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35 year old checking in, I really appreciate this post as I start to watch more anime after taking a decade rest from it. I often like to say that I am both saddened and relieved that my dalliances and flame wars from the pre-2006 internet are nowhere to be found on the 'net now. Most of the websites I used to visit don't even exist on the Wayback Machine, like Anime Grapevine and Anime Yak, the second of which I was mod for for a while.
Though of everything I thought i wouldn't miss, I really miss the old school hunt for more anime, I mean I have a Crunchyroll account but nothing will beat walking into a local Japanese grocery store and finding just random VHS tapes of anime that weren't available in the US yet, or getting ahold of someone to trade 4th generation tapes taped straight off Hawaiian TV.
I recently purchased this book, which is a collection of essays from Fred Patten, the guy that jump started the anime fandom in the US and it's really interesting to look at the early early pre-internet history of the fandom.
The Magic Schoolbus authors (Cole and Degen) are really highly educated and well read people, they've been publishers, teachers, librarians, etc. It would be really odd if Tolkien had never been encountered by them.
Young Wizards Author Diane Duane has written a critical essay on Tolkien, so I think it's safe to assume she read his books.
Don't underestimate authors.
Many years ago (in the mid 1990s, at the dawn of the modern internet) I read a book called "Orwell's Revenge."
It was about how Orwell was wrong, how the internet was going to usher in a new age of freedom, how the authorities couldn't control the new networks. It was pretty much the essence of "Can't stop the signal, Mal."
But what the author failed to understand was that the system COULD be used to create exactly what Orwell dreaded, and in fact could become more intrusive than Orwell even believed was possible. Winston Smith in "1984" thinks that one never knew when the telescreen was being monitored. There might be a member of the Thought Police looking in on you, there might not be, so best to behave. But software doesn't sleep, and we carry our telescreens with us. Those cameras in China are always looking, and the systems behind them are getting better and better at spotting anything untoward. China is just doing what many in power in the West wish they could do. It's a way of ensuring that there's never another threat to their power.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and the reading list at the back is a good place to start.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler covers when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text. Plus there is a great reading list in the Appendix.
TIL, and am reminded of W. C. Minor
(cut off his penis as a kind of self-punishment for sex addiction, with a side of paranoid scizophrenia)
I actually read a really interesting book about this guy, another guy, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. It's called 'The Professor and the Madman': amazon link
A quick Google search tells me it's also called 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne', and that there is now a movie based off it.
Hi, I've just written and published a non-fiction book which is a guide to UK crime fiction. It's called 'The Crime Fiction Tour of Britain'. It's not a literary criticism type book, more a case of if you like the genre here's lots of books and series to try, arranged both geographically by region and chronologically by era in the case of historical crime fiction. More than 100 authors featured.
Price - FREE until Saturday 16th Oct, after which it will be 99p for a while.
If you haven't read it, The Professor and the Madman is about this. It's a really good (and relatively quick) read.
>tiny amount of absurdly dedicated people.
Reminds me of the story of the first OED. One man contributed an insane amount of work on hundreds of entries, it turns out from an insane asylum: https://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman-Insanity-English-Dictionary-ebook/dp/B000FCKM7E
Excel.
Basic programming skills.
Read "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler. (mostly for nonfiction readers interested in making connections)
If you're a student, learning to use /r/Anki. It will probably change your life. It certainly changed mine.
There have been quite a few books written about fanfiction - here's a good one - not saying buy it (that may be overkill), but a quick peek inside to the table of contents is surprising... enlightening... as to the ways people study this stuff.
One frequent way in, I would think, would be 'why do people change what they change?' and 'what worlds are most supportive of change, and why?'. One persistent argument for fanfic is that fans are creating what they don't otherwise see (especially when it comes to a diversity of gender, race, sexuality).
So if someone is hooking up Draco and Harry, that's actually really interesting from that perspective... what is it that they thought they were missing? What was in the text already that they kept, that lead them to this conclusion? And what it is that the author added that 'defines' Draco and Harry as gay (that was missing from the text)? And and and and... etc.
Alpha is formally defined as being relative to the appraisal of a social group. You can't learn to act alpha, members of your social group (implicitly) denote it instead thus that person becomes the leader of that group.
What is the point that you're making? That being "alpha" is just "acting" apart or different from others?
If so, I won't bother entertaining your naivety. Before you critique the opposition, come to an understanding first.
I'm feeling genuinely nice, so here's a start: How to read ~~a book~~ and understand prose by Mortimer J. Adler.