvin and Hobbes",
>so you don't read it once, but night after night,
>forever.  (Or until the sequel, at least.)
>Still want to?

The sequel would be where the townspeople finally do find Hamster Huey's head?
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