I know it’s become cool to shit on Gladwell, but I just finished this book and I highly recommend it. Parts of it floored me, and I learned a LOT.
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I know it’s become cool to shit on Gladwell, but I just finished this book and I highly recommend it. Parts of it floored me, and I learned a LOT.
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My wife just learned that sports team owners get hundreds of millions of dollars for allowing their leagues to expand, and she’s literally inconsolable about it.
She’s straight up just chugging ice cream and screaming about capitalism right now.
(She’s not wrong)
Definitely the Age of Apocalypse.
Though much of the writing and art has aged in a very specific ‘90s kinda way, I’m still amazed at how thorough and coherent the reimagining of the entire mutant-verse was. It was perfectly conceived.
Second year in a row with a collapse by Duke so insane that it should’ve been statistically impossible
He’s prepared
Sam Kieth’s biggest influence
(Complimentary)
I *especially* recommend it to other Jews and/or film critics, because there’s a must-read chapter about how and why American awareness of the Holocaust (and even use of the term “Holocaust”) finally spread in the late ‘70s, due to a TV miniseries.
The chapter can be read by itself!