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Cake day: May 13th, 2025

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  • I think it illustrates why we teach history, and why we should always teach it as truthfully as possible. He wrote some genuinely good, arguably timeless, children’s books, and he was a human being who held some viewpoints that haven’t aged well. I don’t think it makes him a particularly bad person. Just a normal complex one. Besides, when we cancel people for effectively being a normal person of 50, 60, 70, 100, etc. years ago, it feeds the bullshit conservative message of a woke agenda. We should be smart enough to understand that people are capable of doing good and bad things.






  • If that’s the reason why, I would skip it. They don’t spend a lot of time on it. Plus, in the early books there’s some unnecessary cringe parts where they felt the need to shoehorn “love interest” into the story. In general, they’re decent “boss battle” books. Easy reads that aren’t going to make you think. Beach reads for guys, I guess.






  • I read all the Jack Reacher books a couple years ago, and one of the fascinating things about the character is his aversion to owning things. In some of the books, he talks about it a little and it’s an interesting insight to that worldview. I think they kind of stopped talking about it in newer books, and the character has gotten kind of less interesting because of it. At one point, he inherits a house, and that seems to become a minor trauma for him!