Most fiction these days sucks ass.

I recommend the following to everyone: All the Stars Came Out That Night. It encapsulates pre-integration baseball, Hollywood, mobsters, pre-Castro Cuba … vastly entertaining.

You’re kidding. Really? What am I missing? I want that guy dead the entire time.

THe eccentricities of the characters like Officer Mancuso, Mrs. Reilly and her friend Santa Battaglia, and Burma Jones are very characteristic of some common New Orleans traits. If you grew up in the area any time from the 1940s through the ’80s, you’ll recognize this.

I had a girl swear to me, on Columbus Day, that Columbus did not discover the “new world” for Europe

To be fair, the Vikings “discovered” it for Europe long before Columbus did.

I’ve learned that history gets rewritten about every 20-25 years. A new generation of “researchers and experts” publish editions that often completely rebuke sections of a previous edition.

I had a girl swear to me, on Columbus Day, that Columbus did not discover the “new world” for Europe. He had a black guy who was the navigator, so it wasn’t Columbus. Whatever. Like I care whether he was black, anglo, asian, whatever. She got pissed that I didn’t care. Do they really have the ships’ complete manifests and crew?

Whatever.

These iPhone commercials are the worst.

Whoever put that together was reading my fucking mind.

I was actually able to forget I read that unbelievably bad piece of shit until you brought that up. Easily the dumbest thing I have ever read.

I’m in the CoD camp. If it has to be explained….

/glares at Mole…

Leo is a patient.

Just finished World War Z. That wasn’t too bad. That might qualify as “dumb fiction” though.

I enjoyed that. As well as his Zombie Survival Guide. Though yeah I wouldn’t put that in the normal fiction category with things like Shutter Island or Davinci Code.

Most fiction these days sucks ass. I think the last “new” fiction book I read was Shutter Island and that was one of the worst decisions I ever made.

/glares at Mole…

You can’t tell me with a straight face that reading To Kill A Mockingbird (my favorite book) or Dante’s Inferno didn’t teach you something.

It’s fiction, yes…but when somebody says fiction doesn’t teach you anything, I think they’re referring more to the likes of entertainment novels, like you see at the top 25 in Barnes and Noble.

To me classical fiction is kind of in a category all its own. Be kind of interesting to see a century from now if any literature created during this time period is worthy of being deemed a classic. Or at least something you’d teach in high school.

Napoleon … all gay.

Napoleon? Don’t remember hearing that. He supposedly had a tiny penis though.

Just finished World War Z. That wasn’t too bad. That might qualify as “dumb fiction” though.

It’s one of my favorite books. Maybe you have to be from New Orleans to get it.

You’re kidding. Really? What am I missing? I want that guy dead the entire time.

Damn you. I was actually able to forget I read that unbelievably bad piece of shit until you brought that up. Easily the dumbest thing I have ever read. Confederacy of Dunces should be the people who enjoyed that book.

One of the few books I have given up on.

HAHAHAHAHAHA FART JOKES OH MY GOD MY VALVE

Most fiction these days sucks ass. I think the last “new” fiction book I read was Shutter Island and that was one of the worst decisions I ever made. The last book I read published in the last 20 years that I really enjoyed (non comedic fiction) was the Berlin Noir series.

I was actually able to forget I read that unbelievably bad piece of shit until you brought that up. Easily the dumbest thing I have ever read.

It’s one of my favorite books. Maybe you have to be from New Orleans to get it.