Stuff Nobody Likes
Sonny Bunch points to positive trends in our country’s book-buying habits.
(Let me also add that if you aren’t regularly reading Sonny’s blog, you’re missing out. No one grumbles about Chi-coms quite the same way.)
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You are too kind, good sir. But seriously: How awesome is it that ‘Watchmen’ is popping up on best seller lists? I say: “quite awesome.”
— Sonny Bunch · Aug 25, 04:13 PM · #
I caught Christian Lander’s reading at Politics and Prose and found him refreshingly self-aware. It’s hard not to like a writer who disagrees with Ann Coulter on everything but isn’t afraid to defend her right to give speeches on college campuses without being disrupted or pied in the face. We need more amiable people like Lander and fewer old school hippies like Moore blathering on about “fascist” politicians like Reagan and Thatcher.
— Mark · Aug 25, 04:24 PM · #
His writing makes him seem like a funny, self-deprecating guy. I’m sure he’s totally decent. My complaint is less with him than the book publishing industry as a whole. Who thought it was a good idea to take something available for free, slap a $14 price tag on it, and market it to the very people who are already reading it for free? That smacks of lunacy. Not to mention contempt for your core audience.
And Alan Moore is certainly an anarchist with a distaste for conservatives (and the masked vigilantes he writes about), but ‘Watchmen’ is still a classic.
— Sonny Bunch · Aug 25, 05:22 PM · #
It’s hard not to like a writer who disagrees with Ann Coulter on everything but isn’t afraid to defend her right to give speeches on college campuses without being disrupted or pied in the face.
Why is it it hard not to like someone like this? That’s a description of the most basic kind of tolerance required in a democracy. You don’t give people credit for what they’re supposed to do.
— Freddie · Aug 25, 05:37 PM · #