Nick Kunkel

Former LSU Swimmer; Current Attorney. The sun’s not yellow, it's chicken.

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IM CHANGING MY NAME TO NICK EDWARDS-HELAIRE

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@jessesingal Lmao my god - should’ve had at least two more sics in there

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@bernardtjoy lol

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@bernardtjoy ?????

This was literally a post in which you were complaining that people won’t engage lol

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@bernardtjoy Did you ever think, when you were working on your PhD, youd reach the point of demanding that the merit of a creative work be *proven* using *hard data*?

Do you hear yourself?

Even setting aside the Q of probative weight, can you name a single such datum you’d accept as valid?

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@bernardtjoy The shift from “it’s irredeemably bad and i refuse to hear otherwise” to “i could be swayed regarding the quality of the movie; im just saying i won’t *support* it” was also lacking in effort

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@bernardtjoy This isn’t a particularly clever motte-Bailey you’re trying to work, here. If the only “bad” thing you were identifying or commenting on was the blockbusterification of cinema as represented by The Odyssey, you’d have done your foot-stomping the week the project was announced

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@bernardtjoy I didn’t express a wish

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@AmericanGwyn Oh, you know what - Rabbit at Rest was 1990 so that’s gotta be on there as well.

Some good genre-tilted stuff, too:
LA Confidential (Ellroy)
The Night Manager (Le Carre)

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@AmericanGwyn Are we using 1998 or 2007 for The Savage Detectives? If 2007, then the only truly glaring omission i can think of off the top of my head is The Tunnel.

Personally think Postcards (Annie Proulx) has to be on there as well. Otherwise mostly a matter of taste.

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@bernardtjoy This is satirical?

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@RealNoQuarter @AmericanGwyn Shit now I might have to reread Mao II

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@RealNoQuarter @AmericanGwyn Mao II hits as high of highs—the opening at yankee stadium, for instance—as anything he’s written, but i definitely wouldn’t recommend it as an entry point. White noise and libra both have much more for casual readers to latch onto

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@JungeToerless In any case, the 20 year boys who are thinking “Roberto Bolaño is so good” probably aren’t thinking he’s good for the reasons he’s actually good (which, tbf, is one of the things that makes him so good)

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@ArunaNambiar White Noise (Delillo)
The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolaño)

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@AmericanGwyn One of the saddest, but also one of McCarthy's most optimistic. Probably THE most optimistic, in fact, depending on how you interpret The Road

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@AmericanGwyn do you have a personal favorite, outside of the big 4 (or 3.5)?

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@Nate_Tice oh well if one of those guys is playing soccer i guess the conversation is over

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@cuppajoe1984 @EricCrossMLB Kade Anderson has virtually nothing at all in common with Chris Paddack lmao.

Paddack: Elite CH, but FB didn't/doesn't get whiffs and didn't/doesn't have a quality breaker

Anderson: FB draws elite whiff%, multiple elite breakers with the CH being the work in progress