Shouldn’t he like be trying to figure out what the Secretary of Energy is supposed to be doing?

Ahahahaah I don’t condone book vandalism as like, a general policy, but I think I can make an exception for someone who made it their life’s mission to go around ripping out the ending of every copy of Ethan Frome, to spare other humans the mindblowing idiocy of same.

The Red Badge of Courage was awful! So incredibly dull and the symbolism so trite and obvious and just, not interesting at all.

I’m sincerely sorry that you were assigned ANY Ayn Rand in school. JFC those books are terrible!

I’ll fight you on Ethan Frome (especially because I like many of Wharton’s other books!), but I can’t argue that Moby Dick is fucking awful.

I think that’s the right interpretation and how I was voting as well.

Right, it can be hard! So why is this ranked highly?

Ooh that is also a good (and by good I mean horrible) choice! Unfortunately I will remember “jouncing the limb” for the rest of my days, but not any actual useful information about anything.

Oh god, if I have to eventually choose between box wine and going to bed hella early, I don’t know what I’ll do!

Yeah, I’m confused by the reading entries on both sides of the bracket, honestly. I loved “being forced to read” in school because well, it wasn’t forcing at all 98% of the time and even when it wasn’t strictly voluntary, it was generally for my betterment as a human*, so I appreciate it in retrospect. I think this is…

Eh, it seems like most people who want to have kids have them anyway and try to deal with these problems after the fact. I’m not that worried.

Not gonna lie, I’m pretty ambivalent about kids and the existence of this book (and the resulting comments here) do NOT inspire confidence. I’m already neurotic about cleanliness and while mr. perdue is really excellent about sharing chores 50/50, I fear that delicate balance could be so easily upset with a baby.

Reading this makes me feel like I was terrible at being a kid. Never have I ever honestly wanted to eat candy for dinner (or in lieu of any other meal). Also why is wearing a retainer ranked so highly? Did anyone enjoy orthodontia? Applying for college was stressful, so I don’t get that either.

As a lover of speculative fiction/sci-fi and period dramas who would love to see more diverse casts telling more interesting stories, I am 100% here for this. Take my money!

I’m a lawyer and I came here to post this. I’m glad I wasn’t alone!

I can’t decide which party I would rather see lose!

This was the first thing that came to mind when I read this! Black Mirror is truly the show for our time.

Same! Their sizing is all over the place so I had to make wayyy too many returns and I hardly every buy anything there anymore. I’m sad because they had a lot of cute stuff (of varying quality) and I would hate to eliminate a good option, but their policies kind of did this already for me.

I’m ok with SOME of these tops, if for novelty if nothign else, but as an Old Fart (who would prefer not to dress like one), I’m annoyed at their dominance this season because I cannot wear that shit to the office. Tank top/crop top/backless sundress ok fine, that’s obviously leisure wear, but some of these are like…

Makeup probably accentuates the difference in skin color in these pics, but it still seems odd to me that you would get spray tanned and then just like stop at the wrist? How does that look remotely ok, even on a normal person who doesn’t choose Cheetos #5 as their desired color?