What's books?
But seriously I recall starting to read that Dan Brown one everyone loved. Felt like RL Stein meets the Templars. Tried to show my friend Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, which is pretty much a dramatized prophecy of the coming of Dan Brown. He found it to complex. Who knows?
Oh yeah, that Dan Brown one. I had to read most popular stuff that came out back in the day since I was a librarian and people would ask me about the popular stuff. That one was terrrrriiiibble.
Librarian always seemed an odd job. Never considered that post of it.
I left because it is weird. I didn't mind the job itself, it was the managers and some god-awful expectations. I read stupid fast, so it wasn't too big a deal to read the best sellers at night. I did it for 12 years. I don't miss it. I kinda wonder if I was just a librarian because everyone expected that of me.
since I was a librarian
You ever write?
Nope. I have no decent stories in me.
I know this pain. I've felt like this has gotten accelerated since the 90s. Back then they made movies etc for US audiences so you'd find things like unique colloquialisms etc in scripts. Books did the same thing. People now write for international audiences and are made for the lowest common denominator and easier translation. I feel like half the modern movie book adaptations are made from books w/ Goosebumps tier shit writing.
There are those rare events where they try to sound more intelligent, but it just sounds like the pages of a thesaurus.
Dan Brown is the Q-Anon of semi-historical conspiracy fiction
He's pretty good, like a gluten free, low sodium triscuit.
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