Brooks wrote:

Bear in mind Brooks loved Infinite Jest

I need to correct this - IJ was mostly annoying. I'm a Pynchon guy first and basically only.

Ah...OK I remember you waxing about the audio book of Jest.  I picked up the wrong vibe there. I've abandoned Jest twice.

Pynchon is a gymnast all right. I've read V which was a bit of a struggle initially but I loved it once I got in the groove.

If only vermin like that could , just for a few moments, experience what being under the Nazi heel was really like.

I didn't post a link because it was the Telegraph and Mail but there's literally been articles today about the original versions of Enid Blyton's books being hidden under counters and in secret rooms in libraries that've had the right-wingers on Twitter in a froth.

EvilRedEye wrote:

I didn't post a link because it was the Telegraph and Mail but there's literally been articles today about the original versions of Enid Blyton's books being hidden under counters and in secret rooms in libraries that've had the right-wingers on Twitter in a froth.

Is the "room" the store cupboard, and the reason they've been "hidden" actually because no one wants to read them cos they're shit?

Probably because they are versions from like 40 years ago before the Golliwogs were swapped out.

Apparently Scholastic made a bunch of these inclusivity edits to the Goosebumps series a while ago without involving RL Stine or even letting him know that it was happening.

He only found out two weeks ago when the edits made the news as part of this ongoing wave of stories about inclusivity edits.