I presume it’s the milk thing, which IIRC had the flow-on effect of Australian supermarkets having to implement purchase limits for baby formula

In a similar vein but for different reasons, last year I found A Real Pain to be the more effective Holocaust movie than The Zone of Interest, because it hits you so unexpectedly

That feels like a tautology, but a lot of very good Holocaust fiction (like, say, Schindler’s List) renders it an almost cartoonish evil; it’s the frog in boiling water vision of Germany and the war Wouk gives us that makes this one hit so hard

Man if you think post-imperial Britain has fried its brain with nostalgia, just wait for post-imperial America

I’m not exaggerating btw www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Haha another unpopular opinion of mine, I actually love old 80s/90s illustrated SFF covers and think as a society we need to return to them

You would think the fact he’d been president before might have been a bit of a tip-off, but there you go

Won’t influence your knowledge any further except for saying that the reasons it’s bad are mostly just sad.

Fantastic novel. I think I’m one of the rare few who liked the sequel even more, and enjoyed the third one quite a lot too. (Fourth goes downhill unfortunately.)

Sounds like a bad business model to me!

These are the people who will embrace AI-“written” fiction

Reading John Wyndham (and John Christopher, and Heinlein, and Clarke…) in my high school library was a positive side effect of attending a public school with limited funding where most of the books were 30 years old lol

The closest substitute is to have a lot of Goodreads friends who actively review and have eclectic tastes, but that’s still not the same

What was it?

When I worked at a bookshop anyone who expressed that kind of opinion to a customer would’ve been given a first and final warning.